Best windows apps windows 10

Even though the Microsoft Store for Windows 10 devices isn’t as populated as Google’s Play Store or Apple’s App Store, it most certainly features a decent selection of apps that you can use for a variety of things. You can find everything ranging from simple personalization apps to programs that will help boost your productivity but, in my experience, finding these apps could prove to be a chore as Microsoft Store’s search and discovery isn’t really all that great. So, if you’re on the lookout for some great apps for your PC or laptop, here are the 50 best Windows 10 apps you should use in 2022 to make the most out of your device.

Best Apps for Windows 10 You Should Use in 2023

Here, we have categorized all the best apps for Windows 10 so you can easily pick an app for your need. You can use the table of content below and jump to the corresponding section easily.

Note that some of these app might misbehave if you have not activated Windows. I would suggest that you use our tutorial to get yourself a Windows 10 key for free or cheap, and activate Windows on your device.

Best Windows 10 Entertainment Apps

1. VLC

Did you know that the popular VLC media player is also available as a Windows 10 UWP app? Well, it is and it looks a whole lot better than the desktop version – that’s one reason why you should get it right away. The app features support for a variety of different video formats, including mp4, mkv, avi, and a lot more.

On top of that, the app also includes a bunch of additional features, including the ability to add subtitles, sync audio, and video, and use any video as a live wallpaper. VLC is one of the best media players you can get for your Windows 10 device and you should definitely go ahead and download it without thinking twice.

• Download VLC (Free)
• Download VLC from Microsoft Store (Free — UWP)

2. Spotify Music

Spotify is also available on the Windows Store, meaning you don’t necessarily have to download the desktop version to enjoy listening to some great music.

The app includes all the features you’d find on the Spotify app on any other platform, making it a must-have for all music (and podcast) lovers, especially those who want to discover great music – Spotify’s recommendations are just that great.

The app has a really clean user interface, it’s simple to use and it syncs all of your data across all platforms, so you can seamlessly switch from your desktop to your mobile device without missing a beat.

Download Spotify Music (Free, requires paid subscription)

3. Tidal

Tidal is another great music streaming service you can get, which, although a bit expensive, should be the go-to app for audiophiles. Not only does Tidal have a larger music library than Spotify, but it also boasts of Hi-Fi audio output which is great for anyone who wants to stream and listen to high-quality music on their Windows 10 or Windows 11 computer.

On the downside, however, Tidal isn’t available in as many locations as Spotify, so some of you might not be able to make use of the music streaming service.

Download Tidal (Free, requires paid subscription)

4. Amazon Music

Amazon Music is a great music streaming app for people who are already subscribed to Amazon Prime. The app lets you access a curated selection of 2 million songs for free without any ads. You also get unlimited skips and offline music download.

These are the features that are reserved for the paid tier of other music streaming services like Spotify. You might have noticed that the music selection here is far lesser than what is offered by Spotify (over 30 million songs), however, I rarely found a popular song that was missing on this platform.

This is a great app for music lovers who don’t want to pay extra for streaming music. On the other hand, if you do want a larger selection, you can subscribe to Amazon Music unlimited service that gives you access to 50 million songs at $7.99/month. Non-Prime members will have to pay the full price at $9.99/month.

Download Amazon Music: (Free, Unlimited Plan requires a subscription)

 5. Netflix

In case you’re looking to stream videos, and not music, on your device then you’d be glad to hear that Netflix is also available on the Microsoft Store. Now that you know this, there’s no need for you to watch Netflix on the web and considering the fact that the Netflix app allows you to download videos for offline viewing.

I know am not going back to watching Netflix on my browser again. More so, when it supports 4K playback. The Netflix app is a must-have for anyone with a Windows 10 device and a Netflix subscription.

Note: Check out our list of best Netflix Originals, movies, TV-shows, comedies, action movies, and more. 

Download Netflix (Free, requires paid subscription)

6. Hulu

If you’re not much of a “Netflix and Chill” person and swear by Hulu instead, then you’d be happy to know that you can get the Hulu app on Windows as well. With the Hulu app you can watch the latest episodes of your favorite TV show on your device.

However, it doesn’t offer as great of an experience as the web version of the service and doesn’t include quite a few features which is rather disappointing. Another thing worth noting that the Hulu app for Windows 10 doesn’t include the option to download videos for offline viewing, which is another major setback for the app.

Download Hulu (Free, requires paid subscription)

7. Kodi

If you have a big offline media library and want to be able to easily manage it and stream it across devices, you should install Kodi. The best part about Kodi is that it is completely free to use. Once you set up Kodi on your device, you will be able to use it as a home server and stream content using Kodi on any device.

Not only that, but Kodi also comes with various plug-ins which lets you enhance its power. For example, you can install Kodi add-ons for Live TV shows and various Kodi repositories to stream content for free. If you are a media buff, there is no better Windows 10 app out there. If you have never used Kodi, be sure to check out our beginner’s guide on Kodi to get started.

Download Kodi: Free

8. Audible

I have loved books for as long as I can remember. However, as life went on, I found less and less time to read books and I missed doing that a lot. That is until I discovered Audible. Audible is an audiobook service that lets you listen to books on the go. I subscribed to Audible almost a year back and was able to go through 18 books till now.

I cannot tell you how happy that makes me. Thanks to Audible, now I can consume books when I am traveling, doing chores at home, or just lying in bed sleepless. Now, the jury on reading books vs listening to books is still out there, but I believe that there’s plenty of space for them to co-exist.

I still go for a physical book on the quiet Sunday afternoon but after a hard day at work, nothing relaxes me more than listening to an audiobook on my way home. If you love books, you should install this app on your Windows 10 machine.

Download Audible: (Free (first book), $14.99/month)

Best Windows 10 Educational Apps

9. Duolingo

One of the highest-rated language learning apps – Duolingo – is also available on the Microsoft Store, allowing you to pick up a new language from the comfort of your home. The app includes support for a number of languages, including widely used ones like Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, etc, and it gamifies the learning course to help you pick up languages quickly.

Duolingo picks up each course right from the basics, but if you’re just looking for a refresher on a language you already know, then you can even tackle higher-level courses on the app itself.

Download Duolingo (Free)

10. WeDo 2.0 LEGO Education

WeDo 2.0 LEGO Education is a great app for kids that can help them pick up the basics of coding using LEGO bricks. The app has a very simple user interface which makes it easy for kids to pick it up on their own and it can also be used as a tool by teachers to teach their students simple programming skills.

Not only that, the app can also be used to teach students crucial science and engineering practices, including problem-solving, modeling, prototyping, investigating, analyzing and interpreting data. WeDo 2.0 LEGO Education is a must-have app for anyone with young kids who wishes to teach them coding in a simple and playful manner.

Download WeDo 2.0 LEGO Education (Free)

11. TED

TED is another great educational app which you can install on Windows and keep up to date with the latest TED Talk videos and audio. The app has a really minimal user interface and it categorizes all of its videos in curated lists, making it easy for you to watch all the latest and popular TED Talks.

The app features over 1700 TED Talks on a variety of different topics and it keeps adding more, so you’ll never run out of cool educational videos to watch. Download the TED app on your system and I’m sure you’ll be able to learn a whole lot from the platform.

Download TED (Free)

12. FlashQuiz

Do you ever use flashcards while studying? Even if you don’t you should definitely check out FlashQuiz on your device as it will allow you to study more efficiently with the help of flashcards.

The app features a variety of flashcards which will allow you to memorize things like world flags, world capitals, world currencies, and the periodic table, but if none of the included flashcards are of much use, you can even create flashcards of your own and embed text, images, and sounds to help you memorize whatever topic you want to focus on.

Download FlashQuiz (Free, includes in-app purchases)

13. Reading Trainer

Next up is another great learning app for kids called Reading Trainer which, as its name suggests, serves to improve the reading speed and retention rate in kids using fun exercises.

The app claims that you can double your reading speed in just two days of training and that can really come in handy if you’ve got to complete reading a large volume of material in very little time. The eye-exercises play a major part in improving anyone’s reading speed and I’m sure slow readers everywhere will benefit from using this Windows 10 app.

Download Reading Trainer ($3.99, offers a free trial)

Best Windows 10 Multimedia Design Apps

14. Adobe Photoshop Elements

In case you’re looking for a great image editing app for Windows, you should definitely consider purchasing Adobe Photoshop Elements. You can use the app for anything from editing images to creating your own memes and thanks to its relatively simple user interface, the app is pretty great for beginners as well.

Granted, it doesn’t offer all the features you’d find in the full-fledged desktop version of Photoshop, but it’s pretty great for a start and it’ll really come in handy for Windows 10 users who don’t have devices powerful enough to run the desktop version of the app.

Download Adobe Photoshop Elements ($99.99, offers a free trial)

15. Autodesk SketchBook

Autodesk SketchBook is another great app for creative professionals and artists alike, offering an expansive set of tools to help users create masterpieces on their PC. The app comes with complete touch input support.

It’s great for users with touch-screen devices and it also includes support for the Microsoft Surface Dial, making it a great app to have in case you have a Surface Studio.

Download Autodesk SketchBook (Free, offers in-app purchases)

16. Paint.NET

If you’re looking for a simple yet functional drawing and image editing software that is geared at casual users, then you should definitely check out Paint.NET. Don’t let the app’s name fool you, it’s nothing like Paint or Paint 3D on Windows.

It offers a much wider selection of tools and features that you can use to edit or create stunning projects. On top of that, the app has an active online community which provides useful plugins that go a long way in improving user experience.

Download Paint.NET ($9.99)

17. Cyberlink PhotoDirector 10 Essential

Cyberlink PhotoDirector 10 Essential is another excellent image editing app that offers a plethora of professional, easy-to-use tools for editing photos. Granted, the app’s user interface might seem a bit intimidating for beginners, but once you get a hang of it, I’m sure you’ll fall in love with its capabilities.

It’s worth noting that PhotoDirector 10 Essential offers all premium features for a period of 30 days, after which users will only be able to use the app’s basic features. In case you wish to use any of the premium features, you’ll need to purchase PhotoDirector 10 Ultra from the Microsoft Store.

Download PhotoDirector 10 Essential (Free)

18. Affinity Photo

Rounding off the list of multimedia design apps for Windows 10 is Affinity Photo – another great image editing tool that will allow you to create stunning masterpieces with any photo. The app is directed at creative professionals and as such, it includes a ton of useful features.

It has support for different color spaces, full 16- and 32-bit per channel editing, support for unlimited layers, and a lot more. Try out Affinity Photo on your device if you’re looking for a great (and more affordable) Photoshop alternative that offers as many, if not more, useful features.

Download Affinity Photo ($49.99)

Best Windows 10 Personalization Apps

19. TaskbarX

After the announcement of Windows 10X, people are really excited about the new UI with a centered taskbar. A developed named Chris Andriessen‬ has brought the same feature on Windows 10 and it’s called TaskbarX. It allows you to move your apps in the taskbar to the center and believe me, it looks really cool.

TaskbarX also offers many transition effects and animations while switching between apps. On top of that, you can make the taskbar transparent, blur it, adjust opacity, and much more. I would say, TaskbarX is one of the best apps for Windows 10 in the personalization segment. You can learn how to center Taskbar icons on Windows 10 from our linked guide.

• Download TaskbarX (Free)
• Buy from Microsoft Store ($1.09)

20. Files UWP

If you love UWP designed-apps then Files UWP is among the must-have apps for Windows 10. It’s a file explorer just like the default Windows Explorer but built using Fluent design guidelines. The app looks pretty cool and you can do a bunch of useful things.

For example, you can pin folders in the left pane, sort files and folders based on multiple metrics, enable dark mode, and more. Simply put, if you are looking for a modern-looking file explorer for Windows 10 or Windows 11 then Files UWP is your best bet. It is a paid app, but it does offer plenty of features to justify that price.

Download Files UWP ($8.47)

21. Seer Pro

If you’ve ever used a macOS device before, you’d be familiar with the platform’s quick look tool which allows you to view file contents without even opening the file. Seer Pro brings that same macOS feature to Windows.

