If you wish for a program to be added to the below list, please open an issue with the name of the program as the title, with a link to the website / github page of the program in question. If any of the links are dead, please open and issue and provide any up-to-date links that you can provide.
Disclaimer: I'm one of the developers and maintainers of PGP Suite.
I've started to use Chocolatey to install most of my applications. Any applications that have a chocolately recently updated release available will have a ✅ next to them (Current coverage is about 24%).
- Blender - Blender is a professional, free and open-source 3D computer graphics software toolset used for creating animated films, visual effects, art, 3D printed models ✅
- Gravit Designer - Gravit Designer is a full-featured, free vector design app right at your fingertips
- GIMP - The Free & Open Source Image Editor ✅
- Inkscape - Inkscape is professional quality vector graphics software which runs on Linux, Mac OS X and Windows desktop computers ✅
- Krita - Krita is a professional FREE and open source painting program ✅
- Piskel - Piskel is a free online editor for animated sprites & pixel art
- Sculptris - Enter Sculptris, a fun and engaging way to start off your digital sculpting journey
- Stud.io - Stud.io aims to get as close to the feeling of building with LEGO in real life
- ShareX / Greenshot - Superior screenshots ✅
- GnuCash - GnuCash is personal and small-business financial-accounting software.
- Homebank - HomeBank is a free software (as in "free speech" and also as in "free beer") that will assist you to manage your personal accounting.
- Battle.Net - Blizzards Official Game Launcher. Used for games like World of Warcraft and Diablo
- Borderless Gaming - Play your favorite games in a borderless window; no more time consuming alt-tabs ✅
- Cheat Engine - Cheat Engine is an open source tool designed to help you with modifying single player games ✅
- Depressurizer - A Steam library categorizing tool ✅
- EVE - Player-created empires, player-driven markets, and endless ways to embark on your personal sci-fi adventure
- GameHub - Games manager/downloader/library written in Vala for elementary OS
- Game Save Manager - The easy way to manage your PC game saves
- Godot - Godot Engine – Multi-platform 2D and 3D game engine
- GOG Galaxy - The gaming Client designed for a convenient purchasing, playing and updating games ✅
- Joystick Curves - Custom joystick curves for any joystick
- Launchbox - Emulate, Organize, and Beautify Your Game Collection
- Moonlight - Moonlight allows you to stream your collection of games from your PC to another device ✅
- PPSSPP - PPSSPP is the first PSP emulator for Android (and other mobile platforms), and also runs faster than any other on Windows, Linux and MacOSX ✅
- Steam - Steam is a digital distribution platform ✅
- TrackIR -TrackIR adds depth to the PC gaming experience and pulls you further into the game
- 7Zip / PeaZip - file archiver with a high compression ratio ✅
- DeltaCopy - DeltaCopy is an open source, fast incremental backup program
- Disk Space Saver - Disk Space Saver is available for Windows, Mac and Linux
- DropIt - Personal Assistant to Automatically Manage Your Files ✅
- h2testw - Gold Standard In Detecting USB Counterfeit Drives ✅
- Organize My Files - Organize files and folders in a click
- restic - restic is a backup program that is fast, efficient and secure ✅
- SpaceSniffer - SpaceSniffer is a freeWare and portable tool application that lets you understand how folders and files are structured on your disks ✅
- Win32DiskImager / Etcher / Rufus - A Windows tool for writing images to USB sticks or SD/CF cards ✅
- WinDirStat - WinDirStat is a disk usage statistics viewer and cleanup tool (SpaceSniffer alternative) ✅
- Audacity - Free, open source, cross-platform audio software ✅
- Cache Monkey - Convert, browse and clear cached images and files
- Davinci Resolve 15 - Revolutionary tools for editing, visual effects, motion graphics, color correction and audio post production, all in a single application
- DC++ - Direct Connect allows you to share files over the Internet without restrictions or limits
- DVD Shrink - DVD Shrink is software to backup DVD discs
- Foobar2000 - foobar2000 is an advanced freeware audio player ✅
- Handbrake - HandBrake is a tool for converting video from nearly any format to a selection of modern, widely supported codecs ✅
- HRConvert2 - A self-hosted drag-and-drop file conversion server that supports 59x file formats
- Jellyfin - Jellyfin is a free software media system that puts you in control of managing and streaming your media/Emby Fork
- MuseScore - MuseScore is an open source and free music notation software
- Nativefier - Make any web page a desktop application
- Nuclear - Desktop music player focused on streaming from free sources ✅
- OnTopReplica - A real-time always-on-top “replica” of a window of your choice, for Windows Vista, 7, 8, or 10 ✅
- PeerTube - Federated (ActivityPub) video streaming platform using P2P (BitTorrent) directly in the web browser with WebTorrent and Angular
- Picasa - Picasa Photo Organizer will help you organize and edit your digital photos, then create online albums to share with everyone
- PiGallery2 - This is a directory-first photo gallery website, optimised for running on low resource servers (especially on raspberry pi)
- Pixchart - Turn any image into delightful splash of colors and order
- Standard Notes - Standard Notes is a safe place for your notes, thoughts, and life's work.
