Example of a 4GBUSB flash drive
Portable Gimp.app is the Gimp.app self-contained application bundle of the GNU Image Manipulation Program for OS X by Aaron Voisine packaged as portable application so you can carry around with you on any portable device, USB thumb drive, iPod, portable hard drive, memory card, or other portable device (also on your internal hard disk) as long as it has 190 MB of free space and use on any Mac OS X. Step 1 – GIMP Portable can either be downloaded as part of the large PortableApps suite, or individually. To keep things simple, I’m going to explain just the GIMP portion. The download files can be found on PortableApps.com’s website here. Save the file to a recognizable location on. GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. XGimp is an adaptation for iPhone and iPad of the app GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation), which is a freely distributed program for tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. As a result of that, the app XGimp provides many capabilities. It can be used as a simple paint program, im.
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.
Bundles[edit]
Launchers[edit]
- Appetizer (Dock application)
Development[edit]
Scripting languages[edit]
- Portable Python
- Portable NSIS Version
- Portable AutoIt
- Portable AutoHotkey (zip file)
- Portable Perl (Strawberry Perl Portable Version)
Compilers[edit]
IDEs[edit]
- Portable Eclipse
- Portable Code::Blocks (needs MinGW installed, which is portable too)
- Portable Dev-C++
- Hackety Hack, which is an educational version of Ruby
- SharpDevelop Portable
Setup creators[edit]
- Nullsoft Scriptable Install System Portable (PortableApps.com format)
Visual mapping/productivity tools[edit]
Graphics[edit]
3D modeling and rendering[edit]
- Anim8or – Free 3D modeling and animating software.
- Blender:
- BlenderPortable
- Blender Pocket
- XBlender[2]
Animation[edit]
Graphic editors[edit]
![Portable Portable](/uploads/1/3/4/2/134261953/643051503.png)
- GIMP:
- GIMP Portable VS 2008 is the Gimp portable version of Gimp on Windows platforms (Windows XP, Vista, NT Server 2003, NT Server 2008)
- Portable Gimp – for Mac OS X
- X-Gimp
- X-GimpShop
- Inkscape:
- X-Inkscape
- Portable Inkscape – for Mac OS X
![Portable Portable](/uploads/1/3/4/2/134261953/935441503.jpg)
Icon editors[edit]
- GIMP – Supports reading and writing Windows ICO files.
- IrfanView – Supports converting graphic file formats into Windows ICO files.
Viewers[edit]
- FastStone Image Viewer: supports screen capture, multiple pix into a single PDF
Document-based[edit]
Office and publishing[edit]
Editors[edit]
Personal notes[edit]
Educational[edit]
Games[edit]
- Doom I / II
Emulators[edit]
- DOSBox – MS-DOS emulator
- FCE Ultra – Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) emulator
- MAME – Multiple Arcade Machine emulator:
- MAMEUI32
- VisualBoyAdvance – Game Boy, Game Boy Color, and Game Boy Advance emulator
- ZSNES – Super NES emulator
Plug-in emulators[edit]
- JoyToKey – Gamepad emulator
Internet[edit]
Web browsers[edit]
- Google Chrome Portable
- SRWare Iron Portable
Email clients[edit]
- Mail – for Mac OS X
- Opera (has integrated Email client)
- sylpheed (zip version)
Instant messaging[edit]
- Adium – for Mac OS X
- Portable iChat – for Mac OS X
- Pidgin Portable (formerly Gaim Portable)
FTP clients[edit]
- Portable Cyberduck
Download managers[edit]
- Free Download Manager (installation required to create portable version)
- Opera (Integrated Download Manager)
[edit]
- BitComet (needs msxml)
- Opera (integrated torrent client)
- μTorrent (latest version)
- Limewire Portable
- qBittorrent Portable
- Vuze Portable
IRC[edit]
- ChatZillaNote: Requires a Mozilla based browser, e.g. SeaMonkey, or Firefox.
- mIRCNote: 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.
- Pidgin (formerly Gaim)
- Opera (Integrated Irc client)
- Portable X-Chat Aqua – for Mac OS X
RSS, Atom readers[edit]
- RSSOwl (needs Java runtime environment)
- Opera (Integrated RSS/Atom client)
Telnet, SSH clients[edit]
- WinSCP Portable Edition – SFTP/SCP/FTP client, remote file manager, GUI
Podcast managers[edit]
Anonymity/Anti-censorship[edit]
Local wikis[edit]
Miscellaneous[edit]
- 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.
Gimp Portable Install
Multimedia[edit]
File converters[edit]
CD/DVD burning[edit]
- Portable ImgBurn
Editors[edit]
- Portable Audacity – for Windows and Mac OS X
Audio/MIDI sequencer[edit]
- Reaper has a .bat file for a USB stick installation
Players[edit]
- foobar2000 – only supports xp and forward
- SMPlayer (7zip version)
- K-Multimedia Player (zip version)
Recorders[edit]
Video capture[edit]
Video repair[edit]
Networking[edit]
HTTP servers[edit]
Miscellaneous[edit]
- Proxomitron – Filtering Web Proxy
Remote desktop[edit]
Other tools[edit]
Web editors[edit]
- Portable Nvu and KompoZer – for Mac OS X and Windows.
