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Developer tools for Windows

IDEs, Git clients, languages and runtimes, databases, containers and terminals.

This category lists 3,128 Windows apps: 79% open source, 4% free closed source. The most popular are Go Programming Language, LLVM and PowerShell. 893 have a native ARM64 build and 3,120 a documented silent install. Last update: October 24, 2026.

Sort Licence 3,128 apps
#App Licence
1 Go Programming LanguageAn open source programming language that makes it simple to build secure, scalable systems. 1.27.0 Open source August 28, 2026 63.9 MB 2.1M ↓
2 LLVMA collection of modular and reusable compiler and toolchain technologies. 23.1.4 Open source October 20, 2026 — 2.8M ↓
3 PowerShellPowerShell is a cross-platform task automation solution made up of a command-line shell, a scripting language, and a configuration management framework. PowerShell runs on Windows, Linux, and macOS. 7.6.8.0 Open source October 23, 2026 — 689.6K ↓
4 DenoA modern runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript 2.9.8 Open source October 21, 2026 — 249.7K ↓
5 CMakeCMake is a cross-platform, open-source build system generator. 4.4.4 Open source October 5, 2026 — 3.7M ↓
6 YarnYarn is a package manager that doubles down as project manager. Whether you work on one-shot projects or large monorepos, as a hobbyist or an enterprise user, we've got you covered. 1.22.22 Open source May 30, 2024 — 1.9M ↓
7 MariaDBThe innovative open source database 13.0.2.0 Open source September 15, 2026 93.0 MB 149.8K ↓
8 OpenCodeOpenCode is an open source agent that helps you write and run code with any AI model. It's available as a terminal-based interface, desktop app, or IDE extension. 1.19.4 Open source October 22, 2026 — 285.2K ↓
9 RStudioRStudio is an integrated development environment (IDE) for R. 2026.10.0+233 Open source October 15, 2026 496.3 MB 705.1K ↓
10 WinMergeWinMerge is an open source differencing and merging tool for Windows. 2.16.58.2 Open source August 27, 2026 — 1.2M ↓
11 Node.js (LTS)Run JavaScript Everywhere 24.22.1 Open source October 22, 2026 — 4.9M ↓
12 Apache NetBeansDevelopment Environment, Tooling Platform and Application Framework. 31 Open source August 14, 2026 — 88.8K ↓
13 CcacheCcache is a compiler cache. It speeds up recompilation by caching previous compilations and detecting when the same compilation is being done again. 4.14.1 Open source September 30, 2026 — 2.2M ↓
14 QPDFQPDF is a command-line tool and C++ library that performs content-preserving transformations on PDF files. 12.4.2 Open source September 27, 2026 — 2.1M ↓
15 GitHub CLITake GitHub to the command line 2.103.2 Open source October 23, 2026 — 1.1M ↓
16 Oh My PoshPrompt theme engine for any shell 31.9.1 Open source October 20, 2026 — 820.8K ↓
17 jqjq is a lightweight and flexible command-line JSON processor. 1.8.2 Open source June 20, 2026 — 5.1M ↓
18 HeidiSQLA lightweight client for managing MariaDB, MySQL, SQL Server, PostgreSQL and SQLite, written in Delphi 12.21.0.7344 Open source August 5, 2026 — 528.2K ↓
19 HelmThe Package Manager for Kubernetes 4.3.1 Open source October 15, 2026 20.9 MB 1.6M ↓
20 GitA free and open source distributed version control system 2.56.0.2 Open source October 24, 2026 — 20.1M ↓
21 Docker DesktopAn application for macOS and Windows machines for the building and sharing of containerised applications. 4.96.3 Proprietary October 23, 2026 641.8 MB 2.2M ↓
22 Microsoft Azure CLIThe Azure command-line interface (Azure CLI) is a set of commands used to create and manage Azure resources. The Azure CLI is available across Azure services and is designed to get you working quickly with Azure, with an emphasis on automation. 2.91.0 Open source October 6, 2026 70.1 MB 3.5M ↓
23 sbtA build tool for Scala, Java, and more 2.0.11 Open source October 22, 2026 — 263.6K ↓
