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Portable software is a class of software that is suitable for use on portable drives such as a USB (thumb) drive or iPod or Palm PDA with "drive mode", although any external hard drive could theoretically be used. The concept of carrying one's favored applications, utilities, and files on a portable drive for use on any computer is one which has evolved considerably in recent years.
Programs in this category (also known as portable applications) are typically 'lite' versions of their parent software, but there are many exceptions.
To be considered truly portable, a software program must:
- Not require any form of formal installation to be carried out on any computer before it can be used, with the release package only needing to be decompressed directly to removable media before use. If it has to be installed first, and requires its files to be manually copied to removable media, it is not designed to be portable.
- For example, software which is supplied as an InstallShield package should not be considered portable, though a ZIP archive containing an executable would be.
- Settings are stored with, and can be carried around with, the software (i.e., they are written to the USB drive).
- If the registry is used to store settings, the application's configuration isn't portable, and must be set up on every PC it is used on
- Leaves a zero (or near-zero) "footprint" on any PC it's run on after being used.
- i.e., All temporary files/registry settings should be removed once the program has exited, and files created by the user can be saved directly to the same removable media as the application is stored on.
Generally, smaller utility/toolkit software is inherently fairly portable; though larger applications are sometimes changed in order to allow a portable versions to be released (e.g., OperaUSB).
Application launchers
- Ceedo
- Launchy
- MojoPac
- PortableApps.com
- Open Menu+
Development
IDEs
- Portable Dev-C++
- JCreator Not entirely portable, because it leaves some settings on the host computer.
Scripting Languages
- Portable NSIS Version
Graphics
3D Modeling And Rendering
- Anim8or
- Free 3D modeling and animating software.
- Blender:
- BlenderPortable
- Blender Pocket
- XBlender
- Wings3d
- All versions are portable
- SketchUp
- Kerkythea Models made in SketchUp can be easily rendered in Kerkythea
Graphic Editors
- ArtRage
- EVE
- GIMP:
- GIMPVS GIMP Portable VS 2008 is the Gimp portable version of Gimp on Microsoft Windows platforms (Windows XP,Vista,NT Server 2003,NT Server 2008)
- Portable Gimp - for Microsoft Windows
- Portable Gimp - for Mac OS X
- X-Gimp
- X-GimpShop
- Inkscape:
- X-Inkscape
- Portable Inkscape - for Mac OS X
- PhotoLine
- Pixia
- XTuxPaint
Processing
Viewers
Document Based
Office and Publishing
- Abiword
- Abiword Portable - for Microsoft Windows
- Portable Abiword - for Mac OS X
- X-Abiword
- OpenOffice.org
- OpenOffice.org for U3
- Portable OpenOffice - for Microsoft Windows
- Portable OpenOffice - for Mac OS X
- X-OpenOffice
- Qjot
- Portable StarOffice
- RagTime
- Scribus Open source DTP, similar to PageMaker InDesign QuarkXPress (Win2K/XP)
- X-Scribus
- Portable Scribus
Editors
- gVim - for advanced users
- Notepad++ (supports VERTICAL BLOCKS)
- Notepad2
- NoteTab Light
- PSPad - for portable using choose CAB archive (supports VERTICAL BLOCKS)
- SciTE - for portability, set SciTE_HOME environment variable before launching
- TED Notepad - for portability, create a tednpad.ini file
- Textpad for text documents of every sort.
- UltraEdit (UE3)
- VEDIT
Educational
Games
See List of portable computer games
Internet
- Mozilla Thunderbird Portable
- Pegasus Mail
- Pine
- The Bat! Voyager
- Portable Mail - for Mac OS X
- Adium - for Mac OS X
- Coccinella
- Google Talk
- Miniaim
- Miranda IM
- Pidgin Portable (formerly Gaim Portable)
- Portable Skype
- Portable PSI
- QIP
- TerraIM
- Trillian Anywhere
- Portable iChat - for Mac OS X
- Wget
- HTTrack
- WxDownload Fast
- Free Download Manager - Note: installation required to create portable version.
- BitComet - Note: needs msxml.
- BitTornado - Note: needs msxml.
- Emule
- μTorrent
- Limewire - Note: needs Java runtime environment.
