For the purposes of this list, a

portable application A portable application (portable app), sometimes also called standalone software, is a computer program designed to operate without changing other files or requiring other software to be installed. In this way, it can be easily added to, run, ...

software Software consists of computer programs that instruct the Execution (computing), execution of a computer. Software also includes design documents and specifications. The history of software is closely tied to the development of digital comput ...

that can be used from portable storage devices such as

USB flash drive A flash drive (also thumb drive, memory stick, and pen drive/pendrive) is a data storage device that includes flash memory with an integrated USB interface. A typical USB drive is removable, rewritable, and smaller than an optical disc, and u ...

digital audio player A portable media player (PMP) or digital audio player (DAP) is a portable consumer electronics device capable of storing and playing digital media such as audio, images, and video files. Normally they refer to small, battery-powered devices ...

s, PDAs or

external hard drive A hard disk drive (HDD), hard disk, hard drive, or fixed disk is an electro-mechanical data storage device that stores and retrieves digital data using magnetic storage with one or more rigid rapidly rotating platters coated with magnet ...

s. To be considered for inclusion, an application must be executable on multiple computers from removable storage without installation, and without writing settings or data onto a computer's non-removable storage. This includes modified portable versions of non-portable applications.

Bundles

* Ceedo * MojoPac *

PortableApps.com PortableApps.com is a website that distributes free applications for Windows that have been packaged for portability. These portable applications are intended to be used from removable storage devices such as USB flash drives. The site was foun ...

* U3 * WinPenPack

Launchers

Appetizer An hors d'oeuvre ( ; ), appetiser, appetizer or starter is a small dish served before a meal in European cuisine. Some hors d'oeuvres are served cold, others hot. Hors d'oeuvres may be served at the dinner table as a part of the meal, or th ...

(

Dock The word dock () in American English refers to one or a group of human-made structures that are involved in the handling of boats or ships (usually on or near a shore). In British English, the term is not used the same way as in American Engl ...

application) * ASuite * Launchy *

OpenDisc The OpenDisc project offered a selection of high quality open source software on a disc for Microsoft Windows users. The aims of the project were "to provide a free alternative to costly software, with equal or often better quality equivalents t ...

* RocketDock

Development

Scripting languages

* Portable

Python Python may refer to: Snakes * Pythonidae, a family of nonvenomous snakes found in Africa, Asia, and Australia ** ''Python'' (genus), a genus of Pythonidae found in Africa and Asia * Python (mythology), a mythical serpent Computing * Python (prog ...

* Portable NSIS Version * Portable

AutoIt AutoIt is a freeware programming language for Microsoft Windows. In its earliest release, it was primarily intended to create automation scripts (sometimes called macros) for Microsoft Windows programs but has since grown to include enhancement ...

* Portable

AutoHotkey AutoHotkey is a free and open-source custom scripting language for Microsoft Windows, primarily designed to provide easy keyboard shortcuts or hotkeys, fast macro-creation and software automation to allow users of most computer skill levels to ...

(zip file) * Portable

Perl Perl is a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming language. Though Perl is not officially an acronym, there are various backronyms in use, including "Practical Extraction and Reporting Language". Perl was developed ...

(

Strawberry Perl Strawberry Perl is a distribution of the Perl programming language for the Microsoft Windows platform. Additionally, strawberry contains a fully featured Mingw-w64 C/C++ compiler with many libraries included. While most other distributions rely o ...

Portable Version)

Compilers

MinGW MinGW ("Minimalist GNU for Windows"), formerly mingw32, is a free and open source software development environment to create Microsoft Windows applications. MinGW includes a port of the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC), GNU Binutils for Windows ...

Tiny C Compiler The Tiny C Compiler, TCC, tCc, or TinyCC is a x86 (32-bits), X86-64 and ARM processor C compiler initially written by Fabrice Bellard. It is designed to work for slower computers with little disk space (e.g. on rescue disks). Windows operati ...

IDEs

* Alice IDE * Portable

Eclipse An eclipse is an astronomical event which occurs when an astronomical object or spacecraft is temporarily obscured, by passing into the shadow of another body or by having another body pass between it and the viewer. This alignment of three ...

