PackagePicker is a quick way to install your favorite software on a new computer using existing package managers. Just select the apps you want, we'll give you a command to install them all at once!
Winget is Microsoft's new-ish, official package manager for Windows.
⬇️ Select the packages you'd like to install with Winget: ⬇️
Browsers 🌐
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]
📦 Winget: Mozilla.Firefox
Chrome is Google's browser based on the open source Chromium. [Wikipedia]
📦 Winget: Google.Chrome
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]
📦 Winget: Hibbiki.Chromium
ungoogled-chromium is a free and open-source variant of Chromium that removes all Google-specific web services. [Wikipedia]
📦 Winget: eloston.ungoogled-chromium
Vivaldi is a free, Chromium-based browser with extensive customization options and targeted towards technical users. [Wikipedia]
📦 Winget: VivaldiTechnologies.Vivaldi
Opera is a multi-platform web browser. The current edition of the browser is based on Chromium. [Wikipedia]
📦 Winget: Opera.Opera
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]
📦 Winget: Brave.Brave
Messaging & Communication 📧
Discord is an instant messaging and VoIP social platform which has voice and video calls. [Wikipedia]
📦 Winget: Discord.Discord
Beeper is an instant messaging service that enables using a variety of other chat services and protocols from the same unique application. [Wikipedia]
📦 Winget: NovaTechnology.Beeper
Slack is a cloud-based team communication platform based primarily around instant messaging. [Wikipedia]
📦 Winget: SlackTechnologies.Slack
Skype is a proprietary telecommunications application operated by Skype Technologies, a division of Microsoft, best known videoconferencing, voice calls, and instant messaging. [Wikipedia]
📦 Winget: Microsoft.Skype
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]
📦 Winget: Mozilla.Thunderbird
Security 🔐
Bitwarden is a freemium open-source password management service. [Wikipedia]
📦 Winget: Bitwarden.Bitwarden
KeePassXC is a free and open-source password manager. It started as a community fork of KeePassX. [Wikipedia]
📦 Winget: KeePassXCTeam.KeePassXC
KeePass Password Safe is a free and open-source password manager. [Wikipedia]
📦 Winget: DominikReichl.KeePass
A GUI on top of pass, the standard unix password manager.
📦 Winget: IJHack.QtPass
OpenVPN is a virtual private network (VPN) system. [Wikipedia]
📦 Winget: OpenVPNTechnologies.OpenVPN
Tailscale is a partially open-source mesh virtual private network (VPN) that is easy to configure [Wikipedia]
📦 Winget: tailscale.tailscale
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]
📦 Winget: WireGuard.WireGuard
Media 🎞
Spotify is an audio streaming app with music and podcasts. It has a premium subscription to remove ads. [Wikipedia]
📦 Winget: Spotify.Spotify
iTunes is a media player, media library, mobile device management utility, and the client app for the iTunes Store. [Wikipedia]
📦 Winget: Apple.iTunes
VLC media player is a free and open-source, portable, cross-platform media player software [Wikipedia]
📦 Winget: Videolan.Vlc
foobar2000 is a freeware audio player. It has a modular design, which provides user flexibility in configuration and customization. [Wikipedia]
📦 Winget: PeterPawlowski.foobar2000
MPC-HC is an alternative audio and video player. It has not been updated since 2017 and will be removed from this PackagePicker soon.
