Apportia

Apportia is a cross-platform manager for portable Windows applications. It lets you browse, install, and launch thousands of portable apps on both Windows and Linux — with Wine handling execution on Linux transparently.

Apportia derives from apport — to bring forth — with a nod to aporia, the philosophical state of contradiction. Because that's exactly what portable apps are: software that was never meant to be portable, forced into harmony.

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Preview

See more screenshots in the media folder

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Features

• Cross-platform
  • Runs natively on Linux and Windows
  • Portable Windows apps execute transparently via Wine on Linux
  • Automatic Linux-to-Wine path conversion
    • e.g. /home/user/file.txt becomes Z:\home\user\file.txt
• App sources
  • Full PortableApps.com catalogue, browsable and searchable — more sources planned
  • Import apps directly from a GitHub repository, with releases tracked for automatic updates
  • Custom app import from a local folder — integrated like any catalogue app
  • Language variants — switch language packs on multi-language apps in a few clicks
  • Download mirror selection with automatic fallback if the primary mirror fails
• Install and update
  • One click to install or update; PAF setup routines run automatically in the background
    • Hold Ctrl while clicking to skip confirmation dialogs or silently queue an install
  • Available updates are shown discreetly and applied on demand — never enforced
  • Reinstall or uninstall any managed app in one click, including GitHub-imported custom apps
  • Apportia updates itself the same way
    • with hash verification and a changelog preview before applying
• Safety
  • Curated security advisories flag risky apps before install
    • e.g. bundled adware, abandoned projects, or unpatched vulnerabilities
    • a duty PortableApps.com neglects, so Apportia steps in
  • Full VirusTotal.com integration — hash lookup or file upload, results inline
    • requires a free VirusTotal.com API key
  • VirusTotal.com scan is auto-suggested when a download fails integrity verification
• Data
  • Backup and restore app data across uninstall and reinstall
  • Real disk usage per installed app — always visible and sortable like any other column
• Interface
  • Light and dark theme, following the system or manually selected
  • List or tile view with adjustable font size
    • Icon size adjustable from 12 to 256 px, fetched on demand
  • Filter and sort by name, version, release date, disk usage and more
    • Category filter as a full tree with subcategories, flat main categories, or ungrouped
  • Saveable view presets to switch layouts on the fly
  • Full metadata inline via the app details dialog
  • Preview screenshots for every catalogue app — see how it actually looks in use before installing
  • Keyboard shortcuts throughout — e.g. Ctrl+F to jump to search
• Wine (Linux)
  • Choose between system Wine and a bundled, isolated, portable Wine in ./Data/Linux
  • Many Wine and Wine Staging versions downloadable and switchable in-app
  • WINEPREFIX from the environment is respected when set
  • Font improvements for cleaner text rendering in Windows applications
  • Wine theme that mirrors your current Linux theme, so Windows applications blend in and feel like native Linux software
• Advanced
  • Pass files or arbitrary arguments to Apportia on launch, forwarded to the selected app
    • any portable app can act as a system-wide file handler
  • Per-app CLI argument editor with built-in file and folder pickers

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Download

The latest release is available on the Releases page as a single ZIP archive — no installation required, just extract and run the executable — Apportia.exe on Windows, Apportia on Linux.

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Requirements

Linux

• Any modern x64 Linux distribution
• Wine or Wine Staging installed and available on PATH (required to extract and run portable Windows apps)
• No .NET runtime required — ships as a self-contained single-file executable
• The WINEPREFIX environment variable is respected if set

Windows

• Windows 10 or later (x64)
• No additional dependencies — ships as a self-contained single-file executable

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Building from Source

Prerequisites

• .NET 10 SDK
• NSIS (for building the Windows installer stub — makensis must be on PATH)

Build

# Debug build (default)
./build.sh

# Release build
./build.sh Release

Run directly (without full build)

cd src/Apportia
dotnet run