This is a list of free Windows software for normal users. It will be updated from time to time.
Please note the following points:
- This list contains the great built-in apps in Windows.
- Strikethrough text is used to show that something is not recommended. These apps aren't private or reliable enough compared to similar apps, although they are cool!
- Some apps could possibly infringe copyright or other laws.
- Microsoft Store Apps may not have all the features of Desktop Apps.
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CHANGELOG 2024-05-04:
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Added AFFiNE, FreeCommander, SimpleX, DISMTools, Proton Drive, Ente Auth, ONLYOFFICE, Gopeed, Typst, Mullvad Browser, Rnote, Pympress, Sniffnet, Winpilot, Sidebery, Xpano, Moosync, MindForger, Musicpod, Alexandria, Podman, Monkeytype, FxSound, Reor, Lan Mouse, mobslide, YouTube Music, Screenbox, PikaTorrent, Gyroflow, Anytype, Lively Weather, FluentWeather, NAPS2, Firefox Relay, Oh My Posh and Audio Share
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Replaced Universal Android Debloater GUI by Universal Android Debloater Next Generation
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Removed ThisIsWin11, Radiograph, Leaflet, FileSend, Design Editor, Abricotine, CryptoTracker, and LANDrop
- Github: https://github.com/auctors/free-lunch
- Codeberg: https://codeberg.org/auctor/free-lunch
- ❤️ Audacity - An easy-to-use, multi-track audio editor and recorder.
- AudioMass - Free full-featured web-based audio & waveform editing tool.
- ❤️ Tenacity - An easy-to-use, privacy-friendly, FLOSS, cross-platform multi-track audio editor/recorder.
- ❤️ fre:ac - A free audio converter and CD ripper with support for various popular formats and encoders.
- ❤️ AIMP - A full-featured music player.
- DeaDBeeF - A modular cross-platform audio player.
- ❤️ Dopamine - An elegant audio player which tries to make organizing and listening to music as simple and pretty as possible.
- ❤️ foobar2000 - An advanced freeware audio player.
- Harmonoid - Elegant music app to play & manage music library.
- Moosync - A customizable desktop music player with a clean interface.
- Museeks - A simple, clean and cross-platform music player.
- ❤️ MusicBee - A music manager and player.
- Musicpod - Music, radio, television and podcast player for Ubuntu, Windows, MacOs and Android.
- Strawberry Music Player - A music player and music collection organizer.
- Tauon Music Box - The desktop music player from the future!
- CPOD - A simple, beautiful podcast app.
- AudioStellar - Open source data-driven musical instrument for latent sound structure discovery and music experimentation.
- BeepBox - An online tool for sketching and sharing instrumental melodies.
- Bespoke Synth - Bespoke is a software modular synthesizer.
- Helio Workstation - One music sequencer for all major platforms, desktop and mobile.
- Jamulus - A networked music performance software allowing musicians to rehearse, perform and play in real-time.
- ❤️ LMMS - Cross-platform music production software.
- ❤️ Mixxx - Free DJ software that gives you everything you need to perform live mixes.
- ❤️ MuseScore - Create, playback, and print sheet music for free.
- OpenMPT (ModPlug Tracker) - Sample-based music production program in the style of trackers such as Impulse Tracker and FastTracker.
- Sonic Pi - A code-based music creation and performance tool.
- Cider - An open source and community oriented Apple Music client.
- Lofi - A mini Spotify player with WebGL visualizations.
- muffon - Music streaming browser.
- ❤️ nuclear - Streaming music player that finds free music for you.
- Spotube - A lightweight free Spotify crossplatform-client which handles playback manually, streams music using Youtube & no Spotify premium account is needed.
- YouTube Music Desktop - A Desktop App for YouTube Music.
- YouTube Music - YouTube Music Desktop App bundled with custom plugins (and built-in ad blocker / downloader).
- Kid3 - An open-source cross-platform audio tag editor for many audio file formats.
- Mp3tag - A powerful and easy-to-use tool to edit metadata of audio files.
- ❤️ MusicBrainz Picard - An open-source cross-platform music tagger.
