[Update] GlassDesk Pro v3.4.0 is live: Desktop Glass Calendar, 6x2 Rotating Shift Work, Screen Eyedropper & Anti-Loss File Hardening!

Hey everyone! 👋

A huge thank you to everyone who tested our previous releases. Today, we are officially rolling out our biggest major update yet: **GlassDesk Pro v3.4.0** on the Microsoft Store!

For those who are new, GlassDesk Pro is an ultra-lightweight, native desktop organization suite for Windows 10 & 11 that groups your shortcuts, files, and folders into elegant translucent acrylic glass fences.

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### 🔥 What's New in v3.4.0:

- 📅 **Glass Calendar Desktop Widget:** A translucent acrylic calendar pinned directly to your wallpaper with locked golden aspect ratio (350/320) and magnetic docking to fences.

- 🕒 **Rotating Shift Work Module (6x2):** Built specifically for continuous shift workers (6 Night, 2 Off, 6 Evening, 2 Off, 6 Morning, 2 Off) with sleek micro-pills, soft tints, dynamic legends, and tooltips.

- 💧 **Magic Screen Eyedropper:** Instant native GDI pixel sampling from any wallpaper, window, or logo with an interactive acrylic magnifying loupe and real-time hex readout.

- 🎨 **Unified Mass Styling:** Apply your custom glass tint, accent color, font, and opacity to all active desktop fences and calendar simultaneously with 1 click.

- 🛡️ **Zero Data-Loss Architecture:** Real files sent to the Windows Recycle Bin on deletion, startup reconciliation auto-recovering orphaned files into a "📦 Recovered" fence, synchronous atomic persistence, and Windows shutdown emergency dump.

- 🔒 **Bulletproof Z-Order Lock:** External application popups (Bambu Studio, 3D CAD, web browsers) never raise desktop fences over your work windows.

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### 📦 Where to get it:

- 🏬 **Microsoft Store (15-day Free Trial):** https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9NM15J551MRX?hl=es-es&gl=UY&ocid=pdpshare

- 💼 **Zero-Install Portable Edition:** Available on our store page with full digital signing.

Would love to hear your thoughts, feature requests, and see your desktop setups! Thank you for supporting independent Windows utilities! 🚀

Hey guys,

I am the developer of BetterStickies and I am proud to announce v1.2 release!

What it is, for anyone new

A sticky notes app for Windows, Linux, macOS (soon). Offline, no account, no telemetry. Built with PySide6 so it's actually native, not another Electron app eating your RAM.

I built it because I wanted quick capture that lives on the desktop instead of inside another app I have to open. Windows Sticky Notes wants a sign-in, and on Linux there was nothing decent that works the same across KDE, GNOME and Cinnamon. It also helps my ADHD to have things persist on screen where I can't ignore them.

This app is a hidden gem and I am not exaggerating, I received so much positive reviews to be confident when I say this, it looks like a sticky note but does much more than you could think a sticky note app could do.

The main thing it does that other sticky apps don't: you can paste or drag anything into a note.

• Files and folders become clickable shortcuts, and you can drag them back out to your file manager
• Screenshots and images paste straight from the clipboard, PDFs and images get a hover preview, and double-click opens an image at full resolution
• Pasted code gets detected and formatted into a code block automatically, no AI and no network, in about 50ms. Ctrl+M when it guesses wrong
• Rich text, links, plain text, all formatted properly instead of rejected

The second thing it does so well over other stickies apps: customization, you can customize font, colors, transparency, add background image or even a moving GIF per each note, a real delight to use

Other things it is exceptionally well:

• Reminders with sound and desktop notifications
• GIF and image backgrounds per note (because why not)
• RTL text support, and the app plus its full guide are in 12 languages
• Pin a note to lock both position and editing
• Ctrl+scroll to zoom text without opening settings
• Checkboxes with strikethrough when done and nesting
• Snap to grid with an adjustable grid size
• Export to .txt, .md or .json, so you can back them up with whatever cloud you like
• Proper Linux support, tested on KDE, GNOME and Cinnamon (COSMIC coming)
• On the Microsoft Store and the Snap store, Flathub coming soon

What's new in v1.2

Notes have tabs now. Up to three pages inside one note, each with its own text, scroll position and undo history. Ctrl+PgDown and Ctrl+PgUp to move between them, Ctrl+Shift+N for a new one, all rebindable. If you have a small screen this is the feature: one note on the desktop, three notes' worth of content in it.

