THE BEST FREE PC SOFTWARE YOU’LL NEVER HAVE TO PAY FOR

Don’t get tricked by ‘free’ programs that will eventually charge you. Robert Irvine recommends the best truly free tools from independent developers you can trust.

It’s always annoying when one of your favourite free programs becomes ‘freemium’. This means you have to pay to use certain features, are restricted in what you can do with the software and have to put up with nags to upgrade to the paid-for version. A recent example is Icecream Video Converter (www.snipca.com/47056), which now adds a watermark to every video you convert – unless you pay US$29.95 a year for the Pro edition. Although companies are entitled to charge for their products, we think changing their policies once they’ve got you hooked is cynical and unfair. Thankfully, not all software makers are as devious or greedy. Many independent developers, particularly members of the open-source community, create free tools for the love of doing so as well as to benefit…

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