Nublet turns the clock in your GNOME top bar into a black pill that comes alive when something happens. Approve Claude Code permission prompts from the bar, and see what's playing, volume, timers, headphone battery, and mic or camera use. Click it for stats, media, weather, calendar, clipboard, Gmail and GitHub tabs. No polling while idle, nothing leaves your computer. Free and open source for GNOME Shell 46–50: Zorin 18, Ubuntu, Fedora, Bazzite.
Remlo is a native notes app for Mac, iPhone and iPad. Type a checkbox in any note and it becomes a real to-do, linked back to where you wrote it. Each day gets its own page with your note, what's due and your habits. To-dos sit on a board with stages you name. Habits show streaks and the weekly trend. Hand a to-do to an agent and send it to Claude in Terminal or the desktop app. It all lives in your own iCloud: no account, no server, works offline. Free to try for 7 days.
Turn local HTML, CSS, and JavaScript projects into standalone apps for your own Mac. Edit files, preview changes, and export with a custom icon. Add native notifications, Finder file handling, menu bar controls, and Dock animations. Embed your files or keep them linked to the original folder, with no local HTTP server.
Course Creator Suite turns a topic into a fully scripted, slide-decked, narrated, and edited course video — automatically. Built for instructors and course creators who want professional video lectures without touching a camera or editing timeline. One-time purchase: $500, no subscription. Your course content stays local — never uploaded to the cloud. Windows desktop app, no coding required.
Free desktop app for API work on localhost: *.localhost proxying with capture, a client for REST/GraphQL/gRPC/SOAP/WebSocket/MCP & more, proxy-level mocks, git-synced workspaces, visual flows, a local mail inbox, and an agent-ready CLI. Windows, macOS, Linux.
SURFACE is a local-first desktop app for indie brands: your Search Console and PageSpeed data, Google Trends, community mentions, and what Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity say when buyers ask, in one Monday digest. Bring your own keys. Windows 10/11; Mac with Apple Silicon, macOS 15+. Free trial on sample data; $49 launch price until Nov 15, then $79, one-time.
Folia Files is a native file manager for Mac. Split the window into as many panes as you need and save any layout as a scene. Search inside documents, photos and by words or by meaning, indexed on your Mac. Mount servers and clouds like disks, undo any copy, move or rename, and get a clipboard history, a drawer at the edge of the screen, batch rename, PDF tools and a disk map. One-time purchase for 3 Macs, no subscription, no account, 7 days free.
Privacy-first clipboard history and snippets for Chrome. Free usable tier. Pro is $2.30 one-time via Gumroad. Data stays in local storage, with no analytics.
FillKit lives in Chrome’s side panel and does two jobs: it expands snippets from short shortcuts in any text field, and it fills whole forms in one click. Snippets can ask for the parts that change, add dates and auto-numbers, and pull your name and company from your profile. The Free plan works without an account and keeps everything on your device; Pro adds sync, Business adds shared libraries for teams.
Open Sound Connect is a Mac app for Sony MDR-1000X, WH-1000XM2–XM6, WH-1000XX headphones: noise canceling and ambient sound, equalizer, DSEE, Speak-to-Chat, scenes and a menu bar panel. Local headphone controls. No app analytics.
Sourclip is the research workflow layer for NotebookLM. Capture from AI chats, YouTube, web pages, PDFs, Reddit and X; organize notebooks with folders, tags and search; reuse prompts with shortcuts; export to PDF, Markdown and Obsidian; and turn NotebookLM audio into a private podcast feed. Built for researchers, students, creators and power users managing serious research.
Collaborative multi-agent AI coding workspace: aggregate sessions from Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Pi, Grok Build, etc. Desktop app, self-hosted server, or Docker.
A lightweight, 100% offline macOS menu bar utility for instant in-memory screen text OCR, QR code decoding, and commercial barcode recognition powered by Apple Vision.
pxfStudio Free simplifies SVG and font creation by bringing multiple creative tools into one beginner-friendly Windows desktop app. Inspired by Pixel’N’Code’s online Font Maker, it helps beginners, hobbyists, designers, and indie developers create without juggling complicated software. Draw and edit SVGs, build custom keyboard and icon fonts, experiment with Magic Cutout pattern cutters, preview designs, and export finished work. Available free on the Microsoft Store, with no in-app purchases.
Crawlune is a desktop app for macOS, Windows and Linux that crawls your site and finds broken links, redirect chains, duplicate titles, missing metadata, canonical and hreflang errors and 150+ other technical SEO issues. Free up to 550 URLs.
Talvio links your Android phone to your PC. Watch and control a window or the whole screen live with sound (Windows PCs), dictate or type on the phone and the PC pastes it into a window you pick, ask the PC's assistant, or run voice commands like "turn the volume down". Speech and the assistant can run fully on your own computer, no API key needed. The PC approves each phone, and screen access is a separate switch, off by default. Desktop app for Windows, macOS and Linux. MIT licensed.
Hintario is a free browser extension that translates selected words and phrases directly on web pages. Translations appear beside the original text, so you can read without interruptions. Features include multiple languages, customizable translation hints, keyboard shortcuts, local translation history, and BookFusion integration. Choose how hints appear, save translations, and enjoy seamless reading without switching tabs. No subscription required.
EasyMouse is a Mac menu bar app that keeps separate pointer speed, acceleration, scroll direction and button settings for each mouse and trackpad. Pick up a different mouse and it applies that device's settings automatically, so you set each one up once. It also maps side buttons to Back/Forward or shortcuts, supports per-app rules, and includes MouseLock to keep the cursor on one screen while gaming.
Companion is a cute desktop pet for the Mac. It lives on your Dock, nudges you to drink water, stand up and take breaks, and builds a sandcastle while you focus. 17 plush characters, ~0.1% CPU, no account. Free, with optional Pro.
Layr saves your Mac window layouts across displays and puts windows back in one click from the menu bar. Capture your current setup or design layouts for coding, research and focus. Add automatic placement when apps launch, undo an arrange, and pause whenever you need. macOS 12+, Apple silicon and Intel. 24-hour trial, then $9.99 once for one Mac.
Save the words you meet: from a web page (Chrome, Edge, Firefox), from any app on Mac or Windows with one shortcut, from your Kindle, or while you watch in Lexpad Player, the Mac and Windows video player with up to three subtitles: click a word to keep it with its sentence. AI fills in meanings, examples and pronunciation, and you can edit everything. Short daily Leitner sessions keep the words learned, offline too. 81 languages in any pair. Web, Android, Mac, Windows, ChatGPT and Claude.
Sketch.Social Beta 2.0 makes online drawing more social, accessible, and fun. New features include a text tool, a full mobile drawing layout, keyboard shortcuts, and animations with sound. Holiday themes, 80+ achievements, and exclusive seasonal medals give artists more ways to express themselves. Built for doodlers, digital artists, and animators of all skill levels, Sketch.Social lets anyone create, remix, and evolve art together. Free, browser-based, and no download required.
Glasswitch puts your Mac's default browser in the menu bar. The icon always shows the current one, and a click switches the system default for HTTP and HTTPS links between your installed browsers. There is also a browser Dock in Settings, and it stays in sync if you change the default elsewhere. Launch at login, English and Simplified Chinese, Light/Dark/System, native Liquid Glass UI. No accounts, ads or analytics. US$0.99 one-time, macOS 26+.
One new English word a day in your Mac menu bar: how to say it, an example, the Chinese meaning and where it comes from. Daily quiz, spaced review, an emoji picture game and a streak. Works offline, no account. Free, open source (MIT). macOS 13+.
Live activities and 19 tools in your MacBook's notch: music with an equalizer that follows the real audio, volume and brightness HUDs, AirPods battery, calendar heads-ups, AI agents, a file shelf, clipboard history and more.
Spacetile tiles windows as they open, on the Desktops you already have. A Focus, a display or a shortcut brings your whole setup back. Full screen and Split View keep working. £20 (about $27), one-time, includes VAT. 14-day Trial with every feature on.
Write-back translation for Chrome: draft in your own language and the translation replaces it in place — plus offline bilingual page reading and translate-on-selection. Runs on-device (Bergamot / Chrome built-in), no API keys, no uploads. A Google Translate / Immersive Translate alternative.
WineShelf guides Wine setup and keeps Windowsexe apps, Steam shortcuts, prefixes, and launch settings in one native macOS library. Free and open source for macOS 14+ on Intel and Apple silicon. Compatibility varies by app and game.
An easier way to use AI on your own computer. A free, open-source alternative to Claude and ChatGPT that runs open-weight models like Gemma and gpt-oss locally on Mac, Windows and Linux. Private, and works offline.
