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| subcat | PW | W | URL | Program | Co. & Author | Ware | I | OS | Notes | c | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0.50 Extended Characters | . | . | Link | BabelMap | (Andrew West) | (Freeware) | . | Windows 95; 98; NT4; ME; 2000; XP | notes | . | |
| 0.50 Extended Characters | . | . | Link | Character Clips | Gulf Coastal Software | (Freeware) | . | notes | . | ||
| 0.50 Extended Characters | PW07 | . | Link | Extended Character Map (v 1.41) | AriTech Development Indonesia (Sony Arianto Kurniawan) | (Freeware) LFW (v 1.41) | (n.i.) | Windows 95; 98; NT; ME; 2000; (XP) | notes | . | |
| 0.50 Extended Characters | . | . | Link | Keyman | Tavultesoft | (Freeware) (free for personal use) | . | notes | . | ||
| 0.50 Extended Characters | . | . | Link | MapOfChars | (Daniel Hoppe) | (Freeware) | . | notes | . | ||
| 0.50 Extended Characters: Form Filler | PW07 | . | Link | AllChars | (Jeroen Laarhoven (original author); Joachim Breuer) | (Freeware) (open source: GNU GPL) | (n.i.) | Windows 95; 98; NT4; ME; 2000; XP | notes | . | |
| 0.50 Font Creator: True Type | . | . | Link | DoubleType | e.e d3si9n (e.e) | (Donationware) (free) (open source: GNU GPL) | . | Windows 95; 98; NT; 2000; XP | notes | . | |
| 0.50 Font Creator: True Type | . | . | Link | Type light (Type lite) | CR8 Software Solutions (Allan Murray) | (Liteware) (free for personal use/ some commercial uses) | . | Windows 98; 2000; XP | notes | . | |
| 0.50 Font Manager | . | . | Link | Cfont Pro | Veign LLC (Chris Hanscom) | (Donationware) (free) | . | notes | . | ||
| 0.50 Font Manager | . | . | Link | Characteristica | (- Simtel Legacy) | (Freeware) | . | notes | . | ||
| 0.50 Font Manager | . | . | Link | Font Frenzy | Sound Doctrine Ministries | (Freeware) | (n.i.) | notes | . | ||
| 0.50 Font Manager | . | . | Link | Font Xplorer | Moon Software (Ahto Tanner) | (Freeware) was $ware | . | notes | . | ||
| 0.50 Font Manager | . | . | Link | FontExplorer X | Linotype GmbH | (Betaware) (free) | . | notes | . | ||
| 0.50 Font Manager | . | . | Link | FontPage | Bluefive software (David De Groot) | (Freeware) | . | notes | . | ||
| 0.50 Font Manager | . | $W | xxx | FontViewer (fviewer.zip) | PC Mag | was (Registerware) (free) | . | notes | . | ||
| 0.50 Font Manager | PW07 | . | Link | The Font Thing | (Sue Fisher) | (Betaware) (Freeware) | . | Windows 95; 98; NT | notes | . | |
| 0.50 Font Manager: Title Maker | PW06 | . | Link | X-Fonter (v 4.6) | BlackSun Software (Peter Bowie) | (Liteware) (free for personal use) LFW (v 4.6) | . | Windows 95; 98; NT; ME; 2000; XP | notes | . | |
| 0.50 Font Tool | PW08 | . | Link | AMP Font Viewer | AMPsoft (Alberto Martinez Perez) | (Donationware) (free) | . | Windows "all" | notes | . | |
| 0.50 Font Tool | . | . | Link | Arjan Mel's Font Viewer (v 1.99) | (Arjan Mel) | (Freeware) LFW (v 1.99) | . | notes | . | ||
| 0.50 Font Tool | . | . | Link | Bitmap Font Writer | (Stefan Pettersson) | (Donationware) (free) | . | notes | . | ||
| 0.50 Font Tool | . | . | Link | Font Matcher | (Javier Guerrero García) | (Freeware) | . | notes | . | ||
| 0.50 Font Tool | . | . | Link | Font properties extension (ttfext.exe) | Microsoft | MS | . | notes | . | ||
| 0.50 Font Tool | . | . | Link | FontForge | (George Williams and others) | (Freeware) (open source: BSD license) | . | Windows 95; 98; NT; 2000; XP | notes | . | |
| 0.50 Font Tool | . | . | Link | FontList | (Raymond Mercier) | (Freeware) | . | notes | . | ||
| 0.50 Font Tool | . | . | Link | Fontlister (v 2.0) | (Peter Theill) | (Freeware) LFW (v 2.0) | . | .. | notes | . | |
| 0.50 Font Tool | . | . | Link | FontLoader | Moon Software (Ahto Tanner) | (Freeware) installation password: FreeStuffIsCool! | . | notes | . | ||
| 0.50 Font Tool | . | . | Link | FontRenamer | A + M Neuber GbR (Alexander Neuber) | (Freeware) | (n.i.) (n.r.) | notes | . | ||
| 0.50 Font Tool | . | . | Link | FontView | MeeSoft (Michael Vinther) | (Freeware) | (n.i.) | notes | . | ||
| 0.50 Font Tool | . | . | Link | RS-FontChart sizeable (v 2.1) | (Rainald Schwenke) | (Freeware) LFW (v 2.1) | . | Windows 95; 98; NT; ME; 2000 | notes | . | |
| 0.50 Text Tool: Color Gradients | . | . | Texefex | BlackSun Software (Peter Bowie) | (Liteware) (free) LFW (v 2.3) | . | notes | . | |||
| 0.50 Text Tool: Title Maker | . | . | Link | AddBanner (v 0.99) | (Thomas Jansen) | (Freeware) LFW (v 0.99) | . | Windows 95; NT | notes | . | |
| 0.50 Text Tool: Title Maker | PW03 | . | Link | DDTitle (v 5.10) | SoftLab NSK | (Freeware) LFW (v 5.10) last available freeware version | . | Windows 95; 98; NT; ME; 2000; XP | notes | . | |
| 0.50 Text Tool: Title Maker | PW05 | . | Link | Font Magic | Font Magic (Matt Cawley) | (Freeware) | . | Windows 95; 98; NT4; ME; 2000; XP | notes | . | |
| 0.50 Text Tool: Title Maker | . | . | Link | HieroGlyph Library | SAB Software (or) Ancients UK | (Freeware) registration code: BAD-513A | . | notes | . | ||
| 1.01 Editor | . | . | Link | ACF Notes | Ur I.T. Mate Group (Steven Burn) | (Freeware) | . | notes | . | ||
| 1.01 Editor | . | . | Link | ACF Pad (was) Legacy Pad Lite | (Phillip Sassano (dos-man)) | (Freeware) | . | notes | . | ||
| 1.01 Editor | . | . | Link | AEdit - Free Word | AXAR Team | (Freeware) | (n.i.) (n.r.) | notes | . | ||
| 1.01 Editor | . | . | Link | ATPad | (oldlamer) | (Freeware) (open source: GNU GPL) | (n.i.) | notes | . | ||
| 1.01 Editor | . | . | Link | BabelPad | (Andrew West) | (Freeware) | . | notes | . | ||
| 1.01 Editor | . | . | Link | BDV Notepad | (Denis Balykin) | (Freeware) | (n.i.) | notes | . | ||
| 1.01 Editor | . | . | Link | CNotePad | Cetus Software | (Freeware) LFW (1996) | . | notes | . | ||
| 1.01 Editor | . | . | Link | CopyWriter | (Laurenz van Gaalen) | (Freeware) | . | notes | . | ||
| 1.01 Editor | . | . | Link | DocPad | Gammadyne Corporation | (Freeware) | . | notes | . | ||
