List of portable software

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A USB drive, shown with a 24 mm US quarter coin for scale.
A USB drive, shown with a 24 mm US quarter coin for scale.

To be considered truly portable, a software program must:

  1. Not require any form of formal installation to be carried out on any computer before it can be used, with the release package only needing to be decompressed directly to removable media before use (if it has to be installed first, and requires it's files to be manually copied to removable media, it's clearly not designed to be portable!)
    For example, software which is supplied as an InstallShield package could not be considered portable, though a ZIP archives containing an executable would be.
  2. Settings are stored with, and can be carried around with, the software (i.e. they are written to the USB drive)
    If the registry is used to store settings; the application's configuration isn't portable, and must be set up on every PC it is used on
  3. Leaves a zero (or near-zero) "footprint" on any PC it's run on after being used
    i.e. All temporary files/registry settings should be removed once the program has exited, and files created by the user can be saved directly to the same removable media as the application is stored on.

Generally, smaller utility/toolkit software is inherently fairly portable; though larger applications are sometimes changed in order to allow a portable versions to be released (e.g. OperaUSB)


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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

[edit] Podcast managers

[edit] Wikis

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

[edit] Filesystem

[edit] File wipers

[edit] Undelete Tools

  • Restoration (site)

[edit] Networking

[edit] Web servers

[edit] FTP servers

  • Baby FTP Server (site)
  • BarracudaDrive (site)
  • BulletProof FTP Server (not free but portable)
  • Quick 'n Easy FTP Server (site)
  • TYPSoft FTP Server (site)

[edit] Miscellaneous

[edit] Application launchers

[edit] Multimedia

[edit] 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.

[edit] CD/DVD burning

  • BurnCDCC (site) burns an ISO file to a CD/DVD/BD disc.
  • Burning Kit Portable (site) burns data discs (CDs, DVDs, Blu-Rays, HD DVDs), audio CDs (from MP3, WMA, Ogg Vorbis, WAV), video DVDs, discs from disc images.
  • CDmage (site) can view and extract files of almost any CD image file.
  • DeepBurner Portable Edition (site)
  • Folder2ISO (site), based off of mkisofs, creates an ISO from any folder (including its subfolders).
  • LC ISO Creator (zip)
  • SilentNight Micro CD Burner (site) copies CD/DVDs, burns audio CDs, creates Data CD/DVDs, backs up discs.
  • Small CD-Writer (russian site)
  • HT Fireman CD/DVD Burner (site) burns data & audio CDs, creates CD ISO images, burns ISO images to CDs
  • Ultimate CD/DVD Burner (MISPBO site) burns any data, copies any disc, makes backups, creates photo CD albums, and makes ISO CDs.

[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] Productivity

[edit] Activity Management

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

[edit] Document Based

[edit] Office and Publishing

[edit] Editors

[edit] Sticky Notes Programs

  • Notezilla Portable (site)

[edit] Viewers

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

[edit] Multi-Clipboards

[edit] PDF Tools

[edit] Readers

[edit] Editors

  • AcroPAD (site) Simple, output only.
  • GUI for PDFTK (site) 100KB GPL multi-platform pdf toolkit
  • PDFproducer (site) Output only, very small and simple, source available.
  • PDF Version Converter PDF Compressor (site) $100
  • Scan2PDF (site)
  • Tomahawk PDF+ (site) - versions 2.5.0.2 and below - free version is crippled
  • OpenOffice.org can create pdf files

[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

[edit] File management

[edit] File Archivers and Extractors

[edit] System Maintenance

[edit] Storage Management

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

[edit] 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.

[edit] Partition/File Recovery

[edit] Windows Registry Recovery

  • Erunt (site) - The Emergency Recovery Utility NT

[edit] 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)

[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.

[edit] Password Management

[edit] Anti-Spyware/Malware

[edit] AntiVirus

  • Avira Anti-vir (site) - You can install it On your USB Device but The ONTIME Guard & Update Not Work, You can Update it manualy By Extract the file in compressed file into The anti-vir Directory (VDF Updates)
  • X-ClamWin (site)
  • ClamWin Portable (site)
  • KL-Detector (site)
  • Rootkit Revealer (site)
  • Stinger (site)
  • Trend Micro System Cleaner (site)
  • MicroWorld AntiVirus Toolkit Utility (site)

[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

  • 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)

[edit] 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.

[edit] Development

[edit] Debuggers

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

[edit] Hex Editors

[edit] 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.

[edit] Resource Tools

  • Resource Hacker (site)
  • XNResourceEditorPE (site)

[edit] Scripting Languages

  • AutoIt 3 (site)
  • Portable NSIS (framakey.org) Version and (PortableAppsWorld.com)Version
  • 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.

[edit] Graphics

[edit] 3D Modeling

[edit] Editors

[edit] Processing

  • Cas (site)
  • EasyThumb (site)
  • FastStone Photo Resizer (site)
  • Free Digital Camera Enhancer (site)
  • HTML Image Page Builder (site)
  • Image Analyzer (site) - can combine (composite) images: AND OR XOR add/subtract etc.
  • Imagicon (site)
  • JPEGCrops (site) - batch-oriented lossless cropping and rotation of JPEGs.
  • JPEG & PNG Stripper (site)
  • jpgQ (site)
  • Noiseware Community Edition (site)
  • Photo Resize Magic (site)
  • RedEye (site)
  • Segger (site)
  • SharpControl (site)
  • TweakPNG (site) - low-level editing of the elements constituting a PNG.
  • UnFREEz (site)
  • zphoto (site)

[edit] Viewers

[edit] Miscellaneous

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

[edit] Games

See List of portable computer_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)
  • SQLite (site)

[edit] Educational

[edit] Operating Systems

See also: List of LiveCDs and Live USB
  • Pen Drive Linux ([9]). Run various Linux versions portably.
  • Puppy Linux ([10]). Run various Linux versions portably from a CD only or pen drive (no hard drive).
  • Mac-On-A-Stick (site). Run Mac OS Classic 7 portably.
  • SkyOS ([11]).
  • Damn Small Linux
  • Moka5 (site). LivePC Engine = Portable VMWare Player. Note: Dynamically loads and unloads network drivers.
  • Windows XP ([12]). Windows in your pocket.
  • Mac OS X ([13]). Mac OS X on a 1GB flash drive!

[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.
  • 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.
  • 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.

[edit] External links

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