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
Launchers
Development
Scripting languages
- Portable Python
- Portable NSIS Version
- Portable AutoIt
- Portable AutoHotkey
- Portable Perl
Compilers
IDEs">Integrated development environment">IDEs
- Alice IDE
- Portable Eclipse
- Portable Code::Blocks
- Portable Dev-C++
- Hackety Hack, which is an educational version of Ruby
- SharpDevelop Portable
Setup creators
- Nullsoft Scriptable Install System Portable
Visual mapping/productivity tools
Graphics
3D modeling and rendering
- Anim8or – Free 3D modeling and animating software.
- Blender:
- * BlenderPortable
- * Blender Pocket
- * XBlender
Animation
Graphic editors
- ArtRage
- Artweaver
- Dia
- EVE
- Fotografix
- GIMP:
- * GIMP Portable VS 2008 is the Gimp portable version of Gimp on Windows platforms
- * 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
- EmEditor Professional
- Geany
- Metapad
- Notepad++
- Notepad2
- NoteTab Light
- PSPad
- Q10
- SciTE
- Sublime Text
- TED Notepad
- Textpad
- UltraEdit
- VEDIT
- Vim
Personal notes
Educational
Games
AssaultCubeCave StoryDwarf Fortress- Doom I / IIFrets on FireKerbal Space ProgramMinecraftPokerTH
- QuakeSecret Maryo ChroniclesTile WorldWarzone 2100
- Xonotic
Emulators
- DOSBox – MS-DOS emulator
- FCE Ultra – Nintendo Entertainment System 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
Internet
[Web browser]s
- 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 client]s
- Mail – for Mac OS X
- Mozilla Thunderbird Portable
- Modest
- Pegasus Mail
- Pine
- Opera
- SeaMonkey
- sylpheed
- The Bat! Voyager
[Instant messaging]
- Adium – for Mac OS X
- aMSN
- Google Talk
- Portable iChat – for Mac OS X
- Miranda NG
- Pidgin Portable
- Psi Portable
- Skype
- Trillian Anywhere
- Yahoo! Messenger
[FTP client]s
[Download manager]s
P2P">Peer-to-peer">P2P [file sharing]
[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. 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
- Opera
- HexChat
- Portable X-Chat Aqua – for Mac OS X
RSS">RSS (file format)">RSS, Atom">Atom (standard)">Atom readers
[Telnet], SSH">Secure Shell">SSH clients
- portaPuTTY
- WinSCP Portable Edition – SFTP/SCP/FTP client, remote file manager, GUI
[Podcast] managers
Anonymity/Anti-censorship
Local [wiki]s
Miscellaneous
- Ahnenblatt multilingual Genealogy software
- Moka5 LivePC Engine. Dynamically loads and unloads network drivers and requires administrator rights.
- Mojopac portable chopped down copy of windows. Requires administrator rights.
Multimedia
File converters
[CD/DVD burning]
Editors
- Portable Audacity – for Windows and Mac OS X
- mp3DirectCut
- GoldWave
- VirtualDub
Audio/MIDI sequencer
Players
- RealPlayer
- FLV player
- Media Player Classic
- foobar2000 – only supports xp and forward
- MPlayer
- SMPlayer
- Songbird
- K-Multimedia Player
- The Core Pocket Media Player
- VLC Media Player
- Winamp
Recorders
Video capture
Video repair
Networking
[HTTP server]s
Miscellaneous
[Remote desktop]
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
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
Writers
- Portable OpenOffice.org – for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X
Security and encryption
Password management
- KeePass Portable
- Password Safe
Anti-spyware/malware
Antivirus
[Steganography]
Real-time disk/volume Encryption
System maintenance
Optimization and cleaning
Storage management
Visual maps of free space and biggest files and folders on hard drive.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.