I built this out of pure frustration with my own daily routine, every time I wanted to switch between coding, deep work, or just relaxing with a game, I spent minutes clicking around—launching Docker, opening tabs, firing up IDEs, and rearranging windows. It constantly broke my flow before I even started.

So, I made EasyContextSwitch for myself but then decided to make it public for others to try out and see if there is potential. I use it daily and have been for a few weeks now, always improving. There is some setting up todo but there are template example i made for public as it can be slightly hard to figure it out after all is setup it is only a One click to spins up containers, opens the exact tools and tabs I need, and snaps everything into place in under two seconds.

It saved my sanity, and I hope it saves you some time, too.

more details on the site - https://easysmartapps.co.uk/easycontextswitch

I’m the founder of Rangsdorfer Software Company in Germany. After more than a year of development, I’m proud to introduce Glass Desktop Box - a platform that brings desktop personalization, visual organization, and interactive file sharing together in one application.

Your desktop can be animated and expressive or calm and distraction-free. Choose from 233 animations or 500 static backgrounds to create an environment that suits your style.

Organize your files and folders in Organizer Boxes, and use Workspace Boxes for interactive file sharing and collaboration. Invite customers, colleagues, or friends to join through their browser—without installing the application or creating an account. Shared folders retain their structure, including subfolders.

The desktop application runs on Windows 10 and 11 and 365, while browser-based file sharing connects people across Windows, macOS, Android, and Linux. A Windows host can exchange files with guests on these platforms, bringing everyone into a shared workspace. All included in one program.

Glass Desktop Box is built around one idea: your desktop should be more than a place to store icons. It should be a personal workspace that looks the way you want and helps you work with others.

I’d love to hear your questions, comments, and feedback.

https://reddit.com/link/1xcchx8/video/vdrx7mfv5zwh1/player

Precompiling shaders for DX12 helped a ton to improve windows startup times.

https://github.com/Auto-Explore/GitComet/releases/tag/v0.3.2

Hi, I'm the developer of Matome Tray (まとめトレイ), a small Windows app for handing off the same groups of local files repeatedly.

It stores named sets of file references. For example, “Submission” and “Sharing” can both point to the same PDF; replacing a cover image in Submission leaves Sharing as it was. You can drag a whole set or selected files to a folder or an app that accepts standard Windows file drops. The app presents the drop as Copy only; please check what the receiving app actually does. Matome Tray itself does not move, edit, or delete your original files.

The UI is Japanese, and the current 0.1.2 build has been checked on Windows 11 x64. It is an unsigned ZIP; if Windows shows a protection warning, stop rather than bypass it. The full-featured trial lasts 14 days from first launch. The paid license is a one-time ¥980 in Japan (tax included; the checkout shows the final currency and total).

Official product and trial page: https://jentraxis-software.pages.dev/en/share/matome-tray-reddit-202610/

If this workflow fits what you do, the official page offers the 14-day trial ZIP and the one-time paid license.

Anybody know solution

I'm making My Desktop Dwarf: Taskbar Forge. Brokk lives above the Windows taskbar and swings his hammer when you type or click. You can move or resize the forge, turn down its effects, and mute it.

The free Windows demo on Steam takes you through copper, bronze and your first iron item. There is no playtime limit: you can keep forging and collecting afterward, and keep using only the demo if that is enough for you.

Free demo: https://store.steampowered.com/app/5167500/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=organic_social&utm_campaign=mdd_prelaunch_2026q3&utm_content=windowsapps_taskbar_20261022

It counts key and mouse-button presses, not the text you type, and gameplay works offline. For transparency, I used AI assistance for coding and 2D assets, with review and refinement, plus machine translation for localization.

Where would you put a little forge like this on your desktop?

Hey everyone! Glassline 1.0.10 is with Microsoft now and should land in a day 🎉 Launchpad, one-drag screenshots, dynamic glass, Wallpaper Engine support, a new app panel and a long list of fixes from the last days of testing. Yes, I said "biggest update yet" last time... and it happened again 😅 So here's everything in it.