* Portable Code::Blocks (needs

installed, which is portable too) * Portable Dev-C++ * Hackety Hack, which is an educational version of

Ruby Ruby is a pinkish-red-to-blood-red-colored gemstone, a variety of the mineral corundum ( aluminium oxide). Ruby is one of the most popular traditional jewelry gems and is very durable. Other varieties of gem-quality corundum are called sapph ...

SharpDevelop SharpDevelop (also styled as #develop) is a discontinued free and open source integrated development environment (IDE) for the .NET Framework, Mono, Gtk# and Glade# platforms. It supports development in C#, Visual Basic .NET, Boo, F#, IronP ...

Portable

Setup creators

Nullsoft Scriptable Install System Nullsoft, Inc. was an American software house founded in Sedona, Arizona in 1997 by programmer Justin Frankel. Its products included the Winamp media player and the SHOUTcast MP3 streaming media server. History In 1997, Justin Frankel, ...

Portable (PortableApps.com format)

Visual mapping/productivity tools

* XMIND

Graphics

3D modeling and rendering

* Anim8or – Free 3D modeling and animating software. *

Blender A blender (sometimes called a mixer (from Latin ''mixus, the PPP of miscere eng. to Mix)'' or liquidiser in British English) is a kitchen and laboratory appliance used to mix, crush, purée or emulsify food and other substances. A stationary ...

: ** BlenderPortable ** Blender Pocket ** XBlenderOlder Version of BLender

Animation

* Anim8or *

* Pivot Stickfigure Animator

Graphic editors

ArtRage ArtRage is a bitmap graphics editor for digital painting created by Ambient Design Ltd. It is currently in version 6, and supports Windows, macOS and mobile Apple Inc., Apple and Android (operating system), Android devices and is available in mu ...

Artweaver Artweaver is a raster graphics editor for Windows developed by Boris Eyrich, mainly oriented to professional and amateur artists who are familiar with commercial programs like Adobe Photoshop and especially Corel Painter. Like the latter, Artwea ...

* Dia *

EVE Eve is a figure in the Book of Genesis in the Hebrew Bible. According to the origin story, "Creation myths are symbolic stories describing how the universe and its inhabitants came to be. Creation myths develop through oral traditions and there ...

* Fotografix *

GIMP Gimp or GIMP may refer to: Clothing * Bondage suit, also called a gimp suit, a type of suit used in BDSM * Bondage mask, also called a gimp mask, often worn in conjunction with a gimp suit Embroidery and crafts * Gimp (thread), an ornamental tr ...

: ** GIMP Portable VS 2008 is the Gimp portable version of Gimp on

Windows Windows is a Product lining, product line of Proprietary software, proprietary graphical user interface, graphical operating systems developed and marketed by Microsoft. It is grouped into families and subfamilies that cater to particular sec ...

platforms (Windows XP, Vista, NT Server 2003, NT Server 2008) ** Portable Gimp – for

Mac OS X macOS, previously OS X and originally Mac OS X, is a Unix, Unix-based operating system developed and marketed by Apple Inc., Apple since 2001. It is the current operating system for Apple's Mac (computer), Mac computers. With ...

** X-Gimp ** X-GimpShop *

Inkscape Inkscape is a vector graphics editor. It is used for both artistic and technical illustrations such as cartoons, clip art, logos, typography, diagrams, and flowcharts. It uses vector graphics to allow for sharp printouts and renderings at ...

: ** X-Inkscape ** Portable Inkscape – for

IrfanView IrfanView () is an image viewer, editor, organiser and converter program for Microsoft Windows. It can also play video and audio files, and has some image creation and painting capabilities. IrfanView is free for non-commercial use; commercial ...

Pixia Pixia is a freeware raster graphics editor program for Microsoft Windows, Windows, created by . It was originally designed for the anime/manga community but has also been used in other branches of art. A successor to ART/fw, a full-color graphics ...

* Tux Paint

Icon editors

* @icon sushi *

– Supports reading and writing Windows ICO files. * IcoFX *

– Supports converting graphic file formats into

ICO files.

Viewers

* FastStone Image Viewer: supports screen capture, multiple pix into a single PDF *

Irfanview IrfanView () is an image viewer, editor, organiser and converter program for Microsoft Windows. It can also play video and audio files, and has some image creation and painting capabilities. IrfanView is free for non-commercial use; commercial ...

