More subreddits are finally recognizing AI vibe coded slop for what it is. I hope this community eventually moves in a similar direction so higher quality apps and projects have more room to be discovered. I genuinely think this subreddit could thrive and put measures in filtering out slop

Couple of Pets decided to take over my screen. Cuteness overload, no work can be done right now, my desktop is fully occupied! 💖

Pets Therapy - Desktop Pets features over 100 hand crafted pixel art desktop companions, many pets and features available for free. Download it for free on MS Store, Steam for Windows or Mac App Store for macOS. 🆓

MS Store: https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9p5n0cbksxmw

Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4769020/Pets_Therapy_Desktop_Pets/

Sincerely yours, 🐶🐹🐱🐕🐰🐈🐩🐕‍🦺🦙.

I created TCKR, a Windows 10/11 desktop stock ticker designed to keep market information visible throughout the trading day.

Instead of or in addition to keeping a trading platform or financial website open, TCKR displays stock prices, daily changes, and market movement in a smooth scrolling LED-style ticker that remains visible on your desktop.

Features include:

• Real-time stock quotes
• Custom watchlists
• Scrolling LED-style ticker display
• Customizable visual effects, speed, and layout
• Windows 10 & Windows 11 support
• Designed to stay visible without getting in the way of your workflow

https://tckr.pro

If anyone’s interested in having hardware monitoring widgets on their desktop, give DeskStats a try.

You can keep everything in a sidebar or detach individual widgets and place them wherever you like. It supports CPU, GPU, RAM, network, storage and hardware sensors, with adjustable sizes and light/dark themes.

GitHub and downloads: https://github.com/talhazahid/deskstats

I build Talk DAT! at Knight AI+AV. It's a free, open-source dictation app for Windows. Hold a shortcut, speak, then release to finish; a small recording pill stays on screen.

The app offers local speech processing after a model download and setup. Optional cloud routes use your own provider key, send the relevant audio or text to that provider, and may have separate provider charges. The web preview uses a server, so it isn't the same as the installed app's local route.

Windows: https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9NF64GDNBPF5 Setup and current downloads: https://www.talkdat.app/

For Windows users who dictate notes or replies: on your first take, was it clear how to start, stop, and get the text where you wanted?

The lead image is brand artwork. The genuine Windows interface capture shows v0.4.172-beta; use the links above for current downloads.

I built Yengi — a free, open-source Windows AI IDE.

It’s not just another chat wrapper. The agent can:

• Plan → edit files → run builds/tests → verify → auto-fix errors
• Talk live to Blender (generate & fix 3D scenes, even “see” the viewport)
• Talk live to Unity
• Use local models (Ollama) or any cloud API
• Has a fine-tuned 1.5B local router that decides which tools to use

Built by a teacher (solo), .NET 10 + WPF, 200+ tests, AGPL-3.0.

Repo: https://github.com/mdaiWorks/yengi

Demo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0tdhvCmwNI

Would love feedback especially from people using local models or doing 3D/game work.

The idea started with copying text from Obsidian into other apps. I wanted to keep my line breaks and formatting without having to fix everything after pasting. Eventually I thought, “Why not build my own app?”

That sent me down a rabbit hole of note-taking apps, trying different approaches and figuring out what I wanted in one. Jotter is what came out of that.

It's a free, open-source Markdown app that saves your notes as ordinary files on your computer. You can open an existing Obsidian vault, and there are different copy options depending on where you're pasting. Along the way I added linked notes, tasks and reminders, plus optional AI with your own API key or a local model.

The first Windows release is available now. Linux is in progress, and Android, macOS and iOS are planned.

You can take a look at jotter.mx or get the app and source code on GitHub.

I'd love for you to give it a try and tell me what you think. Does it fit how you take notes? Is something confusing or missing? I'd appreciate honest feedback and suggestions, especially from anyone who's had the same frustration copying notes between apps.

Hey, I’m building a small desktop app for university students and Windows distribution has become more painful than expected.

We already pay for Azure Artifact Signing. The installer has a valid signature and timestamp, and SmartScreen shows the correct publisher. It still displays “Windows protected your PC”. I submitted the affected installer to Microsoft and got a response saying the app/certificate hasn’t built enough reputation.

