Windows Apps

Windows 11 is a personal computer operating system released by Microsoft as part of the Windows NT family of operating systems.

Alternatives: Ubuntu

VeraCrypt is a free open source disk encryption software for Windows, macOS and Linux.

Alternatives: Windows BitLocker

Back up your files to another drive and restore them if the originals are lost, damaged, or deleted.

Windows Defender is built into Windows to help guard your PC against viruses, spyware, and other malicious software in real time. Windows Defender features Real-Time Protection, a monitoring system that recommends actions against malware when it's detected, minimizes interruptions, and helps you stay productive.

Alternatives: Sophos Home, ESET NOD32 Antivirus

VirusTotal is a free service that analyzes files and URLs for viruses, worms, trojans and other kinds of malicious content.

Alternatives: MetaDefender, Jotti, VirSCAN

Winja is a free application for Microsoft Windows that lets you find potential malware on your system. It uses the scanning engine of virtually all antivirus products in the market to give you a very precise idea of the risk posed by a particular file. To do this, Winja first uses the VirusTotal public API to submit the fingerprint of a file. If this fingerprint exists, Winja returns the existing analysis report. If not, Winja sends the unknown file to VirusTotal servers for scanning.

In Windows, you can use Windows Firewall to block or unblock certain applications, but it doesn’t offer an easy-to-use interface for its advanced features. Firewall App Blocker makes the process very easy! Simply drag and drop the application you wish to block into the FAB window, or browse the hard disk to find it. That’s it!

Alternatives: Comodo Free Firewall, BiniSoft Windows Firewall Control, simplewall, SpyShelter

Unchecky aims to keep potentially unwanted programs out of your computer. Unchecky automatically unchecks unrelated offers, both saving you mouse clicks and making it less likely to miss a checkbox of an unwanted offer.

SUMo (Software Update Monitor) keeps your PC up-to-date & safe by using the most recent version of your favorite software! Unlike built-in auto update features, SUMo tells you if updates are available before you need to use your software.

Alternatives: Ketarin, Windows Package Manager / WinGet

Cmder is a software package created out of pure frustration over the absence of nice console emulators on Windows. It is based on amazing software, and spiced up with the Monokai color scheme and a custom prompt layout, looking sexy from the start. Think about cmder more as a software package than a separate app. All the magic is happening through ConEmu. With enhancements from clink.

The Windows Terminal is a new, modern, fast, efficient, powerful, and productive terminal application for users of command-line tools and shells like Windows Command Prompt, PowerShell, and Windows Subsystem for Linux. Its main features include multiple tabs, Unicode and UTF-8 character support, a GPU accelerated text rendering engine, and custom themes, styles, and configurations.

Alternatives: Fluent Terminal

Windows Task Manager is a task manager application included with Microsoft Windows NT family of operating systems that provides detailed information about computer performance and running applications, processes and CPU usage, commit charge and memory information, network activity and statistics, logged-in users, and system services. The Task Manager can also be used to set process priorities, processor affinity, forcibly terminate processes, and shut down, restart, hibernate or log off from Windows.

A free, powerful, multi-purpose tool that helps you monitor system resources, debug software and detect malware.

Alternatives: Process Explorer

This utility, which has the most comprehensive knowledge of auto-starting locations of any startup monitor, shows you what programs are configured to run during system bootup or login, and when you start various built-in Windows applications like Internet Explorer, Explorer and media players.

AltDrag gives you the ability to move and resize windows in a new way. After starting AltDrag, you can simply hold down the Alt key and then click and drag any window.

Alternatives: Taekwindow, AlwaysMouseWheel, MoveInactiveWin

File Explorer, previously known as Windows Explorer, is a file manager application that is included with releases of the Microsoft Windows operating system from Windows 95 onwards. It provides a graphical user interface for accessing the file systems. It is also the component of the operating system that presents many user interface items on the screen such as the taskbar and desktop.

7-Zip is a file archiver with a high compression ratio.

