Stik — free, open-source instant note capture for macOS. One shortcut, post-it appears, type, close.
I've been working on Stik, a lightweight note-capture app for macOS. The idea is simple: hit a keyboard shortcut, type your thought, close it. Under 3 seconds, back to what you were doing.
Key features:
\- Global shortcuts summon a floating post-it from anywhere
\- Notes saved as plain `.md` files in `\~/Documents/Stik/`
\- Organize with folders, pin notes to desktop as stickies
\- On-device AI for semantic search and smart folder suggestions
\- No account, no cloud, no telemetry — everything stays on your Mac
It's free and open source: https://github.com/0xMassi/stik\_app
Install with Homebrew: `brew install --cask 0xMassi/stik/stik`
Or grab the DMG from GitHub Releases.
Requires macOS 10.15+. Would love to hear what you think!
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I've been working on Stik, a lightweight note-capture app for macOS. The idea is simple: hit a keyboard shortcut, type your thought, close it. Under 3 seconds, back to what you were doing.
Key features:
\- Global shortcuts summon a floating post-it from anywhere
\- Notes saved as plain `.md` files in `\~/Documents/Stik/`
\- Organize with folders, pin notes to desktop as stickies
\- On-device AI for semantic search and smart folder suggestions
\- No account, no cloud, no telemetry — everything stays on your Mac
It's free and open source: https://github.com/0xMassi/stik\_app
Install with Homebrew: `brew install --cask 0xMassi/stik/stik`
Or grab the DMG from GitHub Releases.
Requires macOS 10.15+. Would love to hear what you think!
https://redd.it/1qxv0cr
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GitHub
GitHub - 0xMassi/stik_app: Instant thought capture for macOS. One shortcut, post-it appears, type, close.
Instant thought capture for macOS. One shortcut, post-it appears, type, close. - 0xMassi/stik_app
Raindrop.io Gets a Significant New Feature
https://preview.redd.it/g3ezaqkrvzhg1.jpg?width=600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=41fd09693bdcb570a930bf26282353cae2392e2c
I've used the bookmark service [**Raindrop.io**](http://Raindrop.io) for the last three years, and it's a subnoscription I don't hesitate to renew. It has a deep feature set, and today it added something genuinely interesting for Pro users: a beta version of a private LLM assistant called [Stella](https://help.raindrop.io/stella).
Stella is designed for people with large, messy bookmark libraries. Instead of manually cleaning and reorganizing, you can just ask for help in plain language. Examples the system already understands:
* Organize my unsorted bookmarks into collections
* Suggest a better structure for my library
* Find articles about Formula 1 and tag them by team
* Find everything about Japan and move it to Travel
* Clean up my tags--merge duplicates like "recipe" and "recipes"
* Find broken links
* Show duplicate bookmarks
The key detail I appreciate: Stella only suggests changes. You review and approve everything before anything is actually modified.
# What you get for free
The free tier of Raindrop.io is surprisingly generous and will be more than enough for a lot of users:
* Import bookmarks from other services and browsers
* Unlimited bookmarks
* Unlimited collections
* Unlimited highlights
* Unlimited devices
* More than 2,600 integrations via IFTTT
* Apps for macOS, iOS, Android, Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and Edge
For a no-cost service, that's a serious toolkit.
# Why I actually use it
One of my favorite parts of Raindrop is how well it fits into a real Mac workflow. The Raycast integration is excellent: I can type **"rd," hit Enter**, and instantly search my entire collection of 2,800+ bookmarks.
Raindrop supports both folders and tags, and I use both heavily. The iOS share sheet is just as smooth as the browser extension, and both let me add notes to anything I save. I can highlight passages directly in the app, and there's a free Obsidian plugin that keeps everything in sync with my notes.
A feature that sold me on Pro early on is the **permanent library**. Raindrop saves a copy of every bookmarked page on its servers, so if a site disappears, I still have the content. That alone is worth a couple bucks a month.
It also handles PDFs well. Pro users can upload documents and access them from any device, but even free users get 100 MB of PDF uploads per month.
I've tied Raindrop into the rest of my information flow, too. Using IFTTT, anything I star in Inoreader automatically lands in Raindrop. I do the same with YouTube--every video I like gets saved as a bookmark. It quietly becomes a personal knowledge hub without much effort.
