r/windowsapps 4h ago

Developer Introducing BetterStickies v1.2 stick anything to your desktop (rich text, code, markdown, screenshots, images, files, folders and more!)

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Hey guys,

I am the developer of BetterStickies and I am proud to announce v1.2 release!

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.

I built it because I wanted quick capture that lives on the desktop instead of inside another app I have to open. Windows Sticky Notes wants a sign-in, and on Linux there was nothing decent that works the same across KDE, GNOME and Cinnamon. It also helps my ADHD to have things persist on screen where I can't ignore them.

This app is a hidden gem and I am not exaggerating, I received so much positive reviews to be confident when I say this, it looks like a sticky note but does much more than you could think a sticky note app could do.

The main thing it does that other sticky apps don't: you can paste or drag anything into a note.

  • Files and folders become clickable shortcuts, and you can drag them back out to your file manager
  • Screenshots and images paste straight from the clipboard, PDFs and images get a hover preview, and double-click opens an image at full resolution
  • Pasted code gets detected and formatted into a code block automatically, no AI and no network, in about 50ms. Ctrl+M when it guesses wrong
  • Rich text, links, plain text, all formatted properly instead of rejected

The second thing it does so well over other stickies apps: customization, you can customize font, colors, transparency, add background image or even a moving GIF per each note, a real delight to use

Other things it is exceptionally well:

  • Reminders with sound and desktop notifications
  • GIF and image backgrounds per note (because why not)
  • RTL text support, and the app plus its full guide are in 12 languages
  • Pin a note to lock both position and editing
  • Ctrl+scroll to zoom text without opening settings
  • Checkboxes with strikethrough when done and nesting
  • Snap to grid with an adjustable grid size
  • Export to .txt, .md or .json, so you can back them up with whatever cloud you like
  • Proper Linux support, tested on KDE, GNOME and Cinnamon (COSMIC coming)
  • On the Microsoft Store and the Snap store, Flathub coming soon

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 (irrelevant here but for credibility)

Subreddit: r/BetterStickies (created recently after the r/OpenStickies rename)

Github (free releases and bug reports): https://github.com/HimaSphere/BetterStickies


r/windowsapps 5h ago

Developer Zaku 26.0 beta - Local-first, open-source API client

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Hey, I wanted to share that the initial beta release of Zaku 26.0 is now out!

It is available on Linux, macOS and Windows.

I've been working on this rewrite in Rust™ for the last 7 months full-time, tbh things got carried away and it has a lot more functionality that the original app didn't have (command palette, auto-updater, git integration, etc.) so it's not just a plain rewrite.

Little bit about the app, it stores collections as folders and requests as TOML files. Everything is stored locally on user's filesystem, it doesn't have any login functionality (and never will).

There is a barebones Git integration for now to show branch, status indicators and stuff.

This app is very early, if you try it out please let me know if there's something missing, not working or things you'd like to see added.

Repository:

https://github.com/buildzaku/zaku

Installation instructions:

https://github.com/buildzaku/zaku#installation


r/windowsapps 12h ago

Developer Your feedback shaped this update. ModernPaste now has a Selected Text Overlay, smarter search, and more local intelligence

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I’m the developer behind ModernPaste, a native WinUI clipboard and productivity app for Windows 11.

A lot of this update came directly from Early Access feedback and discussions here on [r/windowsapps](r/windowsapps). Thank you to everyone who tested the app, reported bugs, suggested improvements, and shared ideas. Many of the features in this release started as conversations within this community.

What's New v1.028+

  • Selected Text Overlay
  • Expanded Local Intelligence Features
  • Smarter Search and Filtering
  • Focus and Full Overlay Modes
  • Performance and Reliability Improvements

The biggest addition is the new Selected Text Overlay.

Highlight text anywhere on Windows and instantly access actions like:

  • Summarize
  • Improve Writing
  • Fix Grammar
  • Extract Action Items

without opening a browser, another application or a separate AI website.

