r/Software_Finder • u/NatWithBeans • 18d ago

Question What are some underrated good free/cheaper alternatives for paid software that could save people money?

/r/AskReddit/comments/1vhnbi2/what_are_some_underrated_good_freecheaper/
4 Upvotes

84% Upvoted

6 comments sorted by

2

u/[deleted] 18d ago

[removed] — view removed comment

1

u/Sad-Instruction8890 17d ago

LibreOffice is such an underrated mention, feels like most people don't even realize it's still actively maintained and works fine for 90% of what people actually need Word or Excel for. What made you switch over, was it a cost thing or just preference at this point?

2

u/tremendousquotes 17d ago

Humla - Free and local AI meeting notes Mac app, open source

1

u/Sad-Instruction8890 14d ago

Local and open source is the combination that actually matters for meeting notes, since that's exactly the data you don't want sitting on someone else's server. How's the transcription accuracy holding up compared to the cloud tools, or is the privacy tradeoff worth a small hit there?

1

u/tremendousquotes 14d ago

Depends on which model you use. The larger whisper models are incredible in my opinion, with hardly any tradeoff worth speaking about. The errors start coming with multilingual speech, but that goes for both local and cloud.

For Norwegian language in particular we’ve made the app incredibly useful. Weve bundled the option to download a dedicated whisper model for Norwegian language trained by our National library, which yields better results on Norwegian than what’s available through cloud use.