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Free apps for makers, builders, curious people, and nerds.
Free apps for makers, builders, curious people, and nerds.
All free. All built by the same person who runs the shop.
A platform for makers — organize your projects, track your builds, and share your work. Built by a maker, for makers.
Open AppInstantly see everything your browser exposes about your connection: IPv4/IPv6, geolocation, reverse DNS, WebRTC leaks, browser fingerprint, ASN, and more. No account, no logging — just answers.
Open AppFree US phone number intelligence. Enter any number, area code, or NPA-NXX prefix and get carrier name, line type, rate center, LATA, OCN type, and full area code history — powered by NANPA public data. No signup, no logging.
Open AppYour world, in sync. Track current time across multiple cities and timezones at once. Use the Time Shifter to plan calls and meetings across zones — drag, reorder, install as a PWA. No data collected.
Open AppEnter your material, bit type, number of flutes — get recommended feeds and speeds for your CNC router. No more guessing, no more burnt edges.
Open AppTrack Glowforge laser settings by material. Community-sourced data from manufacturer specs and forums — organized so you can actually find it when you need it.
Open AppWood species reference cobbled together from various sources. Identify woods, compare properties, find the right material for the job. It's janky. It works.
Open AppTrack rainfall amounts and predictions by location. Built for gardeners who want to know if they actually need to water today — no meteorology degree required.
Open AppKnow what you collected in taxes? Work backwards to find the pre-tax sale amount. Built for vendors and market sellers who need clean numbers fast.
Open AppCompute sales tax owed by location and sale amount. Quick and simple — because the IRS is neither.
Open AppPick any color from an image, convert between HEX, RGB, and HSL, and generate complementary color schemes. For designers who think in pixels.
Open AppLive rocket launch tracker and space tourism guide. Real-time countdowns for every upcoming launch — SpaceX, Blue Origin, Rocket Lab, and more — plus a breakdown of every commercial spaceflight provider and what it costs to get a ticket.
Open AppCheck the KP index and see how likely you are to spot Northern Lights from your location tonight. Because some things are worth going outside for.
Open AppA clean, distraction-free notepad that lives in your browser. No accounts, no syncing, no friction — just open it and write. Your notes stay local, in your browser, right where you left them.
Open AppA simple, no-nonsense to-do list app. Add tasks, check them off, move on. No projects, no priorities, no productivity theater — just a list of things you need to do.
Open AppWindows utilities, desktop tools, and experiments — all open source, all built to scratch a specific itch.
A modern, dark-themed Windows network diagnostic tool combining live MTR-style tracerouting, continuous ping monitoring, and deep network info lookups in a single desktop GUI.
View on GitHubA Windows GUI for managing User and System environment variables side by side — with drill-down support for multi-value variables like PATH. What the built-in dialog should have been.
View on GitHubhtop for Windows — a rich, interactive terminal process manager with real-time CPU, memory, and disk stats. Includes remote SSH monitoring so you can watch any box from your desk.
View on GitHubA Windows system tray tool that instantly kills messaging, video conferencing, screen-sharing, VPN, and social apps with a single double-click. Panic button for your taskbar.
View on GitHubA Windows system-tray app that monitors your clipboard for rich text (HTML/RTF) and offers to strip it to plain text automatically. Paste clean, every time.
View on GitHubA photo browser that blows past Windows Explorer's thumbnail size limit. Browse any folder in a scrollable grid at up to 1000px thumbnails — with a live slider to dial in exactly the size you want.
View on GitHubA lightweight Windows system tray utility that resets the Print Spooler service and clears stuck print jobs on demand. Everything your printer needs — in a single click, no reboot required.
View on GitHubBrowser extensions built for the tools we already make. Install manually now — Chrome and Firefox store releases coming soon.
Add products to your MakerManifest gear lists directly from any product page — Amazon, Etsy, anywhere. Browse, click, saved. No more copy-paste into a spreadsheet.
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If there's a tool you'd find useful — something that doesn't exist yet, or exists but is annoying to use — reach out. These things get built because someone needed them. And that someone is most likely me.
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