r/windowsapps • • 6h ago

Developer I built a Windows app that makes video calls to Android phones over Bluetooth. No internet needed.

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I've been working on MeshLive, an open-source app for voice/video calls and live broadcasting over Bluetooth.

It started on Android, but I've now released an experimental Windows version too.

The video shows a Windows PC making a video call with an Android phone. Wi-Fi and internet are completely out of the picture.

No accounts, servers or existing local network needed. Just two devices running MeshLive and Bluetooth.

Getting real-time video over Bluetooth has been tricky enough on phones, and supporting Windows introduced another set of Bluetooth compatibility and connection issues.

It's still beta software, so performance varies between devices. The Windows build is currently distributed as an unsigned ZIP, not through the Microsoft Store.

Free, no ads, open source (GPL-3.0-or-later).

Windows: https://github.com/MeshLive/meshlive-windows

Android: https://github.com/MeshLive/meshlive-android

Would be interested in feedback from anyone who tries it on their Windows setup!


r/windowsapps • • 12h ago

Developer I made the Windows volume pop-up customizable (free, open source)

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Hi, I’m Mr.Z, the developer. Flylet replaces the Windows volume, media, brightness and Caps/Num Lock pop-ups with modern ones you can make your own: media card styles, your own background or a GIF behind them, your colors, and where they show up.

It started as a revival of ModernFlyouts (archived in 2025), with credit to the original authors. Works on Windows 10 22H2 and Windows 11, no ads or tracking.

Store: https://www.microsoft.com/store/apps/9NPSS6NW7T23?cid=reddit-windowsapps
Source: https://github.com/ItsMrZxD/Flylet

It’s still a young project, so feedback and ideas are very welcome.

Song: DEAF KEV - Invincible [NCS Release] - Music provided by NoCopyrightSounds - http://ncs.io/invincible


r/windowsapps • • 22h ago

Developer I built a phone remote for Windows where a magnifier pops up over tiny buttons as you aim. No account, free on home Wi-Fi

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I make KeptInFlow, a Windows app, and this is its phone remote. The video is the real phone page with made-up data.

Every remote I tried shrinks the PC screen onto the phone and leaves you pinching at tiny buttons. So I built it around your thumb:

  • Move the pointer slowly and a magnifier pops up, so you hit small buttons the first time
  • Or hold where you want, slide to adjust, let go to click
  • Swipe the Apps button to jump between PC windows
  • Copy on the PC, paste on the phone, and the other way
  • One tap shrinks the window you’re in to fit your phone, and puts it back after

Setup: install it on the PC, scan the QR code with your phone’s camera, tap approve. No account, nothing from an app store. The phone side runs in your browser.

Free on your home Wi-Fi. From outside the house it’s $29 once. No subscription, and no “commercial use” nags.

Limits: the PC has to be on with the app running (locked is fine). Android with Chrome is the smoothest; an iPhone needs one setting flipped on the PC. The installer is signed, but I’m a new publisher, so SmartScreen may ask: More info, then Run anyway.

If something doesn’t work for you, tell me here and I’ll fix it. Updates go out every few days.

What’s the most annoying thing about controlling your PC from your phone right now?

https://keptinflow.com/remote-desktop


r/windowsapps • • 20h ago

Developer I wanted to make Windows look different Here's what i came up with

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I've been working on a Windows customization app called Glass Desky. Basically wanted to see how much I could change the look of Windows without using a ton of RAM.Here's what I've come up with so far. There are actually quite a few more features than what's shown in the screenshots, but these are some of my favorites.

I think I've run out of ideas for my own setup lol. Curious what you guys would come up with.

If anyone wants to mess around with it, it's at glassdesky.com. Would love to see your setups or hear what else I should add.


r/windowsapps • • 4h ago

Developer Sudoku without ads, streaks, popups — finally on Windows

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I play Sudoku to slow down, not to sit through another ad or get nudged about a “daily challenge.” Most apps on the store feel like they’re optimized for how long they can keep you scrolling, not for actually finishing a puzzle in peace.

Just Sudoku (Nonnie Games) is on the Microsoft Store for Windows 11. Same philosophy as our other “Just…” games: no ads, no subscriptions, no coins, no watch-a-video-to-continue. You open it and you’re looking at a grid — not a wall of modes and monetization.