XnView XnView is an image organizer and general-purpose file manager used for viewing, converting, organizing and editing raster images, as well as general purpose file management. It comes with built-in hex inspection, batch renaming, image scan ...

Document-based

Office and publishing

* Abiword *

AllMyNotes Organizer AllMyNotes Organizer is an outliner application for Windows. It allows you to store all documents and notes in a single storage file. Documents are organized in a hierarchical tree representation for quick browsing by topic. A portable version w ...

* Atlantis Word Processor *

Jarte Jarte is a word processor for users of Microsoft Windows, based on the WordPad engine, produced by Carolina Road Software. In terms of market appeal, Jarte is a lighter alternative to the feature laden Microsoft Word. The standard version of Jar ...

LibreOffice LibreOffice () is a free and open-source office productivity software suite developed by The Document Foundation (TDF). It was created in 2010 as a fork of OpenOffice.org, itself a successor to StarOffice. The suite includes applications ...

OpenOffice.org OpenOffice.org (OOo), commonly known as OpenOffice, is a discontinued open-source office suite. Active successor projects include LibreOffice (the most actively developed) and Collabora Online, with Apache OpenOffice being considered mostly d ...

Scribus Scribus () is free and open-source desktop publishing (DTP) software available for most desktop operating systems. It is designed for layout, typesetting, and preparation of files for professional-quality image-setting equipment. Scribus can a ...

StarOffice StarOffice is a discontinued proprietary software, proprietary office suite. Its source code continues today in derived open-source office suites Collabora Online and LibreOffice. StarOffice supported the OpenOffice.org XML file format, as well ...

Editors

* EmEditor Professional * Geany * Metapad *

Notepad++ Notepad++ (sometimes npp or NPP) is a text and source code editor for use with Microsoft Windows. It supports tabbed editing, which allows working with multiple open files in one window. The program's name comes from the C postfix increment op ...

* Notepad2 * NoteTab Light * PSPad * Q10 *

SciTE SciTE or SCIntilla based Text Editor is a cross-platform text editor written by Neil Hodgson using the Scintilla editing component. It is licensed under a minimal version of the Historical Permission Notice and Disclaimer. Lightweight and buil ...

Sublime Text Sublime Text is a text and source code editor featuring a minimal interface, syntax highlighting and code folding with native support for numerous programming and markup languages, search and replace with support for regular expressions, an in ...

TED Notepad TED Notepad is freeware portable text editor software for Microsoft Windows, developed by Juraj Šimlovič since 2001, originally as a school project. It looks similar to Windows Notepad, but provides additional features, including experiment ...

* Textpad * UltraEdit * VEDIT * Vim

Personal notes

* Personal Knowbase

Educational

Celestia Celestia is a real-time 3D astronomy software program that was created in 2001 by Chris Laurel. The program allows users to virtually travel through the universe and explore celestial objects that have been catalogued. Celestia also doubles as ...

* GCompris * Maxima *

Stellarium A stellarium is a three-dimensional map of the stars, typically centered on Earth. They are common fixtures at planetarium A planetarium (: planetariums or planetaria) is a theatre built primarily for presenting educational and entertainin ...

Calibre In guns, particularly firearms, but not artillery, where a different definition may apply, caliber (or calibre; sometimes abbreviated as "cal") is the specified nominal internal diameter of the gun barrel bore – regardless of how or wher ...

Games

* ''

AssaultCube ''AssaultCube'', formerly ''ActionCube'', is an open source first-person shooter video game, based on ''Cube'' and uses the same engine, the ''Cube Engine''. Although the main focus of ''AssaultCube'' is multiplayer online gaming, a single-play ...

'' * ''

Cave Story ''Cave Story'' is a 2004 Metroidvania game for Microsoft Windows. It was developed over five years by Japanese independent developer Daisuke "Pixel" Amaya in his free time. ''Cave Story'' features 2D platform mechanics and is reminiscent of the ...

'' * ''

Dwarf Fortress ''Dwarf Fortress'' (previously titled ''Slaves to Armok: God of Blood Chapter II: Dwarf Fortress'') is a construction and management simulation and roguelike indie video game created by Bay 12 Games. Available as freeware and in development si ...

'' * Doom I / II * ''

Frets on Fire ''Frets on Fire'' (''FoF'') is a Freeware, free, Open-source video game, open-source music video game created by Finland, Finnish independent video game developer Unreal Voodoo. Players use the keyboard to play along with markers which appear on ...

