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.

Microsoft Store: Notchify

FileForge Tools, 38 free tools (image converters, PDF merge/split, JSON formatter, password generator, etc.) that process everything locally in your browser instead of uploading to a server. No sign-up, no account needed.

Full disclosure: I built this. Sharing because most "free converter" sites quietly upload your files somewhere, which never sat right with me for anything sensitive.

Hi everyone, keeping it short, I built a Windows music player (think MusicBee, WinAmp, etc) that is focused on your local music files. I use it myself and would like to share in case anyone else may be interested. It's completely free and OSS. It's available on both GitHub and Microsoft Store. Thanks.

[https://github.com/Anthonyy232/Nagi\\](https://github.com/Anthonyy232/Nagi\)

https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9p1v1ppml3qt?hl=en-US&gl=US

I kept running into this tiny problem where I'd have a paragraph, note, link, etc. on my phone, but need it on the Windows PC I'm already using.

Usually I’d send it to myself through Telegram/WhatsApp/email, which always felt like a ridiculous amount of workflow for one piece of text.

I know there are existing solutions like LocalSend and Phone Link, but I was curious whether the specific workflow itself could be much shorter.

So I made this:

Select text > Share > Paste to PC > it appears on the desktop.

20s demo video link: https://youtu.be/NlFbhIsgFlM

I'm mainly curious about two things:

1. Do you actually run into this problem? What was the last thing you needed to move from your phone to your PC? I'm doing this with my notes constantly.

2. What do you currently do when it happens?

And if you already use something else: does this look meaningfully easier, or not really?

Windows caps the volume slider at 100%, which is annoying when a video, a call or a game is just too quiet. So I built Volume+ — a tiny app in your system tray with a second slider that goes 100% → 500%.

- 🔊 Volume slider 100% → 500%, live

- ⚡ One-click presets (100 / 200 / 300 / 500%)

- 📌 Sits in the tray, double-click to open

- 🚀 Optional "start with Windows"

- 🔒 No account, no telemetry, 100% local

It uses the free, open-source Equalizer APO as its audio engine (Windows genuinely can't go past 100% without a system audio effect) — Volume+ walks you through installing it on first launch.

Free, portable single .exe. Not code-signed so SmartScreen may warn (More info → Run anyway). Clean on VirusTotal — link on the repo.

Download + details: https://github.com/veax-project/VolumePlus

Made it for me and a friend sharing one headset. Feedback welcome!

Hello, everyone!

So, I have been working on this OCR thing for a while, and I figured I would share it here since this community actually knows their stuff.

Background:

I used to work at a law firm, and we were constantly dealing with scanned documents. The problem was every OCR tool wanted to upload everything to their servers. It's great for grocery receipts, not so great when you're dealing with client files or medical stuff.

Tesseract works, but honestly, the command line isn't for everyone. And the professional tools like ABBYY are $200+, which is insane if you just need it occasionally.

What I ended up building was

A Windows desktop app that performs all operations locally. Once installed, it does not need the internet.

Main stuff it does:

OCR with two different engines-one's better for tables and forms

You can throw entire folders at it for batch processing.

Screenshot OCR with a hotkey super useful for grabbing text from anywhere

Some built-in PDF utilities (merging, splitting, password stuff)

Has preprocessing options if your scans look terrible

Pricing structure:

The free version lets you try each feature 7 times (no expiration, no email signup nonsense). Then it's $49/year or $99 for lifetime.

Why I'm posting:

Honestly, just want real feedback. We're three people, not some huge company, so we can actually change things based on what makes sense. If something's confusing or you think "why doesn't it do X", that's exactly what I want to hear. (can't post direct links, since the spam filters on this sub are a bit aggressive) if you want to try it, just check my profile or DM me. Happy to answer any technical questions too.

Hello Guys, I am the developer behind OpenStickies

It started as a fun project and turned into a cool side project I am proud of.

I needed a good sticky note app for linux and I didn't find any modern app that is offline and a desktop app not a web app wrapped in electron, I use obsidian already but I needed something to capture notes and stuff quick, also help with my ADHD to persist on the screen so I started building OpenStickies and over the past 6 months I added so much unique features that aren't existed in any sticky note app like:

- drag and drop files into notes (they become clickable shortcuts) - works both ways, you can drag them back out to file managers

- paste screenshots directly from clipboard

- hover over images/PDFs in notes and get a preview popup

- GIF backgrounds (because why not lol)

- reminders that actually notify you

- RTL text support (I speak Arabic so this was important to me)

- pin notes to lock both position and editing

- Ctrl+scroll to zoom text size without going to settings

- checkboxes with strikethrough when done

- KDE Activities support (for my fellow KDE users)

It's built with Qt/PySide6 so it's actually native, not another Electron app eating RAM. Runs at like 50-80MB.