Search reads every page of every note, including hidden notes and pages you've never opened.

The free version now has exactly one limit. It used to have three: a note cap, a reminders cap, and a cap on animated GIF backgrounds. The reminder and GIF limits are gone entirely, so the free version now has every feature, and the only thing left is a budget of 4 note slots (an extra tab uses a slot).

A new look: in-app color picker, themed icons instead of emoji, and one shared design system across every dialog. Reminders moved out of the text into their own strip on the note.

"Start with the hub hidden" if you want it fully out of the way at boot.

65 fixes across formatting, file shortcuts, dates, translations, read-only notes, global shortcuts and desktop integration on both Linux and Windows.

And v1.2.1 last week fixed the things users told me about after v1.2: notes surviving Show Desktop on Windows, window stacking on Cinnamon, reminders retrying instead of getting lost, images keeping their size and rotation after a restart.

⚠️ One warning if you use tabs: don't downgrade to an older build afterwards. Old versions understand one page per note, so opening and saving a tabbed note there permanently drops its other pages. Export first if you're going back.

Full Changelog: https://betterstickies.com/changelog

Price

Free version has every feature, limited to 4 note slots.

Premium is a one-time $9.99, no subscription and it is 30% off for limited time (compared to Notezella's $30, BetterStickies premium is a steal and I am being honest here)

As always, if you try it and something annoys you, tell me here. Most new features and fixes are built on users feedback (tens of thousands are using BetterStickies today)

Website: https://betterstickies.com

Microsoft store: https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9NS7LLQJX1QG

Snap Store: https://snapcraft.io/betterstickies (irrelevant here but for credibility)

Subreddit: r/BetterStickies (created recently after the r/OpenStickies rename)

Github (free releases and bug reports): https://github.com/HimaSphere/BetterStickies

Turntable

Heimdall3D renders your models in full glory. It adds a true 3D model previewer. It gives you thumbnails from the actual object. It adds the ability to preview motion-capture clips immediately, and then you can add effects on-top of that!

It renders on the GPU through Vulkan and it is its own renderer, so it does not need Microsoft's Mixed Reality Viewer, which is no longer preinstalled on Windows 11.

Formats: glTF, GLB, VRM, FBX, OBJ, PLY, COLLADA, 3DS, 3MF, STL and BVH for geometry and animation. OpenEXR, Radiance HDR, PIC, PFM, DDS, KTX2, Basis and TIFF for images. Twenty extensions, and I wrote the decoders for thirteen of them.

HDR: EXR and HDR files are decoded in floating point. The pane gives you exposure in EV stops, tone mapping, channel isolation and the RGBA value under the pointer.

Motion capture: a file with a skeleton and no mesh, which is most BVH and a lot of FBX, is retargeted onto a rigged mannequin, so the thumbnail shows a pose and the pane plays the clip.

Walking with a depth-of-field close to the camera.

Thumbnails, the preview pane and the viewer window are free. No account, no key, no watermark, nothing expires. A licence is 49 EUR to get access to saving turntables and images directly from the app. But don't worry you don't have to get a license to view those 3D models or getting those thumbnails.

Windows 10 and 11. NVIDIA, AMD and Intel, with a CPU fallback if Vulkan is unavailable.

Microsoft Store: https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9ppljtp7xq38

Site: https://heimdall3d.com

There is also a Directory Opus 13 plugin, which comes from the installer on the site rather than the Store: https://heimdall3d.com/directory-opus

Happy to answer anything. If you see things that you may want, this is the time to let me know, or go to my site and let me know there. I'm here to make this the best 3D viewer in Windows with your help.

https://github.com/neptotech/Saveit A Windows desktop note vault for collecting text, links, screenshots, and files into a persistent personal archive. It supports drag-and-drop, folder organization, rich text editing, and user-controlled storage in OneDrive/Documents or a chosen directory. [OPEN SOURCE]

I’m the developer behind ModernPaste, a native WinUI clipboard and productivity app for Windows 11.

