Mozilla Firefox

🌐 www.mozilla.org

Mozilla Firefox is a free and open-source web browser developed by the Mozilla Foundation. It uses the Gecko rendering engine to display web pages, which implements current web standards. [Wikipedia]

📦 Chocolatey: firefox

Google Chrome

🌐 www.google.com

Chrome is Google's browser based on the open source Chromium. [Wikipedia]

📦 Chocolatey: googlechrome

Chromium

🌐 www.chromium.org

Chromium is a free and open-source web browser project, primarily developed and maintained by Google. It is a widely-used codebase, providing the vast majority of code for Google Chrome and many other browsers, including Microsoft Edge, Samsung Internet, and Opera. [Wikipedia]

📦 Chocolatey: chromium

Ungoogled Chromium

🌐 github.com

ungoogled-chromium is a free and open-source variant of Chromium that removes all Google-specific web services. [Wikipedia]

📦 Chocolatey: ungoogled-chromium

Vivaldi

🌐 vivaldi.com

Vivaldi is a free, Chromium-based browser with extensive customization options and targeted towards technical users. [Wikipedia]

📦 Chocolatey: vivaldi

Opera

🌐 www.opera.com

Opera is a multi-platform web browser. The current edition of the browser is based on Chromium. [Wikipedia]

📦 Chocolatey: opera

Brave

🌐 brave.com

Brave is a free and open-source web browser based on the Chromium web browser. It is focused on privacy, and does some interesting things with adblocking and cryptocurrency. [Wikipedia]

📦 Chocolatey: brave

Discord

🌐 discord.com

Discord is an instant messaging and VoIP social platform which has voice and video calls. [Wikipedia]

📦 Chocolatey: discord.install

Slack

🌐 slack.com

Slack is a cloud-based team communication platform based primarily around instant messaging. [Wikipedia]

📦 Chocolatey: slack

Zoom

🌐 zoom.us

Zoom is a proprietary video conferencing application. [Wikipedia]

📦 Chocolatey: zoom

Skype

🌐 www.skype.com

Skype is a proprietary telecommunications application operated by Skype Technologies, a division of Microsoft, best known videoconferencing, voice calls, and instant messaging. [Wikipedia]

📦 Chocolatey: skype

Thunderbird

🌐 www.thunderbird.net

Mozilla Thunderbird is free and open-source email client software which also functions as a full personal information manager with a calendar and contactbook, as well as an RSS feed reader, chat client (IRC/XMPP/Matrix), and news client. [Wikipedia]

📦 Chocolatey: thunderbird

Bitwarden

🌐 bitwarden.com

Bitwarden is a freemium open-source password management service. [Wikipedia]

📦 Chocolatey: bitwarden

KeePassXC

🌐 keepassxc.org

KeePassXC is a free and open-source password manager. It started as a community fork of KeePassX. [Wikipedia]

📦 Chocolatey: keepassxc

Keepass

🌐 keepass.info

KeePass Password Safe is a free and open-source password manager. [Wikipedia]

📦 Chocolatey: keepass

QtPass

🌐 qtpass.org

A GUI on top of pass, the standard unix password manager.

📦 Chocolatey: qtpass

LastPass

🌐 www.lastpass.com

LastPass is a password manager. [Wikipedia]

📦 Chocolatey: lastpass

OpenVPN

🌐 openvpn.net

OpenVPN is a virtual private network (VPN) system. [Wikipedia]

📦 Chocolatey: openvpn

Tailscale

🌐 tailscale.com

Tailscale is a partially open-source mesh virtual private network (VPN) that is easy to configure [Wikipedia]

📦 Chocolatey: tailscale

WireGuard

🌐 www.wireguard.com

WireGuard is a communication protocol and free and open-source software that implements encrypted virtual private networks (VPNs) with a focus on simplicity and performance. [Wikipedia]

📦 Chocolatey: wireguard

Spotify

🌐 open.spotify.com

Spotify is an audio streaming app with music and podcasts. It has a premium subscription to remove ads. [Wikipedia]

📦 Chocolatey: spotify

iTunes

🌐 www.apple.com

iTunes is a media player, media library, mobile device management utility, and the client app for the iTunes Store. [Wikipedia]

📦 Chocolatey: itunes

VLC

🌐 www.videolan.org

VLC media player is a free and open-source, portable, cross-platform media player software [Wikipedia]

📦 Chocolatey: vlc

foobar2000

🌐 www.foobar2000.org

foobar2000 is a freeware audio player. It has a modular design, which provides user flexibility in configuration and customization. [Wikipedia]

📦 Chocolatey: foobar2000

MPC-HC

🌐 mpc-hc.org

MPC-HC is an alternative audio and video player. It has not been updated since 2017 and will be removed from this PackagePicker soon.