With Seer Pro, you can quickly preview files by pressing the spacebar. The app comes with support for several file formats and it allows you to copy video frames, images or text right from the preview. Seer Pro is a handy app which will definitely go a long way in improving the way you interact with files on your PC or laptop.

Download Seer Pro ($7.49)

22. TouchMe Gesture Studio

Even though there are several Windows 10 devices with touch screens in the market these days, not many of these devices come with handy gestures for you to speed up your workflow. This is exactly where the TouchMe Gesture Studio app comes into play.

The Windows 10 app allows you to create personalized touch screen gestures for your system, featuring support for 2/3/4/5 finger gestures. You can customize these gestures to do pretty much everything from launching apps to shutting down your system. However, for these gestures to work on your Windows 10 device you’ll need a gesture engine, which is conveniently linked within the app.

Download TouchMe Gesture Studio (Free, offers in-app purchases)

23. Wallpaper Studio 10

Bored of your desktop background? Get the Wallpaper Studio 10 app and get access to thousands of high-quality wallpapers for your desktop. The app not only allows you to set up cool wallpapers on your device, but it can also be used to create Windows themes using a bunch of your photos.

You can even upload your own images to the platform, allowing other users around the world to download and use your wallpapers on their system. With the app, you can instantly set a new wallpaper for your desktop and lock screen, without messing around with any Windows settings.

Download Wallpaper Studio 10 (Free, offers in-app purchases)

24. TranslucentTB

TranslucentTB is a simple and functional app for Windows 10 that does exactly what its name suggests – it makes your taskbar translucent. With this app, you can customize the look of your system’s taskbar, with options to adjust the opacity.

You can also customize the accent color and combine states which allow you to give your taskbar a dynamic experience that changes depending on your actions.

In case you’re like me and like to keep your taskbar hidden when not in use you could give TranslucentTB a shot, you might like even more than having the taskbar hidden (I know I did!).

Download TranslucentTB (Free)

25. Accent Applicator

Another great personalization app for Windows, Accent Applicator is fairly self-explanatory. The app allows you to customize the color of the selected text and other UI elements in desktop applications.

You can even create brighter and dimmer accents for particular UI elements, which is a great option. The app is fairly simple to use and will help you give your PC or laptop a more unique appearance.

Download Accent Applicator (Free)

Best Windows 10 Productivity Apps

26. Dropbox

Popular file-hosting service Dropbox needs no introduction but in case you’ve been living under a rock, Dropbox is a cloud-storage service that also doubles up as a modern workspace, allowing you to stay connected to your team and access all your files securely in one place.

Whether you want to share large files with your team or free up some space on your device, the Dropbox app has a variety of different applications and it’s definitely worth downloading for anyone with a Windows 10 device. That said, if Dropbox isn’t your cup of tea, you can check out some great Dropbox alternatives as well.

Download Dropbox (Free, Premium plan starts at $9.99 per month)

27. OneNote

While OneNote is generally clubbed with Microsoft Office apps, but I must mention it separately because it has become a powerful note-taking app on Windows 10 and has carved a space for itself. You can jot down your notes, ideas on a whiteboard with support for multiple pens, images, screen clippings, audio commentaries, and more.

And now with further improvements, it supports multi-user collaboration too. To sum up, if you want a note-taking app like Evernote then OneNote is the best software for Windows 10 in this category.

Download OneNote (Free)

28. iA Writer

iA Writer is one of the best writing apps for PC that you can find in the market. It has a fluid and clean interface which helps you avoid distractions and focus more on the writing itself. You can use the syntax (Markdown) to format your text. You can also create sheets and search between the sheets using keywords.

One of the cool features of iA Writer is that when you are writing, only the current line is highlighted while the rest of the text is greyed out. This helps you focus more on what are you writing. Apart from that, it alsohas a dark theme to go with it. Simply put, the writing environment is fabulous and the app is very light and never lags.

Download iA Writer (Free trial for 14 days, $29.90)

29. Bamboo Paper

Turn your Windows 10 touch screen device into a notebook with Bamboo Paper, a Windows 10 app from Wacom which allows you to take notes or sketch on your Windows device with surprising accuracy.

The app includes a wide variety of tools, including different pens and brushes, which will allow you to write, draw, color or annotate documents on the fly. Thanks to its minimal user interface, it’s quite easy to get started with the app and I’m sure you’ll find it quite handy if you’ve got a 2-in-1 Windows laptop.

Download Bamboo Paper (Free, offers in-app purchases)

30. Microsoft To-Do

Give your productivity a boost with Microsoft To-Do, a simple yet smart to-do list app that allows you to create to-do lists, set tasks and reminders, and plan out your day to increase your productivity and decrease your stress levels.

The app even features a smart suggestions feature that will recommend the most important tasks you need to complete first so that you know you won’t miss out on an important task while focusing on something else. The Microsoft To-Do app is a must-have for any Windows 10 users looking to streamline their day-to-day workflow.

Download Microsoft To-Do (Free)

31. Code Writer

Are you a budding developer who’s on the lookout for a good text and code editor for your Windows PC? Then you should probably take a look at Code Writer. The app brings support for over 20 file types and features active syntax highlighting which updates as you edit your documents.

You can use it as a replacement for Notepad++ or any other quick edit apps that you’ve been using. I especially like the app for its clean and distraction-free user interface, which I’m sure most developers will appreciate.

Download Code Writer (Free)

32. Ditto Clipboard

Ditto Clipboard is a great clipboard manager for your Windows PC that acts like an extension for Windows’ in-built clipboard and saves all items placed on the clipboard.

You can access these items at a later stage and the app even allows you to save any of the information, be it text or images, stored on your clipboard, something that you won’t be able to do with the native Windows clipboard.

Download Ditto Clipboard (Free)

33. PDF Reader

PDF Reader is an excellent app to read, edit, annotate, and share PDFs on your Windows 10 machine. Most of us have to deal with PDF documents from time-to-time and having a robust app that not only lets us read the document but also annotate it is necessary.

I love that the app supports both horizontal and vertical scrolling along with single-page and continuous scrolling modes. It also brings a capable PDF manager which lets you create bookmarks and folders to easily organize your PDF documents.

Overall, it’s a good free app for anyone who deals with PDF files regularly. Note that while the app is free to download and use, some of its features are hidden behind a paywall which you can unlock using in-app purchases.

Download PDF Reader (Free with in-app purchases)

34. WhatsApp Desktop

Don’t want to depend on a web browser to use WhatsApp on Windows 10? Then download the WhatsApp Desktop app on your device. With the app you’ll be able to sync all your chats to your laptop or PC so that you can chat with your friends and family right from your desktop.

The app especially comes in handy at the workplace, when you don’t want to be seen using your phone all that often. You can take my word for it.

Download WhatsApp Desktop (Free)

35. Instagram

Even though the web version of Facebook’s image sharing platform Instagram is fairly decent, it lacks a couple of crucial features, including the lack of messaging support. So if you’ve been looking for the complete Instagram experience on your Windows system, you should download the Instagram app from the Microsoft Store.

The app, unlike the web version of the platform, includes pretty much all the features including DM and the ability to upload media. You can learn how to use Instagram for PC without any limitation from our guide.

Download Instagram (Free)

36. Zoom

Since the pandemic started, video conferencing has become an essential tool in our daily lives. Zoom is one of the excellent video conferencing tools that has a multitude of features and brings a native app for Windows 10. Under the free tier, Zoom allows you to have video conferencing of up to 100 participants but the calls are capped at 40 minutes.

If you want to have unlimited calls on Zoom then you can only have 2 participants or subscribe to its premium plan. There were some initial security issues regarding zoom-bombing and encryption, but most of them have been addressed and now you can use it reliably. There are also a bunch of really useful Zoom tips and tricks that you should check out.

While Skype is a go-to app for video calls on Windows, I still recommend Zoom because of stable call quality even on slower internet speed. If Zoom does not cut it for you then you can take a look at some of the best Zoom alternatives.

Download Zoom (Free, Premium plan starts at $149.9 per year)

37. Skype

The Skype app is also one of the few apps that you must have on your device. The app includes support for all of Skype’s features, including video calls, voice calls, and text chat, along with the share feature which allows you to easily drag and drop files onto the app and share them with friends.

That said, if you find Skype limited in features then check out our list of best Skype alternatives. You can also take a look at Skype’s instant and free video conferencing solution Skype Meet Now.

Download Skype (Free)

38. Readit

Readit has long been the top Reddit client for Windows Phone users. Hence, when Readit came to Windows 10, the developers didn’t fail to impress the userbase. Readit offers almost all the features you get with the website and is arguably the best Reddit client available for Windows 10.

One aspect I like about Readit is how you can specify the depth of comments. This way, you can easily keep track of the conversation at your own pace without getting overwhelmed. If you’ve been looking for a decent Reddit client, Readit will not disappoint you.

Download Readit (Free, offers in-app purchases)

Best Windows 10 Utility Apps

39. Your Phone

If there’s one app on Microsoft Store that I cannot live without it has to be the “Your Phone” app. This is a complimentary app to its sibling app on Android which lets you seamlessly connect your Android device to your PC wirelessly.

Once you set it up, you can browse your phone’s photo gallery, get message and call notifications, reply to messages directly from PC, and even pick up calls. I mean, how cool is that? As a user of both and Android and iPhone, I sorely miss Apple’s strong ecosystem that lets iPhone speak to Mac when I am using Android.

However, now the “You Phone” app has mitigated most of my complaints. If you own an Android smartphone and Windows PC, you should install this app right now.

Download Your Phone (Free)

40. IrfanView

IrfanView is one of the best apps for viewing photos on Windows 10. You are absolutely going to love this app, especially if you are coming from the default Windows 10 Photos app.

Unlike the Windows Photo Viewer, it’s extremely snappy and loads images in no time. The difference in performance is simply day and night given that IrfanView is a pretty lightweight app. It has a footprint of just 3 MB so there’s no bloatware embedded in the app.

Besides the performance, it supports countless media formats, has a decent image editor, can convert media files, batch edit images, and a lot more. You can also zoom images and switch to different images with the scroll bar. Basically, the functionalities are very similar to the earlier Windows Photo Viewer and you will get all those perks with IrfanView.

So if you want to say goodbye to the laggy mess that is the Windows 10 Photos app, IrfanView has you covered. Apart from that, if you want more choices, you can check our article on the best Windows photo viewers for Windows 10. Also, alongside IrfanView, you should get one of the best Windows photo editors as well, just to fully round out your media software on Windows 10.

Download IrfanView (Free)

41. PowerToys

If you need the best software for Windows 10 that comes with multiple utilities then there is no better app than PowerToys. The app is developed by Microsoft and it brings many of the features that you wish were built into the system. Nevertheless, PowerToys closes that gap as it’s tightly integrated with Windows 10. First of all, you can get PowerToys Run which is very similar to macOS’ Spotlight feature.

Just press Alt and Space and you are ready to find any app, file, folder, document, basically anything. Apart from that, you get a handy image resizer, Windows keyboard guide, rename tool, fancy zones, and more. To conclude, PowerToys is a must-have Windows 10 app and you can’t afford to miss it.

Download PowerToys (Free)

42. 1Password

While there are a bunch of great password managers for Windows 10, in case you’re looking for a reliable password manager app for your PC then you should consider installing 1Password. It has the best UI and I love its minimalist design. The feature set is there and its vault is still the best in my opinion as it lets me store a ton of information and not just my password.

What’s more, there is a WatchTower feature that keeps an eye on your online accounts and informs you if an account is hacked and appears on data breaches. All in all, to protect your online accounts, 1Password is a must-have app for Windows 10. If 1Password isn’t a good fit for you, definitely check out our list of 1Password alternatives.

Download 1Password (Free trial for 30 days, Paid plans start at $2.99 per month)

43. Converter Bot

Looking for a universal file converter for your Windows 10 PC? Check out Converter Bot, a simple and handy file conversion app that is capable of instantly converting files across a variety of file formats.

