Audio & Video Software Backup & Recovery Software CD & DVD Software Miscellaneous Software Internet & Email Software PC Maintenance & Utility Software Photo & Image Software Productivity Software Security Software Best Free Portable Applications (sorted into categories) Audio & Video Software WinX HD Video Converter Deluxe – Without a doubt the best video converter available. Sure, it costs money but sometimes you have to pay to get the very best. 4K Download.com – An excellent range of free video and music downloaders available from this developer, including 4K Video Downloader, 4K YouTube to MP3, and more. Portable versions available. Any Video Converter Free – Excellent format support. Basic editing and effects. High quality output. Also converts videos hosted online. Light Alloy – DCT’s Media Player pick. Superb quality playback, abundant features, and a portable version is available. Check out our review . VLC Media Player – A great free video and audio player. Supports most video formats without needing to download additional codecs. Brilliant range of features. Portable available. Backup & Recovery Software Hasleo Backup Suite Free – Free and full-featured image (system) backup and cloning software. Comprehensive feature set with some nice additional tools. Read John Durso’s comprehensive review . Aomei Backupper Standard – Easy to use free image-based backup solution. Full system backups. Scheduling. Cloning. Create bootable media, including disc and USB, for disaster recovery. Highly recommended! Ascomp Synchredible : Automatically sync (backup) files, folders, and entire drives to local disks, external media, and/or cloud. Standard version free for personal use. FBackup – A free yet very simple and effective file backup program. Backup important files and folders to local, external (USB) or network drives. Backup to ZIP compressed file or exact copy. Includes scheduler, file filters, verification, password protection and more. iPhone Data Recovery – Now with Primo iPhone Data Recovery, it’s super easy to retrieve your lost or deleted photos and videos from Camera Roll, Photo Stream, and Photo Library – no matter you have backup or not, and no matter how you lose the pictures (system upgrade, jailbreak, accidental deletion, etc.). It lets you preview the photos in thumbnails and get back them with original quality. Primo iPhone Data Recovery CD & DVD Software Ashampoo Burning Studio Free – A free full featured CD/DVD/Blu-Ray burning suite. Easy to use with intuitive interface. Includes direct (1:1) disc to disc copy. CDBurnerXP – User-friendly CD/DVD burning software. Simple, intuitive interface (for portable version: click More download options ) WinX DVD Ripper Platinum – Fast and accurate DVD ripper (full DVD in just 5 minutes). Rips DVDs to all popular formats, including support for playback on mobile devices DVD Flick – Great simple interface and very easy to use free software. Convert and burn video files to DVD. Supports a multitude of video and audio formats. Add a menu, add your own subtitles. A complete all-in-one solution. DVD Shrink – The best DVD copy freeware. Not supported any more but still works a treat with unencrypted disks. ImgBurn – Highly developed advanced free burning software. Great range of features and options. More suited to advanced users. Miscellaneous Tools Everything – Super fast and lightweight search tool ( check out our review ) Patch My PC – Excellent automatic software updater supports 300+ applications ( Patch My PC Review ) Unlocker – Delete locked files; access denied, file is in use, etc. Free PC Audit – Portable, lightweight system information viewer SIV (System Information Viewer) – Portable comprehensive system information viewer Internet & Email Software Firefox – A secure and highly customizable browser, allowing you to surf the web without worrying about drive by downloads, spyware, and other nasties. There are literally thousands of extensions you can add to Firefox for free. Brave Browser – Is the most private browser of the mainstream browsers, incorporating a native ad-blocker, anti-tracking protections, and even fingerprinting prevention ( check out our review ) Google Chrome – Very fast browser with a simple uncomplicated interface and many extensions available. Bitwarden – DCT’s best free password manager. Login credentials are saved in a secure online vault making it very easy to share across devices. Super secure and easy to use with extensions available for all popular browsers. KeePass – Store passwords securely with this free program. Works great for websites! Saves a lot of time entering passwords, usernames, and sign-ins. MailWasher – Excellent email/spam manager. Preview and/or delete emails on the server. Includes white list and blacklist, visual and audio notifications, automatic deletion. Never download unwanted emails to your computer again. Sandboxie – Free, now open source, software which creates a virtual environment (sandbox) for safe surfing. When you delete the contents of the sandbox everything, including any malware, is erased. Everybody should have Sandboxie installed! Thunderbird – A completely free full-featured email program from the authors of Firefox. Very popular and fully customizable with add-ins.