📦 Chocolatey: mpc-hc

K-Lite Codec Pack (Full)

🌐 codecguide.com

The K-Lite Codec Pack is a collection of audio and video codecs for playing formats not supported by the stock operating system. [Wikipedia]

📦 Chocolatey: k-litecodecpackfull

Handbrake

🌐 handbrake.fr

HandBrake is a free and open-source transcoder for digital video files. [Wikipedia]

📦 Chocolatey: handbrake

FFmpeg

🌐 ffmpeg.org

FFmpeg is a free and open-source command line tool for handling video, audio, and other multimedia files and streams. [Wikipedia]

📦 Chocolatey: ffmpeg

PowerToys

🌐 learn.microsoft.com

Microsoft PowerToys is a set of freeware system utilities developed by Microsoft and designed for power users. These programs add or change features on Windows. [Wikipedia]

📦 Chocolatey: powertoys

Everything

🌐 www.voidtools.com

Everything is a freeware desktop search utility for Windows that can rapidly find files and folders by name. [Wikipedia]

📦 Chocolatey: everything

TeraCopy

🌐 www.codesector.com

TeraCopy is a freemium file transfer utility designed as an alternative for the built-in Windows Explorer file transfer. [Wikipedia]

📦 Chocolatey: teracopy

TreeSize Free

🌐 www.jam-software.com

TreeSize is a disk space analyzer written by JAM Software. [Wikipedia]

📦 Chocolatey: treesizefree

CPU-Z

🌐 www.cpuid.com

CPU-Z is a freeware system profiling and monitoring application for Microsoft Windows and Android that detects the central processing unit, RAM, motherboard chip-set, and other hardware features. [Wikipedia]

📦 Chocolatey: cpu-z.install

GPU-Z

🌐 www.techpowerup.com

TechPowerUp GPU-Z is a lightweight utility designed to provide information about video cards and GPUs. It can display temperature, core frequency, memory frequency, GPU load and fan speeds. [Wikipedia]

📦 Chocolatey: gpu-z.portable

Etcher

🌐 etcher.balena.io

balenaEtcher is a free and open-source utility used for writing image files such as .iso and .img files onto storage media to create live SD cards and USB flash drives. [Wikipedia]

📦 Chocolatey: etcher

Rufus

🌐 rufus.ie

Rufus is a free and open-source application for Windows that can be used to format and create bootable USB flash drives or Live USBs. [Wikipedia]

📦 Chocolatey: rufus

AutoHotkey

🌐 www.autohotkey.com

AutoHotkey is a free and open-source custom scripting language for Microsoft Windows, primarily designed to provide easy keyboard shortcuts or hotkeys, fast macro-creation and software automation. [Wikipedia]

📦 Chocolatey: autohotkey

Sysinternals Suite

🌐 learn.microsoft.com

Sysinternals is a suite of tools for investigating and troubleshooting issues on Microsoft Windows

📦 Chocolatey: sysinternals

Lightshot

🌐 app.prntscr.com

Lightshot is a screenshot tool for Windows and macOS.

📦 Chocolatey: lightshot.install

Flameshot

🌐 flameshot.org

Flameshot is an open-source and cross platform screenshot tool.