The app has a very minimal and simple to use interface, requiring the user to just drag and drop the file they wish to convert and then proceed to select the output file format. If you’re tired of ad-laden free file converter websites, you should definitely go ahead and download the Converter Bot app for a more intuitive and fluid user experience.

Download Converter Bot (Free)

44. Malwarebytes

While Windows Defender is probably the best firewall app for Windows 10 you will need, Malwarebytes is one of the most popular software for Windows 10 when it comes to malware detection and removal. Malwarebytes has lots of features that can help both home and business users. The best part is that you do not have to uninstall your antivirus program to run Malware Anti-Malware, but the tool will run smoothly along with most of the popular antivirus tools.

Although the basic version is powerful enough to find and remove malware, consider opting for the premium version if you want real-time monitoring and access to scheduled scanning, phishing & hacking protection, etc. If you want more options, you can go through our article on the best antivirus for Windows 10.

Download Malwarebytes (Free, Paid plan starts at $3.33 per month)

45. AquaSnap

The Windows 10 snap feature is pretty useful and it’s completely fine for most people. However, if you’re looking for more flexibility in your window management software, you should check out AquaSnap. This app is basically Windows Snap on steroids. It brings a ton of useful features, including a feature called AquaGlue which is just amazing.

AquaSnap also comes with a bunch of other features such as AquaMagnet, and this neat AquaStretch feature that lets you stretch a window to one side by simply double clicking. The app is free to use, but there are a bunch of advanced features that you can only use with a paid version of the software.

Download AquaSnap (Free, Pro license starts at $18)

46. Tomato – Be Focused

Often find yourself giving in to distractions around you? Not able to focus on work? Try the Tomato – Be Focused app which makes use of the Pomodoro technique to help you power through all the distractions around you and focus on your work.

With Tomato – Be Focused, you can get things done in short bursts, while taking frequent breaks in between to relax. The app works by breaking up all the work you need to do into individual tasks separated by short breaks. Try it out, it’s surprisingly effective.

Download Tomato – Be Focused (Free, offers in-app purchases)

47. ProtonVPN

ProtonVPN is one of the best VPNs for Windows 10 and perhaps the best when it comes to privacy and security. It offers unlimited data with 256-bit encryption and has a no-logging policy for both free and paid users. I have been using ProtonVPN for quite some time and I can vouch for its performance and overall security.

Under the free tier, I have not encountered much reduction in speed, but there is limited access to servers from all around the world. For example, multiple servers from the US, Netherlands, and Japan are free for use but other than that, most countries are behind the paywall.

Nevertheless, since you have access to at least one server from the US, Europe, and Asia, you can unlock any geographically-restricted content without any issue. Apart from that, ProtonVPN also supports DNS Leak Prevention and Kill-switch to shut off the VPN tunnel in an emergency.

Download ProtonVPN (Free, Paid plans start at $4/month)

48. ShutUp10

ShutUp10 is a must-have app for Windows 10 if you want to protect your privacy. The software is completely free and offers a one-stop privacy dashboard that can be managed by anyone and everyone. The tool is developed by O&O which is quite popular for creating some of the best Windows apps.

It has dedicated columns for various privacy-related settings. The software offers its recommendation for every privacy setting. Upon how comfortable you are with sharing your data, you can choose to pass it on to Microsoft. Apart from that, you can disable targeted advertisement, user tracking, typing data, location services, data sharing between apps, and more. To sum up, ShutUp10 is a one-click solution to all your privacy woes on Windows 10 and you should definitely use it on your PC.

Download ShutUp10 (Free)

49. Autoruns

There are a lot of times when you might have deleted a software from your computer but there’s some part of the program that just doesn’t go away and keeps running in the background. While it’s sometimes innocent, these apps can also be spying on us and that’s obviously a problem.

With Autoruns you can see all such services that are autorunning on your Windows 10 PC. It also lists out all the browser extensions that are running on your PC. This can be very helpful to spot and remove extensions and services that shouldn’t be on your PC anymore. Especially if you’ve deleted the apps related to them. Do keep in mind that this app lists system services also and if you’re not careful with what you’re deleting you can end up messing up Windows 10. So be careful.

Download Autoruns (Free)

50. IObit Driver Booster

While Windows 10 now seamlessly handles all the driver updates, there are times when even Windows is unable to find a suitable driver for a particular hardware device. It mostly happens when you use an external hardware device. For instance, Windows 10 was unable to find a proper driver for a WiFi USB adapter.

However, IObit came to the rescue and instantly recognized the device and offered a driver update. So from my side, I would give IObit full marks for being a complete driver solution on Windows 10. Not to mention, the software is free to use.

There is a paid version of the app, but I can assure you that you don’t need to buy it. The free version can easily handle all your driver update needs. In case you want to check out more options then go through our article on the best free tools to update drivers on Windows 10.

Download IObit (Free, Pro version costs $22.95)

Frequently Asked Questions

Q. What is the best weather app for Windows 10?

The built-in native Weather app that ships with Windows 10 is definitely the best weather app for most users’ needs. However, if you’re looking for some great third party options, you should check out our article on the best weather apps for Windows 10.

Q. Which is the best email app for Windows 10?

eM Client is our pick for the best email/Gmail app for Windows 10. It offers plenty of features, including things like PGP encryption, live backups, auto-reply, and more.

Q. What Apps Can You Get on Windows 10?

Windows is one of the oldest desktop platforms so it has thousands of apps for education, productivity, professional work, image editing, and countless other things. You can find the best Windows 10 apps from our list above.

Q. Can I run Android apps on Windows?

Yes you can run Android apps on Windows 10 by using emulators.

Q. What apps should you install on a new PC/laptop?

We have mentioned over 50 apps that you should use on your Windows laptop. Go through the list and I am sure you will find apps suitable for your need. You can also use Ninite to download apps on your new Windows PC.

Q. What are the Best Microsoft apps?

Undoubtedly, Microsoft 365 apps including Word and Excel, are some of the best apps Microsoft has developed for its platform. Apart from that, I would recommend Your Phone, OneNote, and OneDrive.

Try Out These Windows 10 Apps Right Now!

Well, that rounds up our list of the best apps for Windows 10 that will serve you well in 2022. The apps cover a wide variety of use cases and I’m sure you’ll find something that works for you. In case you’re on the lookout for a particular type of Windows 10 app (maybe for your Windows 10 S device) and didn’t see it on this list, let us know in the comments section below and we’ll do our best to include the deserving ones on the list.

Many of these can be downloaded directly from the Store

by Madalina Dinita

Madalina has been a Windows fan ever since she got her hands on her first Windows XP computer. She is interested in all things technology, especially emerging technologies… read more

Updated on October 4, 2023

Windows 10 is the best operating system ever built by Microsoft, and people have been upgrading to it in increasing numbers, despite its problems. One of the best innovations that Windows 8 introduced and Windows 10 improved upon is the Windows Store – a place where developers can submit their Universal Windows apps and consumers can easily purchase them.

The Windows Store is an incredible platform – it rids the developer of worries about updating their applications and doing proper version checks as all that is built into the Windows Store itself, and it gives the consumer a single place to buy and install applications in a single click without worrying about viruses or any other issue like slowdowns etc.

But there are thousands if not millions of applications on the Windows Store, and sometimes it can get frustrating to sort the good ones from the bad – the list below are a 100 apps from the Windows Store; some of the best it has to offer.

Note – if you’re interested in games more than traditional apps, we highly recommend that you check out our list of more than 100 best Windows 10 games that we handpicked from the Windows Store. If you are not looking for games, feel free to scroll below. 

Which are the best free apps for Windows 10?

In this article

• Which are the best free apps for Windows 10?
• Facebook
• Messenger
• Netflix
• Pandora
• Adobe Photoshop Express
• Fitbit
• Amazon
• VLC for Windows
• Hulu
• iHeartRadio
• PicsArt
• Line
• Network Speed Test
• Tweetium
• RemindMe
• Flipboard
• Audible
• Foursquare
• Duolingo
• ooVoo
• Movie Edit Touch
• Police Radio Scanner 5-0
• Vine
• Sway
• Shazam
• Autodesk Pixlr
• Nano Antivirus Sky Scan
• Cover
• Khan Academy
• Keeper
• Tripadvisor
• UC BrowserHD
• Evernote Touch
• Wattpad
• Spending Tracker
• TouchMe
• Readit
• Karaoke One
• Autocad 360
• Wolfram Alpha
• Dictonary Pro
• Flixter
• Lastpass
• TED
• Code Writer
• 7z Zip Rar
• Timemaster
• PC Benchmark
• The New York Times
• GOM Player
• Discovery Channel
• 5 Minute Relaxation
• myHomework
• Cortanium
• Poki for Pocket
• Microsoft Math
• Teleprompter Pro
• My Fitness
• Start Screen Clock
• The Huffington Post
• CleverToDo
• Artezio
• Sharpen
• Adobe Content Viewer
• Earthquake Watch
• Battery Tile
• Microsoft Hololens
• RealPlayer Daily Videos
• VK
• NBA Fan
• Pulseway
• Mediafire
• Writr
• NFL Fantasy Football
• Hair Stylist
• NewsHunt
• MinimaList
• Tom’s Hardware
• Runtastic Situps Pro
• Save Battery
• Windows App Studio Installer
• Screenshot Tool Pro
• Perfect Voice Recorder
• BB-8
• Wikio
• Series Tracker
• ATC Navigator
• My 500px Universal
• MALClient
• Cortana Triggers
• GoodDoc
• Sticky Notes Pro
• GuitarTapp Pro
• Maps Pro
• Player for SoundCloud
• Scan
• Emby
• AV Remote
• Algebra Touch
• Files & Folders Pro
• Conclusion

Facebook

Facebook started from a dorm room – anyone who has seen the infamous movie about its birth knows the story dramatic story of its inception and the conquest over its competitors that followed after; What Facebook allows us to do was possible before Facebook – but not perfected, and that’s what made Facebook famous. Today the company is worth billions of dollars and a billion people stay in touch with their loves ones by using its services. The Facebook app is quite possibly the most installed app on any operating system, and this one is no exception.

Download Facebook from the Windows Store [Free]

Messenger

Messenger is obviously an integral part of Facebook and plays an important role for Facebook’s goal in terms of what its trying to do. Connecting everyone in the world to their loved ones can get hard – doing it in real time and free of cost is even harder, which is where Messenger comes in. Facebook Messenger is obviously not the first chat program ever made, but the fact that it links with Facebook and it already knows all the people you know makes it the easiest one to use. While it does come with a lot of features – it serves only one purpose, that is to let you stay connected with the least amount of cost to you.

Download Messenger from the Windows Store [Free]

Netflix

Netflix is a company that came out of nowhere and shook everyone with awe as it changed the paradigm of entertainment within Hollywood – an industry that is too stubborn to change even in the worst of times. At an extremely affordable subscription price, Netflix offers a rich library of entertainment with an extremely diverse range of shows and movies – and if that wasn’t enough, they produce their own high-budget originals. In just a few years after its birth Netflix has managed to gather a horde of cord cutters, and continues to grow as it expands its horizons to better content and wider audiences.

Download Netflix from the Windows Store [Free]

Pandora

Pandora did to music what Netflix did to TV – it brought it into the 21st century. Once upon a time, people had to tune into certain radio frequencies and wait for other people to play a song they liked – this changed when companies realised that content can now be delivered in high quality and real time thanks to the internet. Pandora offers radio streams, genre streams and so much more with enough music to last you a century – at an extremely affordable subscription price.

Download Pandora from the Windows Store [Free]

Adobe Photoshop Express

Adobe Photoshop is a piece of software that revolutionized the photography industry – with every iteration it brought new features that made possible wizardry that was thought impossible before it; It is however a very complicated program, and requires training and learning of years to master it – so tools such as Photoshop Express bring the advanced powerful tools of Photoshop and simplifies them for use by people who just want to make a photo look fancy.

