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:computer: An awesome & curated list of best applications and tools for Windows.
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Applications
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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.
- 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.
- 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]
- 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.
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Terminal
- Windows Terminal - Microsoft's official new terminal for Windows. [![Open-Source Software][oss icon]](https://github.com/microsoft/terminal) ![Freeware][freeware icon]
- ColorTool - Set custom color schemes for the Windows Console with support for iTerm color schemes.
- Kitty - advanced Putty (SSH and telnet client).
- 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]
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Utilities
- Unlocker - Unlock files Windows won't let you delete
- A-Z of Windows Terminal Commands
- 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.
- 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]
- SpaceMonger - A graphical utility to display folders and files in blocks relative to their disk usage.
- ueli - A powerful keystroke launcher for Windows.
- CleanMyPC - A clean computer in no time.
- Snipping Tool - us/help/4488540/windows-10-how-to-take-and-annotate-screenshots) - Windows 10 utility to easily capture and edit selected area in screen.
- 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/)
- 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]
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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]
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Developer Tools
- DB Browser for SQLite - High quality, visual, open source tool to create, design, and edit database files compatible with SQLite [![Open-Source Software][oss icon]](http://sqlitebrowser.org/)
- 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
- 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]
- Robo 3T - A lightweight GUI for MongoDB enthusiasts.
- SourceTree - A free Git & Mercurial client.
- 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)
- 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]
- TortoiseGit - Git client with full shell integration. [![Open-Source Software][oss icon]](https://github.com/tortoisegit/tortoisegit/) ![Freeware][freeware icon]
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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.
- 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]
- Simplenote - Simple cross-platform note taking app with cloud-based syncing. ![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]
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Audio
- 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.
- AIMP - 32 bit audio processing and multi-format playback. ![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]
- Winamp - Music player capable of playing MP3s, MP2s, WAVs, VOCs and MIDI files. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
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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]
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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]
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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.
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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.
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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]
- 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]
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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]
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E-Book Utilities
- kobo - Incredibly ugly but powerful software for ebook management and conversion. ![Freeware][freeware icon]
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Email
- BlueMail - beautifully designed, powerful and easy to use email app if you're looking for cross-platform functionality.
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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.
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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
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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]
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Video
- 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.
- 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.
- K-Lite Codecs - Collection of DirectShow filters, VFW/ACM codecs, and tools.
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Security
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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]
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