- OneTagger - The ultimate music tagger for DJs.
- ❤️ Equalizer APO - A system-wide equalizer.
- FxSound - A digital audio program built for Windows PC's.
- ❤️ Peace Equalizer - A Windows PC interface for Equalizer APO.
- ❤️ EarTrumpet - A powerful volume control app for Windows.
- SoundSwitch - SoundSwitch offers you the opportunity to switch your playback and recording devices using simple hotkeys.
- Volumey - Volume mixer that allows you to set up global hotkeys to control your Windows audio system.
- WinMute - WinMute can automatically mute all sound devices on your PC.
- AirConnect - Use AirPlay to stream to UPnP/Sonos & Chromecast devices.
- AirPodsDesktop - AirPods desktop user experience enhancement program.
- Audio Band - Display and control songs from the Windows taskbar.
- AudioPlaybackConnector - Bluetooth audio playback (A2DP Sink) connector for Windows 10 2004+.
- Buzz - Transcribe and translate audio offline on your personal computer.
- Carla - A fully-featured audio plugin host, with support for many audio drivers and plugin formats.
- ❤️ Figaro - Real-time open-source voice modification program & sound board.
- Friture - An application to visualize and analyze live audio data in real-time.
- Mechvibes - Adds sound feedback any keyboard.
- MicMute - Control your microphone using keyboard and mouse hotkeys.
- Neothesia - Flashy Synthesia Like Software For Linux, Windows and macOS.
- Piano Trainer - A music practice program w/ MIDI support.
- projectM - The most advanced open-source music visualizer.
- Real-time Noise Suppression Plugin - Noise suppression plugin based on Xiph's RNNoise.
- Sonic Visualiser - Visualisation, analysis, and annotation of music audio recordings.
- SonoBus - A real-time network audio streaming collaboration tool.
- Soundux - A cross-platform soundboard that features a simple user interface.
- Spek - Free Acoustic Spectrum Analyser.
- SpleeterGUI - Music source separation desktop app.
- Sunamu - Show your currently playing song in a stylish way!
- Audio Share - Audio Share can share Windows/Linux computer's audio to Android phone over network, so your phone becomes the speaker of computer.
- swyh-rs - Stream What You Hear written in rust, inspired by SWYH.
- VB-CABLE - VB-CABLE is a virtual audio device working as virtual audio cable.
- ❤️ Nextcloud - A suite of client-server software for creating and using file hosting services.
- ❤️ MEGA - A secure, user-controlled end-to-end encrypted cloud storage and communications service with 20 GB free storage space.
- ❤️ Proton Drive - Secure your files, documents and photos with end-to-end encryption.
- ❤️ Sync - A file storage and document collaboration platform.
- ❤️ Tresorit - Tresorit is the ultra-secure place in the cloud to store, sync, and share files within your organization and with external partners.
Internxt Drive - A zero-knowledge cloud storage service based on best-in-class privacy and security.
- Cyberduck - A libre FTP, SFTP, WebDAV, S3, Backblaze B2, Azure & OpenStack Swift browser.
- Duplicacy - A new generation cloud backup tool.
- Duplicati - Store securely encrypted backups in the cloud!
- FreeFileSync - Folder comparison and synchronization software that creates and manages backup copies of all your important files.
- Kopia - A simple, cross-platform tool for managing encrypted backups in the cloud.
- ❤️ Rclone - A command-line program to sync files and directories to and from different cloud storage providers.
- restic - Fast, secure, efficient backup program.
- ❤️ Syncthing - A continuous file synchronization program.
- ❤️ ChoEazyCopy - Simple and powerful RoboCopy GUI.
- Ultracopier - Ultracopier acts as a replacement for files copy dialogs.
- Ludusavi - A tool for backing up your PC video game save data.
- ❤️ Brave - A fast, private and secure web browser.
- Chromium - The free and open-source project behind Google Chrome.
- ❤️ Firefox - Get the browser that protects what’s important.
- ❤️ LibreWolf - A fork of Firefox, focused on privacy, security and freedom.
