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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ajayrandhawa/Keylogger A Windows keylogger written in Visual C++ that invisibly captures keystrokes, mouse clicks, and periodic screenshots, uploading them to an … | 45 | 1028 | maintenance |
| d35ha/CallObfuscator CallObfuscator is a C++ library and CLI tool that hides Windows PE imports by rewriting the Import Address Table so sensitive APIs appear a… | 23 | 1025 | maintenance |
| maaaaz/impacket-examples-windows A repository of pre-compiled Windows binaries of the Impacket example scripts, a collection of network protocol tools for security testing.… | 23 | 1019 | maintenance |
| b4rtik/SharpKatz SharpKatz is a C# port of mimikatz's credential extraction commands, including sekurlsa::logonpasswords, sekurlsa::ekeys, and lsadump::dcsy… | 32 | 1018 | maintenance |
| can1357/ThePerfectInjector A Windows DLL injection library that abuses Windows address sanitation and copy-on-write semantics for stealthy injection. Written in C and… | 32 | 1005 | maintenance |
| megai2/d912pxy A DirectX 9 to DirectX 12 API translation proxy library designed specifically for Guild Wars 2, allowing the game to use DX12 without code … | 10 | 997 | maintenance |
| RedCursorSecurityConsulting/PPLKiller PPLKiller is a C++ command-line tool that bypasses Windows LSA Protection (Protected Process Light) by installing a signed kernel driver to… | 10 | 995 | maintenance |
| itsmattkc/dotnet9x A backport of the .NET Framework 2.0-3.5 (CLR 2.0) to Windows 95/98/ME, which Microsoft never officially supported. It packages installers … | 24 | 2597 | experimental |
| maharmstone/quibble Quibble is an open-source custom Windows bootloader reimplementation of bootmgfw.efi and winload.efi, capable of booting Windows XP through… | 23 | 2459 | experimental |
| One-Core-API Binary releases of the One-Core-API project, which backports modern Windows APIs, drivers, and DirectX support to Windows XP and Windows Se… | 87 | 2263 | experimental |
| microsoft/intelligent-terminal Intelligent Terminal is an experimental fork of Windows Terminal by Microsoft that adds native AI agent integration via the Agent Client Pr… | 80 | 2071 | experimental |
| YimMenu/YimMenuV2 YimMenuV2 is an experimental mod menu (injected DLL) for GTA 5: Enhanced written in C++. It provides an in-game overlay menu for modifying … | 81 | 1762 | experimental |
| MSNightmare/RoguePlanet RoguePlanet is a proof-of-concept exploit for a Windows Defender vulnerability written in C++. It uses a race condition (triggered via ISO … | 49 | 1670 | experimental |
| WinDurango/WinDurango WinDurango is an Xbox One compatibility (translation) layer for Windows that lets users run ERA-based Xbox One UWP games natively on a PC. … | 77 | 1333 | experimental |
| microsoft/winappCli The Windows App Development CLI (winapp) is a single command-line tool from Microsoft for managing Windows SDKs, MSIX packaging, app identi… | 85 | 1327 | experimental |
| ZeroMemoryEx/Terminator Terminator is a C++ proof-of-concept tool that terminates EDR/XDR/antivirus processes on Windows by abusing the vulnerable, signed zam64.sy… | 20 | 1061 | experimental |
| Whisky Whisky is a native SwiftUI graphical wrapper around Wine and Apple's Game Porting Toolkit for running Windows apps and games on Apple Silic… | 10 | 15106 | abandoned |
| PowerShellMafia/PowerSploit PowerSploit is a collection of PowerShell modules for post-exploitation tasks during penetration tests, covering code execution, persistenc… | 10 | 13078 | abandoned |
| MathewSachin/Captura Captura is a free, open-source Windows screen capture application that records screencasts (Avi/Gif/Mp4), takes screenshots, and can overla… | 57 | 10865 | abandoned |
