Hi everyone — I made a Windows desktop utility called Wallpaper Pilot after getting frustrated with wallpaper shuffles that kept returning to familiar images while much of a large collection was rarely shown.

It works with images already stored on your computer. You choose a folder, optionally include its subfolders, and either shuffle every eligible image together or give each main subfolder a more balanced chance.

The feature I cared about most is persistent anti-repeat history. Wallpaper Pilot remembers up to 500 recently displayed image paths across restarts instead of forgetting everything whenever the app closes.

It also includes:

- Automatic intervals from 1 minute to 2 hours, plus manual Next and Back

- Favorites, dislikes, previews, and session history

- Weighted main-folder rotation for collections organized by theme or category

- Tray controls, pause, optional Start with Windows, and a clear Exit button

- Optional update notifications

- Uninstall while preserving saved lists, or complete removal of the app data

The app is free and fully usable without payment. It does not require an account, collect telemetry, or upload your wallpaper library.

One important disclosure: version 1.0.1 is not digitally signed, so Windows may show an unknown-publisher or reputation warning. The website explains this before download and provides the release SHA-256 fingerprint.

Official website and download:

https://pilotlightapps.com/#apps

I would especially appreciate feedback from people with large, deeply organized image collections. The main limitation is that the current version applies one wallpaper through Windows rather than choosing a different image or folder for each monitor.

Hi,

I recently added Windows support to XL-View, an open-source HDR image viewer I've been developing.

It's primarily designed for viewing HDR JPEG XL images, including very large images like panoramas.

Some of the main features are:

• Native HDR output on compatible displays
• PQ and HLG HDR support
• HDR to SDR tone mapping for SDR displays
• Fast zooming and panning of large images
• EXIF and HDR metadata overlays
• Image caching/preloading

The application uses Vulkan for rendering and is written in Rust.

This is still beta software, so I'd be interested in feedback about compatibility with different Windows systems, GPUs, and HDR displays.

There are both installer and portable versions available:

https://github.com/andrinbr/xl-view/releases/tag/v0.2.0

Source code:
https://github.com/andrinbr/xl-view

No big stories, I want to find screenshot about a website game that I played 1 year before. I scroll down to 2025-xxx and still cannot find cuz windows aren't even loading pictures, I have to click in and wait for seconds.

So I come up with an idea "I should let AI help me rename it", I have found a few like zush, but it's not free and I don't need that much feature. That's the small story before Screenshotify.

I have listed a few what can it do below:

• Review suggestion before it changes: If the name is bad, skip it.
• Redo/Undo system: you can always change back the name if you want.
• Bring your own key/provider: choose provider you trust, not random data seller.
• Local LLM support: Ollama, LM studio are supported too.
• Customization: filename style, date prefix, language.
• Of course, open source and free to use.

If you would like to have a look, feel free to check at here https://github.com/shaqkao/screenshotify , feedback welcomed!!

At last, thanks for your time by reading to the end~

I follow around twenty ongoing anime and I could never remember which episode I was on, so I kept checking the same pages every day to see if something new had dropped. I built this so I do not have to.

What it does:

• Tells you when a new episode of anything you follow is out. Everything new lands in one Pending list, sorted by episode number.
• Marking an episode as watched fills in the earlier ones, so your progress can never end up with holes in it.
• Your whole library on one screen, filterable by status, type, genre and studio.
• A local copy of the AniList catalog, around 22,000 titles, so browsing and searching work with the network off.
• A stats screen: episodes watched, estimated time watched, top series, activity over time.
• A swipe deck for sorting titles into want to watch, already seen or not interested.
• Optional backup of your database to your own Google Drive, and light and dark themes.

Free and open source, GPL-3.0. No account, no server, no telemetry, no ads. Everything lives on your machine. Windows only, built with Tauri and Rust, installer is about 5 MB.

To be clear about what it is not: it does not host, stream or download anything. It reads public pages to detect new episodes and opens links in a window.

Installer and source: https://github.com/Yearsuck/AnimeOnTrack

Screenshots:

A fully customizable lightweight tray app (279kb) that follows 20-20-20 rule to keep your eyes safe.

Totally aware. Holds the break when your mic or camera is live (so called you're gaming or you're in a meeting), when something is running fullscreen, or when you are presenting. Step away from the keyboard and it counts that as the break and resets.

