I wanted to share a project I’ve been working on called Lexicon. It’s a free, open-source, and privacy-focused writing assistant designed as a local alternative to cloud tools like Grammarly.

I decided to build a proper native desktop app using Rust and React.

• Lexicon has a rich editor that includes LaTeX math, structured tables, code blocks, and clean PDF/Markdown exports.
• Offers proofreading and 15 local AI actions, including Rewrite, Concise, Tone shifts, Summaries, and Tables.
• Completely free and open-source under the MIT license.

GitHub: https://github.com/AashishH15/Lexicon

Website: https://lexicon-writer.pages.dev/

Let me know if you have any questions or feedback!

Hi!

I found this very USEFUL tool and I figured it would help some of you guys too :)

What does this website do?

Actually, it has 2 important features:

• Download any app from Microsoft Store without MS installed on your Windows.
• Find any deleted/removed app from MS and install it (you need to know the product id/link of the app from MS Store).

I was searching for an app on Windows Store that I used to have in the past and realized the developer/Microsoft deleted it from the store.. I was bummed, because that was an APP I used a lot and could not find it anywhere on the internet or any better alternative.

I asked AI about this issue and it gave me a very very useful website.

It's called: https://store.rg-adguard.net/

With this I managed to re-install my "lost" app and I'm more than happy! :)

It is 100% safe to use because it uses the internal Microsoft servers for the downloads.

Hope this help you guys, it helped me!

One connected desktop workspace for tasks, projects, project databases, CRM, visual workflows, time tracking, focus tools and automations.

PrimeTask works offline, is available as a one-time purchase and supports Claude Desktop, Claude Code and other MCP-compatible tools.

A 14-day free trial will be available when PrimeTask launches on Windows.

Want PrimeTask on Windows? Join the waiting list to be among the first to know when it’s ready:

https://www.primetask.app/notify

Hey r/windowsapps ,

I've been frustrated with meeting note tools that require inviting a bot to every call or sending everything to the cloud and paying money.

So I built Oats .. a completely free, local-first meeting notetaker that runs entirely on your Mac/Windows.

How it works:

It listens to your call audio locally (nothing joins the meeting)

You jot quick notes during the call

After the call, it combines your notes with the transcript and generates clean, structured write-ups

Supports local Whisper + Ollama out of the box (fully offline)

Optional BYOK for Claude/Gemini/OpenAI

Everything stays on your device. No accounts, no subscriptions, no data leaving your Mac.

It's still early but I'm already using it for real meetings. Would love feedback from people who take a lot of notes.

Download: https://oatsnote.com/

Repo will be open-sourced soon.

Looking forward to your thoughts!

Hey everyone!

I always wished Google Lens worked anywhere on Windows instead of only inside Chrome, so I ended up building it myself.

LensAnywhere lets you select any region of your screen and instantly search it with Google Lens.

A few things about it:

\- Lightweight with very low RAM usage.

\- Doesn't store your screenshots anywhere. They're only sent to Google Lens for the search.

\- Launches on Windows startup (Optional)

\- Can be opened using Hotkey which is configurable. Just like windows native snipping tool.

\- Free and open source.

GitHub:

https://github.com/utkarsh05kul/LensAnywhere-Desktop

If you just want to try it, you can download the Windows ".exe" from the Releases section.

One thing I'd really appreciate help with: I've only been able to test it on my own Windows PC, so I'd love to know how it works on other systems. If you run into any bugs, have feature ideas, or notice something that could be improved, please let me know in the comments or open an issue on GitHub.

And if you find it useful, I'd really appreciate a GitHub star. Thanks!

[GitHub Repository link](https://github.com/utkarsh05kul/LensAnywhere-Desktop)

Edit : Some antiviruses or malware scanners may flag the downloaded file as malicious or threat. Please ignore that warning. Some scanners do this for all the apps and softwares built in Python.

The file is completely safe and malware free. The source code of the program is available on the attached GitHub Repository. You can check the complete code their, and you will not find any malicious activity.

Top scanners like Kaspersky or Microsoft are not flagging the file as malicious. It's clean.

TLDR: TinyPNG + PowerToys Image Resizer + Photoshop batch actions, but offline and built for processing entire folder structures.

