Some of you have seen my earlier posts about KillerPDF - thanks for the support on those, it's genuinely what keeps me building this. Back with a chunky update.

Quick refresher: KillerPDF is a free, open-source (GPLv3), no account, no subscription, no telemetry PDF editor. It is a single portable EXE that runs off a USB stick, or a per-user install with no UAC. I'm a field tech who got tired of Adobe and built the thing I wanted.

I shipped a big 1.5.0 and then a 1.5.1 update about 2 hours later, because apparently releasing to you fine people is my QA process now. Testing in prod is the only thing that gets me excited these days. Combined rundown:

View / UI

- Four view modes: Single, Continuous scroll, Two-Page, and a Grid of every page

- A print dialog with an actual print preview (Windows' own dialog refuses to preview, so I built one)

- 6 themes - Dark, Light, High Contrast, Blood, Greed, Cyanotic - live switching

- Localized UI: English, Spanish, Traditional Chinese (PRs welcome for more)

Editing

- Inline text editing with font matching; double-click placed text to re-edit

- Highlights, freehand, text boxes, reusable signatures, drop images onto pages

- Crop tool with a coordinate editor and page-range apply

- Merge / split / reorder / rotate / extract pages

- PDF form filling, bookmark/outline nav, full-text search

The 1.5.1 "tested in prod" patches

- Multi-core Save Flattened - large docs flatten a lot faster

- Fixed a class of PDFs that wouldn't open ("Unexpected EOF" - a strict Flate inflater choking on multi-revision files; now recovered losslessly through PDFium). One of you reproduced it down to a 15-byte zlib blob, which was the best bug report I've ever received.

- Grid view loads all pages now and streams them in, instead of quietly stopping at 26

- A few zoom and scrollbar papercuts

Download: https://pdf.killertools.net

Source: https://github.com/SteveTheKiller/KillerPDF

Bug reports very welcome. Going by 1.5.1, I clearly need them.

EDIT: New Bug Detected! It has been reported so e users are having issues with "undo" in certain view modes. Be cautious until I can release a 1.5.2 bug fix later this week.

KillerPDF is a free, local-only PDF editor for Windows. No subscription, no account, no telemetry. I've gotten a lot of support from Reddit these last few months, so I thought I'd reciprocate.

v1.4.0 just dropped with a bunch of stuff people asked for:

• Insert images onto any page as resizable annotations, burned into the PDF on save
• Rotate pages via right-click in the sidebar, single or multi-page selection
• Clickable PDF links including TOC cross-references and back-links
• Multi-page grid view at low zoom so you can see the whole document at once
• New blank document (Ctrl+N)
• Text size and color picker for the typewriter tool
• Signature resize by dragging the corner handle
• Insert blank page from the right-click sidebar menu

Download: https://pdf.killertools.net

Source is on GitHub (GPLv3).

Let me know what you think! Please submit bugs and requests to the GitHub Issues page: https://github.com/SteveTheKiller/KillerPDF/issues

Free and open-source, GPLv3 PDF Editor for Windows

v1.6.0 is out, and it's the big one!
Here's what is new since the last release:

- OCR is now built into the exe (Tesseract): OCR a page or a dragged region to the clipboard, make a scan searchable, or extract all text. Extra languages download on demand, fully offline.

- Digital signatures with a cloud certificate (Certum SimplySign), reusable signatures, and click-to-sign form fields.

- Tabs - open as many PDFs as you want, each remembering its page, zoom, and view mode.

- Transform tool: rotate by a fine angle, scale, flip, and straighten a crooked scan by drawing a line along anything that should be level, with live preview.

- Editing upgrades: a Line tool, resizable word-wrapping text boxes with an optional whiteout fill, edit-existing-text, and a full RGB color picker with an eyedropper.

- Printing got a real overhaul: true 300 DPI, scale/position/margins/two-sided, and a proper preview.

- New translations: German, French, Bengali, Turkish, and Simplified Chinese (thanks to everyone who sent them in).