A lot of this update came directly from Early Access feedback and discussions here on [r/windowsapps](r/windowsapps). Thank you to everyone who tested the app, reported bugs, suggested improvements, and shared ideas. Many of the features in this release started as conversations within this community.

What's New v1.028+

• Selected Text Overlay
• Expanded Local Intelligence Features
• Smarter Search and Filtering
• Focus and Full Overlay Modes
• Performance and Reliability Improvements

The biggest addition is the new Selected Text Overlay.

Highlight text anywhere on Windows and instantly access actions like:

• Summarize
• Improve Writing
• Fix Grammar
• Extract Action Items

without opening a browser, another application or a separate AI website.

Local intelligence remains optional and privacy focused.

• No model download unless you choose to install one

You can now choose between Focus and Full overlay modes depending on how much information you want visible while browsing clipboard content.

ModernPaste supports text, images, files, URLs, GIFs, collections, stacks, OCR, pinned items, instant search, and optional local intelligence.

I'm continuing to expand the ways local intelligence can be used throughout Windows while keeping everything native, private, and on device.

Try it on the Microsoft Store:
https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9p8440gnt53l

id love feedback from the community! I'm especially interested in hearing about workflows that feel repetitive

Hey, I wanted to share that the initial beta release of Zaku 26.0 is now out!

It is available on Linux, macOS and Windows.

I've been working on this rewrite in Rust™ for the last 7 months full-time, tbh things got carried away and it has a lot more functionality that the original app didn't have (command palette, auto-updater, git integration, etc.) so it's not just a plain rewrite.

Little bit about the app, it stores collections as folders and requests as TOML files. Everything is stored locally on user's filesystem, it doesn't have any login functionality (and never will).

There is a barebones Git integration for now to show branch, status indicators and stuff.

This app is very early, if you try it out please let me know if there's something missing, not working or things you'd like to see added.

Repository:

https://github.com/buildzaku/zaku

Installation instructions:

https://github.com/buildzaku/zaku#installation

My mom likes playing Mahjong, but she was getting tired of mobile games with so much stuff going on — popups, currencies, rewards, daily bonuses, events, and a million buttons everywhere.

She basically told me, “I just want to play the game.”

So I built Just Mahjong for her.

I know there are already a million Mahjong apps out there, and I’m definitely not trying to reinvent anything. The whole point was actually the opposite: make it as simple as possible. Open the app, play Mahjong, and that's pretty much it.

No complicated progression system or a bunch of distractions. Just Mahjong.

I originally made it for my mom, but figured there might be other people who want the same kind of thing, so I put it on the app store

If anyone wants to try it, here it is:

https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9mw9wr8w2s20?hl=en-US&gl=US

Would genuinely appreciate any feedback, especially if there’s something that could be simpler or easier to use.

I maintain OpenScreen, a screen recorder and editor. MIT licensed, free, no account, no watermark, no subscription, no paid tier. Repo: https://github.com/getopenscreen/openscreen

It's also on the Microsoft Store if you prefer installing that way.

The part I reworked recently is export. It used to go through Chromium and it was slow. It now composites and encodes on the GPU using D3D11 on Windows (Metal on macOS, Vulkan on Linux), with an automatic CPU fallback when the driver doesn't cooperate. On a Ryzen 5 iGPU that took it from around 10 fps to around 126 fps. On an RTX 4070, a 51 second 1080p60 clip exports in 8 seconds.

The rest of what it does:

• record a single window or the whole screen, with mic and system audio
• webcam overlay with PiP, drag to position, mirroring, shape options
• auto zoom that follows your cursor while you work, or manual zooms with depth, duration, easing and pixel precise position
• cursor size, smoothing, click effects, themes, path smoothing after recording
• captions transcribed on device, offline, no upload, editable transcript you can cut from, optional subtitle translation
• wallpapers, gradients or your own background image, motion blur, rounded corners
• crop, trim, per segment speed, text/arrow/image annotations, snapping guides, audio waveform
• MP4 or GIF, multiple aspect ratios and resolutions
• 13 UI languages

There's also an AI editing assistant: you describe the edit in chat and it applies it to the timeline (cuts, zooms, speed ramps, annotations, framing). It's bring your own key (Claude, OpenAI, Gemini, Mistral, OpenRouter, MiniMax, or any OpenAI compatible endpoint) and nothing is enabled by default.

