Opensource or freemium softwares
Word processing and Presentation
To replace commercial MS Office (Win/Mac)
Office
- WPS office(Win/Linux, Freemium & Proprietary, best compatibility to MS Office)
- LibreOffice (Win/Mac/Linux, Portable, Opensource)
- OnlyOffice (Win/Mac/Linux, Opensource, very good compatibility to MS Office)
Tex
TeX Live (Win/Mac/Linux, Portable, Opensource)
Miktex(Win/Mac/Linux, Portable, Opensource)
Markdown+Pandoc+Katex
Typora (Win/Mac/Linux, Portable, Paid & Proprietary, Markdown viewer)
Pandoc (Win/Mac/Linux, Portable, Opensource, Markdown converter)
Katex(Win/Mac/Linux, Portable, Opensource, Tex Math render)/MathJax(Win/Mac/Linux, Portable, Opensource) (Win/Mac/Linux, Portable, Tex Math render)
Pdf Reader and Processing
To replace commercial Acrobat Pdf (Win)
- Sumatra pdf (Win, Portable, Opensource, eps/pdf/png/jpg Reader and Pdf editr)
- PDF-XChange Viewer (Win, Freemium & Proprietary, Pdf editr)
- qpdf(Win/Linux, Portable, Opensource, Pdf converter)
Text and Code Processing
To replace commercial Emeditor or Editorplus for *.txt/*.dat/*.md/*.tex (Win)
Reference Processing
To replace commercial Endnote or Noteexpress (Win)
- Zotero(Win/Mac/Linux, Opensource)
- Mendeley(Win/Mac/Linux, Opensource)
- Jabref (Win/Mac/Linux, Portable, Opensource)
Data Plotting && Image Processing
To replace commercial Origin 8 (Win)
- Veusz (Win/Mac/Linux, Opensource)
- SciDavis(Win/Mac/Linux, Opensource)
- Gnuplot (Win/Mac/Linux, Portable, Opensource)
To replace commercial Adobe Illustrator (Win)
- Inkscape (Win/Mac/Linux, Portable, Opensource)
- ImageMagic (Win/Mac/Linux, Portable, Opensource, Image converter)
To replace commercial PhotoShop (Win/Mac)
- GIMP (Win/Mac/Linux, Opensource)
SSH
To replace commercial Xmananger (Win, Free personal for Xshell+Xftp)
- Putty+WinSCP+Xming(Win, Portable, Opensource)
- MobaXerm (Win, Portable, Freemium & Proprietary, including SSH+SFTP+X11+Cygwin)
- WindTerm (Win/Mac/Linux, Portable, Freemium & Partial Open Source, including SSH+SFTP+X11)
FeedBro(Web, Freemium) Chrome/MSEdge Extension
Tiny-Tiny RSS (Website hosted, Opensource)
OR StockApp to track Reference (Web, Freemium & Proprietary)
Programming/Scripting Language
- AutoHotkey (Win, Portable, Opensource, keyboard macro program)
- Gawk for Windows (Win, Portable, Opensource, data text processing)
- BusyBox (Win/Mac/Linux, Portable, Free & Opensource, toolbox)
- Python (Win/Mac/Linux, Opensource)
Cleaner
- Bleachbit(Win/Mac/Linux, Portable, Opensource)
- CCleaner(Win/Mac, Freemium & Proprietary)
- Dism++(Win, Freemium & Proprietary)
- 7-zip(Win, p7zip for Mac/Linux, Portable, Opensource)
- FreeFileSync (Win/Mac/Linux, Opensource, data backup software)
- FRP (Win/Mac/Linux, Portable, Opensource, fast reverse proxy)
- Syncthing (Win/Mac/Linux, Portable, Opensource, continuous file synchronization program, better than next cloud)
- MPC-HC(Win, Portable, Opensource, Media player)
- Blender(Win/Mac/Linux, Portable, Opensource, 3D Creation Software
- Anki(Win/Mac/Linux, Portable, Opensource, program making remembering things easy)
- jsmind(Web, Opensource, Mindmap library for Markdown)
- VLC(Win/Mac/Linux, Opensource, Media player)
- SpeedCrunch Calculator(Win, Portable, Opensource)
- UltraVNC(Win, Portable, Opensource, remote desktop for Linux) nginx
- graphviz(Win/Mac/Linux, Opensource, graph visualization/OCR)
Codes for Science
DFT/MD code
To replace commercial VASP(Linux/Mac, Very good PAW potentials as highlight)
- Quantum Espresso(Linux/Mac/Win, Opensource, EPC and superconductor calculations as highlight, a good GUI QuantumVITAS(Linux/Mac/Win, Opensource)
- Abinit(Linux/Mac/Win, Opensource)
To replace commercial Materials Studio Visualizer(Win/Linux, Very friendly interface as highlight)
- Avogadro 2(Linux/Mac/Win, Opensource, friendly interface for atom manipulation/make supercell/symmetry recognization)
- Device Studio(Win, freemium Proprietary, Very Similar to Materials Studio Visualizer)
To replace commercial Gaussian(Win/Mac/Linux, especially for molecular calculations)+Gaussview (Win, Commercial)
Geometry Viewer
- Vesta (Win/Mac/Linux, Portable, Freemium & Proprietary, Including XRD simulation, especially for charge density)
- XcrySDen(Win/Mac/Linux, Portable, Opensource, especially for visualizing vibrational modes from QE and fermi surface from wannier90)