What might make it worth a look, especially if you’re bored of vanilla 9×9:

  • Classic at 4×4, 6×6, 9×9, or 12×12 when you want a bigger board
  • Diagonal — diagonals count too
  • Jigsaw — regions that don’t line up with neat boxes
  • Killer — sum cages
  • Thermo — ascending digits along thermometer lines
  • Wordoku — letters instead of numbers; some grids hide a word when you’re done

So it’s not “one grid, one ruleset, forever.” If you like Sudoku but you’ve been doing the same thing for years, there’s actual variety without turning the app into a carnival.

It’s also built for people who want the grid to be readable on a Windows machine — large numbers, light/dark themes, high contrast if you need it, keyboard if you’re at a desk. No timer breathing down your neck unless you turn one on. Hints can explain why a move works, not just flash the answer (helpful when Killer or Thermo rules are new to you).

If a specific variant sounds fun or you’re curious how it compares to the ad-heavy stuff, drop a comment.

Download info: https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9NTPF0DZSXTP


r/windowsapps • • 19h ago

App How to Synthesize Sources for a Literature Review | Atelier

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r/windowsapps • • 6h ago

Developer I made a simple, offline time tracker for Windows with zero subscriptions

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It's a lightweight Windows app that runs 100% offline no cloud accounts, no subscriptions, and all your data stays strictly on your PC. It tracks time, manages tasks, and generates clean PDF timesheets.

Just launched on the Microsoft Store (free tier available, with an optional one-time lifetime upgrade):

👉 https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9MZMSQHGW0FJ

Would love to hear your feedback and suggestions!


r/windowsapps • • 9h ago

App Chango: I made a free, open-source file converter for Windows, Need advice for improvement

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Hi all, I know there are already hundreds of file converters out there and recent popularity of tangerineformac also made me realise that this could be faster for most of us. That's why I kinda created Chango, which is drag-n-drop file converter and manager. It does not have any user data risk so would love everyone's feedback on its UI and functionality.

Microsoft Store: https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9NL33K6PBB4K
Website: http://chango.rameshtiwari.com/

I built the converters, tools and design on top of some apps available in the market. It's my first proper release, so I'd really love honest feedback: what's confusing, what's missing, what breaks, or which formats you'd want next.


r/windowsapps • • 10h ago

Question Can Windows 8(.1) and Windows Phone applications technically go here?

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I mean, they are apps for windows, but they can’t be published to ms store anymore, so that’s why I’m asking


r/windowsapps • • 54m ago

Question App request - encryption

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Hi. A long time ago I used the FreeOTFE application (for mounting LUKS partitions from Linux under Windows). I definitely prefer LUKS encryption over BitLocker.
The app worked great with WinXP, but it already had problems with newer versions.
And so I thought, maybe you know of a replacement, or perhaps in the times of Claude – is someone working on a tool like that that works on current Windows 10/11?

(https://sourceforge.net/projects/freeotfe.mirror/)


r/windowsapps • • 2h ago

Developer PhotoSheet Reports Pro: Turn Project Photos into Finished Reports

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Hello,

PhotoSheet Reports Pro is a Windows app I built to make creating photo reports much less repetitive.

The idea came from my own work. I regularly deal with batches of field photos that eventually need to be organized, captioned, and placed into professional reports. Doing that manually can take hours, especially when every page follows roughly the same structure.

PhotoSheet handles most of that repetitive work for you.

You can import a batch of photos at once, choose how they should be arranged, add automatic captions, project information, and then make any adjustments you want before exporting the finished report.

Some of the main features include:

- Bulk photo importing

- Multiple report page layouts

- Captions, sections, and title block project details

- Different image fit and positioning options

- Saveable projects

- PDF, Word/DOCX, and image exports

I originally built it around environmental reporting, but the same kind of photo documentation comes up in construction, inspections, engineering, roofing, property documentation, insurance, and plenty of other fields.

There’s a lifetime Windows desktop version as well as a subscription browser-based version.

More info:

https://photosheetreports.com

PhotoSheet is also 25% off across all stores for the launch.


r/windowsapps • • 11h ago

Developer Picslim v1.2.1 – Privacy-first batch image resizer, converter & watermarker for Android & Windows

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Hey everyone!

I’ve been developing Picslim, a privacy-first app designed to make batch image resizing, converting, and watermarking fast and simple.

It runs 100% locally on your device with zero cloud uploads or telemetry.

Key Features:

•Batch Operations: Resize by dimensions/percentage, convert (JPEG, PNG, WebP), crop, rotate, and flip in bulk.

•Watermarks & EXIF: Add custom text watermarks and choose whether to preserve or strip EXIF metadata.

Documents & Archives: Import and export PDF pages and password-protected ZIP archives.

•Platform Highlights:

°Android: Material 3 design, photo picker support, and runs completely offline (no internet permission requested).

