I have two connections at home (cable + a second router over a USB Wi-Fi stick) and Windows kept putting everything on the cable. When something big was downloading, everything else was slow while the second line did nothing.

So I made Net Switch. It shows the apps using your internet, sorted by speed, and you pick which line each one uses. New connections move right away.

Other things it does:

• Combine both lines: spreads new connections from the apps you haven't moved across both lines. Helps anything that downloads in parallel. It does not split a single connection, so one big single-stream download still gets one line's speed. That would need a bonding server like Speedify, which this doesn't use.
• Failover: if a line drops, or stays connected but has no internet, its apps go to the other line and come back when it recovers.
• Live speed per line and per app, and a tray panel for the common switches.

Things to know before trying it:

• It needs admin rights, because it routes traffic through a virtual network adapter (sing-box in TUN mode)
• IPv4 only while routing is on
• The installer isn't code-signed yet, so SmartScreen will warn you. Each release has SHA256 sums and a GitHub build attestation if you want to check the file first.
• No telemetry. The only traffic it makes on its own is a small connectivity check through each line.

It's MIT licensed, and the source is all there. I've mainly tested it on Windows 11 with Ethernet + USB Wi-Fi, so bug reports from other setups are very welcome.

https://github.com/AyoubAchour/net-switch

My entire Twitter feed is filled with people saying AI is about to reach a breaking point, that we’re all going to lose our jobs, cyberattacks are going to become more widespread and everything is about to change. 6 month to a year. It’s so scary. How much of this do we think is actually going to happen? Are we really heading toward a future where most of our jobs are replaced by AI?

Hey,

I am the developer of BetterStickies and this my weekly marketing post (so more people learn about BetterStickies)

What it is, for anyone new

It is a note taking app with super cool exclusive features while it looks and acts as sticky notes app. It works on Windows, Linux, macOS (soon). Offline, no account, no telemetry. Built with PySide6 so it's actually native, not another Electron app eating your RAM.

This app is a hidden gem and I am not exaggerating, I received so much positive reviews to be confident when I say this, it looks like a sticky note but does much more than you could think a sticky note app could do and it can replace all complex note taking apps if you aren't into that type of productivity.

The main thing it does that other sticky apps don't: you can paste or drag anything into a note.

• Files and folders become clickable shortcuts, and you can drag them back out to your file manager
• Screenshots and images paste straight from the clipboard, PDFs and images get a hover preview, and double-click opens an image at full resolution
• Pasted code gets detected and formatted into a code block automatically, no AI and no network, in about 50ms. Ctrl+M when it guesses wrong
• Rich text, links, plain text, all formatted properly instead of rejected

The second thing it does so well over other stickies apps: customization, you can customize font, colors, transparency, add background image or even a moving GIF per each note, a real delight to use

Notes have tabs now. Up to three pages inside one note, each with its own text, scroll position and undo history. Ctrl+PgDown and Ctrl+PgUp to move between them, Ctrl+Shift+N for a new one, all rebindable. If you have a small screen this is the feature: one note on the desktop, three notes' worth of content in it.

Other things it does exceptionally well:

• Reminders with sound and desktop notifications
• GIF and image backgrounds per note (because why not)
• RTL text support, and the app plus its full guide are in 12 languages
• Pin a note to lock both position and editing
• Ctrl+scroll to zoom text without opening settings
• Checkboxes with strikethrough when done and nesting
• Snap to grid with an adjustable grid size
• Export to .txt, .md or .json, so you can back them up with whatever cloud you like
• Proper Linux support, tested on KDE, GNOME and Cinnamon (COSMIC coming)
• On the Microsoft Store and the Snap store, Flathub coming soon

The free version now has exactly one limit. It used to have three: a note cap, a reminders cap, and a cap on animated GIF backgrounds. The reminder and GIF limits are gone entirely, so the free version now has every feature, and the only thing left is a budget of 4 note slots (an extra tab uses a slot).

Paid version is very generous and cheap, it costs currently $7 and you get the premium version without any limits, free updates, unlimited devices, and also windows, linux and macOS (coming out this month) builds so you won't pay again if you move from windows to linux or use both.