# The Pro plan
If you want more than the free tier, the Pro plan runs **$2.99 a month or $28 a year**, which feels reasonable for what you get.
Pro includes:
* Everything in the free plan
* AI suggestions for folders and tags
* Full-text search across saved pages
* Permanent library copies of pages
* Reminders to review saved items
* Annotations
* Duplicate and broken link finder
* Daily backups
* Upload up to 10 GB of files per month
* Priority email support
* Access across all platforms
Raindrop.io has quietly become one of those "set it up once and rely on it forever" tools in my stack. If you've got years of bookmarks scattered across browsers and services, it's one of the few apps that can actually help you make sense of them instead of just giving you another pile to manage.
https://redd.it/1qy3dxn
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https://preview.redd.it/g3ezaqkrvzhg1.jpg?width=600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=41fd09693bdcb570a930bf26282353cae2392e2c
I've used the bookmark service [**Raindrop.io**](http://Raindrop.io) for the last three years, and it's a subnoscription I don't hesitate to renew. It has a deep feature set, and today it added something genuinely interesting for Pro users: a beta version of a private LLM assistant called [Stella](https://help.raindrop.io/stella).
Stella is designed for people with large, messy bookmark libraries. Instead of manually cleaning and reorganizing, you can just ask for help in plain language. Examples the system already understands:
* Organize my unsorted bookmarks into collections
* Suggest a better structure for my library
* Find articles about Formula 1 and tag them by team
* Find everything about Japan and move it to Travel
* Clean up my tags--merge duplicates like "recipe" and "recipes"
* Find broken links
* Show duplicate bookmarks
The key detail I appreciate: Stella only suggests changes. You review and approve everything before anything is actually modified.
# What you get for free
The free tier of Raindrop.io is surprisingly generous and will be more than enough for a lot of users:
* Import bookmarks from other services and browsers
* Unlimited bookmarks
* Unlimited collections
* Unlimited highlights
* Unlimited devices
* More than 2,600 integrations via IFTTT
* Apps for macOS, iOS, Android, Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and Edge
For a no-cost service, that's a serious toolkit.
# Why I actually use it
One of my favorite parts of Raindrop is how well it fits into a real Mac workflow. The Raycast integration is excellent: I can type **"rd," hit Enter**, and instantly search my entire collection of 2,800+ bookmarks.
Raindrop supports both folders and tags, and I use both heavily. The iOS share sheet is just as smooth as the browser extension, and both let me add notes to anything I save. I can highlight passages directly in the app, and there's a free Obsidian plugin that keeps everything in sync with my notes.
A feature that sold me on Pro early on is the **permanent library**. Raindrop saves a copy of every bookmarked page on its servers, so if a site disappears, I still have the content. That alone is worth a couple bucks a month.
It also handles PDFs well. Pro users can upload documents and access them from any device, but even free users get 100 MB of PDF uploads per month.
I've tied Raindrop into the rest of my information flow, too. Using IFTTT, anything I star in Inoreader automatically lands in Raindrop. I do the same with YouTube--every video I like gets saved as a bookmark. It quietly becomes a personal knowledge hub without much effort.
# The Pro plan
If you want more than the free tier, the Pro plan runs **$2.99 a month or $28 a year**, which feels reasonable for what you get.
Pro includes:
* Everything in the free plan
* AI suggestions for folders and tags
* Full-text search across saved pages
* Permanent library copies of pages
* Reminders to review saved items
* Annotations
* Duplicate and broken link finder
* Daily backups
* Upload up to 10 GB of files per month
* Priority email support
* Access across all platforms
Raindrop.io has quietly become one of those "set it up once and rely on it forever" tools in my stack. If you've got years of bookmarks scattered across browsers and services, it's one of the few apps that can actually help you make sense of them instead of just giving you another pile to manage.
https://redd.it/1qy3dxn
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OS Web browser tailored for job searching
This febuary it will be 2 years old so not exactly new, today I want to showcase First 2 Apply.
When I started it the job market was still okish, but I had this idea that applying in the first 24-48h increases your chances of getting interviews. In today’s job market this is becoming even more relevant.
Besides that, I also wanted to make the process easier. Looking at it, I had 5-10 open tabs in Chrome with different job boards that I was constantly refreshing so the initial version was just a dumb cron job that loads my saved links in an electron window, extracts the job listings and dumps them in a supabase table. On the next run it would diff the list and if anything new popped up it would send me a desktop notification. This already helped a lot with the manual process of constantly refreshing my open tabs.
