This page contains links to free software for the Motorola Q running Windows Mobile 5.x. Software may also appear under other categories.

Browsers:
jb5 Browser: offers the option to (unlike pocket I.E.) save web pages, and send them as email attachments.
Opera Mini 4.1: web browser

Games:
All Mobile Mines - Standard Edition: minesweeper game
Doom: Get the Original Doom on your device.
GigaSlot: slot machine
GNUboy: Gameboy Emulator
JacksOrBetter: poker
Kevtris: Tetris Clone
Make up a picture - for small children
Magic Bubble
Nine Hole Golf: Par 3 Golf Game
PacMan
PiecePuzzle: puzzle
PocketNesterPlus: Nintendo NES Emulator
Puzzle 15: numbers puzzle
Roulette
Smoresoft Sudoku
SPVMan: Pacman clone

Home Screen Plugins:
Alarminfo: Homescreen plug-in to display/access alarm settings
Orange.dll: Allows multiple items along the top taskbar, allows multiple plugins per row on the homescreen.
Oxios Tasks Plugin: displays current Outlook tasks on the Home Screen. Can activate Oxios ToDo List or the builtin MS Tasks
RJShortcut: Homescreen shortcut plug-in that allows you to create a static icon bar - doesn't work?

IM:
Agile Messenger 3: all-in-one MSN, AIM, Yahoo!, ICQ & GoogleTalk IM client
OctroTalk
QIP
Fring

Maps:
Google Maps: uses Google Maps to display maps and satellite data
LiveSearch: Maps and directions
Loki for Mobile 2: Locate yourself and search locally
TUBE 2 Engine: animated subway & metro maps with quickest route finder
Virtual Earth Mobile: uses MSN's Virtual Earth to display maps and satellite data.

Messaging:
3jam Reply-All Text Messaging
GroupSMS: Send a message to multiple contacts at once
Oldsap Oist: individual sms tones
SMSBubbles: sms preview on home screen
SMS Threader (Motorola Q Edition): threads text messages
TxtMan: threaded SMS program. It sends and receives text messages/SMS and displays the messages as a conversation

Media players/streaming:
Avot mV: watch/stream videos from YouTube, Google videos, Dailymotion and more video sharing sites.
mediaplayer11: a windows media player skin
Orb: stream live or recorded cable tv to your pda or phone from your home pc.
PocketTV Classic: MPEG Movie Player
TalkStreamlive: gives you links for streaming talk radio and music
The Core Pocket Media Player 0.71: open-source media player
The Core Pocket Media Player 0.72RC1: Play videos from youtube on your device
Windows Media Player Mobile - Vista Skin

Reference:
9/11 Commission Report
Microsoft Live Search for Windows Mobile: Turn your phone into a map, phone book, or city guide
Most Wanted Fugitives: the ten most wanted fugitives
Most Wanted Terrorists
OlivetreeBibleReader: Bible Reader
Star Trek Episode Guide Smartphone edition
The Iraq Study Group Report by Baker and Hamilton
US Constitution
US Declaration of Independence
US Most Wanted Fugitives
US Presidential Election 2008: biographies of candidates
US Supreme Court: Biographies of current and former US Supreme Court Justices
Weights and Measures Quick Study Guide (ebook)
WorldMate For Windows Mobile Standard: Flight Information, Weather Forecasts, World Clocks, Currency

Registry editors:
BaseHue Express: simplifies changing the BaseHue value without the need for manually tweaking the registry
Mobile Registry Editor: edit from a PC (requires registry to be edited to use)
Moto Hacks: an easy way to change a registry option quickly
PHM Registry Editor: edit, search, back up, restore (recommended by Rudeboy)
regeditSTG
Total Commander:Use phone keys as hotkeys, edit registry (recommended by n99hockey)

RSS:
BeyondPod: rss/podcast feeder/client
Hubdog: Podcasts, RSS
Newsgator Go 2.27: Track and manage all your RSS content
Upvise RSS News Reader

