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An awesome & curated list of best applications and tools for Windows.

This Awesome Repository is highly inspired from ichait's Awesome osx. Special thanks to egeerardyn.

Items marked with Open-Source Software are open-source software. Items marked with Freeware are free.

table of contents

Applications

Audio

  • AIMP - 32 bit audio processing and multi-format playback. Freeware
  • Audacity - Free, open source, cross-platform software for recording and editing sounds. Open-Source Software Freeware
  • CDex - CD Ripper (french site, english program). Freeware
  • Qtractor - An Audio/MIDI multi-track sequencer. Open-Source Software Freeware
  • Reaper - Lightweight application with deep feature set and $60 for individual, non-profit, or small business use.
  • Winamp - Music player capable of playing MP3s, MP2s, WAVs, VOCs and MIDI files. Freeware
  • Mixxx - Free DJ software that gives you everything you need to perform live mixes, veritable alternative to Traktor.Open-Source Software Freeware
  • Musicbee - Like iTunes but better than iTunes.
  • VLC - Free media player, works pretty well.
  • Foobar2000 - Free audio player for Windows, supports a wide range of audio formats and has a lot of cool features.
  • Exact Audio Copy - Transfer files from your CDs to your PC in almost every format.Comes with some pretty niffty features too.
  • Kodi - Free and Open Source home theatre software.
  • Resonic - Fast and free audio player.

Chat Clients

  • Hexchat - IRC client based on XChat Open-Source Software Freeware
  • Waow - Awesome WhatsApp Web Client to deliver you the best WhatsApp experience. Freeware
  • LimeChat - Instant messaging application. Freeware
  • Messenger for Desktop - An app for Facebook messenger. Open-Source Software Freeware
  • mIRC - An Internet Relay Chat (IRC) client.
  • Telegram - A messaging app with a focus on speed and security, it’s super fast, simple and free. Freeware
  • Quassel - Quassel IRC is a modern, cross-platform, distributed IRC client. Open-Source Software Freeware

Compression

  • 7-Zip - Open source Windows utility for manipulating archives. Formats 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2 and TAR are supported fully, other formats can be unpacked. Freeware
  • PeaZip - Archiver and file compressor. Extract 7Z CAB ISO RAR TAR ZIP archive files. Freeware
  • Riot - Compress images either by file size or by many other image attributes. Freeware
  • WinRAR - A powerful archive manager. It can backup your data and reduce the size of email attachments, decompress RAR, ZIP and other files.

Data Recovery

  • Data Rescue - Comprehensive and professional Hard drive recovery software that can recover your photos, videos, documents.
  • Ontrach EasyRecovery - Has filtering tools to help sort the large amount of data the software can recover.
  • Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery - Remote recovery option to recover data from another computer over a network.
  • Recuva - Recover your deleted files quickly and easily.
  • TestDisk - Powerful free data recovery software primarily designed to help recover lost partitions and/or make non-booting disks bootable again.

Developer Tools

  • DB Browser for SQLite - High quality, visual, open source tool to create, design, and edit database files compatible with SQLite Open-Source Software
  • HeidiSQL - Powerful and easy client for MySQL, MariaDB, Microsoft SQL Server and PostgreSQL.
  • Fiddler - Web debugging proxy.
  • FileZilla - FTP, FTPS and SFTP client.
  • GitHub Desktop - A GUI for using GitHub.
  • GitKraken - A beautiful, cross-platform Git client. Freeware
  • I'm Only Resting -A feature-rich WinForms-based HTTP client Open-Source Software
  • Insomnia - A modern REST client with an beautiful interface. thout transparency for more efficient files.
  • Keylord Cross-platform GUI client for Redis, LevelDB and Memcached key-value databases.
  • Pixie - A simple color picker for developers.
  • pngquant - Apply lossy compression on PNG files with or wi
  • PostgreSQL Database - A comprehensive list of tools.
  • Process Explorer - A powerful task manager. Freeware
  • Process Hacker - Excellent full blown task manager.
  • RazorSQL - A GUI for managing SQLite databases which requires major work.
  • Redis Desktop Manager Cross-platform open source Redis DB management tool.
  • SourceTree - A free Git & Mercurial client.
  • Sql Wave - A MySQL database manager.
  • Vagrant - A tool for building and managing virtual machines. Open-Source Software
  • Visual Studio - Ultimate Microsoft Developer Tool.
  • Wamp - Web development environment.
  • Wireshark - A network protocol analyzer. Open-Source Software Freeware
  • Zsh - A powerful command line shell. Open-Source Software

