A curated list of awesome applications, softwares, tools and shiny things for Windows This Awesome Repository is inspired from ichait's Awesome osx.

Special thanks to egeerardyn. Items marked with are open-source software.

Table of Contents

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

Applications

Audio

• AIMP - Free, open source, cross-platform software for recording and editing sounds.
• Audacity - Audio Editor and Recorder.
• 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.

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.

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.

Documents

• LibreOffice - Open source office suite.
• OpenOffice - Software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more.
• PDFShaper - A free PDF editor to convert/delete/extract/rotate/split pages with in a pdf file.
• Sumatra PDF - PDF, ePub, MOBI, CHM, XPS, DjVu, CBZ, CBR reader.

E-Book Utilities

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

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.

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
• Snip - An image capture tool

Productivity

• Chocolatey - A package manager for Windows
• Ditto - Clipboard manager.
• Everything - The fastest file/folder search tool by name.
• 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.
• 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.

Utilities

• Carnac - The easiest way to record keystrokes during any screen recording.
• FreeFileSync - An easy backup solution for files and folders, It supports mirroring/two way sync/update between source and destination.
• 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

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.
• Process Hacker - Excellent full blown task manager.
• Wamp - Web development environment.