'' * ''

Kerbal Space Program ''Kerbal Space Program'' is a 2015 Space flight simulation game, space flight simulation video game developed by Mexican studio Squad for Linux, macOS, Windows, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S and Xbox One. In the game, players dir ...

'' * ''

Minecraft ''Minecraft'' is a 2011 sandbox game developed and published by the Swedish video game developer Mojang Studios. Originally created by Markus Persson, Markus "Notch" Persson using the Java (programming language), Java programming language, the ...

'' * '' PokerTH'' * Quake * ''

Secret Maryo Chronicles ''Secret Maryo Chronicles'' is a free and open-source 2D platform game first released in 2003. The game has been described as a ''Super Mario Bros.'' clone, but with a gameplay reminiscent of ''Super Mario World'' (1990). History ''Secret Ma ...

'' * '' Tile World'' * ''

Warzone 2100 ''Warzone 2100'' is an Open-source video game, open-source real-time strategy and real-time tactics hybrid PC game, computer game, originally developed by Pumpkin Studios and published by Eidos Interactive. It was originally released in 1999 fo ...

'' *

Xonotic ''Xonotic'' () is a free and open-source first-person shooter video game. It was developed as a fork of'' Nexuiz'', following controversy surrounding the game's development. The game runs on a heavily modified version of the Quake engine known as ...

Emulators

DOSBox DOSBox is a free and open-source MS-DOS emulator. It supports running programs primarily video games that are otherwise inaccessible since hardware for running a compatible disk operating system (DOS) is obsolete and generally unavailab ...

–

MS-DOS MS-DOS ( ; acronym for Microsoft Disk Operating System, also known as Microsoft DOS) is an operating system for x86-based personal computers mostly developed by Microsoft. Collectively, MS-DOS, its rebranding as IBM PC DOS, and a few op ...

emulator * FCE Ultra –

Nintendo Entertainment System The Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) is an 8-bit home video game console developed and marketed by Nintendo. It was first released in Japan on 15 July 1983 as the and was later released as the redesigned NES in several test markets in the ...

(NES) emulator *

MAME MAME (formerly an acronym of Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator) is a free and open-source emulator designed to emulate the hardware of arcade games, video game consoles, old computers and other systems in software on modern personal computers and ...

– Multiple

Arcade Arcade most often refers to: * Arcade game, a coin-operated video, pinball, electro-mechanical, redemption, etc., game ** Arcade video game, a coin-operated video game ** Arcade cabinet, housing which holds an arcade video game's hardware ** Arcad ...

Machine emulator: ** MAMEUI32 *

VisualBoyAdvance VisualBoyAdvance (commonly abbreviated as VBA) is a free emulator of the Game Boy, Game Boy Color, and Game Boy Advance handheld game consoles as well as of Super Game Boy and Super Game Boy 2. It is still downloadable to this day. Besides t ...

–

Game Boy The is a handheld game console developed by Nintendo, launched in the Japanese home market on April 21, 1989, followed by North America later that year and other territories from 1990 onwards. Following the success of the Game & Watch single-ga ...

Game Boy Color The (GBC or CGB) is an 8-bit handheld game console developed by Nintendo. It was released in Japan on October 21, 1998, and to international markets that November. Compared to the original Game Boy, the Game Boy Color features a color TFT scre ...

, and

Game Boy Advance The (GBA) is a 32-bit handheld game console, manufactured by Nintendo, which was released in Japan on March 21, 2001, and to international markets that June. It was later released in mainland China in 2004, under the name iQue Game Boy Advanc ...

emulator *

ZSNES ZSNES is a free software Super Nintendo Entertainment System emulator written mostly in x86 assembly with official ports for Linux, DOS, Windows, and unofficial ports for Xbox and macOS. Background Development of ZSNES began on 3 July 1997 an ...

–

Super NES The Super Nintendo Entertainment System, commonly shortened to Super Nintendo, Super NES or SNES, is a 16-bit home video game console developed by Nintendo that was released in 1990 in Japan, 1991 in North America, 1992 in Europe and Oceania a ...

emulator

Plug-in emulators

Joy Joy is the state of being that allows one to experience feelings of intense, long-lasting happiness and contentment of life. It is closely related to, and often evoked by, well-being, success, or good fortune. Happiness, pleasure, and gratitu ...