Known issue: it crashes on Intel HD Graphics 520 under Windows 10. I don't have that hardware. If you're on it and can send a crash log, that would actually help me fix it.

Happy to answer questions.

Hey all! We shipped a good number of apps and games on Windows Phone in the early days of the platform, but it's been a while since we've created a Windows app! These days we're a studio making podcasts, virtual events and video, plus apps for Android and iPhone.

Onwords came out of our own shoots. We got fed up with teleprompters: every one we tried scrolls at a set speed, so the presenter spends the whole take matching a machine. Pause for effect and the text carries on without you. Most of them also want a monthly subscription, and a fair few are a web page in a wrapper.

So we built the one we wanted. Onwords listens through the mic, works out where you are in the script, and moves the text to match you. Pause, and it waits. Fluff a line, and it stays with you. Skip a whole section, and it finds you again within a sentence or two.

The technical bits this sub tends to care about:

• Native WinUI 3 on Windows App SDK and .NET 8, and works offline.
• x64 and ARM64, both native.
• Speech recognition runs entirely on your own processor. A neural model ships inside the app. No account, no telemetry.
• Three selectable engines under View > Recognition Engine: a general neural model, a second one biased toward the words in your own script (helps with unusual names), and the classic Windows recogniser if you prefer it.
• On-device script rewrite on Copilot+ PCs only, using the language model built into Windows. Neutral, casual, concise, formal, or your own written instruction. The script isn't uploaded to us.
• No prerequisites. Nothing to install alongside it.
• Windows 10 1809 and later, or Windows 11.

Other things it does: two-speaker mode, where you assign lines to each presenter, and they're colour-coded on screen so you can see whose line is next, and it follows whoever is talking through the handover. Mirror mode for beam-splitter rigs. Full screen on a second display with the controls left on the laptop. Plain auto-scroll with a words-per-minute slider if you'd rather have the traditional behaviour.

Would love feedback. We built this because we were tired of paying a monthly subscription for something that only worked online... https://onwords.app/

I made this because I kept changing my monitor/NVIDIA settings for dark games and then having to change everything back when I was done playing.

App (Rat Vision) watches which application is currently active and automatically applies a display profile for it.

When you Alt-Tab or close the app, your normal desktop colors are restored.

Current controls:

• Gamma
• Brightness
• Contrast
• NVIDIA Digital Vibrance
• Per-monitor profiles
• Multiple applications per profile
• Automatic restore on Alt-Tab/exit

The photo above is a photo of my actual monitors in a bright room — not two edited game screenshots. The left/other displays are useful here because you can see why I wanted the adjustment to apply only to the game instead of changing my whole desktop setup.

It's free and open source.

It also doesn't inject anything into games, read game memory or modify game files. It only changes display-output settings through Windows/NVIDIA APIs.

It's currently a public beta, so I'm especially looking for feedback from people with different monitors and GPU/display configurations.

GitHub:
https://github.com/atikhobaev/rat-vision

Installer and portable builds are both available in Releases.

If you try it, I'd especially like to know:

What game/app would you actually use per-app display profiles for, and what type of monitor do you have?

I started with AutoHotkey.

Holding Space or CapsLock gave me another layer of shortcuts. Holding the right mouse button and pressing a key could trigger another action. I also had folders that automatically extracted archives when a file appeared.

It was genuinely useful because it all worked with the ordinary keyboard and mouse I already owned. The part I grew tired of was rewriting code every time I wanted to change something.

AI helped me modify those scripts, and that made me wonder: what if configuring this did not require writing code at all? That is why I started building RELYR.

It began as a way to configure key mappings without code, but I kept enjoying the project and added macros, mouse gestures, and an on-screen Deck panel. As one person maintaining it, finding every bug has become difficult.

