List of proprietary software for Linux

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Linux is an open-source kernel and usually comes bundled with free and open-source software; however, proprietary software for Linux (software that isn't free and open-source) does exist and is available to end-users.

Networking[edit]

Web browsers[edit]

Application	Publisher	Support status	Native binary[a]	Source code	Pricing
Google Chrome	Google Inc.	Active	Yes	Partial[b]	Freeware
Edge (Chromium)	Microsoft Inc.	Active	Yes	Partial	Freeware
Netscape	Netscape Communications	Dropped	Yes	Yes	Freeware
Opera	Opera Software	Active	Yes	Yes	Freeware
Maxthon Cloud Browser	Maxthon	Active	Yes	Yes	Freeware
Vivaldi	Vivaldi Technologies	Active	Yes	Partial[c]	Freeware
Insight WebClient	Bynari, Inc.	—	—	—
IBM Notes	IBM	Active	—	Yes	$108 – 175 USD
Yandex Browser	Yandex	Active	Yes	Yes	Freeware

FTP clients[edit]

Application	Publisher	Support status	Native binary	Source code	Pricing
IglooFTP PRO	IglooFTP.com	—	—	—	—
SFTPPlus	Pro:Atria Ltd	Active	Yes	Yes	—
SynchronEX+	Xellsoft Software Services	Active	Yes	Yes	$0.00 USD
CrossFTP Pro	CrossFTP Software	Active	Yes	Yes	$24.99 USD
Beyond Compare (Not FTP : Diff tool)	Scooter Software	Active	Yes	Yes	$30.00 USD
sFTP Client	sFTP App Ltd	Active	Yes	Yes	$30.00 USD
SecureFX	VanDyke Software	Active	Yes	No	$59.95 USD

Firewall (packet filtering)[edit]

• Opendium Web Gateway – part of a content control system targeted at schools
• Opendium UTM – part of a content control system targeted at schools
• SmoothWall Corporate – a closed fork of SmoothWall, targeted at enterprise and corporate users

Visual traceroute[edit]

• VisualRoute

P2P file sharing[edit]

• Loophole (WinMX protocol) – WinMX servers down since 09.2005
• MetaMachine eDonkey2000 – latest release from 25.07.2005 (discontinued)
• μTorrent Server

"Hotline" P2P protocol clients/servers[edit]

• GHX

Multifunction sound modem programs[edit]

• PrimaFax

Fax software[edit]

• Esker Fax
• Fax2Send
• FAXCOM
• Ictfax
• MessagePlus/Open
• U-Fax

Network maintenance[edit]

• HP Openview agents

Routing[edit]

• GateD

Distributed computing[edit]

• Portable Batch System PBS Gridworks

Instant messaging[edit]

• Discord
• Skype
• ICQ
• Viber
• Trillian

P2P file synchronisation[edit]

• BitTorrent Sync

VoIP software[edit]

• Skype
• Zoom client for Linux
• alfaview

Desktop/system software[edit]

Work with files[edit]

Console archivers[edit]

• RAR
• B1 Free Archiver

Desktop search[edit]

• Google Desktop (discontinued) 1.0, released June 27, 2007

File splitters[edit]

• HJSplit for Linux – freeware, also available on other platforms

PDF viewers[edit]

Application	Publisher	Support status	Native binary[d]	Source code	Pricing
Adobe Reader	Adobe Systems	Dropped[e]	Yes	No	Freeware
Foxit Reader	Foxit Software	Active	Yes	No	Freeware
PDF Studio Pro	Qoppa Software	Active	No[f]	No	$129 USD
PDF Studio Standard	Qoppa Software	Active	No[f]	No	$89 USD

PDF authoring[edit]

• Adobe Acrobat Distiller (discontinued)

Cryptography[edit]

• Pretty Good Privacy

Scanner utilities[edit]

• VueScan
• Xvscan last updated in 2000^[1]

Antivirus[edit]

Application	Publisher	Support status	Native binary[a]	Source code	Pricing
AntiVir Workstation PersonalEdition	Avira	Dropped	—	—	—

• Avast! Antivirus
• AVG Anti-Virus
• Bitdefender GravityZone
• Comodo Group Anti-Virus for Linux
• Dr. Web
• F-Prot (not to be confused with F-Secure)
• Kaspersky Anti-Virus
• ESET NOD32
• RAV Antivirus (discontinued)
• Sophos Antivirus for Linux
• Trend Micro ServerProtect for Linux
• Vexira for Linux Fileserver
• Vexira for Linux Samba Server