To Key –

Gamepad A gamepad is a type of video game controller held in two hands, where the fingers (especially thumbs) are used to provide input. They are typically the main input device for video game consoles. Features Some common additions to the standar ...

emulator

Internet

Web browser A web browser, often shortened to browser, is an application for accessing websites. When a user requests a web page from a particular website, the browser retrieves its files from a web server and then displays the page on the user's scr ...
s

Brave Brave(s) or The Brave(s) may refer to: Common meanings *Brave, an adjective for one who possesses courage * Braves (Native Americans), a Euro-American stereotype for Native American warriors Film and television * ''Brave'' (1994 film), a concept ...

Chromium Chromium is a chemical element; it has Symbol (chemistry), symbol Cr and atomic number 24. It is the first element in Group 6 element, group 6. It is a steely-grey, Luster (mineralogy), lustrous, hard, and brittle transition metal. Chromium ...

* Falkon * Firefox Portable *

Google Chrome Google Chrome is a web browser developed by Google. It was first released in 2008 for Microsoft Windows, built with free software components from Apple WebKit and Mozilla Firefox. Versions were later released for Linux, macOS, iOS, iPadOS, an ...

Portable * Links * Maxthon Browser *

Opera Opera is a form of History of theatre#European theatre, Western theatre in which music is a fundamental component and dramatic roles are taken by Singing, singers. Such a "work" (the literal translation of the Italian word "opera") is typically ...

Pale Moon Pale Moon is a free and open-source web browser licensed under the MPL-2.0 with an emphasis on customization. There are official releases for Microsoft Windows, FreeBSD, macOS, and Linux. Pale Moon originated as a fork of Firefox, but has subs ...

* Pocket K-Meleon *

Lynx A lynx ( ; : lynx or lynxes) is any of the four wikt:extant, extant species (the Canada lynx, Iberian lynx, Eurasian lynx and the bobcat) within the medium-sized wild Felidae, cat genus ''Lynx''. The name originated in Middle Engl ...

* QtWeb *

SeaMonkey SeaMonkey is a free and open-source Internet suite. It is the continuation of the former Mozilla Application Suite, based on the same source code, which itself grew out of Netscape Communicator and formed the base of Netscape 6 and Netscape ...

* SlimBrowser *

SRWare Iron SRWare Iron is a Chromium-based web browser developed by the German company SRWare. It primarily aims to eliminate usage tracking and other privacy-compromising functionality that the Google Chrome browser includes. Iron ships with certain C ...

Portable *

Sleipnir In Norse mythology, Sleipnir (Old Norse: "slippy"Orchard (1997:151). or "the slipper"Kermode (1904:6).) is an eight-legged horse ridden by Odin. Sleipnir is attested in the ''Poetic Edda'', compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional ...

Waterfox Waterfox is a free and open-source web browser and fork of Firefox. It claims to be ethical and user-centric, emphasizing performance and privacy. There are official Waterfox releases for Windows, macOS, Linux and Android. It was initially cr ...

* XeroBank Browser

Email client An email client, email reader or, more formally, message user agent (MUA) or mail user agent is a computer program used to access and manage a user's email. A web application which provides message management, composition, and reception functio ...
s

Mail The mail or post is a system for physically transporting postcards, letter (message), letters, and parcel (package), parcels. A postal service can be private or public, though many governments place restrictions on private systems. Since the mid ...

– for

* Mozilla Thunderbird Portable * Modest *

Pegasus Mail Pegasus Mail is a proprietary email client for Microsoft Windows. It was originally released in 1990 on NetWare networks with MS-DOS and later Apple Macintosh clients, before being ported to Windows which is now the only platform actively support ...

Pine A pine is any conifer tree or shrub in the genus ''Pinus'' () of the family Pinaceae. ''Pinus'' is the sole genus in the subfamily Pinoideae. ''World Flora Online'' accepts 134 species-rank taxa (119 species and 15 nothospecies) of pines as cu ...

(has integrated Email client) *

sylpheed Sylpheed is an open-source e-mail client and news client licensed under GNU GPL-2.0-or-later with the library part ''LibSylph'' under GNU LGPL-2.1-or-later. It provides easy configuration and an abundance of features. It stores mail in the MH ...

