Hey folks, wanted to share the latest update of Steno. Steno is an opensource project for a privacy focused AI notepad that rivals Granola with the added benefit of having opensource code and keeping your data private. No cloud, no usage limits and completely free.

With v0.3.0, you now have the ability to:

1. Query across all your notes across time
2. Have diarised transcripts
3. Have conversational history of all your chats against notes

In our roadmap, we'll be releasing speaker diarisation and live transcription next :)

We have a great community of contributors and always looking for great people to improve and push the boundary on privacy, local LLM and opensource AI.

Codebase @ - https://github.com/ruzin/stenoai
Download @ - https://stenoai.co

Problem

Windows Search has always felt too limited to me.

It can open apps and sometimes find files, but when I actually want to search my PC properly, it usually falls apart.

I want to search and use features like:

- Text inside files, code, and images

- Browser bookmarks and history

- Clipboard history

- Git commits

- Windows settings

- Local commands

- Local agents for Windows

Windows Search is not powerful enough for this workflow.

So I Built OmniSearch

OmniSearch is a fast, lightweight, local-first Windows launcher that opens with:

"Alt + Space"

You can also set your own custom hotkey.

It gives you one search box for your PC.

Instead of only searching apps or basic file names, OmniSearch can search across:

- Apps

- Files and folders

- Content inside files, supporting 50+ extensions

- Image OCR text

- Browser bookmarks and history

- Clipboard history

- Git commits

- Windows settings and Control Panel pages

It also features an AI agent powered by Hermes and includes a powerful clipboard manager that gives you features no other Windows clipboard manager provides.

The goal is simple: Find everything on your PC from one shortcut.

Why is OmniSearch better than Windows Search and other popular launchers?

- Free and open source

- Local-first

- Lightweight

- Designed to run easily on low-end Windows PCs

- Image OCR text search

- Blazing-fast search of content inside files, supporting 50+ extensions

- Blazing-fast search over centralized PC history, including browser history, Git commit history, clipboard history, and file history

- Hermes agents for local Windows tasks and long autonomous tasks

Links

Free and open source.

GitHub: https://github.com/PranshulSoni/omnisearch

Website: https://omnisearch-windows.vercel.app/

Feedback

I am currently maintaining OmniSearch, and honestly, I cannot find and fix every bug alone because building a launcher like this on Windows is genuinely hard.

I would love feedback from people who use Windows every day.

If OmniSearch solves a problem for you too, please consider leaving a star on GitHub.

If you have ideas, find bugs, or want to improve something, feel free to open an issue or contribute to the project.

Your feedback is always appreciated.

I'm continuing the work on the Desktop version of an Social app (video is MacOS but will work the same on Windows).

Should feel very similar to MSN Live Messenger in a way but slightly updated to be more 2026 feeling, minus the AI, tracking, ads and all that stuff!

My question is:

For your applications, do you go to the windows store or download from a website if you have both options? I already applied for MS long long time ago, and I have the feeling Store is better but I would like peoples opinion about downloading please.

Over the past months, I've been working solo on Yukari, a manga, webtoon, and comic reader made specifically for Windows. It started as a personal project because I wanted something that felt native, worked offline, and respected my privacy — no ads, no telemetry, no accounts. Today it's stable, localized in 4 languages, and ready to share.

⭐ Yukari Features

• 📚 Read your own comics — folders with images or CBZ files work out of the box. Full metadata editing and chapter rescanning included.
• 🔌 Plugin system — add community sources to discover and read online. Currently MangaDex, WeebCentral, and MangaKatana — with a public plugin API for anyone who wants to build more.
• 🛡️ 100% private & offline-first — your library stays on your machine. Download chapters and read anywhere, no internet required.
• 🎨 Fluent Design — built with WinUI 3, dark/light theme support, and animations that feel at home on Windows.
• 🌍 Multilingual — interface available in English, Portuguese, Spanish, and Japanese.
• 📖 Flexible reader — RTL, LTR, Vertical reading modes; Fit Width, Fit Height, Fit Screen, and Original Size scaling.
• ⚡ Performance — local SQLite database, background downloads with progress tracking, and a custom image loader with in‑memory caching.