Download Adobe Photoshop Express from the Windows Store [Free with IAP]

Fitbit

Fitbit is a fairly new company born to fulfill the needs of today’s generation. What Fitbit offers is the ability to log and track everything you do to stay fit. This data can then be analyzed to improve your habits and increase or decrease the amount of activity you do to reach your goals. Fitbit is a strong product, and this app by them elegantly displays all of this data for you to easily analyze and export as statistics.

Download Fitbit from the Windows Store [Free]

Amazon

Amazon has managed to revolutionize the commerce industry in multiple countries across the globe. With their focus on recognizing and studying user patterns and suggesting personalized products for each user, they have managed to build a store that not only has everything from A to Z but also is smart enough to present what you need right at the front of it. The Amazon app – developed by Amazon – does justice to its interface and brings a new life to the store with seamless animations and an elegant interface to go along with it.

Download Amazon from the Windows Store [Free]

VLC for Windows

VLC is known for its ability to play anything you could throw at it – any video file format that has been ever made using any codec for video or audio can be played using VLC, and it is packed with extremely versatile feature that quite possibly make it the best video player ever to have existed. The best part? It is still under development and gets constant updates improving it further and keeping up with the various developments in video and audio industry.

Download VLC for Windows from the Windows Store [Free]

Hulu

While Netflix mostly focused on movies in its early days, Hulu had an on-point focus on TV shows – and till date it is one of the very few websites where you can watch some of the most popular shows on American networks mere hours after they air on television. Hulu has built a fantastic service and this app is a proof of that with its elegant and intuitive interface and smooth animations, it’s a joy to use. Hulu offers a wide collection of TV Shows to pick from, and all of that content is available to stream straight from the app.

Download Hulu from the Windows Store [Free]

iHeartRadio

iHeartRadio is an online service that brings radio stations from across the world to your Windows 10 device at the touch of a button. Not everyone carries a radio around anymore – even in the phones, they require earbuds to be plugged in for antenna which can be quite troublesome in a lot of situations. iHeartRadio gives you access to a massive library of radio stations from across the globe in their best pristine quality as it airs – completely live.

Download iHeartRadio from the Windows Store [Free]

PicsArt

Photo editing can get complicated – as Photoshop as shown us, and while Photoshop has made efforts to build a simpler tool, competition can never heart in this endeavour. PicsArt gives you some incredible photo editing tools and some very simple step-based tools to make photo collages, digital drawings and much more. It also has its own little network where you can meet other creative people who share your hobby and interests.

Download PicsArt – Photo Studio from the Windows Store [Free with IAP]

Line

The market of socializing is massive – and so it is required to have competition in this arena to void any monopolies. Line is not a revolutionary idea, what it is though is a refined one – an instant messenger that is quick, simple and can be learned even by those who are not tech-savvy. Line supports not only text messaging but also voice and video calls – and all of it is free except the data charges.

Download Line from the Windows Store [Free]

Network Speed Test

Network Speed Test is a tool built by Microsoft Research – it is supposed to determine your internet’s quality and measure its speed. This is obviously not the first tool or website to do this – however it is necessary to have an impartial tool from a reputable company to dispute any issues with your internet service provider, and this application serves that criteria. It will also locally store all of your previous speed tests so you can compare them for future reference.

Download Network Speed Test from the Windows Store [Free]

Tweetium

Tweetium is an extremely feature rich Twitter client, and while it is not free it comes with support for up to 7 accounts simultaneously and push notifications for mentions, DM’s, RT’s, quotes, favs, and new followers. It also integrates with another app by the same developer – Newseen and enhances the experience of reading news from Twitter. The app is fully compatible for all platforms – including Windows phones and tablets.

Download Tweetium from the Windows Store [2.99$ with IAP]

RemindMe

While this functionality will soon be added to Cortana in the Anniversary Update for Windows 10, for now this app is quite necessary for productivity on Windows 10. RemindMe – as the name suggests – can remind you do something no matter what you ask for. You can not only set the reminder by minutes but also specific dates and time. The app deeply integrates with all of the Windows features and gives you constantly updating live tiles and rich toast notifications. Your reminders also show up on the lock screen, and all of them are synced between all of your Windows 10 devices over the network.

Download RemindMe for Windows from the Windows Store [Free]

Flipboard

The information era we live is fast and requires you to be faster. For a long time people used RSS for their news delivery – a technology that is not only slow but also cumbersome and not at all nice to look at. Flipboard presented itself as a personalized magazine – and that it is. The point of Flipboard is to deliver you news and articles that might interest you in the most elegant way with the least delay, and this app does it full justice.

Download Flipboard from the Windows Store [Free]

Audible

Audible is not only a store to buy some fantastic audio books, but also one of the only and the best audiobook library management softwares out there. Audible has over 200,000 audiobooks to choose from, and regularly runs offers and discounts so you can continue being entertained and keep gaining knowledge without spending a lot of money. The app supports all of the native Windows 10 features such as integration with Cortana and sync’ed page position across devices.

Download Audiobooks from Audible from the Windows Store [Free]

Foursquare

Foursquare is a service that singlehandedly revolutionized how people traverse the urban jungle that our cities are today. Foursquare personalizes the places you should visit near you, be it restaurants or something with a little night life. Foursquare also makes it fun to discover new places with its rewards and competitive features like the mayorship program. The Foursquare app brings all of these features and presents them in an elegant way.

Download Foursquare from the Windows Store [Free]

Duolingo

Duolingo is an incredible tool that does exactly as its name implies – it teaches how to converse in dual languages, or triple, whatever you want really. The app is designed to teach you many languages without much effort – don’t fool yourself, you won’t become proficient in the language, but you will learn it enough to have a simple conversation with a native of that language.

Download Duolingo from the Windows Store [Free]

ooVoo

ooVoo brings you some really high quality video and voice chats – not only 1 to 1 but with up to 12 people simultaneously. The app also comes with some unique filters to make your chats just a little bit more fun. You can also share good old text, and photos as well, and make free phone calls over your data connection with other ooVoo users.

Download ooVoo from the Windows Store [Free]

Movie Edit Touch

Video editing is tough job even for a professional – it is something that takes quite a lot of man hours for very little output, but sometimes you just want something simple, and something simple can be achieved with simple tools. Movie Edit Touch is an extremely simple tool that allows you to just fine tune your videos to make them a tiny bit better. It allows you to trim your videos, add music to them, add filters, stabilize them, and much much more.

Download Movie Edit Touch from the Windows Store [Free with IAP]

Police Radio Scanner 5-0

The law enforcement of every city in the world works hard to keep its citizens safe, sometimes you could be curious about how they do their job; Police Radio Scanner 5-0 provides you with radio chatter of hundreds of police departments around the world. The radio is picked up by volunteers, but what you get is a clean mp3 stream of the live radio chatter.

Download Police Radio Scanner 5-O from the Windows Store [Free]

Vine

When Twitter gained its popularity, you could attribute it to the simple 140 characters limit it held upon its users. Vine is essentially the Twitter of video, and gives its users 7 seconds to tell their story – no more, no less. Vine has turned into an incredible platform with millions of users sharing their day. Vine has also gained popularity among the creative – a 7 second limitation presents an interesting challenge to build something that can entertain. The app lets you not only make and upload your own Vines, but also follow and watch the Vines uploaded by other people as well.

Download Vine from the Windows Store [Free]

Sway

Sway lets you build interactive presentations with simple tools and is fully integrated with OneDrive so you can add photos, videos and music from anywhere you like in your stories. It comes with some beautiful templates, and while it likes to call itself a storytelling tool, that could in theory also be used for presentations – which is why Sway is useful for more than just play.

Download Sway from the Windows Store [Free]

Shazam

Ever went to a bar and wondered what sort of music is being blurted out by those speakers? Yeah, everybody does that. Shazam is going to answer all of your questions related to music; wanna know what song is playing on the radio? Shazam can answer that. What song is used in that video game trailer you like? Shazam it. Shazam features an incredibly simple and quick interface that lets you quickly pull out your phone and Shazam whatever is playing around you – it also saves a history of it, so you can check it out later and add more music to your own library.

Download Shazam from the Windows Store [Free]

Autodesk Pixlr

Audodesk Pixlr is yet another tool to edit your photos on your Windows 10 device with tools that keep things simple and let you make the perfect photo without much learning curve and by doing most of the work for you. It comes with various filters, borders, overlays and lets you fine tune every aspect of your image – from colour to gamma with extreme precision in real time.

Download Autodesk Pixlr from the Windows Store [Free]

Nano Antivirus Sky Scan

Windows is the most popular operating system on the planet – but its popularity also makes it a massive target for people who intend no good. Therefore in today’s world an antivirus is not an option but a necessity. By the nature of Windows Universal Platform applications – Nano Antivirus cannot do a lot in terms of features, but it can let you scan individual files via its cloud checking for free, and that’s what it offers with an elegant and easy to use interface.

Download Nano Antivirus Sky Scan from the Windows Store [Free]

Cover

Comics books are an all-time favorite for reading by all ages – it not only engages its readers by using well drawn characters but also brings some wit and creativity to the artistic design of every page. Comic books are indeed one of the best ways to tell a story, and Cover is does them a justice by providing a brilliant way to organize them and showcase them in a gorgeous interface. Cover supports a wide range of comic book formats and can import all of your comic books in a single step. It comes with various customizable options for its reader functionality – from animations to a dark mode, and even comes with full support for foreign language fonts such as Japanese so you don’t miss out on that manga.

Download Cover from the Windows Store [Free with IAP]

Khan Academy

Online learning tools are getting extremely important in the current times where education is becoming extremely expensive and out of reach for a major part of the population. Khan Academy fulfills this demand by providing a wide variety of courses in hundreds of different fields and subjects – all created by respectable and reputable professors and professionals from some of the best universities in the world. What you learn in Khan Academy can even be added to your resume and a lot of companies will consider it as genuine knowledge today.

Download Khan Academy from the Windows Store [Free]

Keeper

Keeping a secret in today’s world can get very hard specially when everything is connected over the internet allowing someone on the other side of the world access to your personal network. Keeper is an app that will encrypt and keep not only your passwords safe but also your files and folders. It will also help you auto-fill your passwords on websites within your browser, giving you the freedom to have unique and complicated passwords for every website – as it should be – while removing the headache of remembering each and every one of them. It also syncs across all of your devices and comes with a pretty decent interface.

Download Keeper from the Windows Store [Free with IAP]

Tripadvisor

Traveling across the world is the most wonderful experience you could go through – our ancestors could only dream of it. Tripadvisor helps you plan your trips so you can make the most of your time and enjoy everything you do in the lands foreign to you. Tripadvisor will help you find the cheapest hotels, flights and food all around the globe so you can save money to do more things and make a better trip.

Download Tripadvisor from the Windows Store [Free]

UC BrowserHD

Web browsers are everywhere – without them, you wouldn’t be able to access most of the internet, however building a good web browser is a challenge only the best could tackle. UC BrowserHD is one of the best Windows 10 web browsers out there. Its speed and smoothness reflect what is possible with the Windows Universal Platform and it just gives you an extremely quick experience. While it is fast, it is not very feature rich – with lack of extensions, it is quite limited in possibilities, but if you want something fast look no further.

Download UC BrowserHD from the Windows Store [Free]

Evernote Touch

Evernote is a service that lets you make notes and store them forever – thus the name Evernote. While this sounds simple, Evernote is an extremely feature rich platform and not only does it let you make notes it also lets you organize them with tags – something crucial when you can make infinite amount of notes. It also supports sketches and image notes and comes with various collaboration tools as well that allow you to work on projects and share notes with a team of people.

Download Evernote Touch from the Windows Store [Free]

Wattpad

Wattpad brings you stories and books from authors that haven’t made it big enough to be popular yet. However it is a bit different from simply giving you a book; on Wattpad authors can upload books as they write them – so you could get new chapters for your favorite book as you get new episodes for your favorite TV shows. You can also write your own stories and books if you want to get into that, and share it with your friends and all of the other millions of Wattpad users instantly.

