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Awesome-WindowsApps

:computer: 🎉 An awesome & curated list of best applications and tools for Windows.
https://github.com/blkdevcon/Awesome-WindowsApps

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  • Applications

    • Games

      • LuaStudio - Free game development tool/engine. Create games and other graphic focused apps on Windows using Lua/LuaJIT programming language. Export them to many platforms including iOS, Android and Mac.
      • LuaStudio - Free game development tool/engine. Create games and other graphic focused apps on Windows using Lua/LuaJIT programming language. Export them to many platforms including iOS, Android and Mac.
      • LuaStudio - Free game development tool/engine. Create games and other graphic focused apps on Windows using Lua/LuaJIT programming language. Export them to many platforms including iOS, Android and Mac.
      • LuaStudio - Free game development tool/engine. Create games and other graphic focused apps on Windows using Lua/LuaJIT programming language. Export them to many platforms including iOS, Android and Mac.
      • LuaStudio - Free game development tool/engine. Create games and other graphic focused apps on Windows using Lua/LuaJIT programming language. Export them to many platforms including iOS, Android and Mac.
      • LuaStudio - Free game development tool/engine. Create games and other graphic focused apps on Windows using Lua/LuaJIT programming language. Export them to many platforms including iOS, Android and Mac.
      • Unity - Free game engine. Easy to pick up and use with a number of tutorials.
      • Warsow - Free & fast-paced FPS game for Windows. ![Freeware][freeware icon]
      • 0 A.D. - A free, open-source real-time strategy game of ancient warfare. [![Open-Source Software][oss icon]](https://github.com/0ad/0ad) ![Freeware][freeware icon]
      • Freeciv - A Free and Open Source empire-building strategy game inspired by the history of human civilization. [![Open-Source Software][oss icon]](https://github.com/freeciv/) ![Freeware][freeware icon]
      • Godot Engine - Free and open source game engine. Easy to get started and flexible for intermediate users. [![Open-Source Software][oss icon]](https://github.com/godotengine/godot) ![Freeware][freeware icon]
      • GOG - DRM-free game store with a lot of old games but also has a rich collection of new games.
      • LuaStudio - Free game development tool/engine. Create games and other graphic focused apps on Windows using Lua/LuaJIT programming language. Export them to many platforms including iOS, Android and Mac.
      • LuaStudio - Free game development tool/engine. Create games and other graphic focused apps on Windows using Lua/LuaJIT programming language. Export them to many platforms including iOS, Android and Mac.
      • LuaStudio - Free game development tool/engine. Create games and other graphic focused apps on Windows using Lua/LuaJIT programming language. Export them to many platforms including iOS, Android and Mac.
      • LuaStudio - Free game development tool/engine. Create games and other graphic focused apps on Windows using Lua/LuaJIT programming language. Export them to many platforms including iOS, Android and Mac.
      • LuaStudio - Free game development tool/engine. Create games and other graphic focused apps on Windows using Lua/LuaJIT programming language. Export them to many platforms including iOS, Android and Mac.
      • LuaStudio - Free game development tool/engine. Create games and other graphic focused apps on Windows using Lua/LuaJIT programming language. Export them to many platforms including iOS, Android and Mac.
      • LuaStudio - Free game development tool/engine. Create games and other graphic focused apps on Windows using Lua/LuaJIT programming language. Export them to many platforms including iOS, Android and Mac.
      • LuaStudio - Free game development tool/engine. Create games and other graphic focused apps on Windows using Lua/LuaJIT programming language. Export them to many platforms including iOS, Android and Mac.
      • LuaStudio - Free game development tool/engine. Create games and other graphic focused apps on Windows using Lua/LuaJIT programming language. Export them to many platforms including iOS, Android and Mac.
      • LuaStudio - Free game development tool/engine. Create games and other graphic focused apps on Windows using Lua/LuaJIT programming language. Export them to many platforms including iOS, Android and Mac.
      • Unreal Engine - Another free game engine. Lots of documentation and easier to pick up, but you pay 5% royalties to Unreal when you make money from UE-based games.
      • LuaStudio - Free game development tool/engine. Create games and other graphic focused apps on Windows using Lua/LuaJIT programming language. Export them to many platforms including iOS, Android and Mac.
      • LuaStudio - Free game development tool/engine. Create games and other graphic focused apps on Windows using Lua/LuaJIT programming language. Export them to many platforms including iOS, Android and Mac.
      • LuaStudio - Free game development tool/engine. Create games and other graphic focused apps on Windows using Lua/LuaJIT programming language. Export them to many platforms including iOS, Android and Mac.
      • LuaStudio - Free game development tool/engine. Create games and other graphic focused apps on Windows using Lua/LuaJIT programming language. Export them to many platforms including iOS, Android and Mac.
      • LuaStudio - Free game development tool/engine. Create games and other graphic focused apps on Windows using Lua/LuaJIT programming language. Export them to many platforms including iOS, Android and Mac.
      • LuaStudio - Free game development tool/engine. Create games and other graphic focused apps on Windows using Lua/LuaJIT programming language. Export them to many platforms including iOS, Android and Mac.
      • LuaStudio - Free game development tool/engine. Create games and other graphic focused apps on Windows using Lua/LuaJIT programming language. Export them to many platforms including iOS, Android and Mac.
      • LuaStudio - Free game development tool/engine. Create games and other graphic focused apps on Windows using Lua/LuaJIT programming language. Export them to many platforms including iOS, Android and Mac.
      • LuaStudio - Free game development tool/engine. Create games and other graphic focused apps on Windows using Lua/LuaJIT programming language. Export them to many platforms including iOS, Android and Mac.

