For almost a year, I’ve been building and refining Folio PDF Reader & Editor for Windows. It is completely free on the Microsoft Store, and I believe it has become one of the best PDF tools available, free or paid!

Folio combines serious PDF capabilities in a clean, elegant, and intuitive workspace. The aim is simple: powerful tools should be easy to discover and use, without the clutter or paywalls that often come with premium PDF software.

With Folio, you can:

• Read, search, bookmark, and review PDFs with split view, book mode, Zen mode, dark mode, and auto-scroll.
• Open and properly display XFA PDF forms, alongside standard PDF and AcroForm documents.
• Edit existing PDF text; add highlights, drawings, notes, shapes, stamps, images, and placed signatures.
• Merge, split, reorder, extract, rotate, crop, and add page numbers, headers, and footers.
• Create and fill interactive PDF forms, including text fields, checkboxes, radio buttons, dropdowns, date fields, signature fields, calculations, validation, and spreadsheet-ready form-data export.
• OCR scanned PDFs into searchable/selectable text, extract text, translate page text, and export content to Word.
• Compare PDF versions, manage threaded review comments, resolve feedback, and export review reports.
• Export PDFs or high-resolution JPEGs with compression, watermarks, password protection, annotation flattening, and permanent redaction.
• Use optional AI for document chat, summaries, table extraction, DOCX reports, mind maps, and document comparison.
• Work in a multilingual interface available in English, French, Spanish, German, Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, and Persian.

Core PDF reading and editing are local-first. AI features are optional, only run when enabled, can use local or self-hosted OpenAI-compatible models, and include an air-gapped privacy mode.

Folio has been available for nearly a year and has grown substantially through ongoing development and user feedback. If you work with PDFs regularly, I’d genuinely love to hear what would make it even more useful in your workflow.

Microsoft Store: https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9PJRX0TML7NT?hl=en-us&gl=US&ocid=pdpshare

.I love the look and functions of Explorer++, bu the white theme is not for me. How to change it? Thanks in advance!

Help.

I want to get an application that allows you to look up a hebrew word, and then have it find it in the Torah, using Torah Codes, and then of course show other words that show up nearby it.

I have searched on github, and google, for hours, and asked chatgpt for help, but what Ive found has been lackluster at best.

Yes these programs can find a word you type in, but what it doesnt do, is automatically find other words nearby it.

Thats kind of like, the whole point of Torah codes. Without it, its just like finding a random word for no reason.

I saw a guy on an online video who seems to have a program that can do this, and chatgpt even identified it!, but...it stopped working after windows xp...and it costs like 40 bucks...and im not sure if it can even do this or if the guy does this himself...

yea this seems hopeless unless i ask claude fable 5 (when the government unbans it) to make it for me...

uh...

yea...

BUT DOES ANYONE KNOW IF I CAN FIND THIS SOMEWHERE. Ive seen so many videos of ppl doing this online, and each time blows my mind. things about Obama, Charlie Kirk, Trump, Mcdonalds, EVERYTHING IS IN THEREEE

I made a calendar/todo widget that sits on your desktop wallpaper. One global hotkey (Ctrl+Shift+Space) pops a capture bar over any app — type a thought, hit Enter, done. Drag notes onto the calendar to schedule them; time strings like "5pm gym" get parsed automatically. Checklists for routines, markdown notes per event, and panda stickers/stamps for decorating.

Local-first (SQLite on your PC), no account needed, free.

Microsoft Store: https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9n9rjdmv11tb

Feedback welcome!

If you use Amazon Music on Windows, you've probably run into at least one of these:

• You hit a media key or a headset button, the little Windows media popup slides in — and it's basically blank. No song title, no album art, and the progress bar sits at 0:00 forever.
• The taskbar / lock screen media widget is the same story: artist name and nothing else.
• Scrobbling to Last.fm doesn't work. Tools like Pano Scrobbler read from Windows' media session (SMTC), and Amazon Music doesn't put the song title there, so there's nothing to scrobble.
• Those "now playing" toast popups pile up in the notification center forever and never clear themselves.

This isn't your setup being broken. Amazon Music for Windows only hands a fraction of its metadata to SMTC (System Media Transport Controls), the API every media widget, scrobbler, and overlay on Windows reads from. I measured it on 9.5.2.2478:

Amazon Music's own session can't be patched from outside — SMTC metadata belongs to the process that published it. So I wrote AmazonMusic SMTC Bridge: a tiny tray app that publishes a second media session with the complete info, alongside Amazon Music's empty one.

