100 Portable Apps for your USB Stick (for Mac and Win)

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K-Lite Mega Codec Pack with Media Player
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I recommend you to include Bookmark Base (http://www.bookmarkbase.com) to the “Portable Browsers and Internet Tools” section.

greate list! thanks

great list. I recommend AutoMee: http://automee.pxax.com for automating tasks.

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I’m currently using FF 2.0.* on my USB drive as i type this

Woah! Superb list. I managed to make the ones I downloaded from of these to work with the Portable Apps menu by creating a Self-extracting archive and then using Install App from the menu. It’s cooler than going everytime to your drive and double-clicking the app icon! [All except opera... It detects only .exe whereas Opera@USB needs op.jar to be clicked to run.]

Btw, you missed Notepad++, I do know that you can’t note all of them.. still pointing out. Thanks again for the list!

Actually, I wanted to inform you about MPlayer portable but while posting this comment I remembered only Notepad ++ . lol!

Yes, I think using PStart. But as of now, all of the external programs are added to the PortableApps Menu thanks to the procedure I described above. Problem is it detects the .exe’s and Opera@usb requires the .jar file to be run. Now if they could only allow dragging shortcuts to the menu, it would totally kill the competition!

Thanks for the cool list again!

excellent

There are also:
Portable Vienna RSS reader for OS X:
http://www.freesmug.org/portableapps/vienna/

Portable Celtx OS X screenwriting:
http://www.freesmug.org/portableapps/celtx

95% of OS X applilcations are portable in the mean that you can install them with a drag and drop and put them on a USB stick (or everywhere) instead in the default Application folder. What make them really “Portable” by name is the fact that all user/app preferences remain and are carried on the USB stick and not on guest hard disk.

Restrictions on Portable Apps, about just allowing exe files can be surpassed using BatchCompiler (search google for “JPSoft_batcom10uk.zip”), which allows one to compile a batch file into binary executable.

Functionalities like drag’n'drop, categories, and much more, can be added easily using Karl McMurdo mod r30, for “Portable Apps Menu”, available here (http://portableapps.xrx.ca/portable-apps-menu-mod/).

Cheers

tnx

Such a great Valuable site.
Keep it up

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isuru

Hi,
Ethereal portable is here:
http://www.trsecurity.net/portable

Hi There,

Hamachi portable seems to be a bad link. It leads to a unit conversion utility. (I recommend Hamachi to anyone in need of a simple to setup VPN).

I wonder how a portable version would work (on my laptop it runs through an installed Hamachi network driver). Maybe a portable proxy that logs into the Hamachi network?

Thanks for the great list!

- Jordan

Add XYplorer, the portable file manager. It adds some highly interesting portability features such as Portable File Associations and Application Relative Paths.

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Just made a portable version of TeraCopy
http://www.codesector.com/files/teracopyportable.paf.exe

Just made a portable version of TeraCopy.

Thank you for these shareing informations

I Like portable soft all the time, because its easy to carry & will not broken if my windows error…
but many portable soft not so handy sometimes, they have many bugs & cant update..

You mention KeePass for Windows, but there’s an official Mac port as well: KeePassX - The Official KeePassX Homepage - there are versions for Panther, Tiger and Leopard.

I have both the Windows version and the Tiger version on my USB stick, and they work with the same database, so I always have all my passwords and other data available!

Good list.

I always throw the installers for Word, Excel and PowerPoint Viewers on my stick just in case I need them in a pinch.

The recommended game ‘Gem Drop’ has a virus!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Your link to the game gemdrop (windows binary download) has a trojan horse. Win32:Agent-KGH [Trj]

I have been using XYplorer for 3 years now and I would like to suggest it for this list. Its key features are: Powerful search, User-friendly, Multi-tabbed, Instant preview of many file extensions, portable file associations, User defined commands, customized shortcuts and many more. And it is developed actively (2-3 betas per week).
Check out XYplorer

You can add to the list the Winamp Portable edition to download here
http://www.softpedia.com/get/PORTABLE-SOFTWARE/Multimedia/Audio/Windows-Portable-Applications-Portable-Winamp.shtml

Helpful topic,Thanks …

Hi I work on what I hope is a handy and now portable timesheets system.

http://www.pillaritservices.com

Makes my life easier. Let me know if you think it is good enough for your list.

