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Useful Windows Applications
A curated collection of tools and websites for Windows users to enhance their user experience and make it more enjoyable.
KDE Connect Control PC from mobile. Virtual trackpad. Air drop files from iOS / Android to Windows and back. Get notifications. Clipboard sync. Browse phone from PC.
Filelight An application to visualise the disk usage on your computer.
Flow Launcher Quick File Search & App Launcher for Windows.
Ambie White Noise Play white noise and nature sounds to help you focus, sleep, or unwind. Help you and your loved ones sleep. Focus on work or studies. Unwind after a long day.
PicPick A full-featured screen capture tool, Intuitive image editor, colour picker, colour palette, pixel-ruler, protractor, crosshair, whiteboard and more.
Microsoft PowerToys A set of utilities for power users to tune and streamline their Windows experience for greater productivity.
Rainmeter Allows you to display customizable skins on your desktop, from hardware usage meters to fully functional audio visualizers.
FileBot The ultimate tool for renaming and organizing your movies, TV shows and Anime. Match and rename media files against online databases, download artwork and cover images, fetch subtitles, write metadata, and more, all at once in matter of seconds. FileBot 4.9.6 Cracked
PRemoteM A modern personal remote session manager and launcher. It is a single place to manage all your remote sessions supporting number of different protocols.
Sysinternals A suite of more than 70 freeware utilities that was initially developed by Mark Russinovich and Bryce Cogswell that is used to monitor, manage and troubleshoot the Windows operating system.
Safing Portmaster Pi-hole alternative. Block ads & trackers system wide. Monitor all network activity. Manually allow or block connections. Auto-block via selected filter lists. Enforce DNS-over-TLS. Configure settings for different networks. Set global & per‑app settings.
PotPlayer One of the best video player for Windows. Offers wide range of settings and customizations, as well as lightweight nature and supports a large variety of media formats and codecs.
ClipClip A free clipboard management software for Windows that will revolutionize the way you copy and paste. ClipClip makes it possible to copy multiple texts, images or files to your clipboard. You can then browse or search through these Latest Clips, or convert them to Saved Clips so you can assign a title and organize them into folders to use later on.
Traffic Monitor A network monitoring software with floating window feature for Windows. It displays the current internet speed and CPU and RAM usage. There are also other capabilities like an embedded display in the taksbar, changeable display skins, and historical traffic statistics.
Pushbullet Share links and files between all your devices and send text messages from any device. See phone notifications.
Font Identifier Upload a picture to this webpage and it’ll identify the font. Shazam but for fonts.
cleanup.pictures AI tool to automatically remove text, objects etc. from images.
ribbet.ai Remove background and objects from images automatically. It also has useful features like upscale along with a few others.
TheBobPony Provides direct download links for varioous operatings systems, drivers, VMs, legacy softwares among other things.
stacher.io GUI for YT-DLP which allows you to download videos from hundreds of websites.
RedKetchup Image Resizer Resize an image in pixels, percentage, or ratio online. Downscale or upscale using filters and sharpening. Supports the PNG, JPEG, WEBP, HEIC, GIF, ICO, TIFF, BMP, and SVG formats.
IDM (IDM) is a tool to increase download speeds by up to 5 times, resume and schedule downloads.
Proton VPN The free version is fantastic and offers great speeds. 10 MB/s+ regularly. Servers in Netherlands, US and Japan.
qBittorrent A cross-platform free and open-source BitTorrent client.
7zip A free and open-source file archiver, a utility used to place groups of files within compressed containers known as "archives". It allows you to open .ZIP, .TAR, .RAR etc.
foobar2000 An advanced freeware audio player for the Windows platform.
Music Bee A great alternative to foobar2000.
Notepad++ A free source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages and is packed full of features.
Calibre A powerful and easy to use e-book manager. It’ll allow you to do nearly everything and it takes things a step beyond normal e-book software.
EarTrumpet Powerful per application volume control for Windows.