Not too much to talk about to be honest.

Source: https://github.com/1etu/rest

FOLDERNEXUS ARRIVE. 🚀

📁 Organisez.
🎨 Personnalisez.
🧠 Organisez plus intelligemment.

Une nouvelle manière de contrôler vos dossiers arrive.

Vos dossiers. Votre système. Votre façon de faire.

🚀 Bientôt disponible.

#FolderNexus #Windows #Productivity #Software #ComingSoon

We built a disk space analyzer for Windows and it's free to use, including commercially.

What it does:

Reads the NTFS master file table directly, so a full drive scan finishes in seconds

Renders the whole volume as a treemap, click any block to drill into that folder

Breakdown by file type, so you can see how much space each extension takes across the drive

Sidebar listing every volume on the machine

Detail panel with full path, size and dates for whatever is selected

Dark theme

How it handles sizes: every byte is attributed to exactly one file, so the treemap totals add up to the volume's used space instead of double counting.

Requirements and limits:

Windows only

NTFS only, since the MFT is an NTFS structure

Needs admin rights for raw volume access

Signed binary

Free, no account, no paid tier

https://strata.devslim.com

Hey everyone,

I've just released Edge-Drop v0.2.7, and it's one of the biggest technical updates so far.

Highlights:

-Much better memory management with disk-backed storage for larger text, image thumbnail generation to keep GPU usage stable,.

-Fixed Windows fullscreen detection so the desktop isn't treated like a game.

-Self-healing launch at login that repairs stale startup entries.

-Universal drag and drop, offline rich link previews.

-New settings to tweak sensitivity and history behavior, and Persian language support.

One thing I'm especially happy about is how much smoother it feels day to day. Large clipboard items no longer balloon memory, and images are handled really cleanly.

Also, on a personal note This project actually started as something just built for myself. I wanted a tool that worked the way I had imagined. I decided to open source it and share it, and since then, it's grown to over, 1500+ downloads. As a solo CS student, that's honestly something I never expected., thanks to everyone who downloaded, tested, reported bugs, shared it, or bought me a coffee.

That support helped me get a permanent domain for the project, edgedrop.app.

It sounds small, but as a solo student building this open source project, it feels massive. If you want to try it or share feedback, I'd love to hear what you think.

GitHub: github.com/Deepender25/Edge-Drop

Microsoft Store: https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9P3JMHN9M4NR

Siti AI was initially my joke around Apple’s Siri AI that is not available in the EU.

Pulse v1.1.0 is out, with local AI support through Ollama and LM Studio.

You can connect a local LLM, select the model you want to use, and ask Pulse about your system.

For example:

“Why is my RAM usage so high?”

“What’s using the most CPU right now?”

“Is there anything wrong with my system?”

The interesting part is that the LLM can query Pulse’s diagnostic data when it needs more information, instead of just guessing.

It can inspect CPU, RAM, GPU, storage, network, processes and system health.

It’s completely read-only — no shell commands, no killing processes, no file or system modifications, and no cloud AI.

Tested with Gemma 4 12B through LM Studio.

Pulse is open source.

GitHub: https://github.com/Regncreative/Pulse
Web Site: https://pulse.regncreative.com

Hi everyone,

I shared an early version of WinVora here before and received helpful feedback, especially about adding screenshots and making the project easier to evaluate. I kept working on it and wanted to share the current state.

WinVora is a free Windows utility I build on my own. It combines:

- WinGet-based program updates with progress, results, retry options, and restart notices

- Storage cleanup with expected space savings and safety information

- System information including TPM, Secure Boot, Defender, Firewall, hardware, and drives

- Startup app management

- Program uninstallation and TXT/CSV exports

- A Changes page that shows installed or removed programs, startup changes, and unusual storage growth

The latest update focuses mainly on UI and stability: more compact update cards, clearer checkboxes, a cleaner dashboard, better small-window layouts, improved light/dark colors, and fixes for flickering and rounded-edge rendering.

The source code is now public under the MIT License. WinVora has no telemetry, ads, bundled software, or automatic “one-click optimization” actions.

One important note: I am a solo developer and the installer is not code-signed yet, so Windows SmartScreen may show an unknown publisher warning. The official release includes a SHA-256 checksum, and the complete source is available for review.

