4 Best Free Portable On-Screen Keyboard for Windows

Here is a list of the best free portable on-screen keyboard for Windows. A portable program is an executable file that you can run directly without installation. Thus most portable programs are lightweight and do not take much space. Portable programs also take very few resources to run however it does depend on the type of tasks the programs perform.

In this post, I’m covering 4 free on-screen keyboards for Windows that are portable. You can just download the executable file of these programs and keep it on the system storage or USB drive. Then you can connect the drive to your Windows system and run the program on demand. All these keyboards have multi-language support and are fully resizable. You can go through the list and check them out in detail.

My Favorite Portable On-Screen Keyboard

Free Virtual Keyboard is my favorite on-screen keyboard on this list. This keyboard offers a bunch of color options so you can pick a keyboard color and layout of your choice. It also has a transparency setting that lets you adjust different levels of transparency to have maximum screen visibility.

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Free Virtual Keyboard

Free Virtual Keyboard is a portable on-screen keyboard for Windows. This keyboard comes as a portable executable file as well as an installation package. The portable file is only 272KB in size. In that small size, it packs the features you might expect from an on-screen keyboard. It is a small keyboard that does not have a number pad. There are several pre-defined size and color options that you can check out from the settings. Along with that, you can also freely resize the keyboard and change the height and width accordingly. This keyboard supports multiple languages as well. By default, it fetches the current language from the Windows settings and you can change the same from there.

Highlights:

• Light-weight portable keyboard only 272 KB in size.
• Freely resize the height and width.
• A small keyboard with no num-pad.
• Comes with a slider to adjust the transparency of the keyboard.
• Offers multiple colors and pre-configured size options.
• Supports multiple languages based on the current Windows keyboard language settings.

On-Screen Keyboard Portable

On-Screen Keyboard Portable is another free on-screen portable keyboard for Windows. When you run this portable installer for the first time, it asks you to pick the language for the keyboard. After that, you can run the keyboard. This keyboard is quite similar to Windows On-Screen Keyboard. It also does not have a number pad. Instead, it packs other navigation buttons on the side. That’s pretty much all you get with this keyboard. It is simple and portable.

Highlights:

• Light-weight portable keyboard only 537 KB in size.
• Freely resize the height and width.
• No number pad but has navigation keys.
• Multiple languages supported.

On-Screen Keyboard Portable

On-Screen Keyboard Portable is yet another portable on-screen keyboard for Windows. This tiny keyboard is only 555 KB in size. In the first instance, it asks you to pick the language and then the directory for extraction. From there, you can run the executable file to open the on-screen keyboard. This is a compact keyboard that seems a little congested to me. But you can resize it to adjust the overall size accordingly. The keyboard has a white theme and packs a single column of navigation keys including page up, page down, etc.

Highlights:

• Light-weight portable keyboard only 555 KB in size.
• Freely resize the height and width.
• No number pad but has a column of navigation keys.
• Supports multiple languages.

Windows On-Screen Keyboard

Last but not least, you can also use Windows On-Screen Keyboard. It is also a portable program and the best thing about it is that it is already available in Windows. So there is no need to download an executable file and run it to get the keyboard. You can simply search it in the Windows programs and run from there.

Highlights:

• A lightweight portable keyboard that comes with Windows.
• Freely resize the height and width.
• No number pad but comes with a bunch of navigation keys.
• Supports multiple languages based on Windows language settings.