PortableApps.com
PortableApps.com is a website offering many free, commonly used Windows applications that have been specially packaged for portability. These portable applications can be used from removable media such as USB flash drives.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- Windows
- Linux
- Online
- BSD
- PlayOnLinux (PlayOnMac)
- Wine
Features
Properties
- Lightweight
Features
- Portable
- App Discovery
- Ad-free
- Application Launchers
- Auto Update
- Software Management
- No registration required
- Auto-installer
- Launcher
- Update Notifier
Tags
- portable-software-repository
- flash-drive
- USB Launcher
- cloud-drive
- portable-launcher
- removable-media
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What is PortableApps.com?
PortableApps.com is a website offering many free, commonly used Windows applications that have been specially packaged for portability. These portable applications can be used from removable media such as USB flash drives. User data is stored in a subfolder, allowing the user to upgrade or move the software without affecting the data. To remove the software, a user can simply delete the main folder.
The PortableApps.com Launcher (also known as PAL) is used to make applications portable by handling path redirection, environment variable changes, file and directory movement, configuration file path updates and similar changes, as configured. The PortableApps.com Launcher allows software to be made portable without the need to write custom code or make changes to the base application. While some of the software packages released on PortableApps.com currently still contain their own custom launchers, the PortableApps.com Launcher is used in all new apps released.
PortableApps.com information
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Comments and Reviews
Dirty Portables make changes on the host and then attempt to remove/mitigate changes
Clean Portables make ZERO changes on the host.
I've been using it for over a decade. My life would not be the same without this tool and the recommendations for portable programs that I got from its official site.
convenient and simple
I'm often hesitant to download portable apps from portableapps.com because they're so bloated with stuff from portableapps.com. Is there a way to download clean portables from portableapps.com?
It has all the necessary apps and updated regularly !
portableapps.com is listed with the Linux tag. This should be removed. The site states that Wine is required to run their collection under Linux. They also suggest Wine and other emulated solutions to get these native Windows apps to run under macOS. You might as well boot into Windows on a Virtual Machine and run these apps or remove Linux entirely and replace with Windows.
I was a big fan of this site and especially portablefreeware.com (which I miss dearly) when I was a Windows user but these are not native Linux apps. On a positive note, Linux should soon see real (native), stable, portable solutions becoming more mainstream in the form of Ubuntu Snap Packages, Flatpak and others.