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12 Best Free and Open Source Animation Tools

February 26, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, Roundup

There is a huge range of open source software available to create, modify and convert 2D and 3D computer graphics. In the field of animation, we make these recommendations.

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Animation

Synfig – 2D animation software

February 26, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

Synfig is a vector based 2D animation package. It is designed to be capable of producing feature-film quality animation.

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Magical Potions

Blender – 3D creation suite

February 26, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

Blender is a free and open source 3D content creation suite available for many operating systems including Linux.

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LibreSprite – create 2D animations for videogames

February 26, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

LibreSprite is software to create and animate sprites. LibreSprite originated as a fork of Aseprite, developed by David Capello.

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Animation

Pencil2D – easy, intuitive tool to make 2D hand-drawn animations

February 26, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

Pencil2D is an easy, intuitive tool to make 2D hand-drawn animations.

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Animation

OpenToonz – 2D animation software

February 26, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

OpenToonz is full-featured 2D animation creation software. It is based on Toonz Studio Ghibli Version.

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Animation

Tahoma2D – powerful software for 2D and stop motion animators

February 26, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

Tahoma2DTahoma2D is a full-featured 2D and Stop Motion animation creation software. It is based on Toonz Studio, Ghibli Version.

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Animation

Glaxnimate – simple and fast vector graphics animation program

February 26, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

Glaxnimate is a simple vector graphics animation tool. Vector graphics are images are described with objects like lines, curves, and points.

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Magical Potions

K-3D – 3D modeling and animation software

February 26, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

K-3D is a free and open source procedural modeler, meaning that the entire history of user modifications are stored when creating a model.

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Animation

enve – 2D animation software

February 26, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

enve is 2D animation software. You can use enve to create vector animations, raster animations, and even use sound and video files.

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Flickr

5 Best Free and Open Source Linux Flickr Tools

February 25, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, Internet, Roundup

This article focuses on selecting the best small Linux utilities that support Flickr integration. These tools help users to edit, tag, download and upload images to and from a Linux computer and the Flickr service.

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Photo collection

Photos – access, organize and share your photos on GNOME

February 25, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics

Access, organize and share your photos on GNOME. A simple and elegant replacement for using a file manager to deal with photos.

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Flickr

Shotwell – photo manager for GNOME

February 25, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics

Shotwell is an open source image organizer designed to provide personal photo management for the GNOME 3 desktop environment.

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Flickr

Frogr – manage accounts in the Flickr image hosting website

February 25, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics

Flickr Remote Organizer (Frogr) is a small open source application for the GNOME desktop that allows users to manage their accounts in Flickr.

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Photo collection

Annotator – image annotation tool

February 23, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

Annotator lets you annotate your images and let a picture say 1000 words.

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GUI Prototyping

6 Best Free and Open Source GUI Prototyping Tools

February 23, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, Programming, Roundup

Whether it is by pure experimentation or transforming a vision into something tangible, prototypes help assist in testing and building while preserving overall design consistency.

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lule – ANSI color generator

February 19, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

lule is a command line tool to set 255 colors on tty’s and other places that use ANSI colors.

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Screen Capture

HyprQuickFrame – screenshot utility for Hyprland

February 18, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

HyprQuickFrame is a native screenshot utility for Hyprland built with Quickshell.

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Image Viewers

Lightning Image Viewer – fast and lightweight desktop image viewer

February 18, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI, Reviews

Lightning Image Viewer (LIV) is billed as a desktop image (previewer) with some notable UX features.

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Images

rsimg – terminal image viewer

February 18, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, TUI

rsimg is a terminal image viewer written in rust which displays images with Unicode characters.

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