Portable Software Applications that run from a USB device
This site is a resource for the review of portable Freeware and Open Source Portable Software Applications that can be run directly from a USB device. By installing any of these portable applications to your USB flash pen drive, iPod or other portable device, you can bring your applications, tools, software, personal settings and files with you to use and run from on any available Windows client computer.
Bring your office applications, e-mail, web browser, instant messaging software, graphical editors, games, media player, antivirus software, recovery tools, encryption utilities, P2P file sharing utilities and much more with you to run from any Windows PC.
Many of these applications run completely from the portable device automatically saving your personal settings and changes back to the same device.
Please Note: Most of these applications are made to be run from a Windows PC. We will soon be expanding the list to include portable applications that can be run from Linux and MAC Platforms as well.
Some example USB portable software applications and games:
- Portable Opera - Internet Web browser
- Portable MSN Instant Messenger
- eMule - Filesharing utility
- Money Manager Ex - Personal finance tool
- Recuva - File recovery tool
- Torpark - Internet Web browser
- KampoZer - Webpage editor
- Avast Portable - Antivirus utility
- RockXP - Password recovery
- uTorrent Portable - Bittorrent client
- WhoIsThisDomain - Domain information tool
- SIW - System information tool
- PC Wizard - Info and benchmarking tool
- Savage - Portable Strategy Game
- Sumatra PDF - Portable PDF Reader
Many more portable software tools, applications, games and utilities can be found in the USB Portable Categories section located in the sidebar to the left!
If you know of a portable software application that is not listed, or are a portable software author who would like to have your software reviewed and included, feel free to contact us with the information regarding this software so we can review and add it to the list.

