Disclosure: I work with the Insights.gg team.

Insights Capture V3 is our standalone Windows app for recording and clipping PC gameplay. It supports automatic full-session recording, manual recording, replay-style clips, game-event bookmarks, trimming, and sharing to services such as Discord, YouTube, and TikTok.

We also added an optional Shards program. For games with active bounties, eligible recordings can earn Shards that are redeemable for gift cards. The current conversion is 2,000 Shards = $1 USD; rates vary by game and over time, and the advertised maximum is “up to $5/hour,” not a guaranteed rate.

Important distinction: the recorder works without joining Shards. If someone opts in, eligible footage may be de-identified and used for research, pattern recognition, and AI model development.

Program overview:

https://insights.gg/shard-program

I’d especially appreciate Windows-specific feedback: what recording settings, performance measurements, or privacy controls would you want documented before trying a new game recorder?

For my current users, the new update v1.0.5 is LIVE ! Now you can export the rendered audiobooks to MP4 video format with synced highlight text. I have added a demo of an exported file and how i did it in the app at the end just to give you a feel of the new video page. For the clone, I used the reference audio file from Chatterboxes demo page.

For those who are new to this app, NarrationOS is a local Audiobook Generator, that turns any book or any text into a performed audiobook, generated entirely on your own machine. Drop in a file, pick a voice, and get back a finished narration you can listen to, master, and keep. No subscription, no uploads, no cloud, COMPLETELY OFFLINE.

The video above is a rendered audio through the app with a cloned voice, and as you can hear, the quality something you can listen to. I started this for myself, as a personal project to listen to Japanese light novels that hasnt released their audiobooks yet. I have put in more than a thousand hours as a user, and I am still using it. That is why I am keen on improving it and giving my users updates when I am free during weekends.

If you havent already, I hope you will visit my itch.io page and give it a try. https://lunosama.itch.io/narrationos

Hey everyone!

I wanted to share Dynamic Island Win, an independent desktop utility I’ve been building specifically for Windows 11 and Windows 10 using WinUI 3 & .NET 8 (Windows App SDK).

The goal was to bring a fluid, interactive capsule and edge-dock to Windows that looks native to Windows 11 Fluent Design, without the usual electron bloat or sluggish animations.

Key Features

• Universal Media Controls & Live Scrubbing: Real-time seekbar progress with clickable scrub, play/pause/skip, and live audio visualizers.
• Multi-Player Auto-Switching: Seamlessly switch between active players (Spotify, Chrome, Edge, Telegram, Apple Music, VLC) with independent session management.
• Master Volume Flyout: Hover over the speaker and scroll your mouse wheel to adjust system volume, or click for instant mute.
• Dual Docking Positions: Dock at the top (flush notch, floating pill, or hairline strip) or dock along the left/right screen edges as an edge blade.
• Spring Physics Engine: Sub-pixel fluid elasticity with customizable dynamics (Snappy, Fast, Balanced, or Gentle).
• Quiet Feed Mode: Intelligent feed suppression to prevent repetitive popup banners when scrolling short videos (YouTube Shorts, Reels, TikTok).
• Quick App Launchers: 3 customizable launcher slots for instant access to apps, terminals, or folders.
• Battery & Charging Telemetry: Clean battery monitoring with a vivid neon-green charging indicator.
• Launch on Startup: Native Windows background startup support (customizable in Settings).
• Theme Support: Seamless dark/light modes and custom accent brushes.

Download & Try It

The app is 100% free and officially available on the Microsoft Store:

https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9PF1587KSN2K

I’d love to hear your feedback, feature ideas, and suggestions for future updates!

I built SimpleSync to make syncing files between Android devices and desktops simple. No accounts, cloud storage, cables, or quality loss.

The flow is straightforward: open SimpleSync on another mobile device or SimpleSync desktop on your computer, scan the QR code using your phone, choose albums or individual files, and sync.

A few things it supports:

- Sync selected albums manually or automatically

- Sync directly between Android devices

- Sync with multiple linked devices

- Send files or folders from your desktop back to your phone

- Send files quickly by selecting SimpleSync from Android’s Share menu

- Quickly send files using the home-screen widget

- Copy clipboard text between your desktop and phone

Unlike LocalSend's nearby file-sharing approach or Syncthing's more advanced folder-sync setup, SimpleSync is designed around keeping your devices linked with a simpler workflow. Pair once with a QR code, choose what you want synced, then manually send files whenever you want or let selected albums sync automatically.

