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.

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.

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.

One input box holds apps, files, windows, snippets and a store of thousands of extensions, and the free and free-team tiers stay open to organisations without an expiry date. The paid tiers buy AI credits rather than features.

A plugin-based desktop workspace: press one shortcut and a small input box appears, matching whatever you type against translation, file search, clipboard history, batch renaming and a hundred more plugins. Runs on Windows, macOS and Linux; the core is free, a few advanced items need a membership.

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 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.

An input method for Chinese text that leans on context rather than a fixed word list: it predicts the next phrase, accepts speech as well as keys, and lets the appearance and the shortcut scheme be changed. It runs on Windows and macOS.

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.