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881 tools for people who ship. Every entry is a factual listing drawn from the product’s own site. 15 of them have been hands on tested and scored by a named editor.
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AI Workflow Builder
This demo shows how JointJS for React handles agent-building UIs: adding skills and prompts, wiring up tools, and defining agent behavior visually.
PearPie
PearPie is out on Mac, Windows, Linux and mobile. No account, no setup, nothing to learn: your conversations stay on your own devices, and premium models run in Europe.
Sanitizer
Convert, sanitize, and index documents locally before anything reaches an LLM.
One Shot Challenge
One prompt, one AI model, one shot. Write a single prompt, run it once with any model, and the result is your entry. Six winners take a GTA VI copy (first place a PS5...
AI Buddy
AI Buddy is a free macOS menu bar app for fast screenshots and dictation, capture any area/window, copy to clipboard, and paste anywhere. Open source.
Reposeek
Before you build from scratch, search what already exists.
OpenCorp
Drop a product link. OpenCorp finds alternatives and the Reddit and Hacker News threads where your future users already talk.
wavecat
A fully local personal agent that watches your screen.
neolabs.fyi
An interactive map of AI neolabs, sized by valuation and grouped by lineage, geography, and research area.
Neverbell
Give your AI agent direct market access. Trade stocks, ETFs, commodities and crypto with leverage.
Neoswarm
A terminal workspace where every feature is a plugin. Free, open source, held by its community.
Local AI Clipboard Actions
Copy text, code, or an error. Press Cmd+Shift+V. Pick an action. Paste the result. On-device AI, no API keys, no cloud, no data leaving your Mac.
Critical Window
A free, open source strategy game about the AI race. Govern the US or China through 16 quarters to 2030: chips, energy, alignment you cannot verify, a treaty nobody thanks...
Open SAR
With open-source tooling + AI, turn fragmented public information into an interactive Common Operating Picture within the golden 72 hours after a disaster strikes.
Traceseal
Verifiable receipts, ground-truth verification and replayable governance for AI agent work. Cryptographic proof of what your agent did, verifiable by anyone.
RFL
The Robot Football League: 2v2 simulated Unitree G1 humanoids playing competitive football, three matches a day, streamed on Twitch and in spatial 4DGSx. The engine, the...
Welcome
Model your project's quality so teams and agents can evaluate it, stay aligned on what good means, and improve it over time.
Billion Dollar Tweets
Billion Dollar Tweets be the favorite hire in the uncertain job market by being scary good at open source, check opensox.
Darby
Darby is a minimal, fast, and beautiful Hugo theme for technical documentation.
Home
Notebooker turns your saved sources into podcasts, stories, itineraries, timelines, discussions, and more - so you can learn, remember, and act.
Meetless
MLA watches your Claude Code and Codex sessions, captures decisions as work happens, detects stale or conflicting instructions, and steers each agent before it acts. You...
AI Noise Remover
Free AI noise remover. Remove background noise, hum, echo, hiss and more from audio and video online, hear the before & after.
30secondsofknowledge
Don't let your engineering brain rot in the age of AI. 30 Seconds of Knowledge delivers one real code snippet on every new tab - read it, get it, stay sharp in 30 seconds.
CrewScore
Find written guardrails missing from AI assistant instructions with 23 public, browser-local controls.
PAI, a Linux
It uses your mail, calendar, browser and files just like you do, and handles the busywork end to end.
Benchmarklist
Compare AI models across 2,500+ benchmarks and 10,000+ models. Follow daily releases, original research, and interactive dashboards.
Parchmint
Parchmint shows the honest preview an LLM actually sees, every token, every warning, so your prompts, skill files, and docs land exactly as written. Free, open source,...
Open-Source Trading Intelligence
Build, scan and reason about trading setups locally. Open-source trading engine for AI agents, free desktop charts, and browser tools. Deterministic structure, not...
ONE HOUR
One hour on the clock, make as much real money as you can. Live runs, the ranking, every death published. 90% pledged to open source.
Prompt Like a Pro
The only free prompt tool that asks before it writes. It interviews you about your task, then writes a ready-to-use prompt for ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or Midjourney....
AI Requirements Index
Download the AI Requirements Index: the daily share of tech job listings requiring AI skills, by tier, category and seniority. Free, CC BY 4.0, CSV and JSON.
microide
A native, low-footprint C++/SDL3 desktop IDE focused on editor, diff, merge, git, search, terminal, and debugging workflows. Open source, private, no telemetry.
Customizable SAP MCP Server
Give your AI assistant direct access to SAP S/4HANA over OData. Prebuilt MCP server for business partners, sales orders, products and purchase orders. Works in Claude,...
Rudrite Research
Interactive, animated, visual explainers of landmark AI & ML papers, attention & transformers, GPT-3, FlashAttention, Mixtral, Mamba, DeepSeek, and more.
Open Terminal
Open Terminal by Tesseract Analytics brings professional financial research to individual investors, real SEC data, live market news, AI-powered analysis, and stock charts.
achu
Free MIT open-source screenshot beautifier for Windows, macOS, and Linux. Local gallery, privacy redaction, Code Studio, AI GitHub issues, and platform burst packs....
Agent Deck
Build specialist AI coding agents on macOS. Cherry-pick skills, launch sessions from GitHub issues, and run agents in parallel, all in a free native Mac app.
A real
ScrumSurvivor is an open source Windows app that replaces your webcam with a real-time Wav2Lip lip-sync avatar, breathing, blinking, and lip-syncing to your voice. Built...
Emiliaprotocol
An AI agent tries to wire $82,000. Approve it on your own device with Face ID / Touch ID, then watch the approval verify, every check, in your browser, and watch a forged...
INT21
We are building self-improving AI systems for the software beneath modern AI. Our first product generates and optimizes low-level GPU software, then proves its work with...
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