| 1.01 Editor | . | . | Link | ED | (Charles Sandmann) | (Freeware) (open source: GNU GPL) | . | notes | c | ||
| 1.01 Editor | . | . | Link | EditMan | (Johan Daniel Meiring) | (Freeware) | . | notes | . | ||
| 1.01 Editor | . | . | Link | Editor2 | (Craig Wilkie) | (Freeware) | . | notes | . | ||
| 1.01 Editor | . | . | Link | Editor² (Editor2) (was) 2xEditor | (Nikos Bozinis) | (Donationware) (free) | . | notes | . | ||
| 1.01 Editor | . | . | Link | EDXOR | (Dariusz Stanislawek) | (Freeware) | . | Windows 95; 98; NT; ME; 2000; XP; Windows Server 2003 | notes | . | |
| 1.01 Editor | . | . | Link | EmEditor Free (EmEditor) (v 6.00.4) | EmuraSoft | (Liteware) (free) LFW (v 6.00.4) | . | Windows "all" (Vista) | notes | . | |
| 1.01 Editor | . | . | Link | Emojic | Emogic Software | (Donationware) (free) | . | notes | . | ||
| 1.01 Editor | . | . | Link | Golden Pen | MidWest Studio (Vitaly Nevzorov) | (Freeware) | . | notes | . | ||
| 1.01 Editor | . | . | Link | GridinSoft Notepad Lite | GridinSoft | (Crippleware) (free) note: the Home and Professional versions are $ware | . | notes | . | ||
| 1.01 Editor | . | . | Link | Haxial TextEdit | Haxial Software Pty Ltd | (Freeware) | . | notes | . | ||
| 1.01 Editor | . | . | Link | IntelliEdit | FlashPeak Inc. | (Freeware) | . | notes | . | ||
| 1.01 Editor | . | . | Kankowski Edit | (Peter Kankowski) | (Freeware) (open source) | . | notes | . | |||
| 1.01 Editor | . | . | Link | kPad | (Konstantin Boukreev) | (Betaware) (Registerwareware) (free) demo = beta | (n.i.) | notes | . | ||
| 1.01 Editor | . | . | Link | MDINotepad | (Tomas Kostiainen) | (Freeware) | . | notes | . | ||
| 1.01 Editor | PW08 | . | Link | MetaPad | (Alexander Davidson) | (Donationware) (free) | (n.i.) | Windows 95; 98; NT; XP | notes | . | |
| 1.01 Editor | . | . | Link | NoteMaid (v 1.55) | Kent's Internet (Kent H.) | (Freeware) LFW (v 1.55) | . | Windows 95; NT | notes | . | |
| 1.01 Editor | . | . | Notepad And 1/2 | Design Vortex | (Donationware) (free) | . | notes | . | |||
| 1.01 Editor | . | . | Notepad FTP | (Ken Anderson) | (Freeware) | . | notes | . | |||
| 1.01 Editor | . | . | Link | NotePad SX | SX Software Inc | (Donationware) (free) | . | notes | . | ||
| 1.01 Editor | PW00 | . | Link | Notepad+ | RogSoft (Rogier Meurs) | (Freeware) | . | notes | . | ||
| 1.01 Editor | . | . | Link | Notepad2 | (Florian Balmer) | (Requestware) (free) (open source: GNU GPL) | (n.i.) | Windows "all" (95; 98; NT; ME; 2000; XP; Vista) | notes | c | |
| 1.01 Editor | PW08 | . | Link | NoteTab Light | Fookes Software (Eric G.V. Fookes) | (Liteware) (free) | (n.r.) | Windows 95; 98; NT4; ME; 2000; XP; Vista | notes | c | |
| 1.01 Editor | . | . | Link | NoteTab Light (no install version) | Fookes Software (Eric G.V. Fookes) | (Liteware) (free) v 4.9.2.2 | (n.i.) (n.r.) | notes | . | ||
| 1.01 Editor | . | . | Link | NoteXpad | (Ryan Lederman) | (Freeware) (open source) | . | notes | . | ||
| 1.01 Editor | . | . | Link | nPad2 (nPad) | (Nikola Dachev) | (Donationware) (free) | (n.i.) (n.r.) | notes | . | ||
| 1.01 Editor | . | . | Orient | (J. Saportas) | (Donationware) (free) | . | notes | . | |||
| 1.01 Editor | PW06 | . | Link | Programmer's File Editor (PFE) (v 1.01) | (Alan Phillips) | (Freeware) LFW (v 1.01) | . | Windows 3x; 95; 98; NT; 2000 | notes | . | |
| 1.01 Editor | . | . | Link | Prolix | Kobayashi Software (Eric Schreiber) | (Freeware) (free for personal use) | . | notes | . | ||
| 1.01 Editor | . | . | Link | Q10 | (Joaquín Bernal) | (Donationware) (free) | (n.i.) (n.r.) | notes | . | ||
| 1.01 Editor | . | . | Link | Quick Editor | (Hutch) | (Freeware) | (n.i.) | notes | . | ||
| 1.01 Editor | . | . | Link | Shalom Txt (v 1.2) | (Finn Ekberg Christiansen ) | (Freeware) LFW (v 1.2) | . | Windows 95; 98; NT4; ME; 2000 | notes | . | |
| 1.01 Editor | . | . | Link | Side by Side | Galaxy Web Design | (Freeware) | . | notes | . | ||
| 1.01 Editor | PW01 | . | Link | Stratuspad (v 1.1) | (Brandon Fridley) | (Freeware) LFW (v 1.1) | . | Windows 95 | notes | . | |
| 1.01 Editor | . | . | Link | subpad | (Xtort) | (Freeware) | (n.i.) (n.r.) | notes | . | ||
| 1.01 Editor | . | . | Link | Syn Text Editor | (Stefan Ascher) | (Donationware) (free) (open source: Mozilla Public License) | . | Windows 95; 98; NT; 2000; XP | notes | c | |
| 1.01 Editor | . | . | Tagana Notes | Tagana Innovations | (Liteware) (free) | . | notes | . | |||
| 1.01 Editor | . | . | Link | TextMorph | (Chris Long) | (Freeware) | . | notes | . | ||
| 1.01 Editor | . | . | Link | TextShield Fusion (was) TextShield 2000 | Onis Software (Jeremi Onis) | (Freeware) | . | notes | . | ||
| 1.01 Editor | . | . | Link | TheGun | (Hutch) | (Freeware) | (n.i.) (n.r.) | notes | . | ||
| 1.01 Editor | . | . | Link | Thinner | (Michael Foley) | (Freeware) | . | notes | . | ||
| 1.01 Editor | . | . | Link | Thomson-Davis Editor (TDE) | (Jason Hood) | (Freeware) (public domain) | . | notes | . | ||
| 1.01 Editor | . | . | Link | TopGun | (Hutch) | (Freeware) | (n.i.) (n.r.) | notes | . | ||
| 1.01 Editor | . | . | Link | TxEdit (v 3.2) | (Gregory Braun) | (Freeware) LFW (v 3.2) | . | Windows 95; 98; NT; ME; 2000; XP | notes | . | |
| 1.01 Editor | . | . | Link | TxtEdit (v 3.2) | (Luzius Schneider) | (Freeware) LFW (v 3.2) | . | Windows 95; 98; NT; ME; 2000; XP | notes | . | |
| 1.01 Editor | . | . | Link | UniRed | (Yury Finkel) | (Freeware) | . | notes | . | ||
| 1.01 Editor | . | . | Link | VDE | (Eric Meyer) | (Liteware) (free) | CLI | notes | . | ||
| 1.01 Editor | . | . | Link | Win32Pad | (Gennady Feldman) | (Donationware) (free) | (n.i.) (n.r.) | notes | . | ||
| 1.01 Editor | . | . | Link | WinPedit | Goldshell Digital Media Inc. | (Freeware) | . | notes | . | ||
| 1.01 Editor | . | . | Link | Winsyntax (v 2.0) | Arisesoft | (Freeware) LFW (v 2.0) | . | Windows 95; 98; NT; ME; 2000 | notes | . | |
| 1.01 Editor | . | . | Link | Xint | (Xtort) | (Freeware) (open source) | . | notes | . | ||
