November 22nd, 2012Top Story The 50 Free Apps We're Most Thankful For By Whitson Gordon It's the time of year where we all give thanks, and among many other things, we here at Lifehacker are thankful for all the free apps out there that improve our lives (and the developers that make them!). Here are 50 of our favorites. We asked you which free apps you're most thankful for, you offered hundreds of suggestions both classic and new. Here, we've taken your votes (and added a few of our own) and ranked our 50 apps using those votes as a guide. So without further ado, here are 50 free apps for your downloading feast. The 50 Free Apps We're Most Thankful For Dropbox Category: Cloud Storage See also: Top 10 Clever Uses for Dropbox, The Cheapskate's Guide to Getting Free Dropbox Space, How to Get 8GB+ Extra Dropbox Space for Free with Google AdWords, How to Supercharge Your Dropbox with Wappwolf, and more Dropbox coverage Google Chrome Category: Web Browsers See also: The Always Up-to-Date Power User's Guide to Chrome, How to Really Browse Without Leaving a Trace, Which Browser Should I Use: Firefox or Chrome?, How and Why Chrome Is Overtaking Firefox Among Power Users, and more Chrome coverage Firefox Category: Web Browsers See also: The Always Up-to-Date Power User's Guide to Firefox, Why I've Switched From Chrome to Firefox 4, Top 10 Must-Have Browser Extensions, Which Browser Should I Use: Firefox or Chrome?, and more Firefox coverage Evernote Category: Notes See also: Expand Your Brain with Evernote and Clever Uses for Evernote, The Complete Guide to Going Paperless, Turn Your Mess of Ideas Into Something Organized and Useful, and more Evernote coverage Alternative: Use Springpad as Your New Personal Assistant Pocket Category: Bookmarking See also: The Best Way to Save All the Useful Articles You Come Across Online and More Pocket Coverage Alternatives: Instapaper and Readability Skype Category: VoIP See also: Get Better Quality Video Chat, The Five Best Webcams, Phone-ify Your Computer for Considerably Improved At-Home Calls and Texts, and more Skype coverage Google Maps Category: Maps See also: Make your GPS App Give You Better Directions, Wean Yourself Off Your GPS Dependency, 5 Great Experimental Features You Should Enable from the Google Maps Laboratory, and Our complete Google Maps coverage Gmail Category: Email See also: Master the New Gmail with These Tips, Shortcuts, and Add-Ons, Top 10 Clever Tricks Built Right Into Gmail, Get Google and iOS Living Together in Perfect Harmony, Fix Gmail's Newest Annoyances with These Userstyles and Userscripts, and more Gmail coverage Google Voice Category: Communication See also: Phone-ify Your Computer for Considerably Improved At-Home Calls and Texts, The Most Helpful Ways to Use Google Voice that You're Not Using, Top 10 Clever Google Voice Tricks, How to Improve Your Google Voice Experience on the iPhone, Get the Most Out of Google Voice on Your Non-Smartphone, How to Port Your Number to Google Voice Without Paying an Arm and a Leg, and more Google Voice coverage Instagram Category: Photos See also: Know Which Shots Work Best with Each Instagram Filter, Normalize Turns Instagram'd Photos Back to Normal, and more Instagram coverage Spotify Category: Music Streaming See also: Spotify Is the Best Desktop Music Player We've Ever Used, The Essential Spotify Tools, How to Automatically Mute Ads on Spotify, How to Stop Spotify from Posting Every Song You Listen to on Facebook, How to Discover New Music in the Post-MP3 Age, and more Spotify coverage Flipboard Category: News Readers See also: Lifehacker Faceoff: The Best Digital Digests on iPad and iPhone and more Flipboard coverage Google Drive Category: Cloud Storage See also: File Syncing Faceoff: Dropbox vs. Google Drive, How to Supercharge Your Google Drive with Wappwolf, Instantly Send Any Gmail Attachment to Google Drive, and more Google Drive coverage Google Calendar Category: Calendars See also: Get Google and iOS Living Together in Perfect Harmony, Manage Your Money with Google Calendar, How to Use Google Calendar as a Project Management Tool, 8 Great Experimental Features to Enable in Google Calendar's Labs, and more Google Calendar coverage Google Play Music Category: