Tony's Heaven: The Software Directory Directory

The Software Directory Directory

On the Web since January 2003

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The (Ir)rational Tony at your beck and callback.

Finding it hard to track down all the software directories?
You've come to the right place, the
Software Directory Directory.
Get your mitts on the places to get your mitts on stuff.
Shareware, freeware, public domain, high tech, you name it.
Tons of stuff at every link.

We aim for completeness, listing every major software directory.
If you know of a software directory not listed on this page,
just let Tony know.

CATEGORIES
General Software , Internet Software, Operating Systems,
Scientific Software, Windows Software, Macintosh Software,
Other Platforms, User Groups, Commercial Vendors, Nerdly Interest.

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General Software (Free, Share, or Pretty-Good-Price): SoftwareStop.Com...
Well thought-out free software site. Main categories: Audio, Business, Development Tools (Web, editors, libraries), Education, Games, Graphics, Home/Hobby, Internet, Shell & Desktop Enhancements, Utilities.; SoftwareMirror.Com...
Free Downloads of Windows Software. Over 10,000 titles, arranged in categories: Audio, Business, Communications, Desktop, Development, Education, Games, Graphic Apps, Home, Network, Security, Servers, System Utilities, Web Development.; Downloads4all.com...
Shareware software downloads for Windows arranged in categories including audio, graphics, multimedia,internet, utilities and web authoring.; Objects Development...
Provides free services to Open Source developers: free distribution (users can sell their products in its library for free), management center (a place for Open Source developers to manage their software projects), and other features such as forums, free code snippets, etc.; Channel 1 File Library...
One of the few BBS's with web access. 100 Gigabytes of free software in return for your email address (seems a fair trade). Caveat: Search engine slow, limit your search to one file area at a time. Categories: New Files ("The most active upload directory in existence, updated daily"), Winsock FTP Collection, Multi-Platform (public domain and shareware etexts, zines, images, music, sounds, fonts, etc.), Windows, DOS (Channel 1 BBS Shareware collection), Intranet, OS/2, Top 20 Downloads,; FreeFunFiles...
Free software: audio/video, business, children's games, desktop applications, graphics, hobby, PDA, video games.; Software Downloads by Keyword...
Shareware downloads site organized and categorized by over 1500 keywords.; Educational Software Directory...
Directory of learning resources on the web.; NetSharkDownloads.com...
Premier freeware and shareware, in two separate categories.; Pass the Shareware...
Great shareware and freeware downloads. Screensavers, free games, internet tools etc. Also sites offering desktop wallpaper, desktop themes, internet freebies, MP3 music, etc.; Freewwwtools...
Freewwwtools is the result of commercially unbiased researches about freeware selection. Started in 1998, it is listed among Dmoz's 120 Freeware directories sites.; Leithauser Research...
Download shareware, mostly computer security, file protection and business utility software.; Shareware Site Buttons...
88x31 Buttons of some of the shareware sites listed below, maintained at 5star.; Top Quality Freeware...
Very well organized source of freeware.; Shareware.com...
C|Net's search engine for software for many platforms: Windows (3.1/98/NT/DOS), OS2, PC-Games, Unix, Novell-Netware, Amiga, Atari.; Yahoo...
The Yahoo software directory. Over sixty categories of software.; Download.com...
C|Net's search engine for PC software under many categories: Business, Development Tools, Education, Games, Home & Personal, Internet, Kids, Multimedia & Design, and Utilities.; File Mine...
Well organized very large shareware site for PC, Mac, Amiga, Unix, Atari. Categories: Games, Home/Education, Internet/Intranet, Multimedia/Design, Programs/Utilities, Commercial Demos. Offerings rated 1-5 in each of ease of use, interface, documentation, and performance. Permits batch downloading (shopping list).; JUMBO...
Large shareware site, over 200,000 free programs, downloads, and shareware. Channels: Business, Demo City, Desktop, Developer, Entertainment, Games, Home & School, Homework Heaven, Internet, Kids Zone, whatsnew, Utilties.; SoftSeek...