| 1.01 Editor | PW00 | . | XpertWord (v 3.10) | . | (Freeware) LFW (v 3.10) | . | Windows "all" | notes | . | ||
| 1.01 Editor: Code | . | . | Link | AkelPad | (Instructor) | (Freeware) (open source: BSD) | . | Windows 95; 98; NT; 2000; XP | notes | . | |
| 1.01 Editor: Code | . | . | Link | Barry's emacs | (Barry A. Scott) | (Freeware) | . | notes | . | ||
| 1.01 Editor: Code | . | . | Link | ClearEdit | (Maël Hörz) | (Freeware) | . | notes | . | ||
| 1.01 Editor: Code | . | . | Link | Code-Genie (v 3.0) | DolfySoft (Adolf Szabo) | (Freeware) LFW (v 3.0) cgenie30.ZIP 568 KB (581942 bytes) | (n.i.) | Windows 95; 98; 2000; XP | notes | . | |
| 1.01 Editor: Code | . | . | Link | CodePad | ShiCola | (Freeware) | . | notes | . | ||
| 1.01 Editor: Code | PW06 | . | Link | ConText | (Eden Kirin (original author); David Hadley) | (Donationware) (free) | . | Windows 95; 98; NT; ME; 2000; XP | notes | c | |
| 1.01 Editor: Code | . | . | Link | CPad (v 0.26A) | (Mathias Wennergren) | (Freeware) LFW (v 0.26A) | . | Windows 95; 98; NT4; ME; 2000; XP | notes | . | |
| 1.01 Editor: Code | . | . | Link | Cream | (Wolfgang Hommel) | (Freeware) (open source: GNU GPL) | . | Windows 95; 98; NT; 2000; XP | notes | . | |
| 1.01 Editor: Code | PW05 | . | Link | Crimson Editor | (Ingyu Kang) | (Freeware) (open source: GNU GPL; LGPL; other) | (n.i.) | Windows 95; 98; NT; ME; 2000; XP | notes | c | |
| 1.01 Editor: Code | . | . | Link | EditPad Classic | (Jan Goyvaerts) | (Requestware) (free) | . | notes | . | ||
| 1.01 Editor: Code | PW07 | . | Link | EditPad Lite | Just Great Software Co. Ltd. (Jan Goyvaerts) | (Liteware) (free for personal use/ some non-commercial uses) | . | Windows 98; NT4; ME; 2000; XP; Vista | notes | c | |
| 1.01 Editor: Code | . | . | Link | emacs | Free Software Foundation | (Freeware) | . | notes | c | ||
| 1.01 Editor: Code | . | . | Link | Emerald Editor (Crimson Editor) | Emerald Editor Team (Ingyu Kang (original author); project team) | (Betaware) (free) (open source: GNU GPL) | (n.i.) | Windows 2000; XP; Vista | notes | . | |
| 1.01 Editor: Code | . | . | Link | eWriter | (Gene Fowler) | (Freeware) | (n.i.) (n.r.) | notes | . | ||
| 1.01 Editor: Code | . | . | Link | GNU Emacs | (Richard M. Stallman: original author) | (Freeware) (open source: GNU GPL) | . | notes | . | ||
| 1.01 Editor: Code | PW03 | . | Link | Jedit | (Slava Pestov) | (Donationware) (free) (open source: GNU GPL) | . | Windows "all" | notes | c | |
| 1.01 Editor: Code | . | . | Link | Jext | (Romain GUY) | (Freeware) (open source: GNU GPL) | . | notes | . | ||
| 1.01 Editor: Code | . | . | Link | Kudaz | (Suzuki) | (Freeware) | . | notes | . | ||
| 1.01 Editor: Code | . | . | Link | LopeEdit | LopeSoft | (Liteware) (free) | . | notes | . | ||
| 1.01 Editor: Code | PW08 | . | Link | Notepad++ | (Don HO) | (Donationware) (free) (open source: GNU GPL) | (n.i.) | Windows 95; 98; NT; ME; 2000; XP | notes | c | |
| 1.01 Editor: Code | . | . | Link | NotesPad (v.8.0) | (Skip Bremer) | (Freeware) LFW (v.8.0) | . | .. | notes | . | |
| 1.01 Editor: Code | . | . | Link | PlainEdit | Gaijin | (Donationware) (free) | (n.i.) (n.r.) | notes | . | ||
| 1.01 Editor: Code | . | . | Link | Proton | (Ulli Meybohm) | (Freeware) (free for personal use/ some non-commercial uses) | . | notes | . | ||
| 1.01 Editor: Code | PW07 | . | Link | PSPad | (Jan Fiala) | (Donationware) (free) | (n.i.) (n.r.) | Windows 98; NT4; ME; 2000; XP | notes | c | |
| 1.01 Editor: Code | PW06 | . | Link | SciTE | (Neil Hodgson) | (Freeware) (open source: similar to Python License) | (n.i.) | Windows 95; 98; NT; ME; 2000; XP | notes | c | |
| 1.01 Editor: Code | . | . | Link | sUSHi | HushPage (Hermann Hehn) | (Freeware) | . | notes | . | ||
| 1.01 Editor: Code | PW08 | . | Link | TED Notepad | (Juraj Simlovic) | (Donationware) (free) | (n.i.) (n.r.) | Windows 95; 98; NT; ME; 2000; XP; Vista | notes | . | |
| 1.01 Editor: Code | PW03 | . | Link | vim | Vim (Bram Moolenaar) | (Requestware) (free) (open source: CharityWare (a GPL-compatible license)) | . | Windows 3x; 95; 98; NT; ME; 2000; XP | notes | c | |
| 1.01 Editor: Code | . | . | Link | WinVi | (Raphael Molle) | (Freeware) | . | notes | . | ||
| 1.01 Editor: Specialized | . | . | Link | Bifocal Notepad (v 1.0) | (Dennis Vanderspek) | (Freeware) LFW (v 1.0) | (n.i.) | Windows "all" | notes | . | |
| 1.01 Editor: Specialized | . | . | Link | Elfima Notepad | Elfima | (Freeware) | . | notes | . | ||
| 1.01 Editor: Specialized | . | . | Link | Medit | Synametrics Technologies | (Freeware) | . | notes | . | ||
| 1.01 Editor: Specialized | . | . | Link | RemotePad | Hamster Republic | (Freeware) | (n.i.) (n.r.) | notes | . | ||
| 1.01 Editor: Specialized | . | . | Link | Scintilla | (- project team) | (Freeware) (open source: similar to Python License) | . | Windows 95; 98; NT; 2000; XP | notes | . | |
| 1.01 Editor: Specialized | . | . | Link | Tkoutline | (Brian Theado) | (Freeware) (open source: GNU GPL) | . | Windows 95; 98; NT; 2000; XP | notes | . | |
| 1.01 Editor: Specialized | PW07 | . | Link | yWriter | Spacejock Software (Simon Haynes) | (Freeware) | . | Windows 95; 98; NT; ME; 2000; XP; Vista | notes | c | |
| 1.01 Editor: Word Processor | PW08 | . | Link | AbiWord | AbiSource community (SourceGear Corporation) (Dom Lachowicz) | (Donationware) (free) (open source: GNU GPL) | . | Windows NT; 2000; XP; Vista [95; 98; ME (v 2.4.6)] | notes | . | |
| 1.01 Editor: Word Processor | . | . | Link | Adept Write (v 1.0) | Penguins Online Software (Amol Lodha) | (Freeware) LFW (v 1.0) | . | Windows 95; 98; ME | notes | . | |
| 1.01 Editor: Word Processor | . | . | Link | Angel Writer | Angelic Software | (Donationware) (free) | . | Windows 95; 95l NT4; ME; 2000; XP | notes | . | |
| 1.01 Editor: Word Processor | PW07 | . | Link | Atlantis Nova | Rising Sun Solutions | (Liteware) (free) | . | Windows 95; 98; NT; ME; 2000; XP; Vista | notes | . | |