Screenshots:
Ilium Software Screen Capture: take screenshots quickly

Security/Encryption:
FreeOTFE4PDA: Free on the fly encryption for PDA

8 in 1 Stopwatch utility
Adobe PDF Reader- Free PDF viewer
Agenda One Theme Builder: Customize the look of Agenda One with ease
Automatic Keylock: automatically locks keys or device after a specified time
BlackBarsScheme: From Eko- does exactly what it says.
bLADE Wiki: Personal wiki software, very useful for notes
Bluetooth Audio: all the sounds from your system will be rerouted from the internal speaker to your BlueTooth headset
Callfilter: block individual contacts, all calls, or callers not in your contact database. Calls are sent to voicemail.
Candlelight: Control your keypad light on your original Q
Cellfire: coupons
CeTwit: Twitter client
Cloudtrade: (ad supported) file sharing
Codebreaker English - Spanish: talking translator that instantly SPEAKS to you in Spanish
Convert It 2.6: fully customizable Universal Units, Currency, Temperature and Stock Converter
CT Alarmclock Lite:define time and the weekdays for your daily alarm
CT Scheduler Lite: automatic launching of programs, documents, media and other files
Dialpad: Puts the letters corresponding to numbers along the top of your screen
Dashwire: "backup" on line
File Explorer: browse through the contents of your system, and copy, cut, paste, and delete files
GetMobio - Movie ticketing, trivia, recipes, cheap gas, Twitter and more!
GPSed: Map your impressions - beta: Pin photos to a map precisely at a place they were taken
Handango InHand: offers best-in-class software downloads plus free and unlimited access to top content
Inbox Extender: The ability to delete all emails in bulk
Kai's » Turn Off (SMP): Switch your Smartphone off
Madbeetle: home screen builder
Market Simplified Financial: Wealth Management Solution, stock quotes, portfolio sync, real-time alerts, more
Metro: Public Transportation Guide
Millo Notes
MiniMIXA SE: loop based music creation tool. Allows you to create loop-based compositions or ringtones
mobilePK v6: A Clinical Pharmacokinetic (CPK) service (or Therapeutic Drug Monitoring, TDM)
Mobile ScreenTester: quickly find dead pixels
MOBIPOCKETReader: read "prc" e-books and Word documents. Each "prc" file may be bookmarked multiple times.
MobSync: Sync files with your PC
monikker: Choose how your calls are announced
MortScript: a hacker tool/programming language
Moto Q Flashlight: Turn your camera flash into a flashlight
No Data: turns your data access off/on
OggSync: Synchronize your calendar, either Google or Outlook to your Q
Oops I'm Late! Ad Supported: Notification based upon current appointment calendar and GPS location
Oxios Memory: attempts to release as much memory as possible
PHM Pocket PC PowerToys: Autoplay, Notepad, Reset, Run,Screensaver,Suspend,Taskman,TrayLaunch
Pocket Express: weather, news, stock ticker and more
QNotes: take quick notes on your Q
Reset Button: reset your SmartPhone at any time
RightMenu: the Menu button will be turned into a cascading Start Menu, launching programs from the Home Screen.
Ringtone Ripper: Make your own REAL MUSIC ringtones from MP3 and CD tracks
ShoppingList
ShoZu: subscribe to free media channels, upload and post to various websites, tagimages, back up your contacts online
SmartSCROLL: allow scrolling a page at a time in IE
SmartTIP Tip Calculator
SmartToolKit: Windows like interface, Cut/Copy/Paste, keylock, shortcuts. V.9 crashes a lot, V.8 is better.
SKTools Lite: Freeware version to clean misc files from your device
Task Manager: see or stop ALL the processes running on your device
TellMeText: reads incoming test message aloud
Tipster: tip calculator
Upvise Business Contacts: Enter info on your phone and it becomes instantly available to all users in your company
Upvise Contacts: import, backup, edit your phone contacts and sync them with a web account
Upvise Notebooks: Create, categorize, instant search and auto sync any note on your phone and web account
Upvise Project Manager: Review on-going projects, important milestones, outstanding tasks and issues
Upvise Shopping Lists: Manage your shopping lists on your desktop and your mobile
Upvise Wikipedia: Access the full content of Wikipedia articles
Upvise Workspaces: categorize and store all types of information
Vieka WordPad: A complete wordpad for editing text files; HTML 4.0 templates
VITO CopyPaste: Copy or cut the info from an edit box and paste it to another one
vTap: Web Video and Wikipedia Search
Windows Live Search
WM5 Task Manager
WM5torage: transfer data quickly between a computer and the storage card
Worldmate: weather, conversions (for currency, sizes, and units of measure), world time, and world maps
WP-WAP: post to your Wordpress blog with a picture and text from your mobile phone
Yahoo! Go 2.0: brings together your email, local info, maps, news, sports, and more
zaSFTP sFTP client. You can download/upload files through a security SSH channel.
zaTelnet Telnet/SSH2 client. It even has the ability to send some keystrokes that the Q doesn't have
zaTunnel SSH Tunnel and port forwarding. Forward otherwise insecure TCP traffic through SSH channel.

PC software:
Avvenu - Access and share the stuff on your computer from anywhere