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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| gerardog/gsudo gsudo is a sudo equivalent for Windows that lets users run commands or relaunch shells with elevated permissions from the current console. … | 64 | 6059 | active |
| Tianyu199509/DeskBox DeskBox is a free, open-source Windows desktop organizer built with WinUI 3 and .NET 10 that arranges desktop files into native-feeling wid… | 79 | 5999 | active |
| rcmaehl/MSEdgeRedirect A Windows utility that intercepts Microsoft Edge process command line arguments and redirects News, Search, Widgets, Weather, and other lin… | 59 | 5893 | active |
| microsoft/sudo Sudo for Windows is a Windows-specific implementation of the sudo concept, letting users run elevated commands directly from unelevated ter… | 67 | 5859 | active |
| qiye45/wechatVideoDownload A desktop GUI tool for downloading WeChat Channels (视频号) videos, live streams, live replays, and images. It automatically monitors WeChat t… | 80 | 5828 | active |
| win-acme/win-acme win-acme is an ACMEv2 client for Windows that automates obtaining and installing SSL/TLS certificates from Let's Encrypt, ZeroSSL, and othe… | 58 | 5806 | active |
| gnif/LookingGlass Looking Glass is an extremely low latency KVM FrameRelay (KVMFR) implementation that lets a Linux host display and interact with a Windows … | 67 | 5737 | active |
| jrsoftware/issrc Inno Setup is an open-source installation builder for Windows applications, first released in 1997. It compiles scripts into a single setup… | 96 | 5710 | stable |
| YASB YASB Reborn is a highly configurable, open-source status bar for Windows 10/11 written in Python, with 50+ widgets, YAML configuration, and… | 86 | 5682 | active |
| luolangaga/tubatools TubaWinUi3 is a WinUI 3 / .NET 10 rewrite of the Tuba Toolbox (图吧工具箱), a collection of 82 PC hardware detection and system maintenance util… | 81 | 5627 | active |
| mhammond/pywin32 pywin32 provides Python bindings for the Windows Win32 API, including COM support, ISAPI, and other Windows-specific extensions. It lets Py… | 84 | 5617 | active |
| builtbybel/Bloatynosy Bloatynosy Nue is a lightweight native Windows utility for debloating Windows 11 (and partially Windows 10), removing unwanted apps, teleme… | 33 | 5594 | active |
| the1812/Malware-Patch A Windows utility that blocks administrator (UAC) authorization for specified software, such as known Chinese rogueware, using digital sign… | 70 | 5592 | active |
| blackboxo/CleanMyWechat A desktop GUI application that automatically deletes cached files, images, and videos downloaded by WeChat and WeCom on Windows and macOS, … | 91 | 5578 | active |
| nomi-san/parsec-vdd A standalone Windows virtual display driver (Parsec VDD) that creates up to three virtual monitors using the IddCx indirect display API, in… | 56 | 5557 | active |
| rayenghanmi/RyTuneX RyTuneX is a Windows 10 and 11 system optimizer built with WinUI 3, offering debloating, privacy hardening, performance tweaks, and network… | 90 | 5553 | active |
| Hackplayers/evil-winrm Evil-WinRM is a Ruby-based command-line WinRM shell designed for hacking and penetration testing of Windows servers. It supports features l… | 89 | 5552 | active |
| Clink Clink injects GNU Readline-powered command line editing into Windows cmd.exe, adding rich completion, persistent history, auto-suggestions,… | 94 | 5549 | active |
| ShadowWhisperer/Remove-MS-Edge A Windows utility that uninstalls Microsoft Edge (and optionally WebView2) via prebuilt executables or batch scripts. It offers variants fo… | 82 | 5493 | active |
| mpvnet-player/mpv.net mpv.net is a media player for Windows with a modern GUI, built on libmpv and .NET. It exposes nearly all mpv features including Lua/JavaScr… | 55 | 5408 | active |
| mentebinaria/retoolkit An Inno Setup-based installer that bundles a curated collection of reverse engineering and malware analysis tools for x86/x64 Windows syste… | 78 | 5289 | active |
| niXman/mingw-builds-binaries Prebuilt MinGW-W64 GCC compiler toolchain binaries for Windows, distributed as downloadable archives with an optional online installer. It … | 87 | 5280 | active |
| RamonUnch/AltSnap AltSnap is a maintained fork of AltDrag that lets Windows users move and resize windows by holding the Alt key and clicking anywhere on a w… | 84 | 5244 | active |
| MicaForEveryone/MicaForEveryone Mica For Everyone is a Windows 11 desktop tool that applies system backdrop effects like Mica and Acrylic to the title bars and backgrounds… | 81 | 5234 | active |
| GhostPack/Rubeus Rubeus is a C# command-line toolset for raw Kerberos interaction and abuse on Windows, adapted from Kekeo and MakeMeEnterpriseAdmin. It sup… | 57 | 5195 | active |
