Hum It ours
Hum, sing or beatbox into your mic and get a MIDI file. Works in the browser, nothing uploaded.
- Costs
- Free, no account
- Licence
- Brokehella
What you make is yours to sell. The notes you sing and the files you download are yours.
Make · The Tool Shed
The Tool Shed.
Free tools for making music, art, film, 3D and nights out, with no budget. Every one says what it costs, what licence it is under, and whether what you make with it is yours to sell. No affiliate links, nothing sponsored.
Music Record, write, play and mix.
The Sample Maker ours
Record or build a sound, shape it, and play it on sixteen pads. In the browser.
- Costs
- Free, no account
- Licence
- Brokehella
What you make is yours to sell. Sounds you make here are yours.
Broke DJ ours
A beat studio in the browser: drums, synths, patterns, export.
- Costs
- Free, no account
- Licence
- Brokehella
What you make is yours to sell. What you make is yours.
Audacity
Record and edit audio on Windows, Mac and Linux. The standard free audio editor.
- Costs
- Free
- Licence
- GPL v3
What you make is yours to sell. The licence covers the program, not your recordings.
LMMS
A full music workstation: piano roll, beat sequencer, song editor, mixer, built-in synths, VST and SoundFont support.
- Costs
- Free
- Licence
- GPL v2
What you make is yours to sell. The licence covers the program, not your songs.
Surge XT
A deep synthesizer plugin (VST3, AU, CLAP, LV2) for Windows, Mac and Linux.
- Costs
- Free
- Licence
- GPL v3
What you make is yours to sell. Sounds you play with it are yours.
Vital (Basic)
A wavetable synth. The free Basic tier is the full synth with 75 presets and 25 wavetables.
- Costs
- Free tier; paid tiers add presets
- Licence
- Vital's own EULA
Free version has limits. Read Vital's EULA for the terms; we did not find commercial terms on its main page.
MuseScore Studio
Write sheet music and hear it played back.
- Costs
- Free
- Licence
- GPL v3
What you make is yours to sell. The licence covers the program, not your scores.
Freesound
A huge library of sounds uploaded by people, from field recordings to drum hits. Downloading needs a free account.
- Costs
- Free, account needed to download
- Licence
- Each sound: CC0, CC BY or CC BY-NC
Depends on each item's own licence. CC0 is free for anything; CC BY needs a credit; CC BY-NC cannot be used in anything that earns money. Check each sound.
Visual art Paint, draw, edit pictures, make textures.
Krita
Painting and drawing, made by artists for artists.
- Costs
- Free
- Licence
- GPL
What you make is yours to sell. Krita's own FAQ: what you create with Krita is your sole property.
GIMP
Photo editing and image work, on every desktop system.
- Costs
- Free
- Licence
- GPL
What you make is yours to sell. The licence covers the program, not your pictures.
Art Desk ours
Build a colour palette from real paintings.
- Costs
- Free, no account
- Licence
- Brokehella
What you make is yours to sell. Colours are not owned by anyone; your palette is yours.
playgrnd
Tiny browser tools for generative textures and strange patterns. Nothing is uploaded.
- Costs
- Free
- Licence
- None published
Not confirmed for commercial use: ask the maker. The site says "Exports are yours" but publishes no licence. Before using exports in something you sell, ask the maker in writing. We do not use them on this site until we have.
Film and video Edit, grade, record and stream.
DaVinci Resolve
Professional editing, colour grading and sound for film. The free version is the same program with fewer features.
- Costs
- Free version; Studio is $295 once
- Licence
- Blackmagic's own licence
Free version has limits. Free version: 8-bit footage up to 60 fps and Ultra HD. Studio adds 10-bit, 120 fps, above 4K and the AI tools.
Kdenlive
A full video editor with multiple tracks, effects and titles.
- Costs
- Free
- Licence
- GPL v3
What you make is yours to sell. The licence covers the program, not your films.
Shotcut
A simpler video editor that opens almost any format.
- Costs
- Free
- Licence
- GPL v3
What you make is yours to sell. The licence covers the program, not your films.
OBS Studio
Record your screen and camera, mix scenes, and stream live.
- Costs
- Free
- Licence
- GPL v2 or later
What you make is yours to sell. The licence covers the program, not your recordings.
3D and games Model, render, build worlds and games.
Blender
Modelling, sculpting, animation, rendering, video editing. The whole 3D studio.
- Costs
- Free
- Licence
- GPL
What you make is yours to sell. Blender's own licence page: what you create with Blender is your sole property.
Godot
A game engine for 2D and 3D games.
- Costs
- Free, no royalties
- Licence
- MIT
What you make is yours to sell. Your game is yours. Put Godot's copyright notice and licence in your credits or documentation.
three.js
The library most 3D on the web is built with, Loophole and the Rave Bus on this site included.
- Costs
- Free
- Licence
- MIT
What you make is yours to sell. Keep its copyright notice with the code.
Organizing Plan, sketch and run the thing together.
Excalidraw
A whiteboard that looks hand drawn. Sketch a stage plot or a floor plan together.
- Costs
- Free
- Licence
- MIT
What you make is yours to sell. Your drawings are yours.
Party Builder ours
Design an event to the Brokehella Standard, category by category.
- Costs
- Free, no account
- Licence
- Brokehella
What you make is yours to sell. Your plan is yours.
Verify a File ours
Check that a file has not been changed since someone published its fingerprint.
- Costs
- Free, no account
- Licence
- Brokehella
What you make is yours to sell. Your file never leaves your device.
How this list is kept
Each card says where its licence was read and on what day: the project's own site, its own FAQ, or the licence file in its code. A licence like the GPL covers the program, not what you make with it. Where a site gives no licence, the card says so and tells you to ask the maker before you sell anything made with it; we do not use those exports on this site until the maker says yes in writing. A card not re-checked for six months is marked as needing a re-check.
Know a tool that belongs here?
Free, or free with a fair limit. Tell us where its licence lives; a person reads it and checks before anything is added.