Last week Download Squad dug up a real gem when they found a website called AlternativeTo. This website lists out a lot of really popular applications like Photoshop, Nero, Dreamweaver, and the various Microsoft Office products. Then for each of them it provides alternatives (both free and commercial) that users can choose from.
The whole site uses a voting system to determine what applications are the most popular. What I like is that there are various ways to filter results. By that I mean you can actually have it only show free or open source applications that are alternatives to, for example, Photoshop. So if you’re not looking to spend any money this can really save you some time from trying to hunt down the apps yourself. Plus you can filter according to operating system.
It will be interesting to see if this site really ends up taking off. If it gains some traction it could become a valuable source of information for both consumers and developers… because this would provide developers with a way to promote their apps against that of their competition.
Seems like a good find…once it build up its database of software, that is.
For OS X iusethis.com is also a very good site. I’m using both of them to find alternatives when I bump into software deals, so I can compare the value of the product with alternatives.
Being a more of an open source supporter – I find [osalt.com] alot better resource than AlternativeTo.net. However, osalt needs to do something about it’s design/layout – here AlternativeTo.net looks much better.
Looks to be pretty useful since I don’t really like mainstream software and like comparing between various softwares.
iusethis.com is also a great site, and I’ve found some nice apps by just browsing through all the pages of apps people are using. You’re right though, sites like AlternativeTo are great for figuring out just how good of a deal an app is at the price it’s being offered at.