Portable Software Applications that run from USB

Bring Portable Software with you on a USB Flash Drive

Reviewed 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) computer.

Bring 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. Most applications run entirely from the portable device, saving your personal settings and changes back to the same device.

Recently Cataloged Portable Software Applications

NEW SpeedCrunch – Portable Calculator (02/06/10)
NEW nPOP – Portable Free Email Client (01/28/10)
NEW SRWare Iron Portable Browser (01/27/10)
NEW Rename Multiple Files with Rename Master
NEW 24×24 Free Button Icons (01/21/10)
NEW Gios PDF Splitter and Merger
NEW Drive Image XML – Free Backup Software Utility (01/19/10)

More portable software tools, applications, games and utilities can be found in the Portable Software Sidebar to your left!

Portable Software Applications (random examples)

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.

Do you know of a portable software application that is not listed, but should be? Are you a portable software Author who would like to have your software reviewed and included?

Feel free to contact us with your submissions, information and or suggestions regarding portable applications.