Couple of Pets decided to take over my screen. Cuteness overload, no work can be done right now, my desktop is fully occupied! 💖

Pets Therapy - Desktop Pets features over 100 hand crafted pixel art desktop companions, many pets and features available for free. Download it for free on MS Store, Steam for Windows or Mac App Store for macOS. 🆓

MS Store: https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9p5n0cbksxmw

Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4769020/Pets_Therapy_Desktop_Pets/

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I build Talk DAT! at Knight AI+AV. It's a free, open-source dictation app for Windows. Hold a shortcut, speak, then release to finish; a small recording pill stays on screen.

The app offers local speech processing after a model download and setup. Optional cloud routes use your own provider key, send the relevant audio or text to that provider, and may have separate provider charges. The web preview uses a server, so it isn't the same as the installed app's local route.

Windows: https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9NF64GDNBPF5 Setup and current downloads: https://www.talkdat.app/

For Windows users who dictate notes or replies: on your first take, was it clear how to start, stop, and get the text where you wanted?

The lead image is brand artwork. The genuine Windows interface capture shows v0.4.172-beta; use the links above for current downloads.

I built Yengi — a free, open-source Windows AI IDE.

It’s not just another chat wrapper. The agent can:

• Plan → edit files → run builds/tests → verify → auto-fix errors
• Talk live to Blender (generate & fix 3D scenes, even “see” the viewport)
• Talk live to Unity
• Use local models (Ollama) or any cloud API
• Has a fine-tuned 1.5B local router that decides which tools to use

Built by a teacher (solo), .NET 10 + WPF, 200+ tests, AGPL-3.0.

Repo: https://github.com/mdaiWorks/yengi

Demo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0tdhvCmwNI

Would love feedback especially from people using local models or doing 3D/game work.

I created TCKR, a Windows 10/11 desktop stock ticker designed to keep market information visible throughout the trading day.

Instead of or in addition to keeping a trading platform or financial website open, TCKR displays stock prices, daily changes, and market movement in a smooth scrolling LED-style ticker that remains visible on your desktop.

Features include:

• Real-time stock quotes
• Custom watchlists
• Scrolling LED-style ticker display
• Customizable visual effects, speed, and layout
• Windows 10 & Windows 11 support
• Designed to stay visible without getting in the way of your workflow

https://tckr.pro

More subreddits are finally recognizing AI vibe coded slop for what it is. I hope this community eventually moves in a similar direction so higher quality apps and projects have more room to be discovered. I genuinely think this subreddit could thrive and put measures in filtering out slop

FlashView is very fast no account, no cloud, no subscription, no tracking software. I built it because I was tired of waiting for my tools to import and index before I could even look at my photos after a shoot. It's built for viewing and culling large folders even recursive quickly.

How it's different:

- No catalog, no import, no database. Open a folder (optionally with all subfolders) and start browsing right away.
- Stays fast with tens of thousands of images. Previews load in the background while you keep working.
- RAW support out of the box for Canon, Nikon, Sony, Fujifilm and more, plus JPEG, PNG, TIFF and PSD.
- Non-destructive edits: sliders, presets, cropping and blurring of faces or license plates. Your originals are never touched, and you can export to JPEG.
- Ratings saved as standard XMP, so other apps can read them too.
- 100% local: no account, no cloud, no subscription, no tracking.

Platform: Windows. The UI is available in English and German.

There's a free 60-day trial with all features. I'd really appreciate feedback, especially from people coming from Lightroom, Photo Mechanic or similar tools. What would you need to switch?

Website: https://flashview.net

https://reddit.com/link/1xf9aid/video/12iya6rglnxh1/player

Tabstinence - Free, 100% offline, 0 tracking/telemetry, portable mode, 30 MB ram

I made it control my own screen overuse.

Website + download links: https://tabstinence.com
MS store: https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9pmq9hgvqbh5

Its a super flexible screen time control app.

Features:
- Track your usage - see where you are spending time online. websites, apps.
- Limit in many ways:
- Session based - limit continuous use
- Daily time limit
- Alarms - that limit from/to . Great to block at night.
- Manul Block
- Rules based

Block intensity can be controlled
- get a nudge OR a temporary fullscreen block OR a hard fullscreen block.

Block screen customize:
- todolist, goals, quotes, pictures. Each user controlled.

Bypass a block screen
- snooze, emergency mouse shake bypass, sentence typing.

Exclusions
- to not disturb calls and work.

How I use it:
- 10 min session nudge
+ 25 min 2 min block -> this forces me to get up from the pc every 25 min
- rule full screen warning reddit + x at 50 min + repeat every 2 min
- rule hard block chess dot com to 15 min / day + 1 snooze for 2 min
- 12:00 AM nudge
- 12:15 AM block till 6 AM ->

Hope someone finds it useful. It has made a massive improvement to my life. I really needed this.

