List of portable software

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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 a 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.

This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.

Contents

[edit] Internet

[edit] Web browsers

[edit] Email clients

[edit] Instant messaging

[edit] FTP clients

[edit] Download managers

[edit] P2P file sharing

[edit] IRC

[edit] RSS, Atom readers

[edit] Telnet, SSH clients

[edit] Bookmark managers

[edit] Search engines

  • Gaviri PocketSearch (site)

[edit] Podcast managers

  • Podcatcher on a stick (site)
  • myPodder (site)

[edit] Wikis

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

[edit] Networking

[edit] Web servers

[edit] FTP servers

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

[edit] Miscellaneous

[edit] Program management

[edit] Multimedia

[edit] File converters

[edit] CD/DVD burning

[edit] Codecs

[edit] Editors

[edit] Players

[edit] Recorders

  • ASFRecorder (site)
  • StationRipper (site)
  • StepVoice Recorder (site)

[edit] Slideshow Applications

  • Slide Show Movie Maker (site)

[edit] Video Authoring

[edit] Video Capture

[edit] Screen Capture

[edit] Screen Casting

[edit] Miscellaneous

[edit] Document Based

[edit] Office and Publishing

[edit] Editors

[edit] Viewers

  • DocReader (site)
  • eTextReader (site)
  • Large Text File Viewer (site)
  • yBook (site)

[edit] Multi-Clipboards

[edit] PDF Tools

[edit] Readers

  • Foxit Reader (site)
  • Foxit Portable Edition Launcher (site) - Requires actual FoxitReader.exe file from above link

[edit] Editors

  • AcroPAD (site)
  • PDF Compressor (site)
  • GUI for PDFTK (site)
  • PDFproducer (site)
  • PDF Version Converter (site)
  • Scan2PDF (site)
  • Tomahawk PDF+ (site) - versions 2.5.0.2 and below

[edit] Web Editors

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

[edit] Calendar management

  • Sunbird Portable (site)
  • Portable Sunbird (site) - for Mac OS X
  • UK's Kalender (site)
  • Advanced Diary 1.3 or Lower (Version 2.0 not tested as a portable app.)
  • EssentialPIM Portable Editions ([3])
  • Portable iCal (site) - for Mac OS X

[edit] File management

[edit] File Archivers and Extractors

[edit] System Maintenance

[edit] Partition/File Recovery

[edit] Windows Registry Recovery

  • Erunt (site) - The Emergency Recovery Utility NT

[edit] Cleanup

[edit] Security and Encryption

[edit] 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.
  • 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 Windows (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.

[edit] Password Management

[edit] Anti-Spyware/Malware

[edit] AntiVirus

[edit] Firewalls

[edit] Real-Time Disk/Volume Encryption

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

[edit] File Encryption

  • Axcrypt2go (site)
  • CryptoStick Software (site)
  • Libertà PUSS (site)
  • Remora USB Disk Guard (site)
  • TrueCrypt (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)
  • Dekart Private Disk Light (site)
  • PrivyCrypt (site)
  • DsCrypt (site)
  • Blowfish Advanced CS (site)
  • Top Secret Crypto Gold (site)

[edit] Miscellaneous

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

[edit] Development

[edit] Debuggers

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

[edit] Hex Editors

[edit] IDEs

  • Portable Dev-Cpp (site)

[edit] Resource Tools

  • Resource Hacker (site)
  • XNResourceEditorPE (site)

[edit] Scripting Languages

[edit] Graphics

[edit] 3D Modeling

[edit] Editors

[edit] Processing

[edit] Viewers

[edit] Miscellaneous

  • CatchColor (site)
  • DeKnop (site)
  • HoverSnap (site)
  • Icon Sucker 2 (Standard Edition) (site)
  • UnFREEz (site)

[edit] Games

[edit] Database Management

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

[edit] Educational

[edit] Operating Systems

See also: List of LiveCDs and Live USB
  • Mac-On-A-Stick (site). Run Mac OS Classic 7 portably.
  • SkyOS ([4]).
  • Damn Small Linux
  • Moka5 (site). LivePC Engine = Portable VMWare Player. Note: Dynamically loads and unloads network drivers.
  • Windows XP ([5]). Runs Windows XP and Boot from PC on., "your custom windows on the go :)"

[edit] 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.
  • SpaceMonger (site). Keeps track of the free space on your computer.
  • 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).

[edit] External links

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