Open Source & Free Software
Accessibility
- Balabolka (Freeware) – read text aloud or save to audio file
- Dicom – word completion utility
- DSpeech (Freeware) – read text aloud or save to audio file
- Firefox Accessibility Extension – Make Firefox more accessible
- On-Screen Keyboard – Easily access an on-screen keyboard
- Virtual Magnifying Glass – A full-featured screen magnifier
Development
- AkelPad – lightweight plaintext editor
- Cppcheck – C/C++ analysis tool
- Database Browser (Freeware) – Database management utility
- DB Browser for SQLite – Simple SQLite database management tool
- Eclipse – IDE development platform
- Frhed – free hex editor
- Geany – Text editor and basic IDE
- gVim – advanced, feature-rich text editor
- HM NIS Edit – NSIS development environment
- IniTranslator – INI translation tool
- Notepad++ – A full-featured text editor with syntax highlighting
- Notepad2 – Simple, lightweight text editor
- Notepad2-mod – Lightweight text editor
- NSIS – Windows installer and launcher creation
- Nvu & KompoZer – The easy-to-use Nvu web editor
- Sqliteman – SQLite databases made easy
- SWI-Prolog – Prolog programming environment
- Q-Eye (Freeware) – lightweight QlikView data file viewer
- XAMPP – Apache, mySQL, PHP, phpMyAdmin, etc in one package
Education
- Artha – offline thesaurus
- Celestia – space simulator
- FreeMat – scientific prototyping and technical computing
- GoldenDict – dictionary and encyclopedia lookups
- Gramps – genealogical research software
- Marble – virtual globe and atlas
- Mnemosyne – flashcard memorization tool
- Solfege – ear training program
- Stellarium – planetarium
- TIPP10 – touch typing tutor
- TypeFaster – touch typing tutor
Games
- 2048 – number tile puzzle game
- 4st Attack – 4-in-a-row puzzle game
- ADR – launcher for A Dark Room minimalist text adventure
- Armagetron Advanced – 3d lightcycle game
- AssaultCube – fast-paced, online, first-person shooter
- Atomic Tanks – overly-powerful tanks blow each other up
- Battle for Wesnoth – turn-based fantasy strategy game
- Big Solitaires 3D – collection of 40 solitaire games
- Brutal Chess – 3d chess
- BYOND (Freeware) – online multiplayer game creator
- Canabalt (Freeware) – outrun the demolition of your city with just one button
- Chromium B.S.U. – fast-paced, vertical scrolling space shooter
- Cube – old-school first person shooter
- DOSBox – classic DOS games to go
- Freeciv – empire-building strategy game
- Get Sudoku – interactive sudoku solver
- Golly – Game of Life simulator
- Hedgewars – turn-based strategy, artillery and comedy game
- Hex-a-Hop – hexagonal puzzle game
- IceBreaker – wall-building-style arcade game
- I Have No Tomatoes – run and explode maze game
- Jooleem – simple and addictive puzzle game with great music and visuals
- Kobo Deluxe – 3rd person scrolling 2D space shooter
- LBreakout2 – breakout-style arcade game similar to Arkanoid
- LMarbles – pattern-matching puzzle game
- Lucas Chess – chess trainer and player
- Mana Plus – a free, 2D, retro-style MMORPG
- ManiaDrive – acrobatic arcade race game
- Mines-Perfect – a classic hunt-for-mines game with advanced features
- NetHack – single player dungeon exploration
- netPanzer – multiplayer tactical warfare
- Neverball – 3d rolling ball obstacle course
- OpenTTD – urban planning simulation
- Pathological – color-matching puzzle game
- Pingus – puzzle platforming game
- PokerTH – classic Texas Hold Em style poker at its best
- Project Invincible – 3D chess with configurable AI
- Pushover – falling domino puzzle game
- Puzzle Collection – dozens of single player puzzles
- Quick Blackjack (Freeware) – play blackjack against the computer
- Quick Bridge (Freeware) – play bridge against the computer
- Quick Cribbage (Freeware) – play cribbage against the computer
