Windows software
Software that runs on Windows. Every link goes to the official website, download page or app store.
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Mullvad VPN
A flat-rate VPN service with anonymous account numbers instead of usernames, and open source apps.
Neovim
A modern rewrite of Vim with a built-in language server client, Lua configuration and an embeddable API.
Nmap
The network mapper: find out which hosts are up, which ports are open and what is listening on them.
Notepad++
The fast Windows text and source code editor that replaced Notepad for a generation of users.
Obsidian
A notes app that works on a folder of plain Markdown files on your own disk, with links between them.
Ollama
The simplest way to pull down an open language model and run it on your own machine, from one command or a desktop app.
ONLYOFFICE Desktop Editors
A free desktop office suite built around close compatibility with DOCX, XLSX and PPTX.
OpenSCAD
A 3D modeller you write rather than draw: a script describes the object, and the program compiles it into a solid.
Paint.NET
A fast Windows image editor that sits between Microsoft Paint and a full photo suite.
PCSX2
The PlayStation 2 emulator, twenty years in development, now running most of the library at full speed.
PDF24 Creator
A free Windows PDF toolbox with a printer driver and dozens of tools for merging, converting, compressing and editing PDFs.
PeaZip
A cross-platform archive manager that reads over two hundred formats and has a real file manager built in.
Picocrypt
A tiny, single-purpose file encryption tool using XChaCha20 and Argon2id. Archived by its author, but still working.
Playnite
A Windows game library manager that pulls Steam, Epic, GOG, Battle.net, Ubisoft and emulated games into one interface.
Plex Media Server
A polished media server for your own library, free on the home network, with a paid pass for remote streaming.
PPSSPP
A PSP emulator that needs no BIOS file and runs handheld games in HD on phones and PCs.
PuTTY
The small, stubbornly reliable SSH and Telnet client that has been on every Windows admin’s desktop for twenty-five years.
QEMU
The machine emulator and virtualiser that most of the Linux virtualisation stack is built on.
RawTherapee
A raw processor built around demosaicing and colour accuracy, with a 32-bit floating point engine and unusually deep controls.
Rclone
A command line tool that syncs, copies and mounts files across more than seventy cloud storage services.
restic
A single-executable backup program that makes encrypted, deduplicated snapshots and can send them almost anywhere.
RetroArch
One front end for dozens of emulators, with unified settings, shaders and a controller setup you only do once.
Rufus
Writes a bootable USB drive from an ISO, and can strip the Windows 11 install requirements while doing it.
RustDesk
An open-source remote desktop tool you can point at your own relay server instead of somebody else’s cloud.
ShareX
A Windows capture tool that screenshots, records, annotates and uploads, all driven by hotkeys.
Shotcut
A free cross-platform video editor with a multi-track timeline that edits most formats without importing them first.
Sizer
Resizes and repositions any window to exact pixel dimensions from a right-click menu or a hotkey.
Spek
Drops an audio file on the window and draws its spectrogram, so you can see where the quality really stops.
Sumatra PDF
A small, fast, open-source reader for PDF, EPUB, MOBI, CBZ, DjVu and other documents on Windows.
Sweet Home 3D
Interior design software for drawing a floor plan, arranging furniture on it, and walking through the result in 3D.
