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softharbor.net is live.
A bilingual (EN/VI) directory of desktop software that is free, or
buy-once. Never subscription-only. You reinstall Windows, open one page,
filter by category and platform, and go straight to every official source —
instead of googling ten tools and hoping the top result isn't a typosquat.
The site hosts no binaries. It's a map, not a mirror.
What's in it
326 apps across all 12 categories — browsers, developer tools, IDEs,
graphics, audio/video, productivity, utilities, security & privacy,
communication, file management, gaming and system tools. 697 pages.
Each entry has:
- original two-line summaries in English and Vietnamese, written from
scratch rather than pasted — which is what lets the dataset carry CC BY-SA - links to the developer's own homepage, repository and download page
- a pricing badge (
free·free-onetime·onetime), and an SPDX licence
badge where the app is open source - a dated security status with the VirusTotal permalink attached
On the security status
320 entries are clean. Six are deliberately held at unverified —
PeaZip, Tor Browser, ProtonVPN, Rufus, Synfig Studio and Windscribe — because
at least one scanner flagged something. They look like the false positives that
VPN clients, bootable-media writers and Tor builds attract as a matter of
course, but marking them clean anyway would be a guess dressed as a fact.
The scan permalink is attached either way, so you can open it and judge for
yourself. The site never says more than "no known warnings as of <date>".
Privacy
No analytics, no cookies, no third-party requests at runtime. Fonts, icons and
scripts are all self-hosted. localStorage holds your language, theme and
legal-gate acceptance, and nothing else.
Contributing
Suggest an app or report a bug with the
issue forms.
Read CONTRIBUTING.md
before opening a pull request.
Something wrong with an entry — a dead link, a pricing change, a project that
moved? That's the most useful report you can file.
Code GPL-3.0-only · dataset CC BY-SA 4.0 · contact contact@softharbor.net
App names and logos belong to their owners. AI use in building this project is
disclosed at /legal/ai-disclosure.