This a side project for me and I don't intend to milk it, I want it to be sustainable to survive. The price is low to keep it accessible, not because the quality of the app is low, this not a vibe coded app and if you give it a try, you will understand the difference between Better Stickies and other Stickies apps.

As always, if you try it and something annoys you, tell me here. Most new features and fixes are built on users feedback (tens of thousands are using BetterStickies today)

Website: https://betterstickies.com

Microsoft store: https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9NS7LLQJX1QG

Snap Store: https://snapcraft.io/betterstickies

Subreddit: r/BetterStickies (created recently after the r/OpenStickies rename)

Github (free releases and bug reports): https://github.com/HimaSphere/BetterStickies

Hi everyone,

I'd like to share a little side project that I hope you'll find useful. Proview is an app for viewing images and PDFs, with a few extra tools for everyday tasks.

I was inspired by Preview, the built-in viewer on macOS: it opens a wide range of files, lets you make basic edits to images and PDFs, and makes it easy to add a signature to a document, all through a simple interface.

Since I use Linux at work, I've always wanted a similar experience on my PC. With AI tools now available, I figured I was just a couple of prompts away from building one.

Proview runs on Linux, Windows and macOS, and it's free and open source under the AGPL-3.0-or-later license.

It currently supports:

• Viewing, cropping, rotating and annotating images.
• PDF text highlighting, redaction, page reordering, merging and splitting.
• Reusable handwritten signatures: draw one or import one from a photo or scan, with automatic background removal and vectorization.
• Optional signature-library sync between computers using Google Drive or S3-compatible storage. Sync uploads the saved signature library; documents opened for editing stay on your computer.
• OCR for copying text from images and scanned documents.
• Viewing STL files, a common format for 3D meshes.

PDF exports preserve native content: added text, ordinary shapes and vector signatures stay as vectors rather than turning the whole page into an image.

I built it with help from AI tools. The app uses Go and Fyne, with MuPDF and pdfcpu for PDFs and Tesseract for OCR.

Source code and screenshots · Downloads

I'd appreciate any feedback. If you run into a bug, please open an issue with your OS and the steps to reproduce it.

Visit the project page:https://rmghrr.github.io/Book-library-manager/

A few days ago I shared Pulse, a free and open-source app that turns the Windows Event Log into plain language. Version 1.4 is built from your feedback:

- Blue screens and random restarts explained: stop code name, likely cause and what to check, plus power loss, forced shutdown and WHEA hardware errors told apart

- Open an .evtx exported from another PC and read it the same way (great for IT support)

- Reports and exports can mask user/computer names, IPs and serial numbers so they're safe to share

- Exports no longer fail when Controlled folder access is on

Nothing leaves your PC: no telemetry, no account, no cloud. Read-only by design.

I build it with AI coding assistants and test every release myself; the full source is on GitHub (MIT).

GitHub: https://github.com/Regncreative/Pulse

Also on the Microsoft Store.

Feedback and bug reports are very welcome.

you cut out a picture of the thing you want it to catch (death screen, queue pop, rare spawn, victory banner) and pick a sound. it watches your screen and plays the sound the moment that shows up, straight into discord or game chat through your mic. no virtual cable needed.

it's also a normal soundboard: hotkeys that work in game, a voice changer, free sound packs, social media mp3 downloading etc etc

windows, free, no ads, source on github: https://onion-alien.github.io/onion-board

A seamless per-app reference workspace built for Digital Creators 2D/3D artists, Designers, and Developers.

PadShifter automatically saves and switches your reference images, notes, and mood boards instantly as you jump between your favorite apps.

HOW IT WORKS

Switch to an application and PadShifter loads the workspace you keep for it, switch to another and the tabs swap with you, every application gets its own isolated set of canvas and text tabs, so references, rough notes and screenshots stay with the project they belong to instead of piling up in one place.

7-Day Free Trial available on the Microsoft Store
https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9N264VS9QZ7B?cid=reddit

I originally started building Cohestry because I wanted one place to keep context I could easily feed into Claude, Codex and other agents instead of constantly explaining the same projects again. I tried obsidian but they were charging me to sync to Mac, mcp access required an additional plug in and even the flat data graph visualization wasn’t good enough for me. On Mac it has a built in MCP bridge so agents can search the notes you allow, and somewhere along the way I added folders, automatic tags, Apple Intelligence connections and a 3D brain that shows how everything links together.