Borderless Windows HUD & CLI quota monitor for Claude Code, ChatGPT Codex, Grok, Google Antigravity (agy), Magpie & LiteLLM. Tracks multi-account 5h/7d rate-limit windows, redeems Claude/Codex limit-reset credits, and doubles as an mpv live wallpaper.
Run Codex, Claude Code, Gemini CLI and more in parallel, each in its own Git worktree. Review every change in one desktop app for Windows, macOS and Linux. Automations, bots, the `jackalope` CLI and Cloudflare Artifacts Swarm mode now in testing and early release.
The menu bar app I think should have shipped with Grok Bot: a cube showing which agents are working, done, failed or need you. Not official. Works with any bot that posts a status line to your own Cloudflare feed. Free, open source (MIT), macOS 13+.
Morpholder lives in your menu bar and watches the folders you pick. Rename photo.heic to photo.png in Finder and it becomes a PNG. Add a suffix for more: _nobg, _upscale_4x, _1080p, _subs.srt. 60+ formats, all on your Mac, nothing uploaded.
LucentEdit is a free, open-source design app that combines photo editing and vector design in one lightweight desktop application. Built to solve real design workflow problems, it offers professional editing tools, brand training, and AI-agent integration through MCP. It runs on Windows, macOS, and Linux, with no subscription or login required. Built for designers, freelancers, and teams who want powerful, accessible design tools without the extra cost.
ssh zydra.sh There's no sign-up or anything, and you get a 15-minute of a graphical Linux VM drawn entirely in your terminal. It has a browser, an editor, and it runs Doom. It works best in Kitty or Ghostty. WezTerm and Konsole also work, as well as Sixel and iTerm2 terminals, though with less detail. Text-only terminals support non-graphical apps: shells, editors, and other TUIs. Why? For a few months I ran coding agents in tmux on a VPS over SSH, and it sucked. I couldn't paste images, scrolling broke and I didn't wanna figure out why, I had no notifications for when an agent finished, I couldn't see browsers agents opened to smoke-test, logins drifted between my laptop and the server, I couldn't check in from my phone, and to know what an agent had done five minutes ago I had to read through opaque chunks of tool calls. These issues added up and had me in a limbo: They made my setup bad enough to annoy me every day, but not quite bad enough to stop my real work and fix it. How it works: Zydra is a custom (Smithay-based) Wayland compositor in a microVM with an AMD GPU, implementing a series of terminal protocols that solve many issues but are often ignored: Kitty graphics for windows, OSC 52 for the clipboard, images included, OSC 9/99/777 for notifications, SGR mouse for scrolling and clicks. VNC is limited to sending pictures of the screen and diffing frames to find what changed. In Zydra, apps directly tell the compositor what changed, and terminal text is sent as text you can select and copy natively. The browser is a WebKit build that delivers frames to the compositor as DMA-BUFs without a readback, and agents drive it through Playwright. Alt+P is sort of like Raycast: browse apps, linked GitHub, websites, and SSH targets from it. You can watch the desktop at any point in time and rewind to periodic snapshots. To achieve this, the desktop records into a timeline file, a kind of structured video, and the VM takes snapshots along it. You can traverse back like a livestream to see what happened while you were away, then restore or fork the whole machine from that point. Agents can mark points on the timeline and checkpoint the whole machine before risky changes. Other things to try: ssh -t zydra.sh dino # the Chromium dino game via SSH tar -czf - -C ~ .claude .claude.json | ssh -T zydra.sh upload # bring your configs (includes your Claude login) ssh -o ObscureKeystrokeTiming=no -A zydra.sh # lower latency & forward your SSH agent ssh -p 443 zydra.sh # connect from a corporate firewall sshfs zydra.sh: ~/zydra # paid accounts: mount your home Everything runs on one dedicated server with one AMD iGPU, so there are 12 slots. When they're full you wait in a queue and can play Chromium's offline dino game. The paid plan is $40/month (+ tax): 8 GB RAM, 4 vCPUs, 80 GB disk, GPU access, with no time limit and a 3-day money-back guarantee. I'll be around all day to answer questions.
Bring your Mac desktop to life with four selectable superhero buddies. Watch them swing, glide, drive up walls and battle baddies. Set the pace, pick a display, or trigger actions from the menu bar. Free for macOS 13+, with source code on GitHub.
A free macOS menu bar app for self-hosted GitHub Actions runners. It asks launchd whether each runner is alive and GitHub whether it still counts on it, and never mixes up the two answers.
InterviewGlide is your real-time interview guide. It listens to the interviewer's question and gives you short talking points based on your resume and the job description. It helps with behavioral, technical, system-design and coding questions (send a screenshot), keeps follow-ups in context, and ends with a debrief that guides your next round. Works with Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams. Desktop app for Apple silicon Macs and Windows 11 (early access). Try 2 interviews free, no card.
Clean up lists, logs and data in seconds. You can sort lines 7 ways (A-Z, Z-A, natural, numeric, by length or random), remove duplicates, trim spaces and drop empty lines. Filter with regex, keep or remove matching lines, and set min or max length. You can also find and replace with regex and capture groups, add prefixes, suffixes or line numbers, and change case. It has undo/redo, shortcuts, and TXT or CSV download. Runs in your browser, nothing is uploaded. No signup.
Wanted to have a better reading experience. Curated feeds to avoid bumping into paywalls. Used: https://github.com/chenglou/pretext and: https://github.com/lyallcooper/justif for layout and justification with 2-column pages. Simplified navigation with shortcuts (in Settings) to move through things more quickly. Mainly focused on desktop experience.
Developers often mess up CLI commands, larding the terminal with ugly error spam. Running `clear` or `Ctrl+L` wipes out vital context, file logs, and screen layout, causing annoying context switching. Term-Undo fixes this with a simple `Alt+U` shortcut. It instantly reverts command errors and typos without destroying your active workspace or session history. Keep learning, test freely, and maintain a crystal-clear terminal!
Loqui turns your voice into clean, ready-to-send text in any app on your Mac. Hold a shortcut, speak, and the text lands at your cursor in the tone you pick. It also transcribes meetings and writes the minutes. 90+ languages. Free plan, no card needed.
Asmuth AI is a desktop interview copilot with an always-on-top overlay that works across Zoom, Google Meet, Teams, LeetCode, and HackerRank. It listens until the interviewer finishes, detects up to four questions per turn, and generates answers tailored to each question type—from DSA and behavioral questions to system design and debugging. It also includes mock interviews, screen capture shortcuts, and local chat history, helping candidates stay focused without switching windows.
Free, production-ready Electron boilerplate. React, TypeScript, tRPC, SQLite, auto update, signed releases for macOS/Windows/Linux, V8 bytecode source protection and license keys with Stripe, all wired and documented. Build and sell your desktop app in days.
A free alternative to Postman, Insomnia and Bruno that needs no account. REST, GraphQL, gRPC, WebSocket, Socket.IO and MQTT in one app, with collections saved as plain files you can commit. The desktop app, web app and CLI run the same Go engine, so a CI run matches what you saw while testing. Secrets stay in your own manager, and an MCP server lets coding agents send saved requests with values redacted. MIT licensed.
Traditional clipboard managers log everything you copy, risking leaked credentials and tokens. ClipGum is an open-source, zero-cloud privacy utility for macOS: • Auto-strips tracking tokens (UTM, fbclid) on copy • Redacts API keys & secrets deterministically • Runs on-device Apple MLX AI for text polish & table-to-Markdown • Fast cursor radial wheel (⌃X) • Zero persistent history
Why open 8 different sites when one does it all? Generate random numbers with custom ranges, decimals and no-duplicate mode. Roll D4 to D100 dice, flip coins with stats, pick from a list or shuffle it, split people into teams, or draw a raffle winner. You can also make passwords, PINs and random colors (HEX, RGB, HSL), plus whole palettes. Save lists, export history, use keyboard shortcuts, and toggle sound, animations and confetti. 100% free, no signup.
A "deepswapp" of a website has data from one website in a layout of another website. Deepswapp Browser allows users to seamlessly browse this alternative version of the Internet, today. Video: https://deepswapp.com/assets/deepswapp.mp4 The whole Web can look like Wikipedia, old Reddit, or your own website. Once deepswapped, the website transformation is reusable without AI. Single-file HTML page Only essential data rendered Synchronized tabs Synchronized scrolling No backgrounds No animations Data auto-refresh Image lazy loading This desktop app works on every platform (Docker images also available) and opens a separate Chrome instance, which mirrors opened tabs in the user's main browser. Several deepswapps are included with the download, so no AI subscription is needed for a test drive. A fresh deepswapp takes around 10 minutes and costs about $0.40c on deepseek-v4.1-flash. This goes down by half when deepswapping a known website. Tech side: fully in Golang, with AI-generated JavaScript never executing in the user's main browser. Roadmap: Web and Mobile access, even deeper swaps, parallel swaps. https://deepswapp.com
Poly Duo (C1M): Nothing like this exists on phones yet. ChatGPT and Claude work as a pair. Smartphone orchestration of the strongest AIs — no subscriptions, no extra fees, no server, no card.