📦 Winget: clsid2.mpc-hc
The K-Lite Codec Pack is a collection of audio and video codecs for playing formats not supported by the stock operating system. [Wikipedia]
📦 Winget: CodecGuide.K-LiteCodecPack.Full
HandBrake is a free and open-source transcoder for digital video files. [Wikipedia]
📦 Winget: HandBrake.HandBrake
Utility 🔧
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]
📦 Winget: Microsoft.PowerToys
Everything is a freeware desktop search utility for Windows that can rapidly find files and folders by name. [Wikipedia]
📦 Winget: voidtools.Everything
TeraCopy is a freemium file transfer utility designed as an alternative for the built-in Windows Explorer file transfer. [Wikipedia]
📦 Winget: CodeSector.TeraCopy
TreeSize is a disk space analyzer written by JAM Software. [Wikipedia]
📦 Winget: JAMSoftware.TreeSize
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]
📦 Winget: CPUID.CPU-Z
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]
📦 Winget: TechPowerUp.GPU-Z
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]
📦 Winget: Balena.Etcher
🌐 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]
📦 Winget: Rufus.Rufus
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]
📦 Winget: Lexikos.AutoHotkey
Lightshot is a screenshot tool for Windows and macOS.
📦 Winget: Skillbrains.Lightshot
Flameshot is an open-source and cross platform screenshot tool.
📦 Winget: Flameshot.Flameshot
File Sharing 📂
qBittorrent is a cross-platform free and open-source BitTorrent client. [Wikipedia]
📦 Winget: qBittorrent.qBittorrent
Creative 🎨
OBS Studio is a free and open-source, cross-platform screencasting and streaming app. [Wikipedia]
📦 Winget: OBSProject.OBSStudio
Audacity is a free and open-source digital audio editor and recording application. [Wikipedia]
📦 Winget: Audacity.Audacity
Unity is a cross-platform game engine for 2d and 3d games. [Wikipedia]
📦 Winget: Unity.UnityHub
Godot is a cross-platform, free and open-source game engine released under the permissive MIT license. [Wikipedia]
📦 Winget: GodotEngine.GodotEngine
The version of Godot with Mono which allows for writing code in C#
📦 Winget: GodotEngine.GodotEngine.Mono
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]
📦 Winget: BlenderFoundation.Blender
Paint.NET is a freeware general-purpose raster graphics editor program for Microsoft Windows. [Wikipedia]
📦 Winget: dotPDNLLC.paintdotnet
Figma is a collaborative web and desktop application for interface design. [Wikipedia]
📦 Winget: Figma.Figma
Inkscape is a free and open-source cross-platform vector graphics editor. [Wikipedia]
📦 Winget: Inkscape.Inkscape
Compression 🗜️
PeaZip is a free and open-source cross-platform file manager and file archiver. [Wikipedia]
📦 Winget: Giorgiotani.Peazip
WinRAR is a trialware file archiver utility for Windows. [Wikipedia]
📦 Winget: RARLab.WinRAR
Cloud ☁️
Dropbox is a file storage and synchronization service. [Wikipedia]
📦 Winget: Dropbox.Dropbox
Google Drive is a file storage and synchronization service developed by Google. [Wikipedia]
📦 Winget: Google.Drive
Insync is a third-party client for managing file syncing in Dropbox, Google Drive, and OneDrive
📦 Winget: Insynchq.Insync
Nextcloud is a file synchronization service that can be self-hosted. [Wikipedia]
📦 Winget: Nextcloud.NextcloudDesktop
Documents 📄
Foxit PDF Reader is a cross-platform PDF reader. [Wikipedia]
📦 Winget: Foxit.FoxitReader
Sumatra is a PDF Reader for Windows.
📦 Winget: SumatraPDF.SumatraPDF
Adobe Acrobat Reader is a PDF reader by Adobe.
📦 Winget: Adobe.Acrobat.Reader.64-bit
PDFCreator is a virtual printer that generates a PDF from the printed data. This feature is built into many modern operating systems. [Wikipedia]
📦 Winget: pdfforge.PDFCreator
CutePDF is a proprietary Portable Document Format converter and editor for Microsoft Windows. [Wikipedia]
📦 Winget: AcroSoftwareInc.CutePDFWriter
Writing 🖋
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]
📦 Winget: Notion.Notion
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]
📦 Winget: Obsidian.Obsidian
Logseq is an open-source and cross-platform knowledge base and organizational tool.
