This article was drafted with AI assistance and fact-checked against the project's README.
Photoshop, Excel and Slack all come with a monthly bill. The HeyPuter/everything repo rebuilds free, open-source alternatives to proprietary software like these from scratch, under the MIT license. It has 3.5k stars on GitHub.
A few of the apps and what they stand in for, as listed in the README:
It also includes games, such as Chess and a Sudoku with 4 difficulty levels and daily puzzles.
Every app in the README table has a Try it link and a Source link, so you can open an app in the browser before installing anything.
You need Node.js 22.12 or newer. Then run the four commands from the README, swapping [app-name] for the app folder you want (for example spreadsheet):
git clone https://github.com/HeyPuter/everything.git
cd everything/src/[app-name]
npm install
npm run dev
Third-party libraries included in the repo may have their own licenses. Check them before you reuse code in your own project.