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Audio Portable Apps
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CoolPlayer A tiny, super-fast audio player. |
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Audacity An open-source, simple and powerful audio editor. |
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CDex Extract audio from CDs reliably. |
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SharePod Manage an iPod with no iTunes from any Windows computer with this portable app. |
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foobar2000 A classic audio player for Windows, great for playlists. |
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RadioSure The best way to listen to radio by desktop or laptop. |
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Songr The best way to search for and download or stream MP3s. |
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Hokrain Listen to your music in a lightweight, minimalist way. |
Communication Portable Apps
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Email Stripper A free portable app that cleans up long email threads. |
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Pidgin A multi-protocol IM client. Packaged by PortableApps.com. |
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Miranda IM Another multi-protocol IM client, with a ton of plugins. |
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Skype Not an official installer, but from PortableApps.com. |
Image Editors and Viewers
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Easy Image Modifier A tool for resizing, flipping, converting, watermarking and renaming images. |
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Inkscape Portable An open-source vector editor. Think “Illustrator” or “CorelDRAW” — not as powerful, but free. |
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GIMP Think “free Photoshop” with a cluttered interface. Powerful, but an acquired taste. Packaged by PortableApps.com. |
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AndreaMosaic A freeportable app for creating photomosaics (pictures made up of tiled pictures). |
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Fotografix A tiny image editor aimed at photograpers and designers. |
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IrfanView Portable A fast and powerful image viewer that can also apply effects. |
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XnView Portable Convenient for viewing, organizing, and converting your photos. |
Miscellaneous Portable Apps
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sWeather Check the weather and get alerts all from your Windows system tray. |
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YTWatcher Enjoy your YouTube favorites and subscriptions right from your desktop. |
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BSNES An all-in-one emulator that supports all Classic Nintendo consoles. |
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Brain Workshop A dual n-back game scientifically proven to make you smarter. |
Productivity Apps
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WriteMonkey A fantastic full-screen text editor for distraction-free editing. I use it all the time. |
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Abiword A free, open-source word processor. This is a portable app packaged by PortableApps.com. |
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Notepad2 A text editor with programmer-friendly features. |
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FocusWriter Another full-screen editor for a Zen-like writing experience. Download | Full review |
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OpenOffice Not as slick as MS Office, but it will do in a pinch. Packaged by PortableApps.com. |
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XAMPP The Apache Web server, MySQL, PHP, and Perl, all bundled together in one portable ZIP. |
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TreePad Lite A personal information manager for notes and other information. |
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Stickies A fantastic sticky-note application, packaged by PortableApps.com. |
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DropboxPortableAHK Lets you take Dropbox on a stick and use it without admin rights. |
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Calibre A tool for managing your ebook collection and converting book formats. Download | Full review | eBook |
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Notepad++ A powerful, customizable programmer’s text editor. |
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Foxit Reader Portable A PDF document reader. |
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CintaNotes A slimmed down version of Evernote designed more towards jotting quick notes and thoughts. |
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PNotes Bring sticky notes to your desktop and help remember all of those important things. |
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AutoHotKey Automate keystrokes, mouse gestures, and other actions with one of the most extensive macro engines. |
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BBCeditor Format and save your forum posts even while offline. |
Security and Privacy
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ClamWin A portable, powerful and free antivirus. Packaged by PortableApps.com. |
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LicenseCrawler Crawls a computer for software serial licenses. |
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TrueCrypt Create encrypted virtual hard drives. Link leads to portable mode documentation. |
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KeePass The golden standard when it comes to securely managing passwords and logins. |
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PeerBlock Allows you to block IP ranges of anti-P2P organizations, ad servers, spyware, and more. |
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Password Agent An interesting, local way to save your passwords and other sensitive text data. |
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AdwCleaner A small portable app tool that will help cleanse your system quickly and easily. |
Portable App Suites
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PortableApps.com Suite A launcher interface for all apps from PortableApps.com. |
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SysInternals Suite For administrators and technicians: All SysInternals troubleshooting utilities rolled into one ZIP file. |
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NirLauncher A collection of over 100 portable freeware Windows system tools, all by NirSoft. |
System Tools
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7-Zip A file archiver supporting ZIP, as well as the powerful 7z format and more. Packaged by PortableApps.com. |
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Zscreen A screenshot portable app with numerous file handling options. No portable download, see link for instructions. |
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Zip2Fix A tool for extracting undamaged files from a corrupted ZIP file. |
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Recuva A tool for undeleting files, from makes of Ccleaner. |
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SpaceSniffer A tool for visualizing disk usage. Find out what’s hogging all that space. |
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Everything An ultra-fast search utility — searches filenames only, does not index content. |
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CCleaner Cleans up any system by getting rid of unneeded files and other junk. |
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TeamViewer The golden standard for remote control. |
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Portable Keyboard Layout Use an alternative keyboard layout (Colemak, Dvorak)? Take it with you. |
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GetFolderSize Used for determining the size of folders and subfolders on a drive. |
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Process Explorer Windows Task Manager, on steroids. Made by Sysinternals, now a part of Microsoft. |
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Camstudio Screen-recording software, packaged by PortableApps.com. |
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Snaptimer A keyboard-friendly countdown timer. |
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Clipcube A tiny clipboard history monitor. |
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BareTail A tool for system admins, used for viewing logfiles, like tail on Linux. |
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CPU-Z Helps you take a glance at your system specifications with ease. |
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HijackThis The best Windows tool portable app for generating reports for and removing registry and startup entries. Recommended for experienced users. |
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Soft2Base Helps you keep some of the most popular Windows applications up to date. |
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Unassoc The easiest way to remove filetype associations in Windows. |
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Universal Extractor A tool that helps you make other applications run portably. |
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Defraggler Another excellent portable defragmentation tool. |
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Speccy An advanced system information tool for your PC to help you find out what’s inside your computer. |
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ClipTrap Automatically monitor and log the contents of your clipboard. |
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CrystalDiskMark Portable One of the simplest ways to benchmark your disk for read/write speeds. |
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GeekUninstaller Have a sticky application that won’t uninstall? Let GeekUninstaller portable app remove it for you. |
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Linux Live USB Creator Easily create a bootable Live USB with tons of Linux distrubutions available. |
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Xleaner Clean out your Windows system and free yourself of temporary and other junk files. |
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namebench Find the fastest DNS server with point-and-click ease. |
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Xinorbis Easy way to visualize and analyze any disk under Windows. |
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xpy Allows you to tweak Windows and change settings that are completely under the hood. |
Video Portable Apps
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VLC Player A “do-it-all” free, open-source video player. This portable app can also play audio. |
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VirtualDub A tool for editing and encoding videos, with support for batch-processing. |
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Splayer A visually striking, multi-format video player, with subtitle auto-download. Tiny link for portable version. |
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Avidemux A video editor designed for simple tasks such as cutting, filtering, and encoding. |
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Media Player Classic Very lightweight, an all-around media player for comes bundled with popular codec packages. |
Web and FTP
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Filezilla A powerful, open-source FTP client. |
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Opera Portable An awesome browser that gets too little love. Official installer supports portable option. |
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Google Chrome Google’s Web browser, packaged by PortableApps.com. |
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Firefox If you don’t use Chrome, you are probably using Firefox. Packaged by PortableApps.com. |
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Tor Browser A bundle of Tor and Vidalia to help you browse anonymously and explore “deep web” onions with the look and feel of Firefox. |
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uTorrent Portable Simply the best torrent client out there. |
Disclaimer: All portable apps listed were thoroughly reviewed. MakeUseOf is not responsible for any damage and/or data loss
that might result from use of any of the above mentioned apps.
