Best Windows apps this week
Five-hundred-and-ninety-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.
Microsoft reduced the size of Windows 10 updates to improve delivery performance. The same technique has been used on Windows 11 since the release of the operating system in 2021.
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.
- Accurate OCR for $4.79
- Audio Tracks Extractor for $4.79
- HEIC to JPG, JPEG & PNG Converter for $1.99
- PDF Compressor for Windows for $1.99
- Post Office TracKing for $1.26
- TouchMail for $14.99
New or notably improved Windows apps
The latest version of Hasleo Backup Suite adds a highly requested feature. It now supports the cloning and restoration of data even if the source hard drive and destination hard drive have different sizes.
Telegram Desktop made a jump to version 5.0. The update for the free and open source messaging service introduces support for custom fonts (check Settings > Chat settings > Font family), mass moderation for group admins, and recent activity when activating the search field.
The latest LTS version of Ubuntu is now also available for use with the Windows Subsystem for Linux. It includes Linux 6.8 kernel among other improvements.
You can check out Brian's article on the release for additional details.