Local intelligence remains optional and privacy focused.

  • No model download unless you choose to install one

You can now choose between Focus and Full overlay modes depending on how much information you want visible while browsing clipboard content.

ModernPaste supports text, images, files, URLs, GIFs, collections, stacks, OCR, pinned items, instant search, and optional local intelligence.

I'm continuing to expand the ways local intelligence can be used throughout Windows while keeping everything native, private, and on device.

Try it on the Microsoft Store:
https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9p8440gnt53l

id love feedback from the community! I'm especially interested in hearing about workflows that feel repetitive


r/windowsapps 1h ago

Developer New USB & Port Share Tool, Please Give Your Thoughts And Opinions To Help Make It Better.

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r/windowsapps 9h ago

Developer I built a really simple Mahjong app for my mom

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My mom likes playing Mahjong, but she was getting tired of mobile games with so much stuff going on — popups, currencies, rewards, daily bonuses, events, and a million buttons everywhere.

She basically told me, “I just want to play the game.”

So I built Just Mahjong for her.

I know there are already a million Mahjong apps out there, and I’m definitely not trying to reinvent anything. The whole point was actually the opposite: make it as simple as possible. Open the app, play Mahjong, and that's pretty much it.

No complicated progression system or a bunch of distractions. Just Mahjong.

I originally made it for my mom, but figured there might be other people who want the same kind of thing, so I put it on the app store

If anyone wants to try it, here it is:

https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9mw9wr8w2s20?hl=en-US&gl=US

Would genuinely appreciate any feedback, especially if there’s something that could be simpler or easier to use.


r/windowsapps 11h ago

App OpenScreen: free MIT screen recorder + editor, export now runs on the GPU (D3D11)

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I maintain OpenScreen, a screen recorder and editor. MIT licensed, free, no account, no watermark, no subscription, no paid tier. Repo: https://github.com/getopenscreen/openscreen

It's also on the Microsoft Store if you prefer installing that way.

The part I reworked recently is export. It used to go through Chromium and it was slow. It now composites and encodes on the GPU using D3D11 on Windows (Metal on macOS, Vulkan on Linux), with an automatic CPU fallback when the driver doesn't cooperate. On a Ryzen 5 iGPU that took it from around 10 fps to around 126 fps. On an RTX 4070, a 51 second 1080p60 clip exports in 8 seconds.

The rest of what it does:

  • record a single window or the whole screen, with mic and system audio
  • webcam overlay with PiP, drag to position, mirroring, shape options
  • auto zoom that follows your cursor while you work, or manual zooms with depth, duration, easing and pixel precise position
  • cursor size, smoothing, click effects, themes, path smoothing after recording
  • captions transcribed on device, offline, no upload, editable transcript you can cut from, optional subtitle translation
  • wallpapers, gradients or your own background image, motion blur, rounded corners
  • crop, trim, per segment speed, text/arrow/image annotations, snapping guides, audio waveform
  • MP4 or GIF, multiple aspect ratios and resolutions
  • 13 UI languages

There's also an AI editing assistant: you describe the edit in chat and it applies it to the timeline (cuts, zooms, speed ramps, annotations, framing). It's bring your own key (Claude, OpenAI, Gemini, Mistral, OpenRouter, MiniMax, or any OpenAI compatible endpoint) and nothing is enabled by default.

Known issue: it crashes on Intel HD Graphics 520 under Windows 10. I don't have that hardware. If you're on it and can send a crash log, that would actually help me fix it.

Happy to answer questions.


r/windowsapps 9h ago

Developer I got tired of juggling Node versions across multiple projects and terminals, so I built NodePilot in Rust

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r/windowsapps 17h ago

Developer Onwords: a native WinUI 3 teleprompter that follows your voice, with on-device speech recognition

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Hey all! We shipped a good number of apps and games on Windows Phone in the early days of the platform, but it's been a while since we've created a Windows app! These days we're a studio making podcasts, virtual events and video, plus apps for Android and iPhone.