| felixse/FluentTerminal Fluent Terminal is a Windows terminal emulator built on UWP and web technologies, supporting PowerShell, CMD, WSL, SSH, and Mosh with tabs,… | 67 | 9600 | abandoned |
| WindowsAddict/IDM-Activation-Script An open-source batch/PowerShell script that activates Internet Download Manager or freezes/resets its 30-day trial using a registry key loc… | 10 | 7677 | abandoned |
| BartoszCichecki/LenovoLegionToolkit Lenovo Legion Toolkit (LLT) is a lightweight Windows utility for Lenovo Legion laptops that replaces Lenovo Vantage and Legion Zone for con… | 10 | 7552 | abandoned |
| microsoft/winfile The original Windows File Manager (WinFile) from Windows 3.0/NT4, revived by Microsoft as a native x86, x64, and arm64 desktop application … | 10 | 7057 | abandoned |
| LeDragoX/Win-Debloat-Tools A PowerShell-based tool with a GUI that debloats Windows 10/11, removing bloatware and applying system tweaks to make Windows feel like a m… | 10 | 6355 | abandoned |
| canton7/SyncTrayzor SyncTrayzor is a Windows system tray utility that hosts and wraps Syncthing, making it behave like a native Windows application with a buil… | 10 | 6191 | abandoned |
| W4RH4WK/Debloat-Windows-10 A collection of PowerShell scripts that disable or remove Windows 10 features, preinstalled apps, and telemetry-related settings. It is aim… | 10 | 6142 | abandoned |
| Deepin Wine for Ubuntu/Debian A port of Deepin's Wine environment (deepin-wine) to Ubuntu and Debian, packaged as installable scripts and .deb packages. It lets users ru… | 10 | 5959 | abandoned |
| MPC-HC Media Player Classic - Home Cinema (MPC-HC) is a free, open-source, lightweight video and audio player for Windows supporting most common f… | 10 | 5285 | abandoned |
| 10se1ucgo/DisableWinTracking A Windows 10 utility that applies known registry and service tweaks to minimize Microsoft telemetry and tracking. It ships as a GUI/CLI Pyt… | 10 | 4895 | abandoned |
| R3nzTheCodeGOD/R3nzSkin R3nzSkin is an internal skin changer for League of Legends that lets players change champion, ward, minion, and monster skins in-game via a… | 10 | 4862 | abandoned |
| Disassembler0/Win10-Initial-Setup-Script A PowerShell script that automates routine configuration tasks and tweaks after fresh installations of Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016/2… | 10 | 4636 | abandoned |
| anhkgg/SuperWeChatPC SuperWeChatPC is a Windows tool that enhances the PC WeChat client with multi-instance support, anti-message-revoke, voice message backup, … | 23 | 4586 | abandoned |
| nefarius/ViGEmBus ViGEmBus is a Windows kernel-mode bus driver (built on KMDF) that emulates Xbox 360 and DualShock 4 USB gamepads as virtual devices, lettin… | 10 | 4231 | abandoned |
| Jessecar96/SteamDesktopAuthenticator A Windows desktop application that implements Steam's mobile authenticator (Steam Guard), allowing users to generate two-factor authenticat… | 23 | 3828 | abandoned |
| SuxueCode/WechatBakTool A C#-based Windows GUI tool for backing up WeChat PC chat history by decrypting WeChat's local database and exporting messages. The project… | 53 | 3707 | abandoned |
| fo40225/tensorflow-windows-wheel A repository of prebuilt TensorFlow wheel binaries for 64-bit Windows, including CPU-only and CUDA/cuDNN GPU builds with AVX2 and SSE2 (non… | 32 | 3665 | abandoned |
| ChrisTitusTech/win10script A PowerShell script that debloats and tweaks Windows 10 by combining multiple community debloat scripts and gists. It has been superseded b… | 10 | 3485 | abandoned |
| felixrieseberg/windows-build-tools An npm package that installs the Visual C++ Build Tools (and optionally Python) on Windows so native Node.js modules can be compiled via no… | 10 | 3407 | abandoned |
| hainproject/hain Hain is an alt+space keyboard launcher for Windows built with Electron, offering fast fuzzy searching of executable files and a pure JavaSc… | 10 | 3186 | abandoned |