(zip version) * The Bat! Voyager

Instant messaging Instant messaging (IM) technology is a type of synchronous computer-mediated communication involving the immediate ( real-time) transmission of messages between two or more parties over the Internet or another computer network. Originally involv ...

Adium Adium is a free software, free and Open-source software, open-source instant messaging client (computing), client for macOS that supports multiple IM networks, including XMPP (Jabber), IRC and more. In the past, it has also supported AOL Instant ...

– for

aMSN aMSN was a free Windows Live Messenger clone. aMSN attempted to emulate the look and feel of Windows Live Messenger, and supported many of its features. It had been downloaded approximately 40 million times as of January 2011, making it the 21s ...

Google Talk Google Talk was an instant messaging service that provided both text and voice communication. The instant messaging service was variously referred to colloquially as Gchat, Gtalk, or Gmessage among its users. Google Talk was also the name o ...

* Portable

iChat iChat (previously iChat AV) is a discontinued instant messaging software application developed by Apple Inc. for use on its Mac OS X operating system. It supported instant text messaging over XMPP/Jingle or OSCAR ( AIM) protocol, audio and video ...

– for

Miranda NG Miranda NG is an open-source Open source is source code that is made freely available for possible modification and redistribution. Products include permission to use and view the source code, design documents, or content of the product. The ...

* Pidgin Portable (formerly Gaim Portable) * Psi Portable *

Skype Skype () was a proprietary telecommunications application operated by Skype Technologies, a division of Microsoft, best known for IP-based videotelephony, videoconferencing and voice calls. It also had instant messaging, file transfer, ...

* Trillian Anywhere *

Yahoo! Messenger Yahoo! Messenger (sometimes abbreviated Y!M) was an instant messaging client and associated protocol created and formerly operated by Yahoo!. Yahoo! Messenger was provided free of charge and could be downloaded and used with a generic "Yahoo I ...

FTP client The File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is a standard communication protocol used for the transfer of computer files from a server to a client on a computer network A computer network is a collection of communicating computers and other dev ...
s

WinSCP WinSCP (''Windows Secure Copy'') is a file manager, SSH File Transfer Protocol (SFTP), File Transfer Protocol (FTP), WebDAV, Amazon S3, and secure copy protocol (SCP) client for Microsoft Windows. The WinSCP project has released its source code ...

FileZilla FileZilla is a free and open-source, cross-platform FTP application, consisting of FileZilla Client and FileZilla Server. Clients are available for Windows, Linux, and macOS. Both server and client support FTP and FTPS (FTP over SSL/TLS), whil ...

* Portable Cyberduck *

SmartFTP SmartFTP is a network file transfer program for Microsoft Windows that supports file transfer via FTP, FTPS, SFTP, WebDAV, Amazon S3, Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, Box, Google Cloud Storage and Backblaze B2 protocols. It supports SSL/TLS, ...

* FlashFXP

Download manager A download manager is a type of software that manages the downloading of files from the Internet, which may be built into a web browser, or as a standalone program. Functions A download manager manages files being downloaded from the internet. ...
s

Wget GNU Wget (or just Wget, formerly Geturl, also written as its package name, wget) is a computer program that retrieves content from web servers. It is part of the GNU Project. Its name derives from "World Wide Web" and " ''get''", a HTTP reque ...

HTTrack HTTrack is a free and open-source Web crawler and offline browser, developed by Xavier Roche and licensed under the GNU General Public License Version 3. HTTrack allows users to download World Wide Web sites from the Internet to a local compu ...

Free Download Manager Free Download Manager is a download manager for Windows, macOS, Linux and Android (operating system), Android. Free Download Manager is proprietary software, but was free and open-source software between versions 2.5 and 3.9.7. Starting with v ...

(installation required to create portable version) *

(Integrated Download Manager)

P2P
file sharing File sharing is the practice of distributing or providing access to digital media, such as computer programs, multimedia (audio, images and video), documents or electronic books. Common methods of storage, transmission and dispersion include ...

BitComet BitComet (originally named SimpleBT client from versions 0.11 to 0.37) is a cross-protocol BitTorrent, HTTP and FTP client written in C++ for Microsoft Windows and available in 52 different languages. Its first public release was version 0.28. T ...

