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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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Piqt
An iPhone app that scores your photos on the device, picks the best ones, groups near duplicates and builds trip albums.
Since 2026
Free plan · Design and images · 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
- Quadratic
Spreadsheet that links to databases and files and lets AI write the formulas, Python and charts for you.
Since 2023
Data and spreadsheets
- 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
- 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
- PgDog
Proxy that sits in front of PostgreSQL to pool connections, spread reads across replicas and shard data.
Developer tools · Developers
- Mathesar Cloud
A hosted Postgres database you view and edit like a spreadsheet, so non-technical teams can manage linked records.
Free plan · Data and spreadsheets
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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.
Free plan · Developer tools · Developers
- 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
- DBLift
Runs versioned SQL and Python database migrations with dry runs, history checks and rollbacks, for Python teams.
Since 2026
Free plan · Developer tools · Developers
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- CopyLasso
Draw a box around any text on your Mac screen and get it on the clipboard, read on the device with no account.
Since 2026
Free · Focus and productivity
- 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
- VoiceLeap
Mac app that translates speech live in calls, videos and podcasts, both what you hear and what you say.
Subscription · Something else
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Tidy
Mac menu bar utility that reads text in images and scanned PDFs offline and renames each file to match what it contains.
Since 2026
One-off payment · Focus and productivity · Individuals and families
- Runcell
An AI agent inside Jupyter that writes and runs Python cells, reads the results and fixes errors during data analysis.
Free plan · Developer tools · Developers
- FastAPI Cloud
Hosting for Python FastAPI apps that deploys with one command and handles scaling and HTTPS for developers.
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
- Nhost
Managed backend with Postgres, GraphQL, user sign-in, file storage and serverless functions so developers can ship apps quickly.
Since 2020
Free plan · Developer tools · Developers
- InsForge
A hosted backend with database, auth, storage and functions that AI coding agents can set up and run for you.
Since 2025
Developer tools · Developers
- Bemi
Records every change to your PostgreSQL data with app context attached, giving engineering teams a reliable audit log.
Since 2023
Free trial · Developer tools · Developers
- 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
- 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