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Five Paid Apps With Full Open-Source Replacements

The open source replacements for five apps you pay for every month, with the install command for each

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Five subscriptions you are probably paying for right now have full open source replacements. Not free tiers with the good parts removed. The whole application, on your machine, with the source in the open.

Between them the five projects below have 176,656 stars on GitHub.

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