Apps

Google Slides

Google Slides is a free productivity app from Google that allows you to edit and create Google Presentations and share them with your co-workers. It’s also compatible with Power Point so you can open and edit and save PPT files, and apart from offering several editing tools, you can even use this offline.

Autodesk SketchBook Free Edition

Autodesk Sketchbook Free Edition was developed expressly for mobile, and while the company is best known for their 3D software this 2D drawing app is well designed. There’s a single in-app purchase option to access some features, but the free edition should be sufficient for casual doodling and sketching.

Replay Video Editor for Instagram

Posting images on Instagram is fun, but wouldn’t it be even cooler if you could bring those pictures and videos as one? With Replay Video Editor from Stupeflix you can do just that. It works similar to a slideshow but with more options, and it is easier to use; so even if you’re not a techie getting this to work is a snap.

Miranda IM

Miranda IM is a free instant messaging client for Windows, and while it doesn’t have the fancy features of other IM clients, it’s very functional and provides basic but solid features. Most important, however, is that it’s free and easy to use. With this software you can easily add accounts from your other IM clients, and that’s only for starters.

GroupMe

GroupMe is a group chat app that allows you to organize the conversations you have with your friends. With the app you can arrange messages by specific groups / topics so one group has your conversations about basketball, the other about politics, another for your travels and so on.

gnuplot

Gnuplot is an open source command line graphing utility developed by Philipp K. Janert that allows students, scientists and researchers to create data and math formulas in an interactive manner. This cross platform program can also be used by third party programs and it has some web scripting support too.

Canva

Canva is a graphics and photo editing app that removes the complexity that comes with designing posters, cards, page presentations and webpage graphics. While essentially a graphics layout app, there’s more than enough built-in photo editing tools here, so no need to download another app to edit images.