📦 Chocolatey: flameshot

qBittorrent

🌐 www.qbittorrent.org

qBittorrent is a cross-platform free and open-source BitTorrent client. [Wikipedia]

📦 Chocolatey: qbittorrent

Transmission

🌐 transmissionbt.com

Transmission is a free and open-source BitTorrent client which features a variety of user interfaces on top of a cross-platform back-end [Wikipedia]

📦 Chocolatey: transmission

Deluge

🌐 www.deluge-torrent.org

Deluge BitTorrent Client is a free and open-source, cross-platform BitTorrent client written in Python. [Wikipedia]

📦 Chocolatey: deluge

OBS Studio

🌐 obsproject.com

OBS Studio is a free and open-source, cross-platform screencasting and streaming app. [Wikipedia]

📦 Chocolatey: obs-studio

Audacity

🌐 www.audacityteam.org

Audacity is a free and open-source digital audio editor and recording application. [Wikipedia]

📦 Chocolatey: audacity

Unity Hub

🌐 unity.com

Unity is a cross-platform game engine for 2d and 3d games. [Wikipedia]

📦 Chocolatey: unity-hub

Godot

🌐 godotengine.org

Godot is a cross-platform, free and open-source game engine released under the permissive MIT license. [Wikipedia]

📦 Chocolatey: godot

Godot (with Mono/C#)

🌐 godotengine.org

The version of Godot with Mono which allows for writing code in C#

📦 Chocolatey: godot-mono

Blender

🌐 www.blender.org

Blender is a free and open-source 3D computer graphics software tool set used for creating animated films, visual effects, art, 3D-printed models and motion graphics. [Wikipedia]

📦 Chocolatey: blender

Paint.NET

🌐 www.getpaint.net

Paint.NET is a freeware general-purpose raster graphics editor program for Microsoft Windows. [Wikipedia]

📦 Chocolatey: paint.net

GIMP

🌐 www.gimp.org

GNU Image Manipulation Program, commonly known by its acronym GIMP, is a free and open-source raster graphics editor used for image manipulation and editing. [Wikipedia]

📦 Chocolatey: gimp

Krita

🌐 krita.org

Krita is a free and open-source raster graphics editor designed primarily for digital art, digital painting, and 2D animation. [Wikipedia]

📦 Chocolatey: krita

Figma

🌐 www.figma.com

Figma is a collaborative web and desktop application for interface design. [Wikipedia]

📦 Chocolatey: figma

Inkscape

🌐 inkscape.org

Inkscape is a free and open-source cross-platform vector graphics editor. [Wikipedia]

📦 Chocolatey: inkscape

7-Zip

🌐 www.7-zip.org

7-Zip is a free and open-source file archiver, used to create and extract .zip, .7z and other archives. [Wikipedia]

📦 Chocolatey: 7zip

PeaZip

🌐 peazip.github.io

PeaZip is a free and open-source cross-platform file manager and file archiver. [Wikipedia]

📦 Chocolatey: peazip.install

WinRAR

🌐 www.win-rar.com

WinRAR is a trialware file archiver utility for Windows. [Wikipedia]

📦 Chocolatey: winrar

Dropbox

🌐 www.dropbox.com

Dropbox is a file storage and synchronization service. [Wikipedia]

📦 Chocolatey: dropbox

Google Drive

🌐 www.google.com

Google Drive is a file storage and synchronization service developed by Google. [Wikipedia]

📦 Chocolatey: googledrive

Insync

🌐 www.insynchq.com

Insync is a third-party client for managing file syncing in Dropbox, Google Drive, and OneDrive

📦 Chocolatey: insync

Nextcloud

🌐 nextcloud.com

Nextcloud is a file synchronization service that can be self-hosted. [Wikipedia]

📦 Chocolatey: nextcloud-client

Syncthing (CLI)

🌐 syncthing.net

Syncthing is a free and open source cross-platform peer-to-peer file synchronization application. [Wikipedia]

📦 Chocolatey: syncthing

Foxit PDF Reader

🌐 www.foxit.com

Foxit PDF Reader is a cross-platform PDF reader. [Wikipedia]

📦 Chocolatey: foxitreader

Sumatra PDF Reader

🌐 www.sumatrapdfreader.org

Sumatra is a PDF Reader for Windows.

📦 Chocolatey: sumatrapdf

Adobe Acrobat Reader

🌐 get.adobe.com

Adobe Acrobat Reader is a PDF reader by Adobe.

