Windows Softwares to Portable

Discover Windows Softwares to Portable.

Can be run from a USB drive or other portable media without installation.

Best Windows Softwares to Portable

Sort:
WinMerge 2011

WinMerge 2011

Open Source

WinMerge 2011 is a powerful, open-source file and folder comparison tool for Windows. It helps users quickly identify differences between files and directories, offering advanced merging capabilities and support for various data types, making it ideal for developers and anyone needing to reconcile file changes.

Comprehensive file and folder comparison.
Support for FTP
File Management
LuxRender

LuxRender

Open Source

LuxRender is a free and open-source physically based rendering system designed for creating photorealistic images. It simulates the physics of light, enabling artists and designers to produce highly realistic renders with complex materials, lighting setups, and scenes. Its focus on physical accuracy makes it a powerful tool for achieving stunning visual results in 3D graphics.

Excellent photorealistic quality due to physical simulation.
3d renderer
Photos & Graphics
Frogatto & Friends

Frogatto & Friends is a charming open-source 2D platformer with a beautiful pixel art aesthetic and adventure game elements. Explore a vibrant world as Frogatto, solve puzzles, battle enemies, and uncover a captivating story, all while enjoying a classic side-scrolling experience.

Charming and well-executed pixel art.
Single player
Games
Mupen64Plus

Mupen64Plus

Open Source

Mupen64Plus is a highly capable and extensible Nintendo 64 emulator, offering accurate emulation for a wide range of N64 titles across multiple operating systems. Its modular architecture supports various plugins for graphics, audio, input, and RSP, allowing for extensive customization and enhanced performance.

Highly accurate and compatible with a large N64 game library.
Portable
Games
Burp Proxy

Burp Proxy

Freemium

Burp Proxy is a powerful and versatile web proxy tool designed for manual security testing. It enables testers to intercept, inspect, modify, and resend all HTTP and HTTPS traffic between their browser and web applications, facilitating detailed analysis and manipulation of web requests and responses. It's an essential component of the Burp Suite, widely used by security professionals.

Excellent for intercepting and modifying HTTP/S traffic.
Admin Panel with builtin SSL and emails
Development Security & Privacy
WinSnap

WinSnap

Commercial

WinSnap is a lightweight and versatile utility designed for capturing, editing, and sharing screenshots. It offers unique capture modes, advanced image editing capabilities, and effortless sharing options, making it an essential tool for professionals and casual users alike.

Versatile and unique screen capture modes, including non-rectangular windows.
Capture Screen / Take screenshots
Photos & Graphics
Learning with Texts

Learning with Texts

Open Source

Learning with Texts (LWT) is a free, open-source linguistic tool designed to assist language learners through intensive reading of foreign language texts, aligning with principles of second language acquisition theory.

Highly effective for learning vocabulary and grammar through reading authentic t...
Portable
Education & Reference
Color Cop

Color Cop

Free

Color Cop is a free and lightweight multi-purpose color picker utility designed for web designers, graphic artists, and developers working on Microsoft Windows. It allows users to easily identify, select, and save colors from any area of their screen.

Highly accurate color picking from any screen location.
Screenshot Tools
Development Photos & Graphics
Instant Eyedropper

Instant Eyedropper is a simple yet powerful free color detection tool designed primarily for web developers and graphic designers. It allows users to quickly identify and copy the HTML color code of any pixel displayed on their screen with a single click, streamlining the process of color selection and integration into projects.

Extremely fast and easy to use: one click to get color code.
Desktop Color Picker
Photos & Graphics
Jet Screenshot

Jet Screenshot

Freemium

Jet Screenshot is a lightweight, versatile utility designed for capturing, editing, and sharing screenshots quickly and efficiently. It offers powerful annotation tools and seamless integration for sharing your visual communication.

Single application for capture, edit, and share.
Capture Screen / Take screenshots
Photos & Graphics
Babun

Babun

Open Source

Babun is a Windows shell with a focus on developers, providing a Unix-like command-line environment powered by Cygwin. It offers a wealth of pre-configured tools and features for seamless development workflows on Windows.

Pre-configured with essential developer tools, saving setup time.
Developer Tools
Development OS & Utilities
Gbridge

Gbridge

Free

Gbridge was a free software application that leveraged your Google Talk network to create a secure Virtual Private Network (VPN) between your connected computers. It enabled secure file sharing, folder synchronization, and remote desktop control, offering a unique peer-to-peer approach to network connectivity and data management among trusted contacts.

Free to use
File-sync
Backup & Sync File Sharing Network & Admin OS & Utilities Security & Privacy Social & Communications
RivaTuner

RivaTuner

Free

RivaTuner is a robust overclocking and hardware monitoring utility designed primarily for graphics cards, offering deep control and analysis of system components, though its development status should be noted.

Provides deep and granular control over graphics card settings.
Overclock
System & Hardware
HDDScan

HDDScan

Free

HDDScan is a free, portable utility designed for in-depth analysis and diagnostics of various data storage devices including hard disk drives, SSDs, RAID volumes, and USB flash drives. It offers robust features like surface scanning for bad blocks, comprehensive S.M.A.R.T. data analysis, temperature monitoring, and granular benchmarking.