(needs msxml) *

Emule eMule is a Free software, free peer-to-peer file sharing application for Microsoft Windows. Started in May 2002 as an alternative to eDonkey2000, eMule connects to both the eDonkey network and the Kad network. The distinguishing features of eM ...

(integrated torrent client) *

μTorrent μTorrent, or uTorrent (see pronunciation), is a proprietary adware BitTorrent client owned and developed by Rainberry, Inc. The " μ" (Greek letter " mu") in its name comes from the SI prefix "micro-", referring to the program's small memo ...

(latest version) *

Halite Halite ( ), commonly known as rock salt, is a type of salt, the mineral (natural) form of sodium chloride ( Na Cl). Halite forms isometric crystals. The mineral is typically colorless or white, but may also be light blue, dark blue, purple, pi ...

* FrostWire *

Limewire LimeWire was a free peer-to-peer file sharing client for Windows, macOS, Linux, and Solaris. Created by Mark Gorton in 2000, it was most prominently a tool used for the download and distribution of pirated materials, particularly pirated m ...

Portable * qBittorrent Portable * Vuze Portable

IRC

* ChatZilla ''Note: Requires a Mozilla based browser, e.g.

, or Firefox.'' *

* mIRC ''Note: There is a U3 version of mIRC that can be installed on U3 drives. The original application is portable, leaving behind only the license key in the registry. (This may not be true with the newer versions that are Vista-compatible, as their default user data area was changed to the user's application data folder.) Since v3.1, it can be started from a command line using the -portable switch to use settings, DLLs, and license keys that are stored in the same folder as mirc.exe.'' * Nettalk (IRC client), Nettalk * Pidgin (software), Pidgin (formerly Gaim) *

(Integrated Irc client) * HexChat * Portable X-Chat Aqua – for

RSS (file format), RSS, Atom (standard), Atom readers

* RSSOwl (needs Java runtime environment) *

(Integrated RSS/Atom client)

Telnet, Secure Shell, SSH clients

* portaPuTTY *

Portable Edition – SSH file transfer protocol, SFTP/Secure copy, SCP/FTP client, remote file manager, GUI

Podcast managers

* Juice (aggregator), Juice

Anonymity/Anti-censorship

* Tor (anonymity network), Tor Browser Bundle

Local wikis

* EverNote * TiddlyWiki * DokuWiki

Miscellaneous

* Ahnenblatt multilingual Genealogy software * Moka5 LivePC Engine (Portable VMware). Dynamically loads and unloads network drivers and requires administrator rights. * Mojopac portable chopped down copy of windows. Requires administrator rights.

Multimedia

File converters

* Any Video Converter * Audiograbber * CDex * FormatFactory * fre:ac * MediaCoder * TMPGEnc

CD/DVD burning

* CDBurnerXP * DVDStyler * DeepBurner Portable Edition * InfraRecorder * Portable ImgBurn

Editors

* Portable Audacity (audio editor), Audacity – for

and

* mp3DirectCut * GoldWave * VirtualDub

Audio/MIDI sequencer

* REAPER, Reaper has a .bat file for a USB stick installation

Players

* RealPlayer * FLV player * Media Player Classic * foobar2000 – only supports xp and forward * MPlayer * SMPlayer (7zip version) * Songbird (software), Songbird * K-Multimedia Player (zip version) * The Core Pocket Media Player * VLC Media Player * Winamp

Recorders

* Streamripper

Video capture

* VirtualDub

Video repair

* Stellar Phoenix Video Repair

Networking

HTTP servers

* HTTP File Server, HFS * Node.js * XAMPP

Miscellaneous

* Netcat * Proxomitron – Filtering Web Proxy * Xming * Wireshark * RealVNC

Remote desktop

* AnyDesk * RealVNC * TeamViewer * TightVNC * UltraVNC

Other tools

Web editors

* Portable Nvu and KompoZer – for

and Windows. *

Portable – Complete office suite, which includes HTML editor. *

Calendar management

* Portable Mozilla Sunbird, Sunbird – for

, and Windows * Portable iCal – for

File management

* Directory Opus by selecting the USB/U3 export option * Servant Salamander 1.52 * Total Commander * X-file X-file for Windows 98SE/2K or later * XYplorer

