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Claude AI
Anthropic's assistant turned work surface: memory, artifacts, docs and slides, plus bundled Claude Code on paid plans.
Perplexity AI
An answer engine that cites its sources: search-first AI for research you can check line by line.
Google Gemini AI
Google's AI assistant with frontier chat, image and video generation, Deep Research and deep Workspace integration.
NotebookLM
Google's source-grounded research notebook: answers come only from your documents, plus audio overviews on demand.
DeepSeek
The AI lab that reset price expectations: a free chat app, a cheap API, and open weights you can run locally.
Obsidian
Markdown knowledge base with linking and graph view — your notes stay as plain local files
Motion
Motion — a project manager and calendar that argues your schedule should assemble itself: tasks carry deadlines and dura
Make.com
Make — a visual automation platform that organizes work as scenarios: a canvas where triggers, filters, and app modules
Microsoft To Do
The free task app built into your Microsoft account, with My Day planning and deep Outlook and Teams ties.
LibreOffice
Free open-source office suite - Writer, Calc, Impress - as the Microsoft Office alternative
tmux terminal
The terminal multiplexer that keeps sessions alive: windows, panes and detach-attach that outlive SSH drops.
Vim editor
The ubiquitous modal editor: decades of keystroke efficiency, already installed on nearly every machine you SSH into.
Cursor
AI-first code editor built on VS Code with an assistant wired into every editing action
GNU Emacs
The extensible, self-documenting GNU editor: a Lisp-programmable workspace for text, Org-mode planning and Magit git.
n8n
Fair-code workflow automation you can self-host, with AI agent nodes and deep API control
Kodi
The open-source home theater hub that turns any box into a media center - what it plays depends on what you add.
Jellyfin
Free self-hosted media server that streams your movie, show and music library to any device
Gitea
Gitea — the free, open-source, self-hosted Git platform behind a lot of private DevOps: repositories, issues, pull reque
Paperless-ngx
Self-hosted document archive that OCRs your scans and makes every paper searchable
OBS Studio
Open-source studio for live streaming and screen recording with scene-based composition
CapCut
Free all-round video editor from ByteDance that dominates short-form editing on mobile and desktop
Audacity
Free open-source audio editor and recorder for podcasts, music and quick cleanup jobs
Final Cut Pro
Apple's magnetic-timeline editor: one purchase for Mac power, with an iPad companion that rethinks touch editing.
Blender
Free open-source 3D creation suite covering modeling, sculpting, animation and rendering
Wondershare Filmora
Filmora — Wondershare's consumer video editor, pitched as the accessible middle: real timeline editing, a deep effects l
Luminar Neo
An AI-first photo editor built around one-click sky replacement and portrait fixes - now in a visible product transition.
OPNsense
Free open-source firewall and router OS for building a serious home or office gateway
Cloudflare Tunnel
Outbound-only tunnel that exposes local services through Cloudflare without open ports
Parsec remote desktop
Remote desktop with game-streaming latency: free for one 4K60 display; paid tiers add multi-monitor and richer color.
Sunshine game streaming
The open-source game-stream host that replaced NVIDIA GameStream: your PC plays, every Moonlight client receives.
Headscale
Headscale — an open-source, self-hosted implementation of the Tailscale control server: the coordination brain of a Wire
Ship to production
From a commit to a running service: containers, CI, config and the cluster tools that hold it together.
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Design without cloud
Illustration, audio and video work that runs offline - no upload, no subscription, no queue.
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Local-first notes
Note apps and research tools that keep your writing on your own disk instead of a server you don't control.
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Pritunl
Pritunl — an open-source VPN server with unusual range: one self-hosted box speaks OpenVPN, WireGuard, and IPsec, hands
DeepBrain AI
DeepBrain AI sells one idea executed end to end: AI Studios, a browser studio that turns a written script into a finishe
You.com
You.com began as an AI answer engine -- a Google alternative that put sources, apps and model outputs into the results p
Kagi search
Kagi — search you pay for, and that is the whole point: no ads, no tracker-shaped ranking, results you control.
Grammarly
Grammarly — the writing checker that lives everywhere you type: browser extension, desktop and mobile apps, inside Word
Genspark
Genspark wants to be the one subscription that replaces several: an AI workspace where agents handle research and tasks,
DeepL translator
DeepL — the translator many people keep open in a second tab: paste text or drop a file, and the output reads like a per
Consensus AI research
Consensus — an AI research engine that answers questions with evidence from peer-reviewed papers rather than blog posts.
Termius
Termius — a cross-platform SSH client built like a productivity app: hosts live in groups, connections open with one cli
Tabby terminal
Tabby — a free, open-source terminal that treats the shell window as a modern app: tabs and split panes that remember wh
Royal TS
Royal TS — a desktop control room for remote connections: RDP, VNC, SSH, file transfer, and web pages all live in one tr
MobaXterm
MobaXterm — an enhanced terminal for Windows with an X11 server, a tabbed SSH client, and a toolbox of network utilities
Headscale
Headscale — an open-source, self-hosted implementation of the Tailscale control server: the coordination brain of a Wire
FileZilla
FileZilla — the free, open-source FTP solution that has outlived every trend in file transfer: a dual-pane client that d
StreamYard
StreamYard — a live streaming studio that runs in the browser: choose your destinations, customize the layout, and simul
ScreenFlow
ScreenFlow — Telestream's Mac-only combination of screen recording and video editing: capture screen, camera, and microp
Screen Studio
Screen Studio — the Mac screen recorder that made cinematic screen captures a default rather than a craft project: it au
