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Software directory for those who don’t want to rebuild, own the updates, the bugs, the support.
- Nihongo Lessons
An iPhone app that takes Japanese learners from beginner to fluent with one new sentence per flashcard and spaced review.
Since 2015
Courses and learning · Individuals and families
- 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
- Clor
Runs Claude Code and Codex jobs in parallel inside isolated containers, locally or on cloud runners, with memory shared across them.
Since 2018
Free plan · Developer tools · Developers
- 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
- OpenPanel
A hosting control panel that gives each customer their own isolated container with separate database, PHP and cache.
Free plan · Website builders · Agencies
- Kekoso
Mac app that turns speech into text on your own machine: dictation in any app, file and call transcripts, paid once.
Since 2026
One-off payment · Video and audio · Individuals and families
- Memory Notch
Records meetings and lectures from the Mac notch and transcribes them on your device, saving plain files you keep.
Since 2026
Free trial · 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
- pbar.io
Lets developers share live progress of scripts and jobs through a link, via an API or a tqdm replacement.
Uptime and monitoring · Developers
- Burning Vocabulary
A browser extension that saves and highlights words you look up on web pages, then drills them with flashcards.
Since 2020
Free plan · Courses and learning · Individuals and families
- balenaCloud
Cloud service for deploying, updating and monitoring fleets of Linux IoT devices using containers.
Since 2020
Free plan · Developer tools · Developers
- Wokabulary
Flash card app for learners to keep their own word lists and practise them with spaced repetition on Apple devices.
Courses and learning · 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
- Lingolette
Helps intermediate language learners reach fluency through spoken chats with an AI tutor, corrections and daily articles.
Courses and learning · Individuals and families
- Voiczy
Ad-free app that teaches children aged 3 to 14 one of 19 languages through listening, speaking and reading along.
Since 2024
Free plan · Courses and learning · Individuals and families
- Amical
A dictation app that turns your speech into formatted text in any app on your computer or phone.
Free plan · Focus and productivity · Individuals and families
- Superwhisper
Dictation app that turns what you say into clean text inside any program, working offline or in the cloud.
Since 2023
Free plan · Focus and productivity
- 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
- OrbStack
A light Mac app that runs Docker containers, Kubernetes and Linux machines as a Docker Desktop replacement.
Since 2023
Developer tools · Developers
- Nuenki
Browser extension that swaps sentences on the pages you read into the language you are learning, scaled to your level.
Since 2024
Subscription · Courses and learning · Individuals and families
- FluentPal
Mobile app where learners practise speaking a new language with AI characters and get pronunciation scores.
Since 2024
Courses and learning · Individuals and families
- 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
- Quadratic
Spreadsheet that links to databases and files and lets AI write the formulas, Python and charts for you.
Since 2023
Data and spreadsheets
- LyricFluent
Teaches English, Spanish, French and other languages through song lyrics, with spaced repetition for new words.
Since 2024
Courses and learning · Individuals and families
- Memozora
Flashcard maker that schedules reviews by spaced repetition, with dictionaries and text to speech for language learners.
Since 2024
Free plan · Courses and learning · Individuals and families
- AbjadPro
Learn to read Arabic with alphabet lessons, graded stories and flashcards that schedule reviews around your memory.
Since 2026
Free plan · Courses and learning · Individuals and families
- Voicely
Offline voice typing, call recording with speaker labels and audio file transcription on a Mac, ready to paste into AI coding tools.
Free · Focus and productivity · Individuals and families
- Mumbli
A simple Mac dictation app: hold a key, speak, and your words appear as text using a model you choose.
Since 2026
Free · Focus and productivity · Individuals and families
- Spokenly
A dictation app for Mac, Windows, Linux and iPhone that types your speech into any app, offline or with cloud models.
Free plan · Focus and productivity · Individuals and families
- Lingle
Live voice lessons with an AI language tutor that corrects mistakes as you speak and remembers your past sessions.
Since 2026
Free trial · Courses and learning · Individuals and families
- Cloudless Voice
Voice dictation that runs on your own device on Mac, Windows and iPhone and tidies filler words and formatting.
Since 2026
Free plan · Focus and productivity
- WordWise
A language app that translates words offline, saves them to your own tagged word list and helps you review them with flashcards.
Since 2025
Courses and learning · Individuals and families
- 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
- Dictivo
Desktop app that turns your speech into text in any app, processing audio locally on Mac or Windows, paid for once.
Since 2026
One-off payment · Focus and productivity
- PalmSpeak
An app for practising spoken conversations in 10 languages with an AI partner, then chatting with native speakers with translation.
Since 2026
Free plan · Courses and learning · Individuals and families
- 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
- Bottlefire
Turns Docker images into single Linux files that boot as Firecracker microVMs, with no setup or root needed.
Free plan · Developer tools · Developers
- lairner
Learn any of 75 or more languages from almost any starting language, including rare ones, with a school option too.
Free plan · Courses and learning · Individuals and families
- Yakki
A Mac menu bar app that turns your speech into tidy text in any app and transcribes meetings, all processed on your device.
Since 2026
Subscription · Notes and knowledge
- 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.
Since 2026
One-off payment · Focus and productivity · Individuals and families
- Aqua Voice
Speech to text that types what you say wherever your cursor is, on Mac, Windows, iPhone and Android.
Since 2025
Free plan · Focus and productivity
- itsumo
Graded Japanese stories at your JLPT level, with tap-to-define words, grammar notes, audio and flashcards.
Since 2026
Subscription · Courses and learning · Individuals and families
- Coupling
A language app where a partner or friend fills in words, audio and sentences for you to study, on iPhone and Android.
Since 2025
Courses and learning · 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
- 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
- Yaply
A Chrome extension that translates X and Reddit posts and quizzes you on new words, for people learning English.
Since 2026
Subscription · Courses and learning · Individuals and families
- 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
- LangTurbo
Phone app for learning a language by listening to native podcasts with synced transcripts and tap-to-translate words.
Since 2025
Subscription · Courses and learning · Individuals and families