- Reaper - REAPER is a complete digital audio production application for Windows ✅
- SVP4 - Video interpolation software
- VLC - VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player ✅
- VoiceAttack - Voice-activated control for your PC games and apps
- VoiceMeeter - Voicemeeter is an Audio Mixer Application
- VSTHost - VST-compatible host
- WebTorrent - WebTorrent, the streaming torrent client for the browser, Mac, Windows, and Linux ✅
- X Media Recode - XMedia Recode is a free All-In-One video converter and audio converter tool
- Brig - File synchronization on top of ipfs with git like interface& web based UI
- Caddy - The HTTP/2 Web Server with Automatic HTTPS
- Deluge - Deluge is a lightweight, Free Software, cross-platform BitTorrent client ✅
- D-LAN - A free LAN file sharing software
- Filebrowser - Filebrowser provides a file managing interface within a specified directory and it can be used to upload, delete, preview, rename and edit your files
- Glasswire - Personal Firewall & Network Monitor
- IPFS - A peer-to-peer hypermedia protocol to make the web faster, safer, and more open ✅
- IPFS Cluster - IPFS Cluster is a stand-alone application and a CLI client that allocates, replicates, and tracks pins across a cluster of IPFS daemons
- IPFS Companion - This add-on enables everyone to access IPFS resources the way they were meant: from locally running IPFS node
- IPFS Desktop - A menubar IPFS application to get you on the Distributed Web to make the web faster, safer, and more open ✅
- netdata - Netdata is distributed, real-time, performance and health monitoring for systems and applications. It is a highly optimized monitoring agent you install on all your systems and containers
- Onionshare - Securely and anonymously send and receive files, and publish onion sites.
- Perkeep - Perkeep lets you permanently keep your stuff, for life
- PuTTY - a free SSH and Telnet client ✅
- qBittorrent - The qBittorrent project aims to provide an open-source software alternative to µTorrent ✅
- Siderus Orion - Siderus Orion is an Open Source easy to use Inter Planetary File System (IPFS) desktop client ✅
- SparkleShare - SparkleShare creates a special folder on your computer. You can add remotely hosted folders (or "projects") to this folder. These projects will be automatically kept in sync with both the host and all of your peers when someone adds, removes or edits a file ✅
- Syncthing - Syncthing replaces proprietary sync and cloud services with something open, trustworthy and decentralized ✅
- Tor Browser - The Tor software protects you by bouncing your communications around a distributed network of relays run by volunteers all around the world ✅
- VirtualBox - VirtualBox is a general-purpose full virtualizer ✅
- WinSCP - WinSCP (Windows Secure Copy) is a free and open-source SFTP, FTP, WebDAV, Amazon S3 and SCP client for Microsoft Windows ✅
- Arduino - Open-source electronic prototyping platform enabling users to create interactive electronic objects ✅
- AutoHotkey - Free keyboard macro program ✅
- AutoIT - AutoIt v3 is a freeware BASIC-like scripting language designed for automating the Windows GUI and general scripting ✅
- Git - Git is a free and open source distributed version control system ✅
- GitAhead - GitAhead is a graphical Git client designed to help you understand and manage your source code history ✅
- Gitea - A painless self-hosted Git service
- Go - Go is an open source programming language that makes it easy to build simple, reliable, and efficient software ✅
- MySQL - MySQL is an open-source relational database management system ✅
- Node - Node.js® is a JavaScript runtime built on Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine ✅
- Pagedraw - a UI builder for React web apps
- PyCharm - PyCharm is an integrated development environment (IDE) used in computer programming, specifically for the Python language ✅
- Python - Python is an interpreted high-level programming language for general-purpose programming ✅
- Ruby - A dynamic, open source programming language with a focus on simplicity and productivity ✅
- SciTE - SciTE is a SCIntilla based Text Editor ✅
- Terminus - A terminal for the modern age ✅
- Visual Studio Code - VS Code is a type of tool that combines the simplicity of a code editor with what developers need ✅
- VvvvebJs - Drag and drop website builder javascript library
- Web-Maker - Web-Maker is an offline playground for your web experiments
- ArchiveBox - ArchiveBox takes a list of website URLs you want to archive, and creates a local, static, browsable HTML clone of the content from those websites (it saves HTML, JS, media files, PDFs, images and more)
- Atom - A hackable text editor for the 21st Century ✅
- Calibre - calibre: The one stop solution for all your e-book needs. Comprehensive e-book software ✅
- Cardo - A TiddlyWiki for Getting Stuff Done
- DokuWiki - DokuWiki is a simple to use and highly versatile Open Source wiki software that doesn't require a database
- CrossLine - CrossLine is an outliner with sophisticated cross-link capabilities
- EncryptPad - EncryptPad is an application for viewing and editing symmetrically encrypted text
- Etherpad - Collaborating in really real-time
- Joplin - An open source note taking and to-do application with synchronisation capabilities.