Betterbird – Free email client. A fork of Thunderbird that the project refers to as a “fine-tuned” version of Thunderbird. Read our review . Privacy Badger – An add-on/extension developed by the EFF to enhance privacy and prevent online tracking. Available for all popular browsers. WOT (Web Of Trust) – Excellent free site advisory service integrates with your browser to provide safety ratings for search results and individual sites. Malwarebytes Browser Guard : Free browser extension for the reputable security company Malwarebytes. Blocks access to potentially risky websites. Blocks ads, scams, and trackers. Crucial Memory – The leading source of quality RAM memory. Great selection, good prices, excellent support, and a lifetime warranty! A real winner! HP Computers – HP is currently my pick for both laptop and desktop computers. Great prices and performance. The design of their current laptop line is simply beautiful! Newegg – My current pick for DIY computers and computer components such as hard drives, motherboards, cpu’s, sound cards, and video cards! Newegg has the best customer service and their prices can’t be beat! Great Products! Great Prices! Great Customer Service! A Trifecta for geeks. PC Maintenance & Utility Software Aomei Partition Manager Standard – Excellent comprehensive partition manager. Free for both home and commercial use. MiniTool Partition Wizard Free – Comprehensive partition manager which includes all major functions. EASEUS Partition Master Home Edition – Another excellent free and comprehensive hard disk partition manager; Resize, move, create/delete, hide/unhide, format, copy, merge, wipe, convert. Ascomp PC Internals : Provides a detailed overview and monitoring of CPU, RAM, hard drives, SSDs, graphics cards, and other system areas. Standard edition free for personal use. Rufus – Create bootable USB flash drives. Easy to use, free and portable. The best! Ventoy – Create multi-boot USB flash drives for multiple ISO files. Free and portable, simple to use. Extremely effective. Wise Disk Cleaner – Free and portable hard drive cleaner, very effective at cleaning useless junk files and safe to use. PrivaZer – Excellent free cleaning and privacy tool. Deep cleans many areas. Securely erases all traces for enhanced privacy. Best in its class. Portable version available. Wise Data Recovery – Free data recovery software. Portable version available. Hibit Uninstaller – Excellent free uninstaller, portable version available. Includes a nice range of additional tools; startup manager, junk file cleaner, file shredder, and more. Revo Uninstaller – A free uninstaller that goes above and beyond the uninstaller built into Windows. Will search for and delete leftover files and registry items. Includes a couple of handy tools and has a portable version too. Geek Uninstaller – Terrific free portable uninstaller. Fast scan and removal of leftovers. ‘Force Removal’ mode for broken or stubborn programs. Full support for both 32-bit and 64-bit applications. HWiNFO – Free portable system information and diagnostics utility. Displays information relating to the system’s hardware. Real time monitoring, including core temps. Available in 32-bit and native 64-bit portable editions. MooO System Monitor – The most comprehensive free system monitoring tool with more than 70 fields to choose from. Extensive, portable, and highly customizable. TeamViewer – Remote access software that connects to any PC or server around the world within a few seconds. You can remote control your partner’s PC as if you were sitting right in front of it. This is a great tool to troubleshoot and fix computers without having the computer in front of you! PeaZip – Free Zip files utility – Open RAR TAR 7Z ZIP ZIPX files, 150+ formats supported Supported systems: Windows 9x, Windows NT/2K/XP, Windows Vista/7/8/8.1 (32 and 64 bit), ReactOS, Wine 7Zip – You can use 7-Zip on any computer, including a computer in a commercial organization. You don’t need to register or pay for 7-Zip. Supported formats: 7z, XZ, BZIP2, GZIP, TAR, ZIP and WIM. Photo & Image Software PicPick Screen Capture – Best free screen capture tool. Built-in editor with superior range of editing and annotation tools. Portable version available. Now with screen recorder included. SnipTool Screen Capture – Lightweight yet versatile screen capture tool with built-in editor. Portable version available. FastStone Image Viewer – Excellent free image browser, editor and converter that supports all major graphic formats. Nice array of features such as image comparison, red-eye removal, emailing, resizing, cropping, color adjustments and musical slideshow. IrfanView – Popular free image viewer, editor, optimizer. Heaps of features. One the the very best. Paint.Net – A free well designed image editor with an attractive interface. A medium level editor with lots of options and tools comparable to commercial software. Productivity Software AllMyNotes Organizer – A free combination sticky notes/personal information manager. Centrally store and organize all your: recipes, to do lists, shopping lists, correspondence, diary entries, blog articles, anything and everything. Very easy to use and includes a nice notes editor. All notes are searchable and can be password protected. A portable version is available. LibreOffice – Has supplanted Open Office as the leading open source office suite. Full featured free suite for creating; text documents, spreadsheets, presentations, diagrams, and databases. Fully compatible with Microsoft Office formats. Money Manager Ex – Easy to use free personal finance manager. Available in installable or portable versions. Includes all the basic features most users would want in a personal finance application yet manages to retain simplicity and ease of use. PDF-XChange Viewer – Lightweight PDF reader which provides additional features over and above your ‘average’ PDF reader. Portable version available. Sumatra PDF – Lightweight and portable. An excellent choice for basic PDF viewing. Rendering quality is very good but not on par with PDF-XChange. WordWeb – Terrific free local dictionary/thesaurus. Simply select a word in any document and you’ll immediately get a popup with the word’s meaning and synonyms. Security Software Avira Free Antivirus – Top notch protection for free. Used to suffer from persistent nag screen and additional toolbar but that’s all changed now with a clean install and only occasional popup. Panda Free Antivirus – Consistently excellent detection rates, lightweight and unobtrusive. Cloud based so always up-to-date. Sophos Home – Sophos is relatively new to the home market, but it a well known player in the business AV market. Sophos Home is lightweight, unobtrusive, and effective, and uses the same commercial grade engine as Sophos’ Endpoint business class software. Emsisoft Emergency Kit – Excellent free and portable malware scanner/remover. Updates definitions from within the program. NOTE: A large download. SUPERAntiSpyware & Malwarebytes Anti-Malware – Free malware scanner/removers. Superior detection and removal of all types of malware.