| 1.01 Editor: Word Processor | PW07 | . | Link | Crypt Edit (v 4.10) | PolySoft Solutions (Ulyanov Ilya Andreevich) | (Freeware) LFW (v 4.10) discontinued | . | Windows 95; 98; NT; 2000 | notes | . | |
| 1.01 Editor: Word Processor | . | . | Link | CWordPad | Cetus Software | (Freeware) LFW (1999) | . | notes | . | ||
| 1.01 Editor: Word Processor | . | . | Link | Delphad | HushPage (Hermann Hehn) | (Freeware) | . | notes | . | ||
| 1.01 Editor: Word Processor | . | . | Link | Desktop Writer (v 2.2) | DC Software (Daniel Carey) | (Freeware) LFW (v 2.2) for novices and children | . | .. | notes | . | |
| 1.01 Editor: Word Processor | . | . | Link | FreeText | Kudlian Soft | (Freeware) | . | notes | . | ||
| 1.01 Editor: Word Processor | . | . | Link | Hieroglyph | (Michael Morozov) | (Freeware) | (n.i.) | notes | . | ||
| 1.01 Editor: Word Processor | . | . | Link | Jarte | Carolina Road Software | (Liteware) (free) | . | notes | . | ||
| 1.01 Editor: Word Processor | . | . | Link | JWPce | (Glenn Rosenthal) | (Freeware) (open source: GNU GPL) | . | notes | . | ||
| 1.01 Editor: Word Processor | . | . | Link | QJot | (Xtort) | (Freeware) | . | notes | . | ||
| 1.01 Editor: Word Processor | . | . | Link | RoughDraft | (Richard Salsbury) | (Freeware) | . | Windows 95; 98; NT; ME; 2000; XP | notes | c | |
| 1.01 Editor: Word Processor | . | . | Link | Steno Pad 2 (STENOPAD) | (Stefan Kloppenborg) | (Freeware) | . | notes | . | ||
| 1.01 Editor: Word Processor | . | . | Link | WMAGIC | MagicSoft (Kenneth Adams SMI) | (Freeware) | . | notes | . | ||
| 1.01 Editor: Word Processor | PW02 | . | Link | WordTabs (v 3.30) | (Skip Bremer) | (Freeware) LFW (v 3.30) discontinued | (n.i.) | Windows 98; NT4; 2000 | notes | . | |
| 1.01 Editor: Word Processor | PW00 | NR | xxx | WordWright | Lextek Internationa | (Spyware) (free) | . | notes | . | ||
| 1.01 Editor: Word Processor | . | . | Link | Yeah Write | Word Place Inc. | (Liteware) (free) | . | notes | . | ||
| 1.02 Bibliography | . | . | Link | Academic Citation Style Guide (v 1.0) | Angel Enterprises (Richard Finnegan) | (Freeware) (v 1.0) (astylev1.zip) | . | Windows 95; 98; ME | notes | . | |
| 1.02 Bibliography | . | . | Link | Bibibamos | (Christian Schiestl) | (Freeware) note: German language site | . | notes | . | ||
| 1.02 Bibliography | . | . | Link | Bibliographix | Bibliographix GbR | (Liteware) (free) | . | Windows 2000; XP | notes | . | |
| 1.02 Bibliography | . | . | Link | MLA Auto-Generator | MLA Auto-Generator team | (Donationware) (free) (open source: GNU GPL) | . | Windows 95; 98; NT; 2000; XP | notes | . | |
| 1.02 Bibliography | . | . | Link | Scribe | (Elena Razlogova) | (Freeware) | . | notes | . | ||
| 1.02 Text Stats | . | . | Link | Advanced Frequency Counter | (Gregory Conti) | (Freeware) | . | notes | . | ||
| 1.02 Text Stats | . | . | Link | Doc Stats (v 3.4) | (Lit Sprout) | (Freeware) (open source: GNU GPL) LFW (v 3.4) docstats.zip | . | Windows 95; 98; ME; 2000; XP | notes | . | |
| 1.02 Text Stats | . | . | Link | Frequency Counter | (Gregory Conti) | (Freeware) | . | notes | . | ||
| 1.02 Text Stats | . | . | Link | Text Information (TI) (v 1.2) | (Quentin J. Christensen) | (Freeware) LFW (v 1.2) ti12.zip | CLI | notes | . | ||
| 1.02 Text Stats | . | . | Link | Text Tally (TextTally) | Harmony Hollow Software | (Freeware) | . | notes | . | ||
| 1.02 Text Stats | . | . | Link | TextAnalyzer | SoftComplete Development | (Freeware) | . | notes | . | ||
| 1.02 Text Stats | . | . | Link | TextStat | (Lionel P. Allorge) | (Freeware) (open source) | . | notes | . | ||
| 1.02 Text Stats | . | . | Link | TextSTAT (2) | (Matthias Hüning) | (Freeware) (open source) | (n.i.) (n.r.) | notes | . | ||
| 1.02 Text Stats | . | . | Link | Word Count | TawbaWare | (Freeware) | CLI | notes | . | ||
| 1.02 Text Stats | . | . | Wurdz | (Hal Brown) | (Freeware) | (n.i.) | notes | . | |||
| 1.03 Text Tool | . | . | Link | cAPSDown | MasTRE Consulting Inc. (Duke Ionescu) | (Freeware) | . | Windows 95; 98; ME | notes | . | |
| 1.03 Text Tool | . | . | Link | CaseIt Plus | seclar (Steve Clark) | (Freeware) | . | notes | . | ||
| 1.03 Text Tool | . | . | Link | CharCount | BPSoftware.com | (Freeware) | . | Windows 98; 2000; XP | notes | . | |
| 1.03 Text Tool | . | . | Link | Columnizer | Gulf Coastal Software | (Freeware) | . | notes | . | ||
| 1.03 Text Tool | . | . | Filter | (Bob Ferguson) | (Freeware) (public domain) | CLI | notes | . | |||
| 1.03 Text Tool | . | . | Link | gbText | (Gary L. Beene) | (Freeware) | . | notes | . | ||
| 1.03 Text Tool | . | . | Link | InterParse | (CPTKRF MMV) | (Freeware) | (n.i.) | notes | . | ||
| 1.03 Text Tool | . | . | Link | List Alphabetizer | Vasilios Freeware (Vasilis Stamatopoulos) | (Donationware) (free) | . | notes | . | ||
| 1.03 Text Tool | . | . | Link | ListSorter | Pawsoft (Paul Wolfenden) | (Betaware) (Donationware) (free) | . | notes | . | ||
| 1.03 Text Tool | . | . | Link | RLSort | (Francis Britto) | (Freeware) | (n.i.) | Windows 95: 98: 2000 | notes | . | |
| 1.03 Text Tool | . | . | RPSORT (v 1.02) | (Robert Pirko) | (Freeware) LFW (v 1.03) best version (v 1.02) | CLI | n/a | notes | . | ||
| 1.03 Text Tool | . | . | Link | StoryMaster | (Jimmy Scott) | (Freeware) | (n.i.) (n.r.) | notes | . | ||
| 1.03 Text Tool | . | . | Link | Text Magician | (David Pye) | (Freeware) | . | notes | . | ||
| 1.03 Text Tool | . | . | Link | Transcript | (Jacob Boerema) | (Freeware) (free for personal use) | . | notes | . | ||
| 1.03 Text Tool | . | . | Link | Unduplicate | (Adrian Carter) | (Freeware) | . | Windows 95; 98; NT; 2000; XP | notes | . | |
| 1.03 Text Tool | PW08 | . | Link | UnxUtils | (Karl M. Syring) | (Freeware) (open source: GNU GPL) | . | Windows 95; 98; NT; ME; 2000; XP | notes | . | |
| 1.03 Text Tool | . | . | Link | WCNT (v 1.20) | (Branko Radovanovic) | (Donationware) (free) LFW (v 1.20) | CLI | notes | . | ||
