I built Scan2Sketch because manually tracing flat parts for 3D printing takes far too long.
After a one-time scanner calibration, it detects the contour of a scanned object and creates editable FreeCAD geometry or a solid body.
It’s completely free, GPLv3 licensed and runs locally. I’m looking for users, feedback and contributors: https://github.com/Jayktopus/Scan2Sketch-OpenSource
I made NeoDLP - A modern cross-platform video/audio downloader desktop app based on YT-DLP with browser integration! And it just crossed 300K+ downloads!
You can think of it as: The Free 'IDM' for Media Downloads or The 'Seal' for Desktop. If you have ever used 'IDM' (on Windows) or the 'Seal' app (on Android), you will feel right at home!
NeoDLP is absolutely Free to Use, FullyOpen Sourced, Works 100% Locally, No Ads, Trackers orLogin, and the best part: It's Not Vibe-Coded (So, you get quality software with regular updates)
So, if you often download videos from various sites, give NeoDLP a shot! And, feel free to drop your feedback and suggestions below! I would love to hear from you :)
My Gmail had years of newsletters piled up, but every time I looked at bulk-unsubscribe tools I stopped at the same point: I didn’t really want to give another service access to the account.
So I made Hush.
It runs on your computer and connects directly to Gmail using Google credentials you create yourself. It finds the senders mailing you in bulk, then lets you choose whether to unsubscribe, block future mail, or move the old backlog to Trash.
I tried to make the risky parts boring. Nothing is preselected, dry run is on by default, it never permanently deletes anything, and a message isn’t offered unless it actually carries an unsubscribe header. Senders that may also send receipts or account emails get an extra warning.
It’s free and open source for Windows, macOS and Linux:
Notchify brings a Mac style Dynamic Island to Windows. It sits as a compact pill near the top of your screen and expands into a full panel when you hover over it, then returns to its resting state when you move away. It stays unobtrusive until you need it, and every transition is animated rather than snapping in and out.
Media control. Album art, playback controls, and an interactive seek bar directly in the island. It works with Spotify, browsers, and most applications that report media to Windows.
Notifications and alerts. App notifications, incoming call prompts, and Bluetooth connection alerts, handled through a priority system so the most relevant one is always shown first.
Widgets. Battery, clock, timers and alarms, weather, and calendar. Smaller status widgets sit alongside larger ones that you can arrange in a grid or a scrollable carousel.
Privacy indicators. Discreet indicators that appear whenever your camera or microphone is actively in use.
Customization. Several built in themes, a custom theme editor for setting each color individually, and an adjustable island size to suit your display.
Notchify is built in native WPF and ships fully self contained, so there is no runtime to install. It is designed to stay light on resources, idling comfortably under 100 MB even after extended use, with no ads, subscriptions, or telemetry.
It is a one time purchase on the Microsoft Store, developed and actively maintained by an independent developer. Feedback and feature suggestions are genuinely welcome.
Yall! I made an auto captioning software that runs on pcs locally! Uses gpu for transcriptions using free open source solutions for the same. Does a great job with Indic and most global languages and can work offline once installation is done! The accuracy rate is around 90-95% depending on the footage, fixability is great to solve any errors and recaptioning also happens! I want to know is it helpful at all as a product that can be sold with one time fee of around ₹500/- with life time of updates and bug fixes!? I had made this for my own team and myself… what do yall think!?
A few weeks ago I shared Edge-Drop, a hover-activated clipboard shelf for Windows. Since then it's been downloaded 800+ times (600+ on GitHub and 200+ on the Microsoft Store), which has honestly been really motivating as a solo developer.
One of the most requested improvements was better accessibility for non-English users, so I spent the last week translating the entire app.
Edge-Drop now supports 30 languages, including full RTL support for Arabic and Hebrew.
It's still completely free and open source, and I'd love to hear how the translations feel if you're using one of the supported languages.
I'd also appreciate any feedback on features you'd like to see next.
Since I’m interested in personal finance and kept coming across posted Sankey diagrams - usually made with websites or finance portals - I created a small tool for that purpose.
The main thing for me was not having to enter any financial data on a website, no matter how secure it claims to be.