Music Streaming See also: How to Make Google Music Your Secondary Media Player (and Why You Should), Cloud Music Comparison: What's the Best Service for Streaming Your Library Everywhere?, Music Plus Makes Google Music Awesome, and more Google Play Music coverage Waze Category: Maps See also: Make your GPS App Give You Better Directions, Wean Yourself Off Your GPS Dependency, and more Waze coverage Dolphin Category: Web Browsers See also: Dolphin Jetpack Supercharges Dolphin Browser, Makes Mobile Surfing Stupid Fast, Lifehacker Faceoff: The Best Web Browsers for iPhone and iPad, and more Dolphin coverage Wunderlist Category: To-Do Lists See also: Wunderlist Is a Simple, Elegant, and Free To-Do App that Synchronizes Across Your Machines, Back to Basics: How to Simplify Your To-Do List and Make It Useful Again and more Wunderlist coverage Pandora Category: Music Streaming See also: How to Discover New Music in the Post-MP3 Age, Five Best Internet Radio Services, and more Pandora coverage Google Reader Category: News Readers See also: Supercharge Google Reader with Styles and Extensions, Organize My RSS Feeds So They're More Manageable, How to Turn Google Reader into a Customizable Read-It-Later Service, and more Google Reader coverage LastPass Category: Password Managers See also: The Intermediate Guide to Mastering Passwords with LastPass, How to Build a (Nearly) Hack-Proof Password System with LastPass and a Thumb Drive How to Automatically Fill in Repetitive Web Forms (and Avoid Tons of Tedious Typing), and more LastPass coverage XBMC Category: Media Center S See also: http://lifehacker.com/5900626/create-a-kickass-seamless-play+everything-media-center-the-complete-guide, How I Built the Media Center of My Dreams for Under $500, How to Make XBMC Easier to Use (Especially for Non-Geeks), OpenELEC Is a Fast-Booting, Self-Updating Version of XBMC for Home Theater PCs, Top 10 Ways to Power Up Your Home Theater PC, and more XBMC coverage Alternative: How to Stream Your Media from Home to Your Phone Anywhere You Go with Plex VLC Category: Media Players See also: Master Your Digital Media with VLC, Set a Video as Your Wallpaper with VLC, How to Fix Movies that Are Really Quiet, then REALLY LOUD, and more VLC coverage Mint.com Category: Personal Finance See also: Is Mint Ready for Your Money?, How to Create (and Stick to) a Realistic Budget with Mint, and more Mint coverage TeamViewer Category: Remote Access See also: Use Your Home Computer from Anywhere: A Comprehensive Guide to Remote Controlling Your PC How Do I Troubleshoot My Parents' PC Remotely? and more TeamViewer coverage AirDroid Category: Remote Access See also: AirDroid Controls Your Android Phone or Tablet from Any Modern Web Browser FoxFi Category: Tethering See also: Use Your Android Phone as a Wi-Fi Hotspot for Free, No Rooting Required Ubuntu(and other Linux Distros) Category: Operating System See also: Getting Started with Linux: The Complete Guide, How to Find the Perfect Linux Distribution for You, Five Best Linux Distributions, Build a Killer Customized Arch Linux Installation (and Learn All About Linux in the Process), Turn an Old Computer into a Networked Backup, Streaming, or Torrenting Machine with Ubuntu, and more Linux coverage Microsoft Security Essentials Category: Antivirus See also: Stop Paying for Windows Security; Microsoft's Security Tools Are Good Enough, Nine Common Myths and Misconceptions About Viruses, Examined and Debunked, Change Microsoft Security Essential's Update Frequency, and more Security Essentials coverage uTorrent Category: BitTorrent Client See also: How to Add Automatic Virus Scanning, Video Conversion, and Remote Downloading to uTorrent for Free, How to Monitor Your BitTorrent Downloads from Any Computer or Mobile Device, How Do I Torrent Safely Now That Demonoid Is Down?, and more uTorrent coverage Alternative: Transmission CCleaner Category: Utilities See also: The Maintenance You Need to Do on a Windows PC, Run CCleaner on a Schedule to Keep Your PC Crap-Free, CCleaner Enhancer Makes CCleaner Even Better, Now Cleans 270 New Apps, and more CCleaner coverage HandBrake Category: Video Conversion See also: How to Rip a DVD to Your Computer, The Hassle-Free Guide