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The best PicGo alternatives

5 tools that do a similar job to PicGo, 5 of them open source. Each entry says what it does and who it suits, so you can pick the one that fits instead of the most famous.

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PicGo

Desktop app that uploads pasted or dropped images to image hosts and copies the link.

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    ZY Player

    Open source · MIT · ★ 14.5k

    Desktop video player for online video sources, with no ads, for Windows, Mac and Linux.

    Best for: People who want a desktop player for online video sources without ads; Users on Windows, Mac or Linux who want a single app for browsing and playing

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    Lepton

    Open source · MIT · ★ 10.3k

    A lean desktop app for organizing code snippets stored in GitHub Gists or GitLab snippets.

    Best for: Developers who already keep snippets as GitHub Gists or GitLab snippets; People who want a desktop editor for their existing snippet collection

  3. 3

    GitHub Desktop

    Open source · MIT · ★ 22k

    A desktop app for using Git and GitHub through a visual interface instead of the command line.

    Best for: Developers who work with GitHub and prefer a visual interface for commits and branches; Beginners learning Git concepts who want to see changes before committing

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    Gridea

    Open source · MIT · ★ 10.2k

    A desktop app for writing Markdown posts that publish to a static blog.

    Best for: Bloggers who want to own their content as plain static files; People who prefer writing in Markdown on a desktop app

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    AiToEarn

    Open source · MIT · ★ 27.2k

    Tool that uses AI agents to help publish and manage content across many social platforms.

    Best for: Creators who post the same content to many platforms; Small marketing teams running social accounts across regions

How we pick: tools in the same category that solve the same problem, projects that name each other as alternatives, and open-source projects that describe themselves as an alternative to PicGo. We don't take payment for placement.