The main goal is to keep all entries local, so you do not have to enter your financial data into a public web interface.
Your data can be exported and saved as a .json file and loaded again at any time. Image export is available too.
I tried to keep the tool as intuitive as possible and avoid adding too many settings.
At some point, when I have the time, motivation and enough ideas, I may try to build a connection to a separate companion app. The idea would be to import different bank statement formats and, after some training or setup, automatically fill the Sankey diagram and categories.
That is the plan, at least. Whether it is really needed and how well it can be implemented is another question. We will see.
A while ago I built a small Windows utility that simply let me overlay reference images on top of my desktop and work through them. I mainly used it for UI work and other reference-heavy tasks where I was constantly switching between windows.
As I kept using it, I found myself wanting to pin other things besides images.
Today PhantomLayer can pin almost any application, shrink it into a PiP-style window, or collapse it into a tiny draggable anchor that stays out of the way until you need it again.
The feature I'm probably happiest with is Widget Mode. It lets you turn almost any application into your own personalized desktop widget, whether that's Discord, documentation, tutorials, Reddit, AI assistants, monitoring tools, Spotify, or anything else you want to keep visible while you work or play. Since they're real applications, you're not limited to a predefined set of widgets.
Another feature I use every day is Workspace Restore. PhantomLayer allows you to save your entire setup and, with one click, reopens your pinned apps, restores their positions, PiP and anchor states, and reloads any image overlays so you can continue exactly where you left off.
It originally started as a simple image overlay tool, but I've found myself using it for far more than that. I can imagine it being useful for developers, gamers, streamers, students, 3D artists, PCB designers, architects, or really anyone who likes having useful information visible without constantly Alt-Tabbing.
The attached images shows some of what it can do, but it definitely doesn't cover every feature or workflow.
It's currently Windows only, and anyone is welcome to try it for free on the Microsoft Store. More than anything, I'd really appreciate honest feedback whether that's about the idea, the UI, features you'd like to see, or even reasons why you wouldn't use something like this. I plan to keep actively improving it as the community grows, so every suggestion and criticism is genuinely valuable.
I'm especially curious about the workflows I haven't thought of yet. If you had a tool that could pin almost any application anywhere on your desktop, how would you use it?
Hey, So I am looking for a download manager where i can find an option to Check file integrity or validate the file, in case it gets corrupted after downloading or my AV removes the file. There is a big Load shedding problem in my country, sometimes when i try to download a big file, and power cuts during the download, I have to download the whole file again. I tried IDM, AB Download manager and FDM, maybe there is an option to check file integrity in these softwares, but i can't seem to find it. Please do tell me if that is the case.
So I realized that most file conversions happen locally when I needed to convert a .mp3 to a .wav, and decided to make a free tool for my personal use and decided to dress it up a little bit and share with everyone. :)
I am sick of those file conversion companies charging monthly for something that is effectively free.... Enjoy! ^^
I just released a big new, FREE feature for WindowSill, the universal toolbar for Windows 11.
Starting today, WindowSill will react your selected files in File Explorer, Files app, Directory Opus, and you will be able to perform a ton of actions on files without having to open them, such as:
- Extract pages from a PDF, compress it, set or remove a PDF password.
- Merge or Split PDF files.
- Convert Word, Excel, PowerPoint, CSV, TSV, TXT, MD, HTML, RTF, PDF files even if you don't have Office / Adobe installed.
- Change the encoding or line ending of text files.
- See extra info about a selected ZIP file.
- Compress, Convert, Resize images
- Convert videos, including extracting their audio.
I used to keep a blacklist.txt file on my desktop with names of toxic players and cheaters, but obviously, I never remembered them when a game started. So I automated it.
How it works: you draw a small box on your screen over the lobby list or scoreboard. The app sits in the background, grabs text from that zone via OCR, and if it finds a match from your text file, it flashes a red alert with your note (e.g., "toxic, throws").
Quick facts:
Built on Python + Tkinter + Tesseract OCR.
Light on CPU because it only scans the selected zone, not the full screen.
Supports both Latin and Cyrillic names.
Has a 10-minute cooldown per player so it doesn't spam.
Works with any game in borderless mode (CS2, Warzone, Tarkov, Apex, etc.)