📦 Chocolatey: adobereader

PDFCreator

🌐 www.pdfforge.org

PDFCreator is a virtual printer that generates a PDF from the printed data. This feature is built into many modern operating systems. [Wikipedia]

📦 Chocolatey: pdfcreator

CutePDF

🌐 www.cutepdf.com

CutePDF is a proprietary Portable Document Format converter and editor for Microsoft Windows. [Wikipedia]

📦 Chocolatey: cutepdf

Notion

🌐 www.notion.so

Notion is a freemium productivity and note-taking web application. It offers organizational tools including task management, project tracking, to-do lists, and bookmarking. [Wikipedia]

📦 Chocolatey: notion

Obsidian

🌐 obsidian.md

Obsidian is a personal knowledge base and note-taking software application that operates on Markdown files. It allows users to link between notes and create a knowledge graph. [Wikipedia]

📦 Chocolatey: obsidian

Logseq

🌐 logseq.com

Logseq is an open-source and cross-platform knowledge base and organizational tool.

📦 Chocolatey: logseq

LibreOffice

🌐 www.libreoffice.org

LibreOffice is a free and open-source office productivity software suite. It provides similar functionality to the Microsoft Office Suite. [Wikipedia]

📦 Chocolatey: libreoffice-fresh

Steam

🌐 store.steampowered.com

Steam is a video game digital distribution service and storefront developed by Valve. [Wikipedia]

📦 Chocolatey: steam

Epic Games Launcher

🌐 store.epicgames.com

The Epic Games Store is a video game digital distribution service and storefront operated by Epic Games. [Wikipedia]

📦 Chocolatey: epicgameslauncher

GOG Galaxy

🌐 www.gog.com

GOG Galaxy is a desktop client and digital distribution platform for DRM-free video games. It is operated by GOG. [Wikipedia]

📦 Chocolatey: goggalaxy

Legendary CLI Games Launcher

🌐 github.com

Legendary is a CLI open-source game launcher that can download and install games from the Epic Games platform on Linux, macOS, and Windows

📦 Chocolatey: legendary

Python 3

🌐 www.python.org

Python is a high-level, general-purpose programming language. [Wikipedia]

📦 Chocolatey: python

Python2

🌐 www.python.org

Python version is deprecated and you should prefer Python 3 unless you have a specific reason to use 2.

📦 Chocolatey: python2

NodeJS

🌐 nodejs.org

Node.js is a cross-platform, open-source JavaScript runtime environment that executes JavaScript code outside a web browser. [Wikipedia]

📦 Chocolatey: nodejs.install

NodeJS (LTS)

🌐 nodejs.org

The long-term-support version of NodeJS

📦 Chocolatey: nodejs-lts

nvm (Node Version Manager)

🌐 github.com

Node Version Manager is a command-line utility for installing multiple versions of NodeJS and choosing between them.

📦 Chocolatey: nvm

Deno

🌐 deno.com

Deno is a runtime for JavaScript, TypeScript, and WebAssembly that is based on the V8 JavaScript engine and the Rust programming language. Deno was co-created by Ryan Dahl, who also created Node.js. [Wikipedia]

📦 Chocolatey: deno

Oracle JDK 21

🌐 www.oracle.com

📦 Chocolatey: oraclejdk

Open JDK 17

🌐 openjdk.org

📦 Chocolatey: openjdk17

Go

🌐 go.dev

Go is a statically typed, compiled high-level programming language designed at Google. It is syntactically similar to C, but also has memory safety, garbage collection, structural typing, and CSP-style concurrency. [Wikipedia]

📦 Chocolatey: golang

Rust

🌐 www.rust-lang.org

Rust is a multi-paradigm, general-purpose programming language that emphasizes performance, type safety, and concurrency. It enforces memory safety—meaning that all references point to valid memory—without a garbage collector. [Wikipedia]

📦 Chocolatey: rust

Rust MSVC

🌐 github.com

Basically Rust for Windows, as I understand it!

📦 Chocolatey: rust-ms

Rustup

🌐 rustup.rs

Rust toolchain installer. This will install everything you need to actually develop in Rust.