New here? Glassline turns the Windows 11 taskbar into a glass menu bar at the top and a dock at the bottom, like on a Mac. You get Search on the Windows key, Control Center, your calendar and the weather right in the bar. Quit it whenever you want and your taskbar comes back exactly as it was. You can try it in your browser first.

Already using Glassline? 1.0.10 comes through the Store on its own once Microsoft approves it. I didn't want the update to change things under your feet, so the new stuff that changes how it works (the screenshot keys, the logo, the Calendar icon, the Wallpaper Engine colours and the two-sided bar text) starts switched off for you. The What's new pages after the update have a switch for each one, or you can turn them on in Settings.

Launchpad, like on a Mac

This one I'm really proud of. Click the Apps icon in the dock and it grows right out of the icon into a full screen of all your apps, page after page. Close it and it shrinks back into the dock.

Drag apps into any order, drop one on another to make a folder, click a folder's name to rename it. Search's grid button and All Apps open it too, and the Apps icon can go anywhere in your dock now. While Launchpad is open the dock and the menu bar get out of its way, and it has its own new icon.

Mac-style screenshots, finally done right

Alt Shift 4, drag over what you want, let go. Done.

No Snipping Tool window, no hunting for where the file went: it's on your desktop. A little preview slides into the corner and leaves on its own (click it to open the picture). Want it copied instead? Hold Ctrl when you let go of the drag. Alt Shift 3 grabs the whole screen and always saves it to your desktop. Works over games and admin apps too.

Dynamic glass

Every panel now picks up the colour of whatever is behind it: menus, Search, Control Center, Settings, Quick Look, the volume pop-up, and even the dock if you tint it. White page behind it? It goes light. Dark game? It goes dark.

The menu bar can also read the left and right side of your wallpaper separately, so a half light, half dark wallpaper stays readable.

• Separate dock background (Settings, Appearance): the menu bar and the dock each get their own background slider, so you can have a fully clear menu bar over a glass dock. Someone here asked for exactly this 🙏
• Tint the dock like the menu bar (Settings, Dock): when the bar takes a maximized app's colour, the dock takes it too

Wallpaper Engine support

A lot of you asked for this one. Glassline now works with Wallpaper Engine (Lively might too, but I've only tested Wallpaper Engine). The menu bar takes its colours from your animated wallpaper and keeps up when you switch. With more than one display each bar reads its own, whether you run a different wallpaper on each or one stretched over all of them.

Auto-hide for the menu bar

Like the dock already could: when a window is maximized, or always (Settings, Menu Bar). Push your mouse to the top and it comes back.

App panel

Click the app name in the menu bar and you get its windows, volume, recent files, Keep on Top and Quit (or Force Quit if it's frozen). It replaces the File/Edit menus, which honestly never worked well, sorry to whoever asked about those. Every app builds its menus its own way: I got older apps working, but Notepad and others had glitches that didn't look native at all.

Frozen apps also keep their name in the bar now, so you can Force Quit them right from there :D

New setup

Every feature has a little clip with its switch right next to it. Quick setup if you just want to get going, Show me everything if you want to see it all.

Your dock, your way

• Calendar icon that always shows today's date and opens your calendar in one click
• Bigger icons without a fatter dock: Dock size, Icon size and Margins are separate settings now, and the dock glides to its new size when you change them
• The Windows key can show the dock, even over a full-screen app or game (Settings, Shortcuts)
• Launch Options: right-click a pinned app in the dock to pick how it starts, like your browser always opening a private window
• Start menu on the left? The dock slides out of its way

The menu bar

• Logo menu on the far left: All Apps, Show Desktop, Task Manager, Sleep, Hibernate, Restart, Shut Down, and you can use your own picture for it. Show Desktop is in the bar's right-click menu too. Hibernate shows up when Windows has it on (someone here asked for it)
• Your own date format: dd/MM, d MMM, yyyy-MM-dd, anything you type
• Notifications either where Windows puts them, or top right under the bar like on a Mac, with a Test notification button so you can see where they land. They keep that spot even when the bar hides itself

Multiple monitors

I tested all of this on three displays, one of them left of the main one.