Download Wattpad from the Windows Store [Free]

Spending Tracker

Keeping track of your money can get hard, specially when you have all of these awesome applications to purchase! With Spending Tracker you can add up all of your earnings and expenses and see where you could save money. It can help you properly categorize all of your expenses so you can see what you are spending most of your money on and build graphs and charts to make it easy to understand. The interface isn’t the most elegant thing you have looked at, but it gets the job pretty well.

Download Spending Tracker from the Windows Store [Free with IAP]

TouchMe

Touchscreens revolutionized the way you interact with a computer – but sometimes the things your fingers allow you to do can get quite limited, and that’s where gestures come in. Gestures allow you to do more complicated tasks while keeping them intuitive – pinch to zoom is a gesture for example, something very simple and obvious but adding a massive usability boost. TouchMe allows you to build custom gesture files that you can use in any popular gesture engine – you can basically create your own gestures and use them however you like.

Download TouchMe Gesture Studio from the Windows Store [Free with IAP]

Readit

Reddit is one the most popular websites around – as it likes to call itself the homepage of the internet. While it is extremely popular, the interface isn’t something to brag about and considering how much people like it – it’s not going to change anytime soon. For those of us who prefer to have something more elegant, Readit offers an incredible app that is designed intuitively and presents all of Reddit’s content without any of its ugly designs. Readit also adds some nice native feature support such as Windows 10 toast notifications for new replies and messages.

Download Readit from the Windows Store [Free with IAP]

Karaoke One

Karaoke is a gift of the beautiful Japanese culture – you sing a song to its tune among your friends. Not only is it an extremely fun activity, it also boosts your self confidence as you are displaying your skills – no matter how embarrassing – in front of a live audience. Karaoke One lets you have the same karaoke experience – but over the internet, by allowing you to sing and share your karaoke performance with extreme ease. It features thousands of songs and comes with properly synced detailed lyrics for you to sing along, so you don’t miss a beat.

Download Karaoke One from the Windows Store [Free with IAP]

Autocad 360

Autocad is an extremely powerful drawing and drafting tool – Autocad 360 however is pretty much a lite version of it, intended for use when you are on the move and just need to make some simple adjustments or show your work to clients. Autocad 360 is full of the features you would be familiar with if you use Autocad and lets you edit, and look at the objects you create in full 3D while giving you all of the measuring and technical tools you require.

Download Autocad 360 from the Windows Store [Free]

Wolfram Alpha

Wolfram Alpha is an amazing tool built to enhance the capabilities of a computer – it can resolve complex equations and figure out literal sentences to give you a satisfactory result. While it is mostly a math tool, it can be used for various things such as currency conversion and doing your homework. Wolfram Alpha is also one of the few tools that will solve your mathematical equations – and give you steps for doing it yourself.

Download Wolfram Alpha from the Windows Store [2.99$]

Dictonary Pro

Any website on the internet will be willing to define words for you – but if you want something more detailed, something that will give you not only the meaning of a word but also the origin of its meaning, you need better tools. Dictionary Pro is an extensive tool for anyone interested in languages. Not only does it give you definition of every word that ever existed but it also packs its own advanced translation engine that will help you translate words nad trace their history to their known origins.

Download Dictionary Pro from the Windows Store [3.99$]

Flixter

Flixter intelligently and elegantly organizes all of the trailers and showtimes of recently released movies for you so you can check out whats new and find a seat to watch it in your nearest theater. It also shows the top reviews from the best critics around the world and gives you a solid rating for every movie – helping you determine whether it is worth spending your time watching a movie.

Download Flixter from the Windows Store [Free]

Lastpass

Lastpass is an incredible tool that has a name describing its exact purpose – it is going to be the last password you will ever have to remember. Lastpass is an extremely secure password manager that will store and generate passwords for you, so you don’t have to deal with them ever again. Lastpass comes with not only this app but also apps for various other platforms allowing full automated auto fill of your password information, making it extremely convenient yet at the same time safe and secure – a combination that is very rare.

Download Lastpass from the Windows Store [Free]

TED

TED brings you access to thousands of talks by various people of knowledge – from musical artists, tech geniuses, businessmen and even politicians. TED is famous for its intellect and the push to share ideas with complete freedom. The TED app does justice to its content and gives you an organized way to browse through the thousands of TED talks at your disposal and watch something that interests you – or even go beyond your safe circle and learn something new.

Download TED from the Windows Store [Free]

Code Writer

Code Writer is a code writer built on top of the Universal Windows Platform – something not very common to see. Code Writer features all of your usual code editor features such as syntax highlighting and automatic indentation. It supports over 20 different file formats and features a tabbed document interface allowing you to work on multiple files simultaneously with ease.

Download Code Writer from the Windows Store [Free]

7z Zip Rar

7Z Zip Rar is a simple tool designed to do only one thing – compress and uncompress files. It features a a simple UI that lists all of the files you have recently uncompressed or compressed and is able to create password-protected archives as well. It also supports various file formats such as 7zip, RAR, zip, cab, tar, iso and much more.

Download 7z ZIP RAR from the Windows Store [Free with IAP]

Timemaster

Timemaster is an incredible application used by thousands of professionals across the world – if you charge by the hour, you need to have a look at Timemaster. Timemaster lets you easily keep track of your time and expenses incurred during that time so you can easily bill your clients. You can have multiple timers running at the same time, and have customized billing rates for everything. You can also export all of this data as HTML or CSV files and use it for analyzing whatever you like.

Download Timemaster + Billing from the Windows Store [9.99$ with IAP]

PC Benchmark

PC Benchmark – as the name suggests – is a tool to benchmark the various components of your computer and give them a solid score that you can use to compare other computers with yours. It will test various components of your computer such as the storage, CPU, GPU, and RAM. It will also work on ARM-based Windows 10 devices and benchmark them as well.

Download PC Benchmark from the Windows Store [Free]

The New York Times

The New York Times is one of the oldest newspapers to have ever existed and the quality of its journalism reflects that. The application does full justice to its content by providing clear and concise view of them without any distractions. Unless you subscribe – the app lets you access three free articles everyday, and gives you a beautiful interface to read them in.

Download The New York Times from the Windows Store [Free]

GOM Player

GOM Player is an extremely simple media player – you simply point it at the file you want to play and it will play it. You can also add folders to it and use its extremely simple library management features as well. It supports popular file formats such avi, mp4, mkv, wmv and much more. It also comes with built in support for custom subtitles as srt and smi files, and features a very simple gesture based interface to move within the media file.

Download GOM Player App from the Windows Store [Free]

Discovery Channel

The Discovery Channel app brings you an insane amount of content to watch from the famous Discovery network – an incredible amount of educational and knowledgeable content that makes you smarter every time you watch an episode. You get access to various Discovery favorite shows such as Mythbusters, Deadliest Catch, Gold Rush and a lot more.

Download Discovery Channel from the Windows Store [Free]

5 Minute Relaxation

Relaxing in today’s stressful life can get quite a challenge – when everything is moving so fast, you rarely have time to sit down and take a deep breath. It is however extremely important for your health to do so, and so apps such as this have to exist to remind you to take care of your body more often. 5 Minute Relaxation will only take 5 minutes of your life, and calm you down enough to make you sleep – or wake you up if you are tired. It uses a combination of vocal guidance and soothing music to relax your mind and body and bring some calm to the chaos.

Download 5 Minute Relaxation from the Windows Store [Free with IAP]

myHomework

There was a time when schools used to be simple – you had a teacher who taught you things and then you went home. Today schools are more complicated than ever, and so myHomework lets you plan and organize your school life so you don’t miss any goals. myHomework lets you easily track your classes and homework, with reminders to keep you up to the mark. It is also available on multiple platforms and syncs across devices so you can never be out of touch with your schedule.

Download myHomework from the Windows Store [Free with IAP]

Cortanium

Cortana was introduced with Windows 10 on the desktop – but it was very limited at the time of its launch in terms of what it could od. Cortanium fills the void by allowing you add custom commands for Cortana and bringing more flexibility to the platform. With ease, you can make Cortana do anything you like from controlling your LED lights to turning on your pop corn machine – anything is possible.

Download Cortanium from the Windows Store [1.99$]

Poki for Pocket

Pocket is an incredible tool – basically it lets you put your regular internet webpages in a “pocket” when you don’t have time to look at them, and allows you to then access them later – when you do have time. Poki for Pocket is an extremely beautiful and elegantly designed app that does justice to Pocket’s idea and brings incredible design to its features.  Poki is highly polished and beautiful, and comes with full support for all of the Pocket features including tags and folders.

Download Poki for Pocket from the Windows Store [Free with IAP]

Microsoft Math

Microsoft Math is an educational tool developed by Microsoft that helps you learn mathematics – not just the basics but also advanced parts of it. There is a worrying abundance of educational applications on the internet – however, good educational applications are hard to find. Microsoft Math features a UI that is simple to traverse and attempts to teach you the most complicated math in its simplest form.

Download Microsoft Math from the Windows Store [Free]

Teleprompter Pro

Teleprompter Pro is quite possible a necessity if you give a lot of presentations – much like a real teleprompter, this app will provide you with large scrolling text as you speak in a variety of colour and font variations to make it easy to read even from a distance. Everything in the app is configurable from font colours to scrolling speed. It also allows you to import scripts from standard text files – so you don’t need any specialized software to write your speech.

Download Teleprompter Pro from the Windows Store [4.49$]

My Fitness

My Fitness is an attempt to put you in shape by frequently reminding you to exercise – and also changing up your routine to keep it more interesting every once in a while. Basically it is a virtual coach that will push your body further and help you stay fit and healthy.  Some very experienced fitness trainers were consulted to build this app’s routines with hundreds of different exercises. You can pick and choose what exactly your goals are, and the app will attempt to give you the best routines possible.

Download My Fitness from the Windows Store [Free with IAP]

Start Screen Clock

The Start Menu was completely revamped in Windows 8 and 10 – so much that even it’s name changed to the Start Screen. Microsoft forgot one very important thing though – they built a start menu that takes up all of your screen, but forgot to add a clock to it. Something so simple yet so essential was ignored and now has been taken care of, thanks to this app. Start Screen Clock gives you a live tile that updates with the current time – something of a technical challenge.

Download Start Screen Clock from the Windows Store [Free with IAP]

The Huffington Post

The Huffington Post was founded quite recently – in 2005, and has managed to make a name for itself in such a short time. Also known as HuffPost, the news site brings you stories from all around the world in almost every category – from entertainment to politics. The app itself is information dense – something of a rarity when it comes to Windows Applications – yet presents all of its content elegantly in an organized way that makes it easy to sort and read the content you want.

Download The Huffington Post from the Windows Store [Free]

CleverToDo

CleverToDo is an app that will help you manage your tasks and stay focused on things that need your attention. The app will attempt to reduce the time you spend procrastinating and help you stay productive. The app is based on the “Get Things Done” methodology devised by David Allen, and features an extremely intuitive and slick interface that attempts to keep the focus on your work and gives you a daily agenda for things that you need to get done.

Download CleverToDo from the Windows Store [8.99$]

Artezio

Diagrams are an essential part of any technically job – they are even a necessity in a lot of presentations, but they can be quite difficult to make with standard tools. Artezio is an app specifically designed to make designing a diagram simple. It is quite frankly absurdly easy to build an extremely complicated diagram with Artezio – it features an extremely simple interface and also comes with full support for touch screen displays.

Download Artezio Diagram Designer from the Windows Store [Free with IAP]

Sharpen

Sharpen is an image enhancement tool – basically it will attempt to improve the images you take by running various sharpness and colour correction algorithms on it, and give you a better photo without doing much work. It supports a wide variety of image formats such as JPG, PNG, JXR, WDP, TIFF to even highly uncompressed formats such as RAW and ARW. The app preserves all of the metadata from the original photo and also comes with a built-in after and before slider so you can compare your original photo with the enhanced image that Sharpen produces.