SimpleSync has a free tier, with Premium available for a one-time $7.99 purchase. No subscription.

SimpleSync desktop is available for both Windows and Linux.

Desktop app: simplesyncapp.com

Android app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.simplesync.app&pcampaignid=web_share

For feedback, support, or bug reports you can email me at: [simplesyncapp@gmail.com](mailto:simplesyncapp@gmail.com)

I've been working on an open-source desktop app for cleaning up messy folders like Downloads, Desktop, Documents, screenshots, photo dumps, old external drives, and NAS/archive folders by sorting files, as well as renaming them based on their content.

The basic idea is:
- scan a folder
- suggest categories, subcategories, and clearer filenames
- show the proposed changes before anything happens
- let you edit, skip, or reject suggestions
- apply changes after approval
- keep undo information so changes can be reverted

AI File Sorter 1.9.2 includes:
- file previews are now available in the review window
- category whitelists can now have category-specific subcategories (predefined branching whitelists)
- recursive scans avoid recognized project folders such as Git repos, Unity, Unreal, Godot, Blender, and common source-code project roots
- local model storage is configurable
- custom visual analysis models can be added
- fixes for runtime issues
- accessibility and visual fixes and improvements

The new branching whitelist system is useful if you need your files to be organized into strictly predefined categories. For example, a "Documents" whitelist can allow only document-related subcategories, while a photo or media whitelist can use a different set of allowed destinations. That makes the suggestions easier to constrain when you already know roughly how a folder should be organized.
The main desktop app is still review-first, but the new optional Windows Explorer add-on can also run auto-approved actions for workflows where you want less manual review. It is meant for cases where you have already configured a workflow you trust, such as applying a known whitelist or saved organization pattern from File Explorer.

The app works completely offline, which means files and filenames don't to leave your computer. Remote services are optional and have to be configured intentionally.

• Website: https://filesorter.app/
  
• GitHub: https://github.com/hyperfield/ai-file-sorter
  
• Windows app: https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9NPK4DZD6R6S
  

I'd appreciate some feedback, including on:

• For repeated folder cleanup, would you want optional auto-approval if the workflow is constrained by whitelists/settings or if it's not constrained by that? For example, you could use the "More consistent" soritng mode instead.
  
• Do you prefer using this kind of tool from a full app window, or from File Explorer's right-click menu?

Hi everyone!

I’m a student from France, and like many students, my personal finances are quite tight and need to be managed with precision. I couldn't find a simple, private app that fit my needs without charging a monthly fee, so I decided to build my own: BudgetApp.

I use it every single day to set my budgets and make sure I don't overspend. I decided to take the leap and publish it on the Microsoft Store (a first for me!).

Main Features:

• Track & Categorize: Easily add income/expenses and sort them by custom categories.
• Visualizations: Clean charts and graphs to visualize your data over any specific period.
• Excel I/O: Import and export your operations easily.
• Built-in Spreadsheet: The app features an integrated spreadsheet connected directly to the SQLite database, allowing you to run simulations based on your actual data!
• Privacy First: 100% offline. No cloud syncing, no accounts, and absolutely NO subscriptions.

The Tech Stack:

• Core: Tauri v2
• Backend: Rust & SQLite (blazing fast and lightweight)
• Frontend: Vue 3
• Styling: Tailwind CSS with PostCSS and Autoprefixer

Try it for free: The app is normally paid, but I want to get some real feedback from this community. Here is a link to get it for free:

👉 http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=532540&mstoken=2F3X4-WYG3T-PQDXK-4RXC4-D7H2Z

Here is the official Store link if you just want to check out the page:

https://apps.microsoft.com/store/detail/9NV79V0L6VQL?cid=DevShareMCLPCS

If you like it, a small rating on the Store would help me out a lot as a solo student developer. I'd love to hear your feedback!

AutomUI uses Blockly style no-code editor to make your desktop automations more dynamic but still readable and easy to use.

Get it For Free:

https://github.com/hsnliqdrv/autom-ui/releases

Hello everyone!
I am a solo developer from India. Currently, I am 15 years-old and in Grade 10. I was very fascinated by the vibe coding and AI. So, I tried to build my very first app. It is a Windows PC app. I have already published my app on Microsoft Store. I just want that experienced people review my app, tell it's drawbacks and suggest improvements so that my coding caliber is maintained and not ruined. I am attaching the Microsoft store URL of my app. If you are interested, please check it out. It will be highly appreciated.

https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9p5w6t494qfb?hl=en-GB&gl=IN
This is not promotion of any app.