| 1.03 Text Tool: Email Stripper | . | . | Link | Cleaner | SoftLab MIL-TEC Ltd | (Freeware) | (n.i.) | notes | . | ||
| 1.03 Text Tool: Email Stripper | PW06 | . | Link | eCleaner (v 2.02) | (Steve Chin) | (Freeware) LFW (v. 2.02) discontinued | . | Windows 95; 98; NT; ME; 2000 | notes | . | |
| 1.03 Text Tool: Email Stripper | . | . | Link | emailStripper | PaperCut Software Pty Ltd (was Oscura) | (Freeware) note: puts ad at the bottom of cleaned text | (n.i.) | notes | . | ||
| 1.03 Text Tool: Email Stripper | . | . | Link | StripEm | Camtech 2000 (Jerry Campbell) | (Freeware) | . | notes | . | ||
| 1.03 Text Tool: Email Stripper | . | . | Link | StripMail | Datasoft Ltd. | (Freeware) | . | notes | . | ||
| 1.03 Text Tool: Strip Formatting | . | . | Link | ClipText | (Ian W. Fieggen) | (Freeware) | (n.i.) | notes | . | ||
| 1.03 Text Tool: Strip Formatting | . | . | Link | HovText | The Hovgaard Klan | (Freeware) (open source) | (n.i.) | notes | . | ||
| 1.03 Text Tool: Strip Formatting | . | . | Link | PureText | (Steve P. Miller) | (Freeware) | (n.i.) | notes | . | ||
| 1.03 Text Tool: Strip Formatting | . | . | Link | RemoveClipboardFormatting | (Lennert Ploeger) | (Freeware) | . | notes | . | ||
| 1.04 Duplicate Line Remover | . | . | Link | SlimList | FlashPeak Inc. | (Freeware) | . | notes | . | ||
| 1.04 Duplicate String Remover | . | . | Link | Duplicate String Remover | Xequte Software (Nigel Cross) | (Freeware) | . | notes | . | ||
| 1.04 String Modifier: Remover | . | . | Link | Text File Line Stripper | Lexacorp | (Freeware) | (n.i.) | notes | . | ||
| 1.05 Compare Text In Files | . | . | Link | AptDiff | Brother Technology Inc. (David Cheng) | (Freeware) | (n.i.) | Windows 2000; XP; Vista; Windows Server 2003 | notes | . | |
| 1.05 Compare Text In Files | . | . | Link | ASCIIDiff File Compare Utility | (Adrian Carter) | (Freeware) | (n.i.) (n.r.) | Windows 95; 98; NT; 2000; XP | notes | . | |
| 1.05 Compare Text In Files | . | . | Link | ComponentSoftware Diff (CSDiff) | ComponentSoftware; Inc | (Freeware) | . | notes | . | ||
| 1.05 Compare Text In Files | . | . | Link | Dupli Find (v 1.4) | RL Vision (Dan Saeden) | (Freeware) LFW (v 1.4) | . | Windows 95; 98; NT4; ME; 2000 | notes | . | |
| 1.05 Compare Text In Files | PW08 | . | Link | ExamDiff | PrestoSoft | (Liteware) (free) | (n.i.) | Windows 95; 98; NT; ME; 2000; XP; Vista; Windows Server 2003 | notes | . | |
| 1.05 Compare Text In Files | . | . | Link | FCU (v 1.2) | (Gerhard Herbert) | (Freeware) LFW (v 1.2)? | . | .. | notes | . | |
| 1.05 Compare Text In Files | . | . | Link | KDiff3 | (Joachim Eibl) | (Freeware) (open source: GNU GPL) | . | Windows 95; 98; NT; 2000; XP | notes | . | |
| 1.05 Compare Text In Files | PW06 | . | Link | TextDiff (TDiff) | (Angus Johnson) | (Freeware) (open source) | . | Windows "all" | notes | . | |
| 1.05 Compare Text In Files | PW08 | . | Link | WinMerge | (- project team) | (Donationware) (free) (open source: GNU GPL) | (n.i.) (n.r.) | Windows 95; 98; NT; ME; 2000; XP; Vista | notes | . | |
| 1.05 Compare Text In Files: Web pages | . | . | Link | WCopyfind | (Lou Bloomfield) | (Freeware) | . | notes | . | ||
| 1.08 Extract Text | . | . | Link | Bintext (v 3.0) | Foundstone (a division of McAfee) (Robin Keir) | (Freeware) LFW (v 3.0) | (n.i.) | notes | . | ||
| 1.08 Extract Text | . | . | Link | BinToAscii | (Guillaume Dargaud) | (Freeware) | . | notes | . | ||
| 1.08 Extract Text | PW01 | . | Textextract | (Simon Kewin) | (Liteware) (free) | . | notes | . | |||
| 1.08 Extract Text | . | . | TextHarvest (v 3.1.0) | Pinnacle Software | (Freeware) LFW (v 3.1.0) | (n.r.) | Windows 95; 98; NT; ME; 2000; XP | notes | . | ||
| 1.09 Copy Text (Difficult Windows) | . | . | Link | CopyMessageBox (was) CopyMsgBoxText | thyanté Software (M.-M. Christen) | (Donationware) (free) | . | notes | . | ||
| 1.09 Copy Text (Difficult Windows) | . | . | Link | CopyText | (Victor Sapojnikov) | (Freeware) | (n.i.) | notes | . | ||
| 1.09 Copy Text (Difficult Windows) | . | . | Link | Count Characters | Funduc Software | (Freeware) | . | notes | . | ||
| 1.09 Copy Text (Difficult Windows) | . | $W | xxx | Scraper (scraper.zip) | PC Mag | was (Registerware) (free) | . | notes | . | ||
| 1.09 Copy Text (Difficult Windows) | . | . | Link | ShoWin (v 2.0) | Foundstone (a division of McAfee) (Robin Keir) | (Freeware) LFW (v 2.0) | . | notes | . | ||
| 1.09 Copy Text (Difficult Windows) | . | . | Link | SysExporter | NirSoft (Nir Sofer) | (Freeware) (free for personal use/ non-commercial use) | (n.i.) | Windows 98; NT4; ME; 2000; XP; Vista; Windows Server 2003 | notes | . | |
| 1.09 Copy Text (Difficult Windows) | . | . | Link | TextGrabber | (Eric VanHeest) | (Freeware) | . | notes | . | ||
| 1.09 Copy Text (Difficult Windows) | . | . | Link | Textractor | Resplendence Software Projects Sp. | (Freeware) | . | notes | . | ||
| 1.09 Copy Text (Difficult Windows) | . | . | Link | WinScraper (Pete's Window Tool) | (Peter Boulton) | (Freeware) | . | notes | . | ||
| 2.01 Convert: OCR | . | . | Link | FreeOCR.net (FreeOCR) | Softi Software | (Freeware) | NET | notes | . | ||
| 2.01 Convert: OCR | . | . | Link | GOCR (JOCR) | (Joerg Schulenburg (lead developer)) | (Freeware) (open source: GNU GPL) | . | n/a | notes | . | |
| 2.01 Convert: OCR | . | . | Link | InftyReader | InftyProject | (Freeware) (free for personal use/ non-commercial uses) | CLI | notes | . | ||
| 2.01 Convert: OCR | . | . | Link | JOCR | EverRex Software (Woo Sik Jung) | (Freeware) requires Microsoft Office 2003 or higher | . | notes | . | ||
| 2.01 Convert: OCR | PW04 | . | Link | SimpleOCR | (Cyril Cambien (original author)) | (Freeware) (free for personal use/ non-commercial uses) | . | Windows 95; 98; NT4; ME; 2000; XP | notes | . | |
| 2.01 Convert: OCR | . | . | Link | Tesseract OCR | (- project team) | (Freeware) (open source: Apache license) | . | notes | . | ||
| 2.01 Convert: OCR | . | . | Link | TopOCR | TopSoft Ltd. | (Freeware) | . | notes | . | ||