Documents

  • LibreOffice - Open source office suite. Open-Source Software Freeware
  • Microsoft Office - Microsoft's own productivity suite.
  • OpenOffice - Software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more. Open-Source Software Freeware
  • NitroPDF - The best PDF Reader you'll ever get.
  • Sumatra PDF - PDF, ePub, MOBI, CHM, XPS, DjVu, CBZ, CBR reader. Freeware

E-Book Utilities

  • Bookviser - Awesome application for Windows 8 devices to read eBooks in a simple way. Freeware
  • Calibre - Powerful software for e-book management and conversion. Open-Source Software Freeware
  • kobo - Incredibly ugly but powerful software for ebook management and conversion. Freeware

Email

  • MailBird - IMAP and POP3 email client, featuring customization, complete touch support and multiple language support.
  • Thunderbird - Email client with minimalistic design. Freeware
  • Nylas N1 - An extensible desktop mail app built on the modern web. Open-Source Software Freeware
  • Postbox - The Power Email App

Games

  • Warsow - Free & fast-paced FPS game for Windows. Freeware
  • Awesome Games - List of games hosted on Github. Freeware
  • GOG Galaxy - Steam-like DRM-free game platform.
  • Unity - Free game engine. Easy to pick up and use with a number of tutorials.
  • Unreal Engine - Another free game engine. Lots of documentation and easier to pick up, but you pay 5% royalties to Unreal when you make money from UE-based games.
  • Steam - Largest online video game retailer. Desktop app allows you to organise your library of games and play them at any time. But you already knew that.
  • Origin - Like Steam, but for EA.
  • Itch.io - Install, update and play indie games. Open-Source Software Freeware

Graphics

  • Blender - Fully-featured extensible cross-platform 3D content suite. Open-Source Software Freeware
  • Gimp - Open source image editor. Open-Source Software Freeware
  • Paint.net - how can you live without paint.net? Freeware
  • Inkscape - Free vector-based graphic design software.
  • Krita - Free drawing software with a bunch of cool features.

Text Editors

  • Atom - A hackable text editor for the 21st Century. Open-Source Software Freeware
  • Brackets - A modern, open source text editor that understands web design. Open-Source Software Freeware
  • Eclipse - A powerful IDE.
  • GVim - (G)Vim is a highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient text editing. Open-Source Software Freeware
  • Light Table - A customizable editor with instant feedback and showing data values flow through your code. Open-Source Software Freeware
  • Notepad++ - A source code editor which supports several programming languages. Open-Source Software Freeware
  • Sublime Text 3 - The sophisticated text editor.
  • Visual Studio Code - Build and debug modern web and cloud applications. Open-Source Software Freeware

Online Storage

  • Dropbox -Simple, elegant and versatile (PC, Macs, Android...) cloud storage solution.
  • Google Drive - Cloud storage solution deeply integrated in the Google ecosystem.
  • Hubic - Cloud storage for Windows, Linux, MacOsx, iOs & Android
  • OneDrive - Best cloud storage solution for Windows users.
  • Mozy
  • Box - Ability to sync more than 100,000 files and supporting both special characters in file names and file paths longer than 256 characters.