HWiNFO Free Hardware Analysis, Monitoring and Reporting. In-depth Hardware Information, Real-Time System Monitoring, Reporting & more.
CPU-Z A freeware that gathers information on some of the main devices of your system : Processor name and number, codename, process, package, cache levels. Mainboard and chipset. Memory type, size, timings, and module specifications (SPD). Real time measurement of each core's internal frequency, memory frequency.
DaVinci Resolve A free alternative to Adobe Premiere Pro and the world’s only solution that combines video editing, colour correction, visual effects, motion graphics and audio post production all in one software tool! Its elegant, modern interface is fast to learn and easy for new users, yet powerful for professionals.
chaiNNer An open source tool which supports image upscaling, face restoration, inpainting, background removal and other useful features.
AutoHotkey A free, open-source scripting language for Windows that allows users to easily create small to complex scripts for all kinds of tasks such as: form fillers, auto-clicking, macros, etc.
Local Send A free, open-source app that allows you to securely share files and messages with nearby devices over your local network without needing an internet connection.
scrcpy It mirrors Android devices (video and audio) connected via USB or over TCP/IP, and allows to control the device with the keyboard and the mouse of the computer. It does not require any root access.
Lively Wallpaper Animated desktop wallpapers, bring your desktop to life! Lively is a Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) Project. A great free alternative to Wallpaper Engine.
Rufus A utility that helps format and create bootable USB flash drives, such as USB keys/pendrives, memory sticks, etc.
Revo Uninstaller It is described as 'Application uninstaller tool for cleaning up failed/uninstalled or removing all traces of application files and registry keys. Monitors for changes made by installers and applications therefore and can undo these changes when uninstalling'. Paid but offers 30 day free trial without CC.
An alternative to Revo is Bulk Crap Uninstaller It has lesser features but still good. Open source.
f.lux A cross-platform computer program that adjusts a display's color temperature according to location and time of day, offering functional respite for the eyes. The program is designed to reduce eye strain during night-time use, helping to reduce disruption of sleep patterns. Offers way more features and colour temperatures than Windows Night Light.
HandBrake A free and open-source transcoder for digital video files. HandBrake's backend contains comparatively little original code; the program is an integration of many third-party audio and video libraries, both codecs (such as FFmpeg, x264, and x265) and other components such as video deinterlacers (referred to as "filters"). These are collected in such a manner to make their use more effective and accessible (e.g., so that a user does not have to transcode a video's audio and visual components in separate steps, or with inaccessible command-line utilities).
TinyWall A frontend for Windows Firewall that lets you whitelist applications allowed to connect to the internet. No more phoning home without your permission.
bitwarden Open source password management solutions for individuals, teams, and business organizations.
Sandboxie+ A sandbox-based isolation software for 32-bit and 64-bit Windows NT-based operating systems. It creates a sandbox-like isolated operating environment in which applications can be run or installed without permanently modifying local & mapped drives or the windows registry. An isolated virtual environment allows controlled testing of untrusted programs and web surfing.
FilelistCreator Directory Tree Exporter. For a wide variety of occasions, lists of files or directories are required: perhaps you need an index of some files or folders from a CD, DVD, hard drive or memory stick, maybe you would like to have an overview over your file collections. With this tool, creating file lists is no longer a lot of effort! It is enough to drag files or folders onto the program in order to get them listed.
Arclab Dir2HTML Create a HTML Index of your Files and Folders. Highly customizable.
Bulk Rename Utility It allows you to easily rename files and entire folders based upon extremely flexible criteria. Add date/time stamps, replace numbers, insert text, convert case, add auto-numbers, process folders and sub-folders....plus a whole lot more!
QuickLook It allows users to peek into a file content in lightning speed by just pressing the Space key.
jDownloader It is a free, open-source download management tool with a huge community that makes downloading as easy and fast as it should be. Users can start, stop or pause downloads, set bandwith limitations, auto-extract archives and much more.
NirSoft Tools Collection A unique collection of small and useful freeware utilities.
