General

• LibreOffice A Free and Open Source office suite
• VLC Media Player A Free and Open Source media player
• yt-dlp A YouTube video downloader used on the command line. If you've never used the command line before, this is a good place to start

Video

• Avidemux Used to convert video formats, video encoders and audio encoders. I mainly use it for databending and datamoshing
• Natron A Free and Open Source Compositing Software, like Adobe AfterEffects

Music

• Waveform free A free cross-platform DAW
• Mixxx A Free and Open Source DJ software
• Audacity A Free and Open Source audio editor (with the recent changes being made, defo gonna be the GOAT sampling tool)
• Ableton Live 11 (keygen) You need to extract it using winrar, 7zip will corrupt the file for some reason. Also windows defender will try to delete the keygen.

Vocal Synth

• UTAU A free vocal synthesizer. It's very finicky and unintuitive, especially if you're a beginner. Watch this tutorial series if you plan on using it.
• OpenUtau UTAU itself hasn't been updated in over a decade, so this is the modern-day version.
• Synthesizer V Another free vocal synthesizer. A lot more intuitive. Recommended for beginners.
• SetParam A tool used to oto an UTAU voice bank.

Art

• FireAlpaca A free 2D art application. I mostly use it for pixel art and editing images.
• Blender A Free and Open Source 3D creation suite. Used for the 3D renders on this site.
• Inkscape A free 2D vector program. I use it for logo design & graphics.

Web

• Visual Studio Code A free code editor by Microsoft. I use it to code this site.
• Sadgrl's layout builder Template I used for the original version of this site, perfect for beginners.
• Sadgrl's backgrounds Tiled backgrounds rescued from Geocities sites.
• Texture Town Melonking's 90s CD textures. Lots of videogame-ness & jawbreaker vomit!
• GifCities A wayback machine search engine for gifs used on Neocities, best place to get old web graphics.
• Neocities Free webhosting service with a generous amount of storage space
• blinkies.cafe A blinkie maker for tumblr blogs & sites
• catbox.moe Free file hosting (useful for mp3s since neocities free tier doesn't allow them)
• Smart Guestbook Free guestbook site so people can comment
• tamaNOTchi Virtual pet you can embed in forums & sites
• textanim 90s animated web titles
• Open Cursor Library Custom cursor sprites

Fonts

• TypeRip Used for ripping adobe fonts
• planet.dk Very Y2K
• Magenta Main font used for my titles
• June Expt font used for ACID OCEAN title

Misc

• Deep Dream Generator I used this way back before the AI boom; it used to have a feature where you could make it draw an image using the texture of another image & that's how my profile pic was made. It seems since then they've pivoted to gen AI only :/