- V_sim (Win/Mac/Linux, Portable, Freemium & Proprietary, especially for vibrational modes from phonopy)
- p4vasp(Win/Mac/Linux, Portable, Opensource, especially for visualize VASP output, Download)
- wxDragon (Win/Mac/Linux, Portable, Freemium & Proprietary, especially for COOP/OCHP results from LOBSTER)
- Jmol (Win/Mac/Linux, Portable, Opensource)
- VMD(Win/Mac/Linux, Portable, Opensource, molecular visualization program for displaying, animating, and analyzing large biomolecular systems using 3-D graphics and built-in scripting,Download)
High Symmetry K Points
Other
- g2g(Win): Chemical format coverter based on OpenBabel
- Open Babel(Linux/Mac/Win, Opensource)
- Lammps(Win/Mac/Linux, Opensource, especially for classical molecular dynamics)
- siesta(Linux, Opensource, especially for NEGF transport using transiesta module)
- cp2k(Linux, Opensource, especially for high-performance molecular dynamics)
- Periodic Table (Win, Portable, Freemium & Proprietary, Download)
- Dr Probe(Win/Linux, Freemium & Proprietary, HRTEM simulation)
- Multiwfn(Win/Mac/Linux, Portable, Opensource, electronic wavefunction analysis)
- (gdis.zip)http://gdis.seul.org/: Molecule/Crystal Editor
Soft Comparision
Web browser
| Engine |
Blink |
Blink+Trident |
Blink |
Blink |
WebKit+Trident |
Blink+Trident |
Blink+Trident |
Quantum |
Blink |
| Bookmark Sync |
Extension |
Intrinsic |
Extension |
Intrinsic |
Intrinsic |
Intrinsic |
Intrinsic |
Intrinsic |
Intrinsic |
| Ad Block |
Extension |
Intrinsic |
Extension |
Intrinsic |
Intrinsic |
Intrinsic |
Intrinsic |
Extension |
Extension |
| Mouse Gesture |
Extension |
Intrinsic |
Intrinsic |
Intrinsic |
Intrinsic |
Intrinsic |
Intrinsic |
Extension |
Extension |
| Spell Check |
Intrinsic |
No |
Intrinsic |
Intrinsic |
Intrinsic |
Intrinsic |
Intrinsic |
Intrinsic |
Intrinsic |
| Portable |
PortableApps/DIY |
No |
Intrinsic |
PortableApps |
Intrinsic |
No |
No |
PortableApps/DIY |
No |
| Prospect |
Excellent |
Good |
Minority |
Excellent |
Minority |
Good |
Good |
Excellent |
Excellent |
| Extension |
Excellent |
Excellent |
Excellent |
Excellent |
Good |
Excellent |
Excellent |
Excellent |
Excellent |
| Speed |
Fast |
Fast |
Fast |
Fast |
A little slow |
Fast |
Fast |
Fast |
Fast |
| Safety |
Excellent |
Excellent |
Unknown |
Excellent |
Excellent |
Excellent |
Excellent |
Excellent |
Excellent |
| MathML Support |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
Yes |
No |
| Opensource |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
Yes |
No |
| Internal call IE |
No |
Yes |
No |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| App Mode |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
No |
Extension |
Yes |
| Main Drawbacks |
High memory demand, inconvenient Bookmark Sync |
No Portable, No Spell Check |
Minority,Unknown safety, High memory demand |
High memory demand |
Slow load, small UI font size |
No portable |
No portable |
Minority |
compatibility problem sometimes |
Firefox
Allow Redirect
about:config =>accessibility.blockautorefresh to false.
Change defaut profile
firefox.exe -p to open profile Manangers and delete all profiles (except D:\Qsync\dosbin\FireFox\FFprofile).- Creat new profile, and set profile path to
D:\Qsync\dosbin\FireFox\FFprofile.
- Set firefox to defaut browser.
firefox.exe not found in defaut browser options
firefox/Bin/uninstall/helper.exe /SetAsDefaultAppGlobal to set firefox visable in defaut browser options, then set firefox default. If it is still invisiable, run the command again.
Cleaner
Table. Usefule cleaners for PC
| Free |
Free personal |
Free & Opensource |
Free personal, but not Opensource as stated |
| Clean Trash |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Clean Registry |
Easy |
Yes, but not complete |
Yes, but not friendly |
| Bundleware |
InstallAvast & collects information to send to Avast |
Good |
Protable, but safety Unknown |
BURAI vs. QuantumVITAS
| Input Geometry |
.cif/.xyz/.xsf/POSCAR/pwscf, but not OpenBabel cif format |
Only pwscf (+g2g) |
| output Geometry |
no (+obabel/g2g) |
no (+obabel/g2g) |
| Modeler |
Slab/Supercell/Translate |
No(+Vesta/Avogadro2/PyMatGen/vaspkit) |
| Optimization/MD |
Movie |
Frames (+Avogadro2) |
| Band Structure |
Bands, not convinent for K-path input |
Fat band, Copy K-path from materialscloud |
| phonon |
none |
Yes |
| TDDFT |
no |
yes |
| NEB |
no |
yes |
| On Development |
no |
yes |