Pay Once Alternatives: Find the best one-time purchase alternatives to popular subscription tools and never pay another subscription ever again.
Pay Once Alternatives - One-time Payment Software Directory
Free and open source is better, but pay once is still better than subs.
AlternativeTo is one of favorite websites. You can filter down to open source.
This is a pretty cool idea and I appreciate the aggregation, but the site itself works very poorly on mobile. Choosing from the picklist also selects the link behind it.
I also ended up in a 'signup to our newsletter' form mid scroll which was annoying
The in-line ads and newsletter signup popup really take the trust in this site down a bit.
I have a great deal of respect for the warez folks online who burrow into premium software and dig out the license calls so that the rest of us can install high-end software on our systems without paying for it at all.
I'm happy to financially support independent software developers with great ideas, and I absolutely love stealing software from companies that charge exorbitant 'subscription' now-you'll-pay-us-forever prices (and then still show you ads and farm your data for AI).
Steal software! Steal what you need! It's not only good for you, but ultimately will be good for everyone.
p.s. anyone who's getting annoyed by the ads should download the ublock origin and Privacy Badger plugins for their browsers.