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

Scripting languages

3D modeling and rendering

Office and publishing

[Web browser]s

File converters

[HTTP server]s

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

Password management

Optimization and cleaning

Visual maps of free space and biggest files and folders on hard drive.