Bootloader / Boot manager[edit]

Application	Publisher	Support status	Native binary[a]	Source code	Pricing
Acronis OS Selector
Plop Boot Manager	Elmar Hanlhofer	Active	—	No	Freeware

Hard disk partitioning[edit]

• Acronis PartitionExpert
• Paragon Partition Manager

Backup software[edit]

Application	Publisher	Support status	Native binary[a]	Source code	Pricing
BRU Workstation/Desktop/Server	TOLIS Group, Inc.	Active	—	—	$499 – 4,999 USD[b]
EMC NetWorker	EMC Corporation	Active	—	—	—
ImgBurn	Lightning UK	Active	No[c]	No	Freeware
Microlite BackupEDGE	Microlite Corporation	Active	Yes	—	$400 – 500 USD[d]
Nero Linux	Nero AG	Terminated	—	—	—
SpiderOak Backup	SpiderOak, Inc.	Active	Yes	No	Freeware (paid plans available)
Lonetar
Handy Backup	Novosoft LLC
Veeam	Veeam Software	Active			Freeware

PIM / DB / hierarchical notebook with tree view[edit]

• TreePad Lite

File hosting service clients[edit]

• Dropbox
• Mega

Drivers[edit]

Printer drivers[edit]

• Brother Industries
• Hewlett-Packard (HP)
• Lexmark International
• TurboPrint

Multimedia[edit]

Audio/video[edit]

Digital audio workstations[edit]

• Bitwig Studio
• Mixbus
• ocenaudio
• REAPER (experimentally)
• Renoise
• Tracktion

MP3 encoding[edit]

• L3enc (discontinued)

Score writers[edit]

• Guitar Pro

Multimedia players[edit]

• Fluendo DVD Player
• LinDVD
• Moovida Pro
• Musictube
• PowerDVD for Linux (discontinued)
• JRiver Media Center
• RealPlayer (discontinued)

Music[edit]

• Dataplore
• Dataplore CMS
• energyXT
• Guitar Pro
• Loomer Aspect
• Loomer Manifold
• Loomer Resound
• Loomer Sequent
• Loomer Shift v2
• Loomer String
• MuSing
• Netease Cloud Music
• Pianoteq
• RecordPad
• Spotify
• Transcribe!

Graphics[edit]

Graphics viewers/editors[edit]

Application	Publisher	Support status	Native binary[a]	Source code	Pricing
CompuPic	Photodex	Dropped	—	—	—
iMeMiner	—	—	—	—	—
Picasa	Google	Dropped	No[b]	No	Freeware
Sketsa SVG Editor	KIYUT Software	Active	No[c]	No	$89 USD
XnView MP	Pierre-Emmanuel Gougelet	Active	Yes	No	Freeware
Xv	John Bradley	Partial[d]	Yes	Yes	$35 USD

Professional graphics editors and photography[edit]

• AfterShot Pro
• Corel Photo-Paint 9 (discontinued)
• PaintSupreme
• Pixel32
• Pixeluvo^[2]

Digital imaging[edit]

• Bibble
• FX Photo Effects

2D bitmap animation and paint[edit]

• Harmony
• TVPaint

Vector graphics editors[edit]

• Corel Draw 9 (discontinued)
• Edraw Max 9.4
• Xara Xtreme (discontinued)

Flash players[edit]

• Adobe Flash Player – freeware

3D graphics[edit]

• AC3D
• Chrono::R3D
• Houdini
• MASSIVE
• Maya
• Softimage
• MODO
• Substance Designer by Adobe
• Substance Painter by Adobe
• Mari by The Foundry Visionmongers
• VariCAD

Video, etc.[edit]

Simple/professional video production environments[edit]

• Autodesk/Discreet Flint/Flame/Inferno
• Autodesk/Discreet Smoke
• IFX Piranha
• ifxAnt
• Lightworks
• DaVinci Resolve
• iMira Editing (discontinued)
• MainActor (discontinued)

Creation of 2D and 3D effects[edit]

• Fusion – Linux version is based upon the Windows version using wine.
• Nuke
• Shake (discontinued)

Miscellaneous[edit]