Merged with ZDNet. RIP, sob.; SUNET...
Large Swedish software site, 140 GB. Contents: Amiga, Etext, Games, Internet, Mac, Multimedia, Network, NIR, OS2, PC, Programming, Science, Security, Text-processing, Unix, Vendor links, WWW.; Shareware Junkies...
The Internet's oldest Shareware Review Site, Reviews of DOS, Macintosh, OS/2 and Windows Software. 700+ Pages.; 1SmartSite.com...
One-stop site for shareware, freeware and beta versions. Updated daily, links to the software publishers' download sites.; FileTransit...
Over a hundred of the most popular Win95/98/NT shareware applications. Offers newsletter notifying subscribers of latest applications and updates.; GangGang...
Australian-authored shareware. Over 1400 applications in 100 categories.; Tropical Software...
Large collection of links, categorized under "A Thousand Downloads" (Software stockpiles/warehouses/boxcars, Beyond BIG, General Software Distributors/Manufacturers, Windows98 Software, Windows/NT Software, Wins 3x Software, Mac Software, MSDos Software, GAMES, FREEWARE, Program Homepages, Desktop Themes), SKreen Savers Directory, Desktop Themes, and Ping's hard-to-find downloads.; Cool Tool of the Day...
500 archived reviews of cool Internet shareware products.; MediaBuilder...
Design tools, free graphics, tutorials, etc.; The Slaughterhouse...
"The newest grade A software cooked-up and served to you fresh daily."
Internet: Communications, Dial-up, HTML editors, Readers, Plug-ins, News/Stocks, Telnet/Finger/FTP, Time logs, VRML, Web.
Windows: Anti-Virus, Audio, Compression, Cursors/Icons/Screen Savers, Disk, File, Graphics, Microsoft Updates, Business, Programming, Security, Video, Win98, Word Processing.
Games: 3-D, Action/Arcade, Fighting, Simulations, Sports, Strategy/War.; The Shareware Author's Index...
Searchable database of shareware authors, for finding shareware on the web by author.; TweakFiles.com...
Tim Tibbett's lovingly tweaked collection of tweaked files. Categories: All In One, Appearance, Backup&Recover, Benchmark, BIOS, Diagnostic, Drives, Input Devices, Memory, Networking, Processor, Registry, Video.; The Software Site...
Games. "The Softsite is now a Windows Gamers Paradise! We have changed our format to concentrate on providing the BEST site on the Internet for Windows game users."; Open Window...
Education and utility shareware and freeware by Dick Bryant.; Walnut Creek CDROM...
65 gigabytes of freeware, shareware, etc.; PC World Online...
PC World's extensive software library with the latest shareware and commercial files. Categories: Antivirus, Business/Office, Desktop Utilities, Entertainment, Essential Shareware, Games, Graphics, Help Files/FAQs, Internet, Sound/Audio, Programming, System Utilities, Video; Galt...
Galt's Shareware Zone. Hottest shareware downloads, latest shareware reviews, free shareware newsletter.; Flywheel Software...
Shareware and Freeware: screensavers, utilities, board games, FAQs.; Info Service...
Wide range of software: web browsers, communication, viewers, mail clients, file/archie/finger, audio apps, gophers, HTML editors, news readers, terminal/telnet apps, utility, games, software/systems, FTP sites, Gopher sites, Macintosh, Amiga, Unix, antivirus, drivers, patches & more, Windows NT, Windows 95.; BarCode1...
Bar code shareware and demoware for many platforms: DOS, Windows, OS/2, Mac, Unix. Also truetype fonts, label printing, OCR software, printer drivers, etc.; ASP...
Association of Shareware Professionals, a shareware consortium.; JGAA...
Jarle Aase's remarkable, dare I say unique, assortment of software, tips, etc. etc. from Norway.; La Coleccion...
Software from Walnut Creek, organized into 51 categories.; T & P SC...
Beautiful screen savers and web graphics by Anthony Beaudion.; Happy Puppy...
"The #1 Games Site on the Internet"; Rocket Download...
Mission: "To provide the highest quality programming content available in the software industry." Categories: Chat & IM, Games, Graphics, Health, Home, MP3, Screen Savers, Sports, Travel, Utilities.; High-Tech Shareware...
Over 500 shareware games.; CPU Cyberware...
Links to hardware and software sites. (Formerly Peter's Power Links.); RISS...
R.I. Soft Systems. Screensavers, games, other odds and ends.; Nerd's Heaven...
The Software Directory Directory. "So complete it even references itself."