    • Graphics

      • Inkscape - Inkscape is a professional vector graphics editor for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. [![Open-Source Software][oss icon]](https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape) ![Freeware][freeware icon]
      • Blender - Fully-featured extensible cross-platform 3D content suite. [![Open-Source Software][oss icon]](https://developer.blender.org/) ![Freeware][freeware icon]
      • MapTiler - MapTiler generates zoomable raster maps from images in user-defined coordinate system. ![Freeware][freeware icon]
      • Krita - Krita is a professional FREE and open source painting program. [![Open-Source Software][oss icon]](https://krita.org/en/download/krita-desktop/) ![Freeware][freeware icon]

    • Productivity

      • AutoHotkey - The ultimate automation scripting language for Windows. [![Open-Source Software][oss icon]](https://autohotkey.com/) ![Freeware][freeware icon]
      • Chocolatey - A package manager for Windows.
      • Easy Window Switcher - Switch between application instances, fast.
      • Executor.dk - A free multi purpose customizable and light-weight launcher. ![Freeware][freeware icon]
      • File Juggler - Organize files automatically. Monitor folders and execute actions like rename, delete, unzip and more. Finds dates in PDFs and much more.
      • Launchy - The Open Source Keystroke Launcher. [![Open-Source Software][oss icon]](https://github.com/OpenNingia/Launchy) ![Freeware][freeware icon]
      • MultiCommander - File Manager for Professionals. ![Freeware][freeware icon]
      • Ninite - The easiest, fastest way to update or install software. ![Freeware][freeware icon]
      • Total Commander - The best file manager for Windows.
      • Wox - An effective launcher for windows. [![Open-Source Software][oss icon]](https://github.com/Wox-launcher/Wox/) ![Freeware][freeware icon]
      • Simplenote - Simple cross-platform note taking app with cloud-based syncing. ![Freeware][freeware icon]

    • Audio

      • AIMP - 32 bit audio processing and multi-format playback. ![Freeware][freeware icon]
      • CDex - CD Ripper (French site, English program). ![Freeware][freeware icon]
      • Kodi - Free and Open Source home theatre software. [![Open-Source Software][oss icon]](https://github.com/xbmc) ![Freeware][freeware icon]
      • MusicBrainz Picard - Picard is a cross-platform music tagger that looks up and rewrite metadata tags. [![Open-Source Software][oss icon]](https://github.com/metabrainz/picard) ![Freeware][freeware icon]
      • Resonic - Fast and free audio player.
      • Winamp - Music player capable of playing MP3s, MP2s, WAVs, VOCs and MIDI files. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
      • Dopamine - An audio player which tries to make organizing and listening to music as simple and pretty as possible. ![Freeware][freeware icon]

    • Chat Clients

      • Caprine - An elegant Facebook Messenger desktop app. [![Open-Source Software][oss icon]](https://github.com/sindresorhus/caprine) ![Freeware][freeware icon]
      • Hexchat - IRC client based on XChat [![Open-Source Software][oss icon]](https://hexchat.github.io/) ![Freeware][freeware icon]
      • Franz - A messaging app for WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Slack, Telegram and many many more. [![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://github.com/meetfranz/franz) ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
      • Telegram - A messaging app with a focus on speed and security, it’s super fast, simple and free. [![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://telegram.org/apps) ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]