A keyboard-first window switcher for macOS, inspired by game hotbars. Preview windows, assign favorites to slots 1–9, and arrange them side by side. Customize shortcuts and switch between English and Japanese. $9.99 once, with a 14-day free trial.
Knock is a shortcut app that lets you control your Mac by simply knocking on it. Tap the sides of your laptop and it runs any shortcut you want — screenshot, open apps, mute sound, and more. It uses your Mac's built-in accelerometer to actually feel the vibration of your knock and react in real time, no extra hardware needed - just knock and go.
CaptureOCR is a lightweight Windows app for offline screenshot capture and OCR. Grab a region, a full window, a delayed capture, or a scrolling long page, then extract text locally with PP-OCRv6—no cloud upload, no account, no subscription. Bilingual English/Chinese UI, copy to clipboard or export results instantly. Built for students, researchers, and office workers who need text off the screen fast.
An opinionated Mac setup kit: one cloud, a folder structure you can copy, file names that sort themselves, and shortcuts that stick. 27 chapters plus an AI folder wizard with ZIP export. Install it in a weekend. First 50 pay €39.
Rein is a cross-platform remote desktop tool that lets you control your computer from any device through a web browser. Enjoy real-time screen streaming, keyboard, mouse, touchscreen, and gamepad support, plus seamless file transfers. Install Rein on Windows, Linux, or macOS, then connect any device on the same network by scanning a QR code or opening a link. No client app needed just open your browser and take control.
Clipmento keeps useful text and images ready to reuse. On Android, save deliberately through Paste, Share or image import, then search, pin, copy or share your saved items. There is no background clipboard monitoring, account or automatic cloud sync. Every feature is free for 14 days; after that, a one-time Pro purchase unlocks retrieval beyond the three newest items. Android is available now. The Mac clipboard-history edition is awaiting its first App Store release.
Spino dims your screen when you slouch and clears it when you sit up. Posture app for the macOS menu bar, free for 4 hours a day. Nothing leaves your Mac.
SuperNotch brings 24 tools to your Mac notch: Smart Search, screen recording, screenshots, clipboard history and more. A native macOS app with a floating layout for notchless displays. Try it free for 3 days, then pay once.
Been using Raycast solely for it's paste history feature. When profiling saw high memory usage and decided to see how performant I could make a tool that only does paste history. Had Claude start with Tauri, GPUI then finally appkit code.
When Apple announced the iPhone Duo I felt the same excitement that I had felt when I got my first iPhone, way back when. I remember playing Tap Tap Revenge, Fruit Ninja and all those other games that really took advantage of the new hardware to create new experiences. I also loved playing cute puzzles like Cut the Rope and Where’s my water. A month ago, I got the itch to build something for the duo, in the lineage of those apps. Something that would be a fun puzzle with a unique game mechanic. I started with a simple premise: what if the cover screen was partly transparent? That could make a fun maze that you have to fold and unfold as you solve it. Orisuji is a turn based paper maze, when the phone is open you have your base maze on the right part of the screen, but the only way to solve it is to figure out when to fold/unfold it to create bridges and new routes. Along the way you’ll encounter increasing complex levels: cats and foxes patrolling, doors you need to unlock, platforms you can toggle, and floors that crumble under you. Some fun things I built/had to do that aren’t obvious: - I built a web based level editor that runs the game’s rules engine compiled from Swift to wasm. - Every level is validated by a solver that identifies shortest solutions, lints the board and identifies which “tricks” are required to solve it. This helped me a few times when designing levels where I would make a change but accidentally would introduce a shortcut. - Figuring out how to translate the fold mechanic to non iPhone Duos was a cool challenge, I ended up adding a “virtual” on screen fold, which still doesn’t justice to the game. - As much as I would love to have some data on how people play the game, it was super important to me that the game worked totally offline, not collecting any data. It was so incredibly fun to build this, as you can expect I leaned heavily into agentic tools, which enabled me to move pretty fast. Every puzzled was however designed by hand, AIs are not good at “fun”, and from a game design perspective this was the most interesting part to me. The whole game costs $4.99, all 69 levels (and already working on new worlds), no IAP ever. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w98lwzHgGWA If you’ve got a duo (or not) I’d love to hear your feedback. And more than happy to answer anything about building/designing it!
Find files, and clipboard history by meaning, from one hotkey. Everything runs on your Mac and nothing is uploaded. No account. Every install gets a 14-day Pro trial, no signup or card. Apple Silicon, macOS 14+.
reVault is a new, secure-by-default archive format called a lockbox, designed to be simple to use. I've been working on reVault for about 2 years. It was originally written in Dart, but with the improvements in AI, I decided to port it to Rust using AI. It's now in beta, so I'm looking for feedback, particularly around the different language bindings. A lockbox is encrypted, signed and compressed by default. Each can be disabled selectively. - Hybrid post-quantum or passphrase encryption, including metadata. - Zstd compression. - Pure Rust libraries wherever possible. We intend to phase out remaining C code as alternatives become available. The project has been scanned using OpenAI's Daybreak cyber security tools. The manual is a work in progress: https://docs.revault.onepub.dev/ reVault supports Linux, macOS and Windows, x64 and arm64, plus Wasm. The core is Rust, with bindings for C/C++, Java, Dart, Python, Ruby, JS/TypeScript, Go, C#, Kotlin, Lua, PHP and Swift. Within a lockbox you can store: - Files, directories, permissions and symlinks. - Variables. - Forms. Variables, forms and the lockbox itself can have descriptions. reVault uses a portable vault (just another lockbox with structured content) to hold your keys, contacts' keys, lockbox aliases and form definitions. It ties into your platform's secure store, so logging into your desktop unlocks your vault. You don't have to enter a passphrase every time you access a lockbox. You can disable this. There are lots of shortcuts. Creating a lockbox stores an alias in your vault, based on its filename or a name you choose: lbx create /some/path/mybox.lbox lbx mybox open --duration 1h lbx mybox var set KEY VALUE Set a default lockbox and you can leave its name out: lbx session default mybox lbx var get KEY You can mirror a directory tree into a lockbox and update it when the directory changes: lbx store.lbox mirrors project create --from ./project --to /projects/project lbx store.lbox mirrors update The API lets you read, write and seek within files without extracting them to the filesystem. Each lockbox has a table of contents, so extracting a single file from a multi-gigabyte lockbox is fast. Recovery Updates are transactional, with automatic rollback for failed updates. The format is designed for recovery: content is stored in pages, allowing unaffected content to be recovered if part of a lockbox is corrupted. Sharing An encrypted lockbox is more useful if you can share it. reVault has an open-source keyserver for exchanging public keys, with validation through a second trusted channel. It's still experimental. OnePub has donated a server to run a single keyserver. If you're interested in donating resources, I'd like to bring up a second redundant server. It's pure Rust, uses under 100 MB RSS and supports rate limits. To publish your default profile's public key: lbx vault profiles email you@example.com lbx vault profiles publish Give the publish code to your contact. They can import your key: lbx vault contacts receive <publish-code> <contact-name> Display your profile's fingerprint and exchange it through a second trusted channel: lbx vault profiles fingerprint Repeat the process in the opposite direction to get their key. Once you have it, grant them access to your default lockbox: lbx access grant alice You can then email the encrypted lockbox to Alice. To install the CLI and get started: cargo install revault_cli lbx vault init lbx completion install Completion installation detects your shell. To diagnose issues: lbx doctor The language bindings are published to their respective package repositories. I'm looking for constructive criticism of the project on its own merits, particularly the APIs and language bindings. I'm not interested in a debate about using AI.
New since our March launch: a Mac app that lives in the menu bar and cues you from the notch, a voice coach that speaks in your AirPods, and coaching that keeps working with your phone locked. AirPosture turns the motion sensors in your AirPods into a posture coach. When your head drifts forward, a calm voice helps you sit back up. Plus 30-second resets and a weekly view of your posture, with iPhone and Mac in sync. Free for 2 hours a day.
Your Claude Code, Codex and Mistral Vibe sessions as a live, animated team call: who is working, who waits on whom, who needs you. VS Code extension, terminal command, desktop app. Runs locally, zero tokens.
Just say "chappie" and keep talking: no hotkeys, no clicks, no keyboard. Chappie lives in your menu bar with no Dock icon and no window, and wakes only to your voice. Enroll once and it tunes out the TV and the people around you, and your speech is transcribed entirely on your device. It remembers names, family and preferences across sessions, and can reply in VOICEVOX voices in Japanese. Free for 5 conversations a day with no signup and no API key; Pro unlocks unlimited use. Open source.