The next step was to cut through the noise. I was searching for nodejs jobs, but LinkedIn kept showing me 50% of the jobs that required Java or Python which I knew I didn’t want. So I plugged in an OpenAI model and gave it a prompt to exclude jobs from my feed that had certain keywords in the job denoscription. It only works properly like 80% of the time, but it’s still a huge time saver.
I’m not exactly looking to make money with it, that’s why I made it open source: https://github.com/beastx-ro/first2apply
I enjoy working on it as a hobby when I get bored with my 9-5. And personally I find it useful and hope it will also help others.
I’m also willing to give it away for free if you cannot afford the hosted version. I still have some free AI credits (thanks Microsoft) so not loosing money on it myself. Just DM me the email account you’ve used to sign up and will put you on a free plan (but use the 7 day trial first to see if it actually works for you).
https://redd.it/1qy8bjz
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This febuary it will be 2 years old so not exactly new, today I want to showcase First 2 Apply.
When I started it the job market was still okish, but I had this idea that applying in the first 24-48h increases your chances of getting interviews. In today’s job market this is becoming even more relevant.
Besides that, I also wanted to make the process easier. Looking at it, I had 5-10 open tabs in Chrome with different job boards that I was constantly refreshing so the initial version was just a dumb cron job that loads my saved links in an electron window, extracts the job listings and dumps them in a supabase table. On the next run it would diff the list and if anything new popped up it would send me a desktop notification. This already helped a lot with the manual process of constantly refreshing my open tabs.
The next step was to cut through the noise. I was searching for nodejs jobs, but LinkedIn kept showing me 50% of the jobs that required Java or Python which I knew I didn’t want. So I plugged in an OpenAI model and gave it a prompt to exclude jobs from my feed that had certain keywords in the job denoscription. It only works properly like 80% of the time, but it’s still a huge time saver.
I’m not exactly looking to make money with it, that’s why I made it open source: https://github.com/beastx-ro/first2apply
I enjoy working on it as a hobby when I get bored with my 9-5. And personally I find it useful and hope it will also help others.
I’m also willing to give it away for free if you cannot afford the hosted version. I still have some free AI credits (thanks Microsoft) so not loosing money on it myself. Just DM me the email account you’ve used to sign up and will put you on a free plan (but use the 7 day trial first to see if it actually works for you).
https://redd.it/1qy8bjz
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GitHub
GitHub - beastx-ro/first2apply
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ControllerKeys - Map Xbox & PS5 Controllers to Keyboard/Mouse for Productivity on macOS - $9.99
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Omi — macOS app that auto-investigates bug reports using AI before a developer opens the terminal (demo video)
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Scribe free alternative?
Any free alternative to ScribeHow desktop app?
https://redd.it/1qz2ipj
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Any free alternative to ScribeHow desktop app?
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Reddit
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Looking for App to Set Per-App Microphone Input Source
Guys, anyone knows if there's there an app that can help set and enforce a per-app microphone input source?
E.g. Safari always using Macbook's internal mic, Zoom always using AirPods, Teams always using default system input source, etc. Ideally free and open source would be great, but if not — paid options would be good to know.
For basic context, my use case: I often use an external wireless microphone for calls, it has a usb-c transmitter that needs to be plugged in and a mic that's on me. Often after calls I put the mic back in the case — to charge it, while keeping usb-c reciever plugged in. That results in a situation where default input system mic source stays the same (=wireless mic), BUT — now there's no actual mic that can take audio input (because the mic was put back into case). So e.g. if I then need to use voice dictation of ChatGPT in Safari — there's no audio input. And what I have to do is to always not forget to unplug the usb reciever after every call, and then not to forget to plug it back before next call, etc. Which is a ton of hassle. So I'm looking for an app that could help manage this, by setting per-app microphone audio source.
https://redd.it/1qz3w5d
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Guys, anyone knows if there's there an app that can help set and enforce a per-app microphone input source?
E.g. Safari always using Macbook's internal mic, Zoom always using AirPods, Teams always using default system input source, etc. Ideally free and open source would be great, but if not — paid options would be good to know.
