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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
Development edit
Scripting languages edit
- Portable Python
- Portable NSIS Version
- Portable AutoIt
- Portable AutoHotkey (zip file)
- Portable Perl (Strawberry Perl Portable Version)
Compilers edit
IDEs 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
- Anim8or – Free 3D modeling and animating software.
- Blender:
- BlenderPortable
- Blender Pocket
- XBlender[2]
Animation edit
Graphic editors edit
- ArtRage
- Artweaver
- Dia
- EVE
- Fotografix
- GIMP:
- Inkscape:
- X-Inkscape
- Portable Inkscape – for Mac OS X
- IrfanView
- Pixia
- Tux Paint
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
- Abiword
- AllMyNotes Organizer
- Atlantis Word Processor
- Jarte
- LibreOffice
- OpenOffice.org
- Scribus
- StarOffice
Editors edit
- EmEditor Professional
- Geany
- Metapad
- Notepad++
- Notepad2
- NoteTab Light
- PSPad
- Q10
- SciTE
- Sublime Text
- TED Notepad
- Textpad
- UltraEdit
- VEDIT
- Vim
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
Web browsers edit
- 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
Email clients 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
Instant messaging edit
- Adium – for Mac OS X
- aMSN
- Google Talk
- Portable iChat – for Mac OS X
- Miranda NG
- Monal
- Pidgin Portable (formerly Gaim Portable)
- Psi Portable
- Skype
- Trillian Anywhere
- Yahoo! Messenger
FTP clients edit
Download managers edit
- Wget
- HTTrack
- Free Download Manager (installation required to create portable version)
- Opera (Integrated Download Manager)
P2P file sharing edit
- BitComet (needs msxml)
- Emule
- Opera (integrated torrent client)
- μTorrent (latest version)
- Halite
- FrostWire
- Limewire Portable
- qBittorrent Portable
- Vuze Portable
IRC edit
- 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
Telnet, SSH clients edit
- portaPuTTY
- WinSCP Portable Edition – SFTP/SCP/FTP client, remote file manager, GUI
Podcast managers edit
Anonymity/Anti-censorship edit
Local wikis 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
CD/DVD burning 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
HTTP servers edit
Miscellaneous edit
- Netcat
- Proxomitron – Filtering Web Proxy
- Xming
- Wireshark
- RealVNC
Remote desktop edit
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
Steganography 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
- 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
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