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Software directory for those who don’t want to rebuild, own the updates, the bugs, the support.
- ExifShot
A free web tool that turns a photo and its camera settings into a shareable image for photographers.
Since 2018
Free · Design and images · Photographers
- 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
- Bill Share
An iPhone and Mac app for sharing costs within groups, including recurring bills, with iCloud sync.
Free · Money and budgeting · Individuals and families
- Notocat
Lets writers draft newsletters in Notion, then send them, track opens and manage subscriber lists.
Since 2023
Free plan · Newsletters · Creators and writers
- Maildroppa
Lets small businesses collect subscribers, send newsletters and set up automatic follow-up emails, with a free plan.
Free plan · Email marketing
- Onigiri
Freelancers make branded invoices, send them as a PDF, a link or by email, and collect card payments through their own Stripe.
Since 2024
Free plan · Invoicing and billing · Freelancers
- micasa
Terminal app for homeowners to log maintenance schedules, projects, quotes and contractors in one local file.
Free · Home and car · Individuals and families
- QOwnNotes
A free open-source desktop notes app that saves plain Markdown files and syncs through Nextcloud or ownCloud.
Free · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families
- StringScales
Shows scales on a guitar or bass fretboard and plays a backing band over your chord progression so you can practise.
Free · Courses and learning · Individuals and families
- GoatCounter
Open source web stats that count visits without tracking individuals, offered as a donation funded hosted service or to host yourself.
Free · Website analytics
- OctoPrint
A browser interface for running a 3D printer remotely, with webcam view, job progress, a GCODE viewer and plugins.
Free · Something else · Individuals and families
- lmno.lol
Simple blog hosting with no ads or tracking: write in markdown and drag files in to publish, for a small monthly fee.
Since 2024
Subscription · Website builders · Individuals and families
- Tomato 2
Mac Pomodoro timer with session goals, weekly stats and optional website blocking while you work.
Focus and productivity · Individuals and families
- Macaify
A Mac app that runs AI actions like translate or rewrite on text you select in any app, via a shortcut.
Free plan · Focus and productivity · Individuals and families
- Hyperkey
A free Mac app that turns caps lock or another key into a combined modifier for your own shortcuts.
Free · Focus and productivity · Individuals and families
- Hyvector
A light vector editor in the browser for editing SVG icons, logos and paths, with files kept on your device.
Since 2024
Free · Design and images · Individuals and families
- Chip In
Budgeting app that links bank accounts, flags bills due before payday and lets couples split costs they choose to share.
Free plan · Money and budgeting · Individuals and families
- OpenHabitTracker
Habit tracker that ranks habits by how overdue they are instead of streaks, with notes and tasks, for individuals.
Free · Health and habits · Individuals and families
- Focus Tomato
A retro Pomodoro timer for iPhone that helps you work in focused sessions and take breaks.
One-off payment · Focus and productivity · Individuals and families
- FoodCoopShop
Open source ordering system that lets food coops and farm shops collect group orders from local producers and settle them by prepaid credit.
Free · Online shops · Shops and retail
- Foreign Numbers
Listening drills that help language learners catch spoken numbers, phone numbers and clock times in over two dozen languages.
Courses and learning · Individuals and families
- Raven
Snap a photo of highlighted book passages and Raven turns them into tagged, searchable notes with summaries.
Since 2024
Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families
- Chhoto URL
A tiny link shortener you run yourself, with custom aliases, link expiry and click counts.
Free · Marketing and social
- BiditBillit
Free iPhone app for painters and other tradespeople to write bids and invoices without a PC or paper
Free · Invoicing and billing · Trades and home services
- myTinyTodo
A simple to-do list app you host yourself, with several lists, tags, due dates and priorities.
Free · Projects and tasks · Individuals and families
- Birds Near Me
Free iPhone bird guide that lists recent sightings near you, with photos, songs and hotspots worldwide.
Free · Something else · Individuals and families
- R2Drop
Mac menu bar app that uploads files to Cloudflare R2 by drag and drop or right-click and copies the public link.
Free · Developer tools · Developers
- ProcessSpy
A Mac process monitor with CPU and memory history per process, filters and a menu bar dashboard for power users.
One-off payment · Developer tools · Individuals and families
- inlaut
A free Mac and Windows dictation app: hold a key, speak, and the text is typed where your cursor sits, all offline.
Free · Focus and productivity · Individuals and families
- Gist
Condenses long articles, PDFs and videos into short summaries with counter-arguments, aimed at readers with ADHD.
Since 2026
Subscription · Focus and productivity · Individuals and families
- nano
Security log search, detection rules and OpenTelemetry data in one store, run in the cloud or on your own servers.
Since 2026
Uptime and monitoring · Software companies
- Permalink Manager
Lets WordPress admins define URL patterns for content types and categories, then hand edit the address of any single post or page.
Free plan · Website builders
- Neverkin
A free worldbuilding app where writers and game masters keep lore, timelines and mind maps, and edit together.
Free · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families
- Odozi
A private mood journal for iPhone and Mac that logs gratitude, sleep and screen time in a couple of minutes a day.
Since 2026
Health and habits · Individuals and families
- easymacros
Logs meals from a typed note, voice or photo and works out the calories and macros, with weight and workout tracking.
Since 2026
Free · Health and habits · Individuals and families
- iPassworder
Quick, plain password keeper for iPhone that stores logins in one flat list with no recurring fees.
Free · Security and passwords · Individuals and families
- Arbory
An iPhone app for reading your Plausible website stats, with home screen widgets and traffic alerts.
Since 2026
Free plan · Website analytics
- NormalNotes
Quick Markdown note app for Apple devices that starts on a daily page and works directly with Obsidian vault files.
Since 2026Updated 3 months ago
Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families
- Octarine
A quick note-taking app for Mac and iPhone that saves your writing as plain Markdown files on your own device.
Since 2025
Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families
- WPMobile.App
Turns a WordPress site into Android and iOS apps you set up inside WordPress, sold as a one-time license.
One-off payment · Website builders
- CrabPDF Editor
Edit, annotate, redact, OCR and reorder PDF pages in your browser, with files kept on your own computer.
Since 2026
Documents and e-signature
- Notes Plus
A notes app for Mac and Windows modelled on Apple Notes that saves every note as a plain Markdown file in your folders.
Since 2026
Free · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families
- LosslessCut
A free desktop app for trimming, cutting and joining video and audio files quickly with no quality loss.
Free · Video and audio · Individuals and families
- Yet Another Todo App
An offline iPhone todo list built around a daily plan, with do dates, recurrences, reminders and subtasks.
Since 2025
Focus and productivity · Individuals and families
- BBNotes
iPad handwriting app for students studying abroad that shows course slides next to a translation and explains any part you circle.
Free plan · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families
- GifJot
Mac menu bar recorder that captures a chosen screen region as a GIF, MP4 without sound or PNG, saved locally with no watermark.
Since 2026
Free · Video and audio · Developers
- ShortReps
An iPhone app that hands desk workers five short bodyweight exercises a day and tracks their streak.
Since 2025
Health and habits · Individuals and families
- Garlic-Hub
Self-hosted system for planning playlists in a browser and playing them on digital signage screens, with no per-screen fees.
Free · Something else