| 2.01 Convert: OCR | PW01 | . | Link | Wocar | (Cyril Cambien) | (Freeware) | . | notes | . | ||
| 2.02 Convert MS-Word To ASCII or Postscript | . | . | Link | Antiword | (Adri van Os; Markus Ueberall) | (Freeware) (open source: GNU GPL) | . | notes | . | ||
| 2.02 Convert PDF To Text | . | . | Link | Cool PDF Reader | CoolPDF Software Inc. (Jeffrey Beery) | (Freeware) | (n.i.) | notes | . | ||
| 2.02 Convert PDF To Text | PW03 | . | Link | PDF2TXT | (Dirk Schouten) | (Freeware) | . | notes | . | ||
| 2.02 Convert PDF To Text | . | . | Link | XPDF | Glyph & Cog LLC (Derek Noonburg) | (Freeware) (open source: GNU GPL) | . | notes | . | ||
| 2.02 Convert Text To PDF | . | . | Link | AcroPAD | Dreamscape | (Freeware) | (n.i.) (n.r.) | notes | . | ||
| 2.02 Convert Text To PDF | . | . | Link | AcroPDF (v 1) | AcroPDF Systems Inc. | (Freeware) LFW (v 1) | . | Windows 95; 98; NT4; ME; 2000; XP | notes | . | |
| 2.02 Convert Text To PDF | PW04 | . | Link | CutePDF Writer (was) CutePDF Printer | Acro Software | (Liteware) (free) note: the CutePDF Writer Companion is Adware | . | Windows 98; ME; 2000; XP | notes | . | |
| 2.02 Convert Text To PDF | . | . | Link | doPDF (doPDF free PDF converter) | Softland (Softland team) | (Liteware) (free) note: $ware is novaPDF | . | Windows 2000; XP; Vista; Windows Server 2003 | notes | . | |
| 2.02 Convert Text To PDF | . | . | Link | FreeDist | (Stephan van der Palen) | (Freeware) | . | notes | . | ||
| 2.02 Convert Text To PDF | PW08 | . | Link | GhostScript | artofcode LLC and Artifex Software (originally written by Aladdin Enterprises) | (Freeware) (open source: AFPL or GNU GPL) | . | Windows 95; 98; NT; ME; 2000; XP; Vista | notes | . | |
| 2.02 Convert Text To PDF | PW01 | . | Link | Ghostscript (Aladdin Ghostscript) (v 6.01) | Aladdin Enterprises | (Freeware) (open source) LFW (v 6.01) | . | .. | notes | . | |
| 2.02 Convert Text To PDF | PW04 | . | Link | GhostScript and GSView (GhostView) | artofcode LLC and Artifex Software (originally written by Aladdin Enterprises) (Ghostscript) (Russell Lang at Ghostgum Software Pty Ltd http://www.ghostgum.com.au/ (GSView)) | (Freeware) (open source: AFPL or GNU GPL) (GSView is Nagware) | . | Windows 95; 98; NT; ME; 2000; XP | notes | . | |
| 2.02 Convert Text To PDF | . | . | Link | Go2PDF | Wondersoft | (Freeware) | . | notes | . | ||
| 2.02 Convert Text To PDF | . | . | Link | Gymnast | Oakworth Business Publishing Ltd. | (Freeware) was $ware (Registration key GYM03-35672-11110-33170) discontinued | . | notes | . | ||
| 2.02 Convert Text To PDF | PW03 | . | Link | MakePDF | Lexacorp | (Freeware) | . | Windows "all" | notes | . | |
| 2.02 Convert Text To PDF | . | . | Link | novaPDF (novaPDF Printer) | Softland | (Liteware: places text at the end each page) (free) | . | notes | . | ||
| 2.02 Convert Text To PDF | . | . | Link | PDF4Free | PDF Bean Inc. | (Liteware: places text at the end each page) (free) | . | notes | . | ||
| 2.02 Convert Text To PDF | . | . | Link | Pdf995 | Software995 | (Adware) (free) | . | notes | . | ||
| 2.02 Convert Text To PDF | . | . | Link | PdfEdit995 | Software995 | (Adware) (free) | . | notes | c | ||
| 2.02 Convert Text To PDF | . | . | PDFproducer | (Paras Chopra) | (Donationware) (free) | (n.i.) (n.r.) | notes | . | |||
| 2.02 Convert Text To PDF | . | . | Link | PrimoPDF | activePDF Inc. (Tim Sullivan) | (Liteware) (free) | . | Windows 95; 98; NT; ME; 2000; XP | notes | c | |
| 2.02 Convert Text To PDF | . | . | Link | Redmon | Ghostgum Software Pty Ltd. (Russel Lang) | (Freeware) (open source: RedMon Free Public Licence) | . | Windows 95; 98; NT4; 2000; XP | notes | . | |
| 2.02 Convert Text To PDF | . | . | Link | TinyPDF | Real Software Solutions Inc. | (Freeware) | . | notes | . | ||
| 2.02 Convert Text To PDF | . | . | Link | Tomahawk PDF+ | Native Winds (Jack D. Lewis) | (Donationware) (Liteware) (free for personal use/ some non-commercial uses) | (n.i.) (n.r.) | notes | . | ||
| 2.02 Convert Text To PDF | . | . | Link | UltraPDF | Software995 | (Adware) (free) | . | notes | . | ||
| 2.02 Convert Text To PDF (and images) | PW07 | . | Link | FreePDF and FreePDF XP | (Stefan Heinz) | (Donationware) (free) | . | Windows 95; 98; NT; ME; 2000; XP; Windows Server 2003 | notes | . | |
| 2.02 Convert Text To PDF (and images) | PW08 | . | Link | PDFCreator | Sector7g | (Donationwareware) (free) (open source: GNU GPL) optional toolbar (Spyware) | . | Windows 95; 98; NT; 2000; XP | notes | . | |
| 2.02 Convert Text To PDF (OpenOFfice.org Add-on) | . | . | Link | extendedPDF | (Martin Brown) | (Freeware) (open source: GNU GPL) | . | notes | . | ||
| 2.02 PDF Tool | . | . | Link | A-PDF Number | A-PDF.com | (Donationware) (free) | . | Windows 98; 2000; XP; Windows Server 2003 | notes | . | |
| 2.02 PDF Tool | . | . | Link | Addin PDF Favorites (Addin Favorites) (v 1.0.0.6) | PDFSoftware | (Freeware) LFW (v 1.0.0.6) | . | Windows 95; 98; NT; ME; 2000; XP | notes | . | |
| 2.02 PDF Tool | PW05 | . | Link | Adobe Reader SpeedUp | TNK-BootBlock.co.uk (BootBlock (Joseph Cox)) | (Donationware) (free) | . | Windows 95; 98; NT; ME; 2000; XP | notes | . | |
| 2.02 PDF Tool | . | . | Link | Adolix Split and Merge PDF (Adolix Split & Merge PDF) | Adolix | (Donationware) (free) | . | Windows 95; 98; NT4; ME; 2000; XP | notes | . | |
| 2.02 PDF Tool | . | . | Link | BeCyPDFMetaEdit | (Benjamin Bentmann) | (Donationware) (free) | (n.i.) | notes | . | ||
| 2.02 PDF Tool | . | . | Link | BullZip PDF Printer | BullZip.com | (Donationware) (free for personal use/ some non-commercial uses) | . | Windows 2000; XP; Vista; Windows Server 2003 | notes | . | |
| 2.02 PDF Tool | . | . | Link | Gios PDF Splitter And Merger | (Paolo Gios) | (Freeware) (open source: ) | NET | notes | . | ||
| 2.02 PDF Tool | . | . | Link | GUI for PDFTK | (Dirk Paehl) | (Freeware) (open source: GNU GPL) | . | notes | . | ||