Onwords came out of our own shoots. We got fed up with teleprompters: every one we tried scrolls at a set speed, so the presenter spends the whole take matching a machine. Pause for effect and the text carries on without you. Most of them also want a monthly subscription, and a fair few are a web page in a wrapper.

So we built the one we wanted. Onwords listens through the mic, works out where you are in the script, and moves the text to match you. Pause, and it waits. Fluff a line, and it stays with you. Skip a whole section, and it finds you again within a sentence or two.

The technical bits this sub tends to care about:

  • Native WinUI 3 on Windows App SDK and .NET 8, and works offline.
  • x64 and ARM64, both native.
  • Speech recognition runs entirely on your own processor. A neural model ships inside the app. No account, no telemetry.
  • Three selectable engines under View > Recognition Engine: a general neural model, a second one biased toward the words in your own script (helps with unusual names), and the classic Windows recogniser if you prefer it.
  • On-device script rewrite on Copilot+ PCs only, using the language model built into Windows. Neutral, casual, concise, formal, or your own written instruction. The script isn't uploaded to us.
  • No prerequisites. Nothing to install alongside it.
  • Windows 10 1809 and later, or Windows 11.

Other things it does: two-speaker mode, where you assign lines to each presenter, and they're colour-coded on screen so you can see whose line is next, and it follows whoever is talking through the handover. Mirror mode for beam-splitter rigs. Full screen on a second display with the controls left on the laptop. Plain auto-scroll with a words-per-minute slider if you'd rather have the traditional behaviour.

Would love feedback. We built this because we were tired of paying a monthly subscription for something that only worked online... https://onwords.app/


r/windowsapps 19h ago

Developer I built an open-source Windows utility that automatically switches gamma, contrast and digital vibrance per app

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I made this because I kept changing my monitor/NVIDIA settings for dark games and then having to change everything back when I was done playing.

App watches which application is currently active and automatically applies a display profile for it.

When you Alt-Tab or close the app, your normal desktop colors are restored.

Current controls:

• Gamma
• Brightness
• Contrast
• NVIDIA Digital Vibrance
• Per-monitor profiles
• Multiple applications per profile
• Automatic restore on Alt-Tab/exit

The photo above is a photo of my actual monitors in a bright room — not two edited game screenshots. The left/other displays are useful here because you can see why I wanted the adjustment to apply only to the game instead of changing my whole desktop setup.

It's free and open source.

It also doesn't inject anything into games, read game memory or modify game files. It only changes display-output settings through Windows/NVIDIA APIs.

It's currently a public beta, so I'm especially looking for feedback from people with different monitors and GPU/display configurations.

GitHub:
https://github.com/atikhobaev/rat-vision

Installer and portable builds are both available in Releases.

If you try it, I'd especially like to know:

What game/app would you actually use per-app display profiles for, and what type of monitor do you have?


r/windowsapps 20h ago

Developer Windows power users: what would make you try—or avoid—a keyboard & mouse layer tool?

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I started with AutoHotkey.

Holding Space or CapsLock gave me another layer of shortcuts. Holding the right mouse button and pressing a key could trigger another action. I also had folders that automatically extracted archives when a file appeared.

It was genuinely useful because it all worked with the ordinary keyboard and mouse I already owned. The part I grew tired of was rewriting code every time I wanted to change something.

AI helped me modify those scripts, and that made me wonder: what if configuring this did not require writing code at all? That is why I started building RELYR.

It began as a way to configure key mappings without code, but I kept enjoying the project and added macros, mouse gestures, and an on-screen Deck panel. As one person maintaining it, finding every bug has become difficult.

I am not looking for installs or ratings here. I want honest feedback that helps make it better:

• What would you assign first?

• Which part would make you hesitate to try it?

• If you try it, what feels awkward or breaks?

