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AlternativeTo offers social software recommendations
We've looked at some ways to find software alternatives in the past - like Openwith.Org and Wakoopa. Social site Alternative.To offers yet another way to see what apps other users recommend.
Categories for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Web-based applications are listed. On each platform page, there are tabbed listings for recent additions, most viewed, and most liked software (I'll skip "OMG FAIL", since you're likely not looking for a "worse alternative" anyway). You'll find all the usual suspects listed, like Photoshop, Nero, Word, as well as user-recommended replacements.
Found a specific user whose suggestions you find particularly useful? Click onto their profile page to view all their likes on one page. Alternative.To also taps into Twitter's massive userbase to give you quick access to additional off-site comments about a particular app.
To cast votes or suggest software, you'll need to log in. Fortunately, Alternative.To supports both Facebook and OpenID sign-ins so you likely won't have to sign up for yet another account. The community is still fairly new, so some entries don't have a lot of votes or recommendations yet, but that will change, obviously, as more users participate.
Categories for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Web-based applications are listed. On each platform page, there are tabbed listings for recent additions, most viewed, and most liked software (I'll skip "OMG FAIL", since you're likely not looking for a "worse alternative" anyway). You'll find all the usual suspects listed, like Photoshop, Nero, Word, as well as user-recommended replacements.
Found a specific user whose suggestions you find particularly useful? Click onto their profile page to view all their likes on one page. Alternative.To also taps into Twitter's massive userbase to give you quick access to additional off-site comments about a particular app.
To cast votes or suggest software, you'll need to log in. Fortunately, Alternative.To supports both Facebook and OpenID sign-ins so you likely won't have to sign up for yet another account. The community is still fairly new, so some entries don't have a lot of votes or recommendations yet, but that will change, obviously, as more users participate.
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Markus said 2:48PM on 4-14-2009
Very happy to see your article about AlternativeTo.net - thank you Lee!
Just wanted to explain our (maybe a bit cryptic) tab "OMG FAIL!". It's not meant to list bad applications, but the applications in our database that has no added alternatives. Fail = we failed to find good alternatives (so far). There is an explanation when you hover the mouse over the tab but I think we need to make it clearer.
Thank you for a geat blog!
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Thomas said 4:44PM on 4-15-2009
Also check out www.osalt.com.
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