File archivers/extractors

* 7-Zip * Filzip * PeaZip, for BSD, Linux and Windows * WinRAR, Portable version for Windows, still requires having a license for a regular version of WinRAR. The version number for WinRAR Unplugged is 3.8.0.1, while the latest WinRAR for Windows version is 4.11

PDF tools

Readers

* Foxit Reader * STDU Viewer * Sumatra PDF * PDF-XChange Viewer

Writers

* Portable

– for Microsoft Windows and

Security and encryption

Password management

* KeePass Portable * Password Safe

Anti-spyware/malware

* Combofix * HijackThis * Spybot – Search & Destroy * SUPERAntiSpyware

Antivirus

* ClamWin, ClamWin Portable * GMER * Sophos, Sophos Anti Rootkit Tool

Steganography

* OpenPuff

Real-time disk/volume Encryption

* FreeOTFE / FreeOTFE, FreeOTFE Explorer

System maintenance

Optimization and cleaning

* CCleaner

Storage management

Visual maps of free space and biggest files and folders on hard drive. * WinDirStat * Defraggler

System information

* CPU-Z – CPU and memory hardware details – clock and FSB speeds, SPD, OS version. * AIDA32 – freeware system information, diagnostics, and auditing program * Speccy – System information tool.

Partition/file recovery

* Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery * PhotoRec * Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery * Stellar Phoenix Mac Data Recovery * TestDisk * Recuva – has U3 variant.

References

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Bundles

Launchers

Development

Scripting languages

Compilers

IDEs

Setup creators

Visual mapping/productivity tools

Graphics

3D modeling and rendering

Animation

Graphic editors

Icon editors

Viewers

Document-based

Office and publishing

Editors

Personal notes

Educational

Games

Emulators

Plug-in emulators

Internet

Web browser A web browser, often shortened to browser, is an application for accessing websites. When a user requests a web page from a particular website, the browser retrieves its files from a web server and then displays the page on the user's scr ...s

Email client An email client, email reader or, more formally, message user agent (MUA) or mail user agent is a computer program used to access and manage a user's email. A web application which provides message management, composition, and reception functio ...s

Instant messaging Instant messaging (IM) technology is a type of synchronous computer-mediated communication involving the immediate ( real-time) transmission of messages between two or more parties over the Internet or another computer network. Originally involv ...

FTP client The File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is a standard communication protocol used for the transfer of computer files from a server to a client on a computer network A computer network is a collection of communicating computers and other dev ...s

Download manager A download manager is a type of software that manages the downloading of files from the Internet, which may be built into a web browser, or as a standalone program. Functions A download manager manages files being downloaded from the internet. ...s

P2P file sharing File sharing is the practice of distributing or providing access to digital media, such as computer programs, multimedia (audio, images and video), documents or electronic books. Common methods of storage, transmission and dispersion include ...

IRC

RSS (file format), RSS, Atom (standard), Atom readers

Telnet, Secure Shell, SSH clients

Podcast managers

Anonymity/Anti-censorship

Local wikis

Miscellaneous

Multimedia

File converters

CD/DVD burning

Editors

Audio/MIDI sequencer

Players

Recorders

Video capture

Video repair

Networking

HTTP servers

Miscellaneous

Remote desktop

Other tools

Web editors

Calendar management

File management

File archivers/extractors

PDF tools

Readers

Writers

Security and encryption

Password management

Anti-spyware/malware

Antivirus

Steganography

Real-time disk/volume Encryption

System maintenance

Optimization and cleaning

Storage management

System information

Partition/file recovery

See also

References

Web browser A web browser, often shortened to browser, is an application for accessing websites. When a user requests a web page from a particular website, the browser retrieves its files from a web server and then displays the page on the user's scr ...
s

Email client An email client, email reader or, more formally, message user agent (MUA) or mail user agent is a computer program used to access and manage a user's email. A web application which provides message management, composition, and reception functio ...
s

FTP client The File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is a standard communication protocol used for the transfer of computer files from a server to a client on a computer network A computer network is a collection of communicating computers and other dev ...
s

Download manager A download manager is a type of software that manages the downloading of files from the Internet, which may be built into a web browser, or as a standalone program. Functions A download manager manages files being downloaded from the internet. ...
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P2P
file sharing File sharing is the practice of distributing or providing access to digital media, such as computer programs, multimedia (audio, images and video), documents or electronic books. Common methods of storage, transmission and dispersion include ...