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This is a list of portable applications, software programs that either:

  • do not require any kind of installation onto a computer
  • if there's an installation procedure, the resulting directory can be copied into a portable device and run without dependencies.

This makes it ideal to be stored on removable storage such as a USB flash drive and used on multiple computers.

Many applications become portable very easily without special packaging. Most simple applications can be made portable by simply copying the Program File folder for that application to an USB stick. Attempt to run the application on another PC to confirm it will work as a portable app.

Internet

Web browsers

Email clients

Instant messaging

FTP clients

Download managers

P2P file sharing

IRC

RSS, Atom readers

Telnet, SSH clients

Bookmark managers

Search engines

Podcast managers

Wikis

Wiki-like (Note: These are not web-based)

File&directories

Wipe

Restore

Networking

Web servers

FTP servers

  • Baby FTP Server (site)
  • BarracudaDrive (site)
  • Quick 'n Easy FTP Server (site)
  • TYPSoft FTP Server (site)

Miscellaneous

Application launchers

Multimedia

File converters

  • 3GP Converter (site) - converts video (AVI, Divx, DV, MPG, and Xvid) to 3GP or MP4 format (used the Sony PSP and Apple iPod). It is a japanese tool but with english language settings also.
  • Audiograbber (site) is a CD audio extractor (digitally).
  • BonkEnc (site)
  • CDex (site)
  • lamedropXPd (site) converts OggVorbis files to MP3.
  • MediaCoder (site)
  • mp4UI (site) is a simple editor of MP4 streams and properties.
  • oggdropXPd (site) converts lossless audio files (Monkeys Audio, LPAC, FLAC, WAVPACK and OptimFROG) to OggVorbis.
  • Super (site) (Simplified Universal Player Encoder & Renderer) is a program that easily encapsulates the capabilities of ffmpeg, MEncoder, mplayer, x264, mppenc, ffmpeg2theora, and the theora/vorbis RealProducer plugIn. Has problems with portability.
  • r8brain (site) can re-sample WAV files.
  • Riva FLV Encoder (site) converts several (AVI, MPEG, Quicktime, WMV) video files to the Flash Video (FLV) format.
  • Stoik Video Converter (site) converts several (AVI, DivX, MPG, WMV, XviD) video format files to other (AVI, DV, WMV) as well as being able to change the fps and frame size in the process.
  • TMPGEnc (site) is a video encoder that supports HDV import/output along with DivX 6 AVI, MPEG-1/2/4, QuickTime (MOV), and Window Media (WMV/WMV-HD/WMA) input/output.
  • winLAMEPE (site) is based on winLAME which can encode and decode of many audio formats, including wave, mp3, ogg, aac.

CD/DVD burning

Codecs

Editors

Players

Recorders

Slideshow Applications

Video Authoring

Video Capture

Screen Capture

Screen Casting

Miscellaneous

Productivity

Activity Management

  • Accomplice (site) (free standard version, upgradeable)

Document Based

Office and Publishing

Editors

Sticky Notes Programs

Viewers

Multi-Clipboards

PDF Tools

Readers

Editors

Web Editors

  • NVU Portable (site)
  • Portable Nvu (site) - for Mac OS X
  • OpenOffice.org Portable (site) - Complete office suite, which includes HTML editor.

Calendar management

File management

File Archivers and Extractors

System Maintenance

Storage Management

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

System Information

  • CPU-Z - CPU and memory hardware details - clock and FSB speeds, SPD, OS version. (site)
  • WinAudit (site)- PC audit and inventory of software, licenses, security configuration, hardware, network settings...Text/html/csv/pdf/e-mail/database outputs available (can easily be 110+ pages of info!). Generally more detail than Belarc Advisor, but Belarc also good for more streamlined information.
  • System Information for Windows (SIW) (site) - This standalone program performs computer configuration analysis and diagnostics. It gives detailed information about your computer properties and settings, detailed specs for CPU, motherboard, chipset, BIOS, CPU, PCI/AGP, USB and ISA/PnP devices, memory, monitor, video card, disk drives, CD/DVD devices, SCSI devices, S.M.A.R.T., ports, network cards, printers, operating system, installed programs and hotfixes, processes, services, serial numbers (CD keys), users, open files, system uptime, network, network shares, as well as real-time monitors for CPU, memory, page file usage and network traffic. It displays currently active network connections, passwords hidden behind asterisks, installed codecs, and more.

Partition/File Recovery

Windows Registry Recovery

  • Erunt (site) - The Emergency Recovery Utility NT

Benchmark/Diagnostic

  • Bart's Stuff Test bst5 - small Win app for quick or full speed (MB/s) tests of hard drive and other storage devices (site)

Security and Encryption

System Audit Applications

  • Integrity Checker (site) checks the integrity of files to ensure they have not been tampered with. Files protected will have their "known good" size stored together with either a hash or HMAC generated from the contents of each file. By comparing this information with what is actually stored later, any changes will be flagged up for attention.

