No moat. Still in business.
Software directory for those who don’t want to rebuild, own the updates, the bugs, the support.
- MLJAR Studio
Desktop data analysis app where you ask about your data in plain English and get Python code, charts and notebooks run on your computer.
Since 2017
Data and spreadsheets
- Frigate
Open source video recorder for home security cameras that spots people and cars on your own hardware without cloud uploads.
Free · Security and passwords · Individuals and families
- Shottr
A small Mac app for taking, marking up and measuring screenshots, with text recognition, built for designers and developers.
Free plan · Design and images · Individuals and families
- Collate
A Mac app that reads your PDFs with an on-device AI model, so you can ask questions, get summaries and jump to cited pages.
Since 2024
Free · Documents and e-signature
- VoiceInk
Mac dictation app that transcribes speech on your machine and types tidy text into any app, bought once.
One-off payment · Focus and productivity · Individuals and families
- Expense Sorted Local
Sorts bank CSV transactions into categories on your own computer and lets your AI assistant answer spending questions.
Since 2023
One-off payment · Money and budgeting · Individuals and families
- Meetily
Records, transcribes and summarises your meetings on your own computer, so audio and notes never go to the cloud.
Free plan · Notes and knowledge
- SSL Insecure Content Fixer
Fixes the mixed content and insecure content warnings a WordPress site shows after it moves to HTTPS.
Website builders
- Rungeist
Mac menu bar app that lists local dev servers, ports and Docker containers so developers can open, restart or stop them.
Since 2026
One-off payment · Developer tools · Developers
- 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
- Tasker
Free desktop app that repeats web tasks for you, either by recording your clicks or from a plain text description.
Since 2026
Free · Automation and integrations
- Dayflow
Mac app that records your screen locally and builds a readable timeline of how you spent the workday.
Since 2025
Free · Time tracking · Individuals and families
- Teampaper
Mac screenshot and screen recording tool with a cloud space where teams and clients store, comment on and share captures.
Design and images · Agencies
- Capty
Mac app that captures stills and video of your Mac, iPhone or iPad screen, then lets you mark up and add backgrounds before sharing.
One-off payment · Design and images · Creators and writers
- Flameshot
Screenshot tool for desktop users that lets you capture an area, mark it up with arrows, blur or text, and save it.
Free · Design and images
- Snapzy
Free open-source Mac app for screenshots and screen recordings, with markup, OCR and a GIF editor.
Free · Design and images · Individuals and families
- Pulse Local
A Mac budgeting app that keeps your ledger on disk and answers money questions with an AI model running locally.
Since 2026
Free plan · Money and budgeting · Individuals and families
- Unfoldly
A Mac app that indexes the folders you pick on your own machine so you can find photos, video clips and answers by describing them.
Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families
- Maali
A personal finance app for Mac and Windows that sorts bank transactions and tracks spending, with all data kept on your computer.
Since 2026
One-off payment · Money and budgeting · Individuals and families
- Prismical
Records meeting audio and voice memos without a bot joining, then turns them into transcripts, summaries and action items.
Free plan · Notes and knowledge
- CleanShot X
Mac app for taking, annotating and sharing screenshots and screen recordings, with cloud links.
Design and images · Individuals and families
- Summit AI Notes
Mac app that records client calls and makes transcripts, summaries and action items on the device, with no cloud upload.
Since 2025
One-off payment · Notes and knowledge · Law firms
- Tritium
Desktop app for lawyers to edit Word files and PDFs, compare versions and use AI review on their own machine.
Since 2025
Documents and e-signature · Law firms
- VelocityNote
A light Markdown notebook that keeps notes on your device, with optional sync and AI models that run locally.
Since 2026
One-off payment · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families
- Auto-Install Free SSL
Gets and renews free Let's Encrypt SSL certificates on cPanel shared hosting without command line work.
Free plan · Security and passwords
- Hob
Desktop app that sets up and runs open AI models on your own computer for private, offline chat and work on files.
Since 2026
Free · Focus and productivity · Individuals and families
- OpenScreenShot
A browser extension that takes full-page or region screenshots, lets you annotate them, and saves image or PDF locally.
Since 2026
Free · Design and images
- SurfSense
A private research notebook on your own computer that answers questions about your files and turns them into reports.
Notes and knowledge
- Heynds
Mac and Windows app that turns speech into text and rewrites selected text with on-device AI, triggered by a shortcut.
Since 2025
One-off payment · Focus and productivity · Individuals and families
- PDF Pals
A Mac app that lets you ask questions about PDFs and get summaries with page citations, keeping files local.
One-off payment · Documents and e-signature · Individuals and families
- TypeSeer
Suggests the rest of your sentence in most Mac and Windows apps, with the AI running on your own computer.
Since 2026
One-off payment · Focus and productivity · Individuals and families
- SeenShot
A Mac screenshot tool that marks up captures, blurs private data and sends them to your AI coding agent.
Free · Design and images · Developers
- Muesli
Mac app that turns speech into text on your own machine and writes up meeting transcripts automatically.
Since 2026
Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families
- Typerelay
Text expander for Mac, Windows and Linux that turns short codes into saved replies, with optional on-device AI and team snippet libraries.
Focus and productivity
- CentProof
Mac app that reads your bank PDF statements, checks they balance to the cent and answers money questions with local AI.
Since 2026
Free plan · Money and budgeting · Individuals and families
- Instant
A Mac app that finds your files, photos and scans when you describe what is in them, working fully offline.
Since 2026
Free · Focus and productivity · Individuals and families
- SnapName
A Mac app that watches your screenshot folder and gives new images descriptive file names using a local AI model.
Since 2026
Free · Focus and productivity · Individuals and families
- MindCraft Studio
Mac app that makes and edits AI images on your own Apple Silicon machine using open models like Flux, with optional cloud models.
Since 2026
Design and images · Creators and writers
- Feedbucket
Clients pin feedback on staging sites without an account, and it lands as tasks in the agency's PM tool.
Free trial · Projects and tasks · Agencies
- redirs
Point any domain at any URL with automatic HTTPS, path rules and hit analytics, no server to run.
Free plan · Website builders
- PRSS Site Creator
A desktop app for writing blogs and small websites offline, with optional local AI help and one-click publishing to static hosts.
Since 2025
Free · Website builders · Individuals and families
- Local Transcriber
Free Mac menu bar tool that transcribes meetings, calls and dictation on the device and can turn them into minutes.
Free · Notes and knowledge
- 5Y Habit Tracker
A habit tracking app for iPhone and Android where each day of progress uncovers part of a painting, with a private on-device AI journal.
Since 2026
Health and habits · Individuals and families
- DollarDeploy
Deploys apps from a GitHub repo onto a server in your own cloud account, with HTTPS and redeploys on each push.
Since 2026
Free plan · Developer tools · Developers
- OmniForge
Records and summarises meetings on your own computer without a bot, then answers questions across recordings and documents.
Since 2026
Notes and knowledge
- Threshyr
A desktop app that logs your work time automatically on your own machine and builds billing summaries per client.
Since 2026
Free · Time tracking · Freelancers
- Parrot
Mac app that records your calls without a bot, transcribes them on your machine and suggests answers from your files.
Since 2026
Free · Notes and knowledge
- Shotnix
Mac app for screen captures and recordings that automatically adds zoom on clicks, captions and your webcam to videos.
Free · Video and audio · Creators and writers