No moat. Still in business.
Software directory for those who don’t want to rebuild, own the updates, the bugs, the support.
- Firefoo
Desktop app for developers to browse, edit, query, import and export Firebase Firestore data on Mac, Windows or Linux.
Since 2021
Subscription · Developer tools · Developers
- BaitBlock
An iPhone text filter that spots unwanted business loan pitches from unknown senders and moves them out of your inbox.
Since 2020
Free · Security and passwords
- Piqt
An iPhone app that scores your photos on the device, picks the best ones, groups near duplicates and builds trip albums.
Free plan · Design and images · Individuals and families
- SSL Insecure Content Fixer
Fixes the mixed content and insecure content warnings a WordPress site shows after it moves to HTTPS.
Website builders
- JEXXA
Hold one key and speak to type into any Mac app, with speech turned into text offline on your own machine.
Since 2026
One-off payment · Focus and productivity · Individuals and families
- HushBook
Phone app that transcribes your audiobooks on the device so you can read the text word by word as you listen.
Since 2026
Something else · Individuals and families
- Fumble
A Mac menu bar app that watches your everyday typing and drills the keys that slow you down most.
Since 2026
Free · Courses and learning · Individuals and families
- Silkwave Voice
A Mac app that records meetings, transcribes them on device with speaker labels, and lets you summarise and query them.
One-off payment · Notes and knowledge
- Orate
A Mac menu bar app that turns any highlighted text into on-device speech and keeps it in a queue you can listen to later.
Since 2026
One-off payment · Video and audio · Individuals and families
- Subtle
An iPhone app that keeps a list of your subscriptions, shows renewals on a calendar and explains how to cancel each one.
Money and budgeting · Individuals and families
- Anonymize my ID
Phone app that makes a redacted, watermarked copy of your passport or ID card to send to landlords, hosts or buyers.
Free plan · Documents and e-signature · Individuals and families
- Beekeeper Studio
Desktop app for querying and managing MySQL, Postgres, SQLite and many other databases, with paid team features.
Since 2020
Free plan · Developer tools · Developers
- DB Pilot
A Mac database client for querying and editing data, with SQL and Python notebooks and an AI assistant that writes queries.
Since 2023
Free plan · Developer tools · Developers
- Dataflare
Desktop database manager for browsing tables and writing SQL across Postgres, MySQL, SQLite, ClickHouse and more.
Since 2024
Free plan · Developer tools · Developers
- OCR Buddy
Free Chrome extension that pulls text, code, math and tables from part of a page offline and saves pages as Markdown for LLMs.
Free · Developer tools · Individuals and families
- Begone
iPhone call blocker that stops spam using wildcard number ranges, with all filtering done privately on the phone.
Free plan · Security and passwords · Individuals and families
- CopyLasso
Draw a box around any text on your Mac screen and get it on the clipboard, read on the device with no account.
Free · Focus and productivity
- CH-UI
A self-hosted web workspace for ClickHouse with a SQL editor, dashboards and cluster monitoring, for data teams.
Free plan · Developer tools · Developers
- Rekody
Free Mac voice typing: hold a key, talk, and the words appear where your cursor is in any app, with speech processed on device.
Since 2026
Free · Focus and productivity · Individuals and families
- VisuaLeaf
A visual database client for MongoDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL and more that lets developers build queries, diagrams and charts.
Free plan · Developer tools · Developers
- QuietSpeech
Mac menu bar app that turns your speech into clean text in any app, using on-device Apple Intelligence.
One-off payment · Focus and productivity · Individuals and families
- Hey Mac
Unlocks your Mac with your face and can lock chosen apps behind a face check, with all data kept on the Mac.
Free · Security and passwords · 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
- SKI
Desktop app that lets developers speak to coding agents and hear spoken replies, with speech processed on their own machine.
Since 2026
Free · Developer tools · Developers
- Seaquel
An offline desktop SQL client for Postgres, MySQL, SQLite and others, with visual query plans and dashboards.
Since 2025
Free plan · Developer tools · Developers
- OpenVoiceFlow
Push to talk dictation for Mac that transcribes speech on your computer and types the text into any app.
Free · Focus and productivity · Individuals and families
- VoiceLeap
Mac app that translates speech live in calls, videos and podcasts, both what you hear and what you say.
Subscription · Something else
- Voxxy
A Mac menu bar app where you hold a key, speak, and the transcribed text is pasted into whatever field you are typing in.
One-off payment · Focus and productivity · 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.
Free plan · Developer tools · Developers
- Postico
A native Mac client for working with PostgreSQL databases, from a small independent studio.
Developer tools · Developers
- Capd
A Mac app that saves links, text, images and notes from any app and finds them again with fast full-text search.
Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families
- EdgeWhisper
Dictate into any Mac app and get clean, punctuated text, with speech processed entirely on your own computer.
Free plan · Focus and productivity · Individuals and families
- Simple PDF Scanner
An iPhone app that scans paper documents into PDFs on the device, with a one-time Pro upgrade for OCR and passwords.
Free plan · Documents and e-signature · Individuals and families
- Speechmark
A Mac menu bar app that records meetings, transcribes them by speaker and writes notes, all kept on your computer.
One-off payment · Notes and knowledge
- Kekoso
Mac app that turns speech into text on your own machine: dictation in any app, file and call transcripts, paid once.
One-off payment · Video and audio · Individuals and families
- Private PDF Signer
Sign PDFs, add text and dates, and merge files on your iPhone or iPad without making an account.
Documents and e-signature · Individuals and families
- Tidy
Mac menu bar utility that reads text in images and scanned PDFs offline and renames each file to match what it contains.
One-off payment · Focus and productivity · Individuals and families
- redirs
Point any domain at any URL with automatic HTTPS, path rules and hit analytics, no server to run.
Free plan · Website builders
- TablePlus
A native database client for querying and editing many SQL and NoSQL databases on desktop and iPhone.
Developer tools · Developers
- PostgresGUI
A lightweight Mac app for browsing PostgreSQL tables, running SQL, editing rows and exporting query results.
One-off payment · Developer tools · Developers
- Peek
A database client that puts tables, queries and charts on one infinite canvas, with local AI and live sharing.
Developer tools · Developers
- Saccade
An iPhone app that tracks where your gaze lingers to rank logos, photos or designs against each other.
Free · Design and images · Individuals and families
- Appliku
Sets up and manages your own cloud server to deploy Django apps, with a dashboard, CLI and API.
Since 2021
Free plan · Developer tools · Developers
- Fakebase Studio
Desktop app for browsing and editing PostgreSQL databases, with an AI helper that writes migrations and fills tables with test data.
Developer tools · Developers
- DB Browser for SQLite
Free desktop app for creating, browsing and editing SQLite database files in a spreadsheet-style view.
Free · Developer tools · Developers
- Sequel Ace
A free Mac app for connecting to, browsing and querying MySQL and MariaDB databases.
Free · Developer tools · Developers
- VoxThermic
Mac journal for typed or spoken entries that charts your mood and themes over weeks and months, all on device.
Free plan · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families
- ScamCheck
iPhone app that checks links, emails and texts for phishing and fraud, running the analysis on your phone for privacy.
Security and passwords · Individuals and families