- OpenOffice.org Portable – Complete office suite, which includes HTML editor.
Calendar management[edit]
- Portable Sunbird – for Mac OS X, and Windows
- Portable iCal – for Mac OS X
File management[edit]
- Directory Opus by selecting the USB/U3 export option
- Servant Salamander 1.52
- X-file X-file for Windows 98SE/2K or later
File archivers/extractors[edit]
- 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[edit]
Readers[edit]
Writers[edit]
- Portable OpenOffice.org – for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X
Security and encryption[edit]
Password management[edit]
Gimp Portableapps
- KeePass Portable
Anti-spyware/malware[edit]
Antivirus[edit]
Steganography[edit]
Real-time disk/volume Encryption[edit]
- FreeOTFE / FreeOTFE Explorer
System maintenance[edit]
Optimization and cleaning[edit]
Storage management[edit]
Visual maps of free space and biggest files and folders on hard drive.
System information[edit]
- 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[edit]
- Recuva – has U3 variant.
See also[edit]
- VMware ThinApp, a virtualization suite (with the ability to make portable programs)
References[edit]
- ^makeuseof.com. '100 Portable Apps for your USB Stick'. Retrieved 2008-01-24.
- ^Older Version of BLender
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- Optimization
- Players
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- Miscellaneous
- Android
- Device Drivers
- RogueKiller is an antimalware software using a very effective detection method based on a list of signatures but also on heuristic analysis.
- October 22, 2020
- Freeware
- Windows
- Waterfox is a high performance browser based on the Mozilla Firefox source code. Waterfox is specifically for 64-bit systems, with one thing in mind: speed.
- October 22, 2020
- Freeware
- Windows/macOS
- IrfanView is a fast and simple image viewer and editor that supports all major graphics formats. Edit and convert graphics files with this top-notch image viewer.
- October 21, 2020
- Freeware
- Windows
- WinScan2PDF is a very small and portable program that allows you to scan documents and save them on your computer as a PDF by using any installed scanner.
- October 21, 2020
- Freeware
- Windows
- NxFilter is a freeware web-filter designed for enterprise environment. It started as a dns-filter. Now it provides web-proxy based filtering as well. NxFilter can do everything you can expect from a dns-filter or a web-filter.
- October 21, 2020
- Freeware
- Windows
- FileZilla is a fast FTP and SFTP client for Windows with a lot of features.
- October 20, 2020
- Freeware
- Windows/macOS/Linux
- ocenaudio is a cross-platform, easy to use, fast and functional audio editor. It is the ideal software for people who need to edit and analyze audio files without complications.
- October 20, 2020
- Freeware
- Windows
- Bandizip is 100% free Archiver for home and office.
- October 16, 2020
- Freeware
- Windows
- The complete care package for your computer! This program will clean, speed up, maintain, secure, and repair your system to make your computer run like brand new.
- October 16, 2020
- Freeware
- Windows
- Multi-tabbed dual pane file manager for Windows, featuring a powerful file search, a versatile preview, and a highly customizable interface.
- October 15, 2020
- Freeware
- Windows
- WinSCP is an open source free SFTP client and FTP client for Windows.
- October 15, 2020
- Freeware
- Windows
- Foxit Reader is a free reader for PDF documents. You can view and print PDF documents with it.
- October 15, 2020
- Freeware
- Windows
- Shows the size of each folder on your disk, including its subfolders
- October 14, 2020
- Freeware
- Windows
- One of the best tools to create bootable USB drives, the easy way. Works for Windows, Linux, DOS, UEFI and ARM.
- October 14, 2020
- Freeware
- Windows
- Eraser is an advanced security tool (for Windows), which allows you to completely remove sensitive data.
- October 12, 2020
- Freeware
- Windows
- Free and open source software for video recording and live streaming. Download and start streaming quickly and easily on Windows, Mac or Linux.
- October 7, 2020
- Freeware
- Windows/macOS/Linux
- Image editor, like PaintBrush or Paint.Net, written in Lazarus (Free Pascal). Includes BGRABitmap, a set of drawing routines.
- October 7, 2020
- Freeware
- Windows/macOS
- MKVToolNix is a set of tools to create, alter and inspect Matroska files under Linux, Mac, other Unices and Windows.
- October 5, 2020
- Freeware
- Windows/macOS/Linux
- Free, open source archiver featuring volume spanning, authenticated encryption and compression in several formats. Supports 7Z, 7-Zip, ACE, ARJ, BZ2, CAB, CHM, CPIO, DEB, GZ, ISO, JAR, LHA/LZH, NSIS, OOo, PAQ/LPAQ, PEA, QUAD, RAR, RPM, split, TAR, Z, ZIP.
- October 5, 2020
- Freeware
- Windows
- Iron is designed to be an alternative to Chrome and other Chromium based browsers with emphasis on privacy and security.
- October 2, 2020
- Freeware
- Windows/macOS/Linux
- Tixati is a peer-to-peer file sharing program that uses the popular BitTorrent protocol.