BleachBit A cleaner tool to preserve privacy. It can secure-delete files, folders, program's history, cache and temporary files.
JPEG View A lean, fast and highly configurable image viewer/editor with a minimal GUI.
Ninite The easiest, fastest way to update or install software. Ninite downloads and installs programs automatically in the background.
Winget GUI The main goal of this project is to create an intuitive GUI for the most common CLI package managers for Windows 10 and Windows 11, such as Winget, Scoop and Chocolatey.
Voidtools Everything Let's you search your entire pc for any file or folder instantly.
HTTrack It allows you to download a World Wide Web site from the Internet to a local directory, building recursively all directories, getting HTML, images, and other files from the server to your computer. HTTrack arranges the original site's relative link-structure.
Icaros A great alternative to K Lite Codec Pack for adding thumbnails to file explorer. Icaros is a collection of lightweight, high quality, Windows Shell Extensions, which is capable of providing Windows Explorer thumbnails for essentially any video media filetype. Icaros can provide Windows Explorer thumbnails, for essentially any video media format supported by FFmpeg which includes popular filetypes such as: Mkv, Flv, Avi, Mp4, Mov, Rmvb, M2ts, Ogm etc. It is capable of thumbnailing just about any file by adding its extension(s) to the optional filetypes box and re-activating Icaros.
ActivityWatch An app that automatically tracks how you spend time on your devices. It can be used to keep track of your productivity, time spent on different projects, bad screen habits, or just to understand how you spend your time.
Authy Enable 2FA for your favourite sites. Go beyond the password and protect yourself from hackers and account takeovers.
Stardock Fences Declutter and beautify your desktop. Automatically organize your desktop apps, files, and folders on Windows.
libDrive A Google Drive media library manager and indexer, similar to Plex, that organizes Google Drive media to offer an intuitive and user-friendly experience. Browser based and doesn't need powerful servers like Plex does. Streams straight from Google Drive and uses Cloudflare workers to turbo speed the stream.
AudioBand Audio Band allows you to display song information from various sources directly in the taskbar. Supports Spotify + variety of audio players.
PortableApps Get portable version of various apps. Use PortableApps.com for your personal apps on your work PC or for your work apps on your personal PC.
MakeMKV Your one-click solution to convert DVD, Blu-ray, UHD and AVCHD discs that you own into MKV. The only thing MakeMKV does - it remuxes/changes the video clips from the disk into a set of MKV files, preserving most information but not changing it in any way(no video and audio reconversion). The MKV format can store multiple video/audio tracks with all meta-information and preserve chapters.
Skiley A webapp which integrates with your Spotify account. Free. Manage your playlists, discover brand new tracks, and much more!
last.fm A music website founded in 2002. Using a music recommender system called "Audioscrobbler", Last.fm builds a detailed profile of each user's musical taste by recording details of the tracks the user listens to, either from Internet radio stations, or the user's computer or many portable music devices. This information is transferred ("scrobbled") to Last.fm's database either via the music player (including, among others, Spotify, Deezer, Tidal, MusicBee, SoundCloud, and Anghami) or via a plug-in installed into the user's music player. The data is then displayed on the user's profile page and compiled to create reference pages for individual artists.
Kodi It turns any computer, smartphone, or tablet into a digital set-top box or streamer, giving users the ability to stream files from the internet, a home network, or local storage. Unlike other TV streamers such as Apple TV, Chromecast 3rd Generation, and Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K, Kodi isn’t held back by licensing or a curated app store. The software lets you download a range of community-made apps or add-ons and watch whatever you like.
How to Install Video CopyTrans HEIC With this, you can preview and browse HEIC images (iPhone Format) through Windows Explorer. Supports thumbnail generation for HEIC. You don’t have to run any additional software! Browse your photos or send them to print – all without converting to JPEG.
- You will need to enable classic Windows Photo Viewer in Windows 11 to open HEIC files. It is much faster than Photos app as well. Enable Classic Windows Photo Viewer by downloading and running this registry file.