Open-source windows software
982 open-source libraries, tools and applications tagged windows, ranked by how closely windows is their primary purpose, then by adoption and maintenance health. Each entry links to a page with sources, use cases and when to choose or avoid it.
982 products, primary matches first, then adoption-weighted; health v2 shown.
| Product | Health v2 | Stars | Maturity |
|---|---|---|---|
| microsoft/PowerToys Microsoft PowerToys is a free, open-source suite of over 30 utilities for customizing and streamlining Windows, including FancyZones window… | 97 | 139169 | active |
| microsoft/terminal Microsoft's open-source Windows Terminal application, a modern tabbed terminal emulator with GPU-accelerated text rendering, plus the origi… | 89 | 105002 | active |
| Raphire/Win11Debloat Win11Debloat is a lightweight PowerShell script that removes pre-installed bloatware apps, disables telemetry, and applies various registry… | 97 | 59487 | active |
| dockur/windows A Docker image that runs a full Windows virtual machine inside a container, with automatic download and hands-free installation of modern a… | 93 | 53602 | active |
| TrafficMonitor TrafficMonitor is a Windows desktop floating-widget application that displays current network speed, CPU and memory utilization, with optio… | 77 | 46388 | active |
| Files Files is a modern, open-source file manager for Windows built with C#, WinUI, and Windows App SDK, offering a Fluent-design alternative to … | 99 | 45957 | active |
| zbezj/HEU_KMS_Activator HEU KMS Activator is a Windows utility for activating Microsoft Windows and Office products via KMS-based license bypass. It is a closed-so… | 87 | 43802 | active |
| huiyadanli/RevokeMsgPatcher A Windows GUI tool that patches PC WeChat, QQ, and TIM binaries to prevent message recall (anti-revoke), and optionally enables WeChat mult… | 63 | 38967 | active |
| Rufus Rufus is a free, portable Windows utility for formatting USB drives and creating bootable media from ISO or disk images. It supports BIOS a… | 88 | 37748 | stable |
| ExplorerPatcher ExplorerPatcher is a Windows utility that restores and customizes classic Windows 10-style UI elements such as the taskbar, Start menu, and… | 86 | 34002 | active |
| ExplorerPatcher ExplorerPatcher is a Windows utility that modifies Explorer and the taskbar to provide Windows 10‑style features on newer Windows builds. I… | 86 | 34002 | active |
| microsoft/calculator The Windows Calculator app, a pre-installed UWP application written in C++ and C# offering standard, scientific, and programmer calculator … | 75 | 31056 | active |
| cmderdev/cmder Cmder is a portable console emulator package for Windows built on ConEmu with Clink enhancements, a Monokai color scheme, and a custom prom… | 67 | 27011 | active |
| Windows Package Manager WinGet is the official Windows Package Manager client, providing a command-line tool, PowerShell modules, and a COM API for discovering, in… | 93 | 26472 | stable |
| Windows Package Manager WinGet is the official Windows Package Manager providing a command‑line interface to discover, install, upgrade, and remove applications on… | 93 | 26472 | active |
| Scoop Scoop is a command-line package installer for Windows that installs apps with minimal friction, avoiding UAC prompts, GUI wizards, and PATH… | 66 | 24703 | active |
| gentilkiwi/mimikatz mimikatz is a well-known Windows security tool written in C that extracts plaintext passwords, hashes, PINs, and Kerberos tickets from memo… | 54 | 21909 | active |
| Atlas AtlasOS is an open-source modification to Windows that applies privacy, usability, and performance optimizations via an AME Wizard playbook… | 81 | 21852 | active |
| Fan Control Fan Control is a highly customizable Windows application for controlling fan speeds via PWM with temperature-based curves for CPU, GPU, and… | 93 | 20952 | active |
| TranslucentTB/TranslucentTB TranslucentTB is a lightweight Windows utility that makes the taskbar translucent, transparent, blurred, or acrylic-styled on Windows 10 an… | 87 | 20463 | active |
| BluePointLilac/ContextMenuManager A free Windows utility for managing right-click (context) menu items across files, folders, Send To, Open With, IE, and WinX menus. It lets… | 23 | 20232 | active |
| Sandboxie Sandboxie Plus and Classic are open-source sandbox-based isolation applications for Windows that run programs in isolated environments with… | 100 | 19712 | active |
| Lively Wallpaper Lively Wallpaper is a free, open-source Windows application for setting animated desktop wallpapers and screensavers, built with WinUI 3. I… | 78 | 19674 | active |
| ntdevlabs/tiny11builder A set of PowerShell scripts that automate building a trimmed-down, debloated Windows 11 ISO image from an official Microsoft ISO. It includ… | 37 | 19624 | active |