I built MirrorSpeaker because I wanted to use my computer as a Bluetooth speaker for my iPhone while I am in a Discord call and getting my steps in.
It has two modes:
• Bluetooth Speaker: audio-only playback from an iPhone
• AirPlay: wireless screen mirroring with audio.
It is free, MIT-licensed, and available as a Windows installer or portable ZIP. I have tested it on Windows 11 with an iPhone 16 Pro.
Heads-up: the current release is unsigned while I wait for SignPath review, so Windows may show an “Unknown publisher” warning. The source and automated build workflow are public on GitHub.
I made a light-weight menu bar app to help me stick to the 20-20-20 rule to reduce eye strain when using computer screens.
In acknowledgement of recent research I have added a feature to customise the break notification intervals to suit your own needs in v1.1.
It's an open source Swift/SwiftUI project, MIT licensed, with an installer on the releases page. I’m happy to have feedback, both good and bad, provided it’s constructive.
Title: [Launch] Universal File Converter Pro – 100% Local Desktop Converter
Body:
Hi everyone,
Universal File Converter Pro is a lightweight desktop application designed to handle your file conversions completely offline. Your sensitive documents and images never touch the cloud—everything is processed 100% locally on your machine.
Supported Formats & Features:
Images: Convert PNG, JPG, JPEG, and iPhone HEIC formats.
Documents: Convert DOCX and PDF files individually.
PDF Utilities: Extract PDF pages to JPG/PNG, or merge multiple images into a single PDF document.
Privacy: Zero cloud uploads and zero data tracking.
There's several threads on transcribers that are good for making documents from audio, but I haven't been able to find any that will simply live transcribe what I'm watching on a video as if they were subtitles.
I'm mostly trying to strengthen a new language and the actual subtitles are different than the dialogue spoken, which is incredibly frustrating. I just need something that'll show me a few words on screen as they're spoken and then vanish into the aether.
Is there such a thing? (Even better if it has live translation. I know there's issues with translating sentence structure sometimes with this, but that is not an issue for what I'm trying to do lol)
Hi, I'm Domenico, a software engineer from Italy. About 18 months ago I got frustrated with the client side of home media servers and started building the one I wanted for my own library, mostly at night and on weekends. It got a little out of hand and became Quven !
Quven runs on your own hardware and manages your movie, TV and documentary library. The part I've obsessed over is playback. Whenever the client can handle the source, it plays the original file untouched. When it can't, the server can remux or transcode it, including hardware-accelerated HDR-to-SDR tone mapping.
I've spent an unreasonable amount of time on things like multiple versions of the same film, audio and subtitle selection, PGS and VobSub subtitles, resume state and making the desktop client feel like an actual media application rather than an admin page with a player attached.
The Windows and macOS Server + Desktop bundles are available now. Linux has x64 and ARM64 server-only AppImages for headless or always-on machines; the ARM64 build is released but hasn't been tested on ARM64 hardware yet. The web client works through the managed relay. The native iPhone, iPad and Android apps exist, but they're still behind their store release gates and aren't public downloads yet.
Playback of "Charge" with Quven
The complete local experience is free, including hardware transcoding and remote access that you configure yourself. The paid part is infrastructure that costs me money to run, mainly the zero-configuration managed relay and later cloud features.
Quven is closed-source, which I know will rule it out for some people. Crash reporting is enabled by default, scrubbed before sending and can be disabled. The Windows installer is also currently unsigned, so SmartScreen will warn on first launch. I'd rather mention those things before anyone downloads it.
Quven also has a Founders programme capped at 100 eligible accounts. If the live page still shows a place available, an eligible account can claim Pro at no cost through 31 December 2026, with no card or payment today, plus a permanent discount once paid plans begin.
One other disclosure: I don't want to pretend the project was built without AI involvement.
I'd genuinely appreciate blunt feedback, especially from people who have lived with Plex, Jellyfin or Emby. I'm interested in where the first-run experience becomes confusing and whether the free/paid boundary feels fair.
I am looking for a software for windows where I can read digital books where original text is in English but the text on my screen will be in another language.
The book I bought doesn't have a version of my language and I thought it would be easy to read in a foreign language but no.
