Awesome Windows

A curated list of awesome applications, softwares, tools and shiny things for Windows

Table of Contents

• Applications
  • Audio
  • Compression
  • Data Recovery
  • Documents
  • E-Book Utilities
  • Editors
  • Imaging
  • Productivity
  • Terminal
  • Utilities
  • Video
  • Others
• Developer Tools
• Contribute

Applications

Audio

• AIMP - Audio player.
• Audacity - Audio Editor and Recorder.
• Winamp - Music player capable of playing MP3s, MP2s, WAVs, VOCs and MIDI files.

Compression

• 7-Zip - Open source Windows utility for manipulating archives. Formats 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2 and TAR are supported fully, other formats can be unpacked.
• PeaZip - Archiver and file compressor. Extract 7Z CAB ISO RAR TAR ZIP archive files.
• WinRAR - A powerful archive manager. It can backup your data and reduce the size of email attachments, decompress RAR, ZIP and other files.

Data Recovery

• Data Rescue - Hard drive recovery software that can recover your photos, videos, documents.
• Recuva - Recover your deleted files quickly and easily.

Documents

• Foxit Reader - The Secure PDF Reader.
• LibreOffice - Open source office suite.
• OpenOffice - Software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more.

E-Book Utilities

• Calibre - Powerful software for e-book management and conversion.

Editors

• Atom - A hackable text editor for the 21st Century.
• Brackets - A modern, open source text editor that understands web design.
• Eclipse - A powerful IDE.
• Light Table - A customizable editor with instant feedback and showing data values flow through your code.
• Sublime Text 3 - The sophisticated text editor.

Imaging

• FastStone - Image Viewer, Screen Capture, Photo Resizer.
• GIMP - The GNU Image Manipulation Program.
• Greenshot - A screenshot tool.
• IrfanView - One of the most popular viewers worldwide.
• Paint.NET - Image and photo editing software for PCs

Productivity

• Chocolatey - A package manager for Windows
• Ditto - Clipboard manager.
• Gow - Unix command line utilities installer.
• Launchy - The Open Source Keystroke Launcher.
• Listery - Keep files at your fingertips. An unique search utility.
• Ninite - The easiest, fastest way to update or install software.

Terminal

• Cmder - Console emulator package.
• ConEmu - Customizable terminal with tabs, splits, quake-style and more.

Utilities

Video

• K-Lite Codecs - Collection of DirectShow filters, VFW/ACM codecs, and tools.
• VLC - Multimedia player and framework that plays DVDs, Audio CDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols.

Others

Developer Tools

• Fiddler - Web debugging proxy.
• FileZilla - FTP, FTPS and SFTP client.
• HeidiSQL - Powerful and easy client for MySQL, MariaDB, Microsoft SQL Server and PostgreSQL.
• MobaXterm - Xserver and tabbed SSH client.
• MTPuTTY - Multi-Tabbed PuTTY.
• Putty - SSH and telnet client.
• Wamp - Web development environment.

Contribute

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