Alternatives: PeaZip, Bandizip, WinRAR

Universal Extractor 2 is a tool designed to extract files from any type of extractable file. Unlike most archiving programs, UniExtract is not limited to standard archives such as .zip and .rar. It can also deal with application installers, disk images and even game archives and other multimedia files.

Listary is a search utility for Windows that makes finding your files and launching applications blazing fast, for casual and power users alike!

Alternatives: Launchy, Wox, Keypirinha

KeePassXC can store your passwords safely and auto-type them into your everyday websites and applications. KeePassXC is a community fork of KeePassX, the cross-platform port of KeePass for Windows. Every feature works cross-platform and was thoroughly tested on multiple systems to provide users with the same look and feel on every supported operating system. This includes the beloved Auto-Type feature.

Alternatives: KeePass, Bitwarden, 1Password

PWGen is a professional password generator capable of generating large amounts of cryptographically-secure passwords—“classical” passwords, pronounceable passwords, pattern-based passwords, and passphrases consisting of words from word lists. PWGen for Windows: https://pwgen-win.sourceforge.io/

Seriously private browsing. Firefox shows you how many data-collecting trackers are blocked with Enhanced Tracking Protection. Firefox Lockwise makes the passwords you save in Firefox secure and available on all your devices. Mozilla Monitor alerts you if we know your information is a part of another company’s data breach. Add-ons: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/

Alternatives: Vivaldi, Brave

An efficient blocker add-on for various browsers. Fast, potent, and lean.

Alternatives: Adblock Plus, AdGuard

The Tor software protects you by bouncing your communications around a distributed network of relays run by volunteers all around the world: it prevents somebody watching your Internet connection from learning what sites you visit, it prevents the sites you visit from learning your physical location, and it lets you access sites which are blocked. The Tor Browser lets you use Tor on Windows, macOS, or Linux. It can run off a USB flash drive, comes with a pre-configured web browser to protect your anonymity, and is self-contained.

Tor Expert Bundle: https://www.torproject.org/download/tor/ ProxAllium: https://github.com/DcodingTheWeb/ProxAllium

Thunderbird is a free email application that’s easy to set up and customize - and it’s loaded with great features! Add-ons: https://addons.thunderbird.net/thunderbird/ WarnAttachment: https://addons.thunderbird.net/thunderbird/addon/warnattachment/ Minimize on Close: https://addons.thunderbird.net/thunderbird/addon/minimize-on-close/ TBTray: https://github.com/sagamusix/TBTray ThunderbirdTray: https://github.com/TheGuardianWolf/ThunderbirdTray

Alternatives: eM Client, Microsoft Mail and Calendar, Postbox, Microsoft Outlook, PopMan

Organize your schedule and life’s important events in a calendar that’s fully integrated with your Thunderbird or SeaMonkey email client. Manage multiple calendars, create your daily to do list, invite friends to events, and subscribe to public calendars. From Thunderbird 74 onwards Lightning does not exist as a separate add-on but is integrated into Thunderbird. CardBook: https://addons.thunderbird.net/thunderbird/addon/cardbook/

Alternatives: eM Client, Microsoft Mail and Calendar, Microsoft Outlook + Outlook CalDav Synchronizer

Microsoft To Do makes it easy to plan your day and manage your life.

Alternatives: Lightning Calendar, eM Client, Microsoft Outlook + Outlook CalDav Synchronizer, GeeTeeDee

Date Reminder reminds you of recurring or nonrecurring events, like birthdays, bills to pay, appointments etc...

A combination of alarm clock, world clock, timer, and stopwatch. Set alarms and reminders, check times around the world, and time your activities, including laps and splits.

Alternatives: TTclock

A simple yet powerful calculator that includes standard, scientific, and programmer modes, as well as a unit converter. It's the perfect tool to add up a bill, convert measurements in a recipe or other project, or complete complex math, algebra, or geometry problems. Calculator history makes it easy to confirm if you've entered numbers correctly.

Alternatives: SpeedCrunch, Qalculate!

Skype makes it easy to stay in touch. Talk. Chat. Collaborate.