Perchy turns your notch into a hub: music with lyrics, meetings you can join, clipboard history, a tray for files, a coin and currency converter, crypto prices and alerts, Face Unlock and music on the lock screen. Turn on only what you use.
Windows has no quick home for the stuff you juggle mid-task: files you’re moving, a song, a note, something you just copied. Tomte puts it all in the top edge of your screen, hidden until you push the pointer up, hit a hotkey or drag a file there. Built for Windows 11 power users who live in shortcuts. Features: file shelf, media controls, scratchpad, clipboard history, search, timers, and optional AI on your own key (circle-to-ask, local voice typing). Free, open source, no tracking.
TidyFrame is a tiny Mac menu bar app that snaps windows to halves, thirds or your own positions, and saves whole setups as Workspaces you bring back with one shortcut. Unlike most snapping apps, it remembers your whole layout, not just one window. No account, no tracking, 34 languages. 7-day free trial, then $4.99 once. Launch week: 30% off with code LAUNCH30.
Unpixel is a Mac menu bar app that copies text from anything on your screen. Press ⇧⌘2, drag over a video, screen share, scanned PDF or image, and the text is on your clipboard — recognized on-device by Apple’s Vision framework. Captured images are never saved or uploaded, and there’s no account. It also reads QR codes and pastes tables as tables. One-time purchase from $5.99, no subscription, every 1.x update included.
You plugged the cable in, but you are still on Wi-Fi, and nothing on screen tells you. Konechi asks the Mac which connection is actually carrying your traffic and shows it in the menu bar, with a character who is on top form on a cable, doing fine on Wi-Fi and out of energy offline. Click her for the network name, IP address, link speed and live traffic. Turn on a VPN and she adds a padlock while still showing which link does the work underneath. No Dock icon, no account. Free and open source.
Kopi is an open-source clipboard manager for macOS and Windows. Unlimited history, instant search, pinboards and snippets, kept on your computer. The alpha is free to download.
The IDE you know, rebuilt in Rust. IntelliJ IDEA–style keymap, tool windows and search-everywhere in a fast native app: editor, code insight, debugger, Git, terminal, database and HTTP clients for 60+ languages.
ClipStack is a menu bar clipboard manager for macOS. Press ⌥⌘V to bring back anything you've copied — text, links, — straight into the app you're working in. One-time $12, 14-day free trial, nothing leaves your Mac.
Glide is a keyboard-first launcher for macOS. Press ⌥ Space to open apps, snap windows, search your clipboard, expand snippets, ask AI and automate your Mac. New: use it from your iPhone too. Native, light, MIT licensed, no account needed.
I'm building Multipeer, a desktop app for running agents, tools and working wth teammates on one shared canvas. I often have several agent sessions open at once, but they're all scattered across terminals. It was also hard for my co-founder to see what my agents are doing or jump in to work together. So We built the solution to our own problem. And now we're releasing it to the world. It's a macOS app for now (soon on Windows and Linux). You can invite your teammates over a local network or over the internet. They can follow your view and, if you allow them, they can also take control of your terminal and claude code/codex sessions. The app is still early, and I'm also releasing the iPhone/Android app soon to remotely control everything on your canvas. I'd would like to get feedback from the HN community! If there's any features you'd like to see, please contact me via: shyam@multipeer.sh, we build really fast. I'd love to talk to everyone of you and work on your feedback! Thanks!
Hey everyone, Inspired by Herdr, I've built an agent multiplexer that I've been using as my daily driver for a few weeks now. I think I improved on the concept in a few ways, focusing on the ergonomics I always wished I had: I show you what the agents are up to, along with a running feed of their activity. There's also a simple shortcut (F1) to go to the next unread agent. I use multiple accounts, so I've added unified launcher for Codex/Claude Code/Pi. Theres some careful ergonomics there: fast search and resume over sessions, inline usage tracking etc. Many small quality of life improvements to the terminal experience: - Links can be copied with a click, so no need to drag-select over many lines - cmd+v just pastes images (even on SSH) - images have a thumbnail preview. - Built-in CPU/Memory/GPU usage tracking, broken down by workspace I assume you have access to cheap inference (Luna/Haiku/etc). It just reuses the agents to organize things for you: what is this http link? what is this worktree about? what is each agent doing? It's small but it made my environment feel more cozy. On a personal note, I've been on a frustrating sick leave for a while now. I created Corgi to challenge myself, and see if I can go back. The answer is more mixed than I had hoped, but I am happy with the result and thankful for the experience. I hope you like it! a few friends & myself have been using it for a few weeks and it's been pretty nice. There's still a lot to improve and some rough edges, so feedback would be greatly appreciated. Thank you :)
Clipboard for devs, by devs! Your clipboard just got an upgrade; shortcuts now directly accessible on your keyboard! No more worries on losing your last copy!
Nine small tools behind one Mac menu bar icon. HushMic mutes your mic when the dog barks. PasteMask hides API keys you paste into ChatGPT. ShotName names after their text. Plus 6 more. Nothing leaves your Mac. $9 once, all nine.
Talaria turns shell shortcuts into a visual workflow. Instead of editing aliases or scripts by hand, you can search common Git commands, add custom commands, arrange them in order, and register the sequence as one short terminal command. It also warns about potentially destructive commands, stops a sequence when a step fails, and keeps everything local—no account, cloud sync, or telemetry.
A scrolling window manager for macOS, inspired by niri and PaperWM. Every window is a column on an endless strip: windows keep their size, and you swipe with four fingers to move between them. Stacks, tabs, pinning, multiple displays, remappable shortcuts. Native, tiny, free and open source.
7CODE.MCP transforms AI assistants into powerful Windows automation tools. Control desktop applications, manage files, automate repetitive tasks, and execute complex workflows through the Model Context Protocol (MCP). Key features: - AI-powered Windows automation - File and application management - Persistent local project memory - Progress and error tracking - Open-source and customizable Built for developers, AI enthusiasts, and anyone looking to automate Windows with AI.
Storage Menu shows used and free space for your Mac and external drives right in the menu bar, with a warning you set for each volume. Choose Analyze… on any volume to open a disk map: every folder is a cell sized by the space it takes, colored by folder, file type or age. Click to go inside, preview with Quick Look or show in Finder. Nothing is changed or deleted. No telemetry, no data collected. Native Swift app for macOS 14+, Apple Silicon and Intel, in 50 languages.
I'm Luke from Kino. We make a video editor + MAM in the browser. Transcode opens Blackmagic RAW, RED R3D, ProRes, DNxHR, and MXF files in the browser (including the famously tricky OP-Atom). You can scrub rapidly, convert to H.264 or ProRes, all without installing anything or uploading footage. We built this because the film editors and creators we work with still need a desktop app just to look at a clip from these cameras, and we want it to be a link instead. The BRAW decoder builds on Paul B Mahol's FFmpeg BRAW decoder, which we ported to FFmpeg 8 and extended for newer files. For the R3D decoder, scrubbing uses quarter, eighth and sixteenth resolution, because a full 8K frame takes about 24 seconds on one core. Also, HDR clips convert to Rec.709 when they're tagged as PQ or HLG with BT.2020 colors. We also built a ProRes encoder+decoder, but we instead merged our efforts with Vanilagy of Mediabunny fame. His turbores implementation is very much worth the hype.
ClipStack is a native macOS clipboard manager built with SwiftUI and AppKit. Press ⇧⌘V to open a floating panel over any app, search everything you've copied and paste with ↩. Filter by text, links, images or files, pin favourites, paste as plain text, and see which app each item came from. History stays on your Mac with no account and no tracking, with optional iCloud sync. Password-manager copies are never saved. Free and open source.
Reduce background noise in audio and video without uploading your files. SpeechLens brings NVIDIA's RE-USE speech enhancement to your Mac in a native menu bar app. Drop a file, enhance speech, and hear the difference with before-and-after playback. Built for Apple Silicon, with a CLI and open-source code.
POPL brings several AI market analysts together in one Windows desktop app, letting you compare their perspectives on stocks instead of relying on a single answer. Built for independent research, with English and Spanish interfaces and no brokerage connection required. We’re seeking feedback on clarity and usability. Includes a 15-day trial, then €20/month. Decision support, not financial advice; no proven profitability claim.
