Let's talk about must have applications that you can't live without! 2021 Edition

• ShareX

  578 27,580 9.3 C#

  ShareX is a free and open source program that lets you capture or record any area of your screen and share it with a single press of a key. It also allows uploading images, text or other types of files to many supported destinations you can choose from.

  

ShareX (Free) - Capture screenshots, make GIFs, and upload them straight to cloud storage and give me the share link.

• mpc-hc

  390 10,008 0.0 C++

  Media Player Classic

MPC-HC (a fork on github that is still being updated and maintained not the no longer in development one Releases · clsid2/mpc-hc · GitHub )

• WorkOS

  workos.com sponsored

  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

• VideoLAN Client (VLC)

  379 12,959 0.0 C

  VLC media player - All pull requests are ignored, please follow https://wiki.videolan.org/Sending_Patches_VLC/

  

VLC is a better alternative to Media Player HC. Reason is that it is not under development since 2017.

• Bitwarden

  1,055 14,286 9.8 C#

  The core infrastructure backend (API, database, Docker, etc). (by bitwarden)

  

Try Bitwarden. It's open source and has a better free tier incl. no restrictions on amount of devices.

• qBittorrent

  709 24,960 9.6 C++

  qBittorrent BitTorrent client

  

qBittorent is a Free and Open Source Cross Platform Software. It's a torrent client. Easy to use and certainly better than uTorrent or Bittorrent ( utorrent is no longer reputed in safety as it had tried to mine crypto without user knowledge )

• Windows Terminal

  506 93,402 9.7 C++

  The new Windows Terminal and the original Windows console host, all in the same place!

  

Windows Terminal (Free) - Terminal in Windows.

• AudioSwitch

  8 1,076 0.0 C#

  Switch between default audio input or output + change volume

AudioSwitch (Free) - To change device in Windows between my headset and soundbar with the click of a button.

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com sponsored

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• PowerToys

  713 104,324 9.8 C#

  Windows system utilities to maximize productivity

  

PowerToys (Free) - Opens up a bunch of sweet features in Windows 10.

• PersistentWindows

  31 1,266 9.6 C#

  fork of http://www.ninjacrab.com/persistent-windows/ with windows 10 update

PersistentWindows (Free) - Remembers the location of open windows and applications when I turn on my monitors (have three, and they always end up on the left most monitor, this fixes that).

• PCem-ROMs

  17 771 0.0

  This is a collection of requiered ROMs files for PCem emulator. RIP PCem 2021

PCem (Free) - For emulation old PCs, much better than using VM to install Windows 95 etc.

• notepad-plus-plus

  330 21,539 9.7 C++

  Notepad++ official repository

  

Notepad++ (Free) - Because Notepad isn't good enough. :P

• HandBrake

  981 15,530 9.8 C

  HandBrake's main development repository

  

Handbreak (Free) - For encoding video.

• Visual Studio Code

  2,838 158,095 10.0 TypeScript

  Visual Studio Code

  

Visual Studio Code - For HTML, CSS etc.

• Chocolatey

  394 9,849 8.4 C#

  Chocolatey - the package manager for Windows

  

Chocolatey (Free) - Package manager like apt-get for Windows. Super sweet! Perfect for those times you have to clean install Windows.

• vscode-powershell

  29 1,650 9.4 TypeScript

  Provides PowerShell language and debugging support for Visual Studio Code

  

Visual Studio Code with the PowerShell Extension for Visual Studio Code.

• winget-cli

  283 22,110 9.3 C++

  WinGet is the Windows Package Manager. This project includes a CLI (Command Line Interface), PowerShell modules, and a COM (Component Object Model) API (Application Programming Interface).

  

Also Windows 10 now has it's own package manager it's called winget

• mpc-hc

  9 3,132 0.0 C

  Discontinued MPC-HC's main repository. For support use our Trac: https://trac.mpc-hc.org/ (by mpc-hc)

  

Hope this answer it Github page

• linux-cli-community

  481 1,266 2.8 Python

  Linux command-line client for ProtonVPN. Written in Python.

  

ProtonVPN is a completely free VPN with unlimited bandwidth. It is HQed at Switzerland which has strong privacy laws and was founded by the scientists of CERN. Although completely free, it has only 3 countries to choose from. In paid version, you can choose any country. Better than any sponsored VPN that you see at youtube ads.

• ajour

  19 1,012 0.0 Rust

  A World of Warcraft addon manager written in Rust.

  

For a less bloated experience I highly recommend Ajour instead of WowUp.

• Bulk-Crap-Uninstaller

  210 9,431 7.1 C#

  Remove large amounts of unwanted applications quickly.

Take a look at BCUninstaller as an alternative to Revo Uninstaller.

• ONLYOFFICE

  172 4,351 6.8 Shell

  ONLYOFFICE Docs is a free collaborative online office suite comprising viewers and editors for texts, spreadsheets and presentations, forms and PDF, fully compatible with Office Open XML formats: .docx, .xlsx, .pptx and enabling collaborative editing in real time.

  

I have switched from LibreOffice to OnlyOffice, it resembles MS Office and is pretty feature complete. One caveat though is it is pretty slow. I don't use office everyday so for me that isn't a deal breaker.

• Windows-Auto-Night-Mode

  24 2,597 5.7 C#

  Discontinued Automatically switches between the dark and light theme of Windows 10 [Moved to: https://github.com/AutoDarkMode/Windows-Auto-Night-Mode] (by Armin2208)

  

Auto Dark Mode (automatically switches between light and dark mode)

• Playnite

  680 8,232 8.6 C#

  Video game library manager with support for wide range of 3rd party libraries and game emulation support, providing one unified interface for your games.

Playnite (all your games in one place; a bit like GOG Galaxy 2.0)

• WinDynamicDesktop

  25 4,162 8.4 C#

  Port of macOS Mojave Dynamic Desktop feature to Windows 10

WinDynamicDesktop (just cause it looks nice)

• LightBulb

  22 2,045 8.1 C#

  Reduces eye strain by adjusting gamma based on the current time

LightBulb (blue light filter that works better than the built-in night mode)

• spicetify-cli

  206 16,622 9.4 JavaScript

  Command-line tool to customize Spotify client. Supports Windows, MacOS, and Linux.

  

Spicetify (customisation of Spotify)

• nextdns

  973 2,917 7.3 Go

  NextDNS CLI client (DoH Proxy)

  

YogaDNS together with NextDNS

• Files

  181 31,870 9.9 C#

  Building the best file manager for Windows

  

I really wanna use Files as a replacement for File Explorer at some point but it's not that stable yet.

• Open-Shell-Menu

  255 6,212 6.6 C++

  Classic Shell Reborn.

  

Open-Shell (Screenshot of my start menu + config)

• Sandboxie

  93 12,142 9.9 C

  Sandboxie Plus & Classic

  

Sandboxie

• Scoop

  252 19,855 8.7 PowerShell

  A command-line installer for Windows.

  

Awesome list thanks so much! Would also recommend scoop if you're looking for a good package manager (it's my favourite so far)

• SaaSHub

  www.saashub.com sponsored

  SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives

  

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