    • Compression

      • Bandizip - A lightweight, fast and free All-In-One Zip Archiver. ![Freeware][freeware icon]
      • PeaZip - Archiver and file compressor. Extract 7Z CAB ISO RAR TAR ZIP archive files. [![Open-Source Software][oss icon]](https://osdn.net/projects/peazip/) ![Freeware][freeware icon]
      • Riot - Compress images either by file size or by many other image attributes. ![Freeware][freeware icon]

    • Customization

      • Clover - Add multi-tab functionality to Windows Explorer. ![Freeware][freeware icon]
      • QTTabBar - Extends Explorer by tabs and extra folder views. ![Freeware][freeware icon]
      • Rainmeter - Rainmeter allows you to display customizable skins on your desktop, from hardware usage meters to fully functional audio visualizers. [![Open-Source Software][oss icon]](https://github.com/rainmeter/rainmeter) ![Freeware][freeware icon]
      • ZBar - If you use multiple monitors, it lets you display a separate taskbar on each monitor.

    • Data Recovery

      • Data Rescue - Comprehensive and professional Hard drive recovery software that can recover your photos, videos, documents.
      • Ontrach EasyRecovery - Has filtering tools to help sort the large amount of data the software can recover.

    • Developer Tools

      • Cacher - Cloud-based, team-enabled code snippet manager with Gist sync, VSCode/Atom/Sublime packages and full-featured web client.
      • ExtendsClass - Online tools for developers (REST/SOAP clients, SQLite browser, Regex tester, XPath tester) ![Freeware][freeware icon]
      • FileZilla - FTP, FTPS and SFTP client. [![Open-Source Software][oss icon]](https://download.filezilla-project.org/client/) ![Freeware][freeware icon]
      • Fork - A fast & friendly Git client for Windows (and Mac). ![Freeware][freeware icon]
      • Git Extensions - A powerful and easy to use UI for Git. [![Open-Source Software][oss icon]](https://github.com/gitextensions/gitextensions) ![Freeware][freeware icon]
      • GitHub Desktop - GitHub Desktop is an open source Electron-based GitHub app. [![Open-Source Software][oss icon]](https://github.com/desktop/desktop) ![Freeware][freeware icon]
      • GitKraken - A beautiful, cross-platform Git client. ![Freeware][freeware icon]
      • Meld - A visual diff and merge tool. [![Open-Source Software][oss icon]](https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/meld/) ![Freeware][freeware icon]
      • Open Server - Portable server platform and software environment (like MAMP, XAMPP, WAMP and very user friendly). ![Freeware][freeware icon]
      • Pixie - A simple color picker for developers.
      • pngquant - Apply lossy compression on PNG files with or wi
      • Wireshark - A network protocol analyzer. [![Open-Source Software][oss icon]](https://www.wireshark.org/docs/wsdg_html_chunked/ChIntroDevelopment.html) ![Freeware][freeware icon]
      • Xampp - Apache driven web development environment. ![Freeware][freeware icon]
      • Xftp 5 - Flexible and lightweight SFTP/FTP client. ![Freeware][freeware icon]
      • Robo 3T - A lightweight GUI for MongoDB enthusiasts.
      • SourceTree - A free Git & Mercurial client.
      • TortoiseGit - Git client with full shell integration. [![Open-Source Software][oss icon]](https://github.com/tortoisegit/tortoisegit/) ![Freeware][freeware icon]
      • Tower - Tower - the most powerful Git client for Mac and Windows.
      • Vagrant - A tool for building and managing virtual machines. [![Open-Source Software][oss icon]](https://github.com/mitchellh/vagrant)

    • Documents

      • LibreOffice - Open source office suite. [![Open-Source Software][oss icon]](https://www.libreoffice.org/about-us/source-code/) ![Freeware][freeware icon]
      • NitroPDF - The best PDF Reader you'll ever get.
      • OnlyOffice - The most complete and feature-rich office and productivity suite. ![Freeware][freeware icon]
      • OpenOffice - Software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more. [![Open-Source Software][oss icon]](http://openoffice.apache.org/source.html) ![Freeware][freeware icon]
      • Microsoft Office - Microsoft's own productivity suite.
      • WPS Office - The perfect free office software ![Freeware][freeware icon]

