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.

A Windows tool for working on clipboard content before it lands: clear the formatting, rewrite the text by rule, or run a macro over it. Free and professional share one installer, syncing between machines belongs to the paid side, and the trial falls back to free rather than stopping.

The traditional route means opening the file manager, guessing which folder, clicking down through levels. Listary compresses that into one gesture: press the hotkey, type a few letters, press enter, and you are there.

PowerToys is a free, open-source set of utilities published for Windows by the people who make the system: window layouts, batch renaming, a colour picker and a launcher, all in one install. Version 0.101 arrived on 25 August 2026 with Window Hopper, which keeps the window switcher inside the current application, a compact command palette, and text transformation done by a small local model.

Sogou Input Method covers Windows, macOS and Linux with pinyin, voice, handwriting and shape-based input, and a dictionary that syncs online. Recent versions add writing services invoked while typing, a cursor assistant inside document editors, text-selection explain and translate, and clipboard sync between devices.

An old free clipboard enhancer that keeps a record of everything copied, text and pictures and files alike, opens a list on a shortcut so any of it can be pasted in one go, and turns repeated pasting into a macro. It needs no installation, sits in a folder you can carry, and almost every part of it can be adjusted.

A keyboard from a company built on speech technology: hold the voice key and words appear as they are spoken, with mixed Chinese and English, several dialects and automatic punctuation. The 2026 releases add an assistant and a shelf of custom shortcuts.

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.

Flow Launcher 2.1.3 is a free open source file search and app launcher for Windows. Alt+Space brings up one box that finds files, starts programs and takes plugins.

Everything 1.4.1.1032 searches file names on Windows through a local NTFS index, so results appear as you type. The installer is small, resource use is light and it runs fully offline.

A free Windows launcher that opens a hierarchical menu next to the mouse pointer on a middle click or a hotkey, holding folders, documents, applications and web links, with nested submenus and support for third-party file managers.

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.

An open-source Windows utility that turns the middle button into a scrolling anchor in any window: move away from the anchor to go faster, release to glide, with five acceleration curves and settings remembered per application.

A desktop input method built to run with no networking capability at all: the dictionary is local, speech recognition happens on the machine, and a clipboard manager, a screenshot tool and a configurable candidate window come folded in.

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.