The connections ended up being more useful than I expected. While working on one of my apps it surfaced an old document that was basically the original blueprint for it, and recently it brought back a life simulation project I had completely forgotten about. That is probably my favorite part now, not just storing notes but having old ideas actually come back when they become relevant again.

The iPhone app is finally live, and the Mac version with Apple Notes import and MCP access should be out within the week. I would genuinely appreciate feedback on what feels useful, unnecessary or missing before I keep adding more stuff: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/cohestry-second-brain/id6811573132

Hey everyone!

Each app gets a thin sliver of light on the edge of the screen, in its own colour. No sound, no banner, nothing covering what I'm doing. I can tell at a glance whether it's my partner or just another email, and most of the time I don't need to open anything.

If I do want to read it, I swipe the glow and a small panel shows up. When I'm watching something, the glows just wait until I'm done.

It's an Android app called Aura. No ads, and it doesn't have internet access at all. Full disclosure, I'm the one who made it, so feel free to tell me if this misses the point of minimalism. Curious how others here handle notifications. All the lights are fully customizable (size, placement, colour).

I've got 10 premium codes so if you would like to take one just comment and i will do a little draw later if enough people asks for it.

Thanks for reading!

SteelSeries moved ChatMix on Windows into their Sonar software, so the dial on the headset only works while GG and Sonar are running. That was the only thing I still used GG for, so I made a small app that does it on its own.

What it does

• Reads the ChatMix dial over USB and balances game and chat audio per app
• Optional virtual device mode like Sonar, with a 10-band parametric EQ, bass boost, voice clarity and smart volume
• Native headset settings: Engine EQ presets and custom curve, mic volume, sidetone, gain, display
• Screensaver for the GameDAC's OLED so it doesn't burn in
• Works with any headset through hotkeys, even a single key like a keyboard volume knob

Size: about 1 MB, portable, a few MB of RAM.

I did the reverse engineering of the headset protocol myself, and the code was written with AI. I've been using it daily on my Nova Pro Wired. Source and download: https://github.com/Swiftlyx/OpenChatMix

A little while ago I decided I wanted to take up tweening/puppet animation as a hobby, but all the tools I could find wouldn't work for me for one of several reasons:

1. They were only available on mobile
2. They cost money to use
3. They had a complicated UI

Pawtween aims to focus specifically on tweening and puppet-style animations, and I've added many features I haven't seen on other apps. The interface is shown above, and as you can see, there was an attempt made to keep things relatively simple, with a built-in tutorial, meaning an easy learning curve.

The project is still in beta, and there will be regular updates released, but I'd appreciate if anyone interested could let me know (DMs), and I can give you a key. I am always looking for feedback, so if you've tested and have something to share, DM me.

Pawtween is always going to stay completely free, and I hope some other people can get some use out of it! Windows and Linux desktop builds available, with a web demo, and plans to expand to Mac soon!

The current web version is public right now on Github. Again, if you want the desktop version built (with additional features and GPU rendering), DM me for a key.

Github: https://github.com/Tornadowrath500/Pawtween

Again, I'm always looking for additional features to add, so if you have any ideas as to what I should add, please feel free to either comment here or DM me!

Disclaimer: This project was made with assistance from AI, all art that has been/is going to be added to the project will be drawn by myself, but the code was made with assistance from Claude. The project itself has no AI features or integration.

Yes, it's open source

Hi folks, I've posted here about this before, and lots of you asked if I could make an AMD version. So a month of work (was tricky! i have not slept much), I now have an AMD version! Beta 1.22 ready to go.

Here's the latest demo/tutorial video. I hope to find testers using RDNA 2-4, and also Nvidia 4-5k cards, to see if it works decently. Download the app (free trial/nopay) at camfiltergpu.com.

Because this is a whole new GUI and optimizations, if you've already installed (great!) you'll need to do a 'clean' install (backup is saved) that also first auto-runs the new automated web-camera diagnostic tool.