- Quick Poker (Freeware) – play poker against the computer
- Quick Solitaire (Freeware) – seven classic solitaire games
- Rocks’n’Diamonds – fast-paced gem collection game
- Sauerbraten (Cube 2) – first person shooter
- Scorched 3D – turn-based over-powered artillery in 3D
- Simple Sudoku (Freeware) – sudoku game, creator, and solver
- SuperTux – jump n’ run sidescroller game
- SuperTuxKart – multiplayer cart racing
- T^3 – 3 dimensional tetris
- The Legend of Edgar – 2D platform adventure game
- The Powder Toy – physics sandbox game
- Tick5 – 5-in-a-row puzzle game
- Tile World – engaging and fast-paced tile-based puzzles
- Twin Distress – color matching puzzle game
- USB Sudoku – the wildly popular and addictive puzzle game
- Warzone 2100 – single or online multiplayer real-time strategy game
- WAtomic – molecular puzzle game
- WinBoard Chess – advanced chess engine
- Wizznic – brick-matching puzzle game
- X-Moto – 2D motocross platform game
- Xonotic – fast-paced first person shooter
- Xye – collect-the-gems puzzle game
- Zaz – color-matching puzzle game
Graphics
- AndreaMosaic (Freeware) – mosaic image creator
- AniFX (Freeware) – full-featured cursor editor
- Blender – 3D modelling, animation, rendering, post-production, playback
- Caesium – image converter and optimizer
- Cornice – image viewer with slideshow
- Dia – full-featured diagramming tool
- DiffImg (Freeware) – screen capture and editor
- FastStone Capture (Freeware) – screen capture and editor
- FastStone Image Viewer (Freeware) – view, organize and convert images
- Fotografix (Freeware) – lightweight image editor
- FotoSketcher (Freeware) – make art from digital images
- Fyre – 2D computational artwork
- GIMP – Photo and Image Editor
- Greenfish Icon Editor Pro – icon, cursor, and library editor
- Greenshoot – screen capture and editor
- Hot Spot Studio (Freeware) – mix light to create art
- IcoFX (Freeware) – full-featured icon editor
- IDPhotoStudio (Freeware) – ID photo duplicator and printer
- Inkscape – vector graphics editor
- IrfanView (Freeware) – lightweight graphic viewer
- JPEGView – image viewer and processor
- K-3D – 3D modeling and animation
- Krita – Sketching and painting
- LazPaint – Photo and Image Editor
- LibreCAD – 2D computer-aided design (CAD) tool
- MyPaint – Digital painting and illustration
- Pencil2D – 2D hand-drawn animation tool
- Pencil Project – prototyping and diagramming tool
- PhotoFilmStrip – photo slide show creator
- PhotoFiltre (Freeware) – image editing and effects
- PicPick (Freeware) – screen capture, editor, color picker, and more
- PngOptimizer – image converter and optimizer
- RawTherapee – advanced raw image processor
- Smart Deblur – sharpen out of focus and blurry images
- XnView (Freeware) – view, organize and convert photos
Internet
- aMSN – chat and video chat on MSN/Windows Live
- DamnVid – video downloader and encoder
- Ekiga – softphone, video conferencing and chat
- Falkon – web browser
- FeedRoller (Freeware) – RSS/ATOM desktop ticker
- FileZilla – the full-featured FTP client
- Free Download Manager – download manager and optimizer
- Google Chrome (Freeware) – fast, simple, themeable browser
- gPodder – podcast receiver and manager
- HexChat – customizable IRC chat client
- Instantbird – customizable instant messaging on AOL, Facebook, Google, MSN and more
- Iron – advanced web browser
- Isotoxin – multiprotocol secure chat
- Juice – podcast receiver and manager
- K-Meleon – lightweight, customizable browser
- KiTTY – telnet and SSH with added features
- KVIrc – full-featured IRC chat client
- Links – text-based browser
- LAN Messenger – peer-to-peer LAN chat and file transfer
- Lynx – text-based browser
- Maxthon (Freeware) – fast, powerful browser
- MicroSIP – lightweight SIP softphone
- Miranda NG – multi-protocol instant messaging