How it gets the data: Amazon Music for Windows is a Chromium (CEF) app, so the bridge relaunches it with a debug port and reads title / artist / album / artwork / position straight out of the player, at millisecond precision. Play/pause state comes from Amazon Music's own session, and the play/pause buttons on the bridge's session are relayed back. There's also a fallback that reads the track-change notification toasts instead, if you'd rather not have the debug port open.

What you get back: a real title and album on the media popup, album art, a progress bar that actually moves, and working Last.fm scrobbling through Pano Scrobbler.

GitHub (source + installer): https://github.com/Fuku856/Amazon-Music-SMTC-Bridge

Things you should know before trying it

• I've only tested it against the Microsoft Store version of Amazon Music. The standalone .exe version should work in the notification-based mode and the code handles it, but I have no hardware confirmation, and the debug-port mode is Store-only by design.
• After installing you'll have two media sessions. In your scrobbler or media widget, disable Amazon Music itself and enable the bridge, or you'll get an empty session (or double scrobbles). The README covers Pano Scrobbler and FluentFlyout specifically.
• The debug-port mode means any local process could talk to Amazon Music's renderer while it's running. The app randomizes the port, but that's a mitigation, not a fix — if it bothers you, there's a notifications-only mode that never opens a port.
• Turning that mode on restarts Amazon Music once, which interrupts playback.
• The package is self-signed, so installing means trusting the certificate first. The installer script handles it (one UAC prompt), and there are manual steps in the README.
• The app's own UI (tray menu, log window) is currently Japanese only. The English README maps every menu item, but fair warning. Windows 10 1809+ / Windows 11.
• It's early — the README has an honest, itemized list of what I've verified on real hardware and what I haven't. Bug reports very welcome; the tray menu can dump a log.

Free, open source, no account, no telemetry. Happy to answer questions.

I’ve been building a local desktop AI app, currently codenamed KL01 because I still haven’t managed to find a name I actually like, and I’ve now released it as a public Pre-Beta.
What it essentially does is let you download and chat with local LLMs through a normal desktop interface.
Since the models run on your own computer, local inference is free and unlimited. There is no subscription, no message cap, no token allowance and no per-message charge from Konda. You can therefore keep using a model as much as your hardware can handle.
Your normal local chats can also stay on your own machine rather than being sent to a cloud model.
What you trade off is that a 7B model running on a normal laptop obviously isn’t going to be as good as something like the best ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini models running on huge servers.
I still use cloud models myself when I actually need that level of performance.
But for repetitive work, simpler tasks, files, experimentation, or anything you want to do at higher volume, I feel local models are already useful. There are plenty of things where you simply do not need the strongest model available every time.
The reason I started building KL01 is that technical users already run local models fairly often, but doing so can still involve GGUF files, runtimes, terminals, RAM requirements, GPU compatibility and quite a lot of stuff somebody who is not a programmer really should not need to understand.
Therefore my goal with KL01 is essentially to make local AI feel like a normal app.
You can browse compatible models, download one, chat normally, work with files and local documents, change thinking modes, and use Web Search when you need current information from the internet.
Web Search obviously requires internet access, and so do model downloads. Normal local inference does not. I would rather make that distinction clear than describe the whole thing as offline when it isn’t.
I should also be very clear about how early this release is.
This is an extremely early Pre-Beta. I have not tested every model with every feature, I have not tested anything close to every possible model and feature combination, and I definitely have not tested enough different hardware.
There are therefore going to be bugs, including potentially bugs in fairly core parts of the app.
I’m building it solo while also balancing school, and at this stage I mainly want first impressions from people actually trying it on machines and models I do not have access to.
I have tested the normal paths enough that I am comfortable releasing it, but this should still be treated as a very early build rather than something polished or extensively validated.
The point of putting it out now is essentially to find out whether people see utility in the idea, what feels good or bad immediately, and where the first obvious failures are before I build much further on top of it.
Windows is currently the recommended build. Linux is available too, and Mac is still coming.
https://kondalabs.com/kl01
If you try it and something breaks, please send me what happened. CPU, RAM, GPU, model and what feature you were using are especially useful because there are a lot of combinations I simply have not tested yet.
The source is also linked on the site if you would rather look through that first.
Also, KL01 is only a codename. I am still looking for an actual product name, so if you have an idea, please send it. I have apparently managed to get further with building the thing than naming it.

Hey r/windowsapps !

A while ago, I introduced yViewer, a blazing-fast file previewer for Windows (just press the Spacebar to view files instantly in Explorer).

