# Top 100 PC Software 2026

> A current Windows software chart combining official Microsoft Store popularity with package downloads, installation availability, and search interest.

- Canonical chart: https://top100hub.com/charts/technology-and-software/pc-software
- Category: Technology & Software
- Ranking basis: Popularity ranking
- Entries: 100
- Last committed refresh: 2026-09-26T04:11:50.675523+00:00
- Methodology version: 2026.3
- Source checks: hourly; chart timestamps advance only after a completed crawl commits.

## How to interpret this chart

FluxScore is a whole-number rating showing how trustworthy the evidence behind an entry is. It considers how many reliable sources support it, whether they agree, how current they are, and where the information came from. For sports statistics, an official league or trusted statistics source may be enough. Each refresh tries every dataset listed for that chart, but only sources that actually support an entry can increase its FluxScore. FluxScore does not measure popularity or decide rankings, and community opinions cannot change it.

FluxScore describes evidence support, not popularity and not the reason for the ranking position. Use the canonical chart above for citations and links to readers.

## Current ranking

1. **Adobe Acrobat Reader DC** — Downloads · 694,378,403; FluxScore 100/100 (Strong support); movement: unchanged.
2. **Google Chrome** — Downloads · 393,906,266; FluxScore 100/100 (Strong support); movement: unchanged.
3. **Teamviewer (Install)** — Downloads · 50,416,881; FluxScore 96/100 (Strong support); movement: unchanged.
4. **Notepad++ (Install)** — Downloads · 48,160,762; FluxScore 96/100 (Strong support); movement: unchanged.
5. **Chocolatey** — Downloads · 386,227,176; FluxScore 85/100 (Good support); movement: unchanged.
6. **Mozilla Firefox** — Downloads · 111,607,994; FluxScore 85/100 (Good support); movement: unchanged.
7. **Microsoft Edge** — Downloads · 102,572,004; FluxScore 85/100 (Good support); movement: unchanged.
8. **Chocolatey Core Extensions** — Downloads · 100,164,810; FluxScore 85/100 (Good support); movement: unchanged.
9. **March 2014 servicing stack update for Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2 (KB2919442)** — Downloads · 68,502,298; FluxScore 85/100 (Good support); movement: unchanged.
10. **Windows RT 8.1, Windows 8.1, and Windows Server 2012 R2 update: April 2014 (KB2919355)** — Downloads · 68,337,010; FluxScore 85/100 (Good support); movement: unchanged.
11. **Flash Player Plugin** — Downloads · 66,696,886; FluxScore 85/100 (Good support); movement: unchanged.
12. **TreeSize Free** — Downloads · 15,309,917; FluxScore 92/100 (Good support); movement: unchanged.
13. **Chocolatey Compatibility Extension** — Downloads · 64,930,423; FluxScore 85/100 (Good support); movement: unchanged.
14. **Foxit PDF Reader** — Downloads · 14,154,839; FluxScore 92/100 (Good support); movement: unchanged.
15. **WinRAR** — Downloads · 11,721,218; FluxScore 92/100 (Good support); movement: unchanged.
16. **Zoom Client for Meetings** — Downloads · 64,629,225; FluxScore 85/100 (Good support); movement: unchanged.
17. **Paint.NET** — Downloads · 11,602,449; FluxScore 92/100 (Good support); movement: unchanged.
18. **Sysinternals** — Downloads · 11,129,618; FluxScore 92/100 (Good support); movement: unchanged.
19. **Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2015-2026** — Downloads · 63,821,775; FluxScore 85/100 (Good support); movement: unchanged.
20. **Microsoft Silverlight** — Downloads · 58,927,497; FluxScore 85/100 (Good support); movement: unchanged.
21. **Windows Terminal** — Downloads · 9,703,782; FluxScore 92/100 (Good support); movement: unchanged.
22. **Chocolatey Windows Update extensions** — Downloads · 55,912,748; FluxScore 85/100 (Good support); movement: unchanged.
23. **CCleaner** — Downloads · 9,006,526; FluxScore 92/100 (Good support); movement: unchanged.
24. **Update for Universal C Runtime in Windows (KB2999226)** — Downloads · 53,752,310; FluxScore 85/100 (Good support); movement: unchanged.
25. **AutoHotkey (Portable)** — Downloads · 7,730,815; FluxScore 92/100 (Good support); movement: unchanged.
26. **Security update for Windows kernel: March 10, 2015** — Downloads · 53,504,545; FluxScore 85/100 (Good support); movement: unchanged.
27. **PuTTY (Install)** — Downloads · 6,916,834; FluxScore 92/100 (Good support); movement: unchanged.
