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[1] 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.

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Example of a 4GB USB flash drive

Bundles

Launchers

Development

Scripting languages

Compilers

IDEs

Setup creators

Visual mapping/productivity tools

Graphics

3D modeling and rendering
  • Anim8or – Free 3D modeling and animating software.
  • Blender:
    • BlenderPortable
    • Blender Pocket
    • XBlender[2]

Animation

Graphic editors

Icon editors

Viewers

Document-based

Office and publishing

Editors

Personal notes

Educational

Games

Emulators

Plug-in emulators

Internet

Web browsers

Email clients

Instant messaging

FTP clients

Download managers

P2P file sharing

IRC
  • ChatZilla Note: Requires a Mozilla based browser, e.g. SeaMonkey, or Firefox.
  • Miranda IM
  • 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)
  • XChat
  • Portable X-Chat Aqua – for Mac OS X

RSS, Atom readers
  • RSSOwl (needs Java runtime environment)
  • Opera (Integrated RSS/Atom client)

Telnet, SSH clients

Podcast managers

Anonymity/Anti-censorship

Local wikis

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

CD/DVD burning

Editors

Audio/MIDI sequencer
  • Reaper has a .bat file for a USB stick installation

Players

Recorders

Video capture

Video repair
  • Stellar Phoenix Video Repair

Networking

HTTP servers

Miscellaneous

Remote desktop

Other tools

Web editors

Calendar management

File management

File archivers/extractors
  • 7-Zip
  • Filzip
  • PeaZip, for 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
See also: List of PDF software

Readers

Writers

Security and encryption

Password management

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.

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

References
  1. makeuseof.com. "100 Portable Apps for your USB Stick". Retrieved 2008-01-24.
  2. Older Version of BLender
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