TechKln global toolkit
Since TechKln is a community around the idea that Technology is a toolkit to enable you to go about your life efficiently and help you do your best work, StanMD decided to create this live list of technological tools.
The list cuts across a number of disciplines and will highlight if they are free; and when they are not free, telling you how much it demands and worthy alternatives. PRs are open to give feedback and propose suggestions.
Key:
- (x) - x stands for the primary area of use
- 💸 - Paid (No free subscription)
- 🆓 - Free (is FREE but can include paid subscriptions)
- 🔖 - If Free, runs ads
- 📌 - Location restricted
- 🕸 - Available on the web/ web app
- 📱 - Mobile app (Available in both Android or iPhone unless indicated)
- 🖥 - Desktop app
- 📲 - PWA*
Social media
Online shopping
Messaging
VPN
Password Managers
- Bitwarden (Open Source)
- DashLane
- Proton Pass (In Beta)
Media - Music (audio, video), podcasts, images
Distribution
- Distrokid (audio) 💸 🕸
- Restream (live video)
- Spotify for Podcasters (podcasts)
- Twitch
Live stream, Sharing
Viewing
- Curiositystream (documentaries, entertainment)
- Nebula TV
Streaming
- Spotify (audio) (Also has podcasts) 🆓 🔖 📌 🕸 📱 🖥
- Deezer (audio) 🆓 📱
- Boomplay (audio) 🆓
- Soundcloud 🆓
Player
- VLC
- Boom (3D surround sound) 📱 🖥
- Youtube music (audio) 📌 🕸 📱
Music discovery
- Shazam 📱
- Soundhound 📱
Lyrics
- LyricFind (within music discovery apps, players like Shazam and QuickLyric)
- A-Z lyrics
- Genius
Podcasts
- Google podcasts 🕸 📱
- Pocket Casts 📱
Image
- Cloudinary 🕸 - can be integrated in apps using SDKs*
This offers several options like:
- Optimization - Size, Quality
- Automatic Content-Aware cropping - Intelligently crop images on-the-fly based on auto-detected regions of interest
- … etc
- Picresize 🕸 - For precise percentage resizing - -25%, -50%, -75% etc
Writing and Written content
Editting Editing
- Grammarly🕸 🖥
Note-taking
- Notion 🕸 📱 🖥
- Evernote 📱
- Dropbox Paper 📱 🖥
- Google Keep 📱 🖥
Collections
- Pocket (written and other content) 🕸 📱
Transcribing
Blogging
Vocabulary
- Glosbe - Supports ALL languages in the world
- urbandictionary 🕸
- dictionary.com 🕸
- Oxford Dictionary Paperback
- Cambridge dictionary 🕸
- Webster 🕸
Content Platform/ Documentation
- Docusaurus
- Vuepress
- Vitepress (Still in beta) - VuePress’ successor in future
General
How-to
Wikihow 🕸 📱
Dating
- Tinder 📱
Scheduling
- Google Calendar 🕸 📱
- Calendly 🕸
- Vyte
Career
Donating
Customers
Newsletter
Customer communication
- Intercom (customer messaging)
Learning
- Pluralsight (Technology, Software developer)
- Skillshare (A range of skills)
Community
Courier
Shipping to Kenya
- Shop&Ship - Ships Globally
- Vitumob
- My US
- Savostore
- Statesduka
- Kentexcargo
Development
Documentation
Interview Prep
- Algoexpert (Programming)
- Interviewcake (Programming)
Code editors
- VS code
- VSCodium - a community-driven, freely-licensed binary distribution of Microsoft’s editor VSCode; without Microsoft’s telemetry
- Sublime Text
Technical writing gigs
- CircleCI Technical Authors Program
- Write for DOnations (Temporarily closed for new Write4DO proposals)
Security
Glossary
- SDK - Software Development Kit
- PWA - Progressive Web App