Webmail tabs and the built-in Mail app fall short once you're juggling several accounts. Mailspring answers with a native client and unlimited free accounts.
Anyone who needs disk encryption that no company holds a key to ends up at VeraCrypt: free, open source, and unforgiving of a forgotten password.
Notepad++ is the free, open-source text editor most Windows users install the day plain Notepad stops being enough. Fast, tiny, and endlessly extendable.
7-Zip is a free, open-source file archiver that opens almost everything and compresses tighter than most paid rivals. A plain interface is the only real cost.
Sumatra PDF is a free, no-frills PDF reader that opens files on Windows almost instantly, without Adobe's bloat. See who it actually fits.
One long read on the week's biggest shift, every Sunday.