Download Sharpen from the Windows Store [0.99$]

Adobe Content Viewer

Adobe Content Viewer lets you preview rich interactive publications built using the Adobe Digital Publishing Suite – this might not sound very interesting, but if you do any kind of work in this field you will know how important this application is for you. Using this, designers of such magazines can preview the content from the Distribution Service prior to the publication of it.

Download Adobe Content Viewer from the Windows Store [Free]

Earthquake Watch

Mother nature is cruel, and when it decides to do harm – it knows no bounds. Earthquakes are not only a geological wonder, but also extremely deadly and can cause severe damage in terms of life and property. Not only are they extremely hard to account and counter for – they are close to impossible to predict, and so when an earthquake happens, it can be a life saver to know where and when it happens. Earthquake Watch gets real time data from the seismological services of United States, Mexico and Chile and notifies you immediately if there is a major earthquake anywhere in the world.

Download Earthquake Watch from the Windows Store [Free with IAP]

Battery Tile

Once again an application is here to fix the mistakes of Microsoft – Battery Tile displays the current battery level of your Windows 10 device in a live tile that you can pin to your Start screen. This can be essential if you use your device on battery frequently and need to know how long you can stay up and running. Battery Tile also displays the estimate time remaining for your battery life within the live tile.

Download Battery Tile from the Windows Store [Free with IAP]

Microsoft Hololens

The Microsoft Research division comes up with some insane ideas every few years – Hololens is one of the products developed by them. It is quite possibly the closest we have gotten to immersive augmented reality – a dream that we have thought of since the 90s. The Hololens app is a necessity if you are one of the very few lucky ones who have access to a Hololens headset, as it lets you view a live stream of what the AR headset’s wearer is seeing.

Download Microsoft Hololens from the Windows Store [Free]

RealPlayer Daily Videos

RealPlayer used to be one of the most popular video players on Windows at one time – it is long past its glory days now, but it still sticks around and brings interesting ideas every once in a while. RealPlayer Daily Videos brings you a new video everyday – personalized for you, so it will always be something that interests you. It uses various sources such as YouTube, DailyMotion, and even Facebook and also comes with a built-in advanced search engine that can search across all of its sources at once.

Download RealPlayer Daily Videos from the Windows Store [Free]

VK

VK is a social network – much like Facebook – but it is more popular in eastern European countries and Russia. It is always good to have some competition in every industry, and VK is that competition against Facebook that is needed. Although most of the functionality is quite similar, you could say this app for VK is miles ahead of Facebook’s attempt of one.

Download VK App from the Windows Store [Free]

NBA Fan

NBA Fan is an app that well… any NBA fan should have installed. The app delivers every breaking news and tweets from the stars of NBA in real time for the best of its fans. It will also give you highlights from the various NBA games and keep you in the loop. The app itself features a simple design that is easy to navigate as well.

Download NBA Fan from the Windows Store [Free]

Pulseway

Pulseway is an essential app for any network or IT system manager – in a single view, you can monitor hundreds of systems for faults and issues and get notified when something goes wrong. The monitoring is of course done on client side with the Pulseway monitoring software, which works on every major operating system. You an also monitor cloud instances and even run commands and scripts remotely. Almost everything can be controlled remotely with Pulseway – you can force updates, reboot the clients and even set custom rules for certain clients so you can get alerts when something specific goes wrong.

Download Pulseway from the Windows Store [Free]

Mediafire

Mediafire is a service that lets you upload any file you like and share it with your friends, family or even just the general public over the internet. The app of course lets you keep track of what files you have uploaded, manage them, delete them and see detailed statistics about them such as how many people have downloaded that specific file. Mediafire can also sync files from your Windows 10 devices if you set it up for it.

Download Mediafire from the Windows Store [Free]

Writr

Writr introduces a trait to your life that is being forgotten by every passing day – journaling. Writr prompts you along your day to write about your aspirations and goals. It helps you do some self-analysis and realise your full potential, by helping you grow as a person. The app helps you keep your focus on your life’s goals, and brings some inspiration to your everyday life. It also syncs everything over the cloud across all of your devices so you know you are never going to lose it.

Download Writr from the Windows Store [Free]

NFL Fantasy Football

NFL Fantasy Football is more of a game than an app – it lets you build an NFL team of your own, and drops you down in its fantastical world where anything is possible. The app is essentially a simulation of an NFL season – except you make your own fantasy team and watch as they fail or become the best.

Download NFL Fantasy Football from the Windows Store [Free]

Hair Stylist

Your hair is an important part of your looks – a different hairstyle can make you look like a completely different person, so deciding what kind of hair would be the best for you can get quite difficult. With Hair Stylist you can try out different hair styles and colours within the app – without actually changing it up for real. The app has hundreds of hair styles for both men and women and all of them are properly categorized so you can easily browse through them. You can also upload your own picture within the app and try the hairstyles on yourself.

Download Hair Stylist from the Windows Store [4.99$]

NewsHunt

Newshunt is a newspaper aggregator – basically it lets you browse through hundreds of regional and national newspapers in various languages with a breeze. It supports hundreds of newspapers without any bias and brings its users current news from all across the world in an organized interface that is easy to browse through, despite all of the information available.

Download NewsHunt from the Windows Store [Free]

MinimaList

MinimaList is not only a great pun but also an incredibly well designed application that lets you build a to-do list that is very intuitive. You can build multiple lists for any task you want and it comes with various options for how you want to be notified for the tasks. It also integrates well with the Windows search and lets you search through your tasks via Windows itself.

Download MinimaList from the Windows Store [Free]

Tom’s Hardware

Tom’s Hardware is a publication that started in a decade when computers were starting to get extremely popular – the 1990’s. Today Tom’s Hardware brings you the latest news from every field of IT and gives you the latest information related to tech. Tom’s Hardware also features a very active forum where experts and other users are willing to help you with your computer problems no matter how simple or absurd they are. The app of course brings all of this to a beautiful interface that is easy to navigate and is not an eye sore.

Download Tom’s Hardware from the Windows Store [Free]

Runtastic Situps Pro

The Runtastic Situps Pro app pushes you to do that extra work everyday and shape up your body into something you would desire. The app builds a scientifically proven training program just for you and challenges you everyday to do just a little bit more until you hit your goal. On a mobile device, your sit ups will be automatically counted with the accelerometer – so you don’t even have to count them, and the app will tell you when you can rest. All of your workout data can also be uploaded to Runtastic and analyzed further to see where you can improve.

Download Runtastic Situps Pro from the Windows Store [1.99$]

Save Battery

The lithium ion batteries that are used in most of the mobile devices and laptops today have a weird catch to them – while they do last long, their life can be extended by charging them up to 80% and no further; while this does sound absurd, it is how lithium ion batteries work – however it can become extremely tedious to keep track of how much charge your devices have gained since you put them to charge. Save Battery will notify you when the charge reaches a certain threshold and help you protect your battery from overcharging, making it last longer. It also shows your battery status as live tiles in your Start Screen.

Download Save Battery from the Windows Store [Free with IAP]

Windows App Studio Installer

The Windows App Studio Installer is an app developed by Microsoft with the intention to make installing a Windows App Studio app an extremely quick and simple process. This app will automatically configure your device so you can easily deploy your app developed in Windows App Studio within minutes.

Download Windows App Studio Installer from the Windows Store [Free]

Screenshot Tool Pro

Screenshot Tool Pro is a tool that lets you take screenshots of your desktop and edit them to highlight the important parts. It comes with various brushes and tools to give you freedom in terms of what you can do to your screenshots. Add text or simply use the highlighter to highlight text – and then use the inbuilt share function to share your screenshots with your friends and colleagues instantly.

Download Screenshot Tool Pro from the Windows Store [5.99$]

Perfect Voice Recorder

Voice recording softwares are in abundance – good ones are however a rare sight. Perfect Voice Recorder is an extremely simple tool that does exactly as its name suggests. You can record your voice, and store the clips – or upload them to OneDrive and sync across all of your devices. Perfect Voice Recorder also has built-in protection, so if your computer has an unfortunate crash, the voice recording gets saved regardless of it.

Download Perfect Voice Recorder from the Windows Store [Free]

BB-8

The BB-8 app is built to control the BB-8 toy from the Star Wars franchise. The lovely cute little robot that rolls around on its curious ball has been turned into a toy, and this app is how you control this extremely well made toy. The app lets you drive your BB-8 around, set it in a patrol mode and even make it do some cute expressions that can entertain your kids for a long while. The BB-8 toy can also do holographic messaging – simply record a video with the app and the app will turn it into a holographic message for the BB-8 to broadcast.

Download BB-8 App Enabled Droid from the Windows Store [Free]

Wikio

Wikipedia transformed the world by bringing the knowledge of every encyclopedia in the world to a website that can be search through in an instant – essentially bringing all of human civilization’s knowledge at your fingertips. Wikio is an app for Windows 10 that will let you access the vast library of Wikipedia on your Windows 10 device with an easy to use interface. It lets you do everything the Wikipedia website has – from search to reading long articles and browsing their citations everything is possible.

Download Wikio for Wikipedia from the Windows Store [Free with IAP]

Series Tracker

Keeping track of your favorite TV shows and their seasons can get very cumbersome very quickly, so services such as Trakt.tv exist to help you keep track of everything you watch and log it in your profile. Series Tracker is a beautiful Windows 10 application that integrates with your Trakt.tv profile and helps you keep track of everything you watch with ease. It notifies you of new episodes of the TV shows you follow, displays detailed information about the cast and crew of every show with a description for every episode and lets you share what you are watching with your friends.

Download Series Tracker from the Windows Store [Free with IAP]

ATC Navigator

ATC Navigator is an interesting app – it shows you your plane’s path and the ATC circles around airports, basically giving you the same view as your pilot. There isn’t much you can do with this information though, except extinguish your curiosity. For now, the app only has map data for Netherlands, but the developers are working on further improving it.

Download ATC Navigator from the Windows Store [Free]

My 500px Universal

500px is an incredible social network for photographers around the world to share their amazing work online,  and sometimes get rewarded for it. While the website is beautifully crafted and designed, a native application is always appreciated – and My 500px fulfills that duty beautifully. It allows you to upload photos directly from within the app, features a live tile that cycles through any feed of your choice everyday, and can automatically update your desktop wallpaper to whatever feed you set it to. It also has all the features you would find on the website such as an advanced search engine and all of the social features.

Download My 500px Universal from the Windows Store [Free with IAP]

MALClient

MALClient is an app built for the users of MyAnimeList and Hummingbird. Basically if you are into Anime or Manga – you need this app. You can browse through a vast range of Anime and Manga and check their reviews, and read the latest news about their development. The app is fully open source as well, which is a rare treat to behold in Windows Apps. The app fully integrates with MyAnimeList and Hummingbird and lets you customize your profile from within the app.

Download MALClient from the Windows Store [Free with IAP]

Cortana Triggers

Cortana Triggers adds some extensibility to Cortana and lets you add custom commands that can trigger any sort of HTTP request you like – be it over to IFTTT or a server that you own. The interface is extremely simple and holds your hands through the whole process of setting it up and then setting up the custom commands as well. The app also comes with live tiles that you can use to trigger certain tasks manually.

Download Cortana Triggers from the Windows Store [4.99$]

GoodDoc

GoodDoc gives you access to an extensive network of highly rated doctors all across the USA. There are doctors from various fields from dentists to ophthalmologists. The app also fully integrates with Windows – so you get to ask Cortana for a doctor, and have them appear on Bing Maps. The app will also notify you with realtime CDC alerts and allows you to save your health insurance data within the app securely.

Download GoodDoc from the Windows Store [2.99$]

Sticky Notes Pro

Sticky Notes Pro gives you a place to put your notes on – the app is very simple in terms of what it can do. It is basically a pinboard, where you can put an infinite amount of sticky notes. Simply write the text, pick a colour and pin it within the app – and you will have access to it across all of your devices.