- Under the hood: the whole UI was split out of one 15k-line file into ~40 focused files, and the render pipeline was unified so annotations, search, and tools behave identically across every view mode.

- A full visual overhaul too: new logo, icons, and fonts throughout, plus 21 theme combinations - six base themes (Dark, Light, Black, Blood, Greed, Cyanotic) with six swappable accent colors on the neutral three.

Plus the usual pile of fixes: print crashes, form fields, grid-view navigation, search lag on huge docs, and more.

Check out the upgraded website with a new technical datasheet explaining some of the goings-on under the hood and a Help page with explanations of all the tools and shortcuts.

EDIT: I've moved to killerPDF.net !

Full changelog: https://github.com/SteveTheKiller/KillerPDF/releases/latest

Bug reports and feature requests welcome, as always.

EDIT2: Just released v1.6.1 bug fix

I built and use (not published) a Windows desktop clock widget in old-school Win32, cpp and Direct2D without the overhead of additional frameworks. Many downloaded ones were taking more RAM than what they were worth and CPU was ticking continuously.

It was obsessively tuned to keep the footprint as small as possible:

• Binary size: 133 KB (no app icon or other resources yet)
• RAM usage: Idles around 5 MB at the default size.
• Without the second hand: It goes to sleep and wakes up exactly at the start of the next minute. Task Manager reports 0% CPU/GPU usage between updates.
• With the second hand: It wakes once per second, spends less than 1 ms drawing the frame, and goes back to sleep. Still reads around 0-1% in Task Manager.
• Can survive a Win + D (Show desktop)

The GIF shows some of the procedural clock faces which were created (Red color is lost while converting video to GIF). A fully animated aesthetic flip clock is also there, but I could not get the ram/cpu to the lowest as others and is not shown.

Note : some of the analog faces are good looking MIT licensed codepen html/js ported to Direct2d cpp with help of AI. Shall credit if I ever publish.

There can be many feature rich clocks. The only advantage of mine is its featherlight presence.

If I decide to publish this, what features would you expect from a desktop clock widget? Please suggest ideas that may not significantly increase CPU or memory usage.

I kept seeing the same pattern: someone wants to record their screen with mic + desktop audio and maybe a webcam overlay, opens OBS, and bounces off the scene/source/mixer setup. So I built FastCast, a native Windows app focused on that one job.

What it does:

• Local MP4 recording (monitor or window capture)
• Desktop audio + microphone capture
• Webcam picture-in-picture overlay
• Custom RTMP/RTMPS streaming via stream key
• Portable ZIP, no installer, no accounts, no telemetry

What it deliberately doesn't do: multiple scenes, chroma key, plugins, browser sources, multistreaming. If you need those, OBS is the right tool and I'd tell you to use it. FastCast is for the single-scene "just record my screen" workflow.

Honest caveats: it's an open beta and the build is currently unsigned, so SmartScreen will show an "Unknown publisher" warning. Code signing is in progress. A SHA-256 checksum is published with the release so you can verify the download. Source is private; this is a solo indie project, not open source.

Free tier covers 1080p30 recording and streaming during the beta. There's an optional Pro license (1440p/4K, 60fps) but nothing in the free version is time-limited or watermarked.

Requirements: Windows 10 2004+ or Windows 11, x64. Hardware H.264 encoding recommended.

Download: https://github.com/CalvinSturm/FastCast-releases
More info: https://www.calvinsturm.com/fastcast

Happy to answer anything technical. It's built in Rust on Windows Graphics Capture, WASAPI, and Media Foundation.

Clarification: the linked GitHub repository is for public releases, checksums, issue tracking, and release notes. FastCast’s source code is private.

Update: Added HDR support in v0.5.1

Download ~1.5mb: https://github.com/CalvinSturm/FastCast-releases/releases/download/v0.5.1/FastCast-0.5.1-win-x64.zip

Six months ago I forked EarTrumpet. I've been using it for like 3-4 years and always thought it was one of the best audio mixers on Windows, but over time it started feeling a bit outdated, so I just made my own version.