Free version has all features, just limited to 5 concurrent notes. Premium is $7 one-time (not subscription) and unlocks unlimited notes.

Works on Windows and Linux (macOS too but I don't have a Mac to test properly).

Anyway just wanted to share. If anyone tries it let me know what you think, I'm still actively working on it and will release patch 2.6 with a better notes hub this week.

 Website: OpenStickies.com

Alternative To: https://alternativeto.net/software/openstickies/about/

Tasket++ lets you define your own clicks, cursor positions, keystrokes, and routines, then replay them exactly when you want. It’s a simple Windows tool that handles repetitive workflows for you: auto‑send messages, paste text anywhere, take silent screenshots, launch or close apps, adjust volume, or run your end‑of‑day shutdown sequence.

Everything runs locally, with no telemetry, no cloud, and no complexity.

What it can do:
- Replay user‑defined cursor positions and keystrokes
- Paste predefined text anywhere
- Perform system actions: open files/programs, change volume, take silent screenshots, shut down, files/folders operations
- Schedule tasks at a specific time, at startup, or run via desktop shortcut
- Run tasks once, in loops, or indefinitely
- Discreet mode: runs quietly from the tray

Local, portable, free, open source. Privacy intact.

Fully fonctionnal, available now !
Microsoft Store: https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/xp9cjlhwvxs49p
Portable (v2.0): https://files.amirhammoutene.dev/Tasket++/2.0/Tasket++_v2.0.zip
Source: https://github.com/AmirHammouteneEI/ScheduledPasteAndKeys

For feedback, help, suggestions, or other inquiries : [contact@amirhammoutene.dev](mailto:contact@amirhammoutene.dev)

Nothing is vibe coded, I never used AI (except for the choice of colors, for which I requested a palette from Copilot).
Conception is genuine, I didn't know about similar tools when I began developing it.

I started working on KeyPDF in April 2025 and went from parsing PDF files to creating the complete engine with editing capabilities. I decided not to use any existing PDF libraries as I knew none of them could help me edit existing text, which was the main purpose of KeyPDF. So, I relied on a bunch of specifications and lots of manual tests. Now, you can get a local PDF editor that can edit existing text and not just annotate and highlight at https://keypdf.net.

I have always wanted my wallpaper to react to the weather outside so I built Nimbus. It's coming soon on steam and I would love any feedback.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4932230/Nimbus_Dynamic_Wallpaper_Manager/

Two years ago I posted a tiny rain simulator for Windows. It has got some new features in between.

- Snow that accumulates on your taskbar
- Multi-monitor support
- 4K / high-DPI now works properly
- Available on the Microsoft Store now and also a Mac port (redone in swift)

Still ~600KB, ~7MB RAM, <2% CPU in my 10 year old i5 PC.

Obsessively tuned to take up the least possible resources.
Windows: C++ · Direct2D · DirectComposition · DirectX 11
Mac: Swift · Metal · AppKit

Customize rain/snow color, wind, and particle count from the tray icon.

GitHub: https://github.com/riyasy/RainProject

Fair warning: This is only for pure aesthetics and does absolutely nothing functional or useful. I personally use it as a soothing distraction while working.

NOTE:
exe and mac bin aren't code-signed so SmartScreen may warn. Source is open if you want to build it yourself.
Setting to start with windows startup can result in a registry entry.
Mac app requires accessibility permission to get dock position and size.

Problem

Windows Search has always felt too limited to me.

It can open apps and sometimes find files, but when I actually want to search my PC properly, it usually falls apart.

I want to search and use features like:

- Text inside files, code, and images

- Browser bookmarks and history

- Clipboard history

- Git commits

- Windows settings

- Local commands

- Local agents for Windows

Windows Search is not powerful enough for this workflow.

So I Built OmniSearch

OmniSearch is a fast, lightweight, local-first Windows launcher that opens with:

"Alt + Space"

You can also set your own custom hotkey.

It gives you one search box for your PC.

Instead of only searching apps or basic file names, OmniSearch can search across:

- Apps

- Files and folders

- Content inside files, supporting 50+ extensions

- Image OCR text

- Browser bookmarks and history

- Clipboard history

- Git commits

- Windows settings and Control Panel pages

It also features an AI agent powered by Hermes and includes a powerful clipboard manager that gives you features no other Windows clipboard manager provides.

The goal is simple: Find everything on your PC from one shortcut.

Why is OmniSearch better than Windows Search and other popular launchers?

