# portapps/portapps

🛰 Collection of portable apps for Windows

Repository: https://github.com/portapps/portapps
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/portapps
Homepage: https://portapps.io
Language: Go
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: portapps, portable, windows, golang
Last push: 2026-08-19T20:42:20+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 87/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 98, release rhythm 65, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3212, "days_push": 14, "days_rel": 152, "gap_med": 33, "n_releases_24m": 8}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1222, forks 80 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:02.476598+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: developer-tools, file-system, configuration-management
- domain: windows, developer-tools, cross-platform, self-hosted
- platform: windows, go
- tags: portable-apps, usb-stick, app-wrappers, no-install, 7z-archive

## Member repositories
- portapps/portapps (main) score 87

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:02.476598+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T06:15:39.060832+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/portapps/portapps (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:02.476598+00:00, sha ccf13d071d6d)
  - homepage: https://portapps.io (fetched 2026-08-29T12:23:57.938921+00:00, sha 160c21eb16bd)
  - site_page: https://portapps.io/doc (fetched 2026-08-29T12:23:57.941374+00:00, sha 1ee5c0aae9a3)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.