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.

LinkAndroid gives an Android phone a place to stand on the computer: a single app can be mirrored into its own window without taking the phone over, and files, apps, recording and a terminal all sit in one interface, with repeat work handed to Python scripts and AI.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

zTasker automates small Windows chores with more than a clock: a folder that changes, a processor that gets busy, a window that appears, a key combination pressed. Free, offline, and small enough to carry on a stick.

Super Productivity merges three things that usually live in three programs: a task list, a calendar of when the work will actually happen, and a record of how long it took. It runs offline, needs no account, and is built for one person rather than a team.

Tuboshu is an open-source Electron tool that binds global keyboard shortcuts to actions inside web applications and gives a web service its own window, with simple scripted automation on top.

Everything is a free, open-source file search tool for Windows that keeps a live index of the disk, so a search by name returns results in under a second.