📦 Winget: Logseq.Logseq
LibreOffice is a free and open-source office productivity software suite. It provides similar functionality to the Microsoft Office Suite. [Wikipedia]
📦 Winget: LibreOffice.LibreOffice
Gaming 🎮
Steam is a video game digital distribution service and storefront developed by Valve. [Wikipedia]
📦 Winget: Valve.Steam
The Epic Games Store is a video game digital distribution service and storefront operated by Epic Games. [Wikipedia]
📦 Winget: EpicGames.EpicGamesLauncher
GOG Galaxy is a desktop client and digital distribution platform for DRM-free video games. It is operated by GOG. [Wikipedia]
📦 Winget: GOG.Galaxy
Heroic is a free, open-source, and cross-platform launcher for Epic, GOG and Amazon Prime Games
📦 Winget: HeroicGamesLauncher.HeroicGamesLauncher
Dev Langs & Runtimes 🧑💻
Python is a high-level, general-purpose programming language. [Wikipedia]
📦 Winget: Python.Python.3.11
Python version is deprecated and you should prefer Python 3 unless you have a specific reason to use 2.
📦 Winget: Python.Python -v 2
Node.js is a cross-platform, open-source JavaScript runtime environment that executes JavaScript code outside a web browser. [Wikipedia]
📦 Winget: OpenJS.Nodejs
🌐 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]
📦 Winget: DenoLand.Deno
🌐 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]
📦 Winget: GoLang.Go.1.19
Rust toolchain installer. This will install everything you need to actually develop in Rust.
📦 Winget: Rustlang.Rustup
Ruby is an interpreted, high-level, general-purpose programming language. It was designed with an emphasis on programming productivity and simplicity. [Wikipedia]
📦 Winget: RubyInstallerTeam.RubyWithDevKit
Perl is a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming language. [Wikipedia]
📦 Winget: StrawberryPerl.StrawberryPerl
Dev Tools 🪛
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]
📦 Winget: Microsoft.Powershell
Visual Studio Code, also commonly referred to as VS Code, is a source-code editor developed by Microsoft. It is cross-platform. [Wikipedia]
📦 Winget: Microsoft.VisualStudioCode
VSCodium is a community-driven, freely-licensed binary distribution of Microsoft’s editor VS Code
📦 Winget: VSCodium.VSCodium
Notepad++ is a free source code editor and Notepad replacement for Windows that supports several languages. [Wikipedia]
📦 Winget: Notepad++.Notepad++
Git Large File System allows for tracking larger files and binary blobs in Git.
📦 Winget: GitHub.GitLFS
The CLI for Microsoft's Azure cloud platform.
📦 Winget: Microsoft.AzureCLI
Docker Desktop is a GUI tool for managing Docker images and containers. It is not free for commercial use at larger companies!
📦 Winget: Docker.DockerDesktop
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]
📦 Winget: Microsoft.OpenSSH.Beta
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]
📦 Winget: WinSCP.WinSCP
FileZilla is a free and open-source, cross-platform FTP application, consisting of FileZilla Client and FileZilla Server. [Wikipedia]
📦 Winget: TimKosse.FilezillaClient
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]
📦 Winget: PuTTY.PuTTY
Aruino IDE is an editor and other tools required for programming and flashing Arduino microcontrollers.
📦 Winget: ArduinoSA.IDE.stable
GNU Wget is a computer program that retrieves content from web servers. It is part of the GNU Project. [Wikipedia]
📦 Winget: JernejSimoncic.Wget
Oracle VM VirtualBox is a hosted hypervisor for x86 virtualization developed by Oracle Corporation. [Wikipedia]
📦 Winget: Oracle.VirtualBox
Wireshark is a free and open-source packet analyzer. It is used for network troubleshooting, analysis, software and communications protocol development, and education. [Wikipedia]
📦 Winget: WiresharkFoundation.Wireshark
Then run this command in PowerShell
winget install -e --id