Productivity

  • AutoHotkey - The ultimate automation scripting language for Windows. Open-Source Software Freeware
  • Cold Turkey - The only blocker for distracting websites that actually works. (even doesn't let you uninstall it when blocking is active).
  • Chocolatey - A package manager for Windows.
  • Ditto - Clipboard manager.
  • Everything - The fastest file/folder search tool by name.
  • f.lux - Automatically adjust your computer screen to match lighting. Freeware
  • Inkdrop - The note-taking app for Markdown lovers.
  • Launchy - The Open Source Keystroke Launcher. Open-Source Software Freeware
  • Listary - Keep files at your fingertips. An unique search utility.
  • MultiCommander - File Manager for Professionals. Freeware
  • Ninite - The easiest, fastest way to update or install software. Freeware
  • Scoop - A command-line installer for Windows. Open-Source Software Freeware
  • Total Commander - The best file manager for Windows.
  • Simplenote - Simple cross-platform note taking app with cloud-based syncing. Freeware
  • Wox - An effective launcher for windows. Open-Source Software Freeware

Terminal

  • Babun - Alternative Windows shell based on Cygwin.
  • Cmder - Console emulator package.
  • ConEmu - Customizable terminal with tabs, splits, quake-style and more.
  • ConsoleZ - Modified version of Console 2 for a better experience and a better visual rendering.
  • Hyper - A terminal built on web technologies. Open-Source Software Freeware
  • MobaXterm - Xserver and tabbed SSH client.
  • mRemoteNG - The next generation of mRemote, open source, tabbed, multi-protocol, remote connections manager. Open-Source Software Freeware
  • MTPuTTY - Multi-Tabbed PuTTY.
  • Putty - SSH and telnet client.
  • Kitty - advanced Putty (SSH and telnet client).

Utilities

  • A-Z of Windows Terminal Commands
  • Carnac - The easiest way to record keystrokes during any screen recording.
  • Ccleaner - System cleaning utility which is more easy to understand and use for beginners.
  • CleanMyPC - A clean computer in no time.
  • Far - File and Archive manager. Clone of the Norton Commander. Open-Source Software
  • Fraps- Video game capture screen recorder that can be used with all games using DirectX or OpenGL technology.
  • FreeFileSync - An easy backup solution for files and folders, It supports mirroring/two way sync/update between source and destination.
  • Glary Utilities - Provides many more advanced features which are non existent in ccleaner.
  • HTTrack- Offline browser utility, allowing you to download a website from the Internet to a local directory. Open-Source Software
  • LICEcap - Animated screen captures and save them directly to .GIF
  • rimraf - A deep deletion module for node. Help to delete files and folders with very long paths
  • SDelete - A command line utility that can securely delete a file, or clean the slack space.
  • Speccy -Detailed statistics on every piece of hardware in your computer.
  • ShareX- Lets you take screenshots or screencasts of any selected area with a single key. Open-Source Software Freeware
  • Sysinternals Suite - Tool suite by Mark Russinovich that provides access to Windows internals for troubleshooting: processes, physical ports, disk activity etc.
  • Waltr - Transfer any movie or music file to your iPhone w/o iTunes.
  • WinDirStat - It is a disk usage statistics viewer and cleanup too.
  • Windows 10 Login Screen Changer - Changes the Windows 10 Login Screen Background. Open-Source Software

Video

  • K-Lite Codecs - Collection of DirectShow filters, VFW/ACM codecs, and tools.
  • mpv - Media player. Open-Source Software
  • HandBrake - High performance video encoding and conversion tools with a nice GUI. Open-Source Software
  • VLC - Multimedia player and framework that plays DVDs, Audio CDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols.
  • PotPlayer - Multimedia player with a wide collection of codecs which also offers extensive configuration options for users.
  • Open Broadcaster Software - Free and open source software for video recording and live streaming. Open-Source Software

Setup

Windows 10 Setup

Windows 8.1 Setup

Security

  • AdwCleaner - Free removal tool for adware, PUP/LPI, Toolbars and Hijacker.
  • Bitdefender - Best outright protection against malware.
  • CCleaner - For PC Optmization and cleaning computer.
  • GlassWire - Network security monitoring tool and analyzer that visualizes your network activity.
  • SpyBot - Search and destroy malware, spyware and viruses.
  • UnChecky - automatically unchecks unrelated offers from installers.
  • Malwarebytes - protects from dangerous threats that antivirus doesn't.
  • Tor Project - Enable anonymous communication. Open-Source Software
  • Windows 10 Paranoid's Guide
  • Disable Data Logging - Make Windows 10 more private and safe.
  • Viscosity - Fully-featured OpenVPN client, ready for enterprise deployment.

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