Free software to streamline your work and help you save money

The freeware you can't live without! And best of all - they're free :-) When you work in e-commerce, it's good to know a bit of everything when it comes to creating content on the web. Text editing, image editing, video editing, audio editing, html and css are becoming commonplace for many e-commerce professionals. Here we recommend some of our own favourite freeware that will save you from spending money on unnecessarily expensive licences. Start your webshop here if you don't already have an Abicart account!

Image processing

GIMP https://www.gimp.org/downloads/ (Linux, Mac, Win)
Krita https://krita.org/en/download/krita-desktop/ (Linux, Mac, Win)
Paint.net https://www.getpaint.net/ (Win)

Create vector graphics (.svg)

Inkscape https://inkscape.org/ (Linux, Mac, Win)

Code Editor

Visual Studio Code https://code.visualstudio.com/Download (Linux, Mac, Win)
Sublime https://www.sublimetext.com/download (Linux, Mac, Win)
Atom https://atom.io/ (Linux, Mac, Win)
Notepad++ https://notepad-plus-plus.org/ (Win)

Create stylish screenshots

Flameshot https://flameshot.org/ (Linux, Mac. Win)

Video editing

Openshot https://www.openshot.org/download/ (Linux, Mac, Win)
YouTube https://www.youtube.com/ (Web-based)

Audio editing

Audacity https://www.audacityteam.org/download/ (Linux, Mac, Win)
Ardour (DAW) https://ardour.org/ (Linux, Mac, Win)

Office software

LibreOffice https://www.libreoffice.org/ (Linux, Mac, Win)
OpenOffice https://www.openoffice.org/download/  (Linux, Mac, Win)
Google Drive https://www.google.com/intl/sv_SE/drive/ (Webbaserat)