| nefarius/ScpToolkit A Windows driver and XInput wrapper that lets Sony DualShock 3 and DualShock 4 controllers work with Windows games and applications. The pr… | 10 | 3178 | abandoned |
| Jays2Kings/DS4Windows DS4Windows is a portable Windows application that lets you use a Sony DualShock 4 controller on your PC by emulating an Xbox 360 controller… | 10 | 3043 | abandoned |
| da2x/EdgeDeflector EdgeDeflector is a tiny Windows helper application that intercepts URIs forced to open in Microsoft Edge (such as links from Cortana and bu… | 10 | 2850 | abandoned |
| Franiac/TwitchLeecher Twitch Leecher is a Windows desktop application for downloading Twitch broadcasts (VODs), known for fast multi-threaded downloads. The proj… | 32 | 2792 | abandoned |
| chocolatey-archive/chocolatey This is the deprecated original repository for Chocolatey, a package manager for Windows that works like apt-get, built on NuGet and PowerS… | 10 | 2792 | abandoned |
| sentialx/multrin Multrin is a cross-platform Electron desktop application that lets users organize application windows into tabs, similar to the abandoned W… | 10 | 2294 | abandoned |
| DarkCoderSc/PowerRemoteDesktop PowerRemoteDesktop is a remote desktop application written entirely in PowerShell, with both client and server components implementing its … | 23 | 2247 | abandoned |
| dotnet/pinvoke A collection of .NET libraries providing pre-written, compile-verified P/Invoke signatures for Win32 and other native libraries, packaged a… | 10 | 2176 | abandoned |
| icsharpcode/SharpDevelop SharpDevelop (#develop) is a free, open-source integrated development environment for .NET languages such as C#, VB.NET, F#, Boo, IronPytho… | 10 | 2161 | abandoned |
| rasta-mouse/Sherlock Sherlock is a PowerShell script that identifies missing software patches for known Windows local privilege escalation vulnerabilities. It i… | 10 | 2018 | abandoned |
| cDima/Aerial A Windows screen saver that reproduces the Apple TV aerial-view screen saver, streaming Apple's aerial videos of cities and landscapes. It … | 23 | 1979 | abandoned |
| microsoft/microsoft-pdb Microsoft's reference source code and documentation for the PDB (Program Database) debug symbol file format, intended to help alternative c… | 10 | 1935 | abandoned |
| PeterStrick/ViVeTool-GUI ViVeTool GUI is a Windows desktop application providing a graphical interface for enabling, disabling, and searching hidden Windows feature… | 10 | 1929 | abandoned |
| JuncoJet/unlimited-landeng-for-win A Windows patcher/injector for the Lantern proxy client that modifies its PE structure or loads it via an injector to unlock paid/pro limit… | 32 | 1907 | abandoned |
| microsoft/WSA Microsoft's issue tracker and developer documentation hub for Windows Subsystem for Android, which let Windows 11 devices run Android apps … | 10 | 1853 | abandoned |
| Xeroday/Spotify-Ad-Blocker EZBlocker is a Windows desktop application written in C# that blocks and mutes advertisements in the Spotify client. It detects ads via win… | 23 | 1844 | abandoned |
| sdias/win-10-virtual-desktop-enhancer An AutoHotkey-based application that enhances Windows 10's built-in virtual desktops with customizable keyboard shortcuts, per-desktop wall… | 10 | 1792 | abandoned |
| govolution/avet AVET (AntiVirus Evasion Tool) is a shell-based toolbox for pentesters to build Windows executables that evade antivirus detection, using te… | 36 | 1758 | abandoned |
| SharpDX SharpDX is an open-source .NET library providing full bindings to the DirectX API for all Windows platforms, enabling high-performance 2D/3… | 10 | 1754 | abandoned |
| bruderstein/nppPluginManager A plugin for Notepad++ that lets users install, update, and remove Notepad++ plugins via a centrally hosted plugin list. It is no longer ac… | 66 | 1681 | abandoned |
