Software types

Browse 5,521 software products by what they do: 16 areas, from sales and design to engineering and games, each with its definition and its products.

• Consumer & media 1,878 listed · 936 read
  Software people use in their personal lives and on their own devices.
• Engineering & developer tools 839 listed · 559 read
  Software that developers use to write, build, test, ship and run software.
• Industry-specific 467 listed · 273 read
  Software built for one industry or field rather than for a business function.
• Design & creative 460 listed · 264 read
  Software for making visual, audio and video work: interfaces, graphics, photos, 3D, video, sound and AI-generated media.
• IT & security 314 listed · 200 read
  Software that IT and security teams use to run a company's systems and protect its people, devices, networks and data.
• Productivity & collaboration 312 listed · 191 read
  Software that people use every day to write, calculate, organise, plan and share their work.
• Data & analytics 274 listed · 164 read
  Software that stores, moves, analyses and presents data.
• Communication 259 listed · 147 read
  Software that people use to talk to each other: messages, email, calls and meetings.
• Marketing 252 listed · 154 read
  Software that marketing teams use to attract an audience, reach it and measure what works.
• AI & machine learning 181 listed · 131 read
  General-purpose AI assistants, and the software for building, running and checking AI models and agents.
• Finance & accounting 95 listed · 69 read
  Software that finance teams use to record, move, plan and control a company's money.
• HR & people 78 listed · 60 read
  Software that HR teams use to hire, pay, develop and manage people.
• Sales & CRM 52 listed · 46 read
  Software that sales teams use to find buyers, manage deals and record sales.
• Customer service 28 listed · 26 read
  Software that teams use to answer customers and keep them successful after the sale.
• Legal 22 listed · 18 read
  Software that legal teams and law firms use to draft, sign, manage and research legal work.
• Operations & supply chain 10 listed · 10 read
  Software that runs the physical and process side of a business: stock, shipping, field work, facilities and routine work between systems.

5,521 of 13,386 listed products are placed in a category. The other 7,865 are named only generically (for example “application software” or “program”) and carry no category yet; AirStack does not guess.