Adobe Acrobat Reader is Adobe's free PDF viewer for Windows 10 and 11, the industry-standard desktop application for opening, signing, annotating, filling forms and printing PDF documents.

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

dBpoweramp Music Converter is the paid all-rounder of the audio encoders category, pairing a multi-core format converter with an AccurateRip-verified CD ripper.

get_iplayer is the advanced, open-source downloading tool media archivists rely on to search, record, and preserve BBC iPlayer TV shows and BBC Sounds radio broadcasts.

FluentCleaner is the lightweight, bloat-free drive cleaner and privacy manager modern Windows users reach for to reclaim storage space without compromising login sessions.

Shark007 Codecs is the portable option among Windows codec packs, running from a folder instead of an installer and restoring Explorer thumbnails.

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

MPC SubtitleSource is the DirectShow source filter that makes external subtitle files loadable by any Windows player.

MPEG Splitter is the DirectShow filter that opens MPG, TS, M2TS and VOB files and separates their audio and video streams.

VLC is the media player most people end up with once a video refuses to open in anything else.

Kindle Comic Converter is the free, open-source tool that reformats CBZ, CBR, PDF and image folders into ebooks that fill an e-reader screen properly.

Image Toolbox is a free open-source Android photo editor that bundles dozens of professional editing features - crop, filters, OCR, background removal, EXIF editing, format conversion, and PDF export.

Ant Download Manager (AntDM) is a quick download manager for any Internet file, that fully integrates with all popular browsers.