Windows
766 projects shared since May 2026 were built for Windows.
How these numbers are counted and compared: the method.
Summary
Builders made 766 add-ons, companions or plugins for Windows since May 2026, 472 of them in the last 12 weeks. Portal17 Studio was the most-discussed project of the last 4 weeks, with 20 comments. It automates repetitive tasks across web browsers and Windows desktop apps using a visual no-code flow builder. It turns up most in Desktop window and dock utilities, Desktop file organizers and cleanup and Local voice dictation apps. 12 projects were pitched as alternatives to it.
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Add-ons built for it
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Latest add-ons built for Windows
- Weaver — Provides a native desktop interface for running Git operations and organizing repositories into groups.“Weaver: a fast, native Git desktop client for Windows, macOS and Linux”
- THC.EXE Uninstaller — Tracks cannabis abstinence, cravings, triggers, milestones, and recovery progress in a Windows desktop application.“Turning Quitting Weed Into a Software Problem”
- Focale — Edits images on the desktop with layers, masks, blend modes, filters, RAW support and PSD/PSB compatibility.“I'm building Focale, a desktop image editor for Linux, Windows and macOS”
- FocusFix — Manages two games running side by side on one Windows PC by assigning each its own display, audio device, and input device, with cursor containment and a release hotkey.“I made a small Windows utility for two people playing different games on one PC”
- QuietWriter — Provides a minimal offline writing editor for chapter-based books, with flagged open points and an offcuts area for cut text, and exports to EPUB, PDF, Word and Markdown.“I build a writing app and need your feedback”
- Tech Bench Auto-Captioner — Transcribes video speech locally and burns karaoke-style word-highlighting subtitles into MP4 files, also exporting SRT files.“I built a free, local AI auto-captioner for YouTube videos — V1.0 released”
- LoadLab — Runs load tests against HTTP endpoints on the user's machine and streams live RPS and latency charts.“I built LoadLab, a free local-first load testing desktop app with Rust, Go and Node.js engines”
- A9 Voice — Dictates speech into any active app and records meetings to produce speaker-labeled Markdown notes stored locally.“I vibe-coded a Windows dictation + meeting-notes app that keeps everything on your PC. Here’s what I learned.”
- Initial Cut Pro — Plans an open-source, cross-platform, timeline-first video editor written in Rust, with color and audio tools; nothing is built yet.“Starting an open-source Final Cut Pro alternative in Rust, looking for people to build it with”
- Outarch — Runs dev servers, databases and AI coding agents in one tiled Windows window, classifies their output and queues only the issues that need a human.“Outarch - a Windows cockpit that watches your dev servers, databases and AI agents for you”
- GTINK OS — Provides a Windows desktop environment with its own desktop, Start menu, file manager, terminal, settings, and virtual drives, written in Python.“I built my own Python-powered desktop environment for Windows — GTINK OS”
- Scumble — Edits high-resolution photos locally on the desktop with layers, blend modes, filters and generative inpainting.“I spent 6 Weeks building a localfirst Photoshop alternative in Electron, WebGL2 and Rust WASM "Scumble"”
- GetKeys — Creates, rotates, copies, and revokes API keys across services from a local CLI and agent integration instead of web dashboards.“I built GetKeys so that you can create, rotate, copy, and revoke keys without visiting a single dashboard. Looking for blunt feedback.”
- VKRT NES Remaster — Emulates the Nintendo Entertainment System on Windows and offers an optional enhanced graphics mode.“VKRT NES Remaster — an open-source C++20 NES emulator with an observation-driven remastering pipeline”
- ClickCapture — Automatically saves screenshots each time the user left-clicks or drags, from a portable Windows utility.“I built a zero-install tool that auto-captures screenshots on click—now I just dump them into AI to generate setup docs in 2 mins.”
Pitched as alternatives to Windows
- ShufflePaper — Rotates Windows desktop wallpapers from chosen folders, pausing during fullscreen activity and switching folders by work or personal schedule.“I wanted more control over Windows wallpaper rotation, so I built my own lightweight alternative”
- VoxScribe — Transcribes hold-to-talk speech locally on Windows and removes filler words from the output.“I built a local voice dictation app that cleans up your "ums" and works offline (Windows)”
- OpenWindows — Provides a freestanding C99 and NASM kernel framework with a custom character encoding, text serialization formats, and filesystem and bootloader components.“Vibecoding a clean-slate, non-POSIX operating system ecosystem from scratch (OpenWindows)”
- midscroll — Adds Windows-style middle-mouse autoscroll to every application on Linux, under both Wayland and X11.“Fixed Middle-Mouse-Scroll on Linux”
- Fossick — Searches local files by meaning using an on-device embedding model and a local vector index, with no data leaving the machine.“I built Fossick — offline, private "search your documents by meaning" (Mac + Windows). This is a solo project so I would love some feedback.”
- ARK-OS — Provides an experimental Linux-kernel-based operating system with system apps written in Swift, currently booting to a command line.“ARK-OS — A OS based on linux and swift to provide what you need”
- ProtonSearch — Searches apps, files, file contents, OCR text, clipboard, browser history, Git commits, Windows settings and commands from one launcher window.“I Built ProtonSearch: A Local Windows Launcher That Searches Almost Everything on Your PC”
- OmniSearch — Searches apps, files, file contents, OCR image text, browser history, clipboard history, Git commits and Windows settings from one hotkey-triggered search box.“I Built a Free, Open-Source Local Windows Launcher That Searches Almost Everything on Your PC”
- SmileyOS — Boots directly into a desktop with a terminal, custom programming language, UI builder, and 2D game engine for teaching kids to code.“I got tired of how hard it is for kids to start coding, so I built a whole operating system for it”
- fever dream windows 98 — Simulates a Windows 98 desktop in the browser with working apps, a DOSBox emulator, Winamp visuals, and an AI assistant that builds new apps from prompts.“fever dream windows 98”
- FlashSeek — Searches local Windows files by filename and content using a SQLite FTS5 index with file preview.“Built FlashSeek — a fast local Windows search engine using Python + SQLite FTS5”
- Echo — Transcribes held-hotkey speech locally with Whisper and types the text into the active window.“I built an open-source Windows dictation app that uses local Whisper models to type directly into any active window.”