Directory
Software and Online Tools is the everyday toolbox of the directory. Linux and macOS software covers desktop apps, package sources, and utilities for both systems. Browser tools and extensions come next, with add-ons that change how pages look or work. Text and writing tools hold editors, grammar helpers, and formatting utilities, while text editors and formatting lists the code-focused editors and their plugins. System utilities covers disk, file, and maintenance tools, and media players and servers collect apps for playing and streaming your own files. File utilities, hardware and diagnostics, notes and knowledge management, PDF tools, and RSS readers fill out the rest of the list. Many entries are small projects from individual developers, so support and update schedules vary. Read the listing and check the licence before you install anything you plan to use at work.
HelixNotes is a local markdown note-taking app that keeps notes as plain .md files in a folder on the user's disk. It offers a rich editor with a source mode, a tasks view collecting checklist items, and a graph built from wiki links. It is free and open source under AGPL-3.0, with no account, and runs on Linux, Windows, macOS, Android, iPhone and iPad.
HopToDesk is free and secure remote desktop software for Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, iOS, and Raspberry Pi, used for remote support, control, monitoring, screen share, file transfer, and live chat. It is free for personal and business use, with open source code and end-to-end encrypted traffic. A separate dashboard adds device management, ticketing, and white-label clients on paid plans.
HydraPaper is a wallpaper management application. It manages wallpaper collections with folders that can be enabled or disabled, and marks favorites for quick access. Wallpapers can be set as zoomed, centered or fitted, with a black or blurred background, and random wallpapers can be set quickly. It is written in Python 3 and GTK and released under the GPL3 license.
A free online OCR service that converts scanned documents and images into editable text. It requires no registration or software installation; users upload files and receive text. It is based on the Tesseract OCR engine and supports 122 recognition languages and fonts. After processing, text can be downloaded, edited in Google Docs or copied.
OSBoxes provides ready-to-use virtual machine images in VDI, VMDK and VHD formats for VirtualBox and VMware. The site offers images of Linux and Unix systems that can be downloaded and run as a virtual machine on a host system, avoiding installation alongside the main operating system.
poll.ly (branded as pollly) is a free online tool for polling and brainstorming that does not require user registration. It is designed to help users gather ideas and opinions in real time, and is described as fool-proof.
r/Translator is a Reddit thread or community post with discussion, updates, or shared references.
searx.oloke.xyz is a search instance or metasearch resource for private web discovery.
Guides is a GitHub repository holding a collection of succinct guides. Topics include setting environment variables, avoiding accidental file deletion, installing npm packages globally without sudo on macOS and Linux, running a Node.js server alongside Apache on Linux, launching an app at startup on macOS, using npm through a corporate proxy, running Docker commands without sudo on Linux, and backing up app settings on macOS. The work is published under a public domain dedication.
TextEditors helps clean, compare, sort, transform, count, or format text in the browser.
Writing Tools helps clean, compare, sort, transform, count, or format text in the browser.
Sixteen Colors is an online archive of ANSI and ASCII artpacks released through the BBS artscene since the early 1990s. It also offers tagging, search, uploads, shared drawing servers and a SAUCE editor.
7Themes helps customize desktop wallpapers, themes, backgrounds, or visual system appearance.
Agenda is a note-taking app for Apple platforms that integrates calendar events into notes and organizes notes into a timeline. Notes can be dated and linked to calendar events or placed On the Agenda, and the editor supports tags, links, tables, lists and checklists. The app is free with no time limits, with Premium features available, and requires macOS 12, iOS 15 or iPadOS 15 or higher.
AnyConv is an online file converter that supports documents, images, videos, audio, and more. No software installation is needed; files are uploaded to the site for conversion. The listing states a maximum upload size of 100 MB and that uploaded and converted files are automatically deleted after 1 hour.
AutoHotkey is a free, open-source scripting language for Windows used to create scripts for tasks such as form fillers, auto-clicking, and macros. It defines hotkeys for the keyboard and mouse, remaps keys or buttons, and supports text macros and abbreviation expansion. Licensed under the GNU GPLv2.
bottom is a system utility for Windows, hardware checks, cleanup, process control, or desktop customization.
bypass.lc is an ad-link bypasser for supported services including Linkvertise, LootLabs, Rekonise, shorteners and paste routes. Users paste a link and complete a check to reach a clean destination, with a clean interface, clear status and fast route checks.
Caracal Club is a video tool for encoding, conversion, repair, playback, editing, or processing workflows.
Chronicler is a free, offline worldbuilding tool and private wiki for writers and tabletop role-playing game masters. It runs on Windows, macOS, and Linux and saves every character, place, and faction as a linked page stored locally as plain Markdown files. It includes wiki-style infoboxes, templates, and wikilinks, and requires no subscription, cloud, or account.
Claws Mail is an email client and news reader based on GTK+. It offers multiple accounts, threaded display, filtering and MIME attachments, plus Usenet news reading and posting, with SSL over POP3, SMTP, IMAP4rev1 and NNTP. Messages are managed in the standard MH format, and additional functionality is provided by plugins. It is distributed under the GPL.
Crawly is a web crawler by Diffbot that spiders and extracts complete structured data from an entire website. It automatically extracts the correct content from any web page without rules, and extracted fields can be downloaded in CSV or as JSON.
CrushImage is a browser-based image compression tool. It reduces JPG, PNG, WebP, and HEIC file sizes locally, without uploading files to a server. The site offers options for target file sizes, conversion to WebP or JPEG, resizing dimensions, and before/after quality comparison. HEIC files from iPhones are converted to JPG during compression.
DMDE is a data recovery tool for disks that can recover directory structure and files in some complex cases. It recovers file types such as photos, videos and documents from HDDs, SSDs, USB drives and memory cards. The free edition recovers up to 4000 files from a chosen directory.