Free to use with no limitations.
Support for S.M.A.R.T. data
OS & Utilities System & Hardware
ConsoleZ

ConsoleZ

Open Source

ConsoleZ is a highly customizable tabbed console emulator for Windows. Building upon the foundation of Console 2, it offers enhanced visual rendering, improved compatibility with modern Windows versions (Vista, 7, 8, 10), and a wealth of features for power users and developers.

Excellent customization options for appearance and behavior.
Tabbed interface
OS & Utilities
Steadier State

Steadier State is a robust Windows 7 data protection and system restoration software that enables users to revert their system state to earlier snapshots, effectively mitigating issues caused by software installations, malware, or accidental deletions. Its portable nature provides flexibility, allowing for use across multiple machines without installation.

Effective system restoration for Windows 7.
Persistent Storage
Backup & Sync Security & Privacy
PHP Fat-Free Framework

Fat-Free Framework (F3) is a powerful yet easy-to-use PHP micro-framework designed for building dynamic and robust web applications. It emphasizes performance, a small footprint, and a straightforward modular design.

Extremely lightweight and fast.
Lightweight
Development
Action(s)

Action(s)

Free

Action(s) was a versatile Windows automation tool designed to streamline repetitive tasks through prebuilt actions, scripting, and maco creation. It allowed users to automate actions, create complex workflows, and even compile them into standalone executables without extensive coding knowledge.

Extensive library of prebuilt actions simplifies automation for common tasks.
Scripting
Office & Productivity
Diagram Designer

Diagram Designer is a free, lightweight vector graphics editor for creating various diagrams, including flowcharts, UML diagrams, illustrations, and slideshows.

Free and open source.
Diagrams
Development
MailStore

MailStore

Free Personal

MailStore is a powerful and easy-to-use email archiving software that allows you to back up and store your emails from various sources, including Outlook, Gmail, and IMAP accounts. It provides fast search capabilities and ensures the long-term accessibility and security of your email communications.

Supports a wide range of email sources and protocols.
File compression
Backup & Sync File Management Office & Productivity Online Services
WinParrot

WinParrot

Free

WinParrot is a freeware Windows application designed for recording and playing back repetitive tasks and actions, essentially creating macros to automate workflow.

Free to use
Record desktop activity
Office & Productivity
Furmark

Furmark

Free

FurMark is a highly intensive OpenGL benchmark and stress testing utility designed to push modern graphics cards to their limits. It's widely used by PC enthusiasts, overclockers, and system builders to evaluate GPU stability, performance, and discover potential cooling issues.

Extremely effective at stress-testing graphics cards.
Rendering with graphics card
OS & Utilities
Pulover’s Macro Creator

Pulover’s Macro Creator is a free, portable Windows automation tool and script generator based on the powerful AutoHotkey language. It empowers users to automate repetitive tasks without writing code, offering a visual interface to create macros, script generators, text expanders, and more. It's ideal for simplifying workflows and increasing productivity.

Free and open-source, providing powerful automation without cost.
Scripting
Development Office & Productivity OS & Utilities
xchm

xchm

Open Source

xCHM is a free and open-source cross-platform GUI application designed for viewing compiled HTML Help (CHM) files. It acts as a front-end to the CHMLIB library, providing a user-friendly interface to navigate and read the content within these archive files, commonly used for software documentation and ebooks.

Effectively views CHM files with accurate rendering.
Document reader
Office & Productivity
Windows Preinstallation Environment

Windows Preinstallation Environment (WinPE) is a compact operating system designed for deploying and repairing Windows installations. Bootable from various media, it serves as a modern replacement for MS-DOS boot disks, providing essential tools for system administrators and repair professionals.

Essential for deploying and troubleshooting Windows.
Lightweight
OS & Utilities
Aksi IDE

Aksi IDE

Free

Aksi IDE is a powerful and portable Integrated Development Environment primarily focused on PHP development, offering a rich set of features to enhance productivity. It provides code completion, debugging capabilities, and extensibility through plugins, catering to both individual developers and teams.

High portability allows development on different machines without installation.
PHP IDE
Development
LaunchBox

LaunchBox

Freemium

LaunchBox is a portable, box-art-based games database and launcher that elegantly organizes your entire gaming collection. It seamlessly integrates with DOSBox, emulators for various platforms, arcade cabinets, and PC games, providing a unified and visually appealing interface to access your library.

Excellent organization and presentation of diverse game libraries.
Batch import
NirCmd

NirCmd

Free

NirCmd is a powerful and incredibly compact command-line utility for Windows. It provides a vast array of commands to perform system control and automation tasks directly from the command prompt, scripts, or batch files, without any graphical interface.

Extremely small and portable, requires no installation.
Command line interface
OS & Utilities
Clavier+

Clavier+

Open Source

Clavier+ is a powerful yet lightweight utility that allows users to create and manage custom keyboard shortcuts. It enables the assignment of keystrokes to launch programs, open documents, insert text, and perform various system actions, significantly enhancing workflow efficiency.

Extremely portable, no installation required.
Portable
OS & Utilities
MEncoder

MEncoder

Open Source

MEncoder is a powerful, free, and open-source command-line tool for video encoding, decoding, and processing. Part of the MPlayer project, it supports a vast array of formats, making it a highly flexible solution for users needing fine-grained control over their multimedia files.

Extensive format and codec support
Command line
OS & Utilities Video & Movies
Showing 301 - 330 of 818 results