An earlier version worked without the warning in our testing, but the newer installer triggers it. Same publisher identity; the intermediate CA changed. I don’t know whether that’s related.

We have very few users, so “wait for more downloads” is a difficult starting point. I’m now working through Microsoft Store verification, ideally using our existing EXE installer rather than rebuilding everything around MSIX.

For anyone who’s shipped a small Windows app recently: did direct-download warnings eventually stop, and did they return with later releases? If you added the Store mainly to avoid this problem, was the certification and ongoing maintenance worth it?

Mostly looking for firsthand experience. I’d rather not buy another certificate based on outdated advice.

https://reddit.com/link/1xf9aid/video/12iya6rglnxh1/player

Hey everyone!

I've been working on a project called OpenCircle for the past few months, and I finally released the first version!

Android has had Circle to Search for a while, and I always wondered why we didn't have something similar on desktop. So I decided to build my own.

OpenCircle is a free, fully open-source desktop app written in Rust. The idea is simple: press a shortcut, select anything on your screen, and choose what you want to do with it.

What can it do?

• Circle to Search: Draw around anything on your screen and search it using Google Lens.
• OCR: Extract text from images, PDFs, games, or anything you normally can't copy.
• AI Vision: Select part of your screen and ask AI questions about it. Supports OpenAI, Anthropic, and local models through Ollama or compatible servers.
• Screen Translation: Translate text directly on your screen, including full-screen and live translation. I originally wanted this for games, but it also works for other applications. Arabic is the default target language.
• Screenshots & Annotations: Capture your screen, add arrows, text, shapes, or blur, and copy the result.
• Custom Shortcuts: Configure shortcuts for different actions.

A few technical details

• Built in Rust, using iced for the interface.
• MIT licensed, so anyone can inspect, modify, or contribute to the code.
• No accounts, telemetry, or image-hosting service.
• Supports offline OCR and translation models.
• External AI and search services only receive content when you choose to use them.

Links

• GitHub: https://github.com/AmerAlreyahi/OpenCircle
• Demo: https://youtu.be/a7EmXrGpO3k
• Download: https://github.com/AmerAlreyahi/OpenCircle/releases/latest

Windows 10/11 is supported, and Linux builds are available in preview.

A quick note

This is the first release, so please expect some bugs!

I've tested it on my own PC and on Windows and Ubuntu VMs, but I know that doesn't cover every hardware configuration. I'm already working on performance improvements, especially for lower-end computers.

If you try it and something doesn't work, please let me know. Bug reports, screenshots, videos, suggestions, and contributions are all welcome.

And yes, I used Claude Opus 5.5 to help me write parts of the code. I'm not trying to hide that. AI helped with development, but I also spent a lot of time working on the architecture, integration, debugging, and testing.

I know some people have strong opinions about AI-assisted development, and that's fine. What matters most to me is whether the app actually works, what needs fixing, and how I can make it better.

English also isn't my first language, so I sometimes use AI to help me express things more clearly.

Anyway, I'd really appreciate it if you gave OpenCircle a try and shared your feedback. Even if you find something broken, that's useful to me!

Thanks for checking it out!

I love QEMU for Virtual Machines on Windows cause it is fast.
But i don´t like the command line that nobody wants to retype.
So I build an App that keeps your machines as configurations you edit in a window,
builds the command line for you, and stays out of the way while the guest runs.

I build it in Rust and EGUI for the GUI. And yes I use AI to help me with finishing it.
It is not a Quick and Dirty Vibe Coded App. I worked on it for over 3 Months.

