No moat. Still in business.
Software directory for those who don’t want to rebuild, own the updates, the bugs, the support.
- FormKeep
Point your website's HTML form at this service to store submissions, filter spam and send them to email or other apps.
Since 2014
Free plan · Forms and surveys · Agencies
- 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
- EmailJS
Lets developers send templated email from browser or app code through their own mail provider, without writing a server.
Free plan · Transactional email · Developers
- BetterSites
Builds and publishes a small business website from a few answers, with AI writing the copy and you paying for each page
Free plan · Website builders
- 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
- 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
- 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
- AForms
A WordPress plugin that builds step by step forms which calculate price quotes and take custom orders from visitors.
Free · Forms and surveys
- Form Block Pro
Make accessible forms inside the WordPress block editor, with a free version and a yearly paid tier.
Free plan · Forms and surveys
- Happyforms
A WordPress form builder for contact, order and signup forms, with payments and conditional logic built in.
Forms and surveys
- Kali Forms
A drag-and-drop WordPress form builder for contact, payment and feedback forms, with templates and conditional logic.
Free plan · Forms and surveys
- SSL Insecure Content Fixer
Fixes the mixed content and insecure content warnings a WordPress site shows after it moves to HTTPS.
Website builders
- weForms
A WordPress plugin for building contact, registration and quiz forms by dragging fields, with entry viewing and spam protection.
Forms and surveys
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Pagehaus
Hosts plain HTML sites uploaded by browser or SFTP, with built-in forms, cookie-free stats, a blog and version history.
Free plan · Website builders · 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
- Nisuform
A hosted backend for HTML contact forms that checks for spam, saves entries to an inbox and emails you within seconds.
Free plan · Forms and surveys · Developers
- 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
- 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
- Ninja Forms
Drag and drop form builder for WordPress sites, with calculations, email alerts and paid add-ons for payments and CRMs.
Free plan · Forms and surveys
- 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
- 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
- Invisible Anti-Spam
Free WordPress plugin that blocks form spam with a small browser proof of work, without cookies, captchas or Google.
Free · Forms and surveys
- 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