- Laverna - Laverna - keep your notes private ✅
- LibreOffice - Free office suite, open source ✅
- MarkdownPad2 - MarkdownPad is a full-featured Markdown editor for Windows
- Manuskript - Manuskript is an open-source tool for writers
- Notable - The markdown-based note-taking app that doesn't suck ✅
- NotePad++ - Notepad++ is a free (as in "free speech" and also as in "free beer") source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages ✅
- OpenAudible - An open source desktop application for downloading and managing your Audible audiobooks
- Polar Bookshelf - Polar Bookshelf is an incremental reading and personal knowledge repository for PDF and the web created using the Electron framework and PDF.js
- QOwnNotes - QOwnNotes is a free plain-text notepad with markdown support for Linux, Mac OS X and Windows
- SingleFile - SingleFile is a WebExtension compatible with Chrome, Firefox (Desktop and Mobile), and Opera that helps you to save a complete web page into a single HTML file
- TiddlyWiki - a non-linear personal web notebook
- Twine - Twine is an open-source tool for telling interactive, nonlinear stories
- WikidPad - WikidPad is a single user desktop wiki
- WriteFreely - WriteFreely is a beautifully pared-down blogging platform that's simple on the surface, yet powerful underneath
- WriteMonkey - Software for full screen distraction free creative writing
- AxCrypt - AxCrypt is a simple file encryption software for Windows. It integrates seamlessly with your workflow to encrypt, decrypt, store, send and work with files ✅
- Bitwarden Desktop - The Bitwarden desktop app is written using Electron and Angular ✅
- Bitwarden_RS - Bitwarden server API implementation written in Rust
- Bvckup2 -Simple fast backup: Light, versatile and very capable data replication software. Select a pair of folders and it will make sure that one stays an exact copy of the other
- Cryptomator - Free & Open Source client-side encryption for Dropbox, Google Drive, you name it. Protect your cloud files ✅
- Enigmail - Enigmail automatically decrypts and verifies your Email
- Eraser - Eraser is an advanced security tool for Windows which allows you to completely remove sensitive data from your hard drive by overwriting it several times with carefully selected patterns ✅
- Flowcrypt - FlowCrypt Browser extension for Chrome and Firefox
- Gpg4win - Gpg4win is a secure solution for file and email encryption ✅
- HRScan2 - A self-hosted drag-and-drop virus & malware scanning server
- Internet Noise - HTML application to make internet noise that helps scramble your internet activities
- KeePass - KeePass is a free open source password manager, which helps you to manage your passwords in a secure way ✅
- KeePassXC - KeePassXC is a free and open-source password manager ✅
- KeeWeb - Free cross-platform password manager compatible with KeePass ✅
- Librevault - File synchronization designed with privacy in mind
- LessPass - Stateless Password Manager
- MasterPassword - Stateless Password Manager ✅
- Minisign - A dead simple tool to sign files and verify digital signatures ✅
- OpenStego - OpenStego is a steganography application ✅
- PGP Suite - A simple and easy to use PGP system
- Private Internet Access - High-speed anonymous VPN Service
- Spybot Anti-Beacon for Windows - Spybot Anti-Beacon is a standalone tool which was designed to block and stop the various tracking (telemetry) issues present in Windows 10
- VeraCrypt - VeraCrypt is free open-source disk encryption software for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux ✅
- ADAMANT - A top-notch anonymous MESSENGER encrypted in blockchain
- Aether - Free, privacy-sensitive public communities, Mass communication without the mass surveillance
- Caprine - Caprine. An elegant Facebook Messenger desktop app
- CHIRP - CHIRP is a free, open-source tool for programming your amateur radio ✅
- Chrono - Chrono is a time tracking tool written in Go. It is fast and simple to use
- Cryptocat - Chat easily and securely with your buddies using Cryptocat ✅
- Discord - Step up your game with a modern voice & text chat app. Crystal clear voice, multiple server and channel support ✅
