In the world there are different projects making software, some off these software is free to use.This site will only link to sites which provide free software. 

From the EfficienSea Project:

• DaMSA AisLib - Java library for handling AIS messages:  https://github.com/dma-ais/AisLib
• EfficienSea AIS VHF Datalink Manager: https://github.com/DaMSA/EAVDAM
• Extended INS https://github.com/DaMSA/ee-INS

From Arundale:

• A free AIS Decoder and NMEA router: https://arundaleais.github.io/docs/ais/ais_decoder_v3_downloads.html
• The mirror website and sourcecode is available on: https://arundaleais.github.io/docs/ais/ais_decoder.html
  and the source: https://github.com/arundaleais

From OpenCPN:

• A free multi platform Chartplotter and GPS Navigation software: https://opencpn.org/