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The idea of portable apps came about when USB pen drives were at the height of their popularity. The premise was to be able to carry a range of software on a USB stick, which you could simply plug into any Windows PC, to use the utilities without any installation.
Today, portable apps continue to have tremendous practical value: Besides carrying all the apps and software you need in a thumb-sized device; you can move these—hassle-free—from one machine to another; you don't need to install any software so they do not occupy space on your hard drive; it becomes easy to share your favourite portable apps with friends by making a copy and handing them over.
And now, with fast internet connections, you can even save all your portable apps on cloud storage services—DropBox, Google Drive, Box, etc—and run them on any PC with an internet connection. Here, are a few websites to help you build your portable apps collection for free...

PenDriveApps.com
This website is home to free portable Freeware and Open Source Applications in nearly 60 categories, including Spyware & Malware Tools, Antivirus & Firewall, Data Recovery, Encryption Utilities, File Managers, Audio-Video Software, PDF Tools & Word Processors, Music Streaming & Audio Recorders, Game Emulators, Graphics & Design, Instant Messengers, Internet Browsers, Money Management, Network Tools, Password Managers, Registry Tools, RSS Readers, System Tools and Archivers. Each software comes with a brief description, screenshot, user rating out of five stars, and names of alternative portable apps. You might want to look this website up for its large well-categorised offerings to find exactly what you want.

PortableApps.com
This resource was founded by John T Haller, the developer behind numerous portable applications including "Portable Firefox" which started the portable software trend. You can download individual apps from the site, or opt for the PortableApps.com Platform installation that lets you build an apps suite. From within its interface, you can browse for and select portable apps by category: Accessibility for the differently-abled, Development tools, Education, Games, Graphics and Image editors, Internet tools, Music and Video, Office productivity, Security, and Utilities. Once you are done, hit Enter, and the software downloads all the apps you want without any further intervention on your part. The PortableApps.com Platform also helps you maintain updated copies of your downloaded tools with ease.

PortableFreeware.com
At the time of writing, this website by programmer Andrew Lee boasts of 2,774 portable apps in 16 categories and 205 sub-categories ranging from text to multimedia editors, education to game apps, programming tools to system utilities, and practically everything else in between. Each app comes with a description, a screenshot, a rating out of five stars, and even user comments to help you make your decision. You can browse the apps by latest additions, and category. Also, annually, Portable Freeware conducts an informal poll to ask members which are their favourite portable apps and compiles the list under the website's "Best of" section. This free resource also has an active Forum for news and announcements, suggestions and discussions, freeware submissions and updates, problems and troubleshooting, etc.

LiberKey.com
This website is home to 294 portable apps in a dozen categories including audio, education, file management, games, graphics, office and system utilities. Like it is with Portable Apps, this website comes with an installable called LiberKey that not only makes it easy to download all the apps you need, but also provides you with a mechanism to always keep the apps updated. After you install Liber Key v5.8 on your USB pen drive, you are presented with an installation wizard that lets you choose between three suites of software: Basic with 14 apps, Standard with 85 apps, and Ultimate with 153 apps. Select one, and Liber Key does the rest to create a pen drive with all your apps. Alternatively, you could also choose to download individual titles that you need; each, of course, comes with a basic write-up of its features.

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