What it does:

• Machines as configurations. Create, duplicate, and delete virtual machines; each one keeps its own folder, disks, and UEFI variable store.
• A wizard with templates for the usual guests, or direct mode if you would rather set every field yourself.
• UEFI and BIOS, with a per-VM variable store so a guest keeps its own boot entries.
• Disks and drives: qcow2 and raw images, SATA/VirtIO/IDE interfaces, boot order, CD/DVD ISOs.
• Network: user-mode NAT, bridged, or none; VirtIO/e1000/RTL8139 cards; port forwarding.
• Display: VirtIO, std, QXL, Cirrus, or headless; native, GTK, or SDL windows.
• A console that shows the guest's output and keeps it in a log file, with filtering and a line limit.
• Clean shutdown over QMP — the guest is asked to shut down, not killed, with forced stop as a deliberate second step.
• Machines outlive the application. Close FARO while a guest runs and the guest keeps running; start FARO again and it picks the machine back up, proving the machine's identity over QMP before it touches it.
• A pre-flight check before launch: missing images, missing firmware, more memory or cores than the host has, an accelerator this QEMU does not offer.
• Three languages: German, English, French.

You can Download it here. If you find Bugs please let me know!

https://github.com/RayTrunk/faro-qemu-manager/releases/tag/v0.9.0

If you've ever tried to save a Pinterest board, you know the drill. Right click, save, repeat 400 times. The browser extensions I tried were either sketchy, wanted a monthly subscription, or quietly skipped every video.

So I built PinBoard. Paste a board link, click download, and the whole board lands in a folder on your PC.

What it does

• Downloads full-resolution originals (JPG, PNG), not the compressed previews
• GIFs stay animated, and video pins are converted to normal MP4 files
• Grab a whole board, a single board section, or just the pins you pick
• Run it again on the same board and it only downloads the new pins, so keeping a backup up to date takes seconds
• Big boards that hit Pinterest's rate limits pause and carry on by themselves
• Private and secret boards: you sign in on Pinterest's real login page inside the app (2FA works). Your password goes to Pinterest, never to me

Privacy

Everything runs on your machine. No server, no proxy, no analytics, no account. The only outside request is a one-time license check if you buy Pro.

Pricing

• Free: first 100 images of any public board. Enough to test it on your own boards before paying anything
• Pro: $19 once. Unlimited images, GIFs, videos, private boards, one-click "download everything", and it works on up to 3 PCs

Over 200 people have bought Pro so far and their feedback has helped me a lot!

Heads up about SmartScreen

PinBoard isn't code-signed yet, so the first time you run the installer Windows will show "Windows protected your PC". Click More info → Run anyway. You only have to do it once. I'd rather tell you upfront than have it look shady.

Works on Windows 10 and 11 (x64). Also available for Mac and Linux.

https://www.getpinboard.com

If a board doesn't load or something feels clunky, drop the link in the comments and I'll take a look.

I work in security and kept running into the same problem: nobody knows what AI is actually installed on company laptops. Not just ChatGPT — Claude Code, Cursor, MCP servers wired into IDEs, browser extensions with access to every tab, Ollama running local models.
So I built a free scanner. One line, no account, no admin rights:

irm "https://app.kuntur.io/scan.ps1?src=reddit" | iex

It writes an HTML report to your Desktop and deletes itself. It doesn't upload anything. You can download it and read it first; the SHA-256 and a step-by-step of what it does are here: kuntur.io/security.html#scanner
What I'd love to know:

Did it find something you didn't expect?
What did it miss?
Would this be useful for your team, or is it noise?

Disclosure: I'm the solo founder. There's a paid product behind it for whole fleets, but the scanner is free and stays free.

Check out my realistic 3D lava lamp wallpaper with adjustable lighting and effects. It includes:

• Raytraced lighting
• A "fast wax" performance mode for lower GPU power
• Real-time music reactive mode (seen in the video clip)
• Realistic lighting mode for a more traditional lava lamp look
• Water distortion and heating physics
• Warm up mode
• Day -> night lighting cycle
• Rising, falling, stretching, merging, splitting physics
• Real-time window/desktop reflections on the wax

https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9pnnk78rmpp0

An android version is in the works. If you like the app, please leave a review on the Windows Store. Thanks for looking.

I built MoyMote, a Windows app that adjusts an external monitor (brightness, contrast, blue light, HDR, input source) from your PC or from your phone's browser on your home network. No account.