Internet Software: 5 Star...
Huge variety of Internet software for Win95/8. Categories: Antivirus, Archie Clients, Audio, Browsers: WWW/Offline/Add-Ons/SearchBots, Chat-IRC, Compression, Dial & Connect, Download Managers, EMail: Anti-Spam/Checkers/Clients, FTP Clients, HTML: Accessories/Color Pickers/Editors/Validators, Image: Animators/Editors/Mappers/Viewers, Internet Tools, Log Analyzers, News: Usenet Readers/Online Services, Parental Control, Applications: Telnet/Security/Streaming, Web Promotion Tools.; Stroud's...
"The Consummate Winsock Applications List"; Tucows...
Large Winsock software directory.; TuDogs...
"The Ultimate Directory Of Gratis Software. Authoring & Web Design, Graphics software, Clipart, Animation, WebTools, Windows, Music, Games, Education, Business & Finance, Health, News, Special Recipes, Free Web Developer Software. 28 awards."; Email Software.com...
Software for a wide range of email functions. Categories: Email servers, email clients, email utilities, robots, fax gateways, pager gateways, email services.; Virtual Voice...
Internet telephony software. Wide selection of trialware and freeware for Cross-platform, Windows, Macintosh, Unix/Linux, and OS/2. Caveat: limited product intercommunication except for those compliant with a standard such as H.323.

Operating Systems: Linux...
The home page for Linus Torvalds' amazingly popular freeware Unix.; FreeBSD...
Berkeley Unix for the Intel x86. Emphasis on performance.; NetBSD...
Berkeley Unix for a number of architectures. Emphasis on platform-independence.; OS Catalog...
Catalog of operating system projects. Very comprehensive.

Scientific Software: Haifa Math Directory...
Remarkably comprehensive directory of mathematical software sources maintained at the Haifa Department of Mathematics.; NHSE...
National HPCC Software Exchange
(HPCC = High Performance Computing and Communications)
Under development by the Center for Research in Parallel Computation (CRPC).
Includes pointers to
Catalog... of NHSE's stuff.
Netlib... Grandaddy of numerical analysis software sites. Also see HotGAMS (next entry, below).
Vendors of Repository Tools and Information Services...
and links to many other scientific computing resources including most of those listed here.; Catalog... of NHSE's stuff.; Netlib... Grandaddy of numerical analysis software sites. Also see HotGAMS (next entry, below).; Vendors of Repository Tools and Information Services...; HotGAMS...
Guide to Available Mathematical Software: an on-line cross-index of mathematical and statistical software in use at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Hot as in HotJava. Nearly 10,000 problem-solving modules from some 100 software packages are indexed, including a large subset of the netlib (see preceding entry) collection.; BenchWeb...
Benchmark information and software. "BenchWeb is a starting point for finding information about computer system performance benchmarks, benchmark results, and benchmark code. The site is maintained at the University of Tennessee Computer Science Department by Innovative Computing Labs."; Grid Generation...
Grid Generation Software Catalog, Collection of annotated links maintained by the US Army Corps of Engineers Waterways Experiment Station.; HPC Netlib
The high performance branch of Netlib. Provides cataloging, evaluation, and distribution of high performance math software, assistance obtaining and installing software, and communication between software authors and user community.; PTLib...
Parallel Tools Library. Similar resources to PHC Netlib (above).; NCSA Parallel Computing...
Archive sponsored by the NCSA Enabling Technologies Team for Parallel Computing. Software for linear algebra, PDE's, graph and mesh partitioning. Parallel programming environments, languages, and tools.; NPACI...
NSF National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure. Yet more distributed and parallel processing tools and environments.