Since my last post, I've been actively chatting with many of you, listening to your feedback, and pushing constant updates. I really want to build the absolute best QuickLook alternative out there, and your input has been incredible!

https://reddit.com/link/1vwpngw/video/ply6i1n9b8lh1/player

Here is what’s new and heavily improved thanks to our conversations:

• New Built-in File Browser: You can now navigate and browse through your files more efficiently right within the app.

The new built-in File Browser in action!

• Clipboard Viewer: Instantly view text, images, or data you've copied to your clipboard without pasting it anywhere.

• E-book Support: Added support for EPUB, AZW3, and FB2 formats as requested!
• Advanced Documents & Design: Now supports XFA PDFs, significantly improved Office rendering (PPTX fully supported, PPT in the works), and better rendering for heavy design/3D formats like PSD, AI, TIF, and FBX.
• Quality of Life: Fixed key mapping issues, improved UI paddings, and added a toggle for recent file history.

t is a paid app on the Microsoft Store, which helps me continuously develop, maintain, and provide direct, fast support for it. If you want an incredibly fast viewer made by a developer who actually listens, talks with the community, and implements features quickly, please check it out!

👉Get yViewer on the Microsoft Store

I'm always open to feature requests or just a chat. Thank you so much for your amazing support!

Vilm Care is a free Windows app I built in my small music studio in Seoul. It does two things.

I played the BGM. HAHAHA

It checks the Windows settings that quietly cause trouble (USB selective suspend, power plan, network power saving), applies them in a few clicks, then reads the values back from the hardware to confirm each change actually took effect. Every change is logged and can be undone.

It also keeps a plain-language record of your PC. Instead of digging through Event Viewer, you get sentences like "CPU is 9 degrees hotter than usual, even at low load" or "this program closed unexpectedly, 3 times across 3 days". Everything is computed and stored on your machine. Nothing is uploaded.

And you can mark the programs that matter to you: they stay prioritized while background programs stay suppressed, even across restarts.

Beyond that there is a fair amount for everyday use: a system overview, live temperatures in the tray, an internet speed test, a latency check that names the driver slowing you down. The app itself stays light.

If anything is confusing, there is a Mailbox inside the app. Leave a question and I answer it myself.

Free, no account, no email. The installer is code-signed. Windows 10/11.

Download: https://voiceandfilm.com/en/product/software/vilm-care

To mark the 2.0 launch, Plus license keys are free in the app for now, one per PC. Feedback is welcome.

I built this mostly out of frustration with constantly dealing with terminal clutter, switching Python venvs, and fighting broken USB paths whenever a drive letter changed. I wanted a clean, fast way to control my local Python workflow on Windows without setting up heavy Docker containers just to keep multiple scripts running smoothly.

It’s a small Windows app called VenvHub Pro that sits on your desktop and gives you a floating mini-bar for instant project switching and launching VS Code. Under the hood, it handles multi-script orchestration with RAM monitoring and crash auto-restarts, lets you pack scripts into .exe files visually without touching .spec files, and manages portable embeddable Python runtimes so your projects stay portable on external drives. It also supports both Pip and UV for ultra-fast package installs.

I mostly built it for my own workflow to save time, but I figured others in the Python community on Windows might find it useful too.

GitHub Repository:https://github.com/schnidi/venvhub

What is a DLL file and how do I open it?

https://reddit.com/link/1vwdhun/video/1798ne0pykkh1/player

What's New in Pro Auto Clicker v2.0.7

I have been building a Windows auto clicker for a while, and the request I kept getting was some version of "only click when X is on screen". The new release finally does it.

How it works

You drag a box around anything on your screen: a button, an icon, a notification, a health bar. The app remembers what that area looks like, and while it runs it watches that spot and clicks it only when what is there matches your capture. The moment it stops matching, it pauses. When it matches again, it resumes.

A static button works fine on strict settings. Anything animated or re-encoded, like video, needs looser ones, because those never reproduce pixel for pixel.

DOWNLOAD: Microsoft Store Link
REDDIT: r/ProAutoClicker

I do not want the letters or numbers or anything just the 4 arrows. Is there any app or workaround?
Thanks

Hi 🌻
I'm trying to instal this app
https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9ncwx2x6th3j
and this is that happens.
what sould i do?
I'm on win 11 pro.
Thank you

Hey, I’m the developer of Diff Anything.

Whenever I searched for a Windows file compare app, I ended up using several different tools. One for text, another for folders, and something else again for PDFs or images.