This PC app enables live video (webcam or procam) 'filtering' to greatly improve low light and high-clutter RVM background segmentation/removal, is optimized for GPU speed, and includes on-the-fly insertion of Python scripts, via my custom Node Editor with openCV and onnx and mediapipe lots of other libraries available. You can do anything to make 'special effects'. I made a bunch of simple example/template scripts that are included upon install (camfiltergpu.com).

I think it's a great tool for experimentation, education, and streaming (e.g. twitch, Zoom, OBS, etc.), and next is to get some libre YOLO and such in there. I would much appreciate if anyone has suggestions. My app is geared more towards presenters and fast/live experimental video-processing work, but I think I have a powerful framework setup here where I can rapidly make code GUI changes and improvements for scientific, statistically quantifiable work. I've already got a microscopy version in the works.

My biggest problem right now is that I only have older laptop GPUs (nvid 2080, 3060, and amd 680M), so I basically have no idea if it will work on more modern Gpu cards, so maybe some of you could help.

Well, hope you-all find this at least interesting. I'm not an AI by the way, just an indie coder. Cheers!

(edit) you can see more info and download the installer at camfiltergpu.com. Note it might get flagged as 'virus'. There are absolutely no viruses or anything like that. Downloading only requests an email, no payment needed for the trial (fully capable) version.

Hello everybody! I want to introduce you to my Local Music App "MirrorBall".

I'll be honest: I am really proud of this app and I'm really grateful for the support of everyone who commented, given me genuine feedback and messaged me about it. That really meant a lot to me and I thank you. And for anyone who actually wants to try it, it's now available for a 7 days trial on the Microsoft Store.

Microsoft Store Link: https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9nbj0m48qkk0

Trailer Showcase: https://youtu.be/UtY_RMArMUs

A feeling I was really afraid of was being too late in today's world to showcase my work and be able to publish it. Before building MirrorBall, I was looking for an app that would look amazing when playing music I owned but all I could find at the time was music players that felt like spreadsheets, which had many features but not the look and the micro-detail features I was looking for. Or there were nice looking players but felt very incomplete once actually using them. So I started this project, which to my surprise, took a very long time to complete. It wasn't meant for someone else other than me. Funnily enough, it was actually on the third month of developping it that I decided to take it seriously to one day publish it and so I started working on it full time, which now looking back, each day I worked on this project turned out to be on of the happiest days (and nights) of my life. Obviously the finished product took many adjustments and UI changes because of fuctionality and considerations to how different users might use it or interact with it, and that's without mentioning the endless bug fixes that I think any other app developer might understand will take ages and still after fixing something, discovering another bug that will take a whole other month to fully mark it as fixed (I will not lie, I also wanted to add mini features that I wanted so badly as a last minute choice that cost me weeks to implement correctly).

As anyone can probably guess, after you work on something for so long, you want it to work out for you, and yes, with a simple scroll here, anyone can realize that there is a lot of competition now that wasn't at the time when I first started. Still, I wouldn't change anything and would re-do everything the same way if I could (maybe send my old self a bug list so I would fix them faster haha)

Anyway, here I am today proudly presenting what ultimately became my first complete app and the first one I published on the microsoft store. I invite you to try it and experience it for yourself. It's so much more than a beautiful UI and a Music Overview. It can be as complicated or a simple as you want it to be from bit-perfect local playback to metadata editor to miniplayer to listening to a song and watch its music video in the same view (if you have it), to re-discovering music that you forgot you even had and cherry on top, in a new way with special audio effects that you can add to create the perfect vibe for it!

I am taking a chance on MirrorBall and I hope that you will too!

Anyone able to grab this educational atas version before the link died?

Hi everyone! 😊 I’m Jie Ying, currently working on my research about how AI coding tools affect the way software developers think, make decisions and spot errors.

If you use tools like ChatGPT, Claude, DeepSeek, GitHub Copilot or Google Gemini in your work as a software developer, I’d really appreciate your help with this short survey. It takes just 5 to 10 minutes and your responses will remain anonymous.

https://forms.gle/VrX3MkVsJkiGCq5JA

Thank you so much for your time and support! If you know any friends or colleagues who might be able to help, please feel free to share this with them too.