🖥️ The Stack

• .NET 10 + WinUI 3
• SQLite (via Dapper)
• Plugin system using AssemblyLoadContext
• Custom URL-to-image loader with cache, SVG, and CBZ support
• ILRepack for self‑contained plugin DLLs

🔗 Links

1. 🌐 Website: yukari.txgfk.xyz — built with Next.js & Tailwind, inspired by the app's own UI
2. 📥 Download: GitHub Releases
3. 💻 Source: GitHub

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This is a passion project, and I'd love to hear what you think. If you try it out, please drop your feedback, suggestions, or bug reports. And if you're a dev, check out the plugin system — it's designed to be easy to extend. I'd be thrilled to see what the community builds on top of it.

Thanks for reading. I hope Yukari makes your reading experience a little better. 🧡

Hi everyone,

I’ve been working on a small Windows app called NoraBar.

It’s a desktop utility inspired by Dynamic Island-style interfaces, designed to sit at the top of the screen and provide quick interactions. The current version starts with music controls, but I’d like to expand it with more features in the future.

This is still an early release, so I’d love to hear what people think:
What features would you want in this kind of app?
Is the design useful, or does it feel distracting?
Are there any Windows-specific improvements I should consider?

GitHub: https://github.com/mtmtyu/NoraBar

Any feedback is appreciated!
Thanks for reading.

MirrorLayer is a paid Windows application that lets you display any visible part of your screen in separate mirror windows.

This video demonstrates the Multi Mirror feature, which lets you combine up to four different screen regions into a single mirror window and arrange them freely.

A free compatibility check version is available, so you can verify that it works correctly before purchasing.

>Hello!

>This project began as a fun vibe coding Swift app for Mac, but it quickly evolved into a comprehensive learning experience as I aimed to make it cross-platform.

>I completely revamped the application from scratch, this time using Rust and Tuari. It was quite a journey, but I’m excited to share the first stable version with you!

>Additionally, there’s a Firefox extension available for integration, which you can find on the GitHub page.

Features

• Fast segmented downloads powered by aria2 with configurable connections, retries, and speed limits.
• Media extraction with yt-dlp, FFmpeg, and Deno for video/audio links and richer format selection.
• A real Add window for manual, extension-captured, and media downloads, including metadata, duplicate handling, and save-location choices before downloads start.
• Persistent queue management with safe concurrency limits, pause/resume, retry, redownload, sorting, multi-select, and bulk controls.
• Download scheduling with start/stop windows, speed-limiter tools, and optional post-queue actions.
• Smart organization through categories, default folders, per-download overrides, and open/reveal/trash actions.
• Private browser handoff through authenticated local pairing with replay protection and desktop-server proof checks.
• Native desktop integration including tray controls, notifications, completion sounds, sleep prevention, and OS keychain support where available.
• Diagnostics built in with engine health checks, structured logs, and packaged-engine verification.

Credits to Aria2, yt-dlp, FFmpeg, and Deno projects and their contributors that made this all possible.

Github release page: https://github.com/nimbold/Firelink/releases

Firefox-Extension: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/firelink-companion/

Hi r/windowsapps,

I just released TypeWhisper 1.0 for Windows: https://www.typewhisper.com

It is an open-source speech-to-text app for system-wide dictation, file transcription, and text workflows.

The idea is simple: press a hotkey, speak, and insert the final text into whatever app you are using. You can use local transcription models when privacy matters, or configure cloud engines/plugins when speed or accuracy matters more.

A few things it supports today:

• System-wide dictation with hotkeys
• Audio/video file transcription
• Local and cloud transcription engines
• Workflows for cleanup, rewriting, translation, and formatting after transcription
• Searchable transcription history
• Snippets, dictionary terms/corrections, and plugin support
• x64 and ARM64 Windows builds

I tried to make it useful for real daily writing instead of just a demo: notes, messages, GitHub issues, longer text, translation, and app-specific workflows.

Would love honest feedback, especially on first-run setup, local model setup, rough edges, or anything that feels confusing.

I built FastCast, a native Windows screen recorder and simple live streaming app, and I’m looking for beta testers.

It’s for people who want a cleaner, simpler workflow than OBS for basic creator use cases like tutorials, demos, lessons, coaching videos, and casual streaming.