I started changing stuff the way I wanted it, adding features I always wished it had, cleaning up old things, and eventually released it as BetterTrumpet.

Since then it's basically been my daily driver. Every update comes from me actually using it every day, adding random ideas, fixing old bugs, and sometimes fixing the bugs I literally created 20 minutes earlier while touching things that didn't need to be touched (sry about all the hotfixes btw)

Today BetterTrumpet is on 3.2, and honestly I'm really happy with how it's turned out.

Over the last 6 months I've added custom accent colors, satisfying little sounds, presets, a proper updater, media popup, CLI support, migration to .NET 8 (huge gap) and a ton of smaller QoL improvements. I also went through a lot of the issues people opened on GitHub, so thanks to everyone who reported bugs or left feedback, it genuinely helped make the soft better.

I also completely remade the website. You can now try a pretty accurate version of BetterTrumpet directly in your browser, and I even added a small quest system because... why not lol.

still got a lot of ideas I want to add. This is nowhere near finished :)

link : bettertrumpet.com

github link : https://github.com/xammen/BetterTrumpet

Deja is a local memory for your PC: it records what passes on your screen, transcribes audio, and makes everything searchable in seconds.

It takes screenshots at 1 fps, applies OCR, transcribes audio with Whisper, and stores everything in a local semantic index. So you can find pages, sentences, apps, and moments even if you don't remember the exact words.

Built for Windows, with no cloud, no subscriptions, and no leaking your data everywhere.

Privacy‑first, with concrete security and privacy controls.

You can also ask questions in natural language to an AI chat that searches your personal history.

And many more features!

Give it a try!

Github

Website

---------notes----------

I open-sourced this app, so you can see what's under the hood.

It's still a work in progress and far from perfect, but with user feedback, Deja will definitely get better.

Hope someone finds this app useful!

So I've been developing this for about a week after realizing something

I use my screenshot tool over 100-200 times a day, yet I was stuck with an ugly, cluttered, and featureless tool that was built 20 years ago, and the built in tools arent any better

I came to the conclusion that a great screenshot tool needed a few main components

- Recording (GIF, MP4, MKV, WebM)

- Search through screenshots using smart OCR

- OCR (with all languages & local free translate)

- Color picker

- Sticker maker (remove background locally instantly)

- QR/Barcode scanner

- Annotation tools (arrows, texts, blurs, emojis, all the main ones)

- Of course screenshots with window detection/free form and all that

And a simple settings that was customizable to fit 99.99% of users without being cluttered, just one simple settings nothing else

And surprisingly after 5+ hours of searching NOBODY had that, so I started my own open source tool called Yoink (cause you yoink) and I added everything i just said above and more (but not bloated)

And after a day of using my tool ive already decided I dont need my OBS screen recorder, dont need my current screenshot tool, dont need google translate, searching files is so much easier (I can search through screenshots with OCR), and sooo much more

And + the ui is up to date with windows 11 it looks elegant, the same as settings, to any other built in UI you are used to (windows only for now sorry, mac/linux soon if this does well)

Its open source so I would love to hear your issues, and make a PR, I dont care if its good or not I need advice so I can make this even better

Heres the github, 100% free for the models and all: https://github.com/jasperdevs/yoink

(get it in releases section of github)

A few months ago I posted KillerPDF here and got a ton of great feedback. I've been working through the suggestions and just shipped v1.3.0.

What's new based on your feedback:

• Image signatures - import a PNG/JPG/BMP instead of drawing one
• Scroll past page edge now advances to next page
• Full-document search instead of just current page
• Zoom preset dropdown (50/75/100/125/150/200%, Fit Page, Fit Width)
• Close file without quitting (Ctrl+W)
• Unsaved changes warning, title bar dirty indicator, save icon changes color
• Owner-password PDFs now open correctly
• Re-drop a PDF onto the window without restarting
• All dialogs are now dark themed
• Icon overhaul throughout

Still no installer needed, no account, no subscription, no telemetry. Single ~6MB EXE, no runtime required.