| cool2528/baiduCDP BaiduCDP is a C++ Windows application for high-speed downloading from Baidu Netdisk (Baidu Cloud Drive). It analyzes Baidu Netdisk's web AP… | 10 | 1662 | abandoned |
| Tlaster/YourAV YourAV is a lightweight, open-source Windows application that registers itself as an antivirus in the Windows Security Center, which causes… | 23 | 1632 | abandoned |
| da-rth/yasb Yasb (Yet Another Status Bar) is a highly configurable status bar/taskbar for Windows written in Python with Qt6, inspired by polybar and w… | 10 | 1584 | abandoned |
| Idle Master Idle Master is a Windows desktop application that automatically idles Steam games to earn remaining Steam Trading Card drops. It simulates … | 10 | 1566 | abandoned |
| pxlrbt/move-wsl An interactive PowerShell script that moves WSL 1 and WSL 2 distro VHDX files to a new location using official wsl commands. It automates e… | 65 | 1555 | abandoned |
| Richasy/BiliBili-UWP A beautifully designed third-party UWP client for BiliBili (a Chinese video platform), built in C# for Windows 10 desktops and tablets. It … | 10 | 1470 | abandoned |
| XhmikosR/notepad2-mod Notepad2-mod is a fork of the lightweight Notepad2 text editor for Windows, adding code folding, bookmarks, word auto-completion, and extra… | 10 | 1469 | abandoned |
| SpenserCai/GoWxDump GoWxDump was a Windows CLI tool for extracting WeChat account information such as decryption keys and user data from local installations. T… | 55 | 1436 | abandoned |
| xiaoyaocz/biliuwp-lite BiliUWP Lite is a third-party UWP client for the Chinese video platform Bilibili, written in C#. The project has been officially discontinu… | 10 | 1373 | abandoned |
| master131/BlockTheSpot BlockTheSpot is a Windows-only mod that patches the Spotify desktop client to block banner, video, and audio ads and unlock track skipping.… | 10 | 1362 | abandoned |
| WhatTheBlock/WindowsSimplify A project providing slimmed-down, debloated Windows installation guides and images for Windows 7 through 11, Server, and ARM64. It offers '… | 10 | 1288 | abandoned |
| uknowsec/SharpDecryptPwd SharpDecryptPwd is a Windows command-line tool that decrypts passwords saved locally by popular applications such as Navicat, TeamViewer, F… | 32 | 1271 | abandoned |
| hfiref0x/TDL TDL is a Windows x64 driver loader that bypasses Driver Signature Enforcement by exploiting a VirtualBox kernel vulnerability to map specia… | 10 | 1231 | abandoned |
| hawku/TabletDriver A low-latency graphics tablet driver for Windows designed primarily for the rhythm game osu!, supporting Wacom, Huion, and XP-Pen tablets. … | 23 | 1227 | abandoned |
| kiero Kiero is a C++ library that provides a universal graphical hook for games and applications using D3D9-D3D12, OpenGL, or Vulkan, letting dev… | 10 | 1209 | abandoned |
| p0358/Fuck_off_EA_App A C++ DLL patch that kept the legacy EA Origin game launcher running and suppressed prompts to migrate to the EA App. EA shut down Origin i… | 10 | 1178 | abandoned |
| telerik/UI-For-UWP Telerik UI for Universal Windows Platform (UWP) is an open-source suite of XAML UI controls (grid, chart, calendar, gauges, etc.) for build… | 10 | 1143 | abandoned |
| NYAN-x-CAT/Lime-RAT LimeRAT is a remote administration tool (RAT) for Windows written in Visual Basic .NET, providing remote desktop, file management, keyloggi… | 10 | 1135 | abandoned |
| riverar/mach2 Mach2 is a Windows command-line multi-tool for managing the Windows Feature Store, allowing users to discover, enable, disable, and revert … | 10 | 1118 | abandoned |
| sirWest/AudioSwitch A Windows utility for switching the default audio input/output device and adjusting volume, with both GUI and command-line interfaces. Last… | 23 | 1116 | abandoned |
| EquiFox/KsDumper KsDumper is a Windows tool that dumps process memory (including protected processes with stripped handles) using a kernel driver, rebuildin… | 23 | 1061 | abandoned |