    • Text Editors

      • Visual Studio Code - Build and debug modern web and cloud applications. [![Open-Source Software][oss icon]](https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode) ![Freeware][freeware icon]
      • Light Table - A customizable editor with instant feedback and showing data values flow through your code. [![Open-Source Software][oss icon]](https://github.com/LightTable/LightTable) ![Freeware][freeware icon]
      • Neovim - literally the future of vim [![Open-Source Software][oss icon]](https://github.com/neovim/neovim) ![Freeware][freeware icon]
      • Notepad++ - A source code editor which supports several programming languages. [![Open-Source Software][oss icon]](https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus) ![Freeware][freeware icon]
      • Oni - Modern Modal Editing - powered by Neovim [![Open-Source Software][oss icon]](https://github.com/onivim/oni) ![Freeware][freeware icon]
      • Sublime Text 3 - The sophisticated text editor.
      • Oni - Modern Modal Editing - powered by Neovim [![Open-Source Software][oss icon]](https://github.com/onivim/oni) ![Freeware][freeware icon]

    • E-Book Utilities

      • Bookviser - Awesome application for Windows 8 devices to read eBooks in a simple way. ![Freeware][freeware icon]
      • kobo - Incredibly ugly but powerful software for ebook management and conversion. ![Freeware][freeware icon]

    • Email

      • BlueMail - beautifully designed, powerful and easy to use email app if you're looking for cross-platform functionality.

    • IDEs

      • Android Studio - The official IDE for Android based on the IntelliJ platform. [![Open-Source Software][oss icon]](https://sites.google.com/a/android.com/tools/) ![Freeware][freeware icon]
      • CLion - Smart cross-platform IDE for C/C++ that uses CMake as a build system.
      • IntelliJ IDEA - A modern Java IDE with free community edition. [![Open-Source Software][oss icon]](https://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-community) ![Freeware][freeware icon]
      • PhpStorm - Lightning-smart PHP IDE with major frameworks support.
      • Rider - A cross-platform .NET/Mono IDE.
      • RubyMine - An intelligent Ruby IDE that supports many modern frameworks.
      • WebStorm - A smart JavaScript IDE that uses the full power of the modern JavaScript ecosystem.

    • Online Storage

      • Dropbox - Simple, elegant and versatile (PC, Macs, Android...) cloud storage solution.
      • Google Drive - Cloud storage solution deeply integrated in the Google ecosystem.
      • Sync - Encrypted file storage that stores all files in canadian datacenters
      • Mega - Encrypted file storage.
      • Mozy

    • Backup

      • Arq - Backs up your files to your own cloud account (Amazon Cloud Drive, AWS, Dropbox, Google Drive, Google Cloud Storage, OneDrive, and SFTP).
      • Bvckup 2 - Light, versatile data replication software.
      • Duplicati - Free backup software to store encrypted backups online For Windows, macOS and Linux. [![Open-Source Software][oss icon]](https://github.com/duplicati/duplicati) ![Freeware][freeware icon]

    • Terminal

      • ColorTool - Set custom color schemes for the Windows Console with support for iTerm color schemes.
      • mRemoteNG - The next generation of mRemote, open source, tabbed, multi-protocol, remote connections manager. [![Open-Source Software][oss icon]](https://mremoteng.org/) ![Freeware][freeware icon]
      • Kitty - advanced Putty (SSH and telnet client).
      • Windows Terminal - Microsoft's official new terminal for Windows. [![Open-Source Software][oss icon]](https://github.com/microsoft/terminal) ![Freeware][freeware icon]