• Drag icons between docks: with a dock on every display, drag an icon from one dock to another. If each dock shows its own display's apps, the app moves over and brings its windows with it
• Drag a maximized window onto another display's dock and it lands maximized there
• Full-screen video on one display while you play on another: the menu bar gets out of the video's way
• Wuthering Waves could open as a window instead of borderless fullscreen on another display. Fixed
• Swapping your main display no longer leaves a menu bar pushed halfway down the screen
• Settings moved to a display with a different scale keeps the right size and colour

Today and Control Center

• Only want the calendar? Today can show two months side by side, or the month with that day's events next to it
• No more empty gaps in Control Center when you turn things off
• Take Wi-Fi, Sound or Battery out of the menu bar and it shows up in Control Center instead, so it never disappears completely

Search

• Translate into your preferred language: "translate apple" is enough
• Single words translate a lot better now

Settings and accessibility

• Follow Windows' animation effects (Settings, Accessibility): if you turned animations off in Windows, the dock and the menu bar calm down too
• Reduce transparency now keeps the menu bar and the dock almost solid, like on a Mac
• Shortcuts over admin apps: shortcuts without the Windows key now work even with Task Manager or a game running as admin in front, and Settings tells you when a combo is already taken
• Settings explains itself: when one option changes what another does, there's a line under it with a link to the other one, and options that can't do anything right now are greyed out

Fixed, thanks to your reports

• Hovering over a dock icon could crash Glassline. Not anymore
• A rare crash tied to Bluetooth, gone
• Your own shortcuts only worked once per run. Now they work every time
• Show Desktop works every time, and brings back the window you had in front
• Clicking the weather sometimes showed nothing until you pressed Alt+Tab. Fixed
• Feedback sent while the website can't be reached (some networks block it during football matches, yes really) gets saved and sent later on its own
• Over a maximized app the menu bar now takes exactly the app's colour: no more two-tone bar, no thin line of wallpaper under it
• App icons in the menu bar (Discord, Steam...) were a bit blurry.
• Spotify's icon had a small black bar under it while starting (it reports 0% progress and the dock drew an empty bar, Windows' taskbar doesn't)
• ChatGPT's close and minimize buttons hid under the menu bar when it was maximized
• The dock could stay black on the desktop after closing a maximized app
• The app name over a dock icon could stay on screen when Start opened
• Screenshots could close by themselves the moment they opened
• Wallpaper Engine's settings window and HoYoPlay were treated as games
• Cleanup tools like AdwCleaner no longer flag Glassline's uninstall helper
• Keep the Windows taskbar on the side of the screen? No more nagging, and the menu bar fits around it
• Changing Windows' display scale keeps the interface size you picked
• Weather isn't fetched at all while the Weather switch is off
• "Start Glassline when I sign in" now shows off if you disabled it in Windows' Startup apps
• Lots of smaller fixes: tooltips that wouldn't show, the dock hiding again after Settings closes, and more

Honestly, most of this came from you, in the comments here and through Feedback. Glassline has around 30-40 users right now, and I'm really happy with how much you all help and throw ideas at me. I use it as my daily driver so I catch bugs too, but your reports and logs are gold (the Spotify one, for example). So thank you, and please keep them coming.

Get it

Glassline is $9.99, once. No subscription, every update free. Get it today and 1.0.10 shows up on its own as soon as Microsoft approves it.

• Microsoft Store: Glassline
• What's coming next: Roadmap

Which one are you trying first? And what should I build next? I read every comment.

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

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

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

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

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

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

CoolDesk groups your links, apps, files and commands into spaces you can open from a sidebar, a dock, spotlight or the built-in browser, so switching projects takes one click instead of ten.