Thanks
RK

first off - This is a fantastic site!!! However………..FYI, I just installed Treepad free edition with the idea that I would use it for a bookmark manager. Wellllll…..It takes one of the paid editins to get tht feature. FYI

thnx for this great info

for more fine things like this goto http://www.gnomergon.com

Did you forget to mention Dos Box Portable. A complete dos system for usb stick, runs on windows only, fairly compact(only 1mb). Works like a charm. can even run windows 3.1 on it. seePortableApps.com to find it.

We wrote a weblog article about setting up some of the software you name in your list. It includes FileZilla and Portable Firefox to be used on both Apple and Windows workstations. It can be found on: Voys.nl. I want to recommend TrueCrypt as well. It’s a file encryption app.
Hope its usefull!

All the applications are Excellent, but I cannot use on the network, where they have restricted everything to run………I can only access USB, run IM app, but cannot connect….. is there any way around to connect to portable IM chat,?????????????

Thank you….

Great list! You missed my all time favorite, gotta-have-it all-in-one portable software package radsoft’s XPT. It’s not for everyone - it’s heavyweight ‘Extreme Power Tools’ for developers, adminstrators and the like. And even though there’s upwards of 150 applications, it’ll still fit on a USB stick with room to spare. If nothing else, the incredible file management system makes it worth having.

All,

Being on the move much, I have found running my apps from an USB stick invaluable.

One essential is Skype which allows you to talk free (if the host PC has mike & headset) or at least IM …

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You know there once was an idea that Microsoft would run Microsoft Office from a USB key.

The other question i have is does a USB really speed up the performance of Windows Vista? I heard rumors to this effect.

Devicepedia,

I have not heard about the Vista rumor, but here are some Vista speed-up hints

http://www.hl7.com.au/Fix&Optimize-Slow-Windows-Vista.htm

Ok thanks very much some interesting hints in it

I just bought a transcend 4gb usb flash drive so i dropped by here to learn how to use it safely and effectively. I was just curious about ” blogging tools ” if there are any avaiable as portable apps.

cheers

i have used a portable blogging tool before.. its portable blogjet try googling…

It would be great if you would add our text snippets organizer program, Clipboard Manager and Autotext Utility PhraseExpress USB Edition to the list.

It is free-of-charge and is designed for use with USB Memory Sticks.

Demo video:
http://demo.phraseexpress.com

Download:
http://www.phraseexpress.com/PhraseExpress_USB.zip

Thank you.

Michael
PhraseExpress Team
http://www.phraseexpress.com

Thank you…..

Puppy Linux can be included in Portable Operating Systems, comes with a native installer for usb sticks(download is a 100MB iso image that need to be burned to a cd before you can use the Puppy Universal Installer) and is loaded with all apps you can need: oficce like, multimedia, games, etc.
Works great on any pc with 128MB of ram and is lightning fast on modern machines.

thanks a lot

I like the USB stick and also the list of applications. Thanks.

Thanks for the list.

Good list. With the size of flash drives getting larger, we’re soon gonna have entire USB operating systems complete w/ software on them.

I have a shorter list of good USB tools especially for designers over at my blog.

can anyone please advise if the uTorrent will work “apart” from the Windows on base PC? I mean stay unnoticed to Anti-Virus or Registry Application Trackers? I guess not, but that’s my understanding of “Portable”.. is there any torrent program which can do that?
One way to override the problem is to keep a Bootable USB and no more problems.. but before getting to that option, is there smth more I should be looking to?

thanks in advance.

first off - This is a fantastic site!!! However………..FYI, I just installed Treepad free edition with the idea that I would use it for a bookmark manager. Wellllll…..It takes one of the paid editins to get tht feature. FYI

Thanks for the great list. It must be covering everything, it is such a big list.

These look like a great tool to use but don’t know if I would want to have personal information, like what would be used for some of these apps, all handy to be stolen on a USB stick.

The list is simply great.

Thanks for the great list of portable applications.

Thanks for compiling this great list.

cool utilities nice to see and run.

man! now this is what i need.

Very useful list, thanks!

Pstart rocks. Its far better than the PortableApps Suite.

Thanks Aibek for this great list.

is this not a virus like “www.portableapps.com” ???

That’s good. It’s really useful

Great list, will try ‘Smart Sniff’ right away!

Nice post, I really like portable application. I have collected them all.
Thanx..

is hyperspace OS possible on a usb?

Wow its great that my friend coi led me here. Great collection Can I have an exchange link with you?

thanks….

Thanks for the list!
I wish to offer to the list a portable bookmarks manager (LinkCollector Portable Edition) from http://www.vscsoftware.com