TL;DR: Made an android app for note-taking and task management compatible with org-mode and I'd love for you to try it. It has a ton of features and a lot of quality of life improvements. If you use Emacs and use an Android phone, this would be a great companion app for you. What is Bloom and why does it exist? Bloom is an org-mode compatible Android app for note-taking and task management. I was a long time Orgzly Revived user and there were certain pain points I wanted solved, like capture templates, bookmarks, nicer UI, better themes, handling sync conflicts, etc. I wanted to solve this for myself and spent a few months working on the app. I announced it on r/emacs ( https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1w35r88/grove_an_and... ) a few weeks ago and it is now available on F-Droid and Play Store. Features I want to list out some of the features here (copied over from my announcement post on r/emacs): - Beautiful UI with read and edit modes that offer a really nice viewing experience (rendering headings, plain text, formatted content, tags, dates, drawers, todo keywords, etc) and easy editing with a formatting toolbar that sits above the keyboard. - Handle sync conflicts by showing a diff between current version and incoming copy and select between either of them or keep both - Capture templates that is rich with placeholders like %t, %? and even %^{prompt} - App shortcuts for easy access to capture templates - Agenda view with a separate section for overdue tasks that offers a one-click "move to today" to bulk reschedule all overdue items to today - Agenda widget with a quick add overlay to quickly add tasks - Ability to refile by drilling down to a specific heading, choose the last refiled location or use the ARCHIVE property in the heading, its ancestors or what's defined in the file-level preface. - Ability to auto archive done tasks so that your todo list is clean and you don't have to manually clean up tasks - Setting scheduled/deadline with support for repeater cookies that also have nice explanations for each (I kept forgetting them). It also supports shorthand entry like "d: fri 10-11am ++1w" - Ability to pin specific org files to the top of the list for easy access - Bookmark specific headings in the sidebar for easy access - Support for nested folders - Orgzly-compatible search expressions + visual filtering by including/excluding various facets in the UI - Ability to import/export your settings - Tons of themes. Two official Bloom Light and Dark themes, some custom themes and some popular ones like Catppuccin, Rose Pine Dawn/Moon, Tokyo Night, etc - Notifications for both tasks with a set time as well as a daily digest notification telling you how many tasks you have for the day. There are more features than what I've listed here. You'll stumble upon them as you use the app. I'd really appreciate it if you give it a try. How to get the app? - F-Droid: https://f-droid.org/packages/com.rrajath.grove - Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rrajath.gr... - GitHub Releases: https://github.com/rrajath/bloom/releases Full disclosure: LLMs were involved. But so was I. I spent a lot of time reading through the code that was generated, modifying code, tweaking things, regularly improving performance and redoing certain features over and over again so that I could get it right. One last thing. This app has no tracking, no data collection, no ads, no monetization, no paywall. I hate all of that and I don't want to put users through a shitty experience just to make a few bucks. It will forever be free. I'm very grateful for the Emacs community and it's such a joy to use emacs on a daily basis, I just wanted to share a nice (well, subjective!) app experience.
boardCache is your collection of infinite canvas boards for references, inspiration, research, and plans. Pin images, videos, documents, markdown, links, webpages, and more. Draw connections, add timelines, storyboards, task lists and projects when you need structure. Offline-first with optional E2E encrypted sync. The built-in assistant reads your board and acts on it. The desktop app is an MCP server, so agents can build boards too. For web, Mac, Windows and Linux, with a browser clipper.
Free editor for XLIFF, SDLXLIFF (Trados), MQXLIFF (memoQ), PO, Excel and CSV translation files. It runs in your browser: nothing is uploaded, no account, works offline. Translation memory, glossary, 15 QA checks, Trados and memoQ shortcuts, and an export that rewrites only the segments you edited - everything else in the file comes back exactly as it arrived.
MegaKey is a proposed standardization + extension of Hyper and Meh - Mental tools for your mind: turn a mouthful like "Shift+Control+Option+Command+C" into "Giga+C" - Software tools for your fingers: easily press Shift+Control+Option+Command+C using just two fingers from a single hand! (via Karabiner rules) I renamed Hyper and Meh because the modifier key combinations varied depending on the source. I picked the most logical combination: Giga == Shift + Mega I picked the names/symbols and even modifier combinations so they would be easy remember. Explained in detail: https://leftium.github.io/megakey/modifiers --- In addition, I created 3 more pseudo-modifier keys. They are very handy for existing shortcuts. For example: - Wish+Space: TrellisWM "Show everything"[1] (Ctrl+Option+Space) - Chaos+N: Chrome "Add tab to new split view" (Cmd+Option+N) - More useful pre-existing shortcuts: https://leftium.github.io/megakey/shortcuts [1]: https://trelliswm.app/docs/#shortcuts
A free desktop app for Windows, macOS and Linux. Make an agent for each job, call several into one conversation with @names, and watch their work on a monitoring timeline. Agents run on your Claude or Codex subscription, an API key, a local model or Parallax credits, and ask before anything risky. Reach them from Telegram, Discord, Slack, Signal or email.
Pupnik is a free iPhone app that turns the daily dog walk into a real-world treasure hunt. Start a GPS-tracked walk, find bones, balls and rare toys hidden along your route, earn XP and watch your dog level up from New Pup to Goodest Pup. A daily streak, a weekly leaderboard of minutes walked near you, Live Activity and Dynamic Island updates while you walk, Home Screen widgets, Siri Shortcuts and optional Apple Health sync. Unlimited walks, XP, levels, finds and weekly rankings are free.
For the past 12 years as a data engineer, I've been building pipelines across many different business categories and sizes. Most pipelines that I’ve encountered were relatively simple jobs and required more orchestration and infrastructure than the work seems to justify. I wanted to make it easier for business users or analysts to take on the less complicated requests and technical engineers be able to focus on more complex pipelines. So in the past year I've been building a local desktop application (Mac/PC/Linux) to make it easy enough for analysts to build pipelines and answer analytical questions they have about their data, no matter their level of technical expertise. It’s called Ternlux, and it streamlines the process of transforming and getting your data where it needs to go. There are two key features: - Ask questions: AI helps to write the query for your connection and answer your question - Build reusable workflows: The AI generates SQL, Python, and workflow logic that executes based on your defined rules and triggers One of the key advantages of the application is you can perform cross-database joins between databases, local files, vector databases, and cloud storage. You describe the workflow you want and the app writes the code and builds the environment to execute it in (for local joins, it uses either JS, Python, or DuckDB to execute the code). For example, if I want to build a workflow that joins a Postgres table with a CSV file and write the results to Snowflake, I just describe the tables I want to use, the keys to join on, and where the join should run. The app takes care of the rest. I also wanted the app to be as secure as possible. It always asks for approval before performing any database or local file manipulation. It never sends anything to Ternlux servers if you haven’t opted into telemetry. It’s important to note that the app will send query results to your selected AI provider to analyze and answer your questions. It will also send the schema and a small sample size of your data to build workflows properly. It is a bring your own key application. It supports Gemini, Claude, OpenAI, and any models that are OpenAI compatible (Ollama, LM Studio, Openrouter…). All of your credentials stay encrypted locally. And the app is completely free including all features (besides the AI models you use with your own key obviously). I’ve built a quick showcasing the applications https://www.ternlux.com/online-demo/ 3-min overview: https://youtu.be/tA7N7wiLliA The list of connectors that exist: Postgres, MySQL, SQL Server, BigQuery, Snowflake, MongoDB, Pinecone, LanceDB, S3, GCS, Azure Blob, Google Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox, and Google Sheets. I would love your honest feedback on this. How can this product be improved? Would you currently use it as a tool to replace your current tool or in conjunction with your other tools? What feature do you find most useful and I should focus on from the list?
Hatoba is a second dock for macOS. It sits on the left, right or bottom edge of any screen (or in the notch) and stays hidden until you need it. Pin apps, links and 16 live widgets: system stats, music, weather, calendar, notes and more. See at a glance whether your Claude Code, Codex and Cursor sessions are working, waiting or done. Also includes clipboard history, window snapping and with OCR. $14.99 one-time, 14-day free trial, no account.
Dayside is a free, open-source world clock for the Mac menu bar. Each city gets a row in the color of its sky right now, so you can see who is asleep. Paste a message to read times in 16 languages, or find a meeting time that works for everyone.
Prayer times, Qibla and Quran reading with separate Turkish transliteration and meaning controls, audio, text sizing and bookmarks. Home shortcuts lead to verses, duas and surahs; a digital tasbih and Hijri calendar are included. Android and iOS, free with ads. English and six other interface languages are supported. Turkish transliteration is a reading aid, not a replacement for learning Arabic pronunciation or tajweed.
Colabio connects every tracked hour to its project, task and daily update. Desktop app for macOS, Windows and Linux, timesheets, invoices, project budgets and a read-only MCP connector so you can ask Claude or ChatGPT about your team. Visible, never hidden.
A free menu bar app for macOS. After the idle time you choose, it moves the cursor by one pixel so Teams and Slack don't show you as away. No clicks, open source (MIT), signed and notarized by Apple. It warns you with an alert icon if it stops working.