°Windows: Drag-and-drop, file associations, and native File Explorer context menu integration (`Open with Picslim`).

📥 Get Picslim:

💻 Windows (Microsoft Store): https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9MZ7N7W3T2KM

📱 Android (Google Play): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nesique.picslim

🌐 Website: https://picslim-67o.pages.dev

Let me know what you think or if you have any feature requests!


r/windowsapps • • 14h ago

Developer I built a free video editor for Windows that removes your “ums” in one click and makes captions without uploading anything

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Hey all. I’m a solo dev and I’ve been building CutShit, a free video editor for Windows. Search “CutShit” on the Microsoft Store.

I built it because the most tedious parts of editing are the same every time: captions, cutting out filler words, and fighting background music under dialogue. So it does those for you:

  • Auto-captions made on your PC: nothing uploaded, and it can translate them
  • One-click filler-word removal: “um”, “uh” and friends, gone
  • Separate voice from music: keep the dialogue, swap the soundtrack
  • Normal editing: timeline, text, music, MP4 export on your own machine
  • Imports from OBS scene collections, Google Drive, Dropbox or local files

It’s completely free. No watermark, no subscription, no “pro” tier, no account needed to edit, and your footage never leaves your PC.

[20–40 second demo GIF: filler words disappearing, or captions appearing]

It’s still early, so I’d love honest feedback: what’s confusing, what’s broken, and what would make you switch from what you use now? I read every comment.


r/windowsapps • • 10h ago

App Picasa3は、サポートがなくなって更新されなくなってしまった。新しいファイル形式に対応できないし、動作が不安定になってしまった。 そこで、Picasaの代わりになるソフトを開発しようと思ったんだ。

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Picasa3は、サポートがなくなって更新されなくなってしまった。新しいファイル形式に対応できないし、動作が不安定になってしまった。

そこで、Picasaの代わりになるソフトを開発しようと思ったんだ。

膨大なファイル数でも高速に動作して、メモリをあまり占有せず、可能な限り多くのファイル形式に対応できるようにしたんだ。(swf形式のファイルも再生できるよ)

モダンではないかも知れないけれども、Picasaの機能と同等のものを可能な限り実装しようとしたんだ。(ローカルAIで顔で人物を分類したり、自動でタグを付けたりできる)

もしよかったら、試してみて。

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r/windowsapps • • 12h ago

App Ville — panel - launcher for Windows on Python

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Wanted to share my open-source project and get some feedback

What it even is

I was once working with files and realized how slow and tedious it is to open and find files and folders. I wanted to simplify the process — type a command and whatever you need opens. That's where the idea came from: a console-style panel where you enter a short command, and in that command you assign a name to the path you want to open. I'm not a great programmer, so the app is made mostly by AI.

Let me go into a bit more detail:

Ville is a small panel that sits on a global hotkey. By default the window opens with Ctrl+Alt+Space, but you can change that in the settings.

What it can do

Sure, you can read everything on GitHub, but let me go over a few things here.

/openset <path> <alias> — an alias is basically just a name, but it sounds smarter and fancier that way.

Then /open <name> opens the folder or file you specified.

A calculator (no idea why, but it's there — functionality is again on GitHub).

Autocomplete. You type /se, a suggestion pops up for /settings, you hit Tab or just Enter, and the command runs.

Some minor appearance customization in the settings and a few things in a JSON file.

What's not there

I'm building the app on Windows 11, so I have no idea if it works on other systems.

Haven't gotten around to plugins yet, but if a decent audience builds up, I'll get to it.

And as I mentioned at the start, I'm building the program with the help of AI.

Why I'm showing this

Feedback. I need to find bugs, shortcomings, and so on. What works, what's inconvenient, what to add, what to polish, and so on.

Ideas. I know "launcher" is a niche with a ton of other alternatives and ready-made solutions. I want to understand how Ville can be useful in contrast to them — or maybe even better.

Help. If anyone's interested in the project and wants to join — issues are open. The code is generally not complex — I'm not a programmer, but I understand the code well enough, and you can figure it out in an evening.

Links

● Repository

Releases with .exe files are there too.

If you made it to the end, thank you so much. I'll be glad for any reaction — criticism, questions, and ideas.


r/windowsapps • • 18h ago

App Desk folders

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Hello, I have an app called "Deskfolders". It does exactly what the name implies (makes phone-like folders for a windows desktop). The code is open source for the check and safety of everyone.

