Top 100 Most Downloaded Open Source Software On The World
eMule
Downloads 409,756,749
eMule is a filesharing client which is based on the eDonkey2000
network but offers more features than the standard client
download here
Azureus
Downloads 168,184,798
Azureus is a powerful, full-featured, cross-platform bittorrent client.
download here
Ares Galaxy
Downloads 154,249,048
Filesharing-Bittorrent p2p client connected to TCP supernode/leaf
network and UDP DHT network. Ares features a built-in directshow media
player, a powerful library manager, shoutcast radio support and can be
used to host p2p Chatrooms.
download here
BitTorrent
Downloads 51,850,559
BitTorrent is a tool for distributed download
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DC++
Downloads 51,158,555
This is a project aimed at producing a file sharing client using the
ADC protocol. It also supports connecting to the Direct Connect network.
download here
GTK+ and The GIMP installers for Windows
Downloads 43,373,691
The GIMP and GTK+ installers for Windows
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Shareaza
Downloads 43,206,065
Shareaza is a multi-network peer-to-peer ( P2P ) file-sharing client
supporting Gnutella2, Gnutella, eDonkey2000 ( eMule ), HTTP, FTP and
BitTorrent protocols. Using C++, MFC and ATL, for Windows.
download here
7-Zip is a file archiver
Downloads 42,616,436
7-Zip is a file archiver with the high compression ratio. The program
supports 7z, ZIP, CAB, RAR, ARJ, LZH, CHM, GZIP, BZIP2, Z, TAR, CPIO,
ISO, MSI, WIM, NSIS, RPM and DEB formats.
download here
Audacity
Downloads 40,726,502
A fast multi-track audio editor and recorder for Linux, BSD, Mac OS,
and Windows. Supports WAV, AIFF, Ogg, and MP3 formats. Features include
envelope editing, mixing, built-in effects and plug-ins, all with
unlimited undo.
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VirtualDub
Downloads 39,611,367
Desktop video processing and capture application (Win32).
download here
FileZilla
Downloads 38,755,050
FileZilla is a fast FTP and SFTP client for Windows with a lot of
features. FileZilla Server is a reliable FTP server.
download here
CDex CD-Ripper
Downloads 35,658,350
CDex is a CD-Ripper, extracting digital audio data from an Audio CD.
The application supports many Audio encoders, like MPEG (MP2,MP3), VQF,
AAC encoders.
download here
eMule Plus
Downloads 25,907,067
eMule Plus is an evolution of the original eMule project, created to
improve its abilities and features, in both work efficiency and user
interface.
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guliverkli
Downloads 23,965,845
Home of VobSub, Media Player Classic (MPC) and other misc utils.
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Pidgin
Downloads 22,914,281
Pidgin is a GTK+ instant messaging application for Windows and Unix. It
supports AIM, ICQ, Jabber/XMPP, MSN, Yahoo!, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, IRC,
QQ, SILC, SIMPLE and more.
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PortableApps.com: Portable Software/USB
Downloads 19,876,052
PortableApps.com allows you to carry your favorite computer programs
and all of your bookmarks, settings, email and more with you on a
portable device (USB flash drive, iPod, portable hard drive, CD, etc)
and use them on any Windows computer.
download here
aMSN Messenger
Downloads 19,198,248
A very nice MSN compatible messenger application, aMSN Messenger is a
multiplatform MSN messenger clone. Works pretty much like its Windows
based counterpart. Perfect for keeping in touch with those friends who
have not yet seen the light. Works on linux
download here
WinSCP
Downloads 18,979,835
WinSCP is a SFTP client and FTP client for Windows. Its main function
is the secure file transfer between a local and a remote computer. It
uses Secure Shell (SSH) and supports, in addition to Secure FTP, also
legacy SCP protocol.
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TightVNC
Downloads 18,434,458
TightVNC is an improved version of VNC, great free remote-desktop tool.
The improvements include bandwidth-friendly "Tight" encoding, file
transfers in the Windows version, enhanced GUI, many bugfixes, and more.
download here
PDFCreator
Downloads 17,797,979
PDFCreator easily creates PDFs from any Windows program.
Use it like a printer in Word, StarCalc or any other Windows application.
download here
UltraVNC
Downloads 17,634,431
UltraVNC: Remote desktop support software - Remote PC access - remote
desktop connection software - VNC Compatibility - FileTransfer -
Encryption plugins - Text chat - MS authentication
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phpBB
Downloads 17,459,406
phpBB is the worlds leading Open Source flat style discussion forum
software. It includes all the features you expect to find in todays top
of the line software.
