FireStorm customers generally have a desktop PC and use a wide variety of applications on it. For this reason, the topic of today’s article is guaranteed to be of interest to all our customers – as well as FireStorm blog readers with a desktop PC who are not yet FireStorm customers. Because in this short article, we want to take a look at the most popular freeware for desktop PCs of all time in German-speaking countries. We will also take a look at the most popular freeware for desktop PCs of the last month. – We hope you enjoy reading this article!

Where does the data for the ranking of the most popular freeware come from?

The data for this article comes from the website “Chip.de“. This is an editorial technology and consumer portal that went online back in 1996. Before that, “Chip” already existed as a physical technology magazine, which is now published in 14 countries in Europe and Asia. As the first issue of the technology magazine “Chip” was published by Vogel-Verlag in 1978, it is the oldest German PC magazine. Since the turn of the millennium, not only have the magazine’s sales figures increased significantly, but also the number of hits on “Chip.de”. For many years now, “Chip.de” has been the technology and consumer portal with the widest reach in the German-speaking world.

“Chip.de”, the technology and consumer portal with the widest reach on the German-language Internet, offers both the top 100 downloads of all time and the top 100 downloads of the month in its download charts.

An excerpt from the top 100 downloads from Chip.de

In addition to news articles, reviews, product tests and much more, “Chip.de” is also known for its comprehensive download area. Visitors can download countless paid and free applications for smartphones, tablets and, above all, desktop PCs without registering. The well-known technology and consumer portal also offers a sorting of the applications according to download numbers. These can be sorted either by downloads this week, this month or in total, as well as by reader charts. You can also set whether all applications or only paid or free applications should be displayed. For this article, we have decided on a section of the top 100 downloads of all time and the top 100 downloads of the month in the freeware area.

Top 10 most popular freeware for desktop PCs of all time

Here you will find the list of the top 10 most popular freeware for desktop PCs of all time, including their download links via “Chip.de” as well as their current download figures:

1. Firefox (32 Bit) German [with approx. 85 million downloads]
2. Free YouTube to MP3 Converter German [with approx. 77 million downloads]
3. CCleaner Slim German [with approx. 68 million downloads]
4. VLC media player (32 Bit) German [with approx. 65 million downloads]
5. Adobe Flash Player German [with approx. 54 million downloads]
6. Adobe Acrobat Reader German [with approx. 49 million downloads]
7. OpenOffice German [with approx. 34 million downloads]
8. GIMP German [with approx. 21 million downloads]
9. CDBurnerXP German [with approx. 20 million downloads]
10. AVG AntiVirus Free (32 Bit) German [with approx. 20 million downloads]

The list of the top 10 most popular freeware for desktop PCs of all time ranges from first place with “Firefox” and around 85 million downloads to tenth place with “AVG Antivirus” and around 20 million downloads.

Top 10 most popular freeware for desktop PCs of the month

As promised, there is also a list of the top 10 most popular freeware for desktop PCs of the last month. Here you will also find the download links via “Chip.de” and the download figures for the last month:

1. VLC media player (64 Bit) 3.0.20 German [with approx. 48 thousand downloads]
2. Firefox (64 Bit) 120.0 Final German [with approx. 33 thousand downloads]
3. PDF24 Creator 11.14.0 German [with approx. 31 thousand downloads]
4. AutoClicker 3.0 English [with approx. 30 thousand downloads]
5. MediaHuman YouTube to MP3 Converter 3.9.9.84 English [with approx. 27 thousand downloads]
6. CCleaner 6.18 Slim German [with approx. 22 thousand downloads]
7. 7-Zip (64 Bit) 23.0.1 German [with approx. 21 thousand downloads]
8. OpenOffice 4.1.14 German [with approx. 21 thousand downloads]
9. Adobe Acrobat Reader 2023.006.20380 German [with approx. 21 thousand downloads]
10. Free YouTube Download 4.3.104.1116 [with approx. 18 thousand downloads]

The list with the top 10 most popular freeware for desktop PCs of the month ranges from first place with the “VLC media player” and around 48 thousand downloads to tenth place with “Free YouTube Download” and around 18 thousand downloads last month.