| 2.02 PDF Tool | . | . | Link | mbtPdfAsm | (Thierry Schmit) | (Freeware) | . | notes | . | ||
| 2.02 PDF Tool | . | . | Link | PDF Blender | spaceblue | (Freeware) (open source) | . | notes | . | ||
| 2.02 PDF Tool | . | . | Link | PDF Image Extraction Wizard (v 1.2) | RL Vision | (Donationware) (free) LFW (v 1.2) | . | Windows 95; 98; NT4; ME; 2000; XP; Windows Server 2003 | notes | . | |
| 2.02 PDF Tool | . | . | Link | PDF Meld | FyTek Inc. | (Liteware) (free) (places text in the footer of each page) | . | notes | . | ||
| 2.02 PDF Tool | . | . | Link | PDF Reader (v 2.2.6) | CAD-KAS Software | (Freeware) LFW (v 2.2.6) later version adds a watermark | . | .. | notes | . | |
| 2.02 PDF Tool | . | . | Link | PDF SpeedUp | AcroPDF Systems Inc. | (Freeware) | . | notes | . | ||
| 2.02 PDF Tool | . | . | Link | PDF2EXE | CoolPDF Software Inc. (Jeffrey Beery) | (Freeware) | . | notes | . | ||
| 2.02 PDF Tool | . | . | Link | PDFill PDF Tools | PlotSoft L.L.C. | (Freeware) bundled with Trialware | . | notes | . | ||
| 2.02 PDF Tool | PW06 | . | Link | Pdftk - the PDF Toolkit | (Sid Steward) | (Donationware) (free) (open source: GNU GPL) | CLI | Windows 95; 98; NT; ME; 2000; XP | notes | . | |
| 2.02 PDF Tool | . | . | Link | PDFTK Builder | (Angus Johnson) | (Freeware) GUI for Pdftk - the PDF Toolkit | . | notes | . | ||
| 2.02 PDF Tool | . | . | Link | STG PDFInfoTip | Starglider Systems (Luiz Marques) | (Freeware) | . | notes | . | ||
| 2.02 PDF Viewer | . | . | Link | Adobe Acrobat eBook Reader (v 2.2) | Adobe Systems Inc. | (Freeware) LFW (v 2.2) | . | Windows 98; NT; ME; 2000; XP | notes | c | |
| 2.02 PDF Viewer | . | . | Link | Brava! Reader | Informative Graphics Corp. | (Trialware)? | . | notes | . | ||
| 2.02 PDF Viewer | . | . | Link | eXPert PDF Reader | Visagesoft (Nick Ameladiotis) | (Freeware) self-advertisment in menu bar | . | Windows 98; ME; NT; 2000; XP; Windows Server 2003 | notes | . | |
| 2.02 PDF Viewer | PW08 | . | Link | Foxit Reader (was) Foxit PDF Reader | Foxit Software Company | (Liteware) (free for personal use/ non-commercial use) | (n.i.) | notes | . | ||
| 2.02 PDF Viewer | PW08 | . | Link | PDF-XChange Viewer | Tracker Software Products (John Verbeeten) | (Liteware) (free) | (n.i.) | Windows 2000; XP; Vista | notes | . | |
| 2.02 PDF Viewer | . | . | Link | Sumatra PDF | (Krzysztof Kowalczyk) | (Freeware) (open source: ) | (n.i.) (n.r.) | notes | . | ||
| 2.02 PDF Viewer (old versions) | . | . | Link | Adobe Acrobat Reader | Adobe Systems Inc. | (Freeware) | . | notes | c | ||
| 2.03 Convert: HTML To Formatted Text | PW03 | . | Link | HTMLDOC (v 1.8.23) | Easy Software Products | (Liteware) (open source: GNU GPL) LFW (v 1.8.23) last free Windows version | . | Windows 95; 98; NT4; ME; 2000; XP | notes | . | |
| 2.03 Convert: HTML To Text | . | . | Link | html2ps | Silicon Graphics Inc. | (Freeware) | . | notes | . | ||
| 2.03 Convert: HTML To Text | . | . | Link | HTMLAsText | NirSoft (Nir Sofer) | (Freeware) (free for personal use/ non-commercial use) | (n.i.) | Windows 95; 98; NT4; ME; 2000; XP | notes | . | |
| 2.03 Convert: HTML To Text | . | . | Link | KILL<HTML> | protonFX (Dirk T. Manders) | (Freeware) | . | notes | . | ||
| 2.03 Convert: HTML To Text | PW04 | . | Web2Text | Stupendous Software | (Freeware) | . | Windows 3x; 95; 98; NT | notes | . | ||
| 2.03 Convert: HTML To Text And Tables | . | . | Link | HTML2Table | (Stefan Pettersson) | (Donationware) (free) | . | notes | . | ||
| 2.03 Convert: HTML To Text And Tables | PW07 | . | Link | HTMStrip | Wayne Software (Bruce Guthrie) | (Freeware) | . | notes | . | ||
| 2.03 HTML Viewer: Converter | . | . | Link | ViewHTML | (Kevin Solway) | (Freeware) | . | notes | . | ||
| 3.01 Highlighter | . | . | Link | HandyFind | (Edwin Evans) | (Donationware) (free) | . | notes | . | ||
| 3.01 Highlighter | . | . | Link | Hilitext (v 1.1) | Fanix Software | (Freeware) LFW (v 1.1) | . | Windows 95; 98; NT; ME; 2000; XP | notes | . | |
| 3.01 Highlighter | . | . | Link | Line Marker | (Shimoda Hiroshi (Piro)) | (Freeware) (open source: Mozilla Public License) | . | notes | . | ||
| 3.01 Highlighter | . | $W | xxx | Web Highlighter (webhigh.zip) | PC Mag | was (Registerware) (free) | . | notes | . | ||
| 3.01 Text Tool: Reading | . | . | Link | DataScroller (v 1.22) | KyWorks Software (Konstantin Kolobov) | (Freeware) LFW (v 1.22) | . | Windows 95; 98; NT; ME; 2000; XP | notes | . | |
| 3.01 Text Tool: Reading | . | . | Scroller (v 1.0) | Ziff-Davis (Gregory A. Wolking) | (Freeware) LFW (v 1.0) | (n.i.) | Windows 95; NT | notes | . | ||
| 3.01 Text Tool: Reading | . | $W | xxx | Text Ticker | Slashback Software | was (Freeware) | . | notes | . | ||
| 3.01 Text Tool: Reading | . | . | Link | TitleScroller | hunterdavis.com (Hunter Davis) | (Freeware) | . | notes | . | ||
| 3.01 Text Tool: Teleprompter | . | . | Link | Prompt! (Prompt! teleprompter) | movieclip.biz (Robert Johnson) | (Litrware) (free) | . | notes | . | ||
| 3.01 Text Tool: Teleprompter | . | . | Link | TeleKast | (Greg Marine) | (Betaware) (Freeware) (open source: GNU GPL; MPL 1.1) | . | notes | . | ||
| 5.01 Comics: Organizer | PW01 | . | Link | Comics Organizer | Maxximum Software (Mads Villadsen) | (Freeware) | . | notes | . | ||
| 5.01 Comics: Viewer | . | . | Link | CDisplay Comic Reader (CDisplay Sequential Image Viewer) | (davidayton) | (Freeware) | . | notes | . | ||
| 5.01 Comics: Viewer | . | . | Link | ComicsViewer | (Jian MA) | (Freeware) (free for personal use/ non-commercial use) | (n.i.) | notes | . | ||
| 5.02 Ebooks: Audio Books | . | . | Link | ABC Amber LIT Converter | ProcessText Group | (Freeware) | . | notes | . | ||
| 5.02 Ebooks: Audio Books | . | . | Link | AudiobookCutter | (MelineSeibold) | (Freeware) (open source: GNU GPL) | . | Windows 95; 98; NT; 2000; XP | notes | . | |
| 5.02 Ebooks: Audio Books | . | . | Link | BookReader | Rudenko Software (Mykola Rudenko) | (Freeware) | . | notes | . | ||