    • Utilities

      • Acrosync - The only native rsync client for Windows (no cygwin required). It supports automatic uploads on file changes and incremental hourly backups.
      • AddToSendTo - This script lets you add your favorite Folder to Send To option, when you right-click. [![Open-Source Software][oss icon]](https://aashutoshrathi.github.io/Python-Scripts-and-Games/AddToSendTo/)
      • Advanced Renamer - Advanced batch renaming program, with support for renaming based on GPS data from images, ID3 tags from music files, TV show data and regular expressions. ![Freeware][freeware icon]
      • Carnac - The easiest way to record keystrokes during any screen recording.
      • GPU-Z - A free all-in-one GPU monitoring tool. ![Freeware][freeware icon]
      • HTTrack - Offline browser utility, allowing you to download a website from the Internet to a local directory. [![Open-Source Software][oss icon]](https://github.com/xroche/httrack/tree/master)
      • PowerPlanSwitcher - Provides a quick UI for switching power schemas & automatic switch on AC-plug-in on Windows10. [![Open-Source Software][oss icon]](https://github.com/petrroll/PowerSwitcher)
      • Retroshare - A platform for secure communications and file sharing between friends. [![Open-Source Software][oss icon]](https://github.com/RetroShare/RetroShare)
      • rimraf - A deep deletion module for node. Help to delete files and folders with very long paths
      • Rufus - Create bootable USB drives the easy way.
      • SpaceMonger - A graphical utility to display folders and files in blocks relative to their disk usage.
      • ueli - A powerful keystroke launcher for Windows.
      • WizTree - Excellent, small utility application allows users to quickly find large files on a hard drive. ![Freeware][freeware icon]
      • SetToStartup - This script will help you to add your favorite programs or self made scripts/folders to startup. [![Open-Source Software][oss icon]](https://aashutoshrathi.github.io/Python-Scripts-and-Games/SetToStartup/)
      • CleanMyPC - A clean computer in no time.
      • ShareX - Lets you take screenshots or screencasts of any selected area with a single key. [![Open-Source Software][oss icon]](https://github.com/ShareX/ShareX) ![Freeware][freeware icon]
      • Unlocker - Unlock files Windows won't let you delete
      • SpeedCrunch - The best and only calculator you'll need, completely stripped down of unnecessary UI clutter. [![Open-Source Software][oss icon]](https://bitbucket.org/heldercorreia/speedcrunch/) ![Freeware][freeware icon]

    • Video

      • K-Lite Codecs - Collection of DirectShow filters, VFW/ACM codecs, and tools.
      • Olive Video Editor - Open source cross-platform non-linear video editor. [![Open-Source Software][oss icon]](https://github.com/olive-editor/olive) ![Freeware][freeware icon]
      • Open Broadcaster Software - Free and open source software for video recording and live streaming. [![Open-Source Software][oss icon]](https://github.com/jp9000/OBS)
      • PotPlayer - Multimedia player with a wide collection of codecs which also offers extensive configuration options for users.
      • Shotcut - Open source cross-platform video editor. [![Open-Source Software][oss icon]](https://github.com/mltframework/shotcut) ![Freeware][freeware icon]
      • SMPlayer - Multimedia player that can save different preferences for any single video. [![Open-Source Software][oss icon]](https://sourceforge.net/p/smplayer/code/HEAD/tree/) ![Freeware][freeware icon]
      • VLC - Multimedia player and framework that plays DVDs, Audio CDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. [![Open-Source Software][oss icon]](https://github.com/NickeManarin/ScreenToGif/) ![Freeware][freeware icon]
      • Videotape - Video player for windows 10 focused on simplicity with a beautiful and easy to use interface.

  • Security

    • Windows 8.1 Setup

      • Cryptomator - Free client-side encryption for your cloud files. [![Open-Source Software][oss icon]](https://github.com/cryptomator/cryptomator) ![Freeware][freeware icon]
      • Disable Data Logging - Make Windows 10 more private and safe. ![Freeware][freeware icon]
      • GlassWire - Network security monitoring tool and analyzer that visualizes your network activity.
      • IIS Crypto - A utility for configuring encryption protocols, cyphers, hashing methods, and key exchanges for Windows components (eg TLS/AES/SHA for Remote Desktop)
      • SpyBot - Search and destroy malware, spyware and viruses. ![Freeware][freeware icon]
      • Tor Project - Enable anonymous communication. [![Open-Source Software][oss icon]](https://github.com/TheTorProject) ![Freeware][freeware icon]
      • UnChecky - automatically unchecks unrelated offers from installers.
      • VeraCrypt - VeraCrypt is a free open source disk encryption software for Windows, Mac OSX and Linux. [![Open-Source Software][oss icon]](https://www.veracrypt.fr/code/VeraCrypt/)
      • Viscosity - Fully-featured OpenVPN client, ready for enterprise deployment. ![Freeware][freeware icon]
      • ENCRYPTO - Encrypt your files in an elegant way. ![Freeware][freeware icon]

  • Miscellaneous

  • Discussion Forums

Categories
Applications 147 Security 10 Discussion Forums 8 License 2 Miscellaneous 1
Sub Categories
Games 32 Windows 8.1 Setup 21 Developer Tools 19 Utilities 18 Productivity 11 Video 8 Audio 7 IDEs 7 Text Editors 7 Documents 6 Online Storage 5 Chat Clients 4 Terminal 4 Customization 4 Graphics 4 Backup 3 Compression 3 E-Book Utilities 2 Data Recovery 2 Email 1