| ALTaleX531/TranslucentFlyouts A Windows application that applies translucent/transparent acrylic or mica effects to most Win32 popup menus, flyouts, tooltips, and contex… | 10 | 1048 | abandoned |
| bricelam/ImageResizer A Windows shell extension that adds right-click image resizing, written in C#/WPF. Development has moved to Microsoft PowerToys, which now … | 10 | 1032 | abandoned |
| hmailserver/hmailserver hMailServer is an open-source email server for Microsoft Windows providing SMTP, IMAP, and POP3 services. The project is no longer actively… | 98 | 1029 | abandoned |
| WereDev/Wu10Man Wu10Man is a Windows desktop application for enabling or disabling Windows 10 automatic updates by managing services and registry settings.… | 10 | 1023 | abandoned |
| qwqdanchun/DcRat DcRat is an open-source remote administration tool (RAT) written in C# for Windows, providing remote desktop, file management, and remote c… | 10 | 1011 | abandoned |
| OpenCppCoverage OpenCppCoverage is an open-source C++ code coverage tool for Windows, primarily used to measure coverage of unit tests, with support for Vi… | 10 | 1004 | abandoned |
| Flowseal/zapret-discord-youtube A Windows batchfile-based utility bundling bol-van's zapret and WinDivert to bypass DPI-based blocking and throttling of Discord and YouTub… | 88 | 34724 | active |
| QuickLook QuickLook is a free, open-source Windows application that brings macOS's Quick Look feature to Windows, letting users preview files instant… | 88 | 24936 | active |
| netchx/netch Netch is a Windows GUI proxy client supporting protocols like Shadowsocks, ShadowsocksR, VMess, VLESS, Trojan, WireGuard, and SOCKS5. It of… | 65 | 17693 | active |
| AlkaidLab/foundation-sunshine An enhanced fork of LizardByte/Sunshine, a self-hosted game streaming host that serves Moonlight clients. It adds full HDR10/HDR Vivid/HLG … | 99 | 7275 | active |
| HMBSbige/ShadowsocksR-Windows A Windows GUI client for the ShadowsocksR proxy protocol, built with WPF on .NET 6. It is a maintained fork of the original ShadowsocksR cl… | 10 | 6924 | active |
| microsoft/Detours Microsoft Detours is a C++ library for intercepting, monitoring, and instrumenting Win32 API calls on Windows via function hooking and bina… | 67 | 6412 | stable |
| AidLux (AidLearning) AidLux (originally AidLearning) is an AIoT development platform that runs a native Ubuntu Linux environment with GUI, deep learning tooling… | 63 | 5812 | active |
| proxysu/ProxySU A Windows WPF desktop application that provides one-click installation of proxy tools (Xray, V2ray, Trojan, Trojan-Go, NaiveProxy, Shadowso… | 66 | 5711 | active |
| Mzying2001/CefFlashBrowser A Windows browser application built with CefSharp/WPF that bundles a Flash Player plugin, allowing users to view Flash content on web pages… | 79 | 5414 | active |
| SpaceTimee/Sheas-Cealer Sheas Cealer is a WPF (.NET 8) Windows desktop tool that forges the SNI extension field in Chromium's launch parameters, allowing users to … | 57 | 5159 | active |
| binbyu/Reader A lightweight, free, open-source Windows (win32) reader application for txt and epub files, with support for reading online novels via conf… | 65 | 5109 | active |
| indiff/qttabbar QTTabBar is a Windows Explorer extension that adds tabbed browsing and other enhancements to File Explorer, updated for .NET 4.8 and modern… | 98 | 4948 | active |
| Windows App SDK Windows App SDK (formerly Project Reunion) is a Microsoft SDK that brings modern Windows platform APIs, WinUI 3, and Fluent Design UI to de… | 99 | 4710 | active |
| unchihugo/FluentFlyout FluentFlyout is an open-source Windows 11 utility that displays modern, Fluent 2-styled flyouts for media control, lock key status, and tas… | 87 | 4623 | active |