Download Sticky Notes Pro from the Windows Store [7.99$]

GuitarTapp Pro

GuitarTapp Pro lets you access over half a million different chords, guitar tabs, bass tabs, power tabs and drum tabs all with a search and a few clicks. It also has an auto scroll feature for the chords and comes with a massive chords dictionary with diagrams and variations. It also lets you transpose songs and create setlists.

Download GuitarTapp Pro from the Windows Store [3.49$]

Maps Pro

Maps Pro is an extremely powerful navigation application that not only gives you access to the usual cloud maps such as Bing Maps with full directions, geolocation, point of interest and street view support but also lets you open your own custom map files in various formats such as CSV, KML, KMZ, GPX and much more. It also lets you record your journey as a GPX file and export it for later use.

Download Maps Pro from the Windows Store [4.99$]

Player for SoundCloud

SoundCloud has pretty much revolutionized the indie music scene by giving the power to public niche songs in the indie hands. The website is well design and the revenue sharing is fair – compared to the labels at least. A good native app is well deserved though, and that’s what Player for SoundCloud offers. The app comes with built-in search and gives you access to the full SoundCloud library that includes hundreds of genres and thousands of unique tracks by thousands of artists.

Download Player for SoundCloud from the Windows Store [6.99$]

Scan

The internet has made it super simple to share knowledge and build vast networks and communities of people that intend to do good – but the internet world progressed faster than the physical, and the divide between both kept increasing, until people start devising ways to bring them together. QR Codes are one of such endeavours to bring the virtual world just a little bit closer to the physical one. Scan plays an important role of being a good scanner app – so you can scan QR codes in the physical world and act on them in the virtual world. It can also scan the good old barcodes and save a history of scans so you don’t have to log them.

Download Scan – QR Code and Barcode Reader from the Windows Store [1.99$]

Emby

Emby lets you organize your physical library of all the BluRay’s and DVD’s you have collected over the years and put them in a digital library that you can access and watch at any time you want. The Emby Windows 10 app is merely a client – you will require the Emby server, which is where you configure your library. The Emby app supports various file formats, and shows proper metadata for all of the media – from the episode description to its cast and crew.

Download Emby from the Windows Store [4.99$]

AV Remote

AV Remote lets you control all of your DLNA and UPnP devices around your house and play music, videos and display images across all of them in harmony. You can also browse all of your DLNA server libraries with ease and play any media from them on your DLNA compatible TV. The app also supports Chromecast and OpenHome media player.

Download AV Remote from the Windows Store [2.99$]

Algebra Touch

Algebra Touch attempts to reintroduce you to the mysteries of Algebra that you have long forgotten in  unique way. It lets you solve algebra equations in a fun way by dragging and dropping numbers to the right places. You can get to re-learn algebra without using any of the known methods that you probably find tedious anyway.

Download Algebra Touch from the Windows Store [2.99$]

Files & Folders Pro

Files & Folders Pro is a fully functional file manager that lets you browse through the file system on your Windows 10 mobile device and desktop likewise. It includes all of the features a good file manager should such copy, delete, and opening certain formats of files. It can also extract and compress file archives in some formats and features a simple and clean interface.

Download Files & Folders Pro from the Windows Store [7.99$]

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Conclusion

These were 100 of the best free Windows 10 apps – hopefully, you enjoyed this list as it took a long while to curate it, and even longer to write about the apps. The Windows Store platform is still in its infancy, and its growing more every day adding newer and better applications that push the limits of the Universal Windows Platform.

If you’re a regular Windows user, then it might fascinate you that there are more than 35 million applications alone in Windows 20 among which there are hundreds and thousands of applications that you might not be aware of. Besides this fact, what we need in today’s world is a handful of tools and applications that can optimize work and increase productivity.

Keeping this in mind, we’ve compiled a list of the 15 Best Windows 10 Apps that will not only give your PC/Laptop charm but also offer powerful performance that can meet your daily needs. So, let’s get started.

Here’s the list of the Top 15 Windows 10 applications that you can try:

1. Microsoft Edge
2. Google Chrome
3. Adobe Creative Cloud
4. VLC Media Player
5. Microsoft To-Do
6. Zoom
7. Microsoft Office Suite
8. Microsoft Photos
9. Notion
10. Trello
11. Adobe Acrobat Reader
12. Whatsapp Desktop
13. Spotify
14. Dropbox
15. SketchBook

Now, let’s get into the in-depth details of each one of them for better clarity.

Best Windows 10 Apps That You Can Use in 2023

The list of the best 15 Windows 10 apps may comprise some apps that might be preinstalled in your system. But we’ve summarised this list by keeping performance, popularity and add-on features in mind.

1. Microsoft Edge

A web browser built by Microsoft Corporation to provide security and speed with a set of features for efficient browsing.

• Due to its exemplary features, it is clear that this browser is rapidly gaining popularity among users compared to other browsers.
• As of September 2021, Edge has a market share of approximately 8.2%.
• It is one of the most important websites in the world as per the statistics.

2. Google Chrome

Another very popular and highly used Web Browser is Google Chrome.

• It was developed by Google Inc.
• Its popularity stems from the multiple features and a lot of extensions to enhance the user experience.

3. Adobe Creative Cloud

Developed by Adobe Systems Incorporated, Adobe Creative Cloud is a toolkit for creative people.

• It contains multiple applications for designing related functions.
• As of September 2021, Adobe reported that Creative Cloud had over 22 million paid subscribers

4. VLC Media Player

Next on the list is the famous media player by VLC.

• There exists a UWP app for VLC media players that is not only functionally better than the desktop app but is also visually more appealing.
• The software supports almost all types of media files from mp4, mkv, avi, and amongst many others.
• The programme also has a ton of other capabilities. Some of the catchy functionalities that it provides are:
  • Adding Subtitles
  • Syncing audio and video
  • Utilizing videos as wallpapers
  • VLC can undoubtedly be considered the best media player available for Windows 10 devices.

5. Microsoft To-Do

With Microsoft To-Do, a straightforward but clever to-do list tool.

• You can increase productivity and reduce stress by making lists of tasks to be done in a day, setting tasks and reminders, and scheduling a day. 
• The app even has a clever recommendation tool that will advise the chores you should focus on first in order of importance so you can be sure you won’t miss anything crucial.
• Any Windows 10 user wishing to optimize their daily routine must have the Microsoft To-Do app.

6. Zoom

Video conferencing has grown in importance in our daily lives since the pandemic began. A leading video conferencing application, Zoom, offers a tonne of features and a native Windows 10 app.

• Zoom’s free plan enables you to hold video conferences with up to 100 people, but the conversations can only last for 40 minutes.  
• Zoom-bombing and encryption had some initial security concerns, but the majority of them have been resolved, making it safe to use currently.
• You should also look into a tonne of incredibly helpful Zoom tips and techniques.

7. Microsoft Office Suite

Microsoft Office Suite is one of the earliest software application sets developed by the Microsoft Corporation.

• As per reports released by Microsoft in 2021, it has over 300 million users.
• This set of software contains services, applications and tools that help enhance users’ day-to-day application productivity and work more efficiently.

8. Microsoft Photos

Microsoft Photos is a multimedia application developed by Microsoft Corporation.

• It is pre-installed on Windows 10 and offers users a range of features for organizing, viewing, and editing photos and videos.
• Microsoft Photos comes pre-installed on Windows 10, which has a substantial user base.
• As of June 2021, Windows 10 had over 1.3 billion active devices worldwide.

9. Notion

The notion is an all-rounder productivity-enhancing organizer application.

• Notion helps users to organize, create, and collaborate around their different tasks.
• Since the launch of the application, Notion’s user base has grown significantly due to the unique organizing interface it provides.

10. Trello

With the need for task management and multitasking increasing every day, Trello serves the purpose just right.

• It effectively helps manage projects and organize tasks effectively.
• It uses cards and colours to organise and categorize tasks efficiently.

11. Adobe Acrobat Reader

Adobe Acrobat Reader is a widely-used application for viewing, annotating, and printing PDF (Portable Document Format) files.

• It is part of the Adobe Acrobat software family and is known for its robust features and compatibility with various operating systems, including Windows 10.
• Adobe Acrobat Reader provides a reliable and efficient platform for working with PDF documents, making it an essential tool for individuals and businesses.

12. WhatsApp Desktop

If using WhatsApp web Whatsapp is not convenient for you then you can install Whatsapp desktop because it is undoubtedly better and easy to use.

• The app also provides direct calling from the desktop without using phones.
• WhatsApp Desktop is a very helpful option for professional folks who use WhatsApp a lot to quickly navigate their complete workflow.

13. Spotify

The Spotify app is a necessity for all music (and podcast) enthusiasts.

• It has all the capabilities found on the Spotify app on other platforms, especially for those looking to discover amazing music as the recommendation and playlists curated the Spotify’s algorithm are so excellent. 
• The app syncs all of your data across all platforms, has a great clean user interface, and is easy to use.

14. Dropbox

Today more and more people prefer to store data online and organizing data in an online mode comes with its own set of challenges.

• Most importantly, storing and organizing data makes it essential to use an application like Dropbox.
• It helps in file synchronization and structuring and organizing them. 
• Makes sending and receiving files online much simpler.

15. SketchBook

Another excellent app for creative individuals and artists is Autodesk SketchBook.

• It provides a robust toolkit to users so they may produce works of art on their PC.
• The app offers full support for touch input.
• This app is excellent to have if you own a Surface Studio because it supports users with touch-screen devices and the Microsoft Surface Dial.

In contrast, you might find a lot of apps on Windows platform & some at third party websites. Rest, depends upon you and your requirements. We tried to fetch & present you the list of best windows apps of all time.

FAQs: Best Windows 10 Apps

1. Which is the top 5 windows 10 software in 2023?

Here’s the list of 5 best Windows 10 apps that you should consider using:

1. Notion
2. Microsoft To-Do
3. Zoom
4. Microsoft Office Suite
5. Trello

2. Is Windows 11 faster than Windows 10?

Windows 11 does a lot under the hood to speed up a PC’s performance. The same PC will generally run faster on Windows 11 than Windows 10. But no matter how zippy your Windows 11 may be, it can run faster.

3. How to get free apps on Windows 10?

Visit the Windows app store & follow these steps to access free apps on Windows 10

To see more of any category, select Show all at the end of the row.

• On the top of the app store select app type to FREE only
• Select the app you’d like to download, and then select Get.
• Sign in with your Microsoft account to finish downloading your app or game.

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Whether you’ve just bought a new system or reinstalled Windows, the very first task is to install essential Windows apps & computer software for your ease. Because having the best PC software can entirely change the way you work. Relying on these ideal programs for Windows 10 not only maximizes your efficiency but also helps you in getting the best out of your PC. Some are free, some cost a few dollars, but all are well worth the investment.

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This tool will optimize your PC and free up storage space in no time. The free version will help you uninstall programs from your computer. The Pro version comes with more advanced features such as an Invalid Registry cleaner to clean up the corrupted registry entries. The identity protection will erase the online tracks to keep you safe from online trackers. Malware protection includes the scan for trojans, viruses, spyware, adware, and other malware.

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2. VideoProc Vlogger

If you are looking for an easy-to-use video editing application that can help you transform your simple footage into professional videos in a couple of clicks, then get your hands on VideoProc Vlogger. It’s an intuitive video processing program designed for all types of creators from beginners, hobbyists, and freelancers to videographers, online educators, and vloggers. Talking about its impeccable feature set, with VideoProc Vlogger, you can find options to create cinematic camera movements like Roll, Tilt, Truck, Dolly, and more.

You can stylize your videos with fast zooms, rotations, and shakes and add motion trails to your photos. Besides this, the video editing software offers tons of color grading & correction tools to adjust exposure, contrast, saturation, HSL color values & more to make your videos and photos look better and more professional. Additionally, you can use this Windows app to create Time Lapse videos, record voiceover, remove fisheye, split screen, extract audio & more.

What’s the best part of this Windows app? It is constantly upgraded to meet users’ needs and requirements. Consider downloading this best Windows PC Software and do not forget to share your experience with us in the comments below!

