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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
Launchers
- Appetizer (Dock application)
- ASuite
- Launchy
- RocketDock
Development
Scripting languages
- Portable Python
- Portable NSIS Version
- Portable AutoIt
- Portable AutoHotkey (zip file)
- Portable Perl (Strawberry Perl Portable Version)
Compilers
- 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
- Nullsoft Scriptable Install System Portable (PortableApps.com format)
Visual mapping/productivity tools
Graphics
3D modeling and rendering
- Anim8or – Free 3D modeling and animating software.
- Blender:
- BlenderPortable
- Blender Pocket
- XBlender[2]
Animation
Graphic editors
- ArtRage
- Artweaver
- Dia
- EVE
- Fotografix
- GIMP:
- Inkscape:
- X-Inkscape
- Portable Inkscape – for Mac OS X
- IrfanView
- Pixia
- Tux Paint
Icon editors
- @icon sushi
- GIMP – Supports reading and writing Windows ICO files.
- IcoFX
- IrfanView – Supports converting graphic file formats into Windows ICO files.
Viewers
- FastStone Image Viewer: supports screen capture, multiple pix into a single PDF
- Irfanview
- XnView
Document-based
Office and publishing
- Abiword
- AllMyNotes Organizer
- Atlantis Word Processor
- Jarte
- LibreOffice
- OpenOffice.org
- Scribus
- StarOffice
Editors
- EmEditor Professional
- Geany
- Metapad
- Notepad++
- Notepad2
- NoteTab Light
- PSPad
- Q10
- SciTE
- Sublime Text
- TED Notepad
- Textpad
- UltraEdit
- VEDIT
- Vim
Personal notes
Educational
Games
- 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
- 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
Internet
- 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
- 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)
- BitComet (needs msxml)
- Emule
- Opera (integrated torrent client)
- μTorrent (latest version)
- Halite
- FrostWire
- Limewire Portable
- qBittorrent Portable
- Vuze Portable
- 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
Podcast managers
Anonymity/Anti-censorship
Local wikis
Miscellaneous
- 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
File converters
Editors
- Portable Audacity – for Windows and Mac OS X
- mp3DirectCut
- GoldWave
- VirtualDub
Audio/MIDI sequencer
- Reaper has a .bat file for a USB stick installation
Players
- 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
Video capture
Video repair
Networking
Miscellaneous
- Netcat
- Proxomitron – Filtering Web Proxy
- Xming
- Wireshark
- RealVNC
Other tools
Web editors
- Portable Nvu and KompoZer – for Mac OS X and Windows.
- OpenOffice.org Portable – Complete office suite, which includes HTML editor.
- SeaMonkey
Calendar management
File management
- 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
- 7-Zip
- Filzip
- PeaZip, for BSD, Linux and Windows
- WinRAR, Portable version for Windows, still requires having a license for a regular version of WinRAR. The version number for WinRAR Unplugged is 3.8.0.1, while the latest WinRAR for Windows version is 4.11
PDF tools
Readers
Writers
- Portable OpenOffice.org – for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X
Security and encryption
Password management
- KeePass Portable
- Password Safe
Anti-spyware/malware
Antivirus
Real-time disk/volume Encryption
System maintenance
Optimization and cleaning
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.
- AIDA32 – freeware system information, diagnostics, and auditing program
- Speccy – System information tool.
Partition/file recovery
- Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery
- PhotoRec
- Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery
- Stellar Phoenix Mac Data Recovery
- TestDisk
- Recuva – has U3 variant.
See also
- 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
- ^ makeuseof.com. "100 Portable Apps for your USB Stick". Retrieved 2008-01-24.
- ^ Older Version of BLender
