Portable Software Applications that run from USB

Bring your favorite Portable Software with you on a USB Flash Drive

USB Portable Software Applications ScreenshotReviewed and Categorized Free portable software, portable freeware, and Open Source portable applications that can be run directly from a USB device. By installing any of the listed portable apps to your USB flash drive, thumb drive, pen drive, iPod or other storage device, you can carry your applications, tools, software, personal settings and files with you (in your pocket) to use on any available Windows (or Mac in some cases) 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. Many applications run entirely from the portable device, saving your personal settings and changes back to the same device.

Recently Cataloged Portable Software Applications

NEW Frhed – Free Hex Editor (07/01/09)
NEW MP3Tag – Tag Editor (06/30/09)
NEW Universal Viewer – File Viewer
NEW M3 – Free Music Player (06/26/09)
NEW Fotografix – Free Photo Editor

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Portable Software Applications (random examples)

Thumbnail of IE History View – Visited Website Log

IE History View – Visited Website Log

IE  History Vew is a Free portable USB tool that can be used to display the URLs that have recently [...]

Thumbnail of Soprano – Minimalist Audio Player

Soprano – Minimalist Audio Player

Soprano is a tiny (minimalist audio player) that runs in the systems tray. Soprano can be further controlled by hot [...]

Thumbnail of Appetizer – Portable Start Menu

Appetizer – Portable Start Menu

Appetizer is a free portable application launcher. It serves as a portable start menu dock that can be minimized to [...]

Thumbnail of IcoFX – Icon Extractor Editor and Creator

IcoFX – Icon Extractor Editor and Creator

Now you can create and edit icons portably while on the move. IcoFX is a simple and very easy to [...]

Please Note: Most of these reviewed free portable applications were created by their authors to run from a Windows PC. We are expanding our catalog to include portable applications that can be run from Mac and eventually Linux platforms as well.

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