3. EaseUS Todo Backup Home: Best Disk Cloning Software

Disk Image Software replicates the system’s OS, drives, software, and patches, so you can restore your computer anytime if any contingency happens. Precisely, disk cloning software makes a clone of every bit of information from one hard drive to another disk. And EaseUS Todo Backup Home is a dedicated hard drive cloning software that allows you to securely duplicate the configurations of multiple systems so that each machine is identically set up.

Using this disk mirroring software, you can efficiently take a backup of your computer and keep your data safe from malicious content. You might confuse it with a backup tool, but that’s completely a different story!

Download this dedicated Windows PC software, for creating an exact disk image of your business workstation! Read Full Review

4. T9 Antivirus: Best Antivirus For Windows 10

T9 Antivirus is a reliable security choice if you want to protect your PC against new and existing malware threats, adware, spyware, viruses, trojans, and other malicious content. The robust Internet security software offers real-time protection with high usability for both beginners and advanced users. It has comprehensive scanning modes: Quick, Deep & Custom thoroughly scan the system’s critical areas and specific folders faster. You can also schedule automatic threat scanning according to your convenience. 

Talking about the user interface, T9 Antivirus has a clear and intuitive dashboard with easy-to-navigate buttons that make the entire process swift and hassle-free. It even offers a plugin known as StopAllAds that helps you browse the Internet safely.  

T9 Antivirus is undoubtedly one of the best Software for Windows 10 PC that keeps unwanted invaders out of the computer!

5. Eazy Driver Updater

As the name suggests, Eazy Driver Updater is quite easy to use and will help you update outdated drivers on your computer. Users can get quick fixes for the standard system errors, which include sound and display issues. It can update the device drivers and improve the computer’s performance overall.

It includes the essential features of the driver updating tool, such as a backup & restore, exclusion list, and large database. You can also schedule a scan to keep regular track of updating outdated drivers on your PC. It can be set to daily, weekly, or monthly with the given day and time.

6. Adobe Photoshop CC: Best Photo Editor App

Listing down the best Windows 10 software and missing Photoshop is impossible. When it comes to photo editing, Adobe Photoshop CC happens to be one universal application. This picture editor is the cradle that holds the entire photography industry in its arms. Equipped with tons of editing tools and dozens of photo effects & filters, it has become one of the most trusted hands for numerous artists & designers worldwide for decades.

This free photo editing software (free trial available) is capable of making websites, logos, banners, icons, photo editing etc. Ranging from all the elementary to precocious tools, whether you want to perform everyday edits or make something exceptional, this image editor provides a complete set of photography tools that’ll transform your simple pictures into Art!

Install Adobe Photoshop CC & fill your bucket of best apps for Windows 10!

7. Duplicate Photos Fixer Pro: Best Duplicate Photo Finder

Our list of ‘best programs for Windows 10’ would be incomplete without mentioning a photo management tool that helps you maintain your photo library & keep it much more organized and clutter-free. Duplicate Photos Fixer Pro is a dedicated duplicate photo cleaner that smoothly scans and removes duplicate photos in a click. No matter how much you organize your photo albums, Duplicate photos somehow always find their way to clog your library. However, with Duplicate Photos Fixer Pro, you can easily deduplicate your gallery in a couple of clicks.

The Windows PC software is quite easy-to-use and comes with different sorting modes to find duplicates. Works with all popular file formats and is available in 14 different languages. And best of all, the application not only scans for internal storage, but it also allows users to remove duplicate images from external devices like pen drives, memory cards, etc.

8. TweakPass: Best Password Manager

An ideal password keeper is the need of the hour. Remembering passwords for multiple accounts is definitely something we all want to avoid in our hectic lives.

Hence, TweakPass is one such Windows computer software that frees you from a lot of effort & hassle in remembering passwords for all your online accounts. It’s one of the best password management applications with multi-layered security to shield your personal information.

It securely consolidates numerous passwords in a single location. All you need to do is scan your PC & it will automatically collect your stored login credentials & transfer all such sensitive information to a Secure Vault.

Now stop writing down your confidential information on sticky notes & download TweakPass to manage all your passwords, anywhere anytime!

9. Advanced Driver Updater: Best Driver Updater Software

Here’s another must-have Windows 10 software, Advanced Driver Updater, that allows you to scan outdated device drivers on your PC and quickly update them in a single click. With this top-notch Windows 10 updater software, you are not required to search for legitimate drivers online, as it natively installs them on your PC. Once you download this Windows PC software, it automatically starts scanning for missing, damaged, or outdated drivers efficiently and lists them down according to the priority of quick action. You are just required to tap the ‘Update’ button & it will fix everything for you in a few moments.

Like an ideal driver updater software, Advanced Driver Updater does accurate scanning, allows users to back up & restore the old drivers, plus it holds a huge driver database so that you never miss an upgraded version of device drivers.   To complete your to-do list of best apps for Windows 10, don’t forget to include Advanced Driver Updater- An amazing solution that gives your system a super boost by updating device drivers!

10. VLC Media Player: Best Video Player

You saw this coming. Talking about the best video player for PC and not mentioning the monarch isn’t possible. VLC Media player, the most popular HD video player, comes with tons of mind-blowing features & functionalities. It doesn’t need any introduction, as it’s probably one of the most common windows media players that must be installed on most computers. Being one of the best video players in the market, it offers to play files, discs, devices, webcams, streams, and all the popular codecs.

VLC Media Player is another best PC software that is completely free of cost and runs on all the popular platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux, Unix, Android, and iOS.

Enjoy movies, and music to the core with VLC Media Player, another essential Windows 10 software!

11. Audacity: Best Audio Recording Software

Came decades ago, Audacity is one of the oldest yet most powerful PC recording software so far. It has a simple & easy-to-use interface, and it’s undoubtedly an ideal Windows 10 app for both newbies and pros. Audacity has dozens of tools that allow multi-level tracking, mixing, and navigation in a few simple drags and clicks. It comes with the ability to cater to all types of music files, irrespective of any format. It comes with a function to convert files into MP3 format, which is quite a rare feature among all the music recording software.

Not only this, Audacity is a very versatile tool that is capable of not only voice recording but it also offers a wide range of editing tools that makes it the best audio recording software.

And the best part? It’s absolutely free!

12. Hotspot Shield: Best VPN For Windows 10 PC

Using an ideal VPN service for your system ensures that your Identity is protected while you surf the Internet and that no malicious threats or cybercriminals can harm you in the virtual world. They simply amp up security and privacy, and Hotspot Shield is the epitome of that! The platform offers free VPN servers so that you can access the Internet with no borders while maintaining online privacy and anonymity.

Using Hotspot Shield, you can browse content from 15 countries with military-grade security and encryption. It has a virtual tunnel that lets users hide their IP Addresses so that no spies can track them in the online world. It’s a fast, easy-to-setup, and the top VPN for streaming, shopping, and social.

This Windows PC Software offers free VPN servers so that you can access the Internet with no borders while maintaining online privacy and anonymity.

13. Skype: Best Video Calling App for PC

Certainly, the most popular name on the list of Best Windows 10 apps, Skype has been crowned as the best free video chat app available for every well-known platform right now. Introduced long back, it has come a long way to offer the best video calls over the years. Not only video calls, but you can also use it for placing voice calls, annotating PowerPoint for real-time collaboration with up to 250 people, sharing your screen or recording meetings, sending instant messages, video conferencing, and much more.

Skype offers both free & paid call facilities. You can use the paid version for placing international calls at nominal prices. Plus, it offers several subscription plans which let users make unlimited calls to landlines and mobiles. You can check out their plans here! You must include Skype in your to-do list of the best programs for Windows 10.

14. Launchy: Best Program Launcher Windows 10 PC

On the surface, Launchy is an effective windows launcher that helps your computer to shoot programs, software, websites, and apps super-fast. But unlike other launcher apps, it has much more in its bucket, which is making it the best windows launcher in the category!

Aside from doing basic tasks like launching the software, websites, folders, and files searching the web & organizing your programs. It performs advanced functions, such as launching portable apps, opening buried directories, providing your favorite apps with short keywords for easy access, killing processes, performing calculations, etc., with just a few keystrokes. It’s another best PC software you should download on your desktop immediately.

15. WinX HD Video Converter Deluxe: Best Video Converter

A list of the best programs for Windows 10 cannot be completed without mentioning WinX Video Converter. It’s an all-in-one video converter software that allows users not only to convert every type of video file but it can also be used for downloading YouTube videos, creating slideshows, editing videos, and much more. The software comes with a simple and intuitive interface and nets you the power to convert any video to any format.

Compared to all its competitors in the category, WinX offers the most comprehensive library of conversion & optimization profiles. Built using HQ engine and de-interlacing engine to optimize the image quality, this free video converter supports cropping, trimming, merging & adjusting parameters to control the size and quality of a video.

16. Right-Click Extender: Best Context Menu Editor

How can we forget to help you in modifying your context menus? Admit it or not, we all deal with choked right-click menus stuffed with numerous unwanted entries. While adding or removing context menu items manually is quite a difficult process. So, by introducing you to a Windows 10 app, Right-Click Extender allows you to edit/remove context menu items quickly. The computer software has a simple, straightforward, and easy interface. You can easily enable or disable additional entries on your Windows right-click menus, the drive, and other files and folders.

To start with the editor, you need to check & uncheck boxes to add or remove context menu items in the program list. Apart from that, you can also create a ‘system restore point’ of all the default settings, so you can easily roll back if anything doesn’t work well.

17. Logitech Webcam: Best Webcam Software For Windows PC

Reaching the end of our list of Best Apps for Windows 10, with one of the most important utilities that will help you to connect & see your loved ones in the easiest way possible, Logitech Webcam! Treated as one of the biggest pioneer manufacturers of webcams, Logitech Webcam software bridges the gap between two hardware & creates a simple yet easy-to-use recording experience. It supports many Logitech webcam models so that you can effectively connect with others using HD video & images.

With Logitech Webcam software, you can easily adjust the camera’s sensitivity & detect motion. Moreover, this webcam software has a surveillance mode which helps you in case you want to view the feeds of the home cameras. It’s compatible with Windows 10/8/8.1/7.

Install  Logitech Webcam Software, a have to be Windows PC Software to get connected to your loved ones!

Frequently Asked Questions

Q1. Which Apps Unwanted On Windows 10?

There are specific Windows 10 apps that are probably of no use to you and make your system run super slow. The list consists of:

• uTorrent
• Shockwave Player
• QuickTime
• Crappy PC Cleaners
• Java
• Microsoft Silverlight
• All Toolbars & Unnecessary Junk Browser Extensions

Q2. Which Windows 10 Apps Are Bloatware?

Windows 10 comes bundled with a set of programs & software that are considered bloatware & are difficult to remove from your system.

• Groove Music
• MSN Weather
• Outlook
• Microsoft Tips
• 3D Viewer
• Age of Empires: Castle Siege
• Mixed Reality Portal & more

You can follow this guide to remove Bloatware in Windows 10!

Q3. How Do I Make Windows 10 Attractive?

There are plenty of things you can do to make your Windows 10 desktop look attractive.

• Set video wallpaper
• Set an account picture
• Organize your Desktop icons
• Tweak & create custom Windows 10 Tiles
• Change Windows 10 Themes
• Personalize with your favorite desktop themes

Wrapping Up: The Best Software For Windows 11, 10, 8, 7 Computer/Laptop To Use In 2023

We’ve tried our best to curate this list, keeping in mind different categories for boosting productivity, adding creativity to your work, easing your daily tasks, and keeping your entertainment game strong. I hope now you know which computer software and Windows 10 apps are helpful for you and which you should download immediately on your computer. If you don’t find one of our favorite PC apps for Windows 10 much more effective, check out our website to find other suitable alternatives.

Although, we believe that the majority of the people will get plenty of use out of these above mentioned “Best PC Software”!

So, Get Ready To Make the Most Out Of Your Windows PC/Laptop This 2023!

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