china-apps

We build this list because it is a fact that IT industry in China is completely mess. But for this exactly, excellent apps are more precious.

• All apps listed here can be still visiable after ([ ] is the category)

[Audio]

listen1

One for all free music in china (Windows, Mac, Linux desktop).

Mcool

An extremely brief audio player that supports GIF background

TTKMusicplayer

Official Site｜Download Page

A music player based on Qt that imitates Kugou music.

[Customization]

Huoying Video Desktop

Use .mp4/.wmv videos as your desktop background with amazingly low CPU usage.

upupoo

Set videos as desktop background with online base.

[Dev Tools]

HBuilder

All-in-one Web front end development suit.

[Downloader]

hardseed

Official Site｜Download Page

A spider aimed to 1024 to download .torrent files

⚠️MINORS SHOULD USE THIS UNDER INSTRUCTIONS

[Ebooks]

Gaaiho PDF Reader

One of the preferred Adobe replacements.

[Efficiency]

Desktopcal

A cool calendar placed on your windows desktop as a memo.

GestureSign

A gesture recognition software for Windows tablet with touch screen.

Listary

Keep files at your fingertips. An unique search utility.

nTrun

Win+R for all your apps + all-in-one manager

Rolan

A tiny launcher in way of icons.

Snipaste

A simple but powerful snipping tool with amazing elements detection, and also allows you to pin the screenshot back onto the screen

WGestures

Modern mouse gestures for Windows. (C#)

Wox

An effective launcher for Windows.

ZIKU!

A database-style launcher that can collect detailed info

[Files]

FFRename Professional

Official Site｜Download Page

Advanced renaming tools with everything you need for renaming

⚠NO UPDATE FOR LONG BUT NO DEFECT FOUND YET

SHAREit

Cross-platform file transferring.

[Images]

qrcode

Artistic QR Code in Python (Animated GIF qr code).

[Internet]

Best Trace

Raise up traceroute request from Windows with route visilization display

CloudXNS DDNS with PowerShell

A PowerShell script to establish own DDNS service on CloudXNS API

Shadowsocks

Official Site｜Download Page

Sock5 proxy

ShadowsocksRR

A more radical Shadowsocks branch, focusing rather on protocol improvement.

Maxthon

• Here the international version is listed instead of that provided in mainland China

A web browser that embedded both Trident & chromium with a smart password manager.

[Note Taking]

Leanote

Official Site｜Download Page

A Markdown cloud note taking software that enables you to make your own blog.

[Practicals]

Clipber

A cloud sync tool for system clipboard across multiple platforms.

MyChrome

Official Site｜Download Page

Navigator for a portable version of Google Chrome

[Productivity]

amWiki

amWiki is a wiki doc system based on JavaScript, relying on Atom editor and applied with MarkDown tags.

HelloFont

All-in-one fonts management, preview, backup and examples.

XMind

Official Site｜Download Page

A popular mind map tool with free cloud sync.

YYNote

A to-do-list app with cloud sync service.

[Privacy & Security]

RevokeChinaCerts

As its name: revoke China SSL certificates (illegal).

[System]

AOMEI Partition Assistant

Official Site｜Download Page

Resize, move, extend, merge and split partitions without data loss to maximize disk space use

Dism++

First CBS-based Dism GUI implementation globally.

QuickLook

Official Site｜Download Page

Yet another file previewer on Windows using space key, free and open source

Seer

Official Site｜Download Page

A Windows quick look tool acting just like the one in macOS but more powerful, customizable and faster.

TrafficMonitor

Use a dockable window to display cuurent traffice speed, CPU & RAM usage

[Text Editor]

EverEdit

Official Site｜Download Page

A text editor with Markdown preview and hex mode.

Yu Writer

Markdown editor that will convert contents in clipboard copied from websites into Markdown

[Video]

Filmora

Simplified video/audio editing with a wide range of multi-purpose tools.

MPV-EASY Player

A GUI for mpv easy to use with a high degree of reduction to mpv appearance.

[Games]

Locale Emulator

Official Site｜Download Page

Yet another region and language simulator.