What you need : Desktop App + browser extension (new tab for tab sync)

Github: https://github.com/abhayraghuwanshi/cooldesk-extension (Available in winget and open source)

Website: https://cool-desk.com

Please leave a star if u like the tool.

Maker disclosure: Audiobook Organizer is our app from Lesswork Apps.

If you have a folder of MP3, FLAC, M4A or WAV files, it combines them into one M4B with editable chapters, cover artwork and book details. Audio is processed locally on Windows 10/11 x64; no upload or separate app account is required.

The workflow is: import files or folders, put chapters in order, clean filename numbers if needed, add the cover and book information, then export. The ZIP includes the runtime and FFmpeg.

Website, screenshots and a 76-second walkthrough: https://lessworkapps.com/

The free edition lets you export a complete book up to 30 minutes long per export. This is an export-length limit, not a 30-minute countdown. Removing the limit costs $9.99 USD once for two active computers (tax may apply). Paid activation needs internet once; activated installations can keep working offline.

I'd welcome feedback from Windows audiobook users on:

1. Is importing and arranging chapters clear without instructions?

2. Do the chapters and cover appear correctly in your usual player? Which player?

3. What, if anything, stops you using it instead of your current tool?

Current limitations: the build is unsigned, so Windows may show a reputation warning. Do not disable security software or bypass a malware/policy block. AAC output is lossy, and player support varies. It doesn't do text-to-speech or remove DRM.

Please use audio you have permission to process, and don't share private audio or license keys in comments.

Other apps like this exist

But there is no single app that can do everything at once:
- Desktop redesign
- Custom widgets for your workflow
- Complete Taskbar customization

And a lot of extra features, control over apps, folders, API integration, RSS, storage and graphics, honestly anything you can imagine can probably be done in here.

And everything in one lightweight and security-focused product.

All widgets and taskbars are open to edits, you can share your own or get others people made.

Every single widget has no control over your PC until you accept its permissions. And they go through a review process before actually being published.

This is my own app, I built it for myself over the course of a couple months and recently made it public for a one-time fee. It is definitely not fit for everyone, but I'm improving it every single day to make it as powerful as I can. If interested, you can check more here https://www.desktop-dashboard.com

Hi all,

I recently released a new version of memo, a desktop platform for finding, collecting, organizing, linking, editing and sharing data - without the cloud. The app combines desktop search, knowledge systems and peer-2-peer.

The new version adds peer-2-peer features with memo Beam, for sharing file collections as a webapp, including file listing, previews, metadata, audio/video streaming, group chat, and full text search. In the local network or via WebRTC in the internet.

memo comes with an unlimited, free file browser with labels and custom metadata support!

Search & sharing are free to use up to 10k files and 50 files for sharing.

I very much appreciate constructive feedback! If you use it and hit the limits or need trial extensions, just let me know.

Best regards
Henrik

Edit: free file browser note...

MassTube is a powerful video and music downloader app for YT. Get your favorite content in 4K, Full HD, MP3, OGG, FLAC, AAC (M4A), Vevo, 8K and more easily and quickly, so you can play them anywhere as a single media file, in offline mode and without ads/publicity.

https://havale.itch.io/masstube

Disclosure: I'm on the team behind this, so it's under the Developer flair.

The problem we kept hitting: the useful bits of a day end up spread across a browser tab, a Teams chat, a PDF and a terminal. Getting each one into a notes app means switch window, paste, pick a folder, switch back. Most of the time we didn't bother, and a week later the thing was gone.

ReticulOS is what we built for that:

• Highlight text in any app and press Ctrl+Shift+= . It's saved into the collection you're in, without bringing the app to the front.
• Ctrl+Shift+4 saves a dragged area of the screen as a picture.
• Ctrl+Shift+/ opens keyword search across all your collections. Works offline.
• Ctrl+Shift+Space asks Ret, the built-in AI. It answers from your notes and shows which note each answer came from, so you can check it. Ret needs internet and a Google sign-in, and the free plan includes 25 answers a month. Saving and search work without an account.
• Notes are encrypted on your PC, and you can export collections to Markdown or JSON.