📦 Chocolatey: rustup.install

Ruby

🌐 www.ruby-lang.org

Ruby is an interpreted, high-level, general-purpose programming language. It was designed with an emphasis on programming productivity and simplicity. [Wikipedia]

📦 Chocolatey: ruby

PHP

🌐 www.php.net

PHP is a general-purpose scripting language geared towards web development. [Wikipedia]

📦 Chocolatey: php

Perl

🌐 www.perl.org

Perl is a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming language. [Wikipedia]

📦 Chocolatey: strawberryperl

PowerShell

🌐 learn.microsoft.com

PowerShell is a task automation and configuration management program from Microsoft, consisting of a command-line shell and the associated scripting language. It is open-source and cross-platform. [Wikipedia]

📦 Chocolatey: powershell

Visual Studio Code

🌐 code.visualstudio.com

Visual Studio Code, also commonly referred to as VS Code, is a source-code editor developed by Microsoft. It is cross-platform. [Wikipedia]

📦 Chocolatey: vscode

VSCodium

🌐 vscodium.com

VSCodium is a community-driven, freely-licensed binary distribution of Microsoft’s editor VS Code

📦 Chocolatey: vscodium

Notepad++

🌐 notepad-plus-plus.org

Notepad++ is a free source code editor and Notepad replacement for Windows that supports several languages. [Wikipedia]

📦 Chocolatey: notepadplusplus.install

Git

🌐 git-scm.com

Git is a distributed version control system that tracks changes in any set of computer files. [Wikipedia]

📦 Chocolatey: git

Git LFS

🌐 git-lfs.com

Git Large File System allows for tracking larger files and binary blobs in Git.

📦 Chocolatey: git-lfs

AWS CLI

🌐 aws.amazon.com

The CLI for Amazon Web Services.

📦 Chocolatey: awscli

Azure CLI

🌐 learn.microsoft.com

The CLI for Microsoft's Azure cloud platform.

📦 Chocolatey: azure-cli

Docker CLI

🌐 docs.docker.com

Docker uses OS-level virtualization to deliver software in packages called containers. [Wikipedia]

📦 Chocolatey: docker-cli

Docker Desktop

🌐 www.docker.com

Docker Desktop is a GUI tool for managing Docker images and containers. It is not free for commercial use at larger companies!

📦 Chocolatey: docker-desktop

docker-compose

🌐 docs.docker.com

Docker Compose is a tool for defining and running multi-container applications. It allows defining docker containers in YAML files instead of via command-line arguments.

📦 Chocolatey: docker-compose

OpenSSH

🌐 www.openssh.com

The Secure Shell Protocol (SSH) is a cryptographic network protocol for operating network services securely over an unsecured network. Its most notable applications are remote login and command-line execution. [Wikipedia]

📦 Chocolatey: openssh

WinSCP

🌐 winscp.net

WinSCP is a free and open-source file manager, SSH File Transfer Protocol (SFTP), File Transfer Protocol (FTP), WebDAV, Amazon S3, and secure copy protocol (SCP) client for Microsoft Windows. [Wikipedia]

📦 Chocolatey: winscp

FileZilla

🌐 filezilla-project.org

FileZilla is a free and open-source, cross-platform FTP application, consisting of FileZilla Client and FileZilla Server. [Wikipedia]

📦 Chocolatey: filezilla

PuTTY

🌐 www.putty.org

PuTTY is a free and open-source terminal emulator, serial console and network file transfer application. It supports several network protocols, including SCP, SSH, Telnet, rlogin, and raw socket connection. [Wikipedia]

📦 Chocolatey: putty

Arduino IDE

🌐 www.arduino.cc

Aruino IDE is an editor and other tools required for programming and flashing Arduino microcontrollers.

📦 Chocolatey: arduino

cURL

🌐 curl.se

cURL is a computer software project providing a library (libcurl) and command-line tool (curl) for transferring data using various network protocols. The name stands for "Client for URL". [Wikipedia]

📦 Chocolatey: curl

GNU Wget

🌐 www.gnu.org

GNU Wget is a computer program that retrieves content from web servers. It is part of the GNU Project. [Wikipedia]

📦 Chocolatey: wget

VirtualBox

🌐 www.virtualbox.org

Oracle VM VirtualBox is a hosted hypervisor for x86 virtualization developed by Oracle Corporation. [Wikipedia]

📦 Chocolatey: virtualbox

Wireshark

🌐 www.wireshark.org

Wireshark is a free and open-source packet analyzer. It is used for network troubleshooting, analysis, software and communications protocol development, and education. [Wikipedia]

📦 Chocolatey: wireshark