Never miss a movie or TV show from your favourite talent! The Slate is the unique and easy way to keep track of upcoming movie and TV projects from your favourite actors, writers, directors, or producers. Simply add them to your favourites and see their upcoming work listed in your own personal project Slate. New in v1.2: – iPadOS, macOS, and watchOS support. – Ask Siri AI to display Your Slate, add new favourites and more. – Create your own custom shortcuts with The Slate's native actions.
Keyly is a free, open-source menu bar app for macOS. Double-tap ⇪ Caps Lock, or any key you choose, to see every shortcut of the app you're in, read live from its menus. Search them, add your own in plain text, or install one of 31 templates.
Most of my day now involves AI agents: Claude Code in the terminal, Codex, Cursor, ChatGPT. The slow part isn’t the models. It’s the hand-off: copying the error, switching apps, pasting, explaining which file and which project, then doing it all again for the next agent. So I built Beckon, a native Mac app. You press one shortcut in any app, and Beckon already knows what you’re looking at.
Putzen helps you to clear clutter on your Mac, one decision at a time. It's a Mac app that automatically groups duplicate files, files added over six months ago, and the rest. You can preview files, then keep or move them to Trash using buttons or arrow keys. Switch to a grid for bulk cleanup, reverse the shortcuts to suit you, and undo mistakes. Files stay on your Mac. No account, no uploads, no subscription. Try the interactive website before buying.
hovernotch turns your Mac's notch into a live island. Now Playing with artwork, scrubber and synced lyrics; AirPods and battery; timers, meetings with a Join button; volume and brightness HUDs; a lock-screen player. Drag files up to the shelf, search a clipboard history that skips passwords. For developers: approve your coding agent's requests, answer its questions and review its plans from the notch. No notch? It floats. No account, no analytics, nothing uploaded.
CareerPilot is an AI-powered interview copilot designed to help job seekers prepare for interviews with greater confidence. It provides real-time interview assistance, resume-based answer suggestions, technical interview support, system design guidance, and live coding assistance through a Windows desktop application. CareerPilot aims to make interview preparation smarter, more efficient, and accessible to candidates looking to advance their careers.
Copybook is a menu-bar clipboard book for your Mac. Each day gets its own page so copies don’t fall into one endless pile. Notes, titled links, pictures, and named colors land as stickers; API keys and tokens stay covered until you reveal them. One payment (£4.99 / $4.99), no account, and no cloud sync.
ExamBhai is a free, privacy-first speed math & revision platform for competitive exams (CAT, IIT JEE, NEET, Bank PO, SSC). Turn idle study moments into 60s micro-sprints: • Vedic math shortcuts, %-fraction drills & number series • NCERT line-by-line formula flashcards & PYQ recall • Library Stealth Mode for silent reading room practice • 100% private, offline-ready local storage with zero ads
Give every app its own volume — and its own sound. MixBar is a native menu bar mixer for macOS. Every running app gets a real volume slider, its own output device and its own equalizer, so your music, meetings and browser stop fighting over one system volume. It also includes 4,000+ calibrated headphone EQ profiles. There is no audio driver to install: MixBar uses the audio taps built into macOS, and audio is never recorded or sent anywhere.
Meet Dots, a customizable workspace built into your Mac's notch. Most notch apps focus on music and notifications. Dots goes further by helping you access your favorite apps, websites, and shortcuts without constantly switching windows. Watch videos while working, take scrolling screenshots, use voice commands, and more. Whether you're studying, coding, or creating, Dots adapts to your workflow. Free to get started. No subscriptions.
Need an electrician you can actually trust? TGS Electrical serves homeowners and businesses across Mississauga, Scarborough, and Toronto. Breaker issues? Dimming lights? Panel upgrades? EV chargers? They'll get it done right the first time. No shortcuts. No surprises. Just honest work from people who care.
Peras puts a line in your Claude Code and Codex week. Set it (peras set weekly 85 pause) and once usage crosses it, the agent's next tool call is refused with a plain reason, so one long task can't burn the rest of your week. Resume whenever you want, from the terminal or the menu bar. Opt-in: your agents can be told their own usage. The CLI and hooks are free and MIT. The native Mac menu bar app is €4.99 once.
Hourbloom is a menu bar time tracker for people who bill by the hour. Start a task in one click and watch today’s earnings grow at your hourly rate. TRACK TIME • Start, pause and switch tasks from the menu bar, where the running timer is always visible. • Projects and tasks, with an optional hourly rate for each project. • A mini timer stays on top of every window. • Left your desk with the timer running? When you’re back, Hourbloom asks what to do with that time.
Mippoo is a free clipboard history manager for macOS. It sits in the menu bar and remembers the text, links, images and files you copy. Search as you type, filter by type or source app, and star favorites so they survive cleanup. Press ⌥ Space over any app to open the Quick Panel and pick an item. Your history is stored only on your Mac: no account, no cloud, no sync. Password managers and concealed items are skipped.
Barside puts a note-taking app, a to-do list, a read-later inbox, a screen recorder, video meetings, a password vault and an AI assistant into one free desktop app for Windows, Mac and Linux. Your library is saved on your computer and notes work without an account. The AI uses the account you connect (Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini or OpenRouter), and every change it makes can be reviewed and undone. It also works with Claude Code, Cursor and Codex through MCP.
Walkcast is a free, open-source desktop app (Windows, macOS and Linux) that makes a video tour of your website from one link. A real browser signs in, visits up to 30 pages the way a first-time user would (8 by default) and returns the complete recording as an MP4 with WebVTT captions and a transcript. A voice-over is included when you add a voice key. Every caption comes from what the browser actually did.
ApexNotch transforms your MacBook notch into a sleek Dynamic Island command center. • 🐾 Notch Mascot Pets: Playful companions adaptive to CPU speed • 🗄️ File Shelf: Seamless drag-and-drop staging zone • 🎵 Music Visualizer: Apple Music & Spotify controls with waveforms • 📋 Smart Clipboard: Auto secret & API key redaction • 📊 11 Productivity Widgets: Pomodoro, System stats, Notes & more 100% Free & Open Source, zero telemetry, pure Swift 6 and AppKit.
I have built a note taking, to-do application, what makes this different then others? This app targets to make note taking fun, and efficient. - Most important feature it's fast. Performance wise, and usage wise. It's a combination of convenient, clever (actually obvious) keyboard shortcuts, and focused optimizations to make it extremely simple to take notes fast. - This is completely hand crafted application, Not an AI slop, nor AI assisted. And, a lot of thought has been put to architect the app, and design. - Stores all notes in a simple text file, so personal data is never locked down. If you are a Linux user, you can simply use grep/ripgrep to filter/search your data. - Every note is one liners, actions are done through keyboard shortcuts - Local only - Organize notes using Projects, Tags - A simple but effecting Task management system - Unlimited undo/redo - Search - Filtering by date, date range - Context system to group notes and focused work - Notes are archived, instead of being deleted. But in future there will be way to purge archived notes WIP feature: Reminders - Planned features Back-links, Simple Bookmark manager, Kanban, Timer, Eisenhower matrix, while storing all data in text file. This app is still in development, and many things will be cleaned up gradually. But even in current state it's a complete powerful, efficient note taking application. [Check here for more details, and screenshots]( https://mtarin.com/projects/nift/ ) [Demo video here]( https://youtu.be/r4c6hFey-8M ) [Demo version download]( https://github.com/tmahmood/fluffy_sparrow/releases ) Let me know what do you think! NB: Previously I posted this app as FluffySparrow, NiFT uses same back-end, but the UI is completely rewritten using Tauri, with more features.
Offstage is a menu bar app that keeps the window you're using lit and lets every other window recede: dimmed, blurred or faded, in a warmth you choose. A soft spotlight follows your click. Hold ⌥ to peek. No account, no tracking. $6.99 once.
AskOnce is a free Windows desktop app that shares project context between Claude Code and Codex. A new chat in one tool starts with a short, local, secret-scanned brief of what you did in the other, so you never explain the same project twice.
A free, open-source macOS menu bar app for grouping apps and websites. Open, hide, or close a whole group in one action, and filter groups from the menu bar. Native Swift app for macOS 14+, with a universal Apple Silicon and Intel build, Developer ID signing and Apple notarization. No accounts or analytics. MIT licensed.
A Mac menu bar app that shows every simulator, emulator, Gradle daemon, container, dev server and AI agent using your RAM, and stops them the way their own tools do. Databases and pins are left alone. A Disk tab finds old runtimes and caches.Ramback shows every simulator, emulator, Gradle daemon, container and dev server eating your Mac's memory, and stops them in one click.
Push-to-talk voice typing for Windows, macOS, Linux and Android. On-device or cloud speech recognition, AI polish with presets, a dictionary, rules and scenes, long recordings with subtitles; the phone works on its own or pairs end-to-end encrypted as the computer's microphone and keyboard.
