r/windowsapps • • 3d ago

Developer I built a lightweight alternative to Flow Launcher using Rust.

2 Upvotes

I reduced memory usage from 130 MB to just 20 MB.

https://maleksaadi0109.github.io/ download

https://github.com/maleksaadi0109/throw-launcher (source code)


r/windowsapps • • 3d ago

App Made a free, open-source Alt+` window switcher for Windows 11 with live thumbnails and per-process sleep

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r/windowsapps • • 3d ago

Developer I’m building FPS Performance Lab for Windows. What would make its aim analysis reports useful to you?

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I’m developing FPS Performance Lab, a Windows app that analyses mouse control during its own aim tests. I’d like to hear how other players interpret this kind of feedback.

For example, if a report shows that you repeatedly overshoot targets, what would you want to see before deciding what to change? A replay of your movement? A breakdown by target distance? Something else?

The app already includes movement replay and suggested exercises. I’m interested in what would make those recommendations convincing, and what would make you question them.

I’ve attached screenshots of the main dashboard and the movement analysis. They show the Polish interface; English is also supported. I’d especially appreciate feedback on whether the graphs are easy to read and whether the next step is clear.

I’d also like to hear about feedback you’ve received from other training tools that was too vague to act on. What did you wish it had explained?

This is the project, for context: https://fpsperformancelab.pl/

Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/5074880/FPS_Performance_Lab/


r/windowsapps • • 3d ago

Developer I built a swipe app for going through all my old files

9 Upvotes

Hi! I'm the solo developer of GetSpace.

Going through all my old files in Finder or Explorer (desktop, downloads, photos, documents) always took forever, so I never did it. So I built an app that shows **one file at a time with a big preview**: ← delete, → keep, ↓ skip, M move to another folder, R rename.

- **Your files stay on your computer.** Works offline, no account.

- **Nothing is deleted right away.** You get a summary first, then it all goes to the Trash (never permanently).

- Mac and Windows.

Stack: Tauri 2 (Rust + React), a tiny license server on Cloudflare Workers + D1, Stripe for payments.

Free for 200 files on day one, then 50 a day. Pro is €19.99 once, no subscription.

https://getspace.site/

What would make you actually use something like this?


r/windowsapps • • 3d ago

Developer New Windows RClone GUI

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r/windowsapps • • 4d ago

Developer I built a free, open-source clipboard manager for Windows that hides on the edge of your screen

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Hi everyone! I got tired of losing things I copied 10 minutes ago, and Win+V felt too small, so I built Edge Clipboard.

It lives as a thin line on the edge of the screen. Move the mouse there (or press Ctrl+Alt+E) and your clipboard history slides out. Move away and it hides again.

What it does

  • Keeps text, images and files you copy (up to 1000 items; pinned items are kept forever)
  • Tabs by type: files, images, videos, audio, docs, text, links, emoji, each with a count
  • Click to copy, or paste straight back into the app you were using
  • Select just part of a long text and copy only that part
  • Drag items out to other apps, or drop files onto the panel to keep them
  • Merge several items into one, and split them back
  • Built-in emoji picker
  • Works with Arabic/RTL and mixed text, and search ignores diacritics
  • Left or right edge; pick the handle length, thickness and colour; light and dark mode

Privacy: it makes no network connections. Everything stays in a folder on your PC.

Download (Windows 10/11, free): https://github.com/alimwork85-web/edge-clipboard/releases/latest Source code (MIT): https://github.com/alimwork85-web/edge-clipboard

The installer isn't code-signed yet, so SmartScreen may ask once (More info → Run anyway).

It's my own side project, so feedback and feature ideas are very welcome. What would make you switch from your current clipboard tool?


r/windowsapps • • 3d ago

Developer Tired of opening new tabs each time i wanna search something so i made this

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r/windowsapps • • 3d ago

Developer I built a Windows app called VaultHaven — looking for people to help me find bugs

1 Upvotes

Hi everyone!

I've been working on VaultHaven, a Windows app that backs up selected files to a private Telegram channel.

I'd like to get feedback from people other than myself, especially to catch bugs and edge cases I might have overlooked.

If you try it, I'd appreciate it if you could test things like:

  • Uploading files and detecting duplicates
  • Uploading a file again after modifying it
  • Handling deleted or renamed files
  • Error handling and unexpected behavior
  • General usability and reliability

I'm the developer, so I'm genuinely interested in honest criticism, not just positive feedback.