| 5.02 Ebooks: Audio Books | . | . | Link | BoxBuilder | (Jan Verhoeven) | (Freeware) | . | notes | . | ||
| 5.02 Ebooks: Audio Books | . | . | Link | calibre | (Kovid Goyal) | (Donationware) (free) (open source: GNU GPL) | . | Windows XP; Vista | notes | . | |
| 5.02 Ebooks: Audio Books | . | . | Link | Convert LIT (clit) | Digital Rights Software | (Freeware) (open source: GNU GPL) | CLI | notes | . | ||
| 5.02 Ebooks: Audio Books | . | . | Link | ConvertLIT GUI | (DukeLupus) | (Freeware) (open source: GNU GPL) | . | notes | . | ||
| 5.02 Ebooks: Audio Books | PW02 | . | Link | E-Text Viewer | (Julie Brazier) | (Freeware) | . | notes | . | ||
| 5.02 Ebooks: Audio Books | . | NR | xxx | EBook Builder | Blaiz Enterprises | (Freeware) | . | notes | c | ||
| 5.02 Ebooks: Audio Books | . | . | Link | exe-eBook Creator | Freebyte.com (Henk Hagedoorn) | (Freeware) | . | notes | . | ||
| 5.02 Ebooks: Audio Books | . | . | Link | FBReader | (Nikolay Pultsin) | (Freeware) (open source: GNU GPL) | . | Windows XP; Vista | notes | . | |
| 5.02 Ebooks: Audio Books | . | . | Link | Gutenbrowser (was) kgutenbook | (llornkcor rocknroll) | (Freeware) (open source: GNU GPL) | . | Windows 95; 98; NT; 2000; XP | notes | . | |
| 5.02 Ebooks: Audio Books | . | . | Link | Microsoft Reader | Microsoft | (Freeware) | . | notes | . | ||
| 5.02 Ebooks: Audio Books | . | . | Natata eBook Compiler Free | NATATA Software | (Crippleware) (free) v 2.1 (earlier version of $ware app) Compile files limit 50 | . | notes | . | |||
| 5.02 Ebooks: Audio Books | . | . | Link | SbookBuilder | (Jan Verhoeven) | (Freeware) | . | notes | . | ||
| 5.02 Ebooks: Audio Books | . | . | Link | Sophie | Fourth World Media Corporation and rivertext | (Freeware) | . | notes | . | ||
| 5.02 Ebooks: Audio Books | . | . | Link | TextReader | (Chris Hoopes) | (Freeware) | . | notes | . | ||
| 5.02 Ebooks: Audio Books | . | . | Link | Tom's eTextReader | FellnerSoft (Thomas Fellner) | (Freeware) | (n.i.) | notes | . | ||
| 5.02 Ebooks: Audio Books | . | . | Link | WebSiteZip Packer | Spadix Software | (Freeware) | . | notes | . | ||
| 5.02 Ebooks: Audio Books | . | . | Link | yBook | Spacejock Software (Simon Haynes) | (Freeware) | . | notes | . | ||
| 5.02 Ebooks: Audio Books | . | . | Link | µBook (v 0.80) | GowerPoint.com | (Donationware) (free) LFW (v 0.80) | (n.i.) | Windows 95+ | notes | . | |
| 5.02 Ebooks: Audio Books: iPod Tool | . | . | Link | WordPod | (Adam Bull) | (Freeware) (open source: GNU GPL) | . | notes | . | ||
| 5.04 Convert Text To Speech | . | . | Link | Balabolka | LexIMoSoft (Ilya Morozov) | (Freeware) | . | Windows 98; NT; ME; 2000; XP; Vista; Windows Server 2003 | notes | . | |
| 5.04 Convert Text To Speech | . | . | British Female | Lernout & Hauspie | (Freeware) | . | notes | . | |||
| 5.04 Convert Text To Speech | . | . | Link | CyberBuddy | (JM DeFino) | (Liteware) (free) | . | notes | . | ||
| 5.04 Convert Text To Speech | . | . | Link | DeskBot | BellCraft Technologies (Gordon Scott Bell) | (Freeware) | . | notes | . | ||
| 5.04 Convert Text To Speech | . | . | E-Text Reader (E Text Reader) (v 2.4) | Premier Assistive Technology | (Freeware) LFW (v 2.4) includes microsoft voices | . | Windows 98; NT; ME; 2000; XP | notes | . | ||
| 5.04 Convert Text To Speech | . | . | Link | HelpRead | HELPRead | (Freeware) | . | notes | . | ||
| 5.04 Convert Text To Speech | PW03 | . | Link | ReadPlease | ReadPlease Corporation | (Liteware) (free) | . | Windows 95; 98; NT; ME; 2000; XP | notes | . | |
| 5.04 Convert Text To Speech | . | . | Link | SayIt | (Analog X) | (Freeware) | . | Windows "all" | notes | . | |
| 5.04 Convert Text To Speech | . | . | Link | SayPad | InspiredCode (Robison Bryan ) | (Freeware) | . | notes | . | ||
| 5.04 Convert Text To Speech | . | . | Link | Sayz Me | The Data Furnace Pty Ltd. (Cass Fishbourne) | (Donationware) (free) (open source: BSD) | . | Windows 95; 98; NT; 2000; XP | notes | . | |
| 5.04 Convert Text To Speech | PW05 | . | Link | Speakonia | CFS-Technologies | (Freeware) (Registerware: name: email) | . | Windows 95; 98; ME; 2000; XP | notes | . | |
| 5.04 Convert Text To Speech | . | . | Link | Yacker | (Todd O. Whitmore) | (Freeware) LFW (Yacker.zip) | . | notes | . | ||
| 5.04 Convert Text To Speech; audio files | . | . | Link | DSpeech | (Dimitrios Coutsoumbas (Dimio)) | (Donationware) (free) | (n.i.) (n.r.) | notes | . | ||
| 5.04 Convert Text To Speech; audio files | . | . | Link | TextRecorder | Spare Time Gizmos | (Freeware) | . | notes | . |
Notes and abbreviations:
These pages include some of the programs have been mentioned in ACF posts. Several thousand programs are listed. Minor differences in spelling, hyphenation etc. sometimes have a large affect on the alphabetical location. Use "find" or the Google search box to locate programs quickly.
Pricelessware programs past and present are listed. The PW column shows the most recent year a program was selected for the Pricelessware List. An x following the PL year indicates a program was removed during the year (most commonly because it became $ware).
Column I shows installation and interface information:
n.i. = no install,
n.r. = no registry entries,
CLI = Command Line Interface
Column W notes ware status changes:
LFW = last freeware version (the program has been abandoned or discontinued or become $ware).
$W = no longer freeware (no last freeware version available).
NR = NOT RECOMMENDED (search Google's archive of ACF posts for more information)
Notes column: The notes pages are in ACF's wiki. Links are provided for all programs to facilitate creation of the pages. If a notes page exists it will be shown when you click on the link. If you click a link to a non-existent page the wiki assumes you want to create/edit that page and you will see a login message. (Any ACF participant can create/edit the notes pages. Post a question in the newsgroup if you need how-to information.)