• Google Earth
• TrueCrypt – the source code is available, but the license is considered "unclear" and therefore not considered "free" by some of the major Linux distributions,^{[3][4][5][6][7]} and even considered with "potential to be actively dangerous" by Fedora^[8]

Office/business[edit]

Office suites[edit]

• ApplixWare Office (see Applixware Words)
• EIOffice
• HancomOffice
• SoftMaker Office
• ThinkFree Office
• WPS Office (previously known as Kingsoft Office)
• Yozo Office

Word processors[edit]

• TextMaker
• UltraCompare
• UltraEdit
• WPS Writer

Spreadsheets[edit]

• DataScene
• WPS Spreadsheet

Presentations[edit]

• PageStream
• WPS Presentation

Local databases[edit]

• InterBase 7
• Rekall
• StarOffice Adabas D (discontinued)

Desktop publishing[edit]

• VivaDesigner

E-commerce and web business[edit]

• IBM WebSphere Application Server
• Oracle Application Server (discontinued)
• WebLogic

Personal finance managers[edit]

• Moneydance

Financial accounting[edit]

• Hansa Business Solutions – global
• Kalculate – India and Asia
• LeftHand Mała Firma
• LeftHand Mała Ksiegowość
• LeftHand Pełna Księgowość
• LeftHand Sprzedaż i Magazyn
• LeftHand Stowarzyszenia i Fundacje
• Locbook

Enterprise automation (Russian)[edit]

• Keeper
• Oblik

Collaboration software[edit]

• Kerika
• Microsoft Teams
• TeamViewer
• Slack

Project management[edit]

• Cando Projects Server

Mind mapping/diagramming software[edit]

• Xmind (Pro Edition)
• yEd
• WireframeSketcher
• EdrawMax

Communications software[edit]

• EasyIVR Call processing (IVR, CTI, ACD) – for Linux

Games[edit]

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Game distribution platforms[edit]

• Steam

Action-adventure[edit]

Game	Publisher	Support status	Native binary	Source code	Pricing
Ark: Survival Evolved
Heretic II
Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness

Adventure[edit]

Game	Publisher	Support status	Native binary	Source code	Pricing
Inherit the Earth: Quest for the Orb
Jack Keane
Machinarium

Business simulation[edit]

Game	Publisher	Support status	Native binary	Source code	Pricing
Airline Tycoon Deluxe

Card[edit]

Game	Publisher	Support status	Native binary	Source code	Pricing
Eric's Ultimate Solitaire

City simulation[edit]

Game	Publisher	Support status	Native binary	Source code	Pricing
Mobility		last Linux version is 2.0

First-person shooter[edit]

Game	Publisher	Support status	Native binary	Source code	Pricing
Aliens versus Predator
America's Army		Dropped
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive	Valve	Active
Dark Horizons Lore: Invasion
Descent³
Doom 3
Duke Nukem 3D
Enemy Territory: Quake Wars
Grappling Hook
Medal of Honor: Allied Assault		Unfinished beta
Postal²
Team Fortress 2[9]	Valve	Active
Unreal Tournament	GT Interactive
Unreal Tournament 2003	Infogrames
Unreal Tournament 2004	Atari

Graphic adventure[edit]

Game	Publisher	Support status	Native binary	Source code	Pricing
Ankh
Ankh: Heart of Osiris

MMORPG[edit]

Game	Publisher	Support status	Native binary	Source code	Pricing
A Tale in the Desert

Platformer[edit]

Game	Publisher	Support status	Native binary	Source code	Pricing
And Yet It Moves
Cave Story
Inner Worlds
Marble Blast Gold
Portal

Puzzle[edit]

Game	Publisher	Support status	Native binary	Source code	Pricing
Bubble Shooter
Hyperspace Delivery Boy!