- Mozilla Firefox – the award-winning web browser that’s safe and secure
- Mozilla Firefox Developer Edition – browser with built in development tools
- Mozilla Thunderbird – the handy email client
- Mumble – voice chat
- Nvu & KompoZer – the easy-to-use webpage editor
- Opera (Freeware) – lightweight, customizable browser
- Opera GX (Freeware) – customizable gaming browser
- PChat – full-featured IRC chat client
- Pidgin – chat with AOL, MSN and Yahoo users in an easy-to-use interface
- PopMan – lightweight email notifier
- PuTTY – lightweight telnet and SSH client
- qBittorrent – lightweight bittorrent client
- QuiteRSS – Standalone RSS feed reader
- SeaMonkey – complete internet suite (browser, email, chat, newsgroups)
- sPortable (Freeware) – assists with using Skype portably
- Sylpheed – lightweight email client
- Telegram Desktop – secure instant messaging
- Transmission – fast, easy, free bittorrent client
- µTorrent (Freeware) – lightweight bittorrent client
- WinSCP – SFTP, FTP and SCP client
- wxDownload Fast – multi-threaded download manager
Music & Video
- AIMP (freeware) – Music player, library, converter and more
- Audacity – A simple audio editor and recorder
- A-Tube Catcher (Freeware) – Video downloader, multi tool converter
- AutoDrum – automatic drum accompanist
- Avidemux -simple video editor
- CDex – cd audio extraction and conversion
- cdrtfe – CD, DVD, VCD burner
- CoolPlayer+ – Lightweight, fast, easy-to-use audio player
- DVDStyler – DVD menu authoring tool
- fre:ac – extract, convert, and encode audio
- ImgBurn – CD and DVD burner, disk image creator
- InfraRecorder – full-featured CD and DVD burner
- LameXP – audio converter
- LMMS (Linux MultiMedia Studio) – music creation and production
- Media Player Classic – Black Edition (MPC-BE) – Lightweight media player
- Media Player Classic – Home Cinema (MPC-HC) – Lightweight media player
- MediaInfo – media information utility
- Mixxx – virtual DJ mixer
- Mp3splt-gtk – mp3, FLAC, and ogg splitter
- MuseScore – music composition and notation
- OBS Studio – live streaming and recording software
- OpenShot – full-featured video editor
- MusicBrainz Picard – audio file tagger
- Paul Stretch – extreme audio stretching
- PotPlayer (freeware) – hardware enhanced media player
- Qmmp – Lightweight audio player
- SMPlayer – Full-featured movie player with support for most video formats
- TAudioConverter – audio converter and cd extractor
- TEncoder Video Converter – convert, rip, and download video
- VirtualDub – video processing and capture utility
- VLC Media Player – An easy to use media player that plays many formats
- WaveShop – bit-perfect audio editor
- wxMP3gain – MP3 audio normalizer
- XMPlay (Freeware) – Full featured audio player and library
Office
- A Note – lightweight sticky notes
- AbiWord – a lightweight word processor compatible with Microsoft Word files
- Apache OpenOffice – word processor, spreadsheet, presentations with Microsoft compatibility
- BabelPad (Freeware) – Unicode word processor and text editor
- calibre – ebook manager and viewer
- Cherrytree – hierarchical note-taker and organizer
- CintaNotes (Freeware) – lightweight note-taker
- CuteMarkEd – simple markdown editor
- Evince – document viewer (pdf, ps, djvu, tiff, dvi)
- Finance Explorer (Freeware) – personal financial management
- FocusWriter – distraction-free word processor
- Foxit Reader (Freeware) – small and fast PDF reader
- GnuCash – accounting, expenses and financial management
- Gnumeric – full-featured spreadsheet
- Jarte (Freeware) – lightweight, tabbed word processor
- KchmViewer – full-featured CHM viewer
- KeepNote – note taking and organization
- LibreOffice – word processor, spreadsheet, presentations with excellent compatibility