to Ripping Your Blu-Ray Collection, Calculate the Perfect HandBrake Video Encoding Settings for Your Device, and more Handbrake coverage VirtualBox Category: Virtualization See also: The Beginner's Guide to Creating Virtual Machines with VirtualBox, Should I Run a Second Operating System in a Virtual Machine or Dual Boot?, How to Run Mac OS X Inside Windows Using VirtualBox, and more VirtualBox coverage CyanogenMod Category: Android ROMs See also: The Always Up-To-Date Guide to Rooting the Most Popular Android Phones, How to Choose the Right Android ROM for You, and more CyanogenMod coverage Flux Category: CATEGORY See also: Flux Changes Your Screen Brightness by Time of Day, Make Your Computer and More Friendly to Use at Night, Prevent Eyestrain at Your Computer, and more Flux coverage GIMP Category: Image Editing See also: Top 10 Photoshop Tricks You Can Use Without Buying Photoshop, Is GIMP better than Photoshop?, Tweak GIMP to be More Like Photoshop, and more GIMP coverage LibreOffice Category: Office Suite See also: Am I Missing Out by Using Free Alternatives to Microsoft Office? and more LibreOffice coverage Thunderbird Category: Email See also: Backing up Gmail with Thunderbird, Eight Killer Thunderbird Extensions, How to Sync Your Desktop Email Client (Outlook or Thunderbird) Across Multiple Computers, Thunderbird to Slow Down Development, Focus on "Security and Stability" Only, and more Thunderbird coverage Picasa Category: Photo Manager See also: How to Upload and Share Photos on Flickr, Picasa, or Facebook, Picasa 3.5 Organizes Your Photos with Facial Recognition, Picasa Now Offering Virtually Unlimited Photo Storage, Brings Google+ Tagging, and more Picasa coverage Twitter Category: Social Networking See also: Top 10 Uses for Twitter (That Aren't Self-Indulgent), Navigate the New Twitter Like a Pro with Keyboard Shortcuts, Why's Everybody So Pissed About Twitter, and Should I Care?, How to Deal with Your Biggest Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ Annoyances, and more Twitter coverage AutoHotkey Category: Utilities See also: Turn Any Action into a Keyboard Shortcut, The Best Time-Saving AutoHotkey Tricks You Should Be Using, Put Your Keyboard's Unused Keys to Use (by Turning Them into Awesome Shortcuts), and more AutoHotkey coverage Launchy Category: Utilities See also: Integrate Everything Search Tool and Launchy, Take Launchy beyond application launching, Screenshot Tour: Tweaking Launchy, and more Launchy coverage Quicksilver Category: Utilities See also: Hack Attack: A beginner's guide to Quicksilver, Top 10 Quicksilver Plug-ins, Turn Any Action Into a Keyboard Shortcut on Your Mac, and more Quicksilver coverage Simplenote Category: Note Taking See also: The Holy Grail of Ubiquitous Plain-Text Capture, The Best Ways to Keep Your Notes in Sync Across All Your Devices, and more Simplenote coverage Titanium Backup Category: Utilities See also: How to Set Up a Fully Automated App and Settings Backup on Android, How to Upgrade to a New Android Phone and Take Everything with You, and How to Speed Up Your Old or Sluggish Android Device Winamp Category: Media Players See also: Manage your music with Winamp, Control Winamp Remotely from Any Browser, Music Player Showdown: Which Desktop Player Is Best for Syncing to Android?, and more Winamp coverage Google Tasks Category: To-Do Lists See also: Google Tasks Extension Brings Super-Fast Task Management to Chrome, To-Do Manager Any.DO Comes to the Web, Launches New iOS App, and more Tasks coverage Opera Category: Web Browsers See also: How (and Why) to Set Up a Secondary Browser Optimized for Slow Internet Connections, Top 10 Must-Have Browser Extensions, and more Opera coverage Notepad++ Category: Text editors See also: Five Best Text Editors, AutoSave Adds Reassurance to Notepad++ Editing, and How to Get More Plus out of Notepad++ 7-Zip Category: File Compression See also: What's the Best Way to Compress a Bunch of Files? and From Saucy Pics to Passwords: How to Share Sensitive Information Over the Internet Title image illustrated by Dominick Rabrun. You can find his illustrations on his personal web site, or works in progress on his blog.

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