For basic context, my use case: I often use an external wireless microphone for calls, it has a usb-c transmitter that needs to be plugged in and a mic that's on me. Often after calls I put the mic back in the case — to charge it, while keeping usb-c reciever plugged in. That results in a situation where default input system mic source stays the same (=wireless mic), BUT — now there's no actual mic that can take audio input (because the mic was put back into case). So e.g. if I then need to use voice dictation of ChatGPT in Safari — there's no audio input. And what I have to do is to always not forget to unplug the usb reciever after every call, and then not to forget to plug it back before next call, etc. Which is a ton of hassle. So I'm looking for an app that could help manage this, by setting per-app microphone audio source.
https://redd.it/1qz3w5d
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Orater : Voice-to-text that actually works everywhere (no signup, offline support, free tier)
Hey! I wanted to share Orater, a voice-to-text app I've been working on that fixes a lot of the frustrations with built-in dictation.
Download: https://orater.ai/
What makes it different:
Works in literally any app (Slack, VSCode, Gmail, Discord, WhatsApp, Cursor, etc.)
Runs OpenAI's Whisper models locally – including large v3 for maximum accuracy
Fully offline mode for privacy
No signup, no account, no credit card required
Auto-cleans filler words and adjusts tone/style
Free tier includes:
Offline dictation (unlimited)
4,000 enhanced words/month
21-day Pro trial with unlimited usage
Orater comes with all supported Whisper models and is built for people who want fast, accurate dictation without sending their voice to the cloud.
Download: https://orater.ai/
https://preview.redd.it/5ff3mh9kg9ig1.png?width=2918&format=png&auto=webp&s=e965727bc9b02a57789fb3d3af0c612e7f385ffe
Would love to hear feedback from the community if anyone tries it out!
https://redd.it/1qz77ze
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Hey! I wanted to share Orater, a voice-to-text app I've been working on that fixes a lot of the frustrations with built-in dictation.
Download: https://orater.ai/
What makes it different:
Works in literally any app (Slack, VSCode, Gmail, Discord, WhatsApp, Cursor, etc.)
Runs OpenAI's Whisper models locally – including large v3 for maximum accuracy
Fully offline mode for privacy
No signup, no account, no credit card required
Auto-cleans filler words and adjusts tone/style
Free tier includes:
Offline dictation (unlimited)
4,000 enhanced words/month
21-day Pro trial with unlimited usage
Orater comes with all supported Whisper models and is built for people who want fast, accurate dictation without sending their voice to the cloud.
Download: https://orater.ai/
https://preview.redd.it/5ff3mh9kg9ig1.png?width=2918&format=png&auto=webp&s=e965727bc9b02a57789fb3d3af0c612e7f385ffe
Would love to hear feedback from the community if anyone tries it out!
https://redd.it/1qz77ze
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Orater.ai
Speak Your Email Confidently – Orater
Dictate emails effortlessly with Orater. Speak naturally, send confidently. Accurate voice-to-text dictation powered by the latest models — offline & private.
App for chatting with multiple AI models simultaneously?
A few days ago, a new app called 'AI Council' was presented here by u/Wacko_66. The dev, u/Techniciti popped up there too, also mentioning promo codes. The thread died a premature dead since for some reason the same day the account of the dev was banned from Reddit.
I thought the app was interesting and I started a search for similar apps. And I found the onces following below (starting with AI Council as this fired everything up).
I'm very curious to learn which apps:
* are very good
* are easy to work with
* are for general purpose use (not coding or a niche purpose)
* have good price/quality balance
And are there great apps like these that are not mentioned? What apps would you recommend?
[**AI Council**](https://ai.techniciti.eu/) \- Says: "AI Council queries multiple AI systems simultaneously, has them peer-review each other anonymously, and synthesises their best insights into one reliable response.'
**Pricing**: macOS € 29.99 One-time purchase. Free updates included. | iOS € 9.99 One-time purchase. Free updates included.
[**Chatwise**](https://chatwise.app/) \- Says: "Simple, Powerful and Privacy-Friendly AI Chat. And it works for any LLM."
**Pricing**: Free $0 - Pro $29 one-time payment
[**MSTY**](https://msty.ai/) \- Says: "Msty Studio is your all-in-one AI studio. Mix local & online models, build powerful assistants, automate workflows, and make AI work for you."
[**TypingMind**](https://www.typingmind.com/) \- Says: "Advanced chat UI for AI models. ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and more. All in one place."
