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
- 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
- Xata
Hosted Postgres that clones databases in seconds so each developer, CI run or agent gets its own copy, and idles at zero.
Since 2022
Developer tools · Developers
- Bookmark It.
A web bookmark manager with a browser extension that saves, sorts and shares the sites you want to keep.
Free plan · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families
- CurateKit
Save links, quotes and articles, then publish them as a public site or an email digest for subscribers.
Since 2026
Free plan · Newsletters · Individuals and families
- 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
- 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
- LinkTaco
Save bookmarks, shorten links and publish link lists with click stats, hosted or on your own server.
Since 2025
Free plan · Marketing and social · Individuals and families
- Mathesar
Lets non-technical staff view, edit and query Postgres tables in a spreadsheet-style screen, using the database's own permissions.
Free · Data and spreadsheets
- 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
- 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
- Nile
Serverless Postgres that keeps each customer's data and vector embeddings in its own virtual database, for teams building B2B SaaS.
Developer tools · Developers
- ArchiveBox
Self-hosted archive that saves web pages, bookmarks, feeds and media as lasting files you can search later.
Free · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families
- Hookmark
A Mac app that copies clean links to files, emails, tasks and pages so you can jump back to them without searching.
Free plan · Notes and knowledge · 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
- Tabme
A Chrome extension that saves tab sessions into folders and searches open, saved and closed tabs, with paid sync across devices.
Since 2024
Free plan · Focus and productivity
- Quadratic
Spreadsheet that links to databases and files and lets AI write the formulas, Python and charts for you.
Since 2023
Data and spreadsheets
- 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
- RDLTR
Save links to read later from any browser, then browse the pile with keyboard shortcuts, summaries and audio.
Since 2026
Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families
- Mathesar Cloud
A hosted Postgres database you view and edit like a spreadsheet, so non-technical teams can manage linked records.
Since 2026
Free plan · 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
- 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
- BackupDrill
Backs up Supabase databases and storage files to your own bucket on a schedule, then runs restore drills to prove they work.
Free plan · Developer tools · Developers
- Readit
Save articles, videos and PDFs to read later in a clean view, listen with text to speech, and keep a reading streak.
Since 2026
Free plan · Notes and knowledge · 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
- 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
- Collections
A browser side panel for gathering links, quotes and images while researching, then asking AI about what you kept.
Since 2026
Free · Notes and knowledge · 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
- 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
- PgDog
Proxy that sits in front of PostgreSQL to pool connections, spread reads across replicas and shard data.
Developer tools · Developers
- dashi
A Chrome new tab page with widgets for notes, to-dos, weather, habits and bookmarks, kept on your own device.
Since 2026
Free · Focus and productivity · Individuals and families
- Betula
Single-user bookmark manager you host yourself to save, tag, archive and share links, with followers on the fediverse.
Free · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families
- Dictly
Turns your speech into formatted text on Mac, iPhone and iPad, processing everything offline on the device.
Since 2025
Free plan · Focus and productivity · Individuals and families
- Readeck
Save articles, pictures and videos to read later, with highlights, labels, search and ebook export.
Free · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families
- AIR Blackbox
Records every AI agent decision in a signed, tamper-evident log so teams can show regulators what their AI did under the EU AI Act.
Since 2026
Free plan · Developer tools · Developers
- Bookmarker
Mac app that stores your links, images and PDFs locally, with on-device AI tags, summaries and offline search.
Since 2026
One-off payment · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families
- thèque
Save books, films and places from any page and it builds cards sorted onto shelves in your private library.
Since 2026
Free · Notes and knowledge · 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
- Mindweave
An open source home for your notes, links and files that tags them for you and finds them by what they mean, for idea collectors.
Since 2026
Free plan · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families
- NovelOS
A local writing studio for novelists with plotting boards, character profiles, world notes and a manuscript editor, bought once.
Since 2026
One-off payment · Notes and knowledge · 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
- Light Cloud
Hosting that deploys a frontend, backend and Postgres database from a repo, a folder or an AI coding assistant.
Since 2026
Free plan · Developer tools · Developers
- Brace.to
Save links from any device into lists to open later, free with a low-cost yearly upgrade for tags and locks.
Free plan · 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
- Deepmark
Collects saves from X, YouTube, Instagram and your browser into a private library that AI describes so you can search in plain language.
Since 2026
Free plan · Notes and knowledge · 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
- 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
- Databasus
Self-hosted tool that runs scheduled PostgreSQL, MySQL and MongoDB backups to cloud storage and alerts your team.
Since 2025
Free · Developer tools · Developers