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ZSNES
Downloads 17,132,310
ZSNES is a SNES/Super Famicom emulator for x86 computers. It runs on
Windows, MS-DOS and Linux/FreeBSD and supports mode 7, sound, Super FX,
and a lot more.
download here
NASA WorldWind
Downloads 16,255,417
NASA World Wind is a graphically rich 3D virtual globe for use on
desktop computers running Windows. It combines NASA imagery generated
from satellites that have produced Blue Marble, Landsat 7, SRTM, MODIS
and more.
download here
AC3Filter
Downloads 16,251,549
It is DirectShow AC3 Decoder filter used to palyback AVI files with AC3
sound tracks and DVDs. Multichannel and S/PDIF support. Focused at
flexible controls during playback: gains, mixer, stream information,
levels and other.
download here
phpMyAdmin
Downloads 16,035,337
phpMyAdmin is a tool written in PHP intended to handle the
administration of MySQL over the Web. Currently it can create and drop
databases, create/drop/alter tables, delete/edit/add fields, execute
any SQL statement, manage keys on fields.
download here
Simple Directory Listing
Downloads 15,443,801
A php application that provides a web-based graphical interface similar
to apache directory listing. Functions:copy, move, delete, rename files
download here
Dev-C++
Downloads 14,749,750
Dev-C++ is an full-featured Integrated Development Environment (IDE)
for Win32. It uses GCC, Mingw or Cygwin as compiler and libraries set.
download here
Ghostscript
Downloads 14,196,298
This site provides distribution of Ghostscript releases. This is no
longer the master integration and development site for Ghostscript.
Please go to http://svn.ghostscript.com/ for development files and to
http://bugs.ghostscript.com/ for issue tracking.
download here
MinGW - Minimalist GNU for Windows
Downloads 13,946,246
MinGW: A native Win32 port of the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC), with
freely distributable import libraries and header files for building
native Windows applications; includes extensions to the MSVC runtime to
support C99 functionality.
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ClamWin Free Antivirus
Downloads 13,533,492
MS Windows front-end to Clam Antivirus (http://www.clamav.net).
Includes scheduler, virus database updates, standalone scanner, context
menu integration to MS Windows Explorer and Addin to MS Outlook. Also
features easy setup program.
download here
XAMPP
Downloads 13,278,993
XAMPP is a very easy to install Apache Distribution for Linux, Solaris,
Windows and Mac OS X. The package includes the Apache web server,
MySQL, PHP, Perl, a FTP server and phpMyAdmin.
download here
JBoss/Server
Downloads 11,951,618
The JBoss/Server is the leading Open Source, standards-compliant, J2EE
based application server implemented in 100% Pure Java
download here
ffdshow
Downloads 11,792,483
ffdshow is DirectShow and VFW codec for decoding/encoding many video
and audio formats, including DivX and XviD movies using libavcodec,
xvid and other opensourced libraries with a rich set of postprocessing filters.
download here
emule Xtreme Mod
Downloads 11,570,205
emule client, based on official emule version (see www.emule-project.net)
many enhancements and bugfixes, for details see provided changelog supported languages:
for xtreme features: english, for all official emule client features: english, german, spa
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eMule Morph
Downloads 11,285,508
eMule Morph Mod - eMule Modding Project
download here
ABC [Yet Another Bittorrent Client]
Downloads 11,085,868
ABC is a Bittorrent client which supports a queueing system with
priority, global and local preferences for downloading torrents,
multiple upload options for completed files, an adjustable display, and
remote access via a web service.
download here
VisualBoyAdvance
Downloads 10,631,086
An emulator for Gameboy and GameboyAdvance systems.
download here
Miranda
Downloads 10,372,766
Miranda IM is a smaller, faster, easier instant messenger with support
for multiple protocols including AIM, Jabber, ICQ, IRC, MSN, Yahoo, and
more.
download here
Webmin
Downloads 10,171,213
A web-based system administration tool for Unix servers and services
download here
PeerGuardian
Downloads 9,578,421
PeerGuardian helps protect your privacy by blocking many ranges of aggressive IPs while you use P2P.