| WSABuilds WSABuilds provides prebuilt Windows Subsystem for Android binaries for Windows 10 and 11, optionally bundled with Google Play Store and roo… | 95 | 18518 | active |
| WSABuilds WSABuilds provides prebuilt Windows Subsystem for Android (WSA) binaries for Windows 10 and 11, with optional Google Play Store (MindTheGap… | 95 | 18518 | active |
| React Native for Windows Microsoft's extension of React Native that lets developers build native Windows applications using JavaScript and React. It targets Windows… | 88 | 17343 | active |
| stascorp/rdpwrap RDP Wrapper Library is a Windows system library that enables Remote Desktop Host support and concurrent RDP sessions on editions that ship … | 23 | 16884 | stable |
| System Informer System Informer (formerly Process Hacker) is a free, open-source, multi-purpose Windows tool for monitoring system resources, debugging sof… | 86 | 16265 | active |
| WinApps WinApps runs Windows applications (like Microsoft Office and Adobe Creative Cloud) inside a Docker, Podman, or libvirt VM and renders them … | 72 | 16030 | active |
| M2Team/NanaZip NanaZip is a fork of 7-Zip redesigned for modern Windows, featuring a Fluent Design UI, Windows 11 context menu integration, and dark mode.… | 98 | 15923 | active |
| Flow Launcher Flow Launcher is a free, open-source quick file search and app launcher for Windows, triggered by a customizable hotkey. It supports commun… | 94 | 15808 | active |
| Blinue/Magpie Magpie is a lightweight, general-purpose window upscaler for Windows 10/11 that enlarges any window using GPU-based scaling algorithms. It … | 74 | 15381 | active |
| seerge/g-helper G-Helper is a lightweight, open-source Windows application that serves as an alternative to Asus Armoury Crate for controlling Asus laptops… | 96 | 15359 | active |
| dyang886/Game-Cheats-Manager Game Cheats Manager is an open-source desktop application that aggregates single-player game trainers and cheat tables from multiple source… | 94 | 15251 | active |
| srwi/EverythingToolbar EverythingToolbar integrates voidtools' Everything instant file search into the Windows taskbar, either as a search box, a compact icon, or… | 98 | 14819 | active |
| Office Tool Plus Office Tool Plus is a Windows application for deploying, customizing, activating, and repairing Microsoft Office products including Microso… | 100 | 14542 | active |
| winsw/winsw WinSW is a wrapper executable that runs any executable as a Windows service, with configuration via XML and permissive MIT licensing. It su… | 62 | 14335 | active |
| HIllya51/LunaTranslator LunaTranslator is a Windows application that translates visual novels (galgames) in real time. It extracts text via win32 hooking or OCR an… | 95 | 13759 | active |
| memstechtips/Winhance Winhance is a C#/WinUI3 desktop application for debloating, optimizing, and customizing Windows 10 and 11 systems. It provides a GUI for re… | 82 | 13335 | active |
| AutoHotkey AutoHotkey is a free, open-source Windows utility and scripting language for creating macros, hotkeys, and text expansions to automate repe… | 98 | 13252 | active |
| zoicware/RemoveWindowsAI A PowerShell script that forcibly removes or disables all AI features in Windows 11, including Copilot, Recall, and AI components in built-… | 69 | 13206 | active |
| glzr-io/glazewm GlazeWM is a tiling window manager for Windows (and macOS) inspired by i3wm, letting users organize and resize windows via keyboard-driven … | 80 | 12887 | active |
| snowie2000/mactype MacType is a Windows application that improves font rendering system-wide by hooking into GDI and DirectWrite text rendering. It provides s… | 62 | 11971 | active |
| lostindark/DriverStoreExplorer Driver Store Explorer (RAPR) is a Windows GUI application for viewing, installing, removing, exporting, and cleaning up driver packages in … | 100 | 11913 | active |
| lucasg/Dependencies A modern open-source rewrite of the legacy Dependency Walker (depends.exe) tool, written in C#, for analyzing Windows DLL load dependencies… | 23 | 11909 | stable |
| OptiScaler OptiScaler is a Windows tool that lets gamers replace upscalers in games that already support DLSS2+/FSR2+/XeSS and manage frame generation… | 90 | 11852 | active |
| Chocolatey Chocolatey (choco) is a package manager for Windows, analogous to apt or yum, that installs, updates, and manages software from a large com… | 96 | 11537 | stable |
| File-New-Project/EarTrumpet EarTrumpet is a Windows desktop application that provides an enhanced volume control experience, including a standalone volume mixer and pe… | 68 | 11454 | active |
| mRemoteNG/mRemoteNG mRemoteNG is an open-source, tabbed, multi-protocol remote connections manager for Windows, supporting RDP, VNC, SSH, HTTP/S and more. It l… | 84 | 11119 | active |