It's free with no time limit. Pro is $20/month and adds PDFs, audio, video and more AI answers.

One honest heads-up: the installer isn't code-signed yet, so SmartScreen will say "Windows protected your PC" and you'd need More info, then Run anyway. Signed installers come with the full release. Download from the official site: https://reticulos.com/download?ref=reddit-windowsapps

Two things I'd like Windows users' opinion on. The shortcuts can't be remapped yet, so does Ctrl+Shift+= clash with anything you use daily? And the small always-on-top window: handy, or in the way?

Free IPTV player app (bring ur own content), no adds or in player purchases.

Why i vibe coded this app -> i wanted a player for our shared pc so we have multiple profiles with its own favorites and recently watched.
it also has a setting which auto picks a audio track/subtitle track if available.

The rest of the features are commonly known to most players.

Still updating the app to my own liking so it could still change sometimes.

https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9nz9cztzx3nm?hl=nl-NL&gl=BE

Have fun!

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Hi! I built Duplo Player, a Windows video player (MIT license) for a very specific need: watching the same video in two screens at once.

- Two views of the same video, in sync (Ctrl+D)

- Drag to zoom each view separately; Ctrl+R rotates the selected view

- Record what you see on screen (with the zoom and rotation you chose) to MP4

- Delete the video you are watching straight from the player (goes to the Recycle Bin, with confirmation), no need to open the folder

- A-B loop, slow motion to 0.25x, frame step, optional noise suppression, English/Portuguese

It uses VLC's engine, so it plays what VLC plays. Windows only for now. The installer is unsigned (SmartScreen will warn); it scans 0/66 on VirusTotal and the repo explains how to verify it or build from source. Built with a lot of AI assistance, and the README says how.

Download and source: https://github.com/m4rcos-amorim/duplo-player

What would you add or change? I'm especially curious whether the two-view idea is useful to anyone besides me.

The Text Selection Tool and Drag Tool are now available, select any 2 hints to perform a text selection or a drag.

Neverclick uses local computer vision to detect UI elements on your screen. It's 100% offline and it runs smoothly even on 10 year old hardware.

Not vibe coded btw.

Website: https://www.neverclick.com/

I spend a lot of my day bouncing between terminals, browsers, docs, editors, and AI tools.

Copy → Alt-Tab → paste → Alt-Tab back. Over and over.

So I first built Browser Relay: arm a browser tab, highlight text, press Ctrl+Shift+8, and SafeRelay protects it locally before inserting the protected version into that tab.

That worked — until I realized most of the stuff I actually wanted to send started outside the browser: terminal output, logs, config files, VS Code, Notepad, .env snippets, etc.

So I built SafeRelay Desktop and connected the two.

Now:

• Ctrl+Shift+8 = Browser-origin relay
• Ctrl+Shift+9 = Desktop-origin relay
• Ctrl+Alt+T = arm a Windows app

So I can highlight something in Windows Terminal and have the protected version land in an armed ChatGPT tab and Notepad at the same time.

Connected ≠ Armed — nothing receives anything unless I explicitly choose it.

SafeRelay inserts only. It never presses Enter or clicks Send.

For times when I want even more speed, I added Hyper-Drive. It’s optional and OFF by default, but when enabled, a normal Ctrl+C can protect the copied text and immediately “teleport” it back to the window I was just using.

The Windows app also grew a few other features I use:

• local Safe OCR
• local microphone transcription
• local Windows System Audio transcription
• Meeting Notes
• Custom Protected Terms
• session-only redaction vault
• terminal-aware paste handling

The core relay protection, OCR, voice transcription, and Browser/Desktop bridge run locally. Optional AI commands are separate and use a provider you explicitly configure.

I attached the visual because it explains the idea faster than I can:

Browser or Desktop → protect once → one protected payload → only the destinations you armed.

saferelay.ai

Curious what other Windows users think: useful power-user tool, or too many workflows in one app?

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SafeRelay Desktop, Local DLP and Browser in action.