- October 1, 2020
- Freeware
- Multiple OS
- TagScanner is a multifunction program for organizing and managing your music collection.
- October 1, 2020
- Freeware
- Windows
- Privacy Eraser is an all-in-one privacy suite that protects your privacy by cleaning up all your Internet history tracks and past computer activities.
- October 1, 2020
- Freeware
- Windows
- Professional hardware information and diagnostic tools supporting latest components, industry technologies and standards.
- September 30, 2020
- Freeware
- Windows
- BabelPad is a free Unicode text editor for Windows that supports the proper rendering of most complex scripts, and allows you to assign different fonts to different scripts in order to facilitate multi-script text editing.
- September 29, 2020
- Freeware
- Windows
- Everything search engine. Locate files and folders by name instantly.
- September 29, 2020
- Freeware
- Windows
- Dopamine is an audio player which tries to make organizing and listening to music as simple and pretty as possible. It can play wav, mp3, ogg vorbis, flac, wma and m4a/aac.
- September 29, 2020
- Freeware
- Windows
- Xrecode II is converter and audio-grabber which allows you to convert from a long list of formats.
- September 23, 2020
- Free to Try
- Windows
- MicroSIP - open source portable SIP softphone based on PJSIP stack for Windows OS - allows you to make VoIP calls for free.
- September 21, 2020
- Freeware
- Windows
- BleachBit quickly frees disk space and tirelessly guards your privacy.
- September 15, 2020
- Freeware
- Windows/Linux
- KeePass Password Safe is a light-weight and easy-to-use password manager.
- September 11, 2020
- Freeware
- Windows
- WebBrowserPassView is a password recovery tool that reveals the passwords stored by the following Web browsers: Internet Explorer (Version 4.0 - 9.0), Mozilla Firefox (All Versions), Google Chrome, Safari, and Opera.
- September 10, 2020
- Freeware
- Windows
- Tabbed multiple-site browser with built-in popup killer, skinned window frame, form filler, etc.
- September 9, 2020
- Freeware
- Windows
- Sleipnir bridges the gap between your desktop and your smartphone.
- September 7, 2020
- Freeware
- Windows/macOS
- HWMonitor is a hardware monitoring program that reads PC systems main health sensors: voltages, temperatures, fans speed.
- September 7, 2020
- Freeware
- Windows
- Free Download Manager is a full-featured download accelerator and manager released under the GNU General Public License.
- September 4, 2020
- Freeware
- Windows
- PicoTorrent is designed to be a friendly BitTorrent client for Windows with high performance and low memory usage.
- September 3, 2020
- Freeware
- Windows
- File manager, archiver, viewer, FTP-client for Windows desktop.
- September 2, 2020
- Free to Try
- Windows
- One of the biggest “improvements” that Mozilla claims is the Firefox memory usage, in particular, the vanquishing of memory leaks. Although Firefox memory usage improved a little over the last few years, it still
- September 1, 2020
- Freeware
- Windows
- A powerful system information tool for Windows.
- August 27, 2020
- Freeware
- Windows
- Complete Internet Repair could help if you are experiencing problems with your internet and/or network connection.
- August 27, 2020
- Freeware
- Windows
- This is Windows 95, running in an Electron app. Yes, it's the full thing.
- August 25, 2020
- Freeware
- Windows
- VNC is remote access and control software for an unrivalled mix of Windows, Mac, UNIX and Linux computers. With a simple peer-to-peer architecture, no agents or centralized servers are required.
- August 19, 2020
- Freeware
- Windows
- GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. A freely distributed photo retouching, image composition and image authoring program.How to unlock app mac mini. From a security standpoint, if you wanted this to remain completely incognito, you might opt to disable showing the taps so that no one around you will have any idea what you were just doing.You can view only files that will be modified, which is incredibly useful if you're renaming only a handful out of hundreds of files in a folder. Drag and drop your files to the droplet, and you're done. https://oqsoclv.weebly.com/blog/macs-search-app-is-named. Interim results show you your filenames at each step of a multi-step renaming action, making it easy to check your action before running it. Create Droplets, which are standalone 'apps' that run a pre-configured renaming action. Tooltips show full filenames for ultra-long filenames that don't otherwise fit in the display.
- August 18, 2020
- Freeware
- Windows
- VeraCrypt is a free disk encryption software based on TrueCrypt. It adds enhanced security to the algorithms used for system and partitions encryption making it immune to new developments in brute-force attacks.
- August 10, 2020
- Freeware
- Windows/macOS
- streamWriter is a free application for windows that records music broadcasted by internet-radiostations.
- August 10, 2020
- Freeware
- Windows
- Core Temp is a compact, no fuss, small footprint, yet powerful program to monitor processor temperature and other vital information.
- August 9, 2020
- Freeware
- Windows
- RJ TextEd - A Unicode source and text editor.
- August 9, 2020
- Freeware
- Windows
- Put.io mac app. Directory Monitor can be used for the surveillance of certain directories and/or network shares and will notify you of file changes/access, deletions, modifications, and new files in real-time.
- August 7, 2020
- Freeware
- Windows
- Open source file encryption software for Windows.
- July 29, 2020
- Free to Try
- Windows