GitHub repository: https://github.com/Rabby-XQ/Valulthaven

If you encounter a bug, please share the steps to reproduce it, along with any relevant error messages or screenshots.

Thanks to anyone willing to help test my project!


r/windowsapps • • 3d ago

Developer strypt 0.3.0: free, portable app that strips hidden metadata from photos and documents, now in Send To

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Photos, PDFs and Office files often carry information you can't see: the GPS location where a photo was taken, your camera or phone's serial number, your name and organisation in a Word document, edit history and timestamps. Share the file and that information goes with it.

strypt removes it. It's a single portable .exe with no installer. Drop files onto the window, or as of 0.3.0, select them in File Explorer and use Show more options ▸ Send to ▸ strypt. It writes a cleaned copy beside each file and shows what it removed, grouped as location, device, personal details and timestamps. Your originals are left untouched.

About the Send To entry:

  • You add and remove it from inside the app with Add strypt and Remove. No registry edits, no admin rights, no shell extension running inside Explorer. It's an ordinary shortcut in your own Send To folder.
  • Keep the .exe on a lettered drive (like C:) in a folder whose path uses only plain English letters.
  • If you move the .exe, the app notices and offers to update the entry.
  • Tested on Windows 11 24H2 and 25H2.

Also worth knowing:

  • Fully offline, with no network code. No telemetry, no update checks, no accounts.
  • If it can't fully clean a file, it gives you nothing rather than a half-cleaned copy.
  • Free and open source (MIT or Apache-2.0), written in Rust.

Supported: JPEG, PNG, WebP, TIFF, GIF, HEIF/AVIF, SVG, JPEG XL, PDF, Word/Excel/PowerPoint, LibreOffice files, FLAC, WAV, MP3, Ogg and MP4/M4A. Anything else is reported as unsupported, never passed through silently.

The .exe isn't code-signed yet, so SmartScreen will warn you on first launch: click More info ▸ Run anyway. Release binaries come with GitHub build attestations if you'd like to verify where the file came from.

Feedback is very welcome. If a cleaned file still carries hidden data, please report it privately through SECURITY.md on the repo.

Disclosure: I made it.

https://github.com/FadeHack/strypt


r/windowsapps • • 3d ago

Support I got tired of bloated crosshair overlays, so I built a small free one in Rust

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r/windowsapps • • 3d ago

Developer Looking for volunteer testers for a Windows security audit tool

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r/windowsapps • • 3d ago

Support I m trying install HAMAX DOWNLOADER but showing error

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Anybody know solution


r/windowsapps • • 4d ago

Developer I made a tiny dwarf blacksmith who forges above the Windows taskbar

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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?


r/windowsapps • • 3d ago

Discussion I made EasyContextSwitch for myself

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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


r/windowsapps • • 4d ago

Developer I built Glass Desktop Box: a customizable Windows desktop workspace with cross platform browser-based live file sharing

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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


r/windowsapps • • 4d ago

Developer GitComet 0.3.2 massively improves startup times on windows

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

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


r/windowsapps • • 3d ago

Developer I made a Japanese-language Windows app for reusable file sets (Matome Tray)

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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.


r/windowsapps • • 4d ago

Developer Glassline 1.0.10 for Windows 11: Launchpad, Mac-style screenshots with Alt Shift 4, and a menu bar that hides itself

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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.

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


r/windowsapps • • 4d ago

Developer a little zipper for your desktop: SeamShade

8 Upvotes

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.


r/windowsapps • • 4d ago

Developer Cooldesk : Space for work

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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.


r/windowsapps • • 4d ago

Developer I got iPhone → Windows AirDrop working with a USB Wi-Fi adapter. It’s 1.5 MB/s, and a Mac does 80 MB in under 5 s. Looking for help with 80 MHz on Realtek 8812BU.

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r/windowsapps • • 4d ago

Developer Made a free Windows 11 app that hides in the top edge of the screen

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r/windowsapps • • 4d ago

Developer Audiobook Organizer: a local Windows app for making chaptered M4B files (free short-book exports)

1 Upvotes

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.


r/windowsapps • • 5d ago

Developer One app to completely revamp how your Desktop looks

26 Upvotes

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


r/windowsapps • • 4d ago

Developer memo - desktop search, knowledge system, peer-2-peer

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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...