Windows Software
(Internet software for Windows is listed under Internet Software.): Freewarefiles.com...
A programmer's delight. Large and well-organized source of Windows 98/NT freeware. Categories: Windows 98/95/NT Free software (Desktop Enhancements, Games, Graphics Applications, HTML Applications, Internet Tools, Multimedia, Organize/Plan/Produce, Text Editors, Utilities), Programming/Libraries/Drivers (Setup File Creators, Drivers, Libraries, Visual Basic runtime files), Win 3.x Free Software Directory (Applications, Games, Internet Tools, Utilities).; 32bit...
"The latest 32-bit software." Categories: START! (compression, file mgmt, antivirus), Business (Financial, Mail, PIM, etc.), Games, Internet (IP/TCP, HTML, IRC, Java, News, etc.), Utilities (Editors, Programming, drivers, WinCE, etc.), NT (Admin, BackOffice, Drivers, etc.).; No Nags...
Windows freeware (as opposed to shareware). "A collection of Windows software that has no nags, no time limits, no disabled features or any other tricks... NONAGS only lists freeware and the very few shareware programs that meet these criteria."; 2GlobalMart.com...
Comprehensive and well-organized source of 11,000 Shareware and freeware downloads. Categories: Business, Email Tools, Games, Information Management, Multimedia and Graphics, Network and Internet, Palm Pilot, Shell and Desktop, Utilities, Web Authoring.; AnotherWin95...
Software (click on Software in the navigator menu on the left) and much else to do with Windows 2K, Windows 98, and Windows 95. Categories: Anti-Virus, Business, CAD, Calendar, Clocks, Compression, DataBase, Desktop, Disk, Utilities, Editors, Educational, E-Mail, File, Utilities, Financial, Fonts, Food, Games, Graphics, HTML, Icons, Imaging, Internet, Installation, Miscellaneous, Multi-Media, Music, Networking, News, PIM, Programming, Science, Screen, Saver, Security, Sound, Sports, Telecommunications, Themes, Utility, Winsock.; FileFarm...
"Freshly harvested files from the farm." Windows software. Categories: Authoring & Programming, Internet & Networking, Utilities, Productivity & Management, Multimedia & Graphics, System Updates.; Key Windows Freeware...
Comprehensive collection of freeware for Windows 95/98/NT. Categories: Anti-Virus, Audio, Backup, Browsers, Cookies, Disk, Email, File, File transfer, Games, Graphics, HTML, Info, IRC, Net Phone, Net Utility, News, Organisers Registry, Security, Shell, System, Text, Zip/Unzip.; Windows 95 Applications List...
Large collection of shareware and freeware for Windows 95. Every program documented with a substantial paragraph.; BraneStormer...
About a hundred freeware links, organized under the following categories: Freeware Discussion, Hard Disk Utilities, Programs, Internet, HTML, Chats, Shareware, E-Mail Update, Freeware Links; Software Center...
Over a hundred software and freeware applications for Windows, maintained by Drazen (Doda) Dodig.; Delta PC...
Shareware and Freeware.

Macintosh Software
(Internet software for Macintosh is listed under Internet Software.): Swiss Mac...
Mac freeware and shareware from Switzerland.; MacOS.com...
MacOS.com Shareware.; UMich Mac Archives...
University of Michigan Mac Archives; ZDNet Mac...
The Ziff-Davis Macintosh page.

