Collected by lifehacker

As we prepare to give thanks for our delicious Thanksgiving meals (and impending food comas), let’s not forget to pay tribute to the wonderful developers who bring us our favorite free apps.

With a little spreadsheet magic and a few choices of our own, we bring you the top 50 free apps we’re all most thankful for. Whether you’re celebrating the holiday or not, it’s a great list of free software that ought to make for some gluttonous downloading. The popular apps are some of the more obvious, however, so be sure to look further down the list for new free software you may not yet know about. Happy Thanksgiving, everybody!

The 50 Free Apps We’re Most Thankful For

1. Dropbox

2. VLC (Video Lan Client)

3. Google Chrome

4. Firefox

5. Opera

6. Google Apps

7. Simplenote and Notational Velocity

8. CCleaner

9. uTorrent

10. Transmission

11. sabnzbd+

12. Open Office

13. Skype

14. Evernote

15. GIMP

16. KeePass

17. LastPass

18. 7zip

19. ImgBurn

20. Microsoft Security Essentials

21. AutoHotkey

22. Pandora

23. FileZilla

24. TrueCrypt

25. Handbrake

26. VirtualBox

27. Audacity

28. Paint.NET

29. iTunes

30. Thunderbird

31. Foobar2000

32. Pidgin

33. Adium

34. avast!

35. TeamViewer

36. TweetDeck

37. Launchy

38. Quicksilver

39. Instapaper

40. ReadItLater

41. XBMC

42. PuTTY

43. Cyberduck

44. Perian

45. XAMPP

46. Windows Live Essentials

47. Winamp

48. TeraCopy

49. Eclipse

50. MediaMonkey

And that’s the list! Happy downloading, and happy Thanksgiving!