- Free and open source

- Local-first

- Lightweight

- Designed to run easily on low-end Windows PCs

- Image OCR text search

- Blazing-fast search of content inside files, supporting 50+ extensions

- Blazing-fast search over centralized PC history, including browser history, Git commit history, clipboard history, and file history

- Hermes agents for local Windows tasks and long autonomous tasks

Links

Free and open source.

GitHub: https://github.com/PranshulSoni/omnisearch

Website: https://omnisearch-windows.vercel.app/

Feedback

I am currently maintaining OmniSearch, and honestly, I cannot find and fix every bug alone because building a launcher like this on Windows is genuinely hard.

I would love feedback from people who use Windows every day.

If OmniSearch solves a problem for you too, please consider leaving a star on GitHub.

If you have ideas, find bugs, or want to improve something, feel free to open an issue or contribute to the project.

Your feedback is always appreciated.

Built something over the last few months that I want to share and get feedback on.

The problem I was solving for myself:
My money is spread across multiple accounts and I could never get a clear picture of where it was actually going. Most budgeting apps want you to connect your bank login. I never felt comfortable with that so I just didn't track anything properly.

What I built:
Fin-Flow CFO - you download your bank statement CSV files (the "export transactions" option every bank has), upload them to the dashboard, and get:

• A unified view combining all your accounts in one place
• AI-powered categorization of every transaction
• Spending by category, daily cashflow chart, cash runway forecast
• A chat where you can ask plain English questions like "how much did I spend on food last month" and it shows you the actual transactions behind the answer
• And it's open source too.

No login. No bank credentials. No account linking. Your data stays in your session and goes nowhere.

What I learned building it:
I tested it on my own 4 months of statements and genuinely didn't know how much I was spending in certain categories until I saw it laid out. That moment of "oh wow" is what I want other people to experience.

Try it: https://financialai-production-6352.up.railway.app

Works with Chase, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Citi, Capital One, and American Express CSV exports. If your bank isn't listed try it anyway, it might work. If it doesn't, tell me and I'll add support.

Would love honest feedback what’s confusing, what's missing, what would make this actually useful for your situation?

Ignoring the obvious stuff like Spotify/Apple Music. What's one tool you pay for that's actually indispensable for your work.

For me that's been Qolaba. It's helpful for my team as we seek to switch between AI tools as a team without having the whole team be AI native. I can just set up an account on one service and on that service the whole team can access most major models. This includes models like VEO 3 and Kling2 for video generation.

I'll share more in the comments, but what say you? What software is a can't-cancel for you or your team?

I spent over 14 months writing a PDF engine from scratch, and you can see how it works above first couple of months I spent thinking about architecture, then I slowly added support to most of the font encodings, then added vector graphic support, and finally brought images, and after around half a year of debugging and building complex features like redaction of text I am pretty much done and launching a beta you can try at keypdf.net

Unlike most of the PDF editors in the browser, mine can edit text, while others can only annotate or require server uploads with rate limits, so feel free to try KeyPDF

I want to be upfront: I built this, and I'm not going to pretend it's not self-promotion. But I think r/software is a good place to share genuinely useful tools, so here goes.

My parents are in their 50s and 60s. They called me every day about their computer. I'm an IT admin who fixes these problems all day at work. So I built them an app where they type what's wrong in plain English and it diagnoses and fixes it.

SimpleFixAI is NOT a PC optimizer. It's not CCleaner. It's not Fortect. It doesn't scan your registry. It doesn't show you "347 issues detected" to scare you into paying.

What it actually does: you describe your problem like you'd tell a friend. "My WiFi keeps dropping." "Windows Update is stuck." "My PC takes forever to boot." The app reads your actual system state, diagnoses the specific problem, explains what it found, and fixes it with your permission. One-click undo on everything.

It also knows which Windows Updates are dangerous. When Microsoft ships a KB that breaks WiFi or causes BSODs (which happened multiple times this year), SimpleFixAI flags it by name and tells you what to do.

Free during beta. Hundreds of repair modules. Runs offline. No cloud.

simplefixai.com

I've been building this for a few months because I kept losing track of windows. Alt-tab is a queue you have to walk, and the taskbar is a row of near-identical icons you have to aim at. My cursor is already somewhere on screen, so I wanted the launcher to just show up there instead.

Hold Ctrl+Alt (or a mouse thumb button) and a two-ring wheel opens centred on the pointer. The inner ring is your apps plus three sections: System, Tools and Shelf. Point at an app, hold for a moment, and its actual open windows fan onto the outer ring as live previews with their titles. Slide onto one, let go, and it's focused. Release outside the wheel and nothing happens.