- Money Manager Ex – easy-to-use personal finance software
- Mozilla Sunbird – Calendar and task management with a familiar interface
- PDFTK Builder – split, collate, watermark and password protect PDF documents
- PDF-XChange Editor (Freeware) – PDF editor and viewer
- PDF-XChange Viewer (Freeware) – PDF viewer
- PNotes – sticky notes to go
- QOwnNotes – markdown note-taker
- RedNotebook – modern journal and diary
- Scribus – desktop publishing
- Sigil – WYSIWYG ebook editor
- SpeedCrunch – an intuitive algebraic calculator
- Stickies (Freeware) – lightweight sticky notes
- Sumatra PDF – PDF, Comic Book, and E-book Reader
- Task Coach – to do list and task manager
- The Guide – two-pane outliner
- WinDjView – a lightweight DjVu viewer
- ZoomIt (Freeware) – live screen zooming and annotation
Security
- Avast (Freeware) – Antivirus
- ClamWin – Antivirus on the go
- Eraser – securely delete files and data
- EraserDrop – easily secure-erase files and data
- GPG Plugin – GnuPG encrypt and sign utility
- HijackThis – Browser hijack scanner
- Kaspersky TDSSKiller (Freeware) – Rootkit remover
- KeePass Password Safe – Secure, easy-to-use password manager
- KeePassXC – Full-featured password manager
- Malwarebytes (Freeware) – Virus remover, system check
- McAfee Stinger (Freeware) – Common antivirus and ‘fake alert’ remover
- Password Gorilla – Secure password manager
- Password Safe – Secure password manager
- PeerBlock – firewall based on IP blacklists and whitelist
- PWGen – Secure password generator
- Spybot – Search & Destroy (Freeware) – Spyware detection and removal
- VeraCrypt – free disk encryption
Utilities
- 7-Zip – File archiver and compressor
- Ant Renamer – Advanced file renaming utility
- AquaSnap (Freeware) – Screen productivity enhancement
- Autoruns (Freeware) – configure autorunning apps and more
- BabelMap (Freeware) – Unicode character browser
- BleachBit – cache, temp file and history cleaner
- CamStudio – screen recorder and video producer
- CCleaner (Freeware) – system cache and old file cleaner
- Checksum Control – create and verify MD5/SFV checksums
- Clicky Gone – easily hide running windows
- Colour Contrast Analyser – analyze color contrast & readability
- cmder – customizable command prompt
- Console – console window enhancement
- ControlPad (Freeware) – Run commands and apps with your numeric keypad
- Converber (Freeware) – convert units of measurement
- ConvertAll – convert units of measurement
- Cook Timer – simple countdown timer
- CPU-Z (Freeware) – system profiler
- CrystalDiskInfo – disk health monitoring tool
- CrystalDiskMark – disk benchmark utility
- Daphne – process explorer, killer and debugger
- DebugView (Freeware) – system debug output monitor
- Defraggler (Freeware) – defragment disks
- Diffpdf (Freeware) – compare PDFs textually and visually
- Disk Cleaner – cache, temp file and history cleaner
- Ditto – clipboard manager and extender
- DM2 – window control enhancer
- Don’t Panic! – one-click application hider
- dotNETInspector – show which .NET frameworks are installed
- DTaskManager (Freeware) – advanced task manager
- DUMo (Freeware) – update local drivers
- DSynchronize (Freeware) – directory synchronization
- Duplicate Files Finder – find and remove duplicate files
- DynDNS Simply Client – update DynDNS hostname IP
- Explorer++ – multi-tab file manager
- FastCopy – fast file copier and remover
- FileAlyzer (Freeware) – detailed file analysis
- FileVoyager (Freeware) – full-featured file manager
- FontForge – Outline font editor
- FreeCommander (Freeware) – easy-to-use windows file manager
- FreeFileSync – file and folder synchronization
- FUPX (Freeware) – advanced executable compression
- GeekUninstaller (Freeware) – local software uninstaller
- Ghostscript – Postscript and PDF interpreter