download here
DOSBox DOS Emulator
Downloads 9,555,079
DOSBox emulates a full x86 pc with sound and dos. Its main use is to
run old dosgames on platforms which dont have
dos(win2K/XP/linux/FreeBSD/Mac OS X)
download here
TortoiseSVN
Downloads 9,239,878
TortoiseSVN is a Subversion (SVN) client, implemented as a windows
shell extension. It's intuitive and easy to use, since it doesnt
require the Subversion command line client to run. Simply the coolest
Interface to (Sub)Version Control!
download here
MediaCoder
Downloads 9,023,788
MediaCoder is a universal media transcoder which nicely integrates most
popular audio/video codecs and tools into an all-in-one solution,
converting between almost all popular audio/video formats with high
performance and a rich adjustable parameters.
download here
Notepad++
Downloads 8,857,748
Notepad++ is a generic source code editor (it tries to be anyway) and
Notepad replacement written in c++ with win32 API. The aim of Notepad++
is to offer a slim and efficient binary with a totally customizable GUI.
download here
GnuWin32
Downloads 8,836,293
GnuWin32 provides Win32-versions of GNU tools, or tools with a similar
open source licence. The ports are native ports, that is they rely only
on libraries provided with any 32-bits MS-Windows operating system,
such as MS-Windows 95 / 98 / 2000 / NT / XP
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VirtualDubMod
Downloads 8,797,272
VirtualDubMod is based on the famous video editing software VirtualDub
by Avery Lee. Born as a unification of several existing modifications,
a lot of new features have been added, including support for the
matroska container format.
download here
Gallery
Downloads 7,597,041
A slick, intuitive web based photo gallery. Gallery is easy to install,
configure and use. Gallery photo management includes automatic
thumbnails, resizing, rotation, and more. Authenticated users and
privileged albums make this great for communities.
download here
Wireshark
Downloads 7,295,794
Wireshark is a powerful network protocol analyzer developed by an
international team of networking experts. It runs on UNIX, OS X and
Windows. (If youre looking for Ethereal, we switched names in May 2006
due to trademark issues.)
download here
Eraser
Downloads 6,951,716
Eraser is a secure data removal tool for Windows. It completely removes
sensitive data from your hard drive by overwriting it several times
with carefully selected patterns.
download here
XOOPS Dynamic Web CMS
Downloads 6,543,721
XOOPS is a dynamic web content management system written in PHP for the
MySQL database. Its object orientation makes it an ideal tool for
developing small or large community websites, intra company and
corporate portals, weblogs and much more.
download here
Celestia
Downloads 6,248,965
Celestia is an application for real-time 3D visualization of space,
with a detailed model of the solar system, over 100,000 stars, more
than 10,000 galaxies, and an extension mechanism for adding more
objects.
download here
EasyPHP
Downloads 6,044,930
EasyPHP is a complete package allowing to use all the power and the
flexibility that offers the dynamic language PHP. Package includes an
Apache server, a MySQL database, PHPMyAdmin as well as easy development
tools for web sites and applications.
download here
DScaler Deinterlacer/Scaler
Downloads 6,016,002
phpBB is the worlds leading Open Source flat style discussion forum
software. It includes all the features you expect to find in todays top
of the line software.
download here
The CvsGui project
Downloads 5,765,981
The CvsGui project is providing several high-end interface clients
(WinCvs, MacCvs, gCvs) written in C++ using popular frameworks (MFC,
PowerPlant, GTK+) with a scripting support via Python or TCL.
download here
FlasKMPEG
Downloads 5,762,102
FlasKMPEG. An MPEG transcoding program.
download here
MiKTeX
Downloads 5,712,799
MiKTeX is an up-to-date implementation of TeX & Friends for Windows (all vendor supported variants).
download here
MP3Gain
Downloads 5,639,653
MP3Gain analyzes and losslessly adjusts mp3 files to a specified target volume.
It does not simply do peak amplitude normalization. Instead, it
performs statistical analysis to determine how loud the file actually
sounds to the human ear.
download here
AppServ
Downloads 5,608,050
AppServ is an merging open source software installer package for Windows and Linux.
download here
IPCop Firewall
Downloads 5,444,010
The IPCop Firewall is a Linux firewall distro. It will be geared
towards home and SOHO users. The difference with existing firewalls is
that the IPCop interface will be very user-friendly and task-based.
download here
FreeMind
Downloads 5,378,058
A mind mapper, and at the same time an easy-to-operate hierarchical
editor with strong emphasis on folding. These two are not really two
different things, just two different descriptions of a single
application. Often used for knowledge and content mgmt.
download here
Wine Is Not an Emulator
Downloads 5,363,593
Wine is an Open Source implementation of the Windows API on top of X and Unix.