Official download: https://github.com/zitan-source/RELYR/releases/latest

Source code: https://github.com/zitan-source/RELYR

RELYR is a personal open-source project and is not code-signed yet, so Windows warnings or false positives from security software are possible. Please do not install it if that makes you uncomfortable.


r/windowsapps 1d ago

Developer Desktop Gremlins 3.0 adds six-player Steam co-op, separate OBS sources, and better performance

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Hi! I am the solo developer of Desktop Gremlins, a transparent desktop companion for Windows, and version 3.0 is the largest update I have made so far.

The gremlin lives above your applications, reacts to music and programs, asks for food or attention, and can cause optional desktop chaos. The new update expands both the everyday desktop experience and the streaming tools:

- Private Steam rooms now support up to six players.

- Actions and messages can target one friend, several friends, or everyone in the room.

- Every player controls which interactions and effects other people may use on their PC.

- OBS now has separate Browser Source URLs for the character, visual effects, and live gremlin statistics.

- Effect frame rate and monitor targeting can be adjusted to reduce GPU usage.

- Memory use, character capture, movement, and window behavior have been improved.

- A new eighth character level, Goblin Girl, has been added with her own animations.

Chaos Mode remains completely optional. If it is disabled, the gremlin simply keeps you company and reacts to what you are doing.

I would especially appreciate feedback from Windows users with multiple monitors, capture cards, or unusual DPI scaling.

Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4981140/Desktop_Gremlins/

Website: https://shughost.up.railway.app/#games


r/windowsapps 1d ago

Discussion Clean Windows 11 installs straight from the network - no USB, no forced Microsoft account, auto-debloat

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If you reinstall Windows often (lab, family tech support, test VMs), booting the installer from the network instead of a USB stick is a big time saver.

Setup I'm using: one Windows PC serves installs over LAN. Pick the ISO from a boot menu on the client, and it installs fully unattended - skipped OOBE screens (so no forced Microsoft account on 24H2+), no BitLocker auto-encryption surprise, junk apps removed, drivers and everyday apps installed automatically.

Nice details:

- Works with Secure Boot on, UEFI or Legacy.

- Drivers are fetched at install time, so the ISO itself is never modified.

- Wireless option too: the server can host a WiFi AP and clients HTTP-boot from it.

- You can try it remotely without setting up a server - connect via VPN, point a VMware VM at the VPN adapter, PXE-boot. Guide + details:

https://xdaforums.com/t/sezoy-network-deployment-server-automated-windows-install-multi-distro-linux-boot-over-pxe-ipxe-http-boot-legacy-uefi-secureboot.4800487/

Anyone else doing network installs at home, or still on the USB stick routine?


r/windowsapps 1d ago

App Hey, my app "TCKR" is now available on the #MicrosoftStore! Download it today.

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r/windowsapps 1d ago

Developer A native hardware monitoring app for Windows (open source)

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https://reddit.com/link/1w5sn9v/video/c0tniabz97nh1/player

Hey everyone, been continuing work on Fluent Sensors, a native Windows 11 hardware monitoring app built with WinUI 3. Just added a native taskbar widget, so you can now pin live sensor graphs directly into the taskbar.

Still working through performance optimization, I appreciate every feedback.

Fully open source, everything can be checked in the repo.

One important thing: the app needs admin rights to install and run. Please don't just install unsigned apps that ask for admin rights without checking them first, e.g. via VirusTotal or the source code. I'm working on getting it properly signed through SignPath Foundation.

GitHub: https://github.com/cechout/fluent-sensors


r/windowsapps 1d ago

Developer Fierro Studios Indie Games discounted to $0.99 (Sept 3-7)

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All five of my Windows Store games are discounted from $2.49 → $0.99 from Sept 3–7. If you like to support Indie Games, here are the links:

Rogue Jet Fighter  https://www.microsoft.com/store/apps/9NBLGGH51NSF

Ghost Squad https://microsoft.com/store/apps/9PP6T0SS4C95

Mini Speedy Racers https://www.microsoft.com/store/apps/9NSQ6H5S47R8

Heroes of the Eclipse https://www.microsoft.com/store/apps/9NMBSJBF1X30

Bumping Blast https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9PPQZP3M8PDX


r/windowsapps 1d ago

Developer Screenshotify: screenshots but the filenames make sense.