28. **Microsoft security advisory: Availability of SHA-2 code signing support for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2: March 10, 2015** — Downloads · 53,483,180; FluxScore 85/100 (Good support); movement: unchanged.
29. **Wireshark** — Downloads · 6,613,413; FluxScore 92/100 (Good support); movement: unchanged.
30. **FileZilla** — Downloads · 6,388,904; FluxScore 92/100 (Good support); movement: unchanged.
31. **Microsoft Teams Classic Desktop App (Machine-Wide Install)** — Downloads · 52,476,155; FluxScore 85/100 (Good support); movement: unchanged.
32. **Advanced IP Scanner (Install)** — Downloads · 5,839,979; FluxScore 92/100 (Good support); movement: unchanged.
33. **WinSCP (Install)** — Downloads · 5,505,529; FluxScore 92/100 (Good support); movement: unchanged.
34. **WinDirStat** — Downloads · 5,494,746; FluxScore 92/100 (Good support); movement: unchanged.
35. **Spotify** — Downloads · 5,420,028; FluxScore 92/100 (Good support); movement: unchanged.
36. **GIMP** — Downloads · 5,347,147; FluxScore 92/100 (Good support); movement: unchanged.
37. **Python 3.x** — Downloads · 48,719,962; FluxScore 85/100 (Good support); movement: unchanged.
38. **Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2015 Update 3 (with hotfix 2016-09-14)** — Downloads · 47,332,792; FluxScore 85/100 (Good support); movement: unchanged.
39. **Greenshot** — Downloads · 3,979,330; FluxScore 92/100 (Good support); movement: unchanged.
40. **Everything** — Downloads · 3,970,319; FluxScore 92/100 (Good support); movement: unchanged.
41. **PowerToys** — Downloads · 3,944,261; FluxScore 92/100 (Good support); movement: unchanged.
42. **Office 365 Business** — Downloads · 46,117,519; FluxScore 85/100 (Good support); movement: unchanged.
43. **Chromium** — Downloads · 3,713,571; FluxScore 92/100 (Good support); movement: unchanged.
44. **7-Zip (Install)** — Downloads · 45,700,003; FluxScore 85/100 (Good support); movement: unchanged.
45. **Python** — Downloads · 44,728,203; FluxScore 85/100 (Good support); movement: unchanged.
46. **Sumatra PDF (Install)** — Downloads · 2,982,125; FluxScore 92/100 (Good support); movement: unchanged.
47. **Java SE Runtime Environment** — Downloads · 41,659,859; FluxScore 85/100 (Good support); movement: unchanged.
48. **IrfanView (Install)** — Downloads · 2,874,724; FluxScore 92/100 (Good support); movement: unchanged.
49. **Inkscape** — Downloads · 2,814,999; FluxScore 92/100 (Good support); movement: unchanged.
50. **Audacity** — Downloads · 2,791,170; FluxScore 92/100 (Good support); movement: unchanged.
51. **Chocolatey .NET Framework extensions** — Downloads · 37,249,615; FluxScore 85/100 (Good support); movement: unchanged.
52. **WizTree** — Downloads · 2,600,330; FluxScore 92/100 (Good support); movement: unchanged.
53. **Bitwarden** — Downloads · 2,253,474; FluxScore 92/100 (Good support); movement: unchanged.
54. **Dell Command | Update** — Downloads · 33,885,633; FluxScore 85/100 (Good support); movement: unchanged.
55. **Flash Player ActiveX** — Downloads · 30,847,441; FluxScore 85/100 (Good support); movement: unchanged.
56. **Microsoft .NET Framework 4.8** — Downloads · 29,932,567; FluxScore 85/100 (Good support); movement: unchanged.
57. **Google Drive** — Downloads · 27,011,882; FluxScore 85/100 (Good support); movement: unchanged.
58. **Chocolatey Visual Studio servicing extensions** — Downloads · 26,629,862; FluxScore 85/100 (Good support); movement: unchanged.
59. **Visual Studio Installer (remove only)** — Downloads · 25,317,475; FluxScore 85/100 (Good support); movement: unchanged.
60. **Git (Install)** — Downloads · 24,916,337; FluxScore 85/100 (Good support); movement: unchanged.
61. **Adobe AIR Runtime** — Downloads · 24,908,757; FluxScore 85/100 (Good support); movement: unchanged.
62. **Flash Player PPAPI** — Downloads · 24,452,305; FluxScore 85/100 (Good support); movement: unchanged.
63. **\[Deprecated\] Google Drive for desktop (formerly File Stream)** — Downloads · 22,870,465; FluxScore 85/100 (Good support); movement: unchanged.
64. **VLC media player** — Downloads · 22,558,095; FluxScore 85/100 (Good support); movement: unchanged.
65. **Visual Studio 2019 Build Tools** — Downloads · 18,840,426; FluxScore 85/100 (Good support); movement: unchanged.
66. **Visual C++ build tools workload for Visual Studio 2019 Build Tools** — Downloads · 16,034,626; FluxScore 85/100 (Good support); movement: unchanged.
67. **Windows Management Framework and PowerShell** — Downloads · 15,307,132; FluxScore 85/100 (Good support); movement: unchanged.
68. **CutePDF Writer** — Downloads · 12,151,891; FluxScore 85/100 (Good support); movement: unchanged.
