Creators of independent portable applications

• AppZero
• BoxedApp
• Cameyo
• Enigma Virtual Box
• InstallFree Bridge
• JauntePE (alpha, free)
• Ceedo
  Ceedo
  Ceedo is a software virtualization platform developed by Israeli company Ceedo Technologies. The term "Ceedo" refers both to the company and to the virtual workspace client on which the company's products are based....
  
  , using Argo Application Installer
• Spoon Studio (formerly Xenocode Virtual Application Studio)
• VMware ThinApp
  VMware ThinApp
  VMware ThinApp is an application virtualization and portable application creator suite by VMware that can package conventional applications so that they become portable applications...
  
   (formerly: Thinstall)
• LANDesk Application Virtualization
• MoleBox Virtualization Solution

Related software

• AIX 6.1 Live Application Mobility
• Novell ZENworks Application Virtualization
  Novell ZENworks Application VIrtualization
  Novell ZENworks Application Virtualization is an application virtualization and portable application creation console by Novell that allows a user to build applications that run like an executable file.-History:...
  
  
• Symantec Workspace Virtualization (formerly Altiris Software Virtualization Solution)
• Citrix XenApp
• Microsoft Application Virtualization
  Microsoft Application Virtualization
  Microsoft Application Virtualization is an application virtualization and application streaming solution from Microsoft. It was acquired by Microsoft during the acquisition of Boston, Massachusetts-based Softricity on July 17, 2006...
  
  
• Symantec Endpoint Virtualization Suite
• PackageFactory for U3 (creates portable applications for U3 hardware)
• Sandboxie
  Sandboxie
  Sandboxie is a proprietary sandbox-based isolation program developed by Ronen Tzur, for 32- and 64-bit Windows NT-based operating systems. It creates a sandbox-like isolated operating environment in which applications can be run or installed without permanently modifying the local or mapped...
  
  
• RUNZ
• CDE (for Linux-based systems)
• Zero Install
  Zero Install
  Zero Install is a means of distributing and packaging software for multiple operating systems . Many distributions offer it as an additional non-default component.- Design :...
  
   (Linux)
• Klik (packaging method) (Linux)
• MojoPac
  MojoPac
  MojoPac is an application virtualization product from RingCube Technologies. MojoPac turns any USB 2.0 storage device, into a portable computing environment. The term "MojoPac" is used by the company to refer to the software application, the virtualized environment running inside this software, and...
  
  
• Windows To Go
  Windows To Go
  Windows To Go is a feature in Windows 8 that allows the entire system to run from USB mass storage devices such as flash drives and external hard drives....
  
  

See also

• Application directory
  Application directory
  An application directory is a grouping of software code, help files and resources that together comprise a complete software package but are presented to the user as a single object....
  
  
• Application streaming
  Application Streaming
  Computer application streaming is a form of on-demand software distribution.The basic concept of application streaming has its foundation in the way modern computer programming languages and operating systems produce and run application code. Only specific parts of a computer program need to be...
  
  
• Application virtualization
  Application Virtualization
  Application virtualization is an umbrella term that describes software technologies that improve portability, manageability and compatibility of applications by encapsulating them from the underlying operating system on which they are executed. A fully virtualized application is not installed in...
  
  
• Comparison of application virtual machines
  Comparison of Application Virtual Machines
  This article lists some software virtual machines that are typically used for allowing application bytecode to be portably run on many different computer architectures and operating systems. The application is usually run on the computer using an interpreter or just-in-time compilation...
  
  
• Desktop virtualization
  Desktop virtualization
  Desktop virtualization , as a concept, separates a personal computer desktop environment from a physical machine using the client–server model of computing....
  
  
• Emulator
  Emulator
  In computing, an emulator is hardware or software or both that duplicates the functions of a first computer system in a different second computer system, so that the behavior of the second system closely resembles the behavior of the first system...
  
  
• Shim (computing)
• Software as a service
  Software as a Service
  Software as a service , sometimes referred to as "on-demand software," is a software delivery model in which software and its associated data are hosted centrally and are typically accessed by users using a thin client, normally using a web browser over the Internet.SaaS has become a common...
  
  
• Startkey
  StartKey
  Startkey is a USB flash storage device developed by Microsoft and SanDisk.-History:StartKey began in May 2007 when Microsoft and Sandisk made an agreement to provide unspecified software to replace U3 that was included on SanDisk flash devices.-Features:...
  
  
• U3
  U3
  U3 was a joint venture between SanDisk and M-Systems , producing a proprietary method of launching Windows applications from special USB flash drives. Flash drives adhering to the U3 specification are termed "U3 smart drives"....
  
  
• Virtual application
  Virtual Application
  A virtual application is an application that has been optimized to run on virtual infrastructure. The application software along with Just Enough Operating System is combined inside a virtual machine container in a manner that maximizes the performance of the application...
  
  
• Workspace virtualization
  Workspace virtualization
  Workspace virtualization is a way of distributing applications to client computers using application virtualization however it also bundles several applications together into one complete workspace. It is an approach that encapsulates and isolates an entire computing workspace...