Essential Apps
High-speed Swiss VPN that safeguards your privacy.
- VPN Service
- Freemium • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Android
- iPhone
- Chrome OS
- Android Tablet
- iPad
- Google Chrome
- F-Droid
- Android TV
- Fire TV
- Mozilla Firefox
Bitwarden is the easiest and safest way to store your logins and passwords across all of your devices (iOS, Android, Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Windows, Mac, Linux, and more). Bitwarden is FREE and open source.
- Password Manager
- Freemium • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
- Self-Hosted
- Apple Watch
- Snapcraft
- Microsoft Edge
- Vivaldi
- Google Chrome
- Flathub
- Microsoft SQL Server
- Tor Browser
- Safari
- F-Droid
- Software as a Service (SaaS)
- Flatpak
- Cloudron
- Opera
- Chocolatey
- Mono
- Brave
- Mozilla Firefox
DWService is a half (only the client/agent) open source project which offers a service that allows access to remote systems (Windows, Mac, Linux, Raspberry...) using a standard web browser - without any component required on the client side.
- Remote Desktop Tool
- Freemium • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Android
- Raspberry Pi
Ventoy is an open source tool to create bootable USB drive for ISO files. With ventoy, you don't need to format the disk again and again, you just need to copy the iso file to the USB drive and boot it.
- Bootable USB Creator
- Free • Open Source
- Windows
- Linux
VeraCrypt is a free and libre source (open source) disk encryption software brought to you by https://www.idrix.fr
- Disk Encryption Tool
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
- PortableApps.com
- Homebrew
- Chocolatey
Simple, private file sharing
Wormhole lets you share files up to 10GB with end-to-end encryption and a link that automatically expires. So you can keep what you share private and make sure your stuff doesn't stay online forever.
- Large File Transfer Service
- Free • Proprietary
- Windows
- Online
- WebApps
Open source software without any restriction - converter all formats video|audio|image professionnals codecs and standards - swiss knife tool Windows and OSX.
- Video Converter
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- AppImageHub
- Homebrew
iLovePDF is an online service to work with PDF files completely free and easy to use. Merge PDF, split PDF, compress PDF, office to PDF, PDF to JPG and more!
- Freemium • Proprietary
- Mac
- Windows
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
Caesium Image Compressor lets you compress your pictures up to 90% without visible quality loss. Providing a simple yet effective interface with a real-time preview and multiple image processing at the same time, everyone will be able to reach the best result.
- Image Optimizer
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Online
The world’s best online translator for you and your team.
- Translator
- Freemium • Proprietary
- Mac
- Windows
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
- ONLYOFFICE
Signal is a messaging app with an unexpected focus on privacy, combined with all the features expected from a modern IM app. Signal has received a lot of praise from all around the world for its security and privacy-respecting technologies.
- Video Calling App
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Android
- iPhone
- iPad
- Flathub
- Ubuntu
- Debian
Telegram is a messaging app with a focus on speed and security. It’s superfast, simple, and free. It is like SMS, but more powerful.
- Instant Messenger
- Freemium • Proprietary
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- HUAWEI AppGallery
- Windows Phone
- iPad
- Apple Watch
- Linux Mobile
- Android Wear
- PortableApps.com
- FreeBSD
Secure email with absolutely no compromises, brought to you by MIT and CERN scientists.
- WebMail Provider
- Freemium • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- iPad
- Tor
Cloud-storage service with end-to-end encryption, selective synchronization, and shared folders without ads. Works offline and supports 2FA.
- Cloud Storage Service
- Freemium • Proprietary
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Chrome OS
- Android Tablet
- Windows Phone
- iPad
- Google Chrome
- Mozilla Firefox
AlternativeTo is the ultimate hub for discovering new and exciting software, no matter what platform you're on! Whether you're looking for apps for Windows, Mac, Linux, online services or mobile devices, we've got you covered!
- App Discovery Service
- Free • Proprietary
- Online
NameChanger is designed for the sole purpose of renaming a list of files.
Add the files through the GUI or drag and drop files directly onto the App. These original filenames show up in the Original Filename column. Grayed out rows indicate files that you do not have permissio.
- File Renamer
- Free • Proprietary
- Mac
dupeGuru is a free and open source tool to find duplicate files on your computer. It can scan either filenames or contents. The filename scan features a fuzzy matching algorithm that can find duplicate filenames even when they are not exactly the same.
- Duplicate File Finder
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
Disk Inventory X is a disk usage utility for Mac OS X. It shows the sizes of files and folders in a special graphical way called "treemaps".
- Disk Usage Analyzer
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
WinDirStat is a disk usage statistics viewer and cleanup tool, inspired by KDirStat .
- Disk Usage Analyzer
- Free • Open Source
- Windows
File Converter is a very simple tool which allows you to convert and compress one or several file(s) using the context menu in Windows Explorer.
- Video Converter
- Free • Open Source
- Windows
- Windows Explorer
Sumatra PDF is a free PDF, eBook (ePub, Mobi), XPS, DjVu, CHM, Comic Book (CBZ and CBR) viewer for Windows.
- PDF Reader
- Free • Open Source
- Windows
nomacs is a free, open source image viewer, which supports multiple platforms. You can use it for viewing all common image formats including RAW and psd images.
- Image Viewer
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- FreeBSD
- Flathub
ExifTool is a platform-independent Perl library plus a command-line application for reading, writing and editing meta information in a wide variety of files.
- Metadata Editor
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
FrostWire is a free, open source P2P BitTorrent file sharing application & cloud file downloader in one. It's a fork of LimeWire .
- Torrent Client
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Android
- Android Tablet
- Kindle Fire
LibreOffice is a powerful office suite – its clean interface and feature-rich tools help you unleash your creativity and enhance your productivity.
- Office Suite
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Android
- BSD
- Flathub
- PortableApps.com
FreeFileSync is a folder comparison and synchronization software that creates and manages backup copies of all your important files.
- File Sync Tool
- Freemium • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Flathub
- PortableApps.com
- Chocolatey
Brackets is an open-source editor for web design and development built on top of web technologies such as HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
- Text Editor
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Electron / Atom Shell
WinSCP, a popular free SFTP and FTP client for Windows, copies files between a local and remote computer. It supports also FTPS, SCP and WebDAV. It offers easy to use GUI for all common file operations and a powerfull automation with .NET assembly.
- FTP Client
- Free • Open Source
- Windows
- PortableApps.com
- Wine
Brave Web Browser is a fast, free, secure web browser with a built-in ad blocker*, tracking and security protection, and optimized data and battery experience.
- Web Browser
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
- Snapcraft
- Flathub
- Homebrew
- Chocolatey
A free and open source web browser descended from the Mozilla Application Suite. Firefox is highly extensible, with thousands of third-party add-ons available.
- Web Browser
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Android
- iPhone
- BSD
- iPad
- AppImageHub
- Snapcraft
- Flathub
- PortableApps.com
- Haiku
- Flatpak
- Homebrew
- Chocolatey
- Gecko
Thunderbird is a free, open source, cross-platform e-mail, news and instant messaging client. The project strategy is modeled after Mozilla Firefox.
- Email Client
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
- AppImageHub
- Snapcraft
- Flathub
- PortableApps.com
- Haiku
- Homebrew
- Chocolatey