I decided to make this because I like the UI of the phone folders and haven't found any app for Windows that is able to provide the same thing and not make me pay a subscription.

https://github.com/el1cer/Desk-Folders/blob/main/README.md


r/windowsapps • • 21h ago

Developer Overscan, a free app that makes your side monitors glow with the colours of the main screen (screen recording, Windows 10/11)

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Last week I posted about Overscan with a clip filmed on my phone. This one is a proper screen recording of it running on my five screens, so you can see the glow without the camera.

Overscan reads the colours at the edges of your main screen and paints them across your other monitors as a soft glow, live. Think of the backlight on some TVs, except it is your other monitors doing it.

  • Runs as your wallpaper, so it sits behind your icons and never steals focus
  • Drag-and-drop layout, so it knows where your screens really are, gaps included
  • Works with videos, YouTube, local files and games
  • Brightness, look and speed settings, and you can pause it from the tray
  • Hides the taskbars on the side screens while it runs, and puts them back when it stops

Heads up

  • Free. No ads, no account, no trial. Closed source for now
  • Windows only. Built and tested on Windows 11. Windows 10 should work, but it has had less testing
  • Netflix, Prime, Disney+ and other copy-protected streams show up black to every screen-capture app, so those will not glow
  • Not code-signed yet, so Windows shows a warning. Click "More info", then "Run anyway"
  • Everything stays on your PC. It only goes online to check for updates (signed), and you can turn that off

Download: https://starsync.dev/overscan (installer, or a portable zip if you do not want to install anything)

It is still early. If it does something odd on your setup, tell me here or use Settings > Help > Report a problem. I am keen to hear from anyone with 3+ screens, mixed scaling, or Windows 10.


r/windowsapps • • 1h ago

Developer Swept — open-source Windows cleaner that shows what it will delete, and verifies every installer by signature or hash

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r/windowsapps • • 6h ago

Developer Prism (open-source download manager) is two weeks old and has 100 stars. Thank you: most of the fixes came from your reports

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r/windowsapps • • 10h ago

App Show Me the File - Yet Another File Finder

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I’m a solo developer and I just released Show Me the File, a free file search app for Windows 10 / 11.

I made it because Windows Search was too slow for me, and most of the fast alternatives need administrator rights to run. On my work PC I don’t have admin, so that was a dealbreaker.

What it does

  • Finds files by name as you type — results update with every keystroke
  • No admin rights needed. Runs as a normal user, no UAC prompt. Works on locked-down work PCs.
  • Completely free. No ads, no paid tier, free for personal and commercial use.
  • Multiple languages supported
  • Windows 10 and 11

Links

I made this so that anyone can find their files quickly and without any hassle. If you give it a try, I’d be grateful to hear whether it actually feels that way for you — and if it doesn’t, please tell me why. I’ll be around in the comments.

Thanks!


r/windowsapps • • 14h ago

Developer I HATE Windows File Explorer.

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r/windowsapps • • 6h ago

Developer ChatGPT/Claude in a side panel over any app + voice typing / agent drafting at your cursor (waitlist)

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Disclosure: I'm the developer.

My day on Windows kept looking like this: Outlook or Teams focused, Alt+Tab to ChatGPT in the browser, paste the thread, wait, copy the answer, paste back, fix the tone, paste again. Win+H helps for raw dictation, but it does not know what is on screen, and Copilot still lives beside your work instead of in the field you are typing in.

That's why I built UBIK Flow, a desktop app for Windows 10/11(Mac and Linux too if you switch machines). It sits in your tray and answers one question: how do I use ChatGPT or Claude without leaving the app I am in?

What it does on Windows

- Ctrl+Shift+O: voice typing at your cursor in Word, Outlook, Slack, Excel, browser fields, anywhere with a caret

- Ctrl+Shift+U: open your ChatGPT or Claude account in a side panel over the window you already have focused (no new tab dance)

- Ctrl+Shift+T: ask out loud about what is on screen; The agent can use visual context, interact with your clipboard, and act directly inside the app.

- Custom hotkeys: for the prompts you retype every week (status updates, client replies, the same Monday email)

What it is not: a resold API, a random web UI for keys, or a replacement for every local Whisper dictation app. You keep your OpenAI or Anthropic subscription. Signed desktop builds. I am happy to explain permissions and what leaves your PC in the comments.

Try it: join the waitlist for early Windows access and a 7-day desktop trial when your spot opens: https://ubik-flow.com

Honest question: where does the Alt+Tab loop hurt you most on Windows, Outlook, Teams, Excel, or the browser?

Open to any feedback or questions you might have!

The waitlist is open here: https://ubik-flow.com