| henrypp/memreduct Mem Reduct is a lightweight Windows application that monitors system memory usage in real time and cleans system cache using undocumented N… | 74 | 10822 | active |
| itsfatduck/optimizerDuck optimizerDuck is a free, open-source Windows optimization tool built with C#/WinUI that provides performance tweaks, privacy controls, debl… | 80 | 10464 | active |
| AveYo/MediaCreationTool.bat A batch script wrapper around Microsoft's Media Creation Tool that automates downloading and creating Windows 10/11 installation media (ISO… | 32 | 10312 | active |
| 0x7c13/Notepads Notepads is a modern, lightweight Windows text editor built as a Notepad replacement with a minimalist Fluent design. It features a tab sys… | 54 | 10274 | active |
| Fmstrat/winapps WinApps runs Windows applications like Microsoft Office and Adobe products inside a Docker-based Windows VM and integrates them into Linux … | 32 | 10256 | active |
| samratashok/nishang Nishang is a framework and collection of PowerShell scripts and payloads for offensive security, penetration testing, and red teaming. It c… | 23 | 10125 | active |
| farag2/Sophia-Script-for-Windows A PowerShell module with 150+ functions for fine-tuning, debloating, and configuring Windows 10 and Windows 11 using Microsoft's officially… | 99 | 9795 | active |
| microsoft/UFO UFO³ is Microsoft's open-source framework for LLM-powered GUI agents that automate Windows applications and orchestrate workflows across mu… | 90 | 9789 | active |
| CursorTouch/Windows-MCP Windows-MCP is a lightweight open-source MCP server that bridges LLM-based AI agents and the Windows operating system, letting agents contr… | 87 | 9590 | active |
| ConEmu/ConEmu ConEmu is a customizable Windows console emulator that hosts multiple consoles and simple GUI applications as tabs and splits in one window… | 26 | 9271 | active |
| WinMerge/winmerge WinMerge is an open-source visual differencing and merging tool for Windows that compares files and folders side by side. It supports text,… | 93 | 9253 | stable |
| LibreHardwareMonitor/LibreHardwareMonitor Libre Hardware Monitor is a free, open-source Windows application that monitors temperature sensors, fan speeds, voltages, load, and clock … | 76 | 9236 | active |
| xanderfrangos/twinkle-tray Twinkle Tray is a Windows system tray app that adds brightness sliders for controlling laptop backlights and DDC/CI-capable external monito… | 80 | 9208 | stable |
| Nevcairiel/LAVFilters LAV Filters is a set of open-source DirectShow filters based on FFmpeg's libavformat and libavcodec, providing media splitting and audio/vi… | 85 | 9158 | active |
| henrypp/simplewall Simplewall is a lightweight, open-source Windows application for configuring network activity via the Windows Filtering Platform (WFP). It … | 73 | 9150 | active |
| ramensoftware/windhawk Windhawk is a Windows customization marketplace that lets users install community-made mods to tweak the behavior and appearance of Windows… | 82 | 9110 | active |
| IridiumIO/CompactGUI CompactGUI is a Windows desktop application that transparently compresses games and programs using the native Windows 10+ Overlay Filter (W… | 98 | 9039 | active |
| gitextensions/gitextensions Git Extensions is a standalone Windows GUI application for managing Git repositories, offering a rich interface with commit graph, file his… | 92 | 8593 | active |
| ionuttbara/windows-defender-remover A script-based tool that removes or disables Windows Defender and related security components (Windows Security app, SmartScreen, VBS, tamp… | 85 | 8559 | active |
| FFmpegFreeUI FFmpegFreeUI (3FUI) is a free, open-source Windows GUI front-end for FFmpeg aimed at advanced users who want full control over encoding par… | 82 | 8431 | active |
| ZyperWave/ZyperWinOptimize ZyperWin++ is a lightweight Windows optimization tool built in C# (.NET 4) supporting Windows 7 through Windows 11. It offers performance a… | 38 | 8422 | active |
| lltcggie/waifu2x-caffe A Windows GUI/CLI application that reimplements the waifu2x image upscaling and noise-reduction tool using the Caffe deep learning framewor… | 52 | 8212 | stable |
| abbodi1406/vcredist An all-in-one (AIO) repack of the latest Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable Runtimes (2005 through 2026) that installs them without the o… | 79 | 8148 | active |
| mandiant/commando-vm Commando VM is a fully customizable Windows-based security distribution for penetration testing and red teaming, packaged as a PowerShell i… | 50 | 7824 | active |
| hfiref0x/UACME UACMe is a C-based command-line tool that demonstrates dozens of Windows User Account Control (UAC) bypass techniques abusing built-in Auto… | 81 | 7821 | active |