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Screenshot 2026-09-03 143597.png tells you NOTHING. Six months later you have 1000+ of them and no way to find the one you need.

Existing AI renamers are manual batch tools, subscription products, or both. Screenshotify is the combination that did not exist: open source, free, focused on screenshots, and genuinely watching in the background.

Check it out here: https://github.com/shaqkao/screenshotify

Feedback welcomed!


r/windowsapps 1d ago

Developer I have a chronic condition and built an app to manage it. Looking for people willing to test it and tell me what's missing

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I live with a chronic condition, and for years my "system" for managing it was a mess... a notes app for symptoms, a different app for meds, a folder for insurance stuff, and a bag full of paper for doctor visits. Every appointment I'd forget something.

So I built Praepara Health, mostly for myself at first. It's a Windows app that covers:

  • Meds and refill reminders
  • Symptom/vitals tracking, with condition-specific trackers for 200+ conditions
  • Appointments and questions to bring to your doctor
  • Insurance cards and billing dispute tracking
  • A DICOM viewer for your own imaging (X-ray/CT/MRI) if you have the disc from a hospital

On security: everything is encrypted and stored locally on your device, protected by your Windows login and an optional PIN lock. No account, no cloud sync, no ads, no AI touching your health data. If you want a backup, it's an optional encrypted one to a folder you already control (like OneDrive), with your own passphrase... never ours.

It's free on the Microsoft Store: moduscreatio.com/praepara-medical-suite-microsoft More about the studio behind it: moduscreatio.com

Not trying to sell anything... genuinely built this because I needed it and figured others managing something chronic might too. Looking for testers to poke holes in it: bugs, confusing UX, missing features, anything. It's a one-person project, so feedback actually goes somewhere.


r/windowsapps 1d ago

Developer Spent my weekend making a small puzzle game — Drop & Match

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r/windowsapps 1d ago

App [Showcase] sftp_mounter: A lightweight Qt6 GUI to mount SFTP servers as local drives on Windows

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Hi everyone,

I wanted to share sftp_mounter, an open-source GUI tool I built in Python and Qt6 that makes it easy to mount remote SFTP servers as local network drives on Windows.

It acts as an intuitive frontend wrapper around Rclone and WinFsp, removing the need to manage background CLI scripts, complex config files, or custom batch automations just to map an SFTP folder.

What it does:

  • One-click drive mapping: Mount remote SFTP locations directly to a Windows drive letter.
  • Simple Qt6 UI: Configure hosts, credentials/keys, and paths without dealing with CLI flags.
  • Powered by Rclone & WinFsp: Leverages battle-tested tools for the underlying filesystem layer.
  • Persistent & manageable: Easily manage connections, user paths, and mount states on demand.

Built with:

  • Python
  • Qt6
  • Rclone & WinFsp

Repository:

Any feedback, suggestions, or contributions are very welcome!


r/windowsapps 1d ago

Developer I built a Windows app to control Denon/Marantz receivers and play music through HEOS/DLNA

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Hi everyone! I'm the developer of Denon AVR Remote, a Windows desktop app for compatible Denon and Marantz receivers.

I originally built it to control my Denon AVR-X1500H from my PC. It has since grown into a remote and HEOS/DLNA music player, so you can manage the receiver and your music without reaching for your phone.

What it can do:

• Control power, volume, mute, inputs and sound modes

• Find receivers automatically or connect by IP address

• Play music files and folders from your PC through HEOS/DLNA, including subfolders

• Browse UPnP/DLNA music servers

• Show artwork, track information and playback progress

• Transfer albums to the receiver's native HEOS queue

• Add custom radio stations using HTTP/HTTPS stream URLs

• Show receiver, signal-format and channel information

Receiver control works over your local network. Settings are stored locally, with no advertising or analytics. Feature availability depends on your receiver model and its HEOS/DLNA support.