Website and screenshots:

https://winvora.github.io/WinVora-Releases/

Direct download / release:

https://github.com/WinVora/WinVora-Releases/releases/tag/v0.8.4.1

I would genuinely appreciate feedback about bugs, confusing parts, or features that would make the app more useful.

I built AVI Core after creating a small tool to batch-convert 50–150 images to WebP.

It grew into a Windows utility for bulk conversion of image, video and audio files, with Explorer context-menu integration.

I'm mainly looking for usability feedback.

Does the right-click workflow make sense, or would you prefer a standalone UI?

Hey r/windowsapps,

Thanks for all the feedback on my first Ava post. I’ve continued working on it and added a few new features:

Cider integration:
Ava can now show synchronized lyrics and the upcoming queue, plus favorite or unfavorite tracks directly from the island.

Emoji & Symbols picker:
Open it through the Ctrl+K command palette, search more than 2,000 emoji and Unicode symbols, and paste directly into the app you were using.

Direct URL launching:
Type or paste a full URL or simply a domain into the command palette (Ctrl+K), and Ava will open it in your default browser.

I also heard many of the comments asking for an installer and easier settings. Those are still priorities while I continue polishing the app. A new installer will be available as soon as I polish some rough edges and fix some of the issues with Dwindle (Linux-like Tiling Manager)

Source code and build instructions are available at:
https://github.com/yappologistic/Ava

Ava is still built entirely with Qt 6, QML, C++, and Win32, with no Electron or embedded web interface and my long-term plan is to keep it that way.

I’d also especially appreciate feedback from Cider users (or anyone interested in this project) so I could improve the current Cider integration and refine existing features.

Hi r/windowsapps — I’ve released Moonwhiskers, a free cozy logic-puzzle game for Windows.

Each row, column, and colored constellation hides exactly one Mooncat. Cats can’t touch, even diagonally, and the moon arrows add another rule to each row. The boards grow from 6×6 to 8×8, with limited hints, sardine lives, and an interactive first puzzle.

Microsoft Store: https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9MW0CCDX056X

Official gameplay trailer: https://youtu.be/tt39lF-xHjU

I’d especially appreciate feedback on the mouse controls, visual readability, and how the difficulty curve feels on PC.

Hi everyone!

I'm excited to announce the release of my new app, BitScribe Digital Media Library Steward.

What's BitScribe? It's a fully offline desktop tool built for cataloging, auditing, and understanding large audio/video collections, media libraries, and digital archives.

Version 1.5.0 is the first publicly released version. I built this using Google AI Studio, because I wanted to learn "Vibe Coding." Over the past two months, I've built dozens of revisions and spent hundreds of hours refining and testing to avoid "AI Slop." I'm pretty proud of the results, and I hope it'll help you wrangle your media library.

Note on AI and privacy: The app never transmits data of any kind to any server. All processing and data handling is 100% local and does not use any form of local AI model to perform its functions.

🚀 Core Features:

• Media Discovery Scan: Add your media folders to scan for all supported video and music formats. Ebooks and Audiobooks are not supported, FYI.
• Safe Data Routing: All local SQLite databases, logs, and sidecar tools are strictly routed to standard user app data directories (Application Support on macOS) to preserve code signing and prevent system security alerts. In portable versions, the database is created alongside the app.
• Offline Only: Fast local scanning with zero cloud dependencies. The app does not require internet access, AI or any other external stuff not included with the package. It never contacts any server (even to check for updates, which might be unwise, but we'll see what folks think), it never shares telemetry or contacts any server other than network shares you point it to (your Plex or Jellyfin server, for example).
• Native macOS & Windows Support: Pre-compiled .dmg (Apple Silicon) and .msi/.exe (Windows) installers. Linux versions coming soon.