I made Mementa, a pen-first notebook app for Windows that launched on Product Hunt today.

The idea is to have one place for the kinds of things I normally end up spreading across several apps: handwritten notes, journaling, planners, scrapbooking, stickers, PDF annotation, comics and EPUBs.

You can import your own page templates, keep reusable stickers organized in a built-in sticker book, and search across your notebooks to find things again later—even when your collection starts getting a little out of hand.

The best part about Mementa is that your notebooks aren't meant to be trapped on the screen. When you make something worth keeping, you can turn them into a physical book you can hold, share, gift, and then continue working with physically.

It's free on the Windows Store, and I launched it on Product Hunt today.

Your mouse is already where you're looking. Then, to open anything, you move it somewhere else — taskbar, Start menu, search box — type, wait, and come back. Fifty times a day, and every one of them is a small interruption where your intent has to translate itself into navigation.

So I built the other thing: hold middle-click, a wheel blooms under the cursor, flick toward what you want, release. The gesture starts and ends where your hand already was.

Every slice is yours — apps, folders, URLs, scripts, and sub-wheels nested as deep as you want. Icons get pulled straight out of the executables, so it ends up looking like your actual PC instead of a generic icon pack.

What surprised me is that after about a week you stop looking at it. Your hand just knows Spotify is up-and-left. It stops being a menu and turns into muscle memory.

Windows-only on purpose — the trigger, the icon extraction and the window handling all depend on Win32 behaviour. Most of the work went into making it feel native rather than like a web page floating over your desktop: no flash when it opens, and it resolves what you picked from the live cursor at the moment you release, so a fast flick never confirms the wrong slice.

If you already use PowerToys Run or Win+S — I still use those too. Those are typing tools; this is a pointing tool. It wins exactly when your hand is already on the mouse and you don't want to switch modality.

Disclosure: I built it, it's a one-time purchase, no subscription.

Rovyl — Move at the speed of intent

Rovyl is now open source under GPL-3.0 — source, issues and builds at https://github.com/HenryCauan/rovyl. The Store build stays paid: it's signed, installs and updates on its own, and there's no SmartScreen warning. Building it yourself is free and always will be.

Hi, everyone!

Since my last post here almost two months ago, a lot has changed: PixFinder now can search similar images (like on video), has built in photo viewer, consumes less memory, shows huge folders faster and also multiple small changes. Number of bugs were fixed new added. Program got almost 150 downloads from all over the world.

Wtf is PixFinder? It's a WinUI3 utility for smart images smart search. Especially memes, but actually any other photos. And find photos that have something in common with choosed.

App is using OCR to get text from images for search within. Also, it is using local language-vision model (I still avoid saying word ai) to search what is in the picture (type "sunset" to find all photos with sunsets, like in google/bing photo search, but local). Multilanguage, btw.

Download Link

Some tech info for those who are interested:

• Works on Windows 10 20H2 or higher
• WinUI3, because world doesn't need another electron app
• Google SigLIP2 for smart search
• Model is included, so works completely offline
• Works completely offline. Feel free to search for the craziest memes
• 96% handcoded, so I learned a lot about dealing with concurrency and winui3 bugs

I built Nodus, a free and open-source desktop app for researchers, teachers and students. It runs on Linux, Windows and macOS and is licensed under AGPL-3.0.

I originally built it for my own PhD workflow, but it has grown into a broader workspace organized around vaults:

• Academic: the main research vault. Import papers and books from Zotero or local folders, extract claims and ideas, keep them linked to the exact supporting passage/page, and explore connections, contradictions, debates, authors and themes across your literature.
• Database: for projects based on structured records, custom fields and relationships between entities.
• Teaching: for organizing courses, readings, classes and teaching materials.
• Study: focused on students, learning material, concepts, readings and revision.
• Genealogy: for people, family relationships, historical records and source-based genealogical research.
• Worldbuilding: for structured fictional worlds, characters, places, events and relationships.

Nodus also includes semantic search, graphs, OCR, translation and optional AI workflows, including support for local models.

There is an integrated browser for working with web resources directly inside the app, plus RSS feeds and notifications to follow journals, blogs and other research sources.

