Essential IT Software

The classic SSH, Telnet, and serial console client for Windows.

SFTP, SCP, FTP, and S3 client with a built-in text editor. Integrates with PuTTY.

Enhanced terminal with SSH, X11, RDP, VNC, and SFTP in one app. Built-in Unix commands.

Modern cross-platform SSH client with sync, SFTP, and snippet management.

Connection manager for RDP, SSH, VNC, web, and more. Great for managing many servers.

Microsoft's modern terminal with tabs, panes, GPU rendering, and full customization.

The world's most popular network protocol analyzer. Deep packet inspection for troubleshooting.

Network scanner for discovery and security auditing. Port scanning, OS detection, service enumeration.

Fast and simple network scanner. Ping sweep, port scan, hostname resolution.

Fast Windows network scanner with remote control integration (RDP, Radmin).

Visual traceroute and continuous network monitoring. Identifies where packet loss and latency occur.

Bandwidth monitoring and traffic analysis using NetFlow, sFlow, and IPFIX.

FTP, FTPS, and SFTP client with site manager and transfer queue.

Cloud storage browser supporting S3, Azure, Google Cloud, FTP, SFTP, and WebDAV.

Command-line tool to sync files to and from 40+ cloud providers. rsync for the cloud.

Continuous peer-to-peer file synchronization. No cloud required, fully encrypted.

High compression ratio archiver. Supports 7z, ZIP, RAR, TAR, GZIP, and many more formats.

Popular archive manager for RAR and ZIP. Built-in repair and recovery features.

Open-source archive manager supporting 200+ formats. Encryption and secure deletion.

Lightweight code editor with syntax highlighting, macros, and plugin support.

Feature-rich code editor with extensions, integrated terminal, Git, and remote development.

Fast, minimal code editor with powerful search and multi-cursor editing.

Highly configurable terminal text editor. Steep learning curve but unmatched efficiency.

Microsoft's essential Windows tools: Process Explorer, Autoruns, TCPView, PsExec, and more.

Disk space manager showing folder sizes in a tree view. Find what's eating your disk.

Disk health monitoring using S.M.A.R.T. data. Temperature, hours, and error tracking.

Comprehensive hardware diagnostics and monitoring. CPU, GPU, disk, sensor data.

Create bootable USB drives from ISOs. Fast, reliable, supports UEFI and legacy boot.

Bootable USB solution — drop multiple ISOs on one USB and boot any of them.

Offline password manager with browser integration, TOTP, and SSH agent.

Cloud-synced password manager with self-hosting option. Browser and mobile apps.

Toolkit for TLS/SSL. Generate certificates, CSRs, convert formats, test connections.

X Certificate and Key management. GUI for creating and managing certificates, CSRs, CRLs.

Automatically obtain and renew free SSL/TLS certificates from Let's Encrypt.

Let's Encrypt client for Windows. Auto-renew certificates for IIS, Apache, Exchange.

Encrypted DNS proxy supporting DNSCrypt and DNS-over-HTTPS. Block ads and malware.

Network-wide DNS-based ad and tracker blocker. Runs on Raspberry Pi or any Linux box.

Switch between network profiles (IP, DNS, gateway, proxy) with one click.

HTTP/HTTPS debugging proxy. Inspect, modify, and replay web traffic.

Full virtualization for x86/AMD64. Run multiple OS on one machine.

Container platform for building and running containerized applications.

Web UI for managing Docker and Kubernetes environments. Deploy, monitor, troubleshoot.

Open-source server virtualization platform. KVM VMs + LXC containers with web management.

Free diagramming tool for network diagrams, flowcharts, and architecture drawings.

Markdown-based knowledge base with linking, graph view, and plugins. Great for documentation.

Screenshot and screen recording with annotation, OCR, and auto-upload.

Lightweight screenshot tool with annotation and quick export.