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Software directory for those who don’t want to rebuild, own the updates, the bugs, the support.
- Do!
A simple to-do and reminder app for phones and tablets with checklists, memos, widgets and sync between devices.
Since 2011Updated 13 days ago
Projects and tasks · Individuals and families
- Countdown
Track the days left until birthdays, trips and deadlines, with Home Screen widgets, reminders and a browser version.
Since 2018Updated 6 days ago
Free plan · Focus and productivity · Individuals and families
- ChatInbox
An email app for iPhone, iPad and Mac that shows your mail as conversations grouped by the person who sent it.
Since 2023Updated 13 days ago
Free plan · Focus and productivity · Individuals and families
- PlanWiz
Planner and journal app with over a thousand templates for daily plans, goals, habits and moods.
Since 2024Updated 9 days ago
Focus and productivity · Individuals and families
- Dropzone 5
A Mac menu bar grid where you drop files to move, copy, upload them or open apps more quickly.
Since 2012
One-off payment · Focus and productivity · Individuals and families
- Unibox
An email app for Mac, iPhone and iPad that sorts your mail by person, with each contact's messages and files together.
Since 2013
Focus and productivity · Individuals and families
- ShortcutFoo
Drills you on keyboard shortcuts for editors and work apps with spaced repetition until they become habit.
Since 2012
Free plan · Courses and learning · Individuals and families
- WebCatalog
Turns websites into their own desktop app windows and lets you run several accounts side by side in separate spaces.
Since 2020
Focus and productivity
- IdealWeek
Helps people turn long term goals into OKRs and book the work into their weekly calendar.
Since 2017
Focus and productivity · Individuals and families
- Trimbox
Finds mailing lists in your Gmail so you can unsubscribe and clear old mail from a sender in one click.
Since 2021
Subscription · Focus and productivity · Individuals and families
- Mimestream
A Mac email app built on the Gmail API, with full support for labels, filters, categories and several accounts.
Since 2020
Free trial · Focus and productivity
- Look Busy
An iPhone app that adds realistic fake meetings to your work calendar so colleagues stop booking over your focus time.
Since 2020
One-off payment · Focus and productivity · Individuals and families
- Slimbox
Sorts newsletter and promo emails out of your Gmail inbox into the trash or a once-a-day digest.
Since 2020
Subscription · Focus and productivity · Individuals and families
- NotePlan
Daily notes app that puts project notes, tasks, Apple Calendar events and Reminders side by side for planning each day.
Since 2020
Subscription · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families
- Franz
Puts WhatsApp, Slack, Signal, email and other messengers into one desktop app with workspaces.
Since 2017
Free plan · Focus and productivity
- Paced Email
Gives you extra email addresses that forward mail to your inbox in daily, weekly or monthly batches, so you check email less.
Since 2020
Free trial · Security and passwords · Individuals and families
- Reader Mode
A Chrome extension that strips clutter from web pages and adds reading rulers, text to speech and PDF tools for easier reading.
Since 2019
Focus and productivity · Individuals and families
- Handy
A free desktop app where you hold a shortcut, speak, and your words are typed into whatever text field you are in.
Free · Focus and productivity · Individuals and families
- Shortwave
An email app with an AI assistant that sorts your inbox, drafts replies in your style and finds answers in old mail.
Since 2022
Free plan · Focus and productivity
- SaneClick
Adds 62 right-click actions to Finder on Mac, such as merging PDFs, converting HEIC and running your own scripts.
One-off payment · Automation and integrations · Individuals and families
- PaletteBrain
Mac app that runs ChatGPT commands on text in any app via a shortcut, using your own OpenAI key, bought once.
One-off payment · Focus and productivity · Individuals and families
- Karabiner-Elements
A free Mac app for remapping keys and adding complex keyboard rules, with shared rule sets from the community.
Free · Focus and productivity · Individuals and families
- Paused
iPhone app that switches off chosen apps at set hours or for a quick focus session, and tracks your blocking streak.