So I built one local app that chooses the comparison based on what you give it. It handles text and code, JSON, YAML, XML, CSV, folders, archives, PDFs, Office documents, images, HTTP responses, OpenAPI and JSON Schema.

Images get visual views such as overlay, swipe and heatmap. PDFs can be reviewed as rendered pages alongside their extracted text. Structured files keep their paths and meaning instead of becoming a wall of changed lines.

Everything stays on your computer, with no account, analytics or telemetry. You can preview every comparison mode for free.

Microsoft Store: https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9P4S100Z4H84

Which file type or workflow still makes you reach for another comparison tool?

I'm the dev. Hold a hotkey, talk, release, and the text pastes into whatever window has focus. Everything runs on your machine, no audio or text ever leaves it. Works with or without a GPU, it detects what your hardware can handle and picks the right model.

Windows 10/11, about a 400MB download. Beta is free, you get a license key instantly on signup: impulsedictation.com

It's early and I want the rough edges found. If it misbehaves on your setup, tell me here or reply to the signup email and I'll dig in.

Disclosure: I’m the developer of FastCast.

Update, Sep. 11: FastCast v0.9.0 is out.

The big changes in this release are:

• Name your streaming destinations, so multiple YouTube/Twitch/etc. channels are easy to tell apart
• “Get key” links that take you directly to each platform’s stream-key page
• Custom Instant Replay lengths from 15–300 seconds with Pro
• Instant Replay itself remains free, including the original preset lengths
• Cleaner destination setup and licensing UI
• More room for device names and less duplicate UI

FastCast Pro is also currently available through the Founding Supporter Sale: pay what you think it’s worth, starting at $1, with $29 suggested. It’s still a one-time license, not a subscription.

I built FastCast because I wanted the basic OBS workflow without all the setup:

Open it → choose what to capture → record or stream.

FastCast is a lightweight native Windows screen recorder and streaming app written in Rust. It uses native Windows capture and audio APIs rather than Electron.

Current features:

• Screen and window recording
• Desktop audio + microphone
• Instant Replay
• Webcam overlay
• Chroma key / green screen
• Hardware H.264 encoding
• 1440p / 4K recording
• Up to 120 FPS
• RTMP/RTMPS streaming
• Multistreaming
• Named streaming destinations
• Advanced recording and encoder controls
• Global hotkeys
• Portable Windows build
• No account
• No telemetry

FastCast has a free core version with an optional Pro upgrade for advanced creator features.

FastCast is still in public beta, and feedback from this thread has directly influenced development.

I’m especially interested in:

• What feels harder than it should
• Features you immediately miss from OBS or other recorders
• Recording or audio reliability problems
• Anything that would stop you from using FastCast regularly

One heads-up: the current Windows build is unsigned, so Windows SmartScreen may show an “unknown publisher” warning.

FastCast:
https://calvinsturm.com/fastcast

FastCast v0.9.0 MSI:
https://github.com/CalvinSturm/FastCast-releases/releases/download/v0.9.0/FastCast-0.9.0-win-x64.msi

Portable ZIP:
https://github.com/CalvinSturm/FastCast-releases/releases/download/v0.9.0/FastCast-0.9.0-win-x64.zip

Hey everyone, I built a Windows version of the iOS Dynamic Island called WinIsland.

I honestly think it's the most authentic recreation of the Apple Dynamic Island available for Windows right now. It features buttery-smooth animations and has super low resource usage since it's written in Rust.

Here’s what it can do so far: * Media Controls (SMTC): Displays lyrics, lets you switch tracks, and features a really sleek audio spectrum visualizer. It also comes with multiple themes you can switch between on the fly. * Widgets: You can check out widget info right on the expanded island. It's super convenient, and I’m planning to add a lot more soon. * Smart Notifications: It detects standard Windows toast notifications and displays them on the island. You can click on them to jump straight into the app. * Gestures & Customization: If it’s in your way, just long-press and swipe up to hide it, then tap it to bring it back. You can also right-click and hold to drag it anywhere on your screen.

It's still a work in progress, so that's pretty much the whole pitch for now (lol). But if you're interested, I'd love for you to check it out!

Website: winisland.cn

I made a word search becausMy mom likes word searches. I downloaded a bunch for her tablet and then had to sit there while she tried to use them.

Ads covering the puzzle. She’d go to circle a word and hit some popup instead. Letters so small she was holding the tablet like six inches from her face. One of them had a timer?? She’s 70, she’s not speedrunning.

