r/SoftwareandApps

I've been building Layer a transparent overlay that turns your Windows desktop into a calm canvas of widgets: notes, clock, weather, now playing, calendar, system stats, a file shelf, and a couple dozen more. They sit quietly behind your apps; hit a hotkey to summon and arrange them, hit it again and everything goes click-through.

It just landed on the Microsoft Store, so it's one-click to install and Microsoft-verified (no SmartScreen warnings), and it's free.

Two things in this update people asked for:

• 🎧 An audio device switcher widget — flip between headphones, speakers and mics in one click, without digging through Windows settings.
• 🕐 A clock that scales as you resize it.

DevClip is an open-source clipboard management tool that upgrades your workflow via the ⁠Alt + V⁠ shortcut, built using Golang (Backend) and React + Wails v2 (Frontend). Tailored specifically for developers, it integrates handy offline utilities directly into your clipboard history, including automatic JSON/SQL formatting/minifying, split-view JWT decoding with expiration tracking, two-way Unix timestamp conversion, smart search/filtering, and drag-and-drop pinning. It even includes a local dashboard for usage statistics.
Check out the source code, contribute, or drop a ⭐️ star to support the project at: https://github.com/hieudeptrai196/dev_clip

Swoosh brings macOS Swish-style window management to Windows. Hover a titlebar, then snap, move, and resize windows with simple Precision Touchpad gestures.

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Hey r/ProductivityApps,

I kept noticing the same pattern — meeting ends, open Twitter, and suddenly 20 minutes are gone.

So I built Forca. It's a free open source desktop app that:

- Connects to your Google Calendar or iCal

- Detects when a meeting ends

- Automatically starts a focus zone (blocks distracting

apps and sites)

- Shows a countdown timer so you know how long you have

- Tracks your daily deep work hours and focus score

- Syncs Do Not Disturb on Windows and Mac

No manual setup. You set it once and your calendar does

the rest.

It's completely free and open source (MIT license).

GitHub: https://github.com/3iiik/Forca

Would love any feedback — especially from people who

struggle with the post-meeting slump.

Ctrl+F has worked the same way since 1995: it matches the exact string you type. So if a doc calls it "early-termination charges" and you search "cancellation fee," you get nothing and end up re-reading the whole page.

ctrlQuery fixes that. You type what you mean ("how do I cancel my subscription?") and it highlights the passages on the page that actually match, even when the wording is totally different. A smarter Ctrl+F that understands meaning.

The part I'm proud of: the AI runs entirely in your browser (bge-small-en-v1.5 via transformers.js, about 33MB, cached after the first load). Open the network tab mid-search and you'll see zero outbound requests. No account, no API key, works on a plane.

It also upgrades plain keyword search for free: color-coded OR terms, slash commands like /email and /price that highlight every match on the page, and it even finds text hidden inside collapsed dropdowns that Ctrl+F skips.

Check out ctrlQuery Chrome Web Store! (NO SUBSCRIPTION!) Built it solo, happy to answer anything.

Hey everyone, I’m the developer of PasteNext.

I built it because my clipboard history was getting useful but hard to search. Most clipboard managers are great when you remember the exact keyword, but I often only remember the context:

- “the command I copied yesterday”

- “that link from Chrome last week”

- “the code snippet from Xcode”

- “the image that mentioned natural language search”

So the main feature in PasteNext is SmartSearch: you can search clipboard history in natural language, combining clues like source app, time, content type, and text inside images.

PasteNext supports:

- Text, rich text, and code snippets

- Images

- Files and folders

- Local-first clipboard history

- Auto Pinboard suggestions based on the app you’re working in

- Free version with 100 history items

- Pro monthly or lifetime for unlimited history

It’s now available on the Mac App Store:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pastenext/id6770293306?mt=12

I’d love feedback from people who use clipboard managers heavily, especially developers, writers, and Mac productivity folks. I’m still improving the search experience and real workflow details.