| Sophia-Community/SophiApp SophiApp is an open-source GUI application for fine-tuning, debloating, and optimizing Windows 10 and Windows 11. It is the graphical succe… | 65 | 5182 | active |
| greenshot/greenshot Greenshot is a free, open-source, lightweight screenshot tool for Windows optimized for productivity. It captures regions, windows, or full… | 95 | 5176 | active |
| IgorMundstein/WinMemoryCleaner A free, portable Windows application that cleans and optimizes RAM using native Windows APIs. It offers automatic optimization triggers, a … | 61 | 5165 | active |
| Planshit/Tai Tai is a Windows desktop application that tracks how long you use software and how long you browse websites, storing statistics locally in … | 31 | 5092 | active |
| WinDynamicDesktop WinDynamicDesktop is a Windows application that ports the macOS Mojave Dynamic Desktop feature, cycling wallpaper images based on time of d… | 82 | 5045 | active |
| zufuliu/notepad4 Notepad4 is a lightweight Scintilla-based text editor for Windows, rewritten in modern C++ from Notepad2 and Notepad2-mod, with syntax high… | 92 | 5040 | active |
| TheJoeFin/Text-Grab Text Grab is a Windows OCR utility that extracts text from anywhere on screen — screenshots, images, videos, PDFs, or app windows — entirel… | 90 | 5029 | active |
| Nukem9/dlssg-to-fsr3 A drop-in DLL mod that replaces Nvidia's DLSS Frame Generation (nvngx_dlssg) in DirectX 12 and Vulkan games with AMD's FSR 3 Frame Generati… | 30 | 4990 | active |
| paolo-projects/auto-unlocker A native C++ unlocker for VMware Workstation and Player that patches VMware to allow macOS guests to boot and be created. It is a dependenc… | 38 | 4965 | active |
| bitsadmin/wesng WES-NG is a Python command-line tool that parses Windows `systeminfo` output (or missing KB listings) and cross-references it against a reg… | 76 | 4951 | active |
| vladelaina/Catime Catime is an ultra-lightweight (995KB) Windows timer application written in pure C with native Win32, supporting clock, countdown, stopwatc… | 84 | 4879 | active |
| darkmatter2048/WindowsCleaner Windows Cleaner is a Tauri-based desktop application for cleaning up Windows systems, focused on freeing space on the C drive by removing j… | 85 | 4874 | active |
| HotCakeX/Harden-Windows-Security A suite of tools (Harden System Security app and AppControl Manager) that hardens Windows using only official, supported Microsoft methods,… | 95 | 4791 | active |
| TechUnRestricted/WinDiskWriter WinDiskWriter is a native macOS application for creating bootable Windows USB installers that support both UEFI and Legacy BIOS boot modes.… | 64 | 4791 | active |
| microsoft/perfview PerfView is a free Windows-based performance-analysis tool for isolating CPU and memory performance issues, with special support for .NET a… | 95 | 4766 | active |
| emoacht/Monitorian Monitorian is a Windows desktop application for adjusting the brightness of multiple monitors, including external DDC/CI-enabled displays, … | 95 | 4753 | active |
| GhostPack/Seatbelt Seatbelt is a C# command-line tool that performs security-oriented host-survey 'safety checks' on Windows systems. It enumerates system and… | 32 | 4738 | active |
| Justsenger/ExHyperV ExHyperV is a graphical Hyper-V management tool for Windows that exposes advanced Hyper-V features through an easy-to-use WPF interface. It… | 85 | 4720 | active |
| TheWover/donut Donut is a shellcode generator that converts VBScript, JScript, EXE, DLL files, and .NET assemblies into x86, x64, or AMD64+x86 position-in… | 33 | 4716 | stable |
| Maplespe/DWMBlurGlass A Windows utility that adds custom visual effects (Blur, Aero, Acrylic, Mica) to the global system title bar on Windows 10 and 11. It is wr… | 50 | 4629 | active |
| fxsound2/fxsound-app FxSound is an open-source Windows audio enhancement application with a built-in DSP engine that acts as a digital soundcard, offering equal… | 93 | 4574 | active |
| Starward Starward is an open-source third-party game launcher for all HoYoverse (miHoYo) PC games, built with C# and WinUI. It aims to fully replace… | 92 | 4548 | active |
| huynhsontung/Screenbox Screenbox is a modern, Fluent-design media player for Windows built on LibVLCSharp and the Universal Windows Platform. It plays video and a… | 99 | 4543 | active |
| Bioruebe/UniExtract2 Universal Extractor 2 is a Windows application that extracts files from virtually any extractable file type, including standard archives, a… | 23 | 4438 | active |
| dremin/RetroBar RetroBar is a Windows application that replaces the modern Windows taskbar with classic Windows 95, 98, Me, 2000, XP, or Vista style taskba… | 91 | 4417 | active |
