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portapps/portapps

🛰 Collection of portable apps for Windows observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/portapps/portapps · homepage · Go · MIT (permissive) observed · 2026-08-28

Health v2 · maintenance only

87/100

  • Activity 98
  • Release rhythm 65
  • Longevity 100
How is this computed?

round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.

  • gap_med: 33
  • age_days: 3212
  • days_rel: 152
  • days_push: 14
  • n_releases_24m: 8

Full methodology

Adoption not part of the score

1222 stars · 80 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Portapps is a collection of portable Windows applications, each launched through a Go-written wrapper executable that makes the underlying app portable. Apps can be downloaded as portable setups or 7z archives and run from a USB stick without installation.

Use cases

  • run applications from a USB stick on Windows
  • use apps without installing them on the system
  • carry my favorite programs portably between computers
  • make a Windows application portable
  • avoid leaving traces of apps on the host machine
  • download portable versions of popular software

When to choose

  • you need Windows apps that run without installation, e.g. from a USB drive
  • you want to keep application data isolated from the host system
  • you frequently move between Windows machines and want consistent app setups

When to avoid

  • you need portable apps on Linux or macOS
  • you want a general-purpose portable app packager rather than a curated collection
  • your target application is not among the Portapps collection

Facets

application · maturity active

developer-tools file-system configuration-management windows developer-tools cross-platform self-hosted windows go portable-apps usb-stick app-wrappers no-install 7z-archive

3 sources

Member repositories

RepositoryRoleHealth v2
portapps/portappsmain87

For agents

markdown · JSON · MCP: product_card(name="portapps/portapps")

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