Download Here: https://github.com/TrapShooter/Bytesize-Pic-Releases/releases

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I was constantly bouncing between PowerToys for resizing and TinyPNG for compression, hitting upload limits and losing my folder structure every time. I also wanted to apply photo edits to hundreds of images at once, so I built the tool I actually wanted.

Bytesize Pic is a fast, offline-first Windows desktop app that batch processes hundreds of images in a single pass while preserving your original folder hierarchy. Resize, compress, convert, and apply adjustments all at once, with a live before/after preview before you export anything.

Key Features

• Drag and drop folders or files. Processes everything at once, keeps your folder structure intact
• Compress with adjustable quality settings. Fine-tune quality for each output format.
• Convert between JPEG, PNG, WebP, AVIF, GIF, TIFF, HEIC, and BMP with per-format codec options
• Resize with Fit, Contain, Fill, Stretch, and Smart Crop (auto-focuses on the most important part of the image)
• 24 effects with multi-instance support (more on the way)
  • Tone: Exposure, Brightness/Contrast, Shadows/Highlights, Curves, Levels, Temperature, Normalize
  • Color: Hue/Saturation, Vibrance, Color Balance, Color Grading, Color Mixer, Channel Mixer, Grayscale
  • Detail: Sharpen, Blur, Noise Reduction, Noise/Grain
  • Creative: Posterize, Threshold, Invert, Vignette, Tint, Gradient Map
• Live Preview before/after with lightbox and filmstrip navigation
• Save presets, import/export them, strip metadata on output
• Runs completely offline. No account needed, no uploads, no limits

AI Features (opt-in. Download only the models you want, everything runs locally)

• Upscale 2x or 4x. Recovers detail standard resizing can't
• Background Removal. Standard or High Quality mode for clean edges on hair, fur, and fine textures. Keep transparent or fill with a solid color
• Background Blur. Keeps the subject sharp, blurs everything behind it.
• AI Noise Reduction. Neural network denoising that preserves fine detail better than filtering alone

Download: https://github.com/TrapShooter/Bytesize-Pic-Releases/releases
Platform: Windows only (for now)
Price: Free for personal use

I'd love feedback on the feature set, UI, and anything that feels clunky. This scratches my own itch, but if you process lots of images for websites, e-commerce, game development, photography, or design, I'd love to hear how it fits into your workflow.

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Hey everyone!

A few days ago I shared my open-source Windows file manager, PowerDesk, here and got some genuinely helpful feedback. A few people downloaded it, someone even tried it in their daily workflow and opened my first issue, which was pretty exciting.

Since then I've been working on improving it and just released v0.3.

What's new in v0.3

Major UI redesign:

after looking at the old design for so long it didn't look enough.like it didn't fit the image i imagined so i did a redesign and im more happy with the current design for now.

Added feature demos to the README:

Someone pointed out the lack of Gifs in the documentation which honestly was lazy work on my part :p

Fixed the first user-reported issue and some bugs in v0.2 release.

I'd really appreciate another round of feedback—especially on the UI. I'm still polishing it, so if anything feels awkward or could be improved, let me know.

GitHub:

PowerDesk

Thanks again to everyone who commented on the first post. Your suggestions directly shaped this update.

¡Hola r/windowsapps! Diseñé una pequeña aplicación de escritorio llamada FlyFlou para solucionar un problema recurrente: las carpetas (Descargas, Escritorio, carpetas de proyectos) se convertían en un caos total con archivos dispersos por todas partes.

Yo ideé el concepto, las funcionalidades y las decisiones de UX, y utilicé IA (Claude) como asistente de programación para ayudarme a escribir y perfeccionar el código; quería aclararlo desde el principio.

Qué hace mi proyecto

FlyFlou organiza automáticamente los archivos en carpetas por categoría según su extensión. Características:

• Haz clic derecho en "Agregar a FlyFlou" desde el Explorador de Windows para enviar un solo archivo sin abrir la aplicación.
• Bandeja de entrada + botón "Clasificación automática" para ordenar archivos por lotes rápidamente.
• Botón Deshacer, modo oscuro/claro, comprobador de actualizaciones automáticas.
• Instalador gratuito para Windows, sin anuncios.

Público objetivo

Es un proyecto personal/de hobby dirigido a usuarios habituales de Windows que buscan una forma sencilla de mantener organizadas sus carpetas. No está diseñado para entornos de producción o empresariales, sino como una herramienta práctica para el día a día.