| Bill-Stewart/SyncthingWindowsSetup A Windows installer for the open-source Syncthing file-synchronization application, built with Inno Setup. It supports per-user and all-use… | 94 | 4379 | active |
| windirstat/windirstat WinDirStat is a free, open-source disk usage statistics viewer and cleanup tool for Microsoft Windows. It scans drives and folders and visu… | 100 | 4347 | active |
| redis-windows/redis-windows Windows builds of the official Redis in-memory key-value database, compiled from upstream source and packaged with a RedisService.exe helpe… | 92 | 4310 | active |
| Sycnex/Windows10Debloater A PowerShell script collection that removes pre-installed bloatware from Windows 10, disables telemetry, Cortana search indexing, and unnec… | 10 | 18817 | maintenance |
| mausimus/ShaderGlass ShaderGlass is a Windows (and Wine) overlay application that applies GPU shader effects on top of the desktop, a window, or a captured sour… | 80 | 4271 | active |
| Maplespe/ExplorerBlurMica A Windows shell extension (DLL) that adds background blur, Acrylic, or Mica effects to File Explorer on Windows 10 and Windows 11. It suppo… | 88 | 4241 | active |
| hellzerg/optimizer Optimizer is a Windows GUI configuration utility for enhancing privacy and security, applying system tweaks, disabling telemetry, cleaning … | 10 | 18244 | maintenance |
| miroslavpejic85/p2p A portable peer-to-peer remote desktop application for Windows built in C#, allowing two peers to share screens, control desktops, and chat… | 23 | 4072 | active |
| ModernFlyouts-Community/ModernFlyouts ModernFlyouts is an open-source Windows application that replaces the built-in Metro-themed audio, brightness, airplane mode, and lock key … | 10 | 4052 | active |
| bostrot/wsl2-distro-manager A free and open-source Flutter-based GUI application for managing Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) distributions. It lets users install, u… | 98 | 4027 | active |
| bozbez/win-capture-audio An OBS Studio plugin that adds an 'Application Audio Output Capture' source, letting users capture audio from a single application on Windo… | 23 | 4020 | active |
| kimmknight/remoteapptool A Windows GUI utility for creating and managing Microsoft RemoteApps hosted on Windows XP through 11 and Server editions. It generates RDP … | 23 | 4020 | active |
| itm4n/PrivescCheck A PowerShell enumeration script that identifies common Windows privilege escalation vulnerabilities and misconfigurations. It also collects… | 98 | 3987 | active |
| hasherezade/pe-sieve PE-sieve is a lightweight Windows tool that scans a given process for malicious implants such as replaced or injected PE files, shellcodes,… | 65 | 3923 | active |
| sebaxakerhtc/rdpwrap.ini A community-maintained rdpwrap.ini configuration file for the RDP Wrapper Library by Stas'M, adding support for new Windows builds after ea… | 75 | 3876 | active |
| FelixKratz/JankyBorders JankyBorders is a lightweight macOS tool that draws colored borders around windows to visually highlight the focused window. It works witho… | 64 | 3857 | stable |
| owu/wsl-dashboard WSL Dashboard is a native Windows GUI application built with Rust and Slint for managing Windows Subsystem for Linux instances. It provides… | 79 | 3855 | active |
| Hypostasis-Cat/HypoMux HypoMux is a Windows desktop application that aggregates multiple network adapters (Ethernet, Wi-Fi, mobile hotspots) to combine their band… | 81 | 3829 | active |
| TheMythologist/GenP GenP is an open-source AutoIt patcher that applies binary hex patches to Adobe Creative Cloud applications on Windows to modify their licen… | 72 | 3780 | active |
| SakiRinn/LiveCaptions-Translator A lightweight Windows application that combines the built-in Windows 11 LiveCaptions speech-to-text feature with translation APIs (includin… | 72 | 3769 | active |
| es3n1n/defendnot defendnot is a C++ Windows utility that disables Windows Defender by registering a fake antivirus product through the Windows Security Cent… | 79 | 3713 | active |
| psmux/psmux psmux is a native Windows terminal multiplexer written in Rust that implements the tmux command language, reads .tmux.conf, and uses Window… | 84 | 3703 | active |
| S3cur3Th1sSh1t/WinPwn WinPwn is a PowerShell-based automation framework for internal Windows penetration testing and Active Directory security assessment. It bun… | 37 | 3695 | active |
| Sanakan8472/copy-dialog-lunar-lander A Windows application that overlays a playable lunar lander game on the file copy progress dialog, using the progress bar's terrain as the … | 25 | 3684 | active |
| OdysseusYuan/Mocreak Mocreak is a free Windows desktop application that automates downloading, installing, and deploying Windows 10/11 and Microsoft Office (201… | 75 | 3680 | active |