- ❤️ Mullvad Browser - Privacy-focused browser for Linux, macOS and Windows.
- ❤️ Tor Browser - A web broswer that anonymizes your web traffic using the Tor network.
Min - A fast, minimal browser that protects your privacy.
- Mue - Fast, open and free-to-use new tab page for modern browsers.
- nightTab - A neutral new tab page accented with a chosen colour.
- Tabliss - A beautiful, customisable New Tab page for Firefox and Chrome.
- AdNauseam - Fight back against advertising surveillance.
- ClearURLs - This extension will automatically remove tracking elements from URLs to help protect your privacy when browsing the Internet.
- ❤️ FastForward - FastForward automatically skips annoying link shorteners.
- ❤️ LibRedirect - A web extension that redirects popular sites to alternative privacy-friendly frontends and backends.
- ❤️ LocalCDN - A web browser extension that emulates Content Delivery Networks to improve your online privacy.
- Mailvelope - Browser extension for OpenPGP encryption with Webmail.
- ❤️ uBlock Origin - An efficient blocker for Chromium and Firefox. Fast and lean.
- Floccus - Sync your bookmarks privately across browsers.
- Sidebery - Firefox extension for managing tabs and bookmarks in sidebar.
- xBrowserSync - Free and open source tool for syncing your browser data between browsers and devices whilst maintaining your privacy and anonymity.
- ❤️ Automa - A chrome extension for automating your browser by connecting blocks.
- BetterViewer - A replacement for the image viewing mode built into Firefox and Chrome-based web browsers.
- Bypass Paywalls - A web browser extension to help bypass paywalls for selected sites.
- ❤️ Dark Reader - Dark Reader analyzes web pages and aims to reduce eyestrain while browsing the web.
- Gesturefy - A customizable Firefox mouse gesture add-on with a variety of different commands.
- Marinara - A time management assistant for Chrome that follows the Pomodoro Technique.
- ❤️ Omni - The all-in-one tool to supercharge your productivity keyboard.
- Read Aloud - A Text to Speech Voice Reader extension for your browser!
- ❤️ Screenity - The most powerful screen recorder & annotation tool for Chrome.
- Search by Image - A browser extension that makes effortless reverse image searches possible, and comes with support for more than 30 search engines.
- ❤️ Translate Web Pages - Translate your page in real time using Google or Yandex.
- uBlacklist - Blocks specific sites from appearing in Google search results.
- Unclutter - A modern reader mode and article library for your browser.
- ❤️ Violentmonkey - An open source userscript manager.
- Web Scrobbler - Web Scrobbler helps online music listeners to scrobble their playback history.
- Delta Chat - Chat over e-mail.
- Mailspring - A beautiful, fast and fully open source mail client.
- ❤️ Thunderbird - A free email application that’s easy to set up and customize.
- ❤️ AnonAddy - Anonymous Email Forwarding.
- ❤️ Firefox Relay - Keep your email safe from hackers and trackers.
- ❤️ SimpleLogin - Receive and send emails anonymously.
- ❤️ Protonmail - An email provider/service that respects privacy and puts people first.
- ❤️ Tutanota - A secure email service.
- ❤️ Burner.kiwi - No bullshit temporary mail service written in Go.
- Guerrilla Mail - A disposable email.
- MailDrop - A quick, disposable email.
- ❤️ Element - Secure and independent communication, connected via Matrix.
- Session - An end-to-end encrypted messenger.
- ❤️ Signal - A messaging app with an unexpected focus on privacy, combined with all the features expected from a modern IM app.
- ❤️ SimpleX - The first messenger without user IDs.
- Ferdium - A desktop app that helps you organize how you use your favourite apps by combining them into one application.
- Hamsket - Free messaging and emailing app that combines common web applications into one.
- Jitsi Meet - Free Jitsi Meet instance, provising state-of-the-art video conferencing.
- Revolt - User-first chat platform built with modern web technologies.
- Glimesh - A next generation live streaming platform built by the community, for the community.
- LBRY - A decentralized video sharing network.
- ❤️ PeerTube - A free, decentralized and federated video platform.
