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An awesome & curated list of best applications and tools for Windows.

This Awesome Repository is highly inspired from ichait's Awesome osx. Special thanks to egeerardyn.

Items marked with are open-source software. Items marked with are free.

Applications
- Audio
- Chat Clients
- Compression
- Data Recovery
- Developer Tools
- Documents
- E-Book Utilities
- Email
- Games
- Graphics
- Online Storage
- Productivity
- Terminal
- Text Editors
- Utilities
- Video
Setup
- Windows 10
- Windows 8.1 setup
Security
Miscellaneous
Discussion Forums
Contribute

Applications

Audio

AIMP - 32 bit audio processing and multi-format playback.
Audacity - Free, open source, cross-platform software for recording and editing sounds.
Qtractor - An Audio/MIDI multi-track sequencer.
Reaper - Lightweight application with deep feature set and $60 for individual, non-profit, or small business use.
Winamp - Music player capable of playing MP3s, MP2s, WAVs, VOCs and MIDI files.
Mixxx - Free DJ software that gives you everything you need to perform live mixes, veritable alternative to Traktor.
Musicbee - Like iTunes but better than iTunes.
VLC - Free media player, works pretty well.
Foobar2000 - Free audio player for Windows, supports a wide range of audio formats and has a lot of cool features.
Exact Audio Copy - Transfer files from your CDs to your PC in almost every format.Comes with some pretty niffty features too.
Kodi - Free and Open Source home theatre software.

Chat Clients

Waow - Awesome WhatsApp Web Client to deliver you the best WhatsApp experience.
LimeChat - Instant messaging application.
Messenger for Desktop - An app for Facebook messenger.
mIRC - An Internet Relay Chat (IRC) client.
Telegram - A messaging app with a focus on speed and security, it’s super fast, simple and free.
Quassel - Quassel IRC is a modern, cross-platform, distributed IRC client.

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.
Riot - Compress images either by file size or by many other image attributes.
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 - Comprehensive and professional Hard drive recovery software that can recover your photos, videos, documents.
Ontrach EasyRecovery - Has filtering tools to help sort the large amount of data the software can recover.
Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery - Remote recovery option to recover data from another computer over a network.
Recuva - Recover your deleted files quickly and easily.
TestDisk - Powerful free data recovery software primarily designed to help recover lost partitions and/or make non-booting disks bootable again.

Developer Tools

HeidiSQL - Powerful and easy client for MySQL, MariaDB, Microsoft SQL Server and PostgreSQL.
Fiddler - Web debugging proxy.
FileZilla - FTP, FTPS and SFTP client.
GitHub Desktop - A GUI for using GitHub.
GitKraken - A beautiful, cross-platform Git client.
I'm Only Resting -A feature-rich WinForms-based HTTP client
Insomnia - A modern REST client with an beautiful interface. thout transparency for more efficient files.
Keylord Cross-platform GUI client for Redis, LevelDB and Memcached key-value databases.
Pixie - A simple color picker for developers.
pngquant - Apply lossy compression on PNG files with or wi
PostgreSQL Database - A comprehensive list of tools.
Process Hacker - Excellent full blown task manager.
RazorSQL - A GUI for managing SQLite databases which requires major work.
Redis Desktop Manager Cross-platform open source Redis DB management tool.
SourceTree - A free Git & Mercurial client.
Sql Wave - A MySQL database manager.
Visual Studio - Ultimate Microsoft Developer Tool.
Wamp - Web development environment.
Zsh - A powerful command line shell.

Documents

LibreOffice - Open source office suite.
Microsoft Office - Microsoft's own productivity suite.
OpenOffice - Software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more.
NitroPDF - The best PDF Reader you'll ever get.
Sumatra PDF - PDF, ePub, MOBI, CHM, XPS, DjVu, CBZ, CBR reader.

E-Book Utilities

Bookviser - Awesome application for Windows 8 devices to read eBooks in a simple way.
Calibre - Powerful software for e-book management and conversion.
kobo - Incredibly ugly but powerful software for ebook management and conversion.

Email

MailBird - IMAP and POP3 email client, featuring customization, complete touch support and multiple language support.
Thunderbird - Email client with minimalistic design.
Nylas N1 - An extensible desktop mail app built on the modern web.

Games

Warsow - Free & fast-paced FPS game for Windows.
Awesome Games - List of games hosted on Github.
GOG Galaxy - Steam-like DRM-free game platform.
Unity - Free game engine. Easy to pick up and use with a number of tutorials.
Unreal Engine - Another free game engine. Lots of documentation and easier to pick up, but you pay 5% royalties to Unreal when you make money from UE-based games.
Steam - Largest online video game retailer. Desktop app allows you to organise your library of games and play them at any time. But you already knew that.
Origin - Like Steam, but for EA.