- GPU-Z (Freeware) – graphics system profiler
- grepWin – regular expression search and replace
- Gridy – snap your open windows to a grid
- HDHacker (Freeware) – MBR and boot sector manager
- HWiNFO (Freeware) – software/hardware info
- IObit Uninstaller (Freeware) – uninstaller and cleaner
- IObit Unlocker (Freeware) – unlock undeleteable and unmovable files
- JDK (Freeware) – Java development kit
- JkDefrag – Disk defragmentation and optimization
- JRE (Freeware) – Java runtime environment (included in JDK)
- KCleaner (Freeware) – local PC cleaner
- Lightscreen – easy to use screenshot tool
- Listary (Freeware) – find-as-you-type search for Windows Explorer and more
- OpenJDK – Open Java development kit
- PCI-Z (Freeware) – pci devices profiler
- PeaZip – Easy to use file archiver and compressor
- Process Explorer (Freeware) – task manager and process analyzer
- Process Hacker – advanced task manager
- Process Monitor (Freeware) – real-time file, registry and process monitor
- Q-Dir (Freeware) – quad pane file manager
- RAMMap (Freeware) – physical memory usage analyzer
- Rapid CRC Unicode – CRC/MD5/SHA hashing
- RBTray – minimize apps to the system tray
- Recuva (Freeware) – file recovery
- RegAlyzer (Freeware) – registry editor
- Regshot – registry and file comparison
- ReNamer (Freeware) – powerful file renaming tool
- Resource Hacker (Freeware) – binary resource editor
- Rufus – format and create bootable USB drives
- RealVNC (Freeware) – VNC viewer and server
- Revo Uninstaller (Freeware) – easy to use uninstaller
- SharpKeys – System keyboard remapper
- Shortcuts Search And Replace – Search and adjust shortcut paths
- Smart Defrag (Freeware) – disk defragmentation and optimization
- SnapTimer (Freeware) – countdown timer
- Speccy (Freeware) – system information tool
- SSD-Z (Freeware) – SSD information tool
- Startup Sentinel (Freeware) – local startup manager
- SUMo (Freeware) – update local apps
- Synkron – file and directory synchronization
- System Explorer (Freeware) – task manager and process analyzer
- TCPView (Freeware) – TCP connection analysis
- TeamViewer (Freeware) – remote PC support and screen-sharing
- TidyTabs (Freeware) – tabbed window manager
- Toucan – backup, sync and encrypt for advanced users
- TreeSize Free (Freeware) – disk usage analyzer and cleanup tool
- UNetbootin – create bootable Linux USB drives
- UltraDefrag – Disk defragmentation and optimization
- UltraVNC – Remote VNC viewer and server
- UUID-GUID Generator – generate unique identifiers
- VirtualBox – virtual machines management
- Virtual Volumes View – drive and disk cataloger
- VirtuaWin – virtual desktop manager
- VMMap (Freeware) – process memory analyzer
- VMware Player (Freeware) – virtual machines player
- VMware Workstation (Freeware) – virtual machines management
- WinCDEmu – cd/dvd/bd emulator and ISO mounter
- WhoDat – WHOIS lookup client
- WinDirStat – disk usage analyzer and cleanup tool
- Windows Error Lookup Tool (Freeware) – find windows error code details
- WinMD5sum – check md5 sums to verify files on the go
- WinPenguins – penguins running around your desktop
- WinMerge – file comparison and merging
- Wise Data Recovery (Freeware) – data and file recovery
- Wise Disk Cleaner (Freeware) – disk cleaner and defragmenter
- Wise Program Uninstaller (Freeware) – local software uninstaller
- Wise Registry Cleaner (Freeware) – registry cleaner and optimizer
- WinMTR – network diagnostic tool
- World Clock (Freeware) – multiple time zone clock
- Workrave – repetitive stress injury prevention
- Xenon File Manager – file browser
- XN Resource Editor – lightweight binary resource editor
- xpy – system settings tweaker
- YUMI – multiboot USB creator
- Zint Barcode Generator – barcode generator
- ZSoft Uninstaller (Freeware) – uninstaller and cleaner