| WinUI An interactive companion app from Microsoft demonstrating all WinUI 3 controls and Fluent Design styles for building modern Windows apps. E… | 83 | 3662 | active |
| prometheus-community/windows_exporter A Prometheus exporter that collects metrics from Windows machines via WMI and exposes them in Prometheus format. It ships with collectors f… | 100 | 3641 | active |
| tnodir/fort Fort Firewall is a standalone firewall application for Windows 7+ with its own kernel driver. It provides per-application network rules, ba… | 96 | 3634 | active |
| WSA-Community/WSAGAScript A set of shell scripts that inject Google Apps (including the Play Store and Google services) into a Windows Subsystem for Android (WSA) im… | 32 | 3609 | active |
| Pentest-Windows A pre-built Windows 11 penetration testing virtual machine image bundling 400+ security tools and scripts, distributed for VMware, Parallel… | 43 | 3599 | active |
| 34736384/genshin-fps-unlock A Windows application that removes the 60 FPS cap in Genshin Impact by writing the desired FPS value into the game process via WriteProcess… | 57 | 3596 | active |
| casualsnek/cassowary Cassowary is a Python application that lets Linux users run Windows applications from a Windows VM as if they were native, built on FreeRDP… | 23 | 3587 | active |
| UIAutomation A Python 3 wrapper around Microsoft's UIAutomation API for automating and inspecting Windows desktop application GUIs. It supports controls… | 67 | 3581 | active |
| ravibpatel/AutoUpdater.NET AutoUpdater.NET is a .NET class library that adds auto-update functionality to classic WinForms and WPF desktop applications. It checks an … | 78 | 3531 | stable |
| gtworek/PSBits A collection of relatively simple C and PowerShell snippets for digging deeper into Windows internals, security, and forensics. Each folder… | 72 | 3518 | active |
| PLFJY/ContextMenuMgr Context Menu Manager Plus is a Windows utility for managing right-click context menu entries, including classic and Windows 11 menus. It in… | 82 | 3517 | active |
| builtbybel/FluentTweaker FluentTweaker is a modern Windows tweaking application built with WinUI 3 that lets power users adjust UI, taskbar, privacy, AI features, E… | 67 | 3516 | active |
| t3l3machus/hoaxshell Hoaxshell is a Windows reverse shell payload generator and handler that abuses the HTTP(S) protocol to establish a beacon-like reverse shel… | 32 | 3499 | active |
| Rectify11/Installer Rectify11 is a Windows 11 customization tool that modifies system files and applies patches to make the OS UI more consistent, adding featu… | 46 | 3488 | active |
| SpriteOvO/AirPodsDesktop A desktop application that enhances the Windows (and eventually Linux) experience when using AirPods, showing battery status and enabling a… | 96 | 3462 | active |
| abgox/InputTip InputTip is a rule-driven input method (IME) state manager for Windows built with AutoHotkey. It visually indicates the current input state… | 81 | 3454 | active |
| Belphemur/SoundSwitch SoundSwitch is a free, open-source Windows application that lets users instantly switch audio playback and recording devices using customiz… | 98 | 3449 | active |
| stevencohn/OneMore OneMore is an open-source add-in for OneNote that adds dozens of productivity features such as a command palette, hashtag search, custom st… | 99 | 3426 | active |
| Yamato-Security/hayabusa Hayabusa is a fast, Rust-based Windows event log analysis tool that generates forensic timelines and performs threat hunting using Sigma de… | 95 | 3409 | active |
| hiyohiyo/CrystalDiskInfo CrystalDiskInfo is a Windows utility that displays disk drive health and S.M.A.R.T. information for PATA, SATA, and partially NVMe/USB/RAID… | 77 | 3407 | active |
| Cairo Desktop Environment Cairo is a customizable, open-source desktop environment (shell replacement) for Windows, offering an alternative taskbar, programs menu, d… | 68 | 3387 | active |
| ThirteenAG/GTAIV.EFLC.FusionFix An open-source ASI plugin for Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition that fixes bugs, graphical issues, and limitations left unaddressed… | 98 | 3359 | active |
| pypykatz pypykatz is a pure Python implementation of parts of Mimikatz, the well-known Windows credential extraction tool. It parses LSASS process m… | 59 | 3359 | active |
| ErrorFlynn/ytdlp-interface A Windows graphical interface for yt-dlp designed as a simple YouTube downloader. It also accepts non-YouTube URLs, so it can download from… | 81 | 3344 | active |
| std-microblock/breeze-shell Breeze Shell is an alternative, Fluent-style context menu for Windows 10 and 11, built in C++ with a lightweight custom UI library. It is e… | 79 | 3323 | active |