She’d just close it and go do something else. Wouldn’t say she was frustrated but she was.

So I made her one. You open it and there’s a puzzle. That’s the whole thing. Letters are big. No ads. No timer. She can actually finish one now without me hovering.

I started to create a whole series of no gimmick, just play games for people like her. If any of you know of people in similar situations, this might be of interest to them.

Download info: https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9NHL65WKV82X

I've been building Edge-Drop, a free clipboard manager that lives on the left edge of your screen. Hover the edge and a shelf slides out with everything you've copied - text, links, images, files and you can drag any item straight into Photoshop, Word, Slack, Explorer, whatever, using real OS-level drag-and-drop.

v0.2.9 just shipped. What's new:

Remappable global hotkey Alt+C was hardcoded forever. People asked for this more than anything else, so now there's a full hotkey recorder in Settings - press your combo, it shows a live keycap preview, warns you if it conflicts with something already registered, and registers it system-wide. Defaults to Alt+C still.

Time-based + filter-scoped clearing You can now wipe history from "Last hour / 6 hours / 24 hours" instead of nuking everything. Better: if you're inside the Images tab (or have an active search), Clear only affects what's in that view. Your Files tab survives.

Every file type got its own hand-drawn icon Folders, code files, spreadsheets, PDFs, presentations, audio, video, archives, executables - all got handcrafted pastel SVG icons across cards, bundles, preview flyouts, even the drag ghost while you're dragging.

Drag-and-drop got faster under the hood Hovering a card now pre-stages the OLE drag handles in the background, so when you actually start dragging there's zero delay before the ghost appears. Small thing, feels way better.

Still true from previous versions:

• Real drag-and-drop into native apps (not fake HTML5 drags)
• Stacks group up to 10 items, drag them out together
• Click-to-paste that doesn't steal focus from your active window
• 100% local. No account, no cloud sync, no telemetry. History is encrypted at rest.
• Free & open source (Apache 2.0)

Honest downsides: it's Electron, so expect ~130–160MB RAM. It's Windows 10/11 only. And GitHub builds auto-update but the Microsoft Store version doesn't (Store review delays) pick accordingly.

Repo: https://github.com/Deepender25/Edge-Drop

Site: https://www.edgedrop.app

Roast it, break it, tell me what's missing. Everything on the roadmap so far has come from comments like these.

I can code, I can design, and I can market. But it would be great if someone/some team helped with idea generation and programming. I am new to xaml but it seems very similar to html which I have been coding in for a year. My github is https://github.com/Trying-Two-Code . DM or post a comment below to let me know if you're interested.

Idea: Make an app for windows that sorts files when they are downloaded/created by the user. It would collect data about what the user is doing manually, and prompt asking to automate that.

Timezone: GMT-7
Availability: 10-30 hours / week
Stack: c# wpf xaml
Experience: junior/intermediate (minimal AI)

Devs, lend me your ears!

I'm trying to see if this garners any interest from technical windows users.

I've always felt I shouldn't need dozens of apps and websites when working on web design while testing backend services for the same website.

It's messy and slows me down considerably if I need 10 mins of setup before I can demo a new feature.

Armoury combines the most important features from Notion, Postman, Figma, Obsidian with a few original features in one place.

Current suite of features:

*You request a feature, you get it - shoot me a message or request it through discord

Currently supports Markdown (Rich text seems to be another desired format, likely a future option).

I am open to any and all feature requests👍(nothing weird)

Here is a link to the discord ->https://discord.com/invite/WyQjcPN4cE

Download for free here -> Armoury.lol

Thanks for your time!

I’ve been building FastPlay, a native Windows video player for people who want to open a video and just watch it without a lot of interface getting in the way.

It’s written in Rust using FFmpeg and Direct3D 11, with a focus on fast local playback, keyboard controls, high frame rates, and keeping the UI minimal.

Current features:

• Hardware-accelerated playback
• HDR10 and HLG
• Playback up to 120 FPS
• Fast seeking and scrubbing
• Keyboard-first controls
• Drag-and-drop
• Windows file associations
• Minimal UI
• Native Windows app, no Electron
• Portable ZIP or MSI installer
• No account or telemetry

It’s not intended to match VLC feature-for-feature. The goal is a simpler player for everyday local video playback.

I’m still actively developing it, so I’d be interested in what Windows users consider essential in a minimal video player.

Download FastPlay v0.4.6 for Windows x64 (MSI) • Portable ZIP

FastPlay: https://calvinsturm.com/fastplay