Graphics

Blender - Fully-featured extensible cross-platform 3D content suite.
Gimp - Open source image editor.
Paint.net - how can you live without paint.net?
Inkscape - Free vector-based graphic design software.
Krita - Free drawing software with a bunch of cool features.

Text 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.
GVim - (G)Vim is a highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient text editing.
Light Table - A customizable editor with instant feedback and showing data values flow through your code.
Notepad++ - A source code editor which supports several programming languages.
Sublime Text 3 - The sophisticated text editor.
Visual Studio Code - Build and debug modern web and cloud applications.

Online Storage

Dropbox -Simple, elegant and versatile (PC, Macs, Android...) cloud storage solution.
Google Drive - Cloud storage solution deeply integrated in the Google ecosystem.
OneDrive - Best cloud storage solution for Windows users.
Mozy
Box - Ability to sync more than 100,000 files and supporting both special characters in file names and file paths longer than 256 characters.

Productivity

-Cold Turkey - The only blocker for distracting websites that actually works. (even doesn't let you uninstall it when blocking is active).

Chocolatey - A package manager for Windows.
Ditto - Clipboard manager.
Everything - The fastest file/folder search tool by name.
f.lux - Automatically adjust your computer screen to match lighting.
Inkdrop - The note-taking app for Markdown lovers.
Launchy - The Open Source Keystroke Launcher.
Listary - Keep files at your fingertips. An unique search utility.
Ninite - The easiest, fastest way to update or install software.
Scoop - A command-line installer for Windows.
Total Commander - The best file manager for Windows.
Simplenote - Simple cross-platform note taking app with cloud-based syncing.
Wox - An effective launcher for windows.

Terminal

Babun - Alternative Windows shell based on Cygwin.
Cmder - Console emulator package.
ConEmu - Customizable terminal with tabs, splits, quake-style and more.
ConsoleZ - Modified version of Console 2 for a better experience and a better visual rendering.
MobaXterm - Xserver and tabbed SSH client.
MTPuTTY - Multi-Tabbed PuTTY.
Putty - SSH and telnet client.
Kitty - advanced Putty (SSH and telnet client).

Utilities

A-Z of Windows Terminal Commands
Carnac - The easiest way to record keystrokes during any screen recording.
Ccleaner - System cleaning utility which is more easy to understand and use for beginners.
CleanMyPC - A clean computer in no time.
Far - File and Archive manager. Clone of the Norton Commander.
Fraps- Video game capture screen recorder that can be used with all games using DirectX or OpenGL technology.
FreeFileSync - An easy backup solution for files and folders, It supports mirroring/two way sync/update between source and destination.
Glary Utilities - Provides many more advanced features which are non existent in ccleaner.
HTTrack- Offline browser utility, allowing you to download a website from the Internet to a local directory.
LICEcap - Animated screen captures and save them directly to .GIF
rimraf - A deep deletion module for node. Help to delete files and folders with very long paths
SDelete - A command line utility that can securely delete a file, or clean the slack space.
Speccy -Detailed statistics on every piece of hardware in your computer.
ShareX- Lets you take screenshots or screencasts of any selected area with a single key.
Sysinternals Suite - Tool suite by Mark Russinovich that provides access to Windows internals for troubleshooting: processes, physical ports, disk activity etc.
Waltr - Transfer any movie or music file to your iPhone w/o iTunes.
WinDirStat - It is a disk usage statistics viewer and cleanup too.
Windows 10 Login Screen Changer - Changes the Windows 10 Login Screen Background.

Video

K-Lite Codecs - Collection of DirectShow filters, VFW/ACM codecs, and tools.
mpv - Media player.
HandBrake - High performance video encoding and conversion tools with a nice GUI.
VLC - Multimedia player and framework that plays DVDs, Audio CDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols.
PotPlayer - Multimedia player with a wide collection of codecs which also offers extensive configuration options for users.

Setup

Windows 10 Setup

Windows 8.1 Setup

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-IN/windows-8/clean-install

Security

AdwCleaner - Free removal tool for adware, PUP/LPI, Toolbars and Hijacker.
Bitdefender - Best outright protection against malware.
CCleaner - For PC Optmization and cleaning computer.
GlassWire - Network security monitoring tool and analyzer that visualizes your network activity.
SpyBot - Search and destroy malware, spyware and viruses.
UnChecky - automatically unchecks unrelated offers from installers.
Malwarebytes - protects from dangerous threats that antivirus doesn't.
Tor Project - Enable anonymous communication.
Windows 10 Paranoid's Guide
Disable Data Logging - Make Windows 10 more private and safe.
Viscosity - Fully-featured OpenVPN client, ready for enterprise deployment.

Miscellaneous

Discussion Forums

Windows

IRC channels

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