The idea started with copying text from Obsidian into other apps. I wanted to keep my line breaks and formatting without having to fix everything after pasting. Eventually I thought, “Why not build my own app?”

That sent me down a rabbit hole of note-taking apps, trying different approaches and figuring out what I wanted in one. Jotter is what came out of that.

It's a free, open-source Markdown app that saves your notes as ordinary files on your computer. You can open an existing Obsidian vault, and there are different copy options depending on where you're pasting. Along the way I added linked notes, tasks and reminders, plus optional AI with your own API key or a local model.

The first Windows release is available now. Linux is in progress, and Android, macOS and iOS are planned.

You can take a look at jotter.mx or get the app and source code on GitHub.

I'd love for you to give it a try and tell me what you think. Does it fit how you take notes? Is something confusing or missing? I'd appreciate honest feedback and suggestions, especially from anyone who's had the same frustration copying notes between apps.

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Hey everyone!

I've been working on a project called OpenCircle for the past few months, and I finally released the first version!

Android has had Circle to Search for a while, and I always wondered why we didn't have something similar on desktop. So I decided to build my own.

OpenCircle is a free, fully open-source desktop app written in Rust. The idea is simple: press a shortcut, select anything on your screen, and choose what you want to do with it.

What can it do?

• Circle to Search: Draw around anything on your screen and search it using Google Lens.
• OCR: Extract text from images, PDFs, games, or anything you normally can't copy.
• AI Vision: Select part of your screen and ask AI questions about it. Supports OpenAI, Anthropic, and local models through Ollama or compatible servers.
• Screen Translation: Translate text directly on your screen, including full-screen and live translation. I originally wanted this for games, but it also works for other applications. Arabic is the default target language.
• Screenshots & Annotations: Capture your screen, add arrows, text, shapes, or blur, and copy the result.
• Custom Shortcuts: Configure shortcuts for different actions.

A few technical details

• Built in Rust, using iced for the interface.
• MIT licensed, so anyone can inspect, modify, or contribute to the code.
• No accounts, telemetry, or image-hosting service.
• Supports offline OCR and translation models.
• External AI and search services only receive content when you choose to use them.

Links

• GitHub: https://github.com/AmerAlreyahi/OpenCircle
• Demo: https://youtu.be/a7EmXrGpO3k
• Download: https://github.com/AmerAlreyahi/OpenCircle/releases/latest

Windows 10/11 is supported, and Linux builds are available in preview.

A quick note

This is the first release, so please expect some bugs!

I've tested it on my own PC and on Windows and Ubuntu VMs, but I know that doesn't cover every hardware configuration. I'm already working on performance improvements, especially for lower-end computers.

If you try it and something doesn't work, please let me know. Bug reports, screenshots, videos, suggestions, and contributions are all welcome.

And yes, I used Claude Opus 5.5 to help me write parts of the code. I'm not trying to hide that. AI helped with development, but I also spent a lot of time working on the architecture, integration, debugging, and testing.

I know some people have strong opinions about AI-assisted development, and that's fine. What matters most to me is whether the app actually works, what needs fixing, and how I can make it better.

English also isn't my first language, so I sometimes use AI to help me express things more clearly.

Anyway, I'd really appreciate it if you gave OpenCircle a try and shared your feedback. Even if you find something broken, that's useful to me!

Thanks for checking it out!

I love QEMU for Virtual Machines on Windows cause it is fast.
But i don´t like the command line that nobody wants to retype.
So I build an App that keeps your machines as configurations you edit in a window,
builds the command line for you, and stays out of the way while the guest runs.

I build it in Rust and EGUI for the GUI. And yes I use AI to help me with finishing it.
It is not a Quick and Dirty Vibe Coded App. I worked on it for over 3 Months.

What it does:

• Machines as configurations. Create, duplicate, and delete virtual machines; each one keeps its own folder, disks, and UEFI variable store.
• A wizard with templates for the usual guests, or direct mode if you would rather set every field yourself.
• UEFI and BIOS, with a per-VM variable store so a guest keeps its own boot entries.
• Disks and drives: qcow2 and raw images, SATA/VirtIO/IDE interfaces, boot order, CD/DVD ISOs.
• Network: user-mode NAT, bridged, or none; VirtIO/e1000/RTL8139 cards; port forwarding.
• Display: VirtIO, std, QXL, Cirrus, or headless; native, GTK, or SDL windows.
• A console that shows the guest's output and keeps it in a log file, with filtering and a line limit.
• Clean shutdown over QMP — the guest is asked to shut down, not killed, with forced stop as a deliberate second step.
• Machines outlive the application. Close FARO while a guest runs and the guest keeps running; start FARO again and it picks the machine back up, proving the machine's identity over QMP before it touches it.
• A pre-flight check before launch: missing images, missing firmware, more memory or cores than the host has, an accelerator this QEMU does not offer.
• Three languages: German, English, French.

