Quartz Composer: MacOS only, it’s a developer tool so getting it can be… interesting : info here http://artandtech.aalto.fi/?page_id=1368 also, free Kineme patches for QC http://kineme.net

Quasecinema http://www.quasecinema.org/ (open)

gifSlap http://gifslap.com/ (Open source, uses gifs only)

Projection Mapping

Mapio http://visution.com/mapio

Mad Mapper http://madmapper.com/

MapMap https://mapmapteam.github.io/ (Open source)

VPT https://hcgilje.wordpress.com/vpt/ (Open source)

TouchDesigner Kantan Mapper (https://www.derivative.ca/wiki099/index.php?title=Kantan_Mapper)

TouchDesigner Camschnapper (https://www.derivative.ca/wiki099/index.php?title=Camschnapper)

ISADORA https://troikatronix.com/

Reaktor – A/V programing platform

Dynamapper /optoma projection mapper for iOS/Android http://dynamapper.net

Stop Motion

DragonFrame

Stop motion animation software. Preview animation and capture still images from many cameras: Canon, Nikon, Sony, Olympus, …

Time Lapse Assembler (Mac), merge JPGs into movie: http://www.dayofthenewdan.com/projects/time-lapse-assembler-1/

Audio

Audio Sculpt (MacOS only) http://anasynth.ircam.fr/home/software/audiosculpt

Adobe Audition

Pro Tools http://www.avid.com/pro-tools

Soundflower https://rogueamoeba.com/freebies/soundflower/

Chuck http://chuck.cs.princeton.edu/ (open source)

Spear http://www.klingbeil.com/spear/

Audacity http://www.audacityteam.org/ (open source)

Super Collider http://supercollider.github.io/ (open source)

FM8 https://www.native-instruments.com/en/products/komplete/synths/fm8/

CSound http://csound.github.io/ (open source)

JUCE https://www.juce.com/

Ableton https://www.ableton.com/en/

Max for Live devices

J74 V-Module (VJing) http://fabriziopoce.com/max.html

Vizzable (VJing) http://vizzable.zeal.co/

Zwobot (VJing) https://zwobotmax.com

Pure Data https://puredata.info/

Max/MSP https://cycling74.com/

Kyma http://kyma.symbolicsound.com/

Ardour (http://ardour.org/) (open source)

Reaper http://reaper.fm/

JUCE (https://www.juce.com/)

Baudline (http://www.baudline.com/) (spectral analyzer)

Volumetric (http://udart.dk/portfolio/volumetric/)

Loopback https://rogueamoeba.com/loopback/ (MacOS)

BPM

Waveclock – Waveclock converts music to MIDI Clock real-time, tracking music similarly as humans do.

Sequencing

Vezer – Envelope sequencer midi/OSC

IanniX – Graphical open-source sequencer for digital art

Image Editing

Basic Image Editing

GIMP: https://www.gimp.org/

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe Lightroom

Corel Painter https://painterartist.com/en/product/painter/

Krita https://krita.org/

Paint.NET https://www.getpaint.net/

Vector Image Editing

Adobe Illustrator

Inkscape https://inkscape.org

Vectr https://vectr.com/

Super Vectorizer (MAC) http://www.svgvector.com/vectorize-image-mac.html

Command-Line Image Editing

Imagemagick (SDK) https://imagemagick.org
ImageMagick (Mac Binary) http://cactuslab.com/imagemagick/

UI – Design

Adobe XD

Figma: https://www.figma.com/

Haiku: https://www.haiku.ai/?r=UwBBr

3D

Rhinoceros https://www.rhino3d.com/

Blender https://www.blender.org/ (open source)

Zbrush http://pixologic.com/

Fusion 360 https://hwww.autodesk.com/products/fusion-360/overview

Also: Slicer for Fusion 360

Cinema 4D https://www.maxon.net/en-us/products/cinema-4d/overview/

Houdini https://www.sidefx.com/

Maya https://www.autodesk.com/products/maya/overview

3DS Max https://www.autodesk.com/products/3ds-max/overview

Light Wave https://www.lightwave3d.com/

Polybrush http://polybrush.org

Netfabb https://www.autodesk.com/products/netfabb/overview

Sculptris http://pixologic.com/sculptris/

Substance Designer, Painter, etc for textures

Meshmixer: http://www.meshmixer.com/

Fractal Rendering

Mandelbulb 3D

Free 3D fractal rendering software, win/OSX

Saved fractals, colors and light parameters can be found here

Chaotica

2D fractal rendering software, win/OSX

3D Scanning

Agisoft Photoscan http://www.agisoft.com/

Skanect http://skanect.occipital.com/ (only works with Kinect 1)