- Frostwire - Note: needs Java runtime environment.
- Chatzilla Note: Requires a Mozilla based browser, e.g. SeaMonkey, or Firefox.
- HydraIRC
- Miranda IM
- mIRC Note: requires command line switch -portable.
- Nettalk
- Pidgin (formerly Gaim)
- Xchat
- Portable X-Chat Aqua - for Mac OS X
- kvirc
- portaPuTTY
- WinSCP Portable Edition - SFTP/SCP/FTP client, remote file manager, GUI -- see WinSCP.
Podcast managers
Proxy server/clients and Routing Networks
Wiki-like (Note: These are not web-based)
- EverNote (freeware & commercial versions)
- StoneNotes (commercial/proprietary)
- TiddlyWiki
- Wikidpad
Operating Systems
See List of LiveDistros and Live USB
Miscellaneous
- Webfoglio
- Moka5 LivePC Engine (Portable VMWare). Note: Dynamically loads and unloads network drivers and requires administrator rights.
- Mojopac portable choped down copy of windows. Requires administrator rights.
Multimedia
It has been suggested that List of Portable Multimedia Software be merged into this article. (Discuss) Proposed since November 2007. |
File converters
- Audiograbber is a CD audio extractor (digitally).
- BonkEnc
- CDex
- MediaCoder
- SUPER - (Simplified Universal Player Encoder & Renderer) is a program that easily encapsulates the capabilities of ffmpeg, MEncoder, mplayer, x264, mppenc, ffmpeg2theora, and the theora/vorbis RealProducer plugIn. Has problems with portability.
- TMPGEnc - a video encoder that supports HDV import/output along with DivX 6 AVI, MPEG-1/2/4, QuickTime (MOV), and Window Media (WMV/WMV-HD/WMA) input/output.
Editors
- Portable Audacity - for Windows and Mac OS X
- Audiobook Cutter
- mp3DirectCut
Audio/Midi Sequencer
- Reaper has a .bat file for a USB stick installation
Players
- FLV player
- 1by1
- Billy
- Portable BSplayer
- CD
- foobar2000 - not for Windows 98
- HACP
- Media Player Classic
- MPlayer
- The KMPlayer - A useful portable player (use zip version to make it portable)
- The Core Pocket Media Player
- VideoLAN:
- VLC Media Player Portable
- Portable VLC for Mac OS X
- XVideoLAN
- XMPlay
- Winamp
Recorders
Video Capture
Screen Capture
Networking
- Rails, Apache, and MySQL
- Server2Go
- XAMPP
- WOS
- The Uniform Server
- HTTP File Server (HFS)
- easyPHP
- Small HTTP server
Miscellaneous
- Netcat
- Proxomitron - Filtering Web Proxy
- Xming
- WinDump: Tcpdump for Windows
- Wireshark
- VNC: RealVNC Viewer for Windows
Other Tools
Web Editors
- Portable Nvu - for Mac OS X
- OpenOffice.org Portable - Complete office suite, which includes HTML editor.
Calendar management
File management
- A43
- Directory Opus by selecting the USB/U3 export option
- Servant Salamander 1.52
- Total Commander
File Archivers and Extractors
Screenwriting
- Celtx Portable
PDF Tools
Readers
Writers
- Portable OpenOffice - for Microsoft Windows
- Portable OpenOffice - for Mac OS X
Security and Encryption
Password Management
- KeePass Portable
- Password Safe
- Roboform RoboForm2Go
Anti-Spyware/Malware
- Ad-aware
- CWShredder
- HijackThis Powerful tool for listing all startup programs and other hidden system modifications.
- Spybot - Search & Destroy Note - Requires power user or administrator privileges for Windows XP
AntiVirus
Real-Time Disk/Volume Encryption
Note: All of the software in this section requires administrator privileges to start their respective drivers.
File Encryption
System Maintenance
Storage Management
Visual maps of free space and biggest files and folders on hard drive.
- Scanner
- SpaceMonger
System Information
- CPU-Z - CPU and memory hardware details - clock and FSB speeds, SPD, OS version.
- AIDA32 - freeware system information, diagnostics, and auditing program written by Tamas Miklos, Win 95-XP.