

Some users find that it’s even good enough to handle some of the duties formerly reserved for applications like Photoshop. It’s a fan-favorite, powerful alternative to the basic built application. Paint.NET: This app has been around for almost two decades.Canva: A web-based freeware publishing tool that mixes basic slideshow creation and visual layouts design, with pre-made templates for various web and mobile applications.

ModernFlyouts: This tool replaces the default UI for changing volume, brightness, airplane mode, and others, allowing the users to move them around the screen to their liking.EarTrumpet: This tool replaces the default volume manager panel with something a lot more powerful, allowing the user to quickly manage volume on an app-by-app basis and switch inputs without opening a menu.Auto Dark Mode gives the same flexibility to the light and dark modes of the interface itself for Windows 10 and 11. Auto Dark Mode: Windows can already turn on the eye strain tool Night Light at specific times of the day.Rufus: It sounds like the name of a dog in an old Disney movie, but Rufus is a tiny little application that helps you quickly format disk drives, including an option to make bootable USB drives.The customizable multi-pane interface is a particular highlight. Files App: This alternative to the default Windows Explorer file manager is open source, and features tons of tools that aren’t available by default.I use it myself for quickly grabbing screenshots of live press conference videos. ShareX: This robust alternative to Windows’ built-in screenshot tool lets you automatically record screenshots or videos of your entire display, specific regions or windows, or bind almost any recording action to a hotkey.
