List of portable software
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For the purposes of this list, a portable application is software that can be used from portable storage devices such as USB flash drives, digital audio players, PDAs[1] or external hard drives. 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
[edit | edit source]Launchers
[edit | edit source]- Appetizer (Dock application)
- ASuite
- Launchy
- RocketDock
Development
[edit | edit source]Scripting languages
[edit | edit source]- Portable Python
- Portable NSIS Version
- Portable AutoIt
- Portable AutoHotkey (zip file)
- Portable Perl (Strawberry Perl Portable Version)
Compilers
[edit | edit source]IDEs
[edit | edit source]- Alice IDE
- Portable Eclipse
- Portable Code::Blocks (needs MinGW installed, which is portable too)
- Portable Dev-C++
- Hackety Hack, which is an educational version of Ruby
- SharpDevelop Portable
Setup creators
[edit | edit source]- Nullsoft Scriptable Install System Portable (PortableApps.com format)
Visual mapping/productivity tools
[edit | edit source]Graphics
[edit | edit source]3D modeling and rendering
[edit | edit source]- Anim8or – Free 3D modeling and animating software.
- Blender:
- BlenderPortable
- Blender Pocket
- XBlender[2]
Animation
[edit | edit source]Graphic editors
[edit | edit source]- ArtRage
- Artweaver
- Dia
- EVE
- Fotografix
- GIMP:
- Inkscape:
- X-Inkscape
- Portable Inkscape – for Mac OS X
- IrfanView
- Pixia
- Tux Paint
Icon editors
[edit | edit source]- @icon sushi
- GIMP – Supports reading and writing Windows ICO files.
- IcoFX
- IrfanView – Supports converting graphic file formats into Windows ICO files.
Viewers
[edit | edit source]- FastStone Image Viewer: supports screen capture, multiple pix into a single PDF
- Irfanview
- XnView
Document-based
[edit | edit source]Office and publishing
[edit | edit source]- Abiword
- AllMyNotes Organizer
- Atlantis Word Processor
- Jarte
- LibreOffice
- OpenOffice.org
- Scribus
- StarOffice
Editors
[edit | edit source]- EmEditor Professional
- Geany
- Metapad
- Notepad++
- Notepad2
- NoteTab Light
- PSPad
- Q10
- SciTE
- Sublime Text
- TED Notepad
- Textpad
- UltraEdit
- VEDIT
- Vim
Personal notes
[edit | edit source]Educational
[edit | edit source]Games
[edit | edit source]- AssaultCube
- Cave Story
- Dwarf Fortress
- Doom I / II
- Frets on Fire
- Kerbal Space Program
- Minecraft
- PokerTH
- Quake
- Secret Maryo Chronicles
- Tile World
- Warzone 2100
- Xonotic
Emulators
[edit | edit source]- DOSBox – MS-DOS emulator
- FCE Ultra – Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) emulator
- MAME – Multiple Arcade Machine emulator:
- MAMEUI32
- VisualBoyAdvance – Game Boy, Game Boy Color, and Game Boy Advance emulator
- ZSNES – Super NES emulator
Plug-in emulators
[edit | edit source]Internet
[edit | edit source]- Brave
- Chromium
- Falkon
- Firefox Portable
- Google Chrome Portable
- Links
- Maxthon Browser
- Opera
- Pale Moon
- Pocket K-Meleon
- Lynx
- QtWeb
- SeaMonkey
- SlimBrowser
- SRWare Iron Portable
- Sleipnir
- Waterfox
- XeroBank Browser
- Mail – for Mac OS X
- Mozilla Thunderbird Portable
- Modest
- Pegasus Mail
- Pine
- Opera (has integrated Email client)
- SeaMonkey
- sylpheed (zip version)
- The Bat! Voyager
- Adium – for Mac OS X
- aMSN
- Google Talk
- Portable iChat – for Mac OS X
- Miranda NG
- Pidgin Portable (formerly Gaim Portable)
- Psi Portable
- Skype
- Trillian Anywhere
- Yahoo! Messenger
- Wget
- HTTrack
- Free Download Manager (installation required to create portable version)
- Opera (Integrated Download Manager)
- BitComet (needs msxml)
- Emule
- Opera (integrated torrent client)
- μTorrent (latest version)
- Halite
- FrostWire
- Limewire Portable
- qBittorrent Portable
- Vuze Portable
IRC
[edit | edit source]- ChatZilla Note: Requires a Mozilla based browser, e.g. SeaMonkey, or Firefox.
- Miranda NG
- 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
- Pidgin (formerly Gaim)
- Opera (Integrated Irc client)
- HexChat
- Portable X-Chat Aqua – for Mac OS X
RSS, Atom readers
[edit | edit source]Telnet, SSH clients
[edit | edit source]- portaPuTTY
- WinSCP Portable Edition – SFTP/SCP/FTP client, remote file manager, GUI
Podcast managers
[edit | edit source]Anonymity/Anti-censorship
[edit | edit source]Local wikis
[edit | edit source]Miscellaneous
[edit | edit source]- 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
[edit | edit source]File converters
[edit | edit source]Editors
[edit | edit source]- Portable Audacity – for Windows and Mac OS X
- mp3DirectCut
- GoldWave
- VirtualDub
Audio/MIDI sequencer
[edit | edit source]- Reaper has a .bat file for a USB stick installation
Players
[edit | edit source]- RealPlayer
- FLV player
- Media Player Classic
- foobar2000 – only supports xp and forward
- MPlayer
- SMPlayer (7zip version)
- Songbird
- K-Multimedia Player (zip version)
- The Core Pocket Media Player
- VLC Media Player
- Winamp
Recorders
[edit | edit source]Video capture
[edit | edit source]Video repair
[edit | edit source]Networking
[edit | edit source]Miscellaneous
[edit | edit source]- Netcat
- Proxomitron – Filtering Web Proxy
- Xming
- Wireshark
- RealVNC
Other tools
[edit | edit source]Web editors
[edit | edit source]- Portable Nvu and KompoZer – for Mac OS X and Windows.
- OpenOffice.org Portable – Complete office suite, which includes HTML editor.
- SeaMonkey
Calendar management
[edit | edit source]File management
[edit | edit source]- 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
[edit | edit source]- 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
[edit | edit source]Readers
[edit | edit source]Writers
[edit | edit source]- Portable OpenOffice.org – for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X
Security and encryption
[edit | edit source]Password management
[edit | edit source]- KeePass Portable
- Password Safe
Anti-spyware/malware
[edit | edit source]Antivirus
[edit | edit source]Real-time disk/volume Encryption
[edit | edit source]System maintenance
[edit | edit source]Optimization and cleaning
[edit | edit source]Storage management
[edit | edit source]Visual maps of free space and biggest files and folders on hard drive.
System information
[edit | edit source]- 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
[edit | edit source]- Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery
- PhotoRec
- Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery
- Stellar Phoenix Mac Data Recovery
- TestDisk
- Recuva – has U3 variant.
See also
[edit | edit source]- Portable Application
- List of LiveDistros
- Live USB
- Portable application creators
- VMware ThinApp, a virtualization suite (with the ability to make portable programs)
- Windows To Go