Recap: https://www.autodesk.com/products/recap/overview

Altizure (iOS/Android/web) https://www.altizure.com

Flowchart + Diagram

Design.io (online) https://draw.io

Game Engines and Virtual Reality

Unity https://unity3d.com/

OSC Control for Unity http://uniosc.monoflow.org/
A lot of plugins (Syphon, NDI, etc…) for Unity by Keijiro Takahashi https://github.com/keijiro?tab=repositories

Unreal https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/blog

CryEngine https://www.cryengine.com/

TouchDesigner

Oculus: https://www.derivative.ca/wiki099/index.php?title=Oculus_Rift

Vive https://www.derivative.ca/wiki099/index.php?title=HTC_Vive

Keijiro Takahashi Github https://github.com/keijiro

Max/MSP Unity Interoperability Kit http://disis.music.vt.edu/main/portfolio.php

The Conductor – Max / MSP open source toolkit for VRTK https://github.com/cgfarmer4/TheConductor

Xenko https://www.xenko.com

Godot https://godotengine.org/

WebVR

WebVR https://webvr.info/

chromeVR: http://vr.chromeexperiments.com/

three.js: https://threejs.org/examples/webvr_vive.html

reactVR: https://facebook.github.io/react-vr/

A-Frame: https://aframe.io/examples/

WebAR

ar.js: https://github.com/jeromeetienne/AR.js/blob/master/README.md

AR

ARKit (ios): https://developer.apple.com/arkit/

ARCore (pixel 2/galaxy s8): https://developers.google.com/ar/

AR Foundation (Unity): https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/[email protected]/manual/index.html

ARToolKit: https://artoolkit.org/

Vuforia: https://developer.vuforia.com/

EasyAR: https://www.easyar.com/

Mobile Apps

Glitche http://glitche.com/

HYPERSPEKTIV https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hyperspektiv/id1058051662?mt=8

TouchOSC https://hexler.net/software/touchosc (IOS + Android)

Lemur https://liine.net/en/products/lemur/ (IOS + Android)

Pixite Apps

Adobe Capture

p5.js editor: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/p5-js-editor/id1296619254?mt=8

Spacedesk http://spacedesk.net (android device as external monitor)

DroidcamX https://dev47apps.com/ (android device camera as webcam)

Project Management, Storyboarding, & Planning

Keynote – MacOSX only, free https://www.apple.com/keynote/

Storyboarder (free & open source) https://wonderunit.com/storyboarder/

Curio (MacOSX) https://www.zengobi.com/curio/

Teamweek (web) https://teamweek.com/

Developers who release tools & plugins across many softwarez

Vade (Anton Marini) ~ http://v002.info

Bangnoise (Tom Butterworth) ~ http://kriss.cx/tom/

Utility tools

Daisy Disk – Disk analyzer tool for MacOS

SiteSucker – downloads complete websites

AESyphon Syphon plugin for AE

Motion Capture/Input Middleware

NI Mate – output Kinect as OSC

iPi – Motion Capture

Computer Vision Middleware

OpenTSPS – simple application to track people with computer vision

Awesome Media Lists

Hi, I added some of the awesome lists related to media tools. I also suggest changing from a tree/category to a tag/label model, using a spreadsheet or something appropriate. Happy listing.

Creative Coding
Creative Commons Media
Fonts
Codeface – Text editor fonts.
Stock Resources
GIF
Music
Open Source Documents
Audio Visualization
Broadcasting
Pixel Art – Pixel-level digital art.
UI – Design

Links

Real-Time Code

Midi/OSC tools

Video

Video Encoders

Video Content Analysis

Screen Capture / Streaming

Video Routing

Video Synthesis

Video Signal Processing

VJing Software