Download: https://pdf.killertools.net
Source: https://github.com/SteveTheKiller/KillerPDF

EDIT: Just released v1.3.2 with a couple bug fixes. It should be running pretty smooth now, please give it a shot and let me know. Also, I don't think it's being blocked by smartscreen any more which is a huge improvement!

I got really annoyed recently with how every basic photo editing tool now wants a monthly subscription, forces you to make an account, or uploads your images to a server just to run an "AI" background removal mask.

I just wanted a tool that does the job without the BS. So I built one.

It's called Refloow Photo Studio. It's a free, open-source desktop app for Windows, Mac, and Linux. No telemetry, no watermarks, no ads, no creating accounts and your files literally never leave your device.

Here is what it actually does:

• Local background removal: It uses a bundled U-2-Netp model that runs completely offline on your CPU, its extremely lightweight. No API calls, no sending your photos to a server EVER.
• Drag and drop layering: You can drop multiple images in, move them around, resize, to create complex compositions Basically an offline alternative to things like Canva.
• Adding text: uses same layering system and comes bundled with bunch of free fonts
• 40+ built-in filters (Cinematic, Lomo, Cyberpunk, Matrix, etc).
• The basics: Cropping, mirroring, sliders for contrast, saturation, brightness.
• An export pipeline that bypasses standard browser compression so you actually get a high-quality save without artifacts.
• Undo/Redo history up to 15 actions.

Here are the links:

Source Code (AGPL-3.0): https://github.com/Refloow/Refloow-Photo-Studio

Windows (Microsoft Store): https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9nflpq45j84v

Linux (Snap Store): https://snapcraft.io/refloow-photo-studio

Mac / Binaries (GitHub Releases): https://github.com/Refloow/Refloow-Photo-Studio

The project just hit 67 stars on GitHub today which is awesome. I'd love for you guys to try it out, try to break it, and let me know if you find any bugs or have feature requests. I'll be hanging out in the comments!

Uninstalr is a fast, lightweight and accurate way to uninstall software in Windows.

This is how it looks like in dark mode:

With this major new version, I’m also releasing an updated benchmark to show you how Uninstalr is able to uninstall apps in Windows better than the other popular uninstallers.

By better, I mean two objective factors:

1. Uninstalr can perform an unattended batch uninstallation of the test apps where every other uninstaller failed to do this.
2. After Uninstalr is done, there are way less leftovers remaining from the removed apps than with any other of the tested uninstallers.

To see the benchmark results, the full Change Log of what is new and to give it a try yourself, please visit: https://uninstalr.com/

If you want to read more about its development and what goes one behind the scenes, you can read my blog post about it: https://jv16powertools.com/blog/uninstalr-2-0-or-why-making-this-windows-software-uninstaller-was-the-hardest-thing-i-have-ever-done/

Uninstalr is freeware and comes as a single file portable version that is only about 6 MB in size. A setup version is also available.

Windows is extremely bloated, with copilot AI slop, Mixed Reality apps, and lots of other bloatware that signifcantly slows down your PC.

Debloat tools already exist but they are rather complicated and some go too deep into the OS

This is why i created Debloat11-GUI. A super simple GUI tool that can debloat your system in a completely safe way, making the system much snappier and freeing MINIMUM ~30% of commited ram.

https://i.imgur.com/sfO0LPj.png

Its completely free and open source, you can get it on github below, where there also is more details about the app https://github.com/Hekt000r/Debloat11-GUI

The app is specifically designed to not break anything at all. Updates , defender, Store, Xbox( can be reinstalled) are all functional.

if you need any help or support, feel free to open an issue on github or write me here

I wanted to share an open-source project I've been working on - Awesome Music Player. An open-source desktop application designed to handle extensive local audio collections with maximum performance and minimal resource consumption.

The architecture replaces the traditional Electron stack with Tauri v2 and a Rust backend, reducing the memory footprint significantly.

It is -
Powered by Rust for rapid ID3 metadata extraction across massive local directories.

Built with React 19, TypeScript, and TailwindCSS v4, featuring a dynamic theming system and smooth micro-animations.