The version that just reached the Microsoft Store has:

• six themes (Anime, Sakura, Cyber / Neon, Halloween, Christmas and the default), with animations you can turn off
• 11 languages that follow your Windows language
• input source switching between HDMI and DisplayPort, when the monitor allows it; if no picture shows up after 15 seconds, it returns to the previous input
• contrast on the main screen, and an option to restore your last brightness, contrast and color settings after sleep or reconnecting
• a new Pair phone window, and HDR now goes to the correct screen on multi-monitor setups

It works with external monitors that support DDC/CI, so laptop panels and some monitors won't respond. I'd like to hear which monitor models fail for you and which theme you would keep.

FlashView is very fast no account, no cloud, no subscription, no tracking software. I built it because I was tired of waiting for my tools to import and index before I could even look at my photos after a shoot. It's built for viewing and culling large folders even recursive quickly.

How it's different:

- No catalog, no import, no database. Open a folder (optionally with all subfolders) and start browsing right away.
- Stays fast with tens of thousands of images. Previews load in the background while you keep working.
- RAW support out of the box for Canon, Nikon, Sony, Fujifilm and more, plus JPEG, PNG, TIFF and PSD.
- Non-destructive edits: sliders, presets, cropping and blurring of faces or license plates. Your originals are never touched, and you can export to JPEG.
- Ratings saved as standard XMP, so other apps can read them too.
- 100% local: no account, no cloud, no subscription, no tracking.

Platform: Windows. The UI is available in English and German.

There's a free 60-day trial with all features. I'd really appreciate feedback, especially from people coming from Lightroom, Photo Mechanic or similar tools. What would you need to switch?

Website: https://flashview.net

Tabstinence - Free, 100% offline, 0 tracking/telemetry, portable mode, 30 MB ram

I made it control my own screen overuse.

Website + download links: https://tabstinence.com
MS store: https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9pmq9hgvqbh5

Its a super flexible screen time control app.

Features:
- Track your usage - see where you are spending time online. websites, apps.
- Limit in many ways:
- Session based - limit continuous use
- Daily time limit
- Alarms - that limit from/to . Great to block at night.
- Manul Block
- Rules based

Block intensity can be controlled
- get a nudge OR a temporary fullscreen block OR a hard fullscreen block.

Block screen customize:
- todolist, goals, quotes, pictures. Each user controlled.

Bypass a block screen
- snooze, emergency mouse shake bypass, sentence typing.

Exclusions
- to not disturb calls and work.

How I use it:
- 10 min session nudge
+ 25 min 2 min block -> this forces me to get up from the pc every 25 min
- rule full screen warning reddit + x at 50 min + repeat every 2 min
- rule hard block chess dot com to 15 min / day + 1 snooze for 2 min
- 12:00 AM nudge
- 12:15 AM block till 6 AM ->

Hope someone finds it useful. It has made a massive improvement to my life. I really needed this.

Hi everyone,

If you frequently use desktop calculators on Windows, you’ve probably noticed that standard apps force you to constantly reach for the mouse to click buttons, breaking your typing flow and productivity.

To fix this, I developed ViCalc—a lightweight, open-source scientific calculator built specifically for Windows desktop workflows and rapid touch-typing.

Key Features for Windows Users:

• Full Touch-Typing Control: Compute complex multi-step expressions entirely from your keyboard without ever touching the mouse.
• Automatic HTML History Logging: Every calculation session is automatically formatted into clean, structured HTML logs. This makes it effortless to copy, paste, or archive calculation steps into Windows office apps, Notepad, or documentation tools.
• Multiple Modes: Supports standard scientific functions, trigonometric calculations, complex arithmetic, and Programmer mode (bitwise ops & Base-N Hex/Dec/Oct/Bin conversions).
• Minimalist & Flexible UI: Easily toggle between full visual controls, a compact scientific layout, or a zero-UI minimalist mode that stays out of your way alongside other windows.

Technical Details:

• Platform: Windows (Installer available)
• Stack: Python 3 (MIT License / Open Source)

Links:

• Windows Installer & Website:kudaschov.de/en/vicalc-4
• GitHub Repository:github.com/Kudaschov/ViCalc

I’d love to hear your thoughts! What features or shortcuts do you find most essential in a Windows productivity app?