The various wireguard mesh VPNs (along with Wireguard itself) such as tailscale/headscale, netbird, etc
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Its a bit more than an app, but QGIS is like, actually amazing. Also GDAL (and PDAL).
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YouTube clients like NewPipe
Kodi—It can connect to a media source via FTP, so I was able to effortlessly connected it to my online storage to download shows and movies from it to watch on the fly, and on my TV no less. Without that, it'd be a huge pain just to get the file onto my TV.
SmartTube—It's an ad-free YouTube video app for Android TVs, and it has Sponsorblock included. You could say it's YouTube Vanced for Android TVs.
Discord bots—I've setup my own personal Discord server (no other humans allowed in it) and set it up with various bots that do things ranging from posting tweets/ posts from Twitter/ Bluesky to letting me know when specific channels have uploaded a new video on YouTube or gone live on Twitch. I've also got another bot monitoring some RSS feeds.
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Dosbox
ScummVM
GZDoom
DevilutionX
Wargus
JDownloader
Krita
Syncthing
Stremio + torrentio plug-in.
My wife and I haven't paid for a subscription in 5 years and watch everything we want
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KiCad. GNU Linux. Blender. Gqrx. Rclone. Syncthing
Off the top of my head:
Krita
Handbrake
LibreOffice
Let me hijack your comment mentioning Krita with another KDE app: Okular!
I simply can't believe a PDF app can be this performant, this fully featured, and entirely free. It even works on Windows, if you're trapped in that nightmare.
Adobe Acrobat Reader, from the people who created the PDF format, is unbelievably slow, it takes a thousand steps through an ugly UI to do anything useful, and any feature you actually care about is locked behind payment. Okular, a free tool, will load PDFs instantly, render previews flawlessly, let you edit, sign, merge, add text, select text, whatever you wish.
And KDE creates this app and a thousand others for less money than Mozilla wasted on some random bs last year. Long live KDE.
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I recently learned about an app called Snappy Driver Installer Origin. It's a minimal FOSS program that checks our PC for the drivers it has, needs installed, or updated and goes about it quickly. It's also portable so it's great if you want it on a install thumb drive.
There are so many apps out there that try to get you to buy or pay a subscription for this feature and others, so it's been a breath of fresh air for me to have learned about and use it.
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There are so many complex applications that I can't believe are free: KDenLive, Gimp, Audacity, Firefox, Discord, Calibre, Jellyfin, Rainmeter, Godot, Retroarch
Discord isn't free, you're paying with your data. 😅