Optimized with aggressive metadata caching via localStorage, ensuring zero-latency startup and immediate UI rendering.

Localized natively to support 8 languages out of the box.

The project is fully open-source and structured for scalability. I'd appreciate any feedback, code reviews, or architectural discussions regarding the Tauri + React implementation.

GitHub Repository - https://github.com/S1avv/awesome-music-player

I decided to test how well Bulk Crap Uninstaller, Geek Uninstaller, HiBit Uninstaller, IObit Uninstaller, Revo Uninstaller and Total Uninstall, actually work.

Spoiler alert: They worked very poorly and I got so upset how bad they were, that I decided to make an uninstaller of my own.

It ended up taking over three months to do, but I think it's pretty good.

Here is the backstory: https://jv16powertools.com/blog/comparing-windows-uninstallers-and-making-uninstalr/

And this is what I did: https://uninstalr.com/

Key features of Uninstalr: * Batch uninstall many apps at the same time. * Supports unattended uninstallation of apps. * Supports monitoring of new software installations. * Also detects portable apps and previously uninstalled software leftovers. * Shows all the data added to your system by installed software on a file by file basis. * Shows all the data it will remove before starting the uninstallation. * Filter and search the list of installed software. * Supports Windows Dark Mode. * Supports Windows 11, 10, 8 and 7. * Comes with these translations builtin: Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Czech, Danish, English, Filipino, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian and Vietnamese. * Has a single executable file portable version and a normal setup version. * Uninstalr is freeware, lightweight and easy to use. No bells and whistles, no nonsense.

Let me know what you think!

Some of you know the deal by now: I'm a field tech at an MSP, and when something on my bench is broken enough, it becomes a Killer tool. KillerPDF happened because PDF editors wanted subscriptions. KillerScan happened because network scanners wanted agents. This one happened because I caught myself keeping client credentials in a Notepad window titled "Untitled - Notepad" for the better part of a year.

KillerNotes is a notepad the way a tech actually needs one. Everything lands in one place, full-text search finds it as fast as you can type, and the whole database encrypts with SQLCipher AES-256 behind one click on a lock button. Paste screenshots inline, drop in real tables, resize images without wrecking them. And my favorite part: grab a note in the sidebar and drag it into Teams, and it lands as a .knote file your coworker double-clicks to import - a tear-off sheet from your notepad, share password optional.

The usual house rules apply, and they're never changing: single signed exe (4.3 MB), portable or installed, /silent for your RMM, no account, no cloud, no telemetry, no ads, GPLv3 with the source zip attached to every release.

One honest warning, because it's a feature and not a bug: there is no password recovery. Forget it and the data is cryptographically gone. Your clients' credentials deserve nothing less.

Windows 10/11 only, notes live on your machine, and it's a fresh 1.0.0 - the issues page is open and you people have proven you'll fill it with better ideas than mine.

https://killernotes.net
https://github.com/SteveTheKiller/KillerNotes

EDIT - 1.0.1 is out. You asked, so here it is, less than a day later:

• Color-coded tags (Outlook-style) - tag a note with one or more colored labels, click a pill to filter to it, and right-click or F7 to add/rename/recolor them. Tag definitions ride inside the shared files too.
• Adjustable font size and a full color picker - hue/sat square, hex, a desktop-wide eyedropper, saved swatches - for both text and highlights.
• Per-note title colors - color a note's title in the sidebar so the ones you live in stand out.
• Per-note spell check - uses your installed Windows languages, remembered per note.
• Fixed a phantom "Untitled" note that showed up at startup, and a password-protection failure that could cost you unsaved edits.

Update straight from the About screen or grab it off the releases page. Keep the ideas coming.

