Portable application is a portable and lightweight piece of software that can be stored in a USB Flash Drive. You can carry around with you anywhere you go and use it on any other computer. It’s like carrying your whole computer around and use them at your work place, office or school.

70+ Free Portable Apps For Your USB Flash Drive

Portable Office Tools (7)

• OpenOffice.org – A complete office suite, free alternative to Microsoft Office including a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation tool, drawing package and database.
• GnuCash – Accounting, expenses and financial management.
• Notepad++ – Notepad replacement that supports several languages.



• Akelpad – Plain text editor designed to be small and fast.
• MadEdit – A text editor with text/hex/column edit modes. It supports many character encodings.
• PNotes – An easy to use sticky notes manager with skins.
• AbiWord – Word processing program similar to Microsoft Word.

Portable Audio Tools (18)

• BonkEnc – A CD ripper, audio encoder and converter for various formats.
• AoA Audio Extractor – A handy tool to extract audio/sound or background music from video files.
• Audio Identifier – An application designed to identifies useful information, like average bitrate, used encoder and settings, guessed quality etc.
• MP3val – A high-speed tool for validating and fixing MPEG audio files.



• Mp3tag – An editor for metadata of common audio formats (eg. ID3, Vorbis Comments, APE, MP4, TAK Loseless).
• TagScanner – A multifunction program for organizing and managing your music collection.
• Audio Tagging – A MP3 tag editor that will automatically create title numbers and clean filenames/tags for you.



• Taginator – A program that allows you to batch write MP3 Tags for multiple MP3 files at once.
• Wavosaur – A free sound editor, audio editor, wav editor software for editing.



• Audacity Portable – A audio editor packaged as a portable app, so you can take your audio files along with everything you need to edit and record on the go.
• SoundEditor – A free sound editor used to edit, filter and modify sound files.
• Floola – A standalone application that can be run directly from your iPod and needs no installation.
• iDump – Allow you transfer your songs off your iPod to a PC.
• YamiPod – A freeware application to efficiently manage your iPod under Mac OS X, Windows and Linux. It can be run directly from your iPod.
• mp3DirectCut – A fast and extensive audio editor and recorder for compressed mp3.
• MPEG Audio Scissors – A MPEG Audio cutter that can trim and join MP3 files.



• CoolPlayer – Blazing fast audio player.
• AudioPlayer – A DirectShow based media player.

Portable CD/DVD Tools (8)

• InfraRecorder – An easy to use application interface and Windows Explorer integration.
• ImgBurn – A lightweight CD / DVD / HD DVD / Blu-ray burning application that everyone should have.
• DeepBurner – A lightweight, powerful and rock-solid burning application.
• Active@ ISO Burner – A freeware application that will allow you to burn an ISO image file.
• Burrrn -A little tool for creating audio CDs with CD-Text from various audio files.



• DVDStyler – Take your DVD creation tool settings with you.
• Folder2Iso – Creates an ISO from any kind of folder (with the sub folders).
• CD – A simple but fully functional CD player in 10K (5K download).

Portable File Tools (34)

• Multi File Tool – Allows you to their attributes and dates, calculate the MD5 signatures of all files, find duplicate files etc.
• Toucan – A small utility allowing you to sync, backup and secure your data with more options than the built in suite utilities.
• Free Download Manager – A file download manager and accelerator. It supports
  the BitTorrent protocol, built-in file sharing, Flash video download from YouTube, Google Video etc., remote control via the Internet, audio/video partial file preview, site explorer etc.
• MozBackup – A simple utility for creating backups of Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Thunderbird, Mozilla Sunbird, Flock, SeaMonkey, Mozilla Suite, Spicebird, Songbird and Netscape profiles.
• Abakt – A backup tool for Windows.
• ICE Mirror – Creates or maintains an exact duplicate of the original directory.
• Visual CD – A disk cataloging tool to index CD/DVDs, floppy disks, hard disks, and even folders.



• Lister – A Windows program that will scan your cluttered collection of media files and create an orderly list of your media, sorted by artist & album, in XML format.
• Hasher – Calculates the hash/check-sum for any file via drag-and-drop.
• MD5 Checker – A bare-bone program for checking the MD5 hashes of files.
• winMD5Sum – A simple, compact MD5 sum calculator.
• AppCompactor – Allows you to easily compress applications to decrease size on disk and increase performance when running from slow media like flash drives.



• 7-Zip – Take your file achiever with you and work with your compressed 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2, TAR, RAR files and more on the go.
• Simplyzip – A multi-achiever program that supports numerous formats, including ZIP, ACE, CAB, RAR, TAR, GZIP, LZH, BZ2 etc.
• Universal Extractor – Allows you to extract files from many types of archive files, including ZIP, ARJ, LZH, MSI, EXE etc.
• UPXShell – A command-line tool that can significantly reduce the size of both EXEs and DLLs.
• nPack – A Win32 PE executable file compressor.
• Packman – A 32bit Windows Portable Executable image packer. It will take an existing executable and compress it into a form that runs exactly like the original.



• Copy Handler – Allows you to take full control over the file copy and move operations.
• Advanced LAN – A powerful utility designed for unbreakable file copying on Local Area Network Microsoft Windows (LAN Download Manager).
• Xinorbis – A simple yet powerful hard disk analyser.
• TreeSize Free – Tells you where precious space has gone to.
• NTFSRatio – Shows the size and the compression rate of any folder (and sub folders) within an NTFS volume.
• i.Disk – Scans directory trees and displays the total space used by each directory in an easy to use form.



• Scanner – A unique concentric pie chart to display the usage of your hard disk or other media.
• WinDirStat – A disk usage statistics viewer and cleanup tool.
• AutoCompress – Scans files evaluating their compressibility (or current compression ratio), and compresses them (or decompresses them).
• Drive Cleanup Wizard – Automatically delete left-over Windows Temporary Files, files with certain extensions (.bak, .~, .tmp), empty Temporary Internet Files and the Recycle Bin.
• Easy Duplicate File Finder – Helps you find and remove duplicate files on your PC.
• CloneSpy – Help you free up hard drive space by detecting and removing duplicate files.
• A43 – A file management utility for Windows 2000/XP.
• Q-Dir – Makes your files and folder easy to manage.



• Explorer++ – A multi-tab clone of Windows Explorer.
• FreeCommander – A dual-pane file manager which is more powerful than Windows Explorer.

Portable Cleanup and Defragmenter Tools (7)

• Defraggler – A Windows utility to defrag your entire hard drive, or individual files.
• CCleaner – A tool for cleaning your Windows PC.
• Recuvar – A Windows utility to restore files that have been accidentally deleted from your computer.
• EasyCleaner – A small program which searches invalid registry entries, invalid shortcuts, temporary Internet files, history and cookies.



• Little Registry Cleaner – Remove obsolete or unwanted items that build up in the registry over time in order to improve the stability and performance of your computer.
• UltimateDefrag – Allows you to optimize your hard drive any way you want.
• Power Defragmenter – A graphical defragmenting tool that works in conjunction with Contig.

Some of these software i found cannot be run on your USB Flash Drive itself. It’s just small in size so you can fit in your USB Flash Drive. If you want to find those software that be run on your USB Flash Drive, visit Pendriveapps.com. They offer a freeware list of portable software applications that run from your USB and teaches you how to install them on your USB.

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