The directory
AI and indie maker tools
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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193 tools
A metadata
Generate cinematic AI videos and images with Image to Video, Text to Image, and other creative workflows. Built for creators, brands, and marketers.
Restk
RESTK is a complete, native API client for macOS & Windows, REST & GraphQL, 12 auth methods, scripting, environments, and one-click import. Plus the only embedded AI/MCP...
AI News Report
A folder of code can now run its own commands on your computer as soon as an AI coding agent opens it. The trick hides in the folder's own git settings, in a file called .
Marginal
Track every LLM call's cost and slice it by customer, feature, model, any field you define.
Chemistry AI
Chemistry AI is your online chemistry AI solver for step-by-step answers. Instantly solve chemistry problems, balance equations, and understand concepts. Free credits, no...
How Riffn works
Riffn links your iPhone to a coding agent running in a repo on your own computer, over Tailscale. Start a session, pocket the phone, and keep working by voice while you...
Traccia
Traccia is an AI agent control plane for observability, evaluation, governance, and runtime policy enforcement across production AI systems.
FutureSearch
AI forecasting with a public track record. First in Metaculus's Summer 2026 FutureEval tournament, above the superforecaster median on ForecastBench, and every forecast...
PHNTM One
A private AI assistant appliance that lives on your desk. Raspberry Pi 5 running Gemma 3 4B on-device, no cloud, no account, no subscription. $549, made to order, ships...
InferCrane
Connect, deploy, observe, optimize, release, and recover production inference across managed APIs, serverless GPUs, dedicated capacity, and your cloud behind one stable...
NoMac
The publishing pipeline built for AI agents: build signed iOS releases, push to TestFlight, and submit to the App Store, no Mac, no Xcode.
Ship Stacks
Full-stack templates that ship on day one. Auth, OAuth, Stripe, S3, email, AI chat, and Docker, already wired across 17 production-ready backends in 10 languages. Pick a...
VoiceCite
VoiceCite turns what you know into deeply researched, citation-ready articles, written in your voice and structured so AI search actually cites you.
Finterm
Finterm gives trading agents a CLI for financial data and sourced research, including ticker bundles, SEC filing diffs, ownership flows, options, and multi-source research.
WhisperBar
A Mac menu bar app for writing and skimming. Dictate into any app and get business-casual text, or hear a short summary of anything you copy.
Captchainbox
Set a price for unknown senders to reach your Gmail inbox. Trusted contacts get through normally, and you choose where 90% of the post-Stripe amount goes.
The Guest List
The hottest AI storefront has a doorman. Upload your catalog and watch which products get waved in, and which get turned away.
Pixailer.com
Pixailer - create realistic group photos in record time leveraging AI! Built for people - friends, families, teams and dreamers.
AI Commander
Give Claude, ChatGPT, or Codex a shell on the headless servers, GPU rigs, NAS boxes and Raspberry Pis you already own. Detached jobs keep running after the chat ends. Free...
Generativeide
GIDE (GenerativeIDE) is a privacy-first, model-agnostic AI code editor. Run local models offline or connect your own API key. Zero token costs on local AI. Air-gap ready.
Ask Channel AI
Ask Channel AI transcribes and indexes every video in a YouTube channel, then answers your research questions with exact quotes and timestamps. Search transcripts across...
BotTrade
Put an AI trading agent through historical market scenarios. Simulate its decisions and trades, measure return and risk, and publish an inspectable result.
Orthogonal
Discover, call, and pay for 800+ endpoints from 50+ verified providers, through one integration. Pay per call, no subscription.
TamedTable
TamedTable is an AI ETL and data preparation tool: load tabular data, describe what you want, and watch it transform. No formulas, no code. Source-available, runs on your...
A cheaper browser agent
What changed when we replaced repeated tool selection with a compact program executed against a text-first browser state.
Boilerroom
Run coordinated call, email, and LinkedIn sequences automatically, so no follow-up slips and every prospect gets touched.
StageWhisper Lite
StageWhisper Lite is free and source-available. On-device transcription, your own AI, a private overlay. Lite puts your AI in the room. Founders Edition gives it cards to...
Token Time
Screen Time, but for your tokens. Token Time meters every token your AI agents burn and taps you on the shoulder when it's time to take a break. Local, private, and...
Echo
They show how far the shared plan balance can go when used only for that lane.
Rxlab market
Research markets and build reports with the rxlab finance agent.
Costbase
COGS monitoring for AI products. Paste one admin key per provider, Costbase discovers every API key and pulls usage straight from OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI's official...
OnlyBots.chat
One public chat room where AI agents pay real money to post. Humans watch.
Crux
Crux is an AI personal assistant that works across your desktop, files, and apps while keeping your chats and data local to you. Download for Mac and Windows.
AIFCC
Claude Code, Codex, Gemini and MiMo run with full sudo inside a hardware-sandboxed Linux desktop on your Mac. The guest cannot escape, so your real Mac stays untouched.
Vuci
Vuci indexes every word of every podcast, to the second. Search what was said, save the moments worth keeping, get alerted when your brand is mentioned, and turn the...
Needle2
An open 45M-parameter model for tool calling, device use, and structured extraction. Needle 2 runs as a 14 MB binary in 28 MB of session RAM.
Vanta
Private Markdown notes & GTD for iPhone with on-device AI. Start with a local vault, no account, then sync via iCloud or GitHub. Obsidian-compatible.
rNet AI
AI without the billing headache. For developers, zero token costs. For users, one credit wallet across every app.
Stop Animated Images from Autoplaying
A browser extension that stops animated images from autoplaying and lets you play them when you choose.
TaskFuel
100+ tools your agent can reach for the moment a task needs one. Email, search, market data, enrichment. Paid per call, never per month. Start with $5 free.
ApplyAssists
AI resume builder that makes your CV "Reader Compliant", ensuring accurate ATS parsing and instant clarity for recruiters.
Hydra, a local
Route to a target confidence of correctness, not just the cheapest model. Hydra samples models adaptively (SPRT), cuts AI API costs 70-85% along the way, and keeps...
frontend-design-pro
A skill pack an AI coding agent loads while it writes frontend code. It routes one of 19 skills per request, holds the output to 61 machine-checked constraints, and ships...
mtok.market
mtok.market is a spot market for AI inference tokens. Agents sell spare capacity, agents buy bursts. Non-custodial, seller-hosted, USDC on Base.
Cerver
Infrastructure for AI sessions. One API for transcript, model, and compute. Run any agent on any compute, and switch mid-session without losing the thread.
username.md
Claim username.md/you, a single page and address for everything you are online.
VelocityNote
A cross-platform, local-first Markdown notebook with optional sync and AI that runs on your own machine.
Calyxa
Calyxa counts the problems on any homework page, paces the set against your own history, and finds the one step you're missing. A finish line you can watch move.
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