Wine provides both a development toolkit for porting Windows sources to
Unix and a program loader, allowing many unmodified Windows binaries to
run on x86-based Unixes.
download here
MPlayer OS X
Downloads 5,333,294
MPlayer OS X is project based on MPlayer (The Movie Player for Linux)
port to Mac OS X platform. It consist of compiled binaries of mplayer
and mencoder , separate GUI for mencoder and standalone Cocoa player
application based on mplayer binaries.
download here
BitPim
Downloads 5,311,568
BitPim allows synchronization of Phone Book, Calendar, WallPapers and
RingTones and manipulating the embedded filesystem in CDMA cell phones.
download here
Firebird
Downloads 5,292,126
Firebird RDBMS offers many ANSI SQL features & runs on Linux,
Windows & several Unix platforms. Features excellent concurrency
& performance & powerful stored procedure & trigger
language. WEBSITE link above right, TRACKER
http://tracker.firebirdsql.org
download here
ScummVM
Downloads 5,292,054
ScummVM is a cross-platform interpreter for several point-and-click
adventure engines. This includes all SCUMM-based adventures by
LucasArts, Simon the Sorcerer 1&2 by AdventureSoft, Beneath a Steel
Sky and Broken Sword 1&2 by Revolution, and many more.
download here
floAts Mobile Agent
Downloads 4,986,702
FMA is a SMS Manager, Mobile Phone Monitor, Remote Control Agent,
Phonebook Manager, Organizer, Fun and much more; whatever you want it
to be, it is whatever a mobile phone should have :-) (Currently based
on Sony Ericsson features set).
download here
StepMania
Downloads 4,961,015
StepMania is a music/rhythm game. The player presses different buttons
in time to the music and to note patterns that scroll across the
screen. Features 3D graphics, visualizations, support for
gamepads/dance pads, a step recording mode, and more!
download here
DotNetNuke
Downloads 4,933,841
Open Source Web Application Framework for the Microsoft ASP.NET platform.
download here
WampServer
Downloads 4,899,545
WampServer will install Apache, PHP5 and MySQL on your Windows system.
WampServer comes with a service manager as a tray icon. It will allow
you to easily manage your server. You can install all releases of
Apache, MySQL and PHP as add-ons.
download here
Inkscape
Downloads 4,837,205
A Linux, Windows & OSX vector graphics editor (SVG format)
featuring transparency, gradients, node editing, pattern fills, PNG
export, and more. Aiming for capabilities similar to Illustrator,
CorelDraw, Visio, etc.
download here
Stellarium
Downloads 4,778,567
Stellarium renders 3D photo-realistic skies in real time with OpenGL.
It displays stars, constellations, planets, nebulas and others things
like ground, landscape, atmosphere, etc.
download here
LAME (Lame Aint an MP3 Encoder)
Downloads 4,746,269
LAME is an educational tool to be used for learning about MP3 encoding.
The goal of the LAME project is to improve the psycho acoustics,
quality and speed of MP3 encoding.
download here
StarDict
Downloads 4,723,844
StarDict is a Cross-Platform and international dictionary written in
Gtk2. It has powerful features such as Glob-style pattern matching,
Scan seletion word, Fuzzy search, Net dict, Full text translation etc
download here
Coppermine Photo Gallery
Downloads 4,667,384
Coppermine is an easily set-up, fast, feature-rich photo gallery script
with mySQL database, user management, private galleries, automatic
thumbnail creation, ecard feature and a template system for easy
customization to match the rest of a site.
download here
SpeedSim
Downloads 4,636,248
SpeedSim is an OGame (ogame.org) combat simulator. It has lots of
additional features like BestWorst-Case calculation, multiple
simulations, it also supports skinning and other useful things. This is
also the project page of QtSim (a SpeedSim for Linux).
download here
Frets on Fire
Downloads 4,632,010
Frets on Fire is a game of musical skill and fast fingers. The aim of
the game is to play guitar with the keyboard as accurately as possible.
download here
Gordian Knot
Downloads 4,603,365
Gordian Knot started out as a simple bitrate calculator for DivX encoding but has evolved to
become an integrated package or tool for the entire process of DivX/XviD encoding.
download here
jEdit
Downloads 4,573,214
jEdit is a programmers text editor written in Java. It uses the Swing toolkit for the GUI and
can be configured as a rather powerful IDE through the use of its plugin architecture.
download here
OpenKore
Downloads 4,476,599
OpenKore is an automation tool for Ragnarok Online-compatible games, authorized to be used on KoreRO.
download here
burst!
