Video & Audio

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.

Gifup

Trim, shrink and caption a GIF without the file leaving your laptop

Most free converters want an upload and leave a watermark; this one does the encoding on your own machine and asks for neither.

Arsaze

A multi-track video timeline an agent can cut while you watch

The work lands on a timeline you can take over by hand at any point, which is what most AI video tools quietly take away.

Overtone

Store each spoken word once, then let the player pick the line breaks

If you publish one video both wide and vertical, this keeps a single transcript as the source and lets the player choose line breaks, instead of a subtitle file per crop.

VisualFries

An MIT render engine your coding agent drives to cut raw footage into posts

If you already pay for Claude Code or Cursor, VisualFries lets that agent cut, caption and mix your short-form video with no editor subscription.

Kino Transcode

Preview cinema-camera footage and export a proxy without installing anything

A producer or client can check BRAW or R3D rushes from a link on any laptop, with the files never leaving their machine.

Sonora

An Android music player that speaks Soulseek itself and browses YouTube Music

It is a rare phone client that implements Soulseek natively, so lossless files arrive on Android with no desktop, VPS or relay to keep running.

LaunchLoop

A Windows screen recorder that edits your demo into a finished launch film

Windows founders finally get the auto-zoom, beat-cut demo videos Mac users make in Screen Studio, without paying a subscription.

Overscan

Ambient light for your desk, painted onto the monitors you already own

If you have spare monitors beside your main one, it turns them into an ambient backlight for films and games, free and with no hardware.

Faders

A per-viewer mixer for Twitch: turn the music down, keep the streamer up

Streamers stop losing viewers who dislike the music or find the game too loud, because each viewer fixes the balance for themselves without changing the broadcast.

Groovemap

Thousands of drum grooves you can play, dissect and export as MIDI

A drummer or producer hunting for a feel can hear it, see each limb's part and drop it into a DAW in under a minute, with no account.

Tonefold

Open-source music sketchpad: AI writes parts into a piano roll you can edit

Instead of a finished AI track you cannot change, you get editable MIDI layers in a piano roll and a DAW plugin, so the human keeps the final say.

The Duck Pond

A pond of mallards whose every quack is modelled live, not played back

A small proof that physical-modelling audio tuned by an LLM against real recordings can beat samples, and it makes good background noise.

lemo-opuscar

A Claude Code plugin that makes short films from canvas, WebGL, samples and TTS

It shows how far an agent can get on explainer and brand films with code alone, and gives you 51 reusable looks to start from.

World Watcher

Drift between live beach, harbour and city webcams on one world map

A pleasant way to see what the weather is really doing somewhere, or just to sit by a harbour on the other side of the world for a minute.

EffectCraft

Keyframes, 306 effects and a render queue in a free native app

Motion graphics is the last thing a small studio still rents Adobe for, and this one speaks Lottie in and out rather than locking work in a private format.

Guitoro

A browser instrument sampled from real guitars, played from the home row

When the guitar is in another room, this is the rare web instrument that sounds good enough to actually work a chord progression out on.

gtm

A Rust music player for the terminal that keeps playing after you close it

For people who live in a terminal, it folds Spotify, YouTube, radio, podcasts and local files into one player that runs as a background service.

SCM

Find a shot, a line of dialogue or on-screen text across a folder of footage

Editors sitting on terabytes of footage can search it by description or quote on their own Mac, without uploading anything.

AudioDrop

Split songs into stems and convert audio on your own machine, free, no upload

Musicians and editors can pull vocals, drums and bass out of a track without sending it to anyone's server or paying per minute.

LottieFyr

Browser converter from GIF, MP4 or still SVG to Lottie, no After Effects

Teams shipping heavy GIF loaders or MP4 hero clips can trace them into scalable Lottie JSON in a browser instead of rebuilding the motion in After Effects.

HN.watch

The Hacker News front page, each story turned into a short narrated explainer

It shows what explainer video costs once it drops to about four cents and a few seconds, which changes what you might bother to explain.

Narra

Voiceovers and burned-in captions made on your own device, with nothing uploaded

It makes voiceovers and captions for short videos with no upload and no per-character bill, which matters when the script is unreleased.

ContentCam

One tap on your phone gives you a vertical and a wide video, both full frame

Creators posting to TikTok and YouTube stop shooting everything twice, and the wide file keeps the whole scene rather than a crop of the vertical one.