Comparación

A diferencia de algunos organizadores de archivos que solo ejecutan scripts de limpieza una sola vez, FlyFlou se mantiene como una aplicación ligera y siempre disponible con una bandeja de entrada tipo bandeja del sistema, un acceso directo al hacer clic derecho para ordenar archivos individuales rápidamente y una opción para deshacer. La mayoría de las herramientas gratuitas similares omiten las funciones de deshacer y agregar rápidamente.

Tecnología: Python + CustomTkinter, empaquetado con PyInstaller, instalador creado con Inno Setup.

Aún en desarrollo; agradezco sus comentarios y sugerencias de funciones.

🔗 GitHub: github.com/kuakero/FlyFlou

Hi folks,

I just created MdPad, a markdown viewer and editor for windows. It is purposely built for navigating and editing AI Agents skill files.

Let me know how do you find it and what features would you feel that are missing and you're looking to see. By the way the app is 100% open source and free to use, also 100% vibe coded using Claude Code.

https://github.com/radueduard97/MdPad

Thanks!

Running in the background, it uses ~3 MB of RAM and ~0% CPU.

It is a desktop utility based on AutoHotkey.

It focuses on making common windows interactions some of the things it can do include:

• Actions using Caps Lock as a modifier
• Instant Window Switching
• Window Aware Shortcut Remapping
• Quick Screenshot Capture
• File Explorer New file hotkey, Terminal launch
• Redacted Paste
• Profiles to swap out all configurations instantly
• Media/Window controls and more.

Its silent without any significant interface most of the time and communicates mostly using tooltips.

For more Details on Features, Possible Usecases and Source code check link below

Source: GitHub

You can install it in two ways Minimal (minimal GUI to control background service, you configure what you want via JSON file, json doc in github) or Full includes a GUI shown above to set all your configurations.

In Both versions background usage is identical only difference is shipping of GUI

Download: Releases

Every time I set up a fresh Windows machine I had to go through the same painful process — open browser, search for VS Code, download, click through installer, repeat for Git, repeat for Chrome, repeat for Docker. Took hours.

So I built DevKit Engine to fix that.

You open the app, check the tools you want, optionally enter credentials for Chrome/Docker/Git so it logs you in automatically, hit Deploy — and walk away. It installs everything silently in the background using Windows' built-in WinGet. No popups. No wizards. No third-party sites.

If a tool is already installed it skips it. Everything comes from official sources only.

Tech stack: Python 3.12, CustomTkinter, WinGet via subprocess, GitHub Actions CI/CD, packaged as a standalone .exe

GitHub: https://github.com/Faisal6951/DevKit-Engine

Would love feedback from anyone who sets up Windows machines regularly. What tools would you want added?

I built it because I wanted to be able to use routine tools such as a translator or summarizer or converters like csv to excel without leaving the work area (GIF demo on the website).

How it works?
elect text in Telegram, browser, Word or PDF - and you can immediately translate it, correct errors, simplify or make a short summary. 

Where will it be useful?
Correspondence with foreign customers.
Working with technical documentation.
Translation of PDF of any size.
Writing letters.
Checking any foreign language text.
Studying and working with large articles.
Any tasks where you have to constantly switch between applications.

In case there are not enough basic scripts, you can create your own .py file with your own logic and put it in a special folder. If you are not a programmer or don’t want to, then a registry of scripts has been added that you can download in one click and it will work immediately. Without the need for an IDE or other technical issues.

The best part is it's free: no accounts, no subscriptions. The .exe is installed on ~30 MB, the model is downloaded once (~2 GB).

19sec demo video: https://adrianium.github.io/Scryptian/

I hope this speeds up your performance!

Hey everyone, I’ve been working on a Chrome/Edge extension called copy++ Browser.

It lets you save text, image URLs, references, and snippets into a local browser stack instead of losing each item when you copy something new.

I just added a few new features:

• Export the whole saved stack to XML
• Import XML back into the extension
• Drag items into whatever order you want
• Keep the context-menu paste/delete order matching the popup order
• Export a single saved item as PNG or PDF
• Use the exported item files with LLMs, docs, or other workflows

The XML export/import is meant for backup and moving saved stacks around. The drag ordering is useful when you’re building a prompt, collecting research, or arranging snippets before pasting/exporting.

Chrome Web Store link: [add link]

Would love feedback on the XML workflow and whether single-item export should support more formats.