Downloads 4,453,311
burst! is port of BitTorrents console btdownloadheadless.py to Win32,
with a GUI front-end. MakeTorrent is a Win32 solution for easily
creating .torrent files with features such as multi-tracker .torrents
and a custom tracker list.
download here
Miranda
Downloads 4,401,729
A free Win32 instant messaging client. Smaller, Faster, Easier.
download here
KeePass Password Safe
Downloads 4,320,558
KeePass Password Safe is a free, open source, light-weight and
easy-to-use password manager for Windows. You can store your passwords
in a highly-encrypted database, which is locked with one master
password or key file.
download here
Avisynth rev. 2
Downloads 4,271,338
Avisynth is a scripting language and a collection of filters for simple
(and not so simple!) non-linear video editing tasks. It frameserves
video to applications.
download here
Streamripper
Downloads 4,243,120
Streamripper records shoutcast-compatible streams. For shoutcast style
streams it finds the meta data or track separation data, and uses
that as a marker for where the track should be separated.
download here
DreaMule
Downloads 4,227,934
It´s a ed2k file sharing client, done for easy of use and speed.
download here
French Mozilla Translation
Downloads 4,171,420
Projet de traduction française de Mozilla et ses dérivés French
translation project for Mozilla and its derivatives
download here
MediaPortal
Downloads 4,152,415
MediaPortal opens the portal to all your media. Listen, record and
organize music, movies, radio, streams, pictures and even pause TV! Use
internet sources to enrich your media with albumart or songnames. Enjoy
your mediacenter or HTPC like never before!
download here
wxWidgets
Downloads 4,085,050
wxWidgets is a free C++ framework that facilitates cross platform software
development, including GUIs, threads, sockets, database, file system access, etc.
download here
ffdshow tryouts
Downloads 3,836,670
ffdshow is a DirectShow filter and VFW codec for many audio and video
formats, such as DivX, Xvid and H.264. Over 70 bugs have been fixed,
codecs have been updated, and support for a few new formats has been
added in the tryouts. Vista is now supported.
download here
SharpDevelop
Downloads 3,812,180
SharpDevelop is an open source IDE for the .NET platform. It is entirely written
in C#, and supports various project types in multiple programming languages.
download here
Hibernate
Downloads 3,742,715
Hibernate - Relational Persistence for Idiomatic Java
download here
PHP Triad for Windows
Downloads 3,739,186
An installer of Apache, MySQL and PHP for Windows.
download here
xine - a free video player
Downloads 3,728,969
xine is a free multimedia player. It plays back CDs, DVDs, and VCDs. It
also decodes multimedia files like AVI, MOV, WMV, and MP3 from local
disk drives, and displays multimedia streamed over the Internet.
download here
BitTorrent++
Downloads 3,621,975
Improved(download multiple files at once, config, GUI) client for the
BitTorrent peer-to-peer sharing solution. This project is also the home
of WebTorrent++ a BitTorrent client with a webbased user interface.
download here
WinMerge
Downloads 3,618,156
WinMerge is a Windows tool for visual difference display and merging,
for both files and directories. Unicode support. Flexible syntax
coloring editor. Windows Shell integration. Regexp filtering.
Side-by-side line diff and highlights diffs inside lines.
download here
Firefox Portable (Now @PortableApps.com)
Downloads 3,575,420
The Mozilla Firefox®, Portable Edition project is now part of the
PortableApps.com project: http://sourceforge.net/projects/portableapps
download here
ophcrack
Downloads 3,532,081
Ophcrack is a Windows password cracker based on a time-memory trade-off
using rainbow tables. This is a new variant of Hellmans original
trade-off, with better performance. It recovers 99.9% of alphanumeric passwords in seconds.
download here
WDM bt848/bt878 video adquisition driver
Downloads 3,509,935
Universal Video Capture driver for WinMe,Win2000,WinXP and
Win98SE for Bt848/Bt878 based capture card
download here
RevConnect - Enhanced DC++
Downloads 3,350,496
RevConnect is a file sharing program based on DC++. It is fully
compatible with the Direct Connect network and made some major features.
download here