Password Management

Anti-Spyware/Malware

AntiVirus

Firewalls

Real-Time Disk/Volume Encryption

Note: All of the software in this section requires administrator privileges to start their respective drivers.

File Encryption

  • WildCrypt (site)
  • Axcrypt2go (site)
  • Carry it Easy +Plus (site)
  • CryptoStick Software (site)
  • Libertà PUSS (site)
  • Remora USB Disk Guard (site)
  • fSekrit (site)
  • Cypditor (site)
  • Remora USB File Guard (site)
  • Yadabyte Shhh!!! (site)
  • Cryptnote (site)
  • OMZiff (site)
  • Steganos LockNote (site)
  • Yadabyte Disk (site)
  • FreeCrypt (site)
  • PrivyCrypt (site)
  • dsCrypt (site)
  • Blowfish Advanced CS (site)
  • Top Secret Crypto Gold (site)

Miscellaneous

  • addressbook-Agenda-New 1.1 version- Italian-English interface (site)
  • IE Privacy Keeper (TakeAlong version) (site) - Clears IE and Firefox cache, cookies, histories and temporary files.

Development

Debuggers

  • OllyDbg (site). Requires free registration for permanent use.

Hex Editors

IDEs

  • Portable Dev-C++ (site)
  • JCreator (site)- Not entirely portable, because it leaves some settings on the host computer, but it is an easy to use and powerful Java IDE, and it will run off of a USB drive.
  • Eclipse WST ([7]) Web Standard Tools and JSP & Java abilities.

Resource Tools

  • Resource Hacker (site)
  • XNResourceEditorPE (site)

Scripting Languages

  • AutoIt 3 (site)
  • Portable NSIS (site)
  • AutoHotkey (site)
  • Movable Python (site) - A version of the Python programming language designed to run from a USB stick. Includes IDE and program launcher.
  • Portable Python (site) - A FREE version of the Python programming language designed to run from a USB stick. Includes IDE and program launcher.

Graphics

3D Modeling

Editors

Processing

Viewers

Miscellaneous

Games

See List of portable computer_games

Database Management

  • MyKeyDb from Jans Freeware (site)
  • Visual Foxpro from Microsoft (site) - needs vfp9.Exe and VFP9ENU.dll to run
  • Ultra Recall (site)
  • SQLite (site)

Educational

Operating Systems

See also: List of LiveCDs and Live USB
  • Pen Drive Linux ([9]). Run various Linux versions portably.
  • Mac-On-A-Stick (site). Run Mac OS Classic 7 portably.
  • SkyOS ([10]).
  • Damn Small Linux
  • Moka5 (site). LivePC Engine = Portable VMWare Player. Note: Dynamically loads and unloads network drivers.
  • Windows XP ([11]). Windows in your pocket.
  • Mac OS X ([12]). Mac OS X on a 1GB flash drive!

Miscellaneous

  • ExamDiff (site). Visual file comparison tool.
  • HFS (site). HTTP File Server that shares software using highly compatible web technology.
  • Instant Rails (site). A one-stop Rails runtime solution containing Ruby.
  • MonexPE (site). Personal financial management application.
  • NadaTrace (site). Customizable computing environment for USB flash drives that runs portable applications in any internet café, library, or friends home.
  • Ocean Research Library (site). A free collection of the World's Religious literature managed by a unique book-centered research engine.
  • Sveglia (site). Simple alarm clock with program launcher and computer shutdown or restart.
  • TimeSentry (site). TimeSentry is a small multi-purpose calendar and time application with a customizable calendar, a date/time calculator to calculate the difference between two dates and times to the millisecond, and also an atomic time synchronizer.
  • TinyComp (site). TinyComp is a simple tool to start user defined applications designed to run portable applications from removable drives.
  • Weather Watcher (site).
  • u3-autorun (site). u3-autorun is a small application designed to be flashed to the CD partition on U3 drives to allow for user-defined autorun functionality. It functions similarly to the loader portion of the U3 Launchpad in that it creates a temporary copy of itself on the user's hard drive and runs an application before it deletes itself. Optionally, it can eject the drive when this application is completed (another behavior of the U3 Launchpad).
  • OneManBand (site). OneManBand is a contact and call management program that uses portable Skype or SIP or Asterisk to make phone calls. It can manage huge amounts of contacts with dual contacts list. Great for doing business on the road. Runs from a usb stick, and leaves no traces of its running on the computer it is used on. Contains web browser, e-mail, dual contact lists, word processor, spreadsheet, activity logging, research assistant, bookmarks, faxing and more.
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