24 VSCodiumVSCodium is a community-driven, freely-licensed and telemetry-free rebuilt of Microsoft's Visual Studio Code. 1.140.06880 Open source October 13, 2026 — 394.5K ↓
25 PulumiPulumi CLI for managing modern infrastructure as code 3.272.0 Open source October 23, 2026 — 395.6K ↓
26 yqyq is a portable command-line YAML, JSON, XML, CSV and properties processor. 4.53.6 Open source August 20, 2026 — 1.5M ↓
27 AlacrittyAlacritty is a free and open-source GPU accelerated terminal emulator focused on performance and simplicity. 0.17.0 Open source April 6, 2026 — 75.9K ↓
28 fzfA general-purpose command-line fuzzy finder 0.74.5 Open source October 19, 2026 — 290.1K ↓
29 Serverless FrameworkBuild applications on AWS Lambda and other next-gen cloud services, that auto-scale and only charge you when they run. 3.39.0 Open source June 4, 2024 — 84.9K ↓
30 BOINCOpen-source software for volunteer computing and grid computing. 8.2.13 Open source September 21, 2026 — 12.5K ↓
31 Kubernetes - Minikube - A Local Kubernetes Development Environmentminikube quickly sets up a local Kubernetes cluster on macOS, Linux, and Windows. We proudly focus on helping application developers and new Kubernetes users. 1.39.0 Open source September 2, 2026 — 747.8K ↓
32 Puppet AgentPuppet is a tool that helps you manage and automate the configuration of servers. 8.10.0 Open source October 22, 2024 45.7 MB 2.3M ↓
33 Dart SDKA set of tools and libraries for the Dart programming language. 3.13.7 Open source October 24, 2026 — 1.4M ↓
34 Docker Composedocker-compose plugin for docker cli 5.6.1 Open source October 21, 2026 — 559.4K ↓
35 HaxeHaxe is an open source high-level strictly-typed programming language with a fast optimizing cross-compiler. 4.3.7 Open source May 9, 2025 — 49.7K ↓
36 PuTTYA free implementation of SSH and Telnet for Windows and Unix platforms, along with an xterm terminal emulator. 0.85.0.0 Open source September 10, 2026 4.1 MB 5.3M ↓
37 NVM for WindowsA node.js version management utility for Windows. Ironically written in Go. 1.2.2 Open source February 14, 2025 — 773.9K ↓
38 cURLCommand line tool and library for transferring data with URLs 8.23.0.5 Free October 23, 2026 8.7 MB 5.9M ↓
39 TelegrafAgent for collecting, processing, aggregating, and writing metrics, logs, and other arbitrary data. 1.36.3 Open source October 31, 2025 77.2 MB 2.9M ↓
40 Hashicorp VaultVault is a tool for securely accessing secrets. 2.2.0 Proprietary October 17, 2026 191.6 MB 401.3K ↓
41 ThonnyThonny is a Python IDE meant for learning programming. 5.0.0 Open source April 27, 2026 — 94.6K ↓
42 mise-en-placeYour dev env, already prepped. 2026.10.12 Open source October 17, 2026 — 117.2K ↓
43 etcdDistributed reliable key-value store for the most critical data of a distributed system 3.7.2 Open source September 25, 2026 — 55.1K ↓
44 k9sKubernetes CLI To Manage Your Clusters In Style! 0.51.0 Open source June 6, 2026 — 299.3K ↓
45 x64dbgAn open-source user mode debugger for Windows. Optimized for reverse engineering and malware analysis. 2026.05.27 Open source June 15, 2026 — 95.8K ↓
46 BrunoOpensource IDE For Exploring and Testing API's (lightweight alternative to Postman/Insomnia) 4.3.0 Open source October 22, 2026 — 120.8K ↓
47 TabbyA terminal for a more modern age. 1.0.238 Open source October 7, 2026 — 85.7K ↓
48 Nim programming languageNim is a statically typed compiled systems programming language. It combines successful concepts from mature languages like Python, Ada and Modula. 2.0.8 Open source August 5, 2024 25.8 MB 22.9K ↓
49 InsomniaThe Desktop API client for REST and GraphQL. Make requests, inspect responses. 13.3.1 Open source October 9, 2026 — 153K ↓
50 GDevelopThe fastest, easiest, most powerful no-code game engine. 5.6.285 Open source October 21, 2026 — 12.3K ↓