Current features:

• Local MP4 screen recording
• Monitor/window capture
• Desktop audio + microphone capture
• Webcam picture-in-picture
• RTMP/RTMPS streaming with stream keys
• Portable ZIP, no installer
• No telemetry, no accounts, no auto-update

It’s not trying to replace OBS for advanced scenes, plugins, chroma key, or full broadcast production. The goal is a focused single-scene recorder/streamer that feels easier to set up.

Windows 10/11 x64 only right now. Free during beta.

Download / beta page:
https://www.calvinsturm.com/fastcast

Public release repo:
https://github.com/CalvinSturm/FastCast-releases

The most useful feedback would be:

1. Did recording work on your machine?
2. Did desktop audio, mic, and webcam behave correctly?
3. Was anything confusing?
4. Did Windows SmartScreen or the portable ZIP setup feel sketchy?
5. What would make this useful enough to keep installed?

If something breaks, FastCast has a local support bundle option that redacts sensitive info before saving the ZIP.

I’m mainly looking for practical feedback from real Windows setups.

Hey folks,

This tool called SEZOY and figured it's worth sharing. It's basically a boot utility that does USB, PXE, and HTTP booting, but the main selling point is that it can install Windows completely hands‑off. No clicking through language settings, disk selection, partition deletion, or messing with RST drivers. It just figures everything out on its own based on whatever hardware it detects. You don't need to pre‑load storage drivers, wipe old partitions manually, or babysit the installer.

Here's what it does:

· USB boot works like the usual multi‑ISO approach, copy your ISOs to the drive and boot straight from them. No burning, no reformatting for each ISO, no manual menu editing. Simple. Just keep in mind that this mode needs SecureBoot turned off.

· Network boot supports both PXE and HTTP at the same time. No toggling between modes. If you run a shop with mixed clients, this saves a lot of headache.

· SecureBoot works fine if you're booting over the network, as long as the OS itself supports it. Most mainstream ones do Windows, Ubuntu, Mint, Fedora, and their derivatives.

· There's a web dashboard you can access from any device on the same network. Lets you check on clients remotely during installation, kind of like TeamViewer but lighter. You can step in without walking over to the machine.

· After Windows is done, you can set it to automatically install additional software. Pick whatever apps you want during setup, and it'll handle the rest.

Still has a bunch of other stuff I haven't listed yet.

If you've got a spare moment, grab it from the links below and let me know what you think.

One thing to be clear about, this tool doesn't bundle any cracks or keys. It just creates the boot environment. Anything that needs activation afterward is on you to handle legitimately.

Download: https://tekdt.xyz/en/download

Docs: https://tekdt.xyz/en/docs

The Focusing App is now in public beta. Free tier is free forever, no catch, no credit card required. Feedback is welcome but not required.

Every focus tool on the market is a blocklist. Block YouTube, block Reddit, and now you can't reach the tutorial or the one thread you actually need.

The Focusing App doesn't block domains. You describe your intent, what you're working on right now, and AI intercepts and analyzes your network traffic in real time. URLs, page content, feeds, all of it, classified against what you're trying to do. Same site, different session, different verdict.

It works the other way around too. Don't want to describe what you're doing, just what you want gone? Tell it what to filter out and everything else stays open.

Network-level. Not a browser extension. Every browser, every app, every request on your machine. Can't be bypassed.

Paid tiers with additional daily quota ranges from 14.99 to 29.99

thefocusingapp.com or in short: focusing.app

This is a public beta, so expect rough edges. If something breaks or feels off, let us know. Every bug report and piece of feedback helps make this better.

Got feature ideas, complaints, or just want to see what we're building? Come hang out at r/TheFocusingApp.

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Edit: As of now, the app is only available within the following regions: USA, Canada, United Kingdom and the EU.

if you would like the app to be available in your region, please comment here or request it on r/TheFocusingApp by creating a post. We would love to expand access to your region!

Fala galera, criei um app estilo Dynamic Island pro windows e linux, ele funciona como um navegador web, nele você pode abrir youtube, youtube music , tudo sem anuncio... consegue abrir o notas e etc... se puderem dar uma chance pro meu app ficarei grato!

obs: esse video fiz com IA, é isso ai do video mas um pouco diferente.... deem uma olhada melhor em

https://www.notch-app.com.br/

Built a free Windows automation tool called Trigr. Looking for beta testers ahead of full launch so we can break and improve things. Some polishing still to be done, but all core functions work fantastically.

usetrigr.com

What it does: visual keyboard GUI, click any key, assign an action. Tray app, fires globally across Windows.