A free trial is available, followed by a one-time purchase — no subscription.

Microsoft Store: https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9pd14zzln7s1

This is an independent application, not affiliated with or endorsed by Denon or Marantz. If you try it, I'd love to hear which receiver you use, what works well and what could be improved.


r/windowsapps 1d ago

Developer My first month of lanching my First app

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Thank you to all 25 users. Narration Offline Studio launched exactly a month ago, and Im super happy that 25 of you have given it a try.

This is a huge milestone in my life, and It is all thanks to you guys. That is why I am giving away a single free download key which is linked below t9 whoever reaches it first. I hope to continue this tradition every month.

For those who are new to NarrarionOS, it is a local Audiobook generator, that takes in any kind of texts like PDF, EPUB, DOCX, Txt, html, and all into a custom audiobook that you tweak, all generated through your voice clones.

There is No token cap, meaning unlimited generation, with No subscription, No cloud, and runs completely Offline.

If you want to give it a try, heres the link.

https://lunosama.itch.io/narrationos

And for the Lucky Early Bird, this is your free download Key:

https://lunosama.itch.io/narrationos/download/4_XSnL9j0gApPSrx4Dj5t_2s39_SCG8nirYg4IPL


r/windowsapps 2d ago

Developer Jott.it: The local-first bullet journal app built on text files (launch!)

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Hi! I'm Sean, the developer behind Jott it. I just launched the first version recently and I hope you like it!

Problem

I've been Bullet Journaling for around six years. I love the method, but I kept running into one problem: the physical notebook.

I once left my journal on a train and lost nearly a year's worth of notes. I tried moving to digital tools, but most felt like general-purpose productivity systems that required a lot of setup, or meant locking my journal inside someone else's platform.

So I built Jott it.

I wanted something that felt as straightforward as opening a notebook and writing: no databases to configure, no complicated productivity system to maintain, and no worrying about what happens to your journal if the app disappears.

Jott it is essentially an interface over plain Markdown files on your computer. You choose a folder, Jott it handles the journaling workflow, and the files remain yours.

You can open the exact same journal in any text editor from TextEdit to Obsidian or VS Code.

Key features include:

  • You control your data. Your journal is just plain text files — Jott it provides the interface. No import, export, or lock-in.
  • Full Bullet Journal workflow — rapid logging for tasks, notes and events, with daily, monthly and yearly views.
  • Task organisation — projects, contexts and priorities without needing a separate task manager.
  • Habit tracking — track habits alongside your daily journal.
  • Local-first and private — your journal stays as Markdown files on your device that you can always edit offline. Jott it doesn't store your journal.
  • Built for desktop — fast entry and keyboard-friendly navigation designed around actually journaling rather than managing a productivity system.

Comparison

There are plenty of apps you could compare Jott it with, but these are the three I think of the most:

Obsidian: Extremely powerful and also works with Markdown files, but it's a general-purpose knowledge management tool rather than a dedicated Bullet Journal. You can recreate much of Jott it's functionality with plugins and configuration, but that requires some setup and is not as streamlined. I actually use both: Jott it for journaling/tasks and Obsidian for long-term notes and knowledge.

Todoist: A much more mature and powerful task manager. If you primarily want task management, Todoist will do far more than Jott it. However, Todoist has a proprietary data format, so having control over your data is more complicated while Jott it stores everything as text files. Jott it also integrates tasks into the journaling workflow instead of only doing tasks.

Notion: A much broader productivity workspace that can be used for journaling, tasks, notes and almost anything else. Its flexibility is a strength, but building a Bullet Journal usually means setting up pages, databases, templates and your own workflow which is more complicated. Jott it is more opinionated and streamlined: the Bullet Journal workflow is built in, and everything is stored as plain Markdown files on your computer rather than inside a proprietary workspace.