Alternatives: Zoom, Whereby, Jitsi Meet

A sophisticated text editor for code, markup and prose. ST package manager: https://packagecontrol.io/

Alternatives: Notepad++, Notepad3

WinMerge is an Open Source differencing and merging tool for Windows. WinMerge can compare both folders and files, presenting differences in a visual text format that is easy to understand and handle.

Alternatives: Diffinity, Beyond Compare

grepWin is a simple search and replace tool which can use regular expressions to do its job. This allows to do much more powerful searches and replaces.

Alternatives: dnGREP, AstroGrep

Sumatra PDF is a free PDF, eBook (ePub, Mobi), XPS, DjVu, CHM, Comic Book (CBZ and CBR) reader for Windows. Sumatra PDF is powerful, small, portable and starts up very fast.

Alternatives: Xpdf, Foxit PDF Reader, Adobe Acrobat Reader

WinDjView is a fast, compact and powerful DjVu viewer for Windows with tabbed interface, continuous scrolling and advanced printing options, based on free DjVuLibre library.

Alternatives: DjVuLibre

LibreOffice is a free and powerful office suite, and a successor to Apache OpenOffice.

Alternatives: Microsoft 365 Copilot, ONLYOFFICE, WPS Office

LanguageTool offers spell and grammar checking.

Windows Search, formerly known as Windows Desktop Search (WDS) on Windows XP and Windows Server 2003, is an indexed desktop search platform created by Microsoft for Microsoft Windows. Windows Search builds a full-text index of files on a computer. The time required for the initial creation of this index depends on the amount and type of data to be indexed, and can take up to several hours, but this is a one-time event. Searches are performed not only on file names, but also on the contents of the file (provided a proper handler for the file type is installed) as well as the keywords, comments and all other forms of metadata that Windows Search recognizes.

Alternatives: Agent Ransack, FileSeek, DocFetcher

Locate files and folders by name instantly.

FreeFileSync is a folder comparison and synchronization software that creates and manages backup copies of all your important files. Instead of copying every file every time, FreeFileSync determines the differences between a source and a target folder and transfers only the minimum amount of data needed. FreeFileSync is Open Source software, available for Windows, macOS, and Linux.

Alternatives: Toucan, DirSync Pro

QTranslate is a free translator for Windows. With this small utility, you simply select the text you want to translate and then press the hot key to show translation in the popup window. QTranslate also has the ability to speak text and perform a dictionary search. QTranslate translates text by using online translation services, so you need an Internet connection.

Alternatives: Crow Translate, EveryLang

GoldenDict is a feature-rich dictionary lookup program. Lingvo dictionaries decompiler: https://github.com/nongeneric/lsd2dsl

Alternatives: ABBYY Lingvo Dictionaries

Klavaro is a simple tutor to teach correct typing, almost independently of language and very flexible regarding to new or unknown keyboard layouts.

Alternatives: TIPP10, Rapid Typing Tutor

XnView MP is a versatile and powerful photo viewer, image management, image resizer. All common picture and graphics formats are supported (JPEG, TIFF, PNG, GIF, WEBP, PSD, JPEG2000, OpenEXR, camera RAW, HEIC, PDF, DNG, CR2).

Alternatives: FastStone Image Viewer, ImageGlass

XnConvert is a fast, powerful and free cross-platform batch image converter, It allows to automate editing for your massive photo collections, you can rotate, convert and compress your different images, photos and pictures easily, and apply over 80 actions (like resize, crop, color adjustements, filter, ...). All common picture and graphics formats are supported. You can save and re-use your presets for another batch image convert.

Paint.NET is image and photo editing software for PCs that run Windows. It features an intuitive and innovative user interface with support for layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools.

Alternatives: Pinta

Screen capture, file sharing and productivity tool.

Alternatives: PicPick, Greenshot

Free and full-featured audio player with seamless, high-quality playback and comprehensive format support.

Alternatives: foobar2000, Audacious

RadioSure is the best Internet radio player.

Alternatives: TapinRadio, Screamer Radio, odio