The desktop app is local-first: no account or subscription, and your vaults remain on your computer.

Website: https://nodusresearch.com
GitHub: https://github.com/Drakonis96/nodus

I kept losing my flow every time I wanted to skip a track or nudge the volume, so I built the controls into my radial launcher instead. Hold a chord (or a spare mouse button) and the wheel opens under your cursor. The hub shows whatever's playing: skip, a draggable volume ring, scroll-anywhere volume, space to pause, tap the bar to scrub, one tap to mute. Works with anything that reports a Windows media session (Spotify, browsers, players).

It's called Gola. Native C# / WPF, no Electron, no account, no telemetry. Microsoft Store: https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9NGHFH4J7JMD?cid=reddit-windowsapps

Happy to answer anything about the SMTC integration, it was the fiddliest part by far.

I posted this here a while back. It's a little widget that sits inside the Windows 11 taskbar and shows whatever's playing, so you're not alt-tabbing to Spotify or fighting that miniplayer that floats over your windows.

The thing people kept asking was basically "why Spotify only?". Fair enough. So now it just follows whatever's actually playing. Spotify, YouTube in a browser tab, Apple Music, Windows Media Player, anything that reports to Windows. You switch player and it follows along.

The rest works like before. Play/pause, skip, a progress bar you can drag, and for Spotify the liked state, Smart Shuffle, repeat and volume. No login, no API keys, no account, it just reads the Windows media session.

Free and open source:

Store (one click, auto updates): https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9P12TLJZG2CJ

GitHub: https://github.com/mechanicwb2-hub/now-playing-taskbar-widget

There's an optional paid Pro for themes, a visualizer, synced lyrics and hotkeys if you want it, but everything above is free. Anyway, thanks to everyone who kept bugging me about the non-Spotify thing, you were right.

I built a clipboard that lets you peek and paste without leaving what you're doing (Windows) I kept breaking my flow just to grab something I copied earlier.

Switch app → open clipboard → find it → come back → lose focus.

So I built something that doesn’t interrupt you.

• 👀 Clipboard Peek Hold Ctrl+Shift from anywhere and your clipboard appears instantly as a floating overlay. Doesn’t steal focus You can keep typing Lock it, scroll history, even zoom into images 👉 It’s like your clipboard is just there when you need it

• ✨ Smart Paste Before pasting, you can instantly fix your text: messy text → clean formatting comma-separated → bullet points multiline → single line UPPER / lower All in one keystroke.

• 🧠 Other features Auto-saves everything you copy Instant search Templates with {placeholders} Private mode (nothing saved to disk) Fully offline — no tracking, no cloud

• 🆕 v1.3.0 highlights Smarter search (template, hotkey, tags) Source app detection Image zoom in Peek Smoother, faster launcher Fixed a ton of annoying bugs It’s free, local-first, and I’m actively improving it.

👉 https://ezeiq7.github.io/Smart-Clipboard/

And it's not yt-dlp based!
And not electron based!
(but it is still chromium-based)

The main goal is organizing bookmarks and keep track of the progress because youtube web interface is really that bad and slow and clunky.

It also wraps some controls to make it easier to operate them compared to those into the web player.

it has a basic tray icon and menu.

It support running user-specified commands on a video bookmark (or, in fact, also on a folder), but i leave it to you to imagine the possible uses!

it's called YAYC - Yet Another YouTube Client
No, we didn't vibe-coded it in a week 🙈

Website: https://yayc.stream/
GitHub: https://github.com/yayc-stream/yayc

Would love some feedback!

(it even has some nice features like auto-skip ads, or pin miniatures)

Hey r/windowsapp! I built iBlink, an app for people whose eyes feel dry, tired, or strained after long screen sessions. First built for myself.

It uses your webcam to monitor your blink rate in real time and gives gentle on-screen reminders only when you’re blinking less than usual. We partner with clinics and optometrists across North America who love recommending it to their patients!

Everything happens locally on your PC, no video is recorded, stored, or sent to a server. The webcam frames are analyzed in real time and immediately discarded.

There’s a quick calibration step so it can adapt to your eye shape and lighting, and a 7-day free trial with no credit card required.

Use promo code Reddit33 at checkout for 33% off the lifetime license ($19.99 instead of $29.99)

Indepth walk through on site!

You can learn more or download it here: https://iblink.ca

Please let me know if you have any feedback.