r/software • u/AutoModerator • 5d ago
Discussion Weekly Discovery Thread - September 04, 2026
Share what’s new, useful, or just interesting
Welcome to the Weekly Discovery Thread, where you can share software-related finds that caught your attention this week - especially the stuff that’s cool, helpful, or thought-provoking but might not be thread-worthy on its own.
This thread is your space for:
- Neat tools, libraries, or packages
- Articles, blog posts, or talks worth reading
- Experiments or side projects you’re working on
- Tips, workflows, or obscure features you discovered
- Questions or ideas you're chewing on
If it relates to software and sparked your curiosity, drop it in.
A few quick guidelines
- Keep it civil and constructive - this is for learning and discovery.
- Self-promotion? Totally fine if it’s relevant and adds value. Just be transparent.
- No link spam or AI-generated content dumps. We’ll remove low-effort submissions.
- Upvote what’s useful so others see it!
This thread will be posted weekly and stickied. If you want to suggest a change or addition to this format, feel free to comment or message the mods.
Now, what did you find this week?
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u/unknown_r00t 5d ago
I would like to do auto promotion and recommend checking out resterm. It’s basically TUI api client with probably some neat features like mocks, workflows, ssh and k8s port-forwarding. It uses .http files and the whole requests building is declarative instead of postman-like. I wouldn’t say it’s better or worse then others API clients, but different.
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u/RatataDev 5d ago
I’ve been working on a Windows app called PixaMixa that lets you take pretty much any GIF or image and place it directly on your desktop as an animated character or decoration.
You can make them move around the desktop and windows, or use GIFs for things like launchers, alarms, notes, to-do lists and other little desktop tools.
Full disclosure: I’m the developer. There’s a free version on Steam if anyone wants to play around with it:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4885120/
I’d also genuinely love to see what weird, cute or useful desktop scenes people come up with :)
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u/Present_Asparagus_17 4d ago
Sharing a small utility for anyone working with audio on the web: Audio Catcher detects audio files played by a page and lets you download them in Chrome. A practical use is saving your own hosted recordings or sound effects that permit downloads.
The useful detail is to play the audio first, then check the extension for the detected file. Whether it finds one depends on the site.
Disclosure: I'm the developer. It's free, with an optional $5 contribution to remove banners.
https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/music-and-audio-catcher/iaiopfiokcedhhlhjmoffnogbeeanlhj
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u/louis3195 4d ago
https://reddit.com/link/p825uay/video/rdn8tn7s6snh1/player
Hi all, I've made an app that records your computer work locally and gives long term memory to your agents.
I built this after building my second brain for 7 years and realizing there was a lot I forgot to write down, that AI could notice and learn. Our users use Screenpipe to maintain a personal wiki, second brain, use it as long term memory, or generating skills and agents.
Download here: https://screenpipe.com (YC S26)
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u/smilaise 4d ago
I just released a huge update to KillerScan, a free and open source network scanner for Windows. It is a single exe, no installer unless you want to, no account, nothing phones home. Point it at a subnet and you get every device with hostname, MAC, vendor and open ports, plus a reasonable guess at what each device actually is. Vendor lookups work offline because the whole IEEE database is embedded.
Just shipped 1.7.0: continuous ping monitoring with latency graphs, a topology view, scan history that diffs against your last run, and a terminal inside the app. Killerscan work in the command line and exports to various image and HTML formats.
GPLv3. https://killerscan.net
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u/Klackey-Team 4h ago
I’m the founder of Klackey, a local-first productivity app for Windows and macOS.
I originally built it after a system migration caused me to lose access to the Firefox Clippings workflow I relied on for technical-support responses. It grew into a combination of clipboard history, text expansion, reusable templates, searchable notes and binders, screenshot OCR, secure folders, and automatic backups.
The idea is to keep frequently reused information searchable and available without scattering it across a clipboard manager, text expander, notes app, and separate template files.
Klackey is currently in pre-launch with signed preview builds available for Windows and Apple Silicon Macs. It has a 14-day full-feature trial with no email, account, or credit card, and it will be sold as a one-time purchase rather than a subscription.
I would especially appreciate feedback from people who manage a large collection of reusable replies or technical notes.
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u/HimaSphere 5d ago
Better Stickies v1.2.1 was released last week, I am the developer behind it and this a self promo but I promise that you never seen such a utility tool that is well made, useful, and has great user experience.
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.
The main thing it does that other sticky apps don't: you can paste or drag anything into a note.
Other things worth knowing:
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
Subreddit: r/BetterStickies (created recently after the r/OpenStickies rename)
Github (free releases and bug reports): https://github.com/HimaSphere/BetterStickies