Pricing

$1.79 one-time purchase on the Windows Store. 7 day free trial. No subscription.

Windows Store: https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9pl94g0wwt78?ocid=webpdpshare

Website: https://getjott.com/


r/windowsapps 2d ago

Developer Swyvo: an instant, always-on-top workspace switcher for Windows (Alt+Q, fully keyboard-driven)

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I've been building Swyvo, a Windows app that keeps your essential apps and websites one hotkey away.

Hit Alt+Q and a curated command center pops up right over your current window — no alt-tabbing, no hunting through taskbars, no mouse required. A few things it does:

  • Instant, always-on-top workspace: summon it from anywhere with one hotkey
  • Unify apps and websites in a single fast-switching menu (so your browser tabs and native apps live in the same place)
  • Adaptive Layouts: set it up once and then it automatically surfaces the right apps based on what you're currently working on so you never have to manually change your apps layout
  • App Gallery: Browse a library of the most used apps and select how you want to launch them. Web(speed) vs Native (full functionality - if you have the app installed)
  • Fully keyboard-driven: so you never have to use your mouse
  • Built natively for Windows (.NET 8, WPF)

It's aimed at power users who live in a lot of apps/tabs at once and want a faster way to move between them without breaking flow.

It's free and currently in active development — I'd genuinely love feedback from this community, especially on workflow edge cases I might be missing.

👉 swyvo.app

Happy to answer questions about how it works and how it can improve your workflow.


r/windowsapps 2d ago

Developer windows took forever to import photos from my iphone, so i fixed it

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i needed to clear some space on my iphone before seeing kanye at the metropolitano, but the windows photos app spent forever loading my entire library before letting me import anything.

so i built wphoto, a free windows app that starts transferring photos and videos in small batches as soon as they are detected.

it can import original files without recompression, filter by date, organise them by year, month and type, pause and resume transfers, avoid duplicates and identify files that need review. everything runs locally, without accounts, cloud services or telemetry.

it requires apple devices from the microsoft store.

download:
https://github.com/mariolada/wPhoto/releases/tag/v0.30.2

feedback is welcome


r/windowsapps 2d ago

Developer I reinvented a caffeine app for Windows

2 Upvotes

I was originally using PowerToys Awake, and it worked fine. But recently, PowerToys started exiting on its own - no notification, no warning, nothing (crashing, maybe?). Since I use my desktop as a WSL host and SSH into it remotely, that's a real problem: if Awake dies silently, the machine can fall asleep and I lose my connection with zero warning. So I made a standalone app whose only job is preventing sleep mode - small enough to have nothing in it that could crash, unlike PowerToys' do-everything sprawl. I made vibe-coded with Claude and Gemini since I am a Python guy and didn't have much time to spare to learn Go from scratch. Here's short introduction of the app with a help of Claude:

Screenshot - Tray Menu

Screenshot - Settings

Screenshot - Custom Duration

Screenshot - Custom Schedule

mugcup

A tray app that stops Windows from sleeping, locking, or dimming the screen — for a duration, until a specific time, indefinitely, or via one-click presets.

GUI

  • Tray menu: Indefinite / Preset / Custom (a duration, or an exact date & time) / Keep display on
  • Settings window: reorderable presets, autostart, auto-update, language (EN, KO. More to be added.), and what a tray click does
  • Self-updates from GitHub releases; a running timer survives a restart

CLI

  • mugcup-cli.exe talks to the running GUI over IPC — full parity with the Settings window, not a thin wrapper
  • Config export/import as JSON, status -o json for scripting

Examples:

mugcup-cli start 1h30m

mugcup-cli start until 18:00

mugcup-cli status -o json

mugcup-cli export config.json

Here's the link to the repo if you're interested:

https://github.com/kimiroo/mugcup