A cross platform input method engine rather than a single app. Weasel on Windows, Squirrel on macOS and ibus-rime on Linux are the official front ends, and dozens of schemas from pinyin to Cangjie to Cantonese can be mounted on top. Everything is configured in YAML, and dictionaries stay on the machine.

Maccy turns the single slot clipboard of macOS into a searchable archive: it lives in the menu bar, opens with a hotkey, filters history as you type and pastes on enter, keeps everything on the machine, and stays free and open under an MIT licence.

Wox 2.4.4 is a cross-platform launcher for Windows, macOS and Linux, with clipboard history, a calculator, conversion tools and plugins written in Python or Node.js.

A free and open-source desktop feed reader for RSS, Atom and JSON feeds that also synchronises with several online reading services, filters articles through user-written JavaScript, plays podcasts offline and fetches full article text into a local cache.

A local-first recorder that watches which applications and pages you use, assembles them into one continuous timeline, and writes a structured daily report you can export, with optional AI assistance that can be switched off entirely.

TextGO collects the unglamorous half of writing into one place: editing, converting between formats, replacing across many files at once, and keeping the result in the cloud. Free, open source, and available on both Windows and macOS, with shared editing for small teams.