Notchwake turns your Mac's notch into an island. Hover it and it opens: what's playing, your next meeting, a tray you can drop files on, a timer, shortcuts, and your Claude Code sessions, where you can allow or deny a command without leaving what you're doing. No account, no telemetry, nothing sent to a server of mine. Native SwiftUI, light on battery, works on Macs without a notch too. 7 days free, then $12.99 lifetime or $1.99/month.
Most macOS clipboard tools are either subscription-based or text-only. OpenPaste combines a visual bottom card bar with open-source freedom: • Seamless 1-click import from Paste (history, pinboards & raw formats) • In-place translation using your own OpenAI-compatible API • Built-in image OCR, code syntax highlighting, color picker & Apple Maps previews • Sequential paste queue & batch actions • Local-first storage with optional iCloud Drive sync.
Claude Code as a desktop app: every edit as a diff, permissions as buttons, sessions side by side, and the real CLI one click away. Windows · macOS · Linux · English / 简体中文
EffectPad turns your guitar or bass and audio interface into a complete amp and pedalboard. Play free in the browser or get the near-zero-latency desktop app.
ScreenSharePro helps you connect to and control a remote computer with a Windows desktop application. Access remote sessions, adjust display settings, and use tools such as and recording from the session toolbar.
Tucko turns copied text, links, images, code and colours into a searchable shelf on your Mac. Organise useful clips into pinboards, collect visual inspiration in moodboards, and reuse text with snippets. On supported Macs, Apple Intelligence can summarise, rewrite and translate copied text. Your clipboard history stays on your Mac. Native macOS app, 7-day free trial, one-time purchase.
Claude Usage Bar puts your Claude 5-hour and weekly limits in the Mac menu bar, with reset times, per-model limits, a 30-day chart and alerts at the percentage you pick. Free and open source. Sign in with your browser; your data stays on your Mac.
Clipket is a private clipboard history for macOS that drops out of your Mac notch. • Hover the notch or press ⌃⌘Space to see recent clips, ⌘1–9 to paste instantly • Search text inside with Apple's on-device text recognition • Text expansion, colour picker, paste-in-order, smart rules • Password manager copies ignored, API keys and card numbers hidden • 8 skins, and a slim pill for Macs without a notch No account, no Clipket cloud, no analytics. One-time purchase, lifetime updates.
A desktop app for Windows, macOS and Linux that opens, edits and saves PowerPoint files without an account. Edit right on the slide with a PowerPoint-style ribbon, slide thumbnails, a format pane, speaker notes and slide show, and Ctrl+S saves the samepptx. Sign in to create a deck with AI that lands straight in the open presentation, or turn on Connect AI apps so Claude Desktop, Claude Code or Cursor can change slides over MCP.
RatePeek v1.2 updates this Windows currency utility with up to 5 quick conversion windows, optional clipboard number detection, additional currency lookup, independent always-on-top controls and a floating HUD. Clearer window IDs, data sources and update times. 7-day trial, then optional one-time purchase. Reference values, not transaction rates. More products on Microsoft Store
Featuring a Windows desktop app designed to provide candidates with an authentic, exam-accurate environment for IELTS Writing Task 1 and Task 2 preparation. It includes built-in Cambridge practice prompts, custom exam timers, an instant local forensic audit engine for band score estimations, and Google Gemini AI integration for professional feedback. Additionally, featuring a topic logic and vocabulary booster across mutiple subjects, live informal word replacements and PDF report exports.
Teclo sits in your Mac menu bar and plays a mechanical keyboard sound for every key you press, in any app. A keycap pet reacts as you type and powers up when you keep the pace. 10 sound packs. USD 4.99 once, for life, with a 7-day free trial.
A free one-page tool for typing German umlauts on any keyboard. Click-to-copy Ä, Ö, Ü and ß, with Alt codes for Windows, Option shortcuts for Mac, long-press instructions for mobile, plus a full Unicode and HTML code reference. No signup, no clutter. Just the characters and how to type them.
Pin Pal turns your Chrome new tab into a clean, keyboard-first speed dial. Version 3 brings cross-device Google sync, Spaces to separate Work and Study contexts, Tab Stash to save entire windows, and tab snooze. Organize unlimited shortcuts into custom categories, search saved links instantly with Cmd+K or number keys 1-9, and customize your view with wallpaper blur and dim controls. Works instantly with zero account required, keeping your data private on device.
Select a word or phrase on your Mac, press a shortcut, and send an AI-generated card to Anki. Use your own Codex, Claude Code, or Gemini CLI and chosen model. Set explanation and interface languages separately; preview ambiguous terms. Open source. Apple Silicon/macOS 14+ preview, not Apple-notarized yet. Requires Anki, AnkiConnect, and a supported AI CLI.
Limitly: Never get caught off guard by your AI usage limits. Track Claude, Cursor, and Codex usage right from your Mac’s menu bar. Know how much you have left, when your limits reset, and get notified before you run out. 🌱 Fun, interactive themes, 🔔 Usage limit notifications, 🔑 No API keys needed, 🆓 Completely free. Built for people who build with AI. Give it a try!
Zap is a tiny menu bar app for macOS that quits every open app in one click. Your windows spiral into the ⚡ button and each app quits the moment it gets there, exactly like pressing ⌘Q, so unsaved documents still ask to save. Finder, the Dock and system processes are never touched, and you can lock any app you want to keep (music, terminal…). 1 MB, no account, no network code, no tracking. Perfect before a screen share, at the end of the day or to start a focus session. 2$ one-time payment.
Upto puts every app and command-line tool on your Mac in one list, whether it updates through the App Store, Sparkle, Homebrew, TestFlight, Setapp, npm, pipx, uv, or only from a download page. It checks as often as you choose, finds update sources for most apps without one, and notifies you, with a count on the Dock and menu bar. Release notes show in your language, translated on your Mac. Upto verifies every download and installs it in place, one at a time or all at once. No account needed.
Hold Caps Lock and a keyboard appears: every shortcut you've bound in the app you're in, on the key it lives on. Press it, it runs. Open an app, press keys, paste a snippet, click a button, run a script: one key each. Shortcuts know which app, site or window you're in, so one key means different things in Gmail and in your CRM. Runs on your Mac, works offline, voice transcribed on-device. For most people it replaces Raycast or Alfred. Free up to 20 shortcuts; Pro $12/month.
Switchboard puts two WhatsApp Web accounts in one Windows app. Keep separate persistent logins, switch with clear labels and global shortcuts, or use split view. Includes account-aware alerts, tray indicators, a compact sidebar, and saved layout settings. Built with Rust, Tauri, and WebView2. Open-source code on GitHub; build locally, no prebuilt installer yet. Unofficial and not affiliated with WhatsApp or Meta.
Caskit is a free, open-source desktop app for CS2 skin collectors and traders. Move thousands of items in and out of storage units, run trade-ups with odds and profit, track inventory value and P&L, and manage multiple accounts with built-in Steam Guard.
Mellow is a free focus timer for Mac. Pick a companion, plan your tasks, and turn finished sessions into flowers. A floating panel and menu bar countdown keep your session close, with flexible breaks and a gentle approach to staying on task.
Electros is one desktop app to run your whole infrastructure. Connect your own AtomOS servers, VMware ESXi or Proxmox, and public clouds like AWS and Google Cloud, then launch VMs, Kubernetes, databases, object storage, and apps like n8n in a few clicks. Group everything into environments like Production and Staging, manage teams and usage limits, and use cloud capacity with your own account or through us. Try it free for 7 days. Use code ELE10OFF to get 10% off
A native Mac app that compresses videos, images, GIFs, and PDFs in one queue, 100% offline. Free for unlimited files with safe replacement. Upgrade to Pro once for watched folders, clipboard compression, Shortcuts, and exact MB target sizes.
A Mac menu bar app that keeps your MacBook running with the lid closed while Claude Code, Codex or other AI agents work, then lets it sleep. A battery floor, heat pause, fan control and a watchdog keep it safe. 14-day free trial, then $9.99/year for 3 Macs.
Grevidy is a desktop launcher for Mac & Windows. Press Alt + Space anywhere and your whole day appears on one layer of glass: app launcher, drag-and-drop widgets (tasks, calendar, weather, focus timer, clipboard, system stats, markets), a markdown notebook, and routines that open a set of apps in one click. Instead of five separate tools, you get one shortcut. Free to start.
Every Mac setting is three clicks away and the one you want is always the third. JumpDock puts them in your menu bar: privacy sections, settings panes, utilities, your own apps and folders. Including the Gatekeeper setting macOS gives no direct link to. And for audio, every output and microphone gets its own volume slider and mute, acting on that device whether or not it's the current one. Scroll over a device's menu bar icon to change its level.