- Lemmy - A link aggregator / Reddit clone for the fediverse.
- ❤️ Mastodon - Globally interconnected microblogging community.
- ❤️ WriteFreely - A clean, simple publishing platform made for writers.
- GNU PSPP - A program for statistical analysis of sampled data. It is a free as in freedom replacement for the proprietary program SPSS.
- gretl - A cross-platform software package for econometric analysis, written in the C programming language.
- jamovi - A free and open statistics package, which is easy to use, and designed to be familiar to users of SPSS.
- JASP - JASP is an open-source statistics program that is free, friendly, and flexible.
- RStudio - RStudio provides open source and enterprise-ready professional software for data science.
- Fluent Terminal - A Terminal Emulator based on UWP and web technologies.
- ❤️ PowerShell - A task-based command-line shell and scripting language built on .NET.
- Tabby - A highly configurable terminal emulator, SSH and serial client.
- WezTerm - GPU-accelerated cross-platform terminal emulator and multiplexer made with Rust.
- WindTerm - A professional cross-platform SSH/Sftp/Shell/Telnet/Serial terminal.
- ❤️ Windows Terminal - A modern, fast, efficient, powerful, and productive terminal application for users of command-line tools and shells like Command Prompt, PowerShell, and WSL.
- Oh My Posh - A prompt theme engine for any shell.
- Brackets - Brackets is a modern text editor that makes it easy to design in the browser.
- GNU Emacs - An extensible, customizable, free/libre text editor — and more.
- ❤️ Kate - A multi-document text editor.
- Lapce - Lightning-fast and Powerful Code Editor written in Rust.
- Lite XL - A lightweight text editor written in Lua.
- ❤️ Notepad++ - A free source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages.
- ❤️ Notepads - A modern, lightweight text editor with a minimalist design.
- Visual Studio Code - A free, lightweight, and extensible code editor.
- ❤️ VSCodium - A community-driven, freely-licensed binary distribution of Microsoft’s editor VS Code.
- ❤️ adb - A programming tool used for the debugging of Android-based devices.
- ❤️ DevToys - A Swiss Army knife for developers.
- massCode - A free and open source code snippets manager for developers.
- WinMerge - An Open Source differencing and merging tool for Windows.
- freeCodeCamp.org - Learn to code for free with millions of other people around the world.
- The Odin Project - An open-source curriculum for learning full-stack web development.
- AriaNg-Native - A better aria2 desktop frontend than AriaNg, containing all features of AriaNg and more features for desktop.
- ❤️ Free Download Manager - A powerful modern download accelerator and organizer.
- Gopeed - A modern download manager that supports all platforms.
- ❤️ JDownloader - A free, open-source download management tool.
- ❤️ Motrix - A full-featured download manager.
- Persepolis - A download manager & a GUI for Aria2.
- XDM - Powerfull download accelerator and video downloader.
- ❤️ Streamlink - A CLI utility which pipes video streams from various services into a video player.
- ❤️ Lux - A fast and simple video downloader built with Go.
- ❤️ You-Get - A tiny command-line utility to download media contents (videos, audios, images) from the Web.
- ❤️ youtube-dl - Command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and other video sites.
- ❤️ YT-DLP - A youtube-dl fork with additional features and fixes.
- ❤️ Hitomi Downloader - Desktop utility to download images/videos/music/text from various websites, and more.
- ❤️ Media Downloader - A Qt/C++ front end to youtube-dl.
- Open Video Downloader - A cross-platform GUI for youtube-dl made in Electron and node.js.
- Tartube - A GUI front-end for youtube-dl.
- Video Downloader - A video and channel downloader that supports 110 websites.
- YoutubeDownloader - An application that lets you download videos from YouTube.
- HakuNeko - A cross-platform downloader for manga and anime from various websites.
- N_m3u8DL-CLI - A command line tool for downloading m3u8.
- SCrawler - Media downloader from any sites, including Twitter, Reddit, Instagram, TikTok, PornHub, XHamster, XVIDEOS etc.
