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]Launchers
[edit]- Appetizer (Dock application)
- ASuite
- Launchy
- RocketDock
Development
[edit]Scripting languages
[edit]- Portable Python
- Portable NSIS Version
- Portable AutoIt
- Portable AutoHotkey (zip file)
- Portable Perl (Strawberry Perl Portable Version)
Compilers
[edit]- 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]- Nullsoft Scriptable Install System Portable (PortableApps.com format)
Visual mapping/productivity tools
[edit]Graphics
[edit]3D modeling and rendering
[edit]Animation
[edit]Graphic editors
[edit]Icon editors
[edit]- @icon sushi
- GIMP – Supports reading and writing Windows ICO files.
- IcoFX
- IrfanView – Supports converting graphic file formats into Windows ICO files.
Viewers
[edit]- FastStone Image Viewer: supports screen capture, multiple pix into a single PDF
- Irfanview
- XnView
Document-based
[edit]Office and publishing
[edit]Editors
[edit]Personal notes
[edit]Educational
[edit]Games
[edit]- 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]- 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]Internet
[edit]- 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)
- 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
- portaPuTTY
- WinSCP Portable Edition – SFTP/SCP/FTP client, remote file manager, GUI
Anonymity/Anti-censorship
[edit]Miscellaneous
[edit]- 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]File converters
[edit]Editors
[edit]- Portable Audacity – for Windows and Mac OS X
- mp3DirectCut
- GoldWave
- VirtualDub
Audio/MIDI sequencer
[edit]- Reaper has a .bat file for a USB stick installation
Players
[edit]- 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]Video capture
[edit]Video repair
[edit]Networking
[edit]Miscellaneous
[edit]- Netcat
- Proxomitron – Filtering Web Proxy
- Xming
- Wireshark
Other tools
[edit]Web editors
[edit]- Portable Nvu and KompoZer – for Mac OS X and Windows.
- OpenOffice.org Portable – Complete office suite, which includes HTML editor.
- SeaMonkey
Calendar management
[edit]File management
[edit]- 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]PDF tools
[edit]Readers
[edit]Writers
[edit]- Portable OpenOffice.org – for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X
Security and encryption
[edit]Password management
[edit]- KeePass Portable
- Password Safe
Anti-spyware/malware
[edit]Antivirus
[edit]Real-time disk/volume Encryption
[edit]System maintenance
[edit]Optimization and cleaning
[edit]Storage management
[edit]Visual maps of free space and biggest files and folders on hard drive.
System information
[edit]Partition/file recovery
[edit]See also
[edit]- 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
References
[edit]- ↑ makeuseof.com. "100 Portable Apps for your USB Stick". Retrieved 2008-01-24.
- ↑ Older Version of BLender