• Hotkeys (single press, double press, modifier combos)
• Macro sequences (keystrokes, app launches, waits, clicks, AHK steps)
• Text expansions (with fill-in prompts and variant selection)
• Clipboard history (Ctrl+Shift+V, search and auto-tagging)
• App-specific profiles that auto-switch on window focus
• AHK Script Runner (v1 and v2, no separate AHK install needed)
• Click at Position macro step
• Analytics dashboard with time-saved breakdown

Built in Rust and Tauri. 10MB installer, 20 to 50MB RAM, no Electron. Auto-updates. x64 and ARM64.

Free during beta, no sign-up. Pro tier is opt-in via a key request, email and I'll send one. Core features are free forever and that won't change.

Civil engineer, not a developer so this has been built with Claude because my team couldn't learn AutoHotkey, but christ if it hasn't turned into the best tool I've used in ages. Honest ask: I think this thing is properly useful. I built it for mine and my team's specific needs though, and I'm too close to it to see if anything's broken. Looking for testers willing to actually use it for a week or two and tell me where it falls over.

Thanks very much!

I built a Windows utility that puts system monitoring, diagnostics, and PC health tools in one place 💻⚡

Hey everyone,

I've been working on SysInfo Pro, a Windows utility designed to help users monitor, diagnose, and manage their PCs from a modern dashboard.

Features include:

📊 Live CPU & RAM monitoring

💾 Disk health checks

🚀 Startup app manager

🔍 Driver checker

🌐 Network diagnostics tools

⚙️ Process management tools

📈 System health reports

🖥️ Clean and responsive interface

My goal was to create a tool that's useful for both everyday users and tech enthusiasts without feeling cluttered or complicated.

I'd love to hear your thoughts:

- What feature stands out most?

- What would you add next?

- Any UI or usability improvements?

Available on Microsoft Store:

https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9mxsf61b2t3b?hl=en-US&gl=IN

Note: Screenshots and visuals shown may not reflect the latest version of the app.

Feedback, suggestions, and criticism are all welcome. Thanks for taking a look! 🚀

I'd like to introduce you an app I have been crafting with lots of love and passion: Pets Therapy - Desktop Pets.

Pets Therapy turns your desktop into an adventure with virtual pixel pets!

75+ adorable pixel desktop pets are waiting for you!

Cat, Labrador, Lion, Panda, Elephant, Pomeranian or Llama – pick your favourite and watch them come to life on your screen.

Your daily stress-relief break for the mind.

No wonder: just a short moment watching your virtual pet stroll across your screen, nap, snack – or get abducted by a UFO – is enough to clear your head and carry on with a smile.

Memes, pixel art nostalgia and a relaxing desktop experience.

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

For the past few months I've been building a Windows app called Yay PDF.

The goal was simple: make a fast PDF toolbox that doesn't require uploading your files to the cloud for every little task. Everything runs locally on your PC, and it's designed to launch quickly without feeling bloated.

Current features:

• Merge PDFs
• Split PDFs
• Read PDFs
• Compress PDFs
• Add watermarks
• Lock/Unlock PDFs

I'm still actively developing it, so there are plenty more features coming.

To celebrate the launch, it's free right now for anyone who wants to try it.

Microsoft Store:
https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9nt16cgn5dgk

I'd really appreciate honest feedback—good or bad. If there's a PDF feature you wish existed or something that annoys you about existing PDF software, let me know. I'm building this based on real user feedback rather than trying to cram in every feature imaginable.

FireHawk Collector is a free Windows app for cataloging, organizing, and managing your sports card collection. Snap a photo and AI automatically fills in player, year, set, parallel, condition, and estimated value. Also includes bulk upload, a wishlist/set tracker, dashboard analytics, and a full trade show/vendor POS mode for card shows.

100% private — your collection is stored locally on your PC, no account or subscription required. AI features are optional.

🎥 Watch the walkthrough: https://youtu.be/ijWeow8akVc

📥 Download free on the Microsoft Store: https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9N1CQVNMJ38V