- SpotiFlyer - Kotlin Multiplatform Music Downloader ,supports Spotify, Youtube, Gaana, Jio-Saavn and SoundCloud.
- Twitch Leecher - An extremely fast and easy to use Twitch VOD downloader.
- Ytmdl - A simple app to get songs from YouTube in mp3 format with artist name, album name etc from sources like iTunes, Spotify, LastFM, Deezer, Gaana etc.
- gallery-dl - Command-line program to download image galleries and collections from several image hosting sites.
- Instant.io - Streaming file transfer over WebTorrent (torrents on the web).
- PicoTorrent - A tiny and minimal BitTorrent client.
- PikaTorrent - A modern, simple, connected, and electric BitTorrent app.
- ❤️ qBittorrent - qBittorrent aims to be a good alternative to all other bittorrent clients out there.
- ❤️ Transmission - A fast, easy, and free BitTorrent client.
- WebTorrent - The streaming torrent app.
- Coursera - Free and paid courses on a wide variety of subjects from scholastic to technical and more.
- edX - Free online courses by Harvard, MIT.
- Khan Academy - A personalized learning resource for all ages.
- JabRef - An open-source, cross-platform citation and reference management tool.
- Qiqqa - A free research and reference manager.
- ZoteroBib - ZoteroBib helps you build a bibliography instantly from any computer or device.
- ❤️ Zotero - A free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share your research sources.
- Crow Translate - A simple and lightweight translator.
- DeepL Translator - A neural machine translation service.
- Lingva Translate - Alternative front-end for Google Translate.
- Anki - Powerful, intelligent flash cards.
- Avogadro - An advanced molecular editor designed for cross-platform use in computational chemistry, molecular modeling, bioinformatics, materials science, and related areas.
- BOINC - Open-source software for volunteer computing and grid computing.
- Converter NOW - A flexible unit converter.
- GCompris - A high quality educational software suite.
- GNU Octave - A programming language for scientific computing.
- GeoGebra - Free digital tools for class activities, graphing, geometry, collaborative whiteboard and more.
- Gramps - Research, organize and share your family tree with Gramps.
- LanguageTool - Checks your writing in more than 20 languages.
- Monkeytype - The most customizable typing website with a minimalistic design and a ton of features.
- Orange Data Mining - A data mining and visualization toolbox for novice and expert alike.
- Qalculate! - A multi-purpose cross-platform desktop calculator.
- Scilab - Open source software for numerical computation.
- Scratch - With Scratch, you can program your own interactive stories, games, and animations.
- Tabby- Simple timetable desktop app to track your school schedule.
- ❤️ Czkawka - Multi functional app to find duplicates, empty folders, similar images etc.
- ❤️ dupeGuru - A cross-platform GUI tool to find duplicate files in a system.
- Video Duplicate Finder - A cross-platform software to find duplicated video (and image) files on hard disk based on similiarity.
- ❤️ 7-Zip - A file archiver with a high compression ratio.
- NanaZip - The 7-Zip derivative intended for the modern Windows experience.
- ❤️ PeaZip - A free file manager and file archiver.
- Convertio - Easy tool to convert files online.
- ❤️ Dangerzone - Take potentially dangerous PDFs, office documents, or images and convert them to a safe PDF.
- ❤️ File Converter - A very simple tool which allows you to convert and compress one or several file(s) using the context menu of windows explorer.
- ❤️ Pandoc - Universal markup converter.
- ❤️ Double Commander - A free cross platform open source file manager with two panels side by side.
- Far Manager - A program for managing files and archives in Windows operating systems.
- ❤️ Files - A modern file manager.
- FreeCommander - An easy-to-use alternative to the standard windows file manager.
- Sigma File Manager - A free, open-source, quickly evolving, modern file manager app.
- Xplorer - A customizable, modern and cross-platform File Explorer.
- Ant Renamer - A free program that makes easier the renaming of lots of files and folders by using specified settings.
- File Renamer Diff - A File Renamer App featuring a difference display before and after the change for Windows.
- ❤️ Szyszka - A simple but powerful and fast bulk file renamer.