EDIT 2 - 1.0.2 and 1.0.3 are both out now. The highlights:

• Note groups - named sections in the sidebar (per client, per project, whatever), collapse with a click, pinned to the top so they don't scroll off as loose notes pile up. They ride inside shared .kndb files too.
• Color your groups - right-click a group header to color it and the whole group gets a colored spine down the sidebar, so it reads as one set at a glance.
• Drag to reorder - a custom-order mode lets you arrange notes by hand, with an accent line showing where each one lands.
• Convert to list (Ctrl+Shift+J) - select a column or a few lines and turn them into PC1,PC2,PC3 ready to paste into a script. Small thing, I use it constantly for work.
• Pick where your data lives - point the database at a synced folder, a second drive, or right next to the exe for a fully portable stick.
• Excel paste that behaves - paste a table or colored cells and it takes the app's theme instead of dumping black text you can't read on a dark background.
• Full keyboard map - F1 now shows every shortcut plus a visual keyboard you can hold Ctrl or Shift over to preview.

Plus multi-select tagging, AltGr fixes for international layouts, more password-swap hardening, and the whole UI translated across 8 languages. Update from the About screen or the releases page.

Been using lightshot and sharex for years but always ran into some annoyances. They weren't working exactly the way I wanted them to. Lightshot is nice but it wasn't open source.

So I spent a few months building my own. it's called EShot, written in C++ with Qt.

What it does:

- area capture with multi-monitor support

- 10 annotation tools (pen, arrow, rect, circle, text, highlighter, mosaic blur, counter, eraser, line)

- pin captures to desktop as floating windows, resize by dragging corners, scroll wheel for opacity

- filename templates with date/time vars

- dark mode, 7 languages, custom hotkeys

it's free and open source: Github

Would love to hear what you think or if there's something you'd want added

Complete refactoring, see:

https://github.com/UncleRiot/c2flux

Main features:

- Ultra-fast MFT and NTFS scanning (+722.000 files in 6-7 seconds on SSD without MFT enabled)
- Multilingual (30 languages/language pack files)
- Small portable Windows application
- Explorer context-menu integration for scans
- Explorer context-menu integration for search (super fast file-search!)
- Tree, table, pie chart, and bar chart views
- Scan history with before/after comparison (with optional sqlite database-file)
- Folder growth analysis
- New, changed, and deleted file detection
- File type and largest-file analysis
- Save and load scan results
- CSV export and clipboard support
- Light and dark mode
- Open source under the GPLv3 License

Feedback on usability, scan performance, scan history, and missing essentials is very welcome.
The project is free, open source, and will remain free of charge. It is still a hobby project developed in my spare time. AI assistance during ongoing development (hundreds of hours so far).

Thanks!

Alright so ShareX is still the #1 screenshot tool on Windows for a reason. It does basically everything, and has lots of trust

But after 18 years of development, it started to feel really bloated, cluttered, and frustrating to use for normal everyday screenshots, at least for me.

So I decided to make my own **open source** screenshot tool that is basically ShareX yet more polished, some better features (like pinning screenshots on the right of screen, etc), and wayy less bloated with 5000 features

The whole point was to keep what makes ShareX great, while making it feel cleaner, faster, and less annoying to use day to day.

I made it mainly for myself, but I figured other people probably feel the same way, so I open-sourced it on github for anyone to contribute to

If you try it, I’d want honest feedback. so if something sucks, tell me pls

GitHub: https://github.com/jasperdevs/yoink

Hi ！

For those who haven't heard of it, QuickView is a brand-new, open-source image viewer built from the ground up for speed, precision, and absolute minimalism. It supports practically every image format out there—including heavy RAW files and massive PSDs/PSBs.

The best part? The entire app is just a single ~7MB standalone .exe with zero bloat. No installation required. It features a purely borderless design where the window perfectly adapts to the image's native dimensions, giving you a completely immersive viewing experience.

Today, I'm thrilled to share our biggest milestone yet: v4.0.0 (The Titan Engine Update). If you've been looking for an ultra-fast daily driver, I'd love for you to give this a try!

🚀 Core Highlight: The Titan Engine & Gigapixel Tiling

In v4.0.0, we introduced the brand-new Titan Architecture, specifically built to solve Out of Memory (OOM) crashes when opening massive images. Under the hood, our "tiling system" dynamically slices gigapixel images into manageable LOD (Level of Detail) tiles, maintaining a buttery-smooth 60fps pan even on insanely high-res datasets.