69. **Microsoft Office Deployment** — Downloads · 10,766,204; FluxScore 85/100 (Good support); movement: unchanged.
70. **Malwarebytes** — Downloads · 10,612,619; FluxScore 85/100 (Good support); movement: unchanged.
71. **Visual Studio Code (Install)** — Downloads · 10,418,111; FluxScore 85/100 (Good support); movement: unchanged.
72. **GNU Wget** — Downloads · 10,365,543; FluxScore 85/100 (Good support); movement: unchanged.
73. **Node JS (Install)** — Downloads · 10,166,948; FluxScore 85/100 (Good support); movement: unchanged.
74. **powershell-core (Install)** — Downloads · 9,828,819; FluxScore 85/100 (Good support); movement: unchanged.
75. **Slack for Windows** — Downloads · 9,803,186; FluxScore 85/100 (Good support); movement: unchanged.
76. **\[Deprecated\] Adobe Reader DC Update** — Downloads · 9,530,912; FluxScore 85/100 (Good support); movement: unchanged.
77. **Dropbox** — Downloads · 9,525,094; FluxScore 85/100 (Good support); movement: unchanged.
78. **Ghostscript (Install)** — Downloads · 9,505,313; FluxScore 85/100 (Good support); movement: unchanged.
79. **Python 3.14** — Downloads · 8,710,130; FluxScore 85/100 (Good support); movement: unchanged.
80. **Adobe Shockwave Player (Final Version - EOL)** — Downloads · 8,142,574; FluxScore 85/100 (Good support); movement: unchanged.
81. **Microsoft Shared Management Objects for SQL Server 2016** — Downloads · 8,079,114; FluxScore 85/100 (Good support); movement: unchanged.
82. **Visual Studio 2017 Build Tools** — Downloads · 8,008,255; FluxScore 85/100 (Good support); movement: unchanged.
83. **Dot Net 3.5** — Downloads · 7,773,920; FluxScore 85/100 (Good support); movement: unchanged.
84. **Python 3.12** — Downloads · 7,476,282; FluxScore 85/100 (Good support); movement: unchanged.
85. **Skype** — Downloads · 7,458,198; FluxScore 85/100 (Good support); movement: unchanged.
86. **LibreOffice Fresh** — Downloads · 7,394,334; FluxScore 85/100 (Good support); movement: unchanged.
87. **AWS Command Line Interface v2 (Install)** — Downloads · 7,367,285; FluxScore 85/100 (Good support); movement: unchanged.
88. **Visual C++ build tools workload for Visual Studio 2017 Build Tools** — Downloads · 7,248,831; FluxScore 85/100 (Good support); movement: unchanged.
89. **Win32 OpenSSH (Universal Installer)** — Downloads · 6,817,025; FluxScore 85/100 (Good support); movement: unchanged.
90. **Python 3.13** — Downloads · 6,567,414; FluxScore 85/100 (Good support); movement: unchanged.
91. **SQL Server Management Studio** — Downloads · 6,375,884; FluxScore 85/100 (Good support); movement: unchanged.
92. **Microsoft OneDrive Sync Client** — Downloads · 6,361,317; FluxScore 85/100 (Good support); movement: unchanged.
93. **Java Runtime (JRE)** — Downloads · 6,011,746; FluxScore 85/100 (Good support); movement: unchanged.
94. **cURL** — Downloads · 5,837,483; FluxScore 85/100 (Good support); movement: unchanged.
95. **TeamViewer Host** — Downloads · 5,692,700; FluxScore 85/100 (Good support); movement: unchanged.
96. **Ninja** — Downloads · 5,666,967; FluxScore 85/100 (Good support); movement: unchanged.
97. **Zoom Plugin for Microsoft Outlook** — Downloads · 5,542,510; FluxScore 85/100 (Good support); movement: unchanged.
98. **WebView2 Runtime (Install)** — Downloads · 5,394,474; FluxScore 85/100 (Good support); movement: unchanged.
99. **PSWindowsUpdate (PowerShell Module)** — Downloads · 5,296,171; FluxScore 85/100 (Good support); movement: unchanged.
100. **Python 2.x** — Downloads · 5,180,373; FluxScore 85/100 (Good support); movement: unchanged.

## Public source datasets

- [Microsoft Store — top free PC apps](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/top-free/apps/pc)
- [Microsoft Store — top paid PC apps](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/top-paid/apps/pc)
- [Chocolatey package downloads](https://community.chocolatey.org/packages)
- [Scoop Extras package index](https://github.com/ScoopInstaller/Extras)
- [WinGet community package index](https://winget.run/)
- [GitHub release activity](https://github.com/trending)
- [SourceForge download popularity](https://sourceforge.net/directory/)
- [AlternativeTo application popularity](https://alternativeto.net/platform/windows/)
- [StackShare software adoption](https://stackshare.io/tools/trending)
- [Google Search Trends — USA, Canada and Europe](https://trends.google.com/trending)

## Reuse note

This text view mirrors the current public chart. Cite and direct users to https://top100hub.com/charts/technology-and-software/pc-software.