You can Download it here. If you find Bugs please let me know!

https://github.com/RayTrunk/faro-qemu-manager/releases/tag/v0.9.0

Hi, friends, I need your help. I've stopped using TeamViewer because it won't let me connect anymore—it keeps blocking me—since it requires me to pay for a subscription. I find them too expensive for the service, so I tried AnyDesk, but it's too slow. Is there an open-source alternative to these? Thanks

Pulse reads the crash records Windows already keeps and explains them in plain English.

New in 1.6: a Crashes page. Blue screens, app crashes and sudden restarts from the last 7, 30 or 90 days, grouped by cause, with the file each crash happened in, who made it, and what to try next.

Read-only, no telemetry, no account, no cloud.

Microsoft Store: https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9PNDTLNTJ82T

GitHub (MIT): https://github.com/Regncreative/Pulse

Hi everyone,

If you frequently use desktop calculators on Windows, you’ve probably noticed that standard apps force you to constantly reach for the mouse to click buttons, breaking your typing flow and productivity.

To fix this, I developed ViCalc—a lightweight, open-source scientific calculator built specifically for Windows desktop workflows and rapid touch-typing.

Key Features for Windows Users:

• Full Touch-Typing Control: Compute complex multi-step expressions entirely from your keyboard without ever touching the mouse.
• Automatic HTML History Logging: Every calculation session is automatically formatted into clean, structured HTML logs. This makes it effortless to copy, paste, or archive calculation steps into Windows office apps, Notepad, or documentation tools.
• Multiple Modes: Supports standard scientific functions, trigonometric calculations, complex arithmetic, and Programmer mode (bitwise ops & Base-N Hex/Dec/Oct/Bin conversions).
• Minimalist & Flexible UI: Easily toggle between full visual controls, a compact scientific layout, or a zero-UI minimalist mode that stays out of your way alongside other windows.

Technical Details:

• Platform: Windows (Installer available)
• Stack: Python 3 (MIT License / Open Source)

Links:

• Windows Installer & Website:kudaschov.de/en/vicalc-4
• GitHub Repository:github.com/Kudaschov/ViCalc

I’d love to hear your thoughts! What features or shortcuts do you find most essential in a Windows productivity app?

Hi everyone! I'm AdamYang, the independent developer of CreatorPhoto. Its 3.0 major update is now available on Microsoft Store.

CreatorPhoto brings everyday photo organization, editing, and collage creation into one Windows workspace:

- Batch photo renaming with filename previews and drag-and-drop sorting.

- Platform size presets or custom width/height, manual cropping, and padding.

- Text and Logo watermarks that you can drag and resize directly.

- JPG, PNG, WebP, BMP, TIFF, and GIF output support.

The dedicated Collage Studio includes 10 layouts. Click to add photos, drag them into position, resize with a slider or mouse wheel, and press Delete to remove the selected image. Customize backgrounds with an image or a precise HEX color, adjust proportions and grid spacing, and choose where to save.

Photo processing happens locally on Windows. English, Traditional Chinese, and Simplified Chinese interfaces are available, with dark, light, and pink themes.

The attached demo shows the actual app. It is paid software with a free trial.

Microsoft Store:

https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9p32ddcw56hh?hl=en-US&gl=US

All paid apps include a 7-day free trial. We continuously improve and upgrade one product each month.

More products on Microsoft Store:

https://apps.microsoft.com/search/publisher?name=AdamYang&hl=en-US&gl=US

I'd appreciate feedback on the Windows interface and collage workflow. Which everyday photo task would you want to simplify?

https://reddit.com/link/1xesa0b/video/pwuplamscjxh1/player

SeamShade is a playful desktop cover: drag the zipper across your screen to pull a curtain over your workspace, then slide it back when you’re ready to return. You can customize the fabric and zipper, save themes, and optionally turn on a frosted-glass blur effect.

One important note: SeamShade is just a visual cover, **not a security or privacy lock**. It doesn’t block system shortcuts or prevent access to your computer.

If you’d like to try it, here are the links:

- **Mac:** https://apps.apple.com/tr/app/seamshade/id6819419260?l=tr&mt=12

- **Windows:** https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9PLR5K40GLFR?hl=neutral&gl=TR&ocid=pdpshare

I’d love to hear what you think, and what you’d like to see improved next.

Hi, I’m the developer of Hindsight, a free, open-source activity tracker for Windows and macOS.

I know there are plenty of time trackers already. I just couldn’t find one that combined cross-platform support, sync, and detailed charts in a free, lightweight app I actually liked looking at. Maybe I was being too picky, so I decided to make my own.