**Pricing**: Standard $39 - Extended $79 - Premium $99
[**MindMac**](http://mindmac.app/) \- Says: "Connect seamlessly, chat effortlessly with ChatGPT on macOS
Modern. Native. Friendly UI. Compatible with OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, Google Gemini and more. Designed for macOS."
**Pricing**: Basic $29 - Personal $49 - Standard $69
[**Chorus**](https://chorus.sh/) \- Says: "All the AI, on your Mac. Chat with o3, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek, and others all at once. The best models, as soon as they come out, in one open source app.
**Pricing**: free
[**Apollo**](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/apollo-powered-by-liquid/id6448019325) (Powered by [Liquid](https://www.liquid.ai/)) - Says: "Chat with private, local Als, connect to every open source Al, or your own locally-hosted private LLMs. Apollo is your own customizable client for accessing language models from all around the web."
Local model support (experimental): run smaller LLMs privately and securely on-device
OpenRouter support: bring an OpenRouter API key to chat with every model on the web.
Custom Backend support: Run an LLM on your computer with tools like LM Studio or Ollama and connect to it with Apollo to host your own private ChatGPT-like mobile app for your family.
**Pricing**: Free $0
https://redd.it/1qz8wwr
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A few days ago, a new app called 'AI Council' was presented here by u/Wacko_66. The dev, u/Techniciti popped up there too, also mentioning promo codes. The thread died a premature dead since for some reason the same day the account of the dev was banned from Reddit.
I thought the app was interesting and I started a search for similar apps. And I found the onces following below (starting with AI Council as this fired everything up).
I'm very curious to learn which apps:
* are very good
* are easy to work with
* are for general purpose use (not coding or a niche purpose)
* have good price/quality balance
And are there great apps like these that are not mentioned? What apps would you recommend?
[**AI Council**](https://ai.techniciti.eu/) \- Says: "AI Council queries multiple AI systems simultaneously, has them peer-review each other anonymously, and synthesises their best insights into one reliable response.'
**Pricing**: macOS € 29.99 One-time purchase. Free updates included. | iOS € 9.99 One-time purchase. Free updates included.
[**Chatwise**](https://chatwise.app/) \- Says: "Simple, Powerful and Privacy-Friendly AI Chat. And it works for any LLM."
**Pricing**: Free $0 - Pro $29 one-time payment
[**MSTY**](https://msty.ai/) \- Says: "Msty Studio is your all-in-one AI studio. Mix local & online models, build powerful assistants, automate workflows, and make AI work for you."
[**TypingMind**](https://www.typingmind.com/) \- Says: "Advanced chat UI for AI models. ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and more. All in one place."
**Pricing**: Standard $39 - Extended $79 - Premium $99
[**MindMac**](http://mindmac.app/) \- Says: "Connect seamlessly, chat effortlessly with ChatGPT on macOS
Modern. Native. Friendly UI. Compatible with OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, Google Gemini and more. Designed for macOS."
**Pricing**: Basic $29 - Personal $49 - Standard $69
[**Chorus**](https://chorus.sh/) \- Says: "All the AI, on your Mac. Chat with o3, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek, and others all at once. The best models, as soon as they come out, in one open source app.
**Pricing**: free
[**Apollo**](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/apollo-powered-by-liquid/id6448019325) (Powered by [Liquid](https://www.liquid.ai/)) - Says: "Chat with private, local Als, connect to every open source Al, or your own locally-hosted private LLMs. Apollo is your own customizable client for accessing language models from all around the web."
Local model support (experimental): run smaller LLMs privately and securely on-device
OpenRouter support: bring an OpenRouter API key to chat with every model on the web.
Custom Backend support: Run an LLM on your computer with tools like LM Studio or Ollama and connect to it with Apollo to host your own private ChatGPT-like mobile app for your family.
**Pricing**: Free $0
https://redd.it/1qz8wwr
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AI Council
AI Council - Smarter AI Through Consensus
Consult multiple AI systems. Get consensus-driven answers with confidence scoring.
[macOS] I built a free, open source macOS screen recorder that feels native and supports all the modern capture features you'd expect
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Russet: on-device AI assistant with 20+ local models and deep system integration. Designed purely for Apple silicon.
https://redd.it/1qzc2rn
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Reddit
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