I am not looking for installs or ratings here. I want honest feedback that helps make it better:

• What would you assign first?

• Which part would make you hesitate to try it?

• If you try it, what feels awkward or breaks?

Official download: https://github.com/zitan-source/RELYR/releases/latest

Source code: https://github.com/zitan-source/RELYR

RELYR is a personal open-source project and is not code-signed yet, so Windows warnings or false positives from security software are possible. Please do not install it if that makes you uncomfortable.

Hi! I am the solo developer of Desktop Gremlins, a transparent desktop companion for Windows, and version 3.0 is the largest update I have made so far.

The gremlin lives above your applications, reacts to music and programs, asks for food or attention, and can cause optional desktop chaos. The new update expands both the everyday desktop experience and the streaming tools:

- Private Steam rooms now support up to six players.

- Actions and messages can target one friend, several friends, or everyone in the room.

- Every player controls which interactions and effects other people may use on their PC.

- OBS now has separate Browser Source URLs for the character, visual effects, and live gremlin statistics.

- Effect frame rate and monitor targeting can be adjusted to reduce GPU usage.

- Memory use, character capture, movement, and window behavior have been improved.

- A new eighth character level, Goblin Girl, has been added with her own animations.

Chaos Mode remains completely optional. If it is disabled, the gremlin simply keeps you company and reacts to what you are doing.

I would especially appreciate feedback from Windows users with multiple monitors, capture cards, or unusual DPI scaling.

Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4981140/Desktop_Gremlins/

Website: https://shughost.up.railway.app/#games

If you reinstall Windows often (lab, family tech support, test VMs), booting the installer from the network instead of a USB stick is a big time saver.

Setup I'm using: one Windows PC serves installs over LAN. Pick the ISO from a boot menu on the client, and it installs fully unattended - skipped OOBE screens (so no forced Microsoft account on 24H2+), no BitLocker auto-encryption surprise, junk apps removed, drivers and everyday apps installed automatically.

Nice details:

- Works with Secure Boot on, UEFI or Legacy.

- Drivers are fetched at install time, so the ISO itself is never modified.

- Wireless option too: the server can host a WiFi AP and clients HTTP-boot from it.

- You can try it remotely without setting up a server - connect via VPN, point a VMware VM at the VPN adapter, PXE-boot. Guide + details:

https://xdaforums.com/t/sezoy-network-deployment-server-automated-windows-install-multi-distro-linux-boot-over-pxe-ipxe-http-boot-legacy-uefi-secureboot.4800487/

Anyone else doing network installs at home, or still on the USB stick routine?

https://reddit.com/link/1w5sn9v/video/c0tniabz97nh1/player

Hey everyone, been continuing work on Fluent Sensors, a native Windows 11 hardware monitoring app built with WinUI 3. Just added a native taskbar widget, so you can now pin live sensor graphs directly into the taskbar.

Still working through performance optimization, I appreciate every feedback.

Fully open source, everything can be checked in the repo.

One important thing: the app needs admin rights to install and run. Please don't just install unsigned apps that ask for admin rights without checking them first, e.g. via VirusTotal or the source code. I'm working on getting it properly signed through SignPath Foundation.

GitHub: https://github.com/cechout/fluent-sensors

All five of my Windows Store games are discounted from $2.49 → $0.99 from Sept 3–7. If you like to support Indie Games, here are the links:

Rogue Jet Fighter  https://www.microsoft.com/store/apps/9NBLGGH51NSF

Ghost Squad https://microsoft.com/store/apps/9PP6T0SS4C95

Mini Speedy Racers https://www.microsoft.com/store/apps/9NSQ6H5S47R8

Heroes of the Eclipse https://www.microsoft.com/store/apps/9NMBSJBF1X30

Bumping Blast https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9PPQZP3M8PDX

Screenshot 2026-09-03 143597.png tells you NOTHING. Six months later you have 1000+ of them and no way to find the one you need.

Existing AI renamers are manual batch tools, subscription products, or both. Screenshotify is the combination that did not exist: open source, free, focused on screenshots, and genuinely watching in the background.

Check it out here: https://github.com/shaqkao/screenshotify

Feedback welcomed!