| thebookisclosed/ViVe ViVe is a C# library and console tool (ViVeTool) for interacting with the A/B feature experiment mechanism in Windows 10 version 2004 and n… | 24 | 7773 | active |
| beeradmoore/dlss-swapper DLSS Swapper is a Windows desktop application for downloading, managing, and swapping DLSS, FSR, and XeSS DLL files in games. It lets users… | 97 | 7731 | active |
| hooke007/mpv_PlayKit A curated mpv media player configuration package for Windows (x64), bundling Chinese-annotated config files, shader/filter integration, and… | 77 | 7715 | active |
| pyenv-win pyenv-win is a Windows port of pyenv, a simple Python version management tool that lets you install and switch between multiple Python vers… | 66 | 7401 | active |
| builtbybel/FlyOOBE FlyOOBE is a Windows utility that lets users install or upgrade to Windows 11 on unsupported hardware by bypassing TPM, Secure Boot, and CP… | 88 | 7388 | active |
| RipplePiam/MobaXterm-Chinese-Simplified A Simplified Chinese localization (translation) package for MobaXterm, an enhanced Windows terminal with remote networking tools like SSH, … | 65 | 7318 | active |
| Orbmu2k/nvidiaProfileInspector A Windows GUI tool for viewing and editing NVIDIA driver profiles through the NVIDIA Driver Settings API, including hidden and undocumented… | 91 | 7295 | active |
| sabrogden/Ditto Ditto is a clipboard manager for Windows that extends the standard clipboard by saving every copied item into a searchable database. Users … | 78 | 7237 | active |
| randyrants/sharpkeys SharpKeys is a Windows GUI utility that manages a Registry key to remap one keyboard key to another, such as turning Caps Lock into Shift. … | 23 | 6968 | stable |
| CapsWriter-Offline CapsWriter-Offline is a fully offline voice input tool for Windows that transcribes speech to text when you hold CapsLock or mouse side but… | 88 | 6955 | active |
| moudey/Shell Nilesoft Shell is a free, open-source context menu manager for Windows File Explorer written in C++. It lets users add custom items, modify… | 49 | 6850 | active |
| Tatsu-syo/noMeiryoUI No!! MeiryoUI is a small Windows utility that restores the ability to change system UI fonts, a feature removed since Windows 8.1. It is a … | 86 | 6719 | active |
| rizonesoft/Notepad3 Notepad3 is a fast, lightweight, open-source text editor for Windows built on the Scintilla editing component, based on Notepad2 and Notepa… | 82 | 6670 | active |
| mgth/LittleBigMouse LittleBigMouse is a desktop application that makes mouse movement across multiple monitors DPI-aware, letting the cursor travel seamlessly … | 94 | 6631 | active |
| andrewmd5/Borderless-Gaming Borderless Gaming is a desktop tool that converts windowed video games into borderless 'fullscreen' applications, removing the need for alt… | 37 | 6627 | stable |
| Diorser/LiteMonitor LiteMonitor is a lightweight, highly customizable Windows desktop and taskbar hardware performance monitoring tool built in C#. It shows re… | 65 | 6619 | active |
| bmrf/tron Tron is an automated Windows PC cleanup and disinfection script, implemented as a collection of batch files that orchestrate many community… | 85 | 6589 | active |
| winfsp/sshfs-win SSHFS-Win is a minimal port of SSHFS to Windows that lets users mount remote SSH/SFTP directories as local network drives. It uses Cygwin f… | 61 | 6398 | active |
| rcmaehl/WhyNotWin11 WhyNotWin11 is a Windows utility that checks a PC's hardware and system configuration against Windows 11 requirements and reports which cri… | 58 | 6391 | active |
| builtbybel/FluentCleaner FluentCleaner is a modern Windows desktop cleaner built with WinUI 3, inspired by the classic CCleaner, focused on removing junk files with… | 79 | 6326 | active |
| dorssel/usbipd-win usbipd-win is a Windows service and command-line tool that shares locally connected USB devices over the network using the USB/IP protocol.… | 76 | 6216 | active |
| pywinauto/pywinauto pywinauto is a Python library for automating the Microsoft Windows GUI, sending mouse and keyboard actions to windows, dialogs, and control… | 57 | 6182 | active |
| Clash for Windows Chinese A Chinese-localized (zh-CN) distribution of Clash for Windows, providing patched app.asar files, a localization patch, and a repackaged ins… | 86 | 28586 | maintenance |
| 1Remote/1Remote 1Remote is a modern personal remote session manager and launcher for Windows that centralizes RDP, SSH, VNC, Telnet, and (S)FTP connections… | 89 | 6089 | active |
| undergroundwires/privacy.sexy privacy.sexy is an open-source desktop application that enforces privacy and security best practices on Windows, macOS, and Linux. It provi… | 56 | 6075 | active |
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