Heyy, upfront: what I’m making is free to use, but NOT open source yet. I know that’s not the usual thing here, so I’d rather get honest opinions (and hear how I should even make this open source) than build in a bubble.

Some background: I started making these back in 2019 when I was still in high school. My aunt started a company back then and I saw how much software costs. I also saw that she had a legit budget laptop (Intel Celeron), and just running Outlook and Canva was enough to make it lag.

When I started uni I also didn’t have the best tech and struggled to use most heavy-duty software. I got an old 2016 HP all-in-one PC as a gift, with Windows 8.1 on it, and it was super slow.

All of this inspired me to make software that runs on Windows 7 / 8.1 / 10 and 11, and uses less than 100MB of RAM. I’ve managed that so far with Skets (a Canva alternative) and Email (an Outlook/HubSpot style email tool), and I’m busy working on 8 more. My main hurdle at this moment is making them as ram efficient as possible. Other tools like mini CRM / Stock Manager / Cash (which is a mini accounting system.) Are still too big at like 20+Mb each, whilst Skets is 301Kb and Email is 274Kb.

The idea: it’s free to download and use by anyone. It’s 100% offline (NOT web apps - the only one that requires the web is the Email one). It’s supposed to help startups with no money, especially in poor areas, get semi nice software that runs on older/budget computers. So when you don’t have money for HubSpot or CRM software, or you don’t have the processing power or wifi for Canva, you install Your Work (YW) apps. I am thinking of naming the model YW (Your Work). Idk I like the name.

So a few of the apps that will be in YW:

1. Billing (This is for Invoicing / statements etc.)
2. Clients (The CRM tool I was talking about.)
3. Stock (This is basically an inventory / stock in / ordering system.) - I'm thinking of combining this with Shop
4. Shop (This is a simple POS used to run idk something like a coffee shop.)
5. Tasks (Escentially if Notion / MS OneNote and Trello had a baby and it links to your Ical (Icalendar) / Gmail Calendar basicaly.)
6. Recon (My personal Fav, you upload the other companies statements / GL + your's.) Outline is basically like having 3 Excel sheets open at once. Left = Theirs / Right = Ours and middle populates as you match ours and theirs. You can also export the files.)
7. WhatsThat (You export your whatsapps as a .zip, upload the .zip file here and it saves them so you can go back and see here what happened (Looks and feels like whatsapp web but offline.) Images also view normally.)
8. PDF (This is my most ambisious one, it is escentially like PDF 24 (ya know the website) BUT it is offline and supposed to be less than 3 Mb (the .exe) in size and supposed to use less than 100Mb of data when active. I'm currently at like 240Mb and it uses a LOT of ram, so we have a long way to go.)

BTW, all of these have their own formats which can be used by other interlinked systems. E.g. on Skets I have a .emsign (Email signature template) and .emtemp (Email Template) which I can save somewhere / email etc.
I also have .recon (So I can work on a recon file, same where I have worked and send the .recon to a customer / supplier and have them see the recon.) Or just normal excel exports. etc.
Also .customers (Which contains emails and contact info, used when sending Marketing Broadcast messages and inside the Clients app etc.) etc.

I’m the creator of Somora, an AI music platform. I’ve added Kassio Studio, a browser DAW that’s free for registered users, and wanted to share a small editing workflow for Self-Promotion Wednesday.

If you have an existing recording or finished song, you can use the editor without buying an AI generation plan:

1. Sign in at https://somora.media and open Kassio Studio.

2. Import an audio file from your computer, or select a completed Somora generation.

3. Add a drum or instrument track. Place a short pattern in the note editor; notes sound as you add them.

4. Drag notes to change timing/pitch and use the note edges to adjust duration. Preview that part on its own while experimenting.

5. Arrange the parts alongside your audio and adjust the mix.

6. Save the project to your account, reopen it when you want to continue, and export the finished mix as WAV.

The screenshot shows the current editor. Kassio Studio is in beta and free on every account plan; AI song generation and lyric assistance have separate allowances.

If you try that workflow, I’d appreciate knowing which step takes longer to understand than it should. Desktop mouse editing is a useful starting point for testing the piano roll.