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7-Zip

Igor Pavlov

7-Zip is a free, open-source file archiver with a high compression ratio. It reads and writes 7z, ZIP, TAR, and GZIP archives, and extracts from RAR, ISO, CAB, and many other formats.

Access

Microsoft

Microsoft Access is a user-friendly, graphical database management system (DBMS) from Microsoft that combines a relational database engine with software development tools to help users store, organize, manage, and analyze large amounts of data.

Acrobat Pro

Adobe

Adobe Acrobat Pro is a comprehensive PDF software and e-signature solution that allows users to edit, create, sign, and manage PDFs, offering advanced features beyond the standard Acrobat version, including OCR, redaction, and PDF comparison.

Acrobat Reader

Adobe

Adobe Acrobat Reader is free software for viewing, printing, annotating, and signing PDF documents. It supports commenting, form filling, and accessibility features such as text-to-speech.

Adobe Digital Editions

Adobe

Adobe Digital Editions is an e-book reader software program from Adobe Systems, built initially using Adobe Flash. It is used for acquiring, managing, and reading e-books, digital newspapers, and other digital publications. Most major publishers use Adobe Digital Editions (ADE) to proof-read their books. Download this free eReader to experience your books in the most optimum format across PC, MAC, tablets or mobile devices. Use it to download and purchase digital content, which can be read both online and offline. Experience a new ease-of-use as the books you purchase appear automatically across all the devices you have ADE on.

Brave

Brave Software

Brave is a free, Chromium-based web browser that blocks third-party ads and trackers by default. It supports Chrome extensions and syncs bookmarks, passwords, and history across devices.

Claude

Anthropic

Claude is a generative AI assistant and family of large language models developed by Anthropic. It helps with writing, editing, analysis, coding, research, and problem-solving through natural conversation, and can work with uploaded documents and images. Claude is available on the web, desktop, and mobile.

Copilot

Microsoft

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Microsoft Copilot is an AI-powered chatbot designed to improve productivity and enhance the way you interact with your Microsoft 365 data. It is available to all staff, faculty, and students at no additional cost under BU’s enterprise Microsoft license.

DBeaver

Open Source

DBeaver is free and open source universal database tool for developers and database administrators.

DropBox

DropBox

Dropbox is a cloud-based storage solution designed to streamline file management and collaboration. Dropbox allows Boston University faculty, staff, and students to securely store, access, and share files from any device, ensuring seamless synchronization across platforms.

Excel

Microsoft

Microsoft Excel is a powerful spreadsheet application by Microsoft used for organizing, calculating, and analyzing data using rows and columns of cells. It enables users to perform complex financial analysis, create visualizations like graphs and pivot tables, and automate repetitive tasks with formulas and macros.

Fetch

Fetch Softworks

IS&T has a site license for Fetch, a FTP (File Transfer Protocol) program for Mac computers that allows you to transfer files between your Mac and other types of computers. For example, you might use FTP software to transfer files between your desktop or notebook computer and SCC, a website, or the mainframe.

Firefox

Mozilla

Firefox is a free, open-source web browser from Mozilla. It automatically blocks online trackers, protects privacy by default, and syncs bookmarks, passwords, and history across Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, and Android.

Git

Git (Software Freedom Conservancy)

Git is a free, open-source distributed version control system for tracking changes in files and coordinating work across contributors. It is the version control system behind GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket.

GitHub Desktop

GitHub

GitHub Desktop is a free graphical Git client from GitHub. It provides a visual interface for cloning repositories, staging and committing changes, managing branches, and opening pull requests without using the command line.

Google Chrome

Google

Google Chrome is a free web browser from Google. It runs on Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, and Android, syncs bookmarks, passwords, and history across signed-in devices, and includes Safe Browsing protection and a built-in password manager.

Google Drive

Google

Google Drive is a cloud storage solution connected to your BU Google account. You can store documents as well as share files to other Google users. Google Drive for Desktop allows you to sync your Google Drive contents to your local machine. Students are provisioned with Google Drives on account creation. Faculty, staff and affiliates that wish to utilize Google for storage must first enable their account for Google access.

Google Workspace

Google

Google Workspace for Education includes productivity and collaboration tools like Docs, Sheets and Slides. Google Workspace apps are web-based and do not have local desktop installations. Students are provisioned with Google Drives on account creation. Faculty, staff and affiliates that wish to utilize Google for storage must first enable their account for Google access.

Microsoft 365

Microsoft

Microsoft 365 is a cloud-powered productivity platform, providing access to the latest productivity apps, such as Microsoft Teams, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneDrive, and more.

Microsoft Edge

Microsoft

Microsoft Edge is a free, Chromium-based web browser from Microsoft. Available on Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, and Android, it includes Microsoft Defender SmartScreen protection and syncs history, bookmarks, and passwords across devices via a Microsoft account.

