Setup & Tools

This page contains tools and programs I used on a regular basis in my workflow. The page is divided up into multiple sections to make browsing things a bit easier. As you can probably tell I have included almost every single program I use to avoid having to attach any further details that you might want to find out!

To answer a question I receive on live streams, tutorials and timelapses: what kind of a system I am running on? I work on my main desktop setup for the most part but also own a MacBook Air which I use for development on the go. It's not nearly as powerful as my main rig but it gets most jobs done well with enough time.

Most applications on this page are for Windows unless specifically stated. The reason for this being that Windows is my main development operating system when I am at work and at home. There are also some sections with more command line focused applications which either run under Bash for Windows or just in a Unix shell on either my notebook or one of my servers.

I have omitted programming languages from this selection since those are constantly growing while everything else on this page is carefully curated and only changes every few years as something else comes along. Old entries are then moved to the deprecated section at the bottom of the page.

General

This list contains programs that I use on a day to day basis. Rather normal applications that most people use are in here as well. My setup is rather specific though to save me as much time as possible meaning that I use a lot of automatically syncing applications so that I have my most basic configurations with me on the go at all times. On top of that another big point is the setup time that it takes for all of the applications as it should be as short as easy as possible.

Development

This list contains applications that I use in programming and general development oriented environments. This field ranges from game development all the way over to web server file editing. The main focus though is on editing of projects and their files.

Artwork & Graphics Creation

This list contains most applications I use on a day to day basis for artwork and general graphics creation. This means that tools for graphic assets in games and other work are also included in this list. This is probably the most active list with new additions and removals over time as I find more suited tools for certain tasks to work faster. The list should provide a great start into general content creation as it focuses on a lot of areas at the same time so there should definitely be something in here that will be of use to you.

Video & Visual Effects

This list contains video editing and visual effects suites as well as playback and streaming applications for more casual use. This does not include applications that are used to create specific graphic assets to a degree as you will find those in the graphic and artwork category. The programs below focus more on video editing, encoding, playback and other essential features.

Audio Editing & DAWs

This list contains applications used in audio recording, editing and manipulation as well as complete digital audio workstation solutions for music and sound effects production.

Support & Hardware

This list contains applications that I use on a regular basis in hardware debugging, monitoring and client support. There are also some security applications in this category as well and overclocking assistants.

System Administration Tools

This list contains applications used for interaction with remote servers as well as monitoring and dissecting of network traffic.

Command Line & Server Applications

This list contains command line applications and utilities that I run on Unix systems once I have set them up. Obviously depending of the tasks that the system has to handle there are a lot of other applications that you will not find on this list actually running on the server but to show a base set of what I run you can take the following list as a good starting reference point.

Deprecated Applications & Previous Tools

This list contains applications that I have previously used in my workflow at some point but have become deprecated either because they are not supported anymore by the developer or a better alternative has come along. To avoid table clutter I have compiled everything into a single table to make things easier. Descriptions have been omitted to keep things clean and should not be necessary as a quick online search should show enough information about the given application.