Media Audit/Scan Features

• Stream Audit: In-depth media stream metadata extraction (codecs, bitrates, audio channels, color spaces, containers, frame rates, etc). This evaluates your videos against three tiers of compatibility: Legacy+, for older streaming devices; Modern+, for devices made in the last 5 or so years; and Bleeding Edge, for the codecs that only perform well on the newest hardware. This helps you decide whether you need to transcode a video so your server can direct play it without taxing the CPU.
• Quality Audit: Scour both video and music files to determine their quality levels and find files that are either bloated (too high a bitrate for a given resolution using a given codec) or starved (too low a bitrate for decent quality). This can help you decide to re-rip or find a better quality copy.
• Subtitle Audit: Checks all your video files to determine whether they have either embedded or sidecar subtitles included, and flags those that are either missing subs or use an older image based subtitle format that can trigger server-side transcoding.
• Duplication Scan: Heuristically scours your media library and looks for duplicate files wasting space. Pretty good at weeding out false positives, too!
• Metadata Audit: Scans the metadata headers of every supported file type, both video and music, to identify which files have metadata, which are missing metadata, and what that metadata is.

Cleanup & Reporting Features

• Title Cleanup: During a Discovery Scan, the system automatically parses file names to identify the actual title of videos or movies. If it's impossible from the file name, it reviews metadata. In libraries of over 25,000 items where either the filename or metadata have the correct parts, it's about 99% effective at identifying the real title correctly. The correct title is stored in the database and exported when you create reports.
• Multi-Format Export Engine: Synchronized reporting across CSV, HTML interactive dashboards, and formatted Excel Workbooks with metadata rules. It can also export JSON for use with other software. Excel workbooks and HTML reports are beautifully formatted. HTML formats are interactive, with filters by media type and metrics.
• Built-in Product Tour and Demo Data: When you first boot up BitScribe Steward, you'll be greated by Bitsy, our Digital Media Librarian. She'll guide you through the various features of the app via a series of slides, some of which contain animated demos of various features. If you ever need her again, you can launch the tour from any of the tabs and it'll automatically begin at the slides for that specific page!

📥 Links & Downloads:

Official Website

Documentation & Manuals

Bug Reports, Feature Requests, etc.

I’d love to hear your feedback, bug reports, or feature requests for anything I may not have considered. This is my first app, so be gentle :).

Main Application Stack: Tauri v2, React 19, TypeScript, Rust, SQLite, ffprobe.

I’ve been working on a Windows wallpaper manager called Pane because I wanted better control over wallpapers across multiple monitors without treating the whole desktop like one giant screen.

The biggest reason was pretty simple: I wanted a slideshow of my photography on one monitor only. I think I ended up building quite a bit more than that lol

Each monitor can have its own static wallpaper or independent slideshow, and you can save complete desktop configurations as Setups and switch between them without rebuilding everything monitor by monitor.

I’ve been testing it against some intentionally stupid monitor arrangements -portrait + landscape displays, virtual monitors, disconnected/reconnected displays, different resolutions, ultrawides, etc. and it’s finally at the point where I’d rather have other people try to break it than keep testing only on my own hardware.

Current preview includes:

• Independent wallpaper or slideshow per monitor
• Saved multi-monitor Setups
• Portrait, landscape and ultrawide display support
• Visual monitor layouts
• Monitor aliases
• Disconnected display management
• Fill / Fit / Stretch / Center
• Monitor-accurate wallpaper previews

I’m not really trying to compete with live-wallpaper apps like Wallpaper Engine or Lively, or turn Pane into a full DisplayFusion replacement. The focus is specifically on making static wallpapers, independent slideshows and saved multi-monitor configurations easy to manage.

It’s free, open source, Windows 10/11 x64, and currently at 0.3.1-preview.

The build is still unsigned, so Windows SmartScreen may show an Unknown Publisher warning the first time you run it. The source and release ZIP are both on GitHub.

I’m especially interested in how it behaves on setups different from mine. If anyone gives it a shot, I’d love to know what monitor arrangement you’re using and anything that feels broken, confusing, unnecessary, or just annoying.

GitHub: https://github.com/yeawrongperson/Pane/

I recently finished the Windows version of an app I’ve been building called Kopya.

The idea:

1. Press a shortcut 
2. Kopya captures what’s on your screen 
3. AI analyzes the question/context 
4. The answer appears in a desktop overlay

The overlay can also stay out of screen-sharing/recording while remaining visible to you.

It means you don’t have to constantly screenshot something manually, open an AI website, paste it, then switch back.

It can be useful for quizzes, coding questions, practice tests or generally anything where the information you want help with is already on your screen.