It's a native Mac menu-bar app for macOS 14 and up, and a pixel monkey slaps a sticky note on your screen for every sale. Makes the solo grind more fun when the sale slaps! It works with Stripe, Paddle, RevenueCat, Shopify and the App Store, and 1.5 added Polar and Dodo. 1.5 also added win cards, an optional total for today in the menu bar, the weekly sales wall, and notes for refunds and failed payments. Has a Revenue view (today, this week, all time) for Stripe and RevenueCat. The download is universal, signed and notarized.
Alkit puts a launcher, a window switcher with scrolling tiling, notch notifications, a battery charge limit, fan control and your Mac's vital signs behind one menu-bar icon. Native and light: one shortcut, one settings window, and every tool sleeps until you need it. $19.99 once with lifetime updates, for macOS 26 on Apple Silicon.
Repluma transforms selected text directly in any macOS or Windows app. Use a global shortcut to rewrite, summarize, translate, or run your own AI actions, then replace the selection in place. Choose Repluma Cloud, OpenAI, Apple Intelligence, or a local LM Studio model. No copy-paste, no context switching.
GITmaxed — Multi-Account GitHub Desktop Manage work, personal, and open-source GitHub accounts in one desktop app—without repeatedly signing in and out. Multi-account support No third-party login services Developer-friendly workflow Check the issue tracker before downloading. Download the latest version and simplify your GitHub workflow!
A hotkey launcher that searches your files, apps and paired devices on your LAN and sends files between them, encrypted. No cloud, no account. Comes with SynaptClip, a clipboard manager that can send clips to your other devices. Open source, solo-built
What’s up HN?! I'm Benji, and I’ve been building Frink since ~April this year. Frink is a desktop-first, open-source (MIT) app for running coding agents in parallel and multi-step workflows that start on their own. It runs on your machine (macOS and Linux) with your own provider login. It currently supports Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Copilot, and OpenCode, but the latter 3 are in preview. No Frink account to use the app. The biggest USP of Frink is workflows: think n8n for agents. You describe a routine in a sentence, for example: "every weekday at 9am, run the tests; if any fail, have an agent fix them, then wait for my approval before it opens a PR." Then, Frink builds it as a workflow (or simply, Flow): a list of steps you can read and change before it runs. A Flow can start on a schedule, from any webhook, or from an event from a third-party such as Linear, Shortcut, ClickUp, Sentry, PostHog, etc. Steps can be agent turns, shell commands, conditions, approval steps that stop and wait for you, or steps you write yourself in code (or ask the agent to write one). Everything that needs you (an approval, an agent's question, a finished task to review) lands in one Work Queue. Other stuff: * Up to four agents side by side, each on its own git worktree if you want. Or, many agents out of direct view. * Every change shows as a diff; there's a code editor, a terminal, etc. * Local-first: chats, Flows and tasks live in SQLite on your machine. * Easier provider parity: currently working on and improving the tooling setup between providers. Once inside Frink, irrespective of what provider you use, the hooks, MCPs, and other tooling work out of the box between providers. Why I built it: I started building it when there weren’t many other competitors; now the industry is swamped with ADEs and harnesses. However, in my opinion, each still lacks good automation for more fine-tuned scenarios. I doubled down on the flows to help me with my actual day-to-day job as a SWE, and over time it’s helped me automate most of the PRs being shipped across my personal projects, team, etc., to the point that it’s a continuous loop and helps a whole ton. Notes: Windows isn't supported yet. Flows only run on Claude Code and Codex for now. It's a solo project, so expect sharp edges.
Blob0 brings Cloudflare R2 and S3-compatible storage to your Mac. Browse, organize and preview files, paste uploads from your clipboard, and share public or expiring links. Connect with Cloudflare, track usage in a visual dashboard, and turn your buckets into an image host for PicGo-compatible editors. Local image compression, dark mode, a CLI and Agent Skills complete the workflow. Your files stay in your own buckets.
Tired of losing your Shopify admin in a sea of browser tabs? LiteAI instantly compiles your Shopify dashboard into a standalone Windows (.exe) or macOS (.dmg) application. Unlike clunky browser shortcuts, our cloud engine generates a deeply isolated, highly compressed native app. Just enter your URL and upload your logo. Enjoy custom branding, native window controls, and zero local code setup. Reclaim your RAM and manage your store in a secure, distraction-free desktop environment!
rNexa is one desktop workspace where your AI agents, chats, editor, browser and live preview work together. - Run Claude, Codex, Grok, Kimi and OpenCode side by side on your own accounts - Agents drive the workspace, browse real pages signed in as you, and use any desktop app - Built-in editor with diffs and a review gate, plus Pad and Plan to agree the work first - Your files and keys stay on your machine Windows, macOS and Linux. $49 once, lifetime. 7-day free trial.
A clean day, week, month and year calendar with an AI assistant that finds, adds, moves and deletes events in plain language. Undo and redo the last 10 changes, including everything the assistant did. The desktop app for Windows, macOS and Linux works on your computer without an account; sign in to sync with the web and use the AI assistant.
Plain Week is a minimal weekly planner: your whole week on one screen, a column per day plus a Someday list. It lives in your browser first, so it opens instantly and works offline. Recurring tasks (even every 21 days), colors, subtasks, drag & drop and keyboard shortcuts. Free in the browser; sync across devices is a weekly plan or a one-time lifetime license. It's also open source (MIT) and self-hostable in one Docker container.
Tablelane is a free MySQL desktop client for macOS, Windows, and Linux with a built-in AI assistant. Browse data, manage schemas, and draft SQL with OpenAI-powered help.
start a focus timer by pulling a cat paw, it lives in your mac menu bar or you can pin it like a mini timer! it has adjustable focus and break sessions, eight cat paws, themes, and a quiet heads-up before your timer ends. made for macos 14+. $9.99 once, with no subscription.
CrackMac allows you to continue using your MacBook even with a cracked screen by moving windows and the menu bar to the functional parts of the display while blacking out the damaged areas. It offers a free 30-minute trial to calibrate your settings before purchase. The app ensures that all menu items and windows stay within the working area, making your MacBook usable again without the need for costly repairs. It's compatible with both Apple silicon and Intel Macs running macOS 13 or later.
Turn notification banners off and they still arrive in Notification Center. Nonja reads them from there and keeps them in a menu bar inbox, grouped by app, so nothing pops up over your work. Open the menu when you decide to: each app's heading clears its notifications in one click, and clicking a row opens the exact screen the notification points at, just like the real one. The icon only says whether something is waiting, with no count climbing at the edge of your vision. Free and open source.
Maktaby is a Windows desktop organizer that helps you group and manage desktop shortcuts, files and folders in customizable boxes. Keep your desktop tidy, access your items easily, and make your workspace your own. Also you can create widgets and show a live wallpaper (GIF, Video or web html)
Shotback is a Mac menu bar app that drafts replies from whatever is on your screen. Press a shortcut, drag over any conversation (chat, email, comments), and get a reply in the same language. No account, no plugins, nothing stored. First 5 replies free.
Hi HN, I'm Francisco. I've spent the last couple of months building what Siri promised to be 10 years ago. I'm calling it Ida. Ida is a native macOS voice assistant. Hold a shortcut, say what you want, let go, and Ida does it in the apps it's connected to. Before it does anything that matters, it shows you what it's about to do and waits for you. It sits quietly at the top of your screen, built into the notch. It's free and publicly available for macOS 14+. Voice transcription runs in the cloud, or locally on your Mac if you prefer. Feel free to try it out. Would love your feedback.
An open-source desktop workspace built on pi-coding-agent. Choose your models, extend your toFastVibe is an open-source (MIT) desktop app for agent work on macOS, Windows and Linux. Run coding agents, edit Word/Excel/PowerPoint, and orchestrate parallel sub-agents. Bring your own model, keep data local, and continue from your phone.ols, and inspect the source from interface to agent engine. Source code (MIT):
Free & open-source macOS menu bar app: put apps and websites into named groups and open, hide or close a whole group from a popup over the Dock. Keyboard filter, Quick Look, Most Used, standalone Dock icons, Siri & Shortcuts (MIT)
PocketMDM brings Apple device management to Apple Shortcuts. Connect Apple Business, Apple School Manager, Jamf Pro, Jamf School, and Microsoft Intune to automate everyday MDM tasks across iPhone, iPad, and Mac using Shortcuts. Build custom workflows with native Shortcuts actions and secure on-device credential storage. Start free, unlock more with Pro.
See a full year in your Mac's menu bar, with a live clock behind the calendar. Drag across dates to count days and workdays, even across years. Keep daily events beside two years with a month sidebar, or fill a whole display. Make it yours with photos and 27 clock presets. Add fullscreen meeting reminders, saved ranges, and countdowns. Native for Apple silicon and Intel. Core features work offline, with no ads or developer analytics.