Racing[edit]

Game	Publisher	Support status	Native binary	Source code	Pricing
Ballistics
H-Craft Championship

Real-time tactics[edit]

Game	Publisher	Support status	Native binary	Source code	Pricing
Myth II: Soulblighter

Role-playing game (RPG)[edit]

Game	Publisher	Support status	Native binary	Source code	Pricing
Bastion
Cute Knight
Eschalon: Book I
Eschalon: Book II
Exile III:Ruined World
Gorky 17
Neverwinter Nights

Shoot 'em up[edit]

Game	Publisher	Support status	Native binary	Source code	Pricing
Astro Battle
Jets'n'Guns

Stealth[edit]

Game	Publisher	Support status	Native binary	Source code	Pricing
Cold War

Strategy[edit]

Game	Publisher	Support status	Native binary	Source code	Pricing
Civilization: Call to Power
Conquest of Elysium II
Crusader Kings II
DEFCON
Darwinia
Dominions: Priests, Prophets and Pretenders
Dominions II: The Ascension Wars
Dominions 3: The Awakening
Europa Universalis IV
Galcon
Heroes of Might and Magic III
Knights and Merchants
Kohan: Immortal Sovereigns
Lux
Majesty Gold
Oil Rush

Survival horror[edit]

Game	Publisher	Support status	Native binary	Source code	Pricing
Amnesia: The Dark Descent
Penumbra: Black Plague
Penumbra: Overture

Sports simulator[edit]

Game	Publisher	Support status	Native binary	Source code	Pricing
Out of the Park Baseball

Third-person shooter[edit]

Game	Publisher	Support status	Native binary	Source code	Pricing
Heavy Metal: F.A.K.K.²

Visual novel[edit]

Game	Publisher	Support status	Native binary	Source code	Pricing
Bionic Heart
Digital: A Love Story
Heileen 2: The Hands of Fate

• Dwarf Fortress
• Enter the Gungeon
• Factorio
• FizzBall (discontinued)
• Garry's Mod
• Heroes of Newerth
• MindRover
• Minecraft
• Prey
• Quake (all versions)
• Railroad Tycoon II
• Raptor: Call of the Shadows (discontinued)
• Regnum Online
• Return to Castle Wolfenstein
• RimWorld
• Rise of the Triad
• Robin Hood: The Legend of Sherwood
• Rune
• Savage 2
• Savage: The Battle for Newerth
• Serious Sam (all versions unfinished ports; beta)
• Shadowgrounds Survivor
• Shadowgrounds
• Shogo: Mobile Armor Division
• Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri
• SimCity 3000
• SiN
• Sleepless Night
• Soldier of Fortune
• Space Combat
• Spheres of Chaos
• Stardew Valley
• Summer Session
• Tabletop Simulator
• Terminus
• Terraria
• The Labyrinth of Time
• Theocracy
• This Is Where I Want To Die
• Tibia
• Toribash
• Total War: Three Kingdoms
• Total War: Warhammer II
• Tribal Trouble
• Tribes II
• Ultima Online (discontinued)
• Uplink
• Vendetta Online
• World of Goo
• X-Plane
• X2: The Threat
• Yohoho! Puzzle Pirates

Programming and development[edit]

C++ IDEs[edit]

• Code Crusader
• CodeWarrior
• KDE Studio Gold
• Kylix (discontinued)
• SlickEdit
• TimeStorm
• UEStudio
• Understand for C++
• JetBrains CLion

PHP IDE[edit]

• Zend Studio
• JetBrains PHPStorm

CASE[edit]

CASE-facility for UML[edit]

• Together ControlCenter

Top-level CASE system[edit]

• Rational Rose

Compilers[edit]

• Intel C++ Compiler
• Intel Fortran Compiler
• Lahey/Fujitsu Fortran Compiler
• XL C/C++ Compiler, IBM
• XL Fortran Compiler, IBM

Revision control[edit]

HTML/DHTML editors[edit]

• Microsoft Visual Studio Code
• JetBrains PyCharm

InterBase/Firebird IDE[edit]

• IBAdmin

Java IDE[edit]

• JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA
• Sun ONE Studio

Memory leak tracing[edit]

• Insure

Object Pascal IDE[edit]

• Kylix

Perl/Python/Tcl IDE[edit]

• ActiveState Komodo
• JetBrains PyCharm
• Sublime Text

Prolog[edit]

• SICStus Prolog

WYSIWYG HTML editors[edit]

• IBM WebSphere Homepage Builder
• IndexFinger
• BlueGriffon

Servers[edit]

SSH Client/Server[edit]

• SecureCRT/VShell Server
• Termius
• Tectia SSH

Web Hosting Control Panel[edit]

• cPanel
• DirectAdmin
• Plesk

WWW[edit]

• Abyss Web Server – original open source version is being developed as part of xmlrpc-c project
• Adobe JRun
• CGIProxy – source available for non-commercial use
• LiteSpeed Web Server
• Zeus Web Server (discontinued)

DB engines[edit]