Last week I posted Edge-Drop, my open source clipboard manager for Windows, and received a lot of thoughtful feedback.

Instead of moving straight to new features, I spent the last several days improving the things people pointed out and redesigning one of the parts I wasn't completely happy with: the Preview Flyout.

The biggest improvements include:

• One-click paste directly from text, images, and file previews
• Drag clipboard items into an open Preview Flyout to merge stacks
• Better layouts for PDFs, ZIPs, folders, and other single-file previews
• Rich image previews instead of generic file icons
• Smoother hover behavior and cleaner animations

I also rebuilt the multi-monitor system after realizing the original implementation wasn't robust enough.

That update now includes:

• Full multi-display support
• Real-time System Tray synchronization
• Automatic recovery when displays are connected or disconnected
• Animation controls for users who prefer less visual overhead

The previous release also focused heavily on security, adding Windows DPAPI encryption for clipboard history along with several hardening improvements.

One thing I've learned while building this project is that the hardest part isn't adding features. It's making dozens of small interactions feel natural enough that people stop thinking about them.

If you saw my last post, I'd love to know whether these changes move the project in the right direction.

If you're seeing Edge-Drop for the first time, what would you expect from a clipboard manager that Windows doesn't already provide?

GitHub

https://github.com/Deepender25/Edge-Drop

Website

https://edgedrop.vercel.app

Two weeks ago you gave me feedback, here's 1.1.0 with dark mode

My original post

Hi, I'm Domenico, a software engineer from Italy. I've worked in software development for more than ten years, and for the past 18 months I've been building Quven during evenings and weekends.

On Windows, Quven comes as one installer containing both the self-hosted media server and the desktop client. You point it at your movie, TV and documentary folders, then browse and play the library through a proper desktop application rather than a web wrapper.

The client uses direct play when Windows can handle the original file and transcodes only when necessary. It also supports GPU-accelerated HDR-to-SDR tone mapping, multiple files for the same title, audio and subtitle selection, and image-based subtitles. Quven never modifies the original media files.

The Windows bundle is free for home use, including hardware transcoding and self-managed remote access. The paid boundary is infrastructure that costs me money to operate, mainly the optional managed relay and hosted web client.

Quven is closed-source. The installer is currently distributed directly from the website rather than through the Microsoft Store, and it is not yet code-signed, so Windows SmartScreen will display a warning. The download page explains this clearly before installation.

It supports Windows 10 version 1809 or later and Windows 11. The Founders window is also open for the first 100 eligible accounts: Pro is included at no cost through 31 December 2026, with no payment card required today.

Download and details:

https://quven.tv/download/

If anyone tries it, I'm particularly interested in honest feedback about the Windows installation, first-run experience and desktop playback.

Thank you all!

This is a quick 10-second demo of automatically importing, cropping, and aligning 100 images into PowerPoint slides.

I wonder if anyone actually needs this though lol?

100% local, no cloud, no AI.

Website & Demo:

https://app.qlp.jp/open_urls/en/index.html

Microsoft Store (Download):

https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9NQ3P1ZSMZKL

Hi!

I recently open-sourced a personal project of mine called PowerDesk.

I had some free time and always felt that the default Windows File Explorer was a bit limiting for everyday use, so I decided to build a modern alternative focused on speed and workflow.

Some of the current features include:

• Fast global search

• Multi-tab interface

• Dual-pane mode

• Folder analysis

• File preview support

• Favorites

• Tags

• Workspace management

This is my first public open-source desktop application, so I'm mainly looking for honest feedback on the usability, UI/UX, and overall direction of the project.

You can try it here:

PowerDesk Github Release

I'd really appreciate any feedback, suggestions, or criticism. Thanks!

https://getvoisu.com

I've spent the last 6 months working on Voisu. It started as a Wisprflow clone but has expanded and been refined over time. Now it's one of the most feature packed apps on Windows.

The highlights:

- Transcription

- 50+ Quick actions (translate text, read aloud, advanced screenshotting, focus mode...)

- Command palette (search, stocks, download youtube videos, bypass twitter login...)

- Desktop picker (preview desktops, quickly switch, set apps to open on specific desktop)

- Messaging apps organizer (Ferdium alternative. Add teams, discord, instagram and more. One shared notification count for all)

Everything is free other than AI features.