No moat. Still in business.
Software directory for those who don’t want to rebuild, own the updates, the bugs, the support.
- QueryStorm
Excel add-in for querying tables with SQL, scripting workbooks in C# and building custom Excel functions.
Since 2016
Free plan · Data and spreadsheets · 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Quadratic
Spreadsheet that links to databases and files and lets AI write the formulas, Python and charts for you.
Since 2023
Data and spreadsheets
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Ratschn
Dictation app for Mac and Windows that turns speech into text on your computer and types it into the app you are using.
Since 2026
Free trial · Focus and productivity
- 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
- Overcast
Pools GPUs and CPUs from many cloud providers and your own servers so developers can run large data jobs in one place.
Since 2026
Developer tools · Developers
- 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
- 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
- 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
- OpenWhispr
Voice dictation and meeting note app that turns speech into text on your device or in the cloud, for people who type a lot.
Free plan · Notes and knowledge
- 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
- 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
- Vehla
A Mac app that combines a keyboard launcher, clipboard history, window snapping and on-device dictation and AI.
Since 2026
Free plan · Focus and productivity · Individuals and families
- Trace
Free open-source Mac launcher for finding apps, snapping windows, searching menus and dictating text on the device.
Free · Focus and productivity · 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