• IBM Db2
• Informix
• Microsoft SQL Server
• Oracle
• Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise

E-mail / personal information manager / groupware servers[edit]

• Bynari
• CommuniGate Pro
• Lotus Domino
• NetMail
• Novell GroupWise
• Open-Xchange
• Scalix (based on HP OpenMail)
• SCOoffice Mail Server
• Teamware Office
• Zarafa
• Hiri
• InScribe

Product data/product lifecycle management (PDM/PLM)[edit]

• Siemens Teamcenter^[10]

Proxy[edit]

• Opendium Web Gateway content control system targeted at schools
• Opendium UTM content control system targeted at schools

Cluster filesystems[edit]

• Matrix Server

Managed file transfer[edit]

• Serv-U File Server – managed file transfer server, supporting FTP, FTPS, SFTP, HTTP, and HTTPS file transfer methods

Streaming media servers[edit]

• Emby
• Plex

Miscellaneous applications[edit]

Mathematics[edit]

• Magma
• Maple
• Mathematica
• MATLAB
• Xoctave Scientific Development Environment: Octave GUI

Statistical packages[edit]

• R/Rstudio
• PSPP
• Stata
• TSP

3D modelling[edit]

• CityEngine
• PhotoScan by Agisoft
• Pro/ENGINEER Linux (discontinued)
• Parasolid
• Realsoft 3D
• Siemens NX^[11]

CAD/CAM/CAE[edit]

• Adina – by ADINA R&D
• ARCAD 3D
• ARES Commander
• BricsCAD – IntelliCAD-based commercial CAD solution
• CAM Expert Professional
• CATIA – by Dassault Systèmes
• CYCAS by Verlag Frese
• DraftSight – by Dassault Systèmes
• EAGLE
• MEDUSA
• Siemens NX
• QCAD – by RibbonSoft, professional is built on the QCAD opensource package
• RI-CAD
• Simcenter STAR-CCM+ by Siemens.
• Synergy by Weber Systems
• VariCAD – by VariCAD s.r.o.

Diagram and chart designing[edit]

• DataScene
• Poseidon for UML
• Visual Paradigm

Dictionaries[edit]

• Lunestar – an English-Turkish dictionary, freeware

HDD testing/benchmarking[edit]

• SPEC SFS

Game makers[edit]

• Maker3D – a 3D RPG creation software
• Tululoo Game Maker – a complex game creation system environment

Real property, Building Information Management & Asset management[edit]

• Mapjects AssetFENCE – management of assets both commercial, industrial & federal properties for leased and purchased sites
• Mapjects RADAR – management of real property commercial and federal properties for leased and purchased sites
• MapjectsIMPORT for Linux – freeware, also available on other platforms, lets users import files across QuickBooks, Archibus, AutoDesk CAD and Map them to assets in excel

SQL dataBases GUI admin tools[edit]

• Navicat – Linux version is based upon the Windows version using Wine.

Remote Desktop[edit]

• TeamViewer
• AnyDesk
• NoMachine
• Splashtop

Emulators[edit]

Video game console emulators[edit]

Application	Publisher	Support status	Native binary[a]	Source code	Pricing
BoycottAdvance[b]	• Julien Frelat • Richard Bannister • Niels Wagenaar	Dropped[c]	Yes	No	Freeware
ePSXe[d]	ePSXe Team	Active	Yes	No	Freeware
Regen[e]	AamirM	Active	Yes	No	Freeware

Platform virtual machines[edit]

Application	Publisher	Support status	Native binary	Source code	Pricing
Parallels Workstation	Parallels, Inc.	Terminated[a]	—	No	No longer sold
QuickTransit
VMware Player
VMware vCenter Converter
VMware Workstation
Oracle VM VirtualBox Enterprise
Win4Lin		Discontinued

Windows compatibility layer[edit]

• Bordeaux
• Cedega – Windows games compatibility layer; based on the free compatibility layer Wine (discontinued)
• CrossOver – based on the free compatibility layer Wine.

Notes[edit]

A.^A Open-source drivers are available through HP Linux Imaging and Printing ^[12]

See also[edit]

• Wine, a "compatibility layer" that allows many windows software to run on Linux (both proprietary and free)

References[edit]

External links[edit]

• This list is based on The Table of equivalents / replacements / analogs of Windows software in Linux, which is licensed under GNU FDL.