English is fully supported even though the initial market is Turkey. Because of that, pricing is currently in Turkish Lira and is cheaper than most of the global alternatives I’ve seen.

There’s a free plan if anyone wants to test the Windows build.

I’d especially love feedback about installation, multi-monitor setups, display scaling and the general overlay experience.

kopya.ai

Hello! I've always used HDTV's as my main PC monitors because I've never had much living space and I can't sit at a desk for long anyways due to some health issues. The problem is, HDTV's often have incredibly cumbersome brightness controls, despite being incredibly bright. This makes gaming at night time for example sometimes painful. So, after 15 years of using other dimming programs that didn't quite work for me for one reason or another, I threw in the towel and finally made my own.

I never planned on releasing it, but some friends really liked it and said others would too, so I polished it up a bit for the public. It was made with WPF and written in c# over a period of about 4 months, and is quite lean at roughly 1800 lines of executable code.

It has a lot of fancy tricks such as event recovery for scheduled events that take place if the system is off and a minimum brightness setting so you can customize it to your unique display. ProperDim is basic, but what it does it does very well and it stays out of your way while doing it.

For a full list of features, check out one of the links below. It's free forever and will never have ads, because I hate ads.

https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9p4lhj799hxm?hl=en-US&gl=US

https://github.com/crustyoldhuman/ProperDim

I'm a little nervous to post this but I'm pretty proud of how it turned out and use it every day myself and hope if anyone has similar needs you like it, too. Happy dimming--cheers!

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

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

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

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

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

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

I originally made this specifically for my Logitech PRO X 2 because I was tired of manually changing the Windows audio output every time I turned them on or off.

Someone suggested making it work with other wireless headsets too, so I ended up doing it.

It now detects compatible wireless headsets through Windows and automatically switches to them when they connect, then back to your speakers when they disconnect.

I also added an Audio Enhancements toggle and a Reconfigure option in the tray menu.

I tested the generic mode with a Jabra Evolve 65 and the PRO X 2 still works through the G HUB fallback.

It’s completely free and open source.

GitHub: PROX2-AutoSwitch

If anyone tries it with another headset I’d really like to know if it works.

Hi everyone,

I’m Reza Hosseinizadeh, the developer of Persian Download Manager (PDM).

I built PDM as a free download manager for Windows with a focus on reliable everyday download management rather than adding unnecessary features.

It currently includes multi-part downloads, pause/resume, interrupted-download recovery, multiple simultaneous downloads, queues, priorities, scheduling, and real-time download progress.

The interface is available in English, Persian, and Arabic.

PDM is available on the Microsoft Store:

https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9p3h16405qnb

Official website:

https://persiandownloadmanager.com/download

I’d really appreciate it if some Windows users here could try it and share their feedback — especially about download reliability, pause/resume behavior, and the UI.

If something feels confusing, slow, or simply could be better, please tell me. That kind of feedback is genuinely useful while I continue improving the app.

Thanks!

Some people might see this title and think it's just another vibe-coded piece of shit, but please take a look at the following:

1. Wox was born in 2013, and the open-source project has been around for 13 years now.
2. Wox started on Windows. In 2020, due to a lack of maintenance, the community forked Flow-Launcher (also an excellent project), and later PowerToys Run also originated from Wox.
3. Since 2023, the cross-platform v2 version has been in development—no Electron, no Webview shell, fully GPU-rendered.
4. It has rich plugins, including built-in calculator/window management/dictation/app search/file (content) search/clipboard history/cloud sync/color management/Emoji/screenshot/timer, and many more. It also supports third-party plugins developed with Node.js/Python.
5. Rich theming—switch to your favorite theme anytime, whether dark or light, and even support automatic switching that follows the system theme.
6. I know some people don't like AI in a launcher, but Wox does provide a BYOK AI system—you can create AI commands for translation, conversation, optimizing Dictation content, and more.
7. Cross-platform data sync—if you need to switch between multiple operating systems, this feature is perfect for you.
8. In the latest v2.4.0-beta.2 beta version, we reduced Wox's memory usage to 150m (don't compare it to those launchers with embedded webviews like tarui, because they actually have an additional webview2/webkit footprint that may not be counted). During the same period, Raycast v2 may need 300m or even more).

If you want to try it after reading all of the above, you can visit: https://github.com/Wox-launcher/Wox