Productivity

App Page

A hosted hub for your app's users, embeddable in a WebView

A small app team can replace a feedback board, a docs wiki, a status page and a forum with one embeddable page for $5 a month.

Hubzoid

Self-hosted team agents whose knowledge and rules live in plain files

It lets a small team share one governed agent brain with sign-in and approvals, using Claude or Codex subscriptions they already pay for.

TrueDate & Pre-AI Search

A browser extension that checks when an article was really published

For anyone researching online, it exposes old SEO posts dressed up as fresh and lets search skip the post-2023 content flood.

Yogurt

Meeting notes that stay on your computer, with no bot joining the call

Teams that cannot send call audio to a vendor's cloud get bot-free meeting summaries at no cost, on Mac, Windows and Linux.

CREparser

Commercial lease abstracts in Claude or ChatGPT, each term linked to its clause

Lease administrators and acquisition teams can check each extracted rent, date and risk against the clause it came from instead of trusting a summary.

clingon

A tmux command picker that fills in the blanks and types into your own shell

For the commands you run twice a year, it replaces the search-copy-edit loop with a menu, and makes destructive ones ask before they fire.

Someone Was Here

A Mac menu bar app that photographs whoever touches your machine

For anyone working in shared offices or co-working spaces, it is a cheap, on-device audit trail for a laptop left open, with no account and no subscription.

MeowDisplay

Use an iPhone, iPad or spare Mac as a touch screen for your Mac, free

A free, GPL-licensed alternative to paid second-screen apps like Duet and Luna, with real touch control of macOS from the device already in your pocket.

SketchyCraft

A practice log, reference library and portfolio site for working artists

Illustrators who juggle a habit tracker, a mood board and a portfolio host can keep all three in one place and start without paying.

Mister Download Manager

A free, GPL download manager in Rust with browser capture and torrents

If your team still pays for IDM licences or juggles separate tools for files, video and torrents, this free client covers all three on Windows and Linux.

MonitorSnap

One-click display presets for Windows desks with docks, KVMs and a TV

Anyone switching a Windows PC between desk monitors and a TV stops redoing resolution, position and primary display by hand each time.

Jot

A Mac capture inbox for selections, dictation and screenshots, kept as files

Your scraps land as plain Markdown in a folder you own, and coding agents can search them over MCP, so notes stop dying in an app you never reopen.

EyesRhythm

A webcam blink counter for long screen days, free on Mac and Windows

Dry, tired eyes after a day of screens often come from blinking less, and this measures that on your own machine without sending a frame anywhere.

Mika

Tell your Android phone what you want, and it taps through the apps for you

It shows how far a phone agent can get with no app APIs at all, by working the screen the way a person would while you keep using the phone.

Nico

Hold a key, say what you need, and a sandboxed worker on your Mac does it

It splits a fast voice front-end from a slower sandboxed worker, so you get quick answers and real tasks done without paying for another model plan.

TwinDesk

A free, local alternative to Synergy and KDE Connect rolled into one app

If you work across a Mac, a Windows box and an Android phone, this replaces two or three half-working tools with one free app that keeps everything on your own devices.

Owly

Send files between an iPhone and a Linux laptop over Apple's own Wi-Fi link

Linux users with iPhones get a native AirDrop path at last, as long as their Wi-Fi card is on the supported list.

cli-faq-shortcuts

Mine your coding-agent history for repeat requests and make them short commands

If you use Claude Code, Codex or Cursor daily, this shows which requests you keep typing and turns them into short commands, using only local history.

Aloud

A Mac menu-bar reader that speaks any text with the current word highlighted

For $19 once, it covers most of what people pay Speechify a subscription for, and with on-device voices your documents never leave the Mac.

It puts Google, Outlook, iCloud or CalDAV events on a spare tablet or e-ink screen for a one-time US$12.99, with no account and no subscription.

It drives ordinary apps by reading the screen, so it works where no API or integration exists, and asks before it spends your money.

Hacker Times

Hacker News set as a broadsheet, with plainer headlines and topic desks

If terse HN titles make you skim past good stories, this front page rewrites them plainly and sorts them into desks, so the morning scan takes a minute.

Modelpeers

Follow the models, agents and labs you depend on and hear when something breaks

A model retirement or a renamed API parameter can take your feature down for two days, and this watches the vendor pages so you do not have to.

Umak

A tiny record player behind your Mac's notch for Apple Music and Spotify

If you switch windows just to skip a track, this keeps play, pause and skip on the notch with a click or a two-finger swipe, and costs nothing.