Since 2026Updated 8 days ago
Focus and productivity · Individuals and families
- SuperPlanner
Day planner for iPhone, iPad and Mac that puts your tasks inside timed activities on a daily timeline.
Since 2022
Free · Focus and productivity · Individuals and families
- Structured
Daily planner that puts calendar events, tasks and focus blocks on a single visual timeline, synced across your devices.
Free plan · Focus and productivity · Individuals and families
- Swift Shift
Mac background app that lets you move or resize any window by holding a key and dragging anywhere on it.
Free · Focus and productivity · Individuals and families
- Tidyread
Pulls in your RSS feeds, summarises and filters them with your own AI prompts, and sends a digest at a time you set.
Since 2024
Free plan · Focus and productivity · Individuals and families
- ClipBook
Keeps a searchable history of everything you copy on a Mac, so you can sort past clips and paste them again with shortcuts.
Since 2024
Focus and productivity · Individuals and families
- Rambox
Desktop app that groups your work apps and multiple accounts into workspaces so you switch between tabs less.
Focus and productivity · Freelancers
- DockDoor
Free open-source Mac app showing live window previews when you hover over Dock icons, plus Windows style Alt Tab switching.
Free · Focus and productivity · Individuals and families
- Fitlock
Keeps chosen iPhone apps locked until you reach a daily step, push-up or workout goal.
Since 2024
Free plan · Health and habits · Individuals and families
- Helium
Free planner for students that tracks classes, homework and grades and works out what score you need.
Free · Focus and productivity · Individuals and families
- Atten
Blocks distracting apps and sites on iPhone, iPad and Mac with schedules, daily limits and synced rules.
Since 2024
Focus and productivity · Individuals and families
- SharePal
Keep links, addresses and stock replies on your iPhone and paste them through a custom keyboard or iMessage.
Since 2023
Focus and productivity · Individuals and families
- Scriptarious
A Mac menu bar app for writing, storing and running shell scripts with one click or a hotkey.
Since 2022
Free · Automation and integrations · Individuals and families
- Dictámelo
Hold a shortcut and speak, and your words are typed into any app on Mac or Windows, using offline models or a cloud option.
Free · Focus and productivity · Individuals and families
- Magnet
Mac app that tiles windows into halves, thirds and quarters by dragging to screen edges or using shortcuts.
Focus and productivity · Individuals and families
- KTool
Delivers blog posts, newsletters, forum threads and feeds to a Kindle so readers can enjoy them away from the computer.
Since 2022
Free plan · Focus and productivity · Individuals and families
- Bionic Reading
Apps, fonts and a keyboard that bold the start of words so people can read text faster and with more focus.
One-off payment · Focus and productivity · Individuals and families
- Alfred
Keyboard launcher for Mac to find apps and files, expand text snippets, keep clipboard history and run custom workflows.
Free plan · Automation and integrations · Individuals and families
- Folderly
Helps students sort courses, tasks, class schedules, flashcards and files into colour-coded folders.
Free · Focus and productivity · Individuals and families
- Focal
A browser extension where you state why you are browsing and AI hides pages and content that stray from it.
Since 2024
Focus and productivity · Individuals and families
- Chaos Control
A GTD-style planner for personal and work tasks, goals and habits, with an inbox for loose ideas and a time tracker.
Free trial · Projects and tasks · Individuals and families
- BoltAI
Native Mac app for chatting with cloud and local AI models from one window, sold as a one-time licence.
One-off payment · Focus and productivity · Individuals and families
- PageGPT
A Chrome extension that lets you ask AI about the page you are reading, using your own OpenAI key.
Since 2024
Free · Focus and productivity · Individuals and families
- MacsyZones
A Mac window tool that lets you draw your own zone layouts and drop windows into them, much like FancyZones on Windows.
Free · Focus and productivity · Individuals and families
- Block & Flow
A Pomodoro style timer for iPhone that breaks work into short focused blocks to build momentum.
Focus and productivity · Individuals and families
- one sec
Puts a short pause in front of social media apps and sites so people open them less and cut their screen time.
Focus and productivity · Individuals and families