- eM Client - Fast email client with full Gmail, Hotmail and other services synchronization. Best replacement for MS Outlook or Thunderbird ✅
- KeyBase - Public key crypto for everyone, publicly auditable proofs of identity ✅
- Mattermost - Open Source, Private Slack Cloud Alternative ✅
- Patchwork - A decentralized messaging and sharing app built on top of Secure Scuttlebutt
- Ring - Ring is a free and universal communication platform which preserves the users' privacy and freedoms ✅
- RocketChat - Rocket.Chat is free, unlimited and open source. Replace email, HipChat & Slack with the ultimate team chat software solution ✅
- Scuttlebutt - a decent(ralised) secure gossip platform
- Teamspeak - TeamSpeak is the number one choice VoIP communication system for Online Gaming ✅
- Thunderbird - Thunderbird is a free email application that's easy to set up and customize - and it's loaded with great features! ✅
- Tox - Tox is easy-to-use software that connects you with friends and family without anyone else listening in ✅
- twtxt - twtxt is a decentralised, minimalist microblogging service for hackers
- Chatty - Chatty is a Twitch chat client for everyone who appreciates a dedicated desktop application ✅
- Livestreamer - Livestreamer is a command-line utility that pipes video streams from various services into a video player, such as VLC
- Open Broadcaster Software - Open Broadcaster Software is free and open source software for video recording and live streaming ✅
- Restream - Restream is the best way to stream to YouTube, Twitch, Mixer, Facebook and 30+ other streaming services instantly and simultaneously
- Streamlabs OBS - Forked version of OBS
- Streamlink Twitch GUI - A multi platform Twitch.tv browser for Streamlink
- ActivityWatch - Log what you do on your computer. Simple (yet powerful), extensible, no third parties
- Bleachbit - Clean Your System and Free Disk Space ✅
- Chocolatey - The package manager for Windows ✅
- Classic Shell - Classic Shell™ is free software that improves your productivity, enhances the usability of Windows ✅
- Core Temp - Core Temp is a compact, no fuss, small footprint, yet powerful program to monitor processor temperature and other vital information ✅
- CPU-Z - CPU-Z is a freeware that gathers information on some of the main devices of your system ✅
- Dexpot - Virtual Desktops
- Everything - Locate files and folders by name instantly ✅
- Fences - Automatically organize your desktop shortcuts and icons with Fences!
- f.lux - Is your computer keeping you up late? f.lux is a free download that warms up your computer display at night, to match your indoor lighting ✅
- Keypirinha - A fast launcher for keyboard ninjas on Windows ✅
- LightBulb - LightBulb is an application that reduces eyestrain produced by staring at a computer screen when working late hours (F.lux alternative) ✅
- ManicTime - ManicTime is automatic time tracking software, which tracks application and web page usage. Tracked data helps users keep track of time spent ✅
- NotCPUCores - Work, Play, Stream - Without the Stutter
- NSSM - the Non-Sucking Service Manager ✅
- ProcessHacker - A free, powerful, multi-purpose tool that helps you monitor system resources, debug software and detect malware
- QTTabBar - Extends Explorer by tabs and extra folder views
- Rainmeter - Rainmeter allows you to display customizable skins on your desktop, from hardware usage meters to fully functional audio visualizers
- Resource Hacker - Resource Hacker™ is a resource editor for 32bit and 64bit Windows® applications ✅
- SimpleWall - Simple tool to configure Windows Filtering Platform (WFP) which can configure network activity on your computer ✅
- Speccy - Need to find out what’s inside your computer? Speccy has all the information you need! ✅
- Taskwarrior - NTaskwarrior is a GTD, todo list, task management, command line utility with a multitude of features
- TeraCopy - Official site of TeraCopy, a free utility designed to copy files faster and more secure. It can verify copied files to ensure they are identical ✅
- Unlocker - Unlocker helps delete locked files with error messages including "cannot delete file," and "access is denied."
- Wox - Launcher for Windows, an alternative to Alfred and Launchy ✅