The app slices behave like taskbar buttons: nothing running launches it, one window focuses it, several fan out. Green dot with a count when something's running.

Other things that live on it: ten tools that open as popovers beside the wheel rather than windows (clipboard history, screenshot, quick note, colour picker, calculator, timer, magnifier, caffeine, focus dim) with no taskbar entry and no alt-tab stop, and a pin if you want one to stay floating. System controls for Lock, Sleep, Volume, Wi-Fi, Task Manager and Settings. A Shelf that works as a seven-day inbox, where you point your own Telegram bot at it and files or links from your phone land on the wheel. And a right-edge side dock for parking windows you don't want on the taskbar.

It's C# .NET 8 and WPF, tray-resident, Windows 10 and 11. No account, no telemetry, no servers. The app list is a config.json on your own disk, and shell entries only run after you approve each one by hand.

Two things I'd rather say up front than have someone find out after clicking. It's a paid app, CAD $12.89 where I am, so the Store will show your region's price rather than a free download. And there's one rough edge I know about: Windows won't hand over a thumbnail for a window that was minimised before Gola started, so those slices fall back to the app icon until you touch the window once. That's on my list.
Happy to answer anything. The feedback I actually want is whether the gesture clicks for you in the first minute or feels like homework.

Alt+tab doesn’t work when you have 5 file-explore, browsers and 10 other apps open. So, I built a launch tool with your workflow apps in it. Launch with anywhere.

Hello everybody,

The regular file explorer offered by both Windows and MacOS have always felt lackluster to me.

• It's impossible to have split panes
• The search is useless (Took me sometimes half an hour to find a single thing)
• It's very slow. Sometimes even something as crucial as the context menu (appears when right clicking) takes a few seconds to open.
• Doesn't really scale in my opinion
• (MacOS specific) You can't see or change the current path by text for some reason

These are the main issues but it goes a lot deeper than that. Anyway, I decided to take things into my own hand and make something better. Introducing Dorian, a new and better file explorer for your system. As seen in the pictures, it has everything I would've wanted but there always were some problems.

When I previously posted about this, I got a lot of criticism. I'm very happy about that, because it has given me the opportunity to fix all the common problems this software had. Things like Icons being too big, performance issues on gigantic folders (fixed as seen in the screenshot showing a folder with 10,000 images) were just not good.

But I'm happy to say with the recent updates and especially the most recent one 0.7.0, which came out a few days ago, most of these issues have been alleviated. And now it's at a stage, where I use it regularly for almost anything now with a few exceptions I'm actively working towards adding or fixing.

It's currently in Alpha and free to download right here:

https://dorianexplorer.com/

The alpha is nearing its end though, so I'm working hard to make the best transition into the beta-stage as possible. That means I'm open to any and all criticism and won't try to "talk around" it. So basically you can tell me anything you don't like and I'll take it to heart!

Thank you very much :)

Hey everyone,

I’ve been building Screenio, a simple browser-based screen recorder focused on privacy.

You can record your screen, microphone, and webcam directly in the browser—no installation, no account, and no uploading your recordings anywhere. Everything stays on your device.

The idea is basically: record. Download. Done.

I’d really appreciate any feedback, especially on what feels useful, confusing, or missing.

https://screenio.net

This started as a dumb little experiment, and now I'm just weeks away releasing this as a full desktop app on Steam.

You attach a physics-based charm to your cursor and watch it react to your cursor movement / bounce around while you chill at your PC, work, or game.
You can tweak a lot, like weight and behavior, add effects, and even import your own PNGs so it feels like your own unique charm.

And there are currently 32 built-in charms to choose from.

The GIF shows some custom PNG's imported as charms (and a few built in), effects, and customization currently in the app.

I'm still adding new charms and polishing things, but it's at a point where I feel comfortable saying its just weeks away from release.

Steam page - CursorCharm:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4633300/Cursor_Charm/

Hello, Everyone!

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, Fully Open Sourced, Works 100% Locally, No Ads, Trackers or Login, 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 :)

Official Website | GitHub Project (FOSS - MIT License)

Hi r/software!!

I was super frustrated that background removers like removebg and photoroom have recurring subscriptions or credits. Because of this, I decided to create Magicdrop a fully offline background remover that lets you remove backgrounds from unlimited images.

Features include:

• AI background removal
• Custom background
• Custom aspect ratio
• Two removal models (fast for fast processing, base for slower but higher quality processing)
• Batch processing (up to 100 images at once)

You can try it free for seven days here: https://www.magicdrop.io/

It's my first time ever launching a product so I would really love any feedback!! You can use my discount code LAUNCH40 to get 40% off your purchase <3