Best free software

Ashampoo WinOptimizer 27 is a comprehensive PC cleaning, maintenance and optimisation suite. It can help you achieve peak Windows performance with a series of new automation tools that can accelerate,

www.snipca.com/55189 Wintoys was by far your most-downloaded tool of 2025, rising from 12th place in 2024. This brilliant system-optimisation app (it’s only available from the Microsoft Store) was upd

WinRAR will celebrate its 21st birthday in 2026, but perhaps it’s time this ageing file-compression tool was retired. In August, it was reported that a serious zero-day vulnerability in the software h

www.snipca.com/57399 What you need: Windows 7, 8.1, 10 or 11 Winaero Tweaker was once our go-to tool for fixing Windows annoyances, but it’s been nearly 18 months since the last version. As a surprise

www.snipca.com/57554 What you need: Windows 10 or 11 Windhawk is a brilliant free program for customising and improving Windows using over 100 ‘mods’ (modifications). We wrote a Workshop about it in I

In your answer to Tom Rathbone’s question about ebook formats (Issue 724, page 69) you could have mentioned the app ReadEra (https://readera.org). I installed it on my iPad earlier this year and it su