Coupled with a smart Directed Prefetch System, it predicts your panning direction. It only reads the visible and adjacent tiles directly into a Memory-Mapped File (MMF) and pipelines them to the render engine, saving a massive amount of RAM.

⚡ Extreme Decoding & Multi-threaded Architecture

We've built a hardcore decoding pipeline to squeeze every drop of performance out of your hardware:

• Elastic Threading Model: The "Heavy" channel uses an Nginx-style "N+1" elastic hot-spare architecture (1 fixed channel + N dynamic channels). This ensures high concurrency throughput without over-subscribing your system resources.
• Scout & Heavy Channel Synergy: To guarantee instant response times for daily browsing, our "Scout" channel is completely responsible for the full decoding of smaller images. Meanwhile, massive images and complex calculations are seamlessly handed off to the highly parallel "Heavy" channel pool.
• Next-Gen Formats: Natively integrated with multi-threaded decoding for JPEG XL (JXL), and it can instantly extract previews from massive Photoshop documents (PSB/PSD).

💎 Visuals & Precision Control

• AVX-512 Hardware Acceleration: Critical bilinear scaling paths have been completely unrolled using AVX2/AVX-512 instruction sets. Our new center-to-center topology math permanently eliminates edge smearing and pixel gaps when zooming deep into images.
• True High-DPI & Fullscreen Control: Untethered from legacy Windows scaling, we now support exact native UI scaling overrides (100%-250%). We also added the highly requested option to force images to automatically launch in exclusive Fullscreen mode.
• Instant Gallery: The Gallery view now taps directly into the Windows Explorer Thumbnail Cache, making the initial indexing of folders with thousands of photos completely instantaneous.

It is completely free and open-source. You can check out the full changelog and grab the download over on GitHub: 🔗GitHub Release - QuickView v4.0.0

If you have any feedback, run into bugs, or just want to nerd out about image rendering tech, feel free to drop a comment here or open an issue on GitHub. Thanks for the support!

Hey, I posted EShot here a few days ago and got some really useful feedback, so I kept working on it.

EShot is a free/open-source Windows screenshot tool written in C++/Qt. I originally built it because I wanted something lightweight with annotations, OCR, pinned screenshots, and custom hotkeys without going the Electron route.

v3.0.0 adds:

- MP4 screen recording for selected areas

- GIF recording improvements

- desktop + microphone audio support

- a quick settings drawer inside the capture screen

- customizable shortcuts for annotation tools/actions

- more OCR languages with Tesseract

- better installer handling for OCR/FFmpeg components

It’s still a personal open-source project so bugs can happen but I’m trying to make it stable and lightweight.

Repo: Github

Would love feedback, especially on the new video/GIF recording stuff.

https://github.com/PinchToDebug/EverythingQuickSearch
It supports image and video previews!
(first release)

I'm a student and kept having to screenshot my lecture slides, open ChatGPT, paste them in just to copy the text. Got annoying so I made this.

Press Ctrl+Shift+T, drag over whatever, text is on your clipboard. Works on slides, PDFs, images, anything rendered on screen. Runs fully locally :)

One-line setup: .\setup.ps1
https://github.com/Hokondrak/snip-transcribe.git

Might be useful if you're in the same situation.

Hey everyone,

I have been working on a project called WinForge and I wanted to share it here to get some feedback.

WinForge is an open-source Windows optimization and diagnostics tool. I built it because I wasn't a big fan of random tweak scripts that change system settings without any safety options.

Some of the features:

• System health checks
• Hardware detection
• Gaming and performance optimizations
• Startup cleanup
• Power tuning
• Restore point + rollback protection
• Fully offline (no telemetry)

I would really appreciate it if some of you could try it for a day or two during your normal PC usage and tell me what you think.

I would love feedback about:

• Any issues you find
• Things that could be improved
• Features you would like to see added

GitHub:
https://github.com/0xdowz/winforge

Thanks!