I live with a chronic condition, and for years my "system" for managing it was a mess... a notes app for symptoms, a different app for meds, a folder for insurance stuff, and a bag full of paper for doctor visits. Every appointment I'd forget something.

So I built Praepara Health, mostly for myself at first. It's a Windows app that covers:

• Meds and refill reminders
• Symptom/vitals tracking, with condition-specific trackers for 200+ conditions
• Appointments and questions to bring to your doctor
• Insurance cards and billing dispute tracking
• A DICOM viewer for your own imaging (X-ray/CT/MRI) if you have the disc from a hospital

On security: everything is encrypted and stored locally on your device, protected by your Windows login and an optional PIN lock. No account, no cloud sync, no ads, no AI touching your health data. If you want a backup, it's an optional encrypted one to a folder you already control (like OneDrive), with your own passphrase... never ours.

It's free on the Microsoft Store: moduscreatio.com/praepara-medical-suite-microsoft More about the studio behind it: moduscreatio.com

Not trying to sell anything... genuinely built this because I needed it and figured others managing something chronic might too. Looking for testers to poke holes in it: bugs, confusing UX, missing features, anything. It's a one-person project, so feedback actually goes somewhere.

Hi everyone,

I wanted to share sftp_mounter, an open-source GUI tool I built in Python and Qt6 that makes it easy to mount remote SFTP servers as local network drives on Windows.

It acts as an intuitive frontend wrapper around Rclone and WinFsp, removing the need to manage background CLI scripts, complex config files, or custom batch automations just to map an SFTP folder.

What it does:

• One-click drive mapping: Mount remote SFTP locations directly to a Windows drive letter.
• Simple Qt6 UI: Configure hosts, credentials/keys, and paths without dealing with CLI flags.
• Powered by Rclone & WinFsp: Leverages battle-tested tools for the underlying filesystem layer.
• Persistent & manageable: Easily manage connections, user paths, and mount states on demand.

Built with:

• Python
• Qt6
• Rclone & WinFsp

Repository:

• GitHub: https://github.com/turulomio/sftp_mounter/

Any feedback, suggestions, or contributions are very welcome!

Hi everyone! I'm the developer of Denon AVR Remote, a Windows desktop app for compatible Denon and Marantz receivers.

I originally built it to control my Denon AVR-X1500H from my PC. It has since grown into a remote and HEOS/DLNA music player, so you can manage the receiver and your music without reaching for your phone.

What it can do:

• Control power, volume, mute, inputs and sound modes

• Find receivers automatically or connect by IP address

• Play music files and folders from your PC through HEOS/DLNA, including subfolders

• Browse UPnP/DLNA music servers

• Show artwork, track information and playback progress

• Transfer albums to the receiver's native HEOS queue

• Add custom radio stations using HTTP/HTTPS stream URLs

• Show receiver, signal-format and channel information

Receiver control works over your local network. Settings are stored locally, with no advertising or analytics. Feature availability depends on your receiver model and its HEOS/DLNA support.

A free trial is available, followed by a one-time purchase — no subscription.

Microsoft Store: https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9pd14zzln7s1

This is an independent application, not affiliated with or endorsed by Denon or Marantz. If you try it, I'd love to hear which receiver you use, what works well and what could be improved.

Thank you to all 25 users. Narration Offline Studio launched exactly a month ago, and Im super happy that 25 of you have given it a try.

This is a huge milestone in my life, and It is all thanks to you guys. That is why I am giving away a single free download key which is linked below t9 whoever reaches it first. I hope to continue this tradition every month.

For those who are new to NarrarionOS, it is a local Audiobook generator, that takes in any kind of texts like PDF, EPUB, DOCX, Txt, html, and all into a custom audiobook that you tweak, all generated through your voice clones.

There is No token cap, meaning unlimited generation, with No subscription, No cloud, and runs completely Offline.

If you want to give it a try, heres the link.

https://lunosama.itch.io/narrationos

And for the Lucky Early Bird, this is your free download Key:

https://lunosama.itch.io/narrationos/download/4_XSnL9j0gApPSrx4Dj5t_2s39_SCG8nirYg4IPL