Microsoft's official add-on that lets Windows 10 and 11 open HEIC and HEIF photos in File Explorer, Photos and other WIC apps.

WordCraft is a free, open-source word processor that opens and saves Word DOCX files, built as an alternative to Microsoft Word.

Comet Browser is the AI-native entry in the web browsers category, a Chromium build from Perplexity with an assistant that can act on pages rather than just answer questions about them.

Monkey's Audio is the free lossless audio compressor behind the APE format, often a little smaller than FLAC, for Windows.

mpv player is the minimalist choice among Windows media players, trading menus and settings windows for instant startup and format support that covers nearly everything.

Hypic is the all-round photo editor of the Android collection, covering retouching, background cutouts and AI art in one free app.

VLC for Android is VideoLAN's free, ad-free video and music player that opens almost any file without extra codecs.

ffWorks is the Mac entry in the video converters category, a paid FFmpeg front end that converts, trims and colour-grades video without the command line.

MPC Video Renderer is the video renderer stage rather than a codec, the filter that decides how decoded frames actually reach your screen.

MediaMonkey is a powerful multimedia manager which helps you organize your music and perform other operations, as well, such ripping, converting, etc.

The open-source answer to Loom - record in 4K, edit on your own machine, share a link in seconds, and self-host the whole thing if you want to.

PdfCraft is a free, open-source PDF workbench for organising, filling, redacting and signing PDFs, built as an alternative to Adobe Acrobat.

Audials One is a feature-rich multimedia software suite known for its extensive capabilities related to media recording, streaming, conversion and organization.