Companies starting with S

Easily create interactive stories, animations and games.

A powerful writing software built for long-form projects like novels, scripts, academic papers, and research-based writing.

A beginner-friendly nature ID app that uses real-time image recognition to identify species without requiring user login.

Sketchup is a great free 3D drawing program, with lots of fun features. 

Sketchup comes with a fantastic tutorial popup that opens beside your window, offering visual, animated tool tips as you work.

The software has a very active community and you can download all kinds of finished objects and buildings from the Google Sketchup 'Warehouse'.

If you are doing anything with landscape, building or interior design, or just want to play with perspective, give it a try.

SonicBirth is a massive modular construction environment that enables the user to patch together individual modules in order to create their own audio effects, synthesisers and more.

From the man behind Cecilia and Zyne, Soundgrain taps into the weird and wonderful world of granular processing.

A collaborative, browser-based music studio by Spotify that enables online music production and sharing.

What to use if you're nervous about entrusting your data to someone else's product roadmap (EverNote or OneNote or Keep).

A reflective journaling and mood-tracking app inspired by Stoic and philosophical principles to guide personal growth.

A gamified resilience-building app that uses small physical and mental challenges to improve well-being.

Another one for OS X, Windows and Linux, this GNU GPL release has been in active development since 1996.