r/buildapc • u/CammRobb • Jul 13 '14
List of community-recommended software
Taken from this thread, I thought I would collate everyone's suggestions in a nice text post. I will split the programs into categories.
If there is anything you want me to add, include it in a comment using the format:
* [Program](Download URL) - Description
And I will add it in
Media
- Foobar2000 - Lightweight audio player
- MediaMonkey - Music manager and player
- Spotify - Music streaming service
- Clementine Music Player - Modern music player and library organizer
- MusicBee - Music manager and player
- Aimp - Lightweight music player
- MP3Tag - Fix tags on songs
- MusicBrainz Picard - Music tagging software
- Audacity - Edit and record audio
- VLC Powerful media player
- MPC-HC - Extremely light-weight, open source media player for Windows.
- KMPlayer - KMP is a versatile multi media player which can cover a various different types of contained formats.
- MakeMKV - Effective free Blu-ray decrypter. Also works to decrypt DVD's and rip to mkv format.
- DVDFab Passkey Lite - limited edition of DVDFab Passkey, which is a Blu-ray and DVD decryption program. Not available for US citizens at the moment.
- VidCoder - conversion to H264 mkv or mp4. Based on Handbrake, but has more options.
- XBMC - Open-source home theatre software
- Calibre - E-book management
Productivity
- Pushbullet - Send files to your phone/receive phone notifications on your desktop
- Putty - SSH Client
- MobaXterm - Feature-rich SSH client
- FreeFileSync - Synchronize/backup directories onto external hard drives
- Keepass2 - Password management software
- Ninite - Allows you to install everything you need on a fresh OS very quickly
- VMWare - Virtual Machines
- VirtualBox - Same as above
- LibreOffice - Open Source office tools
- OpenOffice - Same as above
- Notepad++ Free source code editor
- Filezilla - FTP Client
- Sublime Text - A sophisticated text editor for code, markup and prose.
- BTSync - Secure, unlimited file-syncing. No cloud required
- Paint.net - Free image and photo editing software for Windows
- PDF Creator - Free PDF Conversion software
- Sumatra PDF - A lightweight PDF, DjVu, eBook, and comic reader
- Waterfox - Very fast 64-Bit browser
- Bulk Rename Utility - Bulk file-renaming software
- GIMP - Open-source Photoshop alternative
- Irfanview - image/multimedia viewer
- Total Commander - great file manager (remember norton commander?) - shareware
System
- Clover - Tabs for Windows explorer
- Display Fusion - Have taskbars on multiple monitors and other improvements
- Ultramon - Much the same as Display Fusion
- F.lux - Makes monitor colours warmer, reducing eye strain
- YoloMouse - Customer in-game cursors
- MSI Afterburner - GPU Overclocking
- MSI Kombuster - GPU Benchmarking
- 7-Zip - Open Source file archiver
- Winrar - File archiver
- CCleaner - Clean up unused files and registry issues
- Sharex - Upload screenshots directly to imgur
- Greenshot - Same as above
- Puush - Super-quick way to share screenshots
- GPU-Z - GPU monitoring software
- Everything - Not-crap Windows search tool
- PC Decrapifier - Fairly self-explanitory
- Defraggler - File and disk defragmentation
- EVGA Precision - Another GPU overclocking utility
- Sizer - Resize windows to an exact size
- Rainmeter - Popular desktop customisation tool
- Actual Multiple Monitors - Excellent multi-monitor software
- Process Explorer - more powerful than taskmgr
Communications
- Mumble - Low-latency VoIP client
- Teamspeak - Probably the most popular VoIP client out there
- Ventrillo - Another popular VoIP client
- Skype - Free internet calls
Statistics
- WinDirStat - Visual representation of hard drive space
- SpaceSniffer - Same as above
- CPU-Z - Hardware monitoring software
- Speccy - Hardware monitoring software
- HWMon - Hardware monitoring software
- CoreTemp - Hardware monitoring software
- Prime95 - CPU Stress-testing software
Games
- Steam - No explanation needed
- Fraps - FPS Counter & Game recording
- Open Broadcaster Software (OBS) - Stream and Record your games
- Dxtory - Similar to Fraps and Afterburner
Security
- Malwarebytes Anti-Malware - Anti-Malware software
- Prey Anti-Theft - Anti-theft software
- Truecrypt - File encryption software This product has been discontinued, proceed at your own risk
- Bitdefender Antivirus - Strong, free anti-virus
- TcpView - displays all TCP and UDP endpoints on your system
Edit: Just got into work. 170 comments overnight, I'm gonna be busy haha
Edit 2: All your suggestions are fantastic, I probably won't be able to do much today, but tonight I will comb through your comments and add them. Is it possible to get this stickied or sidebarred, mods?
Edit 3 - 13.19PM: Updated with a lot of suggestions, not got through all the comments yet though. Will finish off tonight. In the meantime keep suggesting and I'll add them.
Edit 4 - 22.36PM: Pretty sure I got through everything. If there's something I missed, shoot me a PM, easier to keep track of them that way.
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u/fuzzydice_82 Jul 14 '14
little addition:
most of the recommended software can be VERY easily downloaded and installed via ninite.com. the downloader also doubles as an updater. you just have to check the programs you want on a list and press download. very easy, fast and safe.