Other Platforms: Freshmeat... Linux software. Very comprehensive archive. Click on "appindex" for categories, viz: Administration, Anti-Spam, Backup, CD Writing, Communication, Compression Utilities, Documentation, Drivers, Editors, Emulators, Encryption, FTP Clients, File Managers, Filesystems, Financial, Firewall and Security, Games, Graphics, IRC, Log Analyzers, MP3, Mini Distributions, Mirroring, Modem gettys, Monitoring, Networking, News, Packaging, Scientific Applications, Shells, Sound, System, Text Utilities, Viewers, Web Browsers, eMail.; Dave Central...
Outstanding collection of Internet related software for Linux.; OS2 World.Com...
The place to go for everything OS/2 related.; Amiga Web Directory...
Former monster list of all Amiga links. Now retired but still the place to go to find the rest of the world's Amiga links.; Visual Basic...
Visual Basic Web Directory. "This site is my attempt to compile the definitive Visual Basic directory." Includes the larger well-known sites plus hundreds of lesser-known ones.

User Groups: General: Association of Personal Computer User Groups...; Amiga: Arizona... | Saskatoon...; Linux: Austria... | Switzerland... | Washington DC...; Macintosh: Arizona... | Amherst...; Next: Berlin...; OS/2: Central Ohio... | Mid-Atlantic... | MIT...; Sun: Japan...; TeX: UK...

Commercial Vendors: These are directories of vendors, as opposed to directories of the products of a single vendor. These directories are best suited to browsing; for more specific searches use a search engine or follow one of the links below to a directory that is either organized by category or includes a search capability, or both as with Yahoo.; Capterra - The Enterprise Software Center...
Online, interactive directory of enterprise software solutions catering for ERP, CRM, eBusiness, and industry-specific software. Tony's Pick of the Crop!; Business Software Directory - The Software Network...
Comprehensive directory of business software and enterprise software solutions.; Softzoo.com...
Detailed descriptions, feature comparison, price comparisons. Categories: Calculate & Analyze (Income Taxes, Personal Finance, ... ) Communicate & Collaborate (Fax, Remote Computer Use, ...) Create & Design (Draw & Paint, Home Building, ...) Enhance Computer (Antivirus, Voice Recognition, ...) Learn & Research (Early Learning, Languages, ...) Organize, Plan & Track (Contacts, Family Tree, Legal, ...) Play & Enjoy (Games, Cooking, Gardening, ...) Write, Compose & Edit (Office Suites, Labels, Scan, ...); SoftSearch...
Humongous (22,000 developers, 110,000 titles) online database of commercial software information. Search by developer name, software title, and keyword.; Yahoo...
The Yahoo software directory. Organized by category and can search.; Software Methods and Tools...
Directory of several hundred software development methods and tools from more than a hundred software vendors. Discussion group, one-stop-shopping developer's toolstore, consulting services, etc.; WebShopper...
Software section of WebShopper. Categories: Business, graphics, utilities, entertainment, development.; The Software Directory...
BBR Information Services' directory. The place for software available through Australian distributors. 22,000 software and 11,000 hardware product listings from 600 international publishers.; SoftScout...
Directory of business software, including vendor information, hardware/software requirements, screenshots, pricing, and links to the vendor web site. Categories: Communications, Human Resources, Knowledge Management, Product Development, Supporting Operations, Finance/Accounting, Human Resources, Infrastructure, Operations, Sales/Marketing, System Development.; Turboguide...
Search engine for commercial software products. Search can specify platform, language (natural), keywords, title, and/or vendor.; Chumbo...
Software shop. Games, business software, graphics, online media tools, etc.; Configuration Management...
The Configuration Management Yellow Pages

Nerdly Interest: Slashdot...
"News for nerds. Stuff that matters." Where the informed nerd goes to stay that way.; FreewareWeb...
Email newsletter. "Highlights the best software, themes, too-good-to-miss sites, fonts, technology news, tips, and reviews of the best products available on the market." 3-4 issues/month.

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