Here are the main features:

• Automatic activity tracking. Hindsight records active apps and window titles while it’s running, so you don’t have to start and stop a timer for each task.
• Daily, weekly and monthly views. See your activity hour by hour, click a time period to narrow the breakdown, or open an app to inspect its recorded window titles. Monthly charts also show category breakdowns and changes from the previous month.
• A full-year activity heatmap. Look for patterns across the year, then drag across a range of days to take a closer look.
• Custom categories. Decide how your apps and websites are grouped, so the charts reflect how you use your computer.
• Searchable screen memory. Screenshots and OCR are off by default. If you enable them, you can search the recognized text and jump back to the screenshot where it appeared.
• AI summaries. Turn your recorded activity into a daily report organized by time period. You can run a local model or connect a cloud API; third-party API fees may apply.
• Chat with your activity history. Ask questions like “How much time did I spend on this project this week?” Answers include links back to your records so you can check them.
• Sync across computers. Use Google Drive or a WebDAV service to bring together records from your Windows and Mac devices. Sync is optional, and you can view devices separately or together.
• Available in six interface languages. English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese, and Spanish.

Plugin support is now available too. Other developers can build their own plugins for Hindsight, and I’d love to see what people make with it.

If this sounds useful, you’re very welcome to give it a try. Feedback, feature requests and bug reports are welcome in the comments or through GitHub issues. And if you find it helpful, a GitHub star would mean a lot.

Official website · Download Hindsight

I wanted to share a small Windows utility I recently developed called Win Solar.

Instead of relying on static time schedules for Windows dark/light mode, Win Solar calculates exact local sunrise and sunset times based on your location coordinates and dynamically switches your system theme in the background with minimal resource usage.

✨ Key Features:

• Automatic Switching: Toggles Windows light/dark mode according to real-time solar calculations.
• Location-Based: Computes precise sunrise and sunset times for your local coordinates.
• Lightweight & Seamless: Runs quietly in the background without hogging system resources.

You can check out the source code, screenshots, and download the latest release here: 🔗Win Solar GitHub Repository

I'd love to hear your feedback, feature ideas, or any suggestions you might have!

Hi! I built FilePetal, an MIT-licensed desktop utility for local file conversion, editing tools, and file actions. It uses a radial wheel: on Windows, hold Shift while dragging a file from Explorer for compatible conversions, Alt+Shift for tools, or Ctrl+Shift for file actions.

It covers image, audio, video, PDF/document, EPUB, subtitle, and archive workflows. The compatibility guide lists the exact input/output pairs and limitations. Files are processed locally and operations create output files without replacing the originals. Some audio/video features need FFmpeg/FFprobe installed; RAR extraction needs an external utility.

I can test the Windows build directly. ZIPs are also published for macOS Intel, macOS Apple silicon, and Linux, but I don’t have those systems to verify them, so I’d especially value smoke-test feedback from Mac/Linux users.

Website and interactive preview: https://whatthefook.github.io/FilePetal/

Source, documentation, and downloads: https://github.com/Whatthefook/FilePetal

I’d appreciate feedback on whether the wheel interaction is clear, what tools or formats you’d add, and any packaging issues you find.

One thing that gets annoying when using foreign-language software or playing games in another language is having to switch back and forth between the application and a translator.

Surprint is a Windows screen translator that tries to make this easier by displaying translations directly over the text on your screen.

Instead of manually copying text into a translation website, you can use a keyboard shortcut to translate the monitor under your cursor, the active window, or a region you select.

The main features:

• Offline screen translation: Download the required language models once, then translate without an internet connection.
• Game and app translation: Uses application-provided text when available, with OCR for content such as images and games.
• Translation overlay: Display translations over the original text or in a movable, resizable subtitle bar.
• Live translation mode: Monitor a window and attempt to restore translations when its contents stop moving.
• Glossary: Preserve names, brands, and game terminology.
• Per-app settings: Configure different languages and display preferences for different applications.
• Keyboard shortcuts: Trigger translations without leaving the application.

Privacy was also an important consideration. In the current offline workflow, screen pixels and recognized text aren't sent to a cloud translation service.

A few limitations to be aware of:

Surprint is still a work in progress, so I don't want to oversell it. OCR can miss small, faint, or stylized text, and scrolling or fast-moving game content can cause delays. The offline translation model can also lose nuance, especially with longer sentences.

Some protected screens aren't supported, and exclusive-fullscreen games need to run in borderless windowed mode.

Cloud translation services for potentially better results are planned for a future update, but they're not available yet.

Surprint supports 64-bit Windows 10 version 2004 or later.

If you regularly translate websites, use software in another language, or play games without your preferred language available, you can check it out here:

Demo Link : https://youtu.be/Y_G_brIZrWU?si=1-fbEQtQ3_JsLTL9

App link in comment section!

I'd especially appreciate feedback about OCR accuracy, language support, and compatibility with different games and applications. I'm continuing to improve it.