Microsoft To Do

Microsoft

Stay organized and manage your day-to-day with Microsoft To Do. Make shopping lists or task lists, take notes, record collections, set reminders and more to improve your productivity and focus on what matters. Microsoft To Do is the task management app that makes it easy to stay organized and manage your life. Accomplish what’s important to you each day with My Day and Suggestions, personalized day planner tools.

MobaXterm

Mobatek

MobaXterm is your ultimate toolbox for remote computing. In a single Windows application, it provides loads of functions that are tailored for programmers, webmasters, IT administrators and pretty much all users who need to handle their remote jobs in a more simple fashion.

NVDA

NV Access

NVDA (NonVisual Desktop Access) is a free, open-source screen reader for Windows. It reads on-screen content aloud using synthetic speech and supports refreshable braille displays, allowing blind and low-vision users to operate Windows applications and web browsers.

OneNote

Microsoft

Microsoft OneNote is a digital note-taking app for capturing and organizing notes, images, links, and audio in searchable notebooks. Notes sync across your devices and the web.

Onshape

ptc

Onshape is a cloud-based computer-aided design (CAD) software system that operates on a software as a service (SaaS) model. It integrates all the tools necessary for product development, allowing users to design, collaborate, and manage their projects entirely through a web browser. This platform leverages cloud computing for processing and rendering, making it accessible from various devices without the need for local installations.

Power BI

Microsoft

Power BI is a Microsoft business intelligence platform that helps organizations connect to, visualize, and analyze data from multiple sources to create interactive dashboards and reports. It includes desktop authoring tools, cloud-based sharing capabilities, mobile access, and AI-powered analytics features, enabling businesses to gain actionable insights and make data-driven decisions with enterprise-grade security and collaboration tools.

Power BI Desktop

Microsoft

Power BI Desktop is a free, downloadable Windows application from Microsoft that serves as the primary tool for data analysis and business intelligence. It enables users to connect to various data sources, transform and model that data using a visual interface and powerful DAX formulas, and then build interactive reports with customizable visuals.

PowerPoint

Microsoft

Microsoft PowerPoint is a versatile presentation software that enables users to create, edit, and share multimedia-rich slide shows.

PowerShell

Microsoft

An automation and configuration tool that includes a command-line shell optimized for structured data and object models.

Python

Python Software Foundation

Python is a free, open-source, general-purpose programming language with a large standard library and an extensive package ecosystem. It is widely used for data analysis, scientific computing, automation, machine learning, and web development.

Read&Write GOLD works with popular software applications — including Microsoft Word, Internet Explorer (features available on many browsers via plugins), and more — to facilitate literacy, language learning, research, and good organizational habits. Its powerful tools designed to help with everything from translation to paper editing make it useful for any student.

SQL Server Management Studio (SMSS)

Microsoft

SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) is an integrated environment for managing any SQL infrastructure. Use SSMS to access, configure, manage, administer, and develop all components of SQL Server, Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Managed Instance, SQL Server on Azure VM, and Azure Synapse Analytics. SSMS provides a single comprehensive utility that combines a broad group of graphical tools with many rich script editors to provide access to SQL Server for developers and database administrators of all skill levels.

Visual Studio Code

Microsoft

Visual Studio Code is an open source code multi-platform code editor offered by Microsoft. VS Code supports almost every major programming language. Several ship in the box, like JavaScript, TypeScript, CSS, and HTML, but extensions for others can be found in the VS Code Marketplace.

VLC

VideoLAN

A free and open source multimedia player and streaming media server that plays most multimedia files.

WinSCP

Open Source

WinSCP is an open source free SFTP client, FTP client, WebDAV client, S3 client and SCP client and file manager for Windows. Its main function is file transfer between a local and a remote computer. Beyond this, WinSCP offers scripting and basic file manager functionality.

Word

Microsoft

Microsoft Word is a word processing application from Microsoft used to create, edit, and format documents such as letters, reports, and academic papers.

Xcode

Apple

Xcode offers all the tools you need to craft great apps for iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Apple Watch, Apple Vision Pro, and Mac. It enables a unified workflow that spans from the earliest stages of app development to testing, debugging, optimization, and app distribution to testers and users. And with the Swift programming language, Xcode makes developing apps easy and fun. Xcode includes a world-class code editor with an on-device machine learning model trained for Swift and Apple SDKs, a built-in preview tool that shows the UI of your app as you modify code, and a powerful debugger with conditional breakpoints. Xcode also includes companion tools to help you rapidly prototype and test your app. Simulator enables rapid prototyping and testing your app in a simulated environment when a real device isn’t available. Instruments helps you profile and analyze your app, improve performance, and investigate system resource usage. And you can use Reality Composer Pro to create 3D content, train custom machine learning models with Create ML, and identify potential accessibility issues with Accessibility Inspector. To test or run applications on an Apple device, all you need is a free Apple ID. To submit your apps to the App Store you must be a member of the Apple Developer Program. Some features may require Internet access and may not be available for all regions or on all Apple devices.