Best Windows apps this week
Five-hundred-and-twenty-three in a series. Welcome to this week's overview of the best apps, games and extensions released for Windows 10 and 11 on the Microsoft Store and elsewhere in the past seven days.
A leaked screenshot on Twitter suggests that Microsoft is working on bringing tabs to more Windows applications. The screenshot shows the classic text editor Notepad with tabs.
As always, if I've missed an app or game that has been released this week that you believe is particularly good, let me know in the comments below or notify me via email.
Discounts this week
The following list is a selection of the best deals. Make sure you check out the Store for all offers.
Some apps are discounted for more than one week. Only new apps and games are listed below. Check out the previous post in the series for past offers that may still be valid.
- AirReceiver, for $2.99
- Best Player, for $2.39
- CyberLink Media Player 18 Standard, for $31.99
- Screenbits Screen Recorder, for $6.79
- Seer Pro, for $8.74
- TouchMail, for $14.99
New or improved Windows apps
Handbrake is a cross-platform open source video transcoder. The latest version, available for Windows 10 and 11, Mac and Linux, adds support for AV1, support for H.264 levels 6, 6.1 and 6.2, and other new features.
Windows users need to have .NET 6 installed on their devices to run the program.
Ventoy, a popular tool to create bootable media using disk image formats, applies bypasses for Windows 11 automatically now. The installation bypasses system requirements check, including for TPM and CPU, and will also bypass the online account requirement during setup of the operating system.
Notable updates
FileTypesMan 1.97 blocks the changing of the icon of .exe files now.