Microsoft Edge delivers a fast, secure browsing experience with integrated AI assistance, vertical tabs for better organization, and tight Windows integration.

Microsoft PowerToys is the official free utility suite that adds the window management, bulk renaming and launcher tools missing from stock Windows.

Camtasia Studio is TechSmith's combined screen recorder and video editor, free to use in full with a watermark on exported videos.

WavePad Audio Editor is NCH Software's flagship desktop sound editor, offering a permanently free Basic Edition for non-commercial use alongside paid Standard and Master's Edition upgrades.

DeepSeek is a free Chinese AI assistant for Android, offering chat, coding and reasoning help with no paid tier.

iVentoy is the network option among the bootable-media tools here, swapping the USB stick for a PXE server that installs an OS on a room full of machines at once.

FFmpeg is the command-line multimedia engine that most other conversion, encoding and streaming tools on this site quietly run on.

ChatGPT is OpenAI's official Android assistant, handling questions, writing and code, with voice chat and camera input built in.

MPC-HC is a free, lightweight Windows video player that handles HEVC, AV1 and HDR playback without needing a separate codec pack.

Dolby Access is the Dolby Atmos setup and licensing app for Windows and Xbox, sitting alongside the other playback and device utilities in Media Utilities.

Opera Browser delivers a complete browsing experience with built-in VPN, ad blocker, and AI assistant.

ocenaudio is the free audio editor for people who want real-time effect previews and multi-selection editing without moving up to a full multitrack workstation.