List of portable software

List of portable software
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 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
Ceedo
MojoPac
LiberKey
PortableApps.com
U3
WebLaminarTools
WinPenPack
Launchers
Appetizer (Dock application)
ASuite
Launchy
OpenDisc
RocketDock
Development
Scripting languages
Portable Python
Portable NSIS Version
Portable AutoIt
Portable AutoHotkey (zip file)
Portable Perl (Strawberry Perl Portable Version)
Compilers
MinGW
Tiny C Compiler
IDEs
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
XMIND
Graphics
3D modeling and rendering
Anim8or – Free 3D modeling and animating software.
Blender:
BlenderPortable
Blender Pocket
XBlender
Animation
Anim8or
Blender
Pivot Stickfigure Animator
Graphic editors
ArtRage
Artweaver
Dia
EVE
Fotografix
GIMP:
GIMP Portable VS 2008 is the Gimp portable version of Gimp on Windows platforms (Windows XP, Vista, NT Server 2003, NT Server 2008)
Portable Gimp – for Mac OS X
X-Gimp
X-GimpShop
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
AkelPad
EmEditor Professional
Geany
Metapad
Notepad++
Notepad2
NoteTab Light
PSPad
Q10
SciTE
Sublime Text
TED Notepad
Textpad
UltraEdit
VEDIT
Vim
Personal notes
Personal Knowbase
Educational
Celestia
GCompris
Maxima
Stellarium
Calibre
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
JoyToKey – Gamepad emulator
Internet
Web browsers
Avant
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
Email clients
Mail – for Mac OS X
Mozilla Thunderbird Portable
Modest
Pegasus Mail
Pine
Opera (has integrated Email client)
SeaMonkey
sylpheed (zip version)
The Bat! Voyager
Instant messaging
Adium – for Mac OS X
aMSN
Google Talk
Portable iChat – for Mac OS X
Miranda NG
Monal
Pidgin Portable (formerly Gaim Portable)
Psi Portable
Skype
Trillian Anywhere
Yahoo! Messenger
FTP clients
WinSCP
FileZilla
Portable Cyberduck
SmartFTP
FlashFXP
Download managers
Wget
HTTrack
Free Download Manager (installation required to create portable version)
Opera (Integrated Download Manager)
P2P file sharing
BitComet (needs msxml)
Emule
Opera (integrated torrent client)
μTorrent (latest version)
Halite
FrostWire
Limewire Portable
qBittorrent Portable
Vuze Portable
IRC
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
RSS, Atom readers
RSSOwl (needs Java runtime environment)
Opera (Integrated RSS/Atom client)
Telnet, SSH clients
portaPuTTY
WinSCP Portable Edition – SFTP/SCP/FTP client, remote file manager, GUI
Podcast managers
Juice
Anonymity/Anti-censorship
Tor Browser Bundle
Local wikis
EverNote
TiddlyWiki
DokuWiki
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
Any Video Converter
Audiograbber
CDex
FormatFactory
fre:ac
MediaCoder
TMPGEnc
CD/DVD burning
CDBurnerXP
DVDStyler
DeepBurner Portable Edition
InfraRecorder
Portable ImgBurn
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
Streamripper
Video capture
VirtualDub
Video repair
Stellar Phoenix Video Repair
Networking
HTTP servers
HFS
Node.js
XAMPP
Miscellaneous
Netcat
Proxomitron – Filtering Web Proxy
Xming
Wireshark
RealVNC
Remote desktop
AnyDesk
RealVNC
TeamViewer
TightVNC
UltraVNC
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
Portable Sunbird – for Mac OS X, and Windows
Portable iCal – for Mac OS X
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
Foxit Reader
STDU Viewer
Sumatra PDF
PDF-XChange Viewer
Writers
Portable OpenOffice.org – for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X
Security and encryption
Password management
KeePass Portable
Password Safe
Anti-spyware/malware
Combofix
HijackThis
Spybot – Search & Destroy
SUPERAntiSpyware
Antivirus
ClamWin Portable
GMER
Sophos Anti Rootkit Tool
Steganography
OpenPuff
Real-time disk/volume Encryption
FreeOTFE / FreeOTFE Explorer
System maintenance
Optimization and cleaning
CCleaner
Storage management
Visual maps of free space and biggest files and folders on hard drive.
WinDirStat
Defraggler
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
Portable software
Portable software