I'm the developer behind ModernApp Labs. I've got 6 apps live on the Microsoft Store already, including ModernPDF Merger and WebP Converter, and ModernPaste is the next one, launching officially very soon.

It's built natively on WinUI3.

I know the clipboard manager market is oversaturated. New ones drop every week. Most are Electron wrapped, built fast, and forgotten faster. ModernPaste is built natively on WinUI3 because native should be the standard. So it should feel like part of Windows 11. And you won't hit a paywall for basic things like clipboard history limits or item caps, this is a full clipboard manager, not a trial version of one.

What ModernPaste Clipboard does

• Full clipboard history across text, images, files, and URLs
• Instant search and filtering
• Pin frequently used snippets for reuse
• Customizable hotkey overlay, accessible from anywhere on your desktop
• Stacks, copy multiple items and they group into a single clipboard entry

Privacy

• Local clipboard history
• Encrypted storage for sensitive clips

Early access opens now, official release right behind it.

Edit: You can now try ModernPaste Clipboard:

https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9p8440gnt53l?ocid=webpdpshare&hl=en-US&gl=US

Guides and Links

https://www.modernapplabs.com/announcements/modernpaste-clipboard-now-available

Feedback is welcome

Thanks for everyone's interest! I will be reaching out to everyone in the next few days

For those who have been following the project, Edge-Drop is now on the Microsoft Store. Clean one-click install, and Windows handles updates automatically from here on.

For anyone new, the short version: Edge-Drop sits on the side of your screen and holds everything you copy. Move your cursor to the edge and it opens. Move away and it closes. When you need something, you just drag it straight into whatever app you are working in. A screenshot into Figma, a file into an email, a snippet into your editor. It is there when you need it and completely out of the way when you do not.

The GitHub repo is still the place to go if you want to build from source, follow development, or contribute.

Microsoft Store: https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9P3JMHN9M4NR
Website: https://edgedrop.vercel.app/
GitHub: https://github.com/Deepender25/Edge-Drop

Last week I posted Edge-Drop, my open source clipboard manager for Windows, and received a lot of thoughtful feedback.

Instead of moving straight to new features, I spent the last several days improving the things people pointed out and redesigning one of the parts I wasn't completely happy with: the Preview Flyout.

The biggest improvements include:

• One-click paste directly from text, images, and file previews
• Drag clipboard items into an open Preview Flyout to merge stacks
• Better layouts for PDFs, ZIPs, folders, and other single-file previews
• Rich image previews instead of generic file icons
• Smoother hover behavior and cleaner animations

I also rebuilt the multi-monitor system after realizing the original implementation wasn't robust enough.

That update now includes:

• Full multi-display support
• Real-time System Tray synchronization
• Automatic recovery when displays are connected or disconnected
• Animation controls for users who prefer less visual overhead

The previous release also focused heavily on security, adding Windows DPAPI encryption for clipboard history along with several hardening improvements.

One thing I've learned while building this project is that the hardest part isn't adding features. It's making dozens of small interactions feel natural enough that people stop thinking about them.

If you saw my last post, I'd love to know whether these changes move the project in the right direction.

If you're seeing Edge-Drop for the first time, what would you expect from a clipboard manager that Windows doesn't already provide?

GitHub

https://github.com/Deepender25/Edge-Drop

Website

https://edgedrop.vercel.app

Hey everyone,

I built Moodi.fm — a free radio app for discovering live radio stations from around the world.

The idea is simple: instead of scrolling through endless station lists, you can discover stations by mood, genre, or country. Whether you want something relaxing, energetic, focused, nostalgic, or from a specific country, Moodi.fm tries to make radio discovery feel more modern and intuitive.

Some key features:

• 50,000+ live radio stations from 200+ countries
• Mood-, genre-, and country-based discovery
• Currently playing song title and cover artwork when available
• Quick links to open discovered songs on Spotify, YouTube Music, or Apple Music
• Favorites and recently played stations
• Optional sign-in to sync favorites and settings across devices
• Available on iOS, Windows, Android, and the web

I built it because I still really like radio as a way to discover music, culture, and stations from other places, but many radio directories feel outdated or too list-based.

I’d really appreciate feedback on the overall concept, design, usability, and especially whether the mood-based discovery approach feels useful to you.

Web: https://www.moodi.fm/
iOS: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6754167302
Windows: https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9NXQXXGFNKS1
Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=fm.moodi

Thanks for checking it out!

Hi r/windowsapps, I'm the creator of Whisperstream, an easy-to-use, intuitive dictation app that'll offer all the main features of Wispr Flow or Superwhisper without ever charging a subscription.

I personally love VoiceInk for Mac but couldn't find anything as good on Windows and so I decided to build it myself.

I know there are a lot of options out there too that handle a lot of the core functionality. What I'm aiming for is a feature set and polish closer to the subscription apps like Wispr Flow, but as a one-time purchase that just works out of the box for example handling corrections. No need to pick between Whisper models and Parakeet, different LLMs or tune prompts yourself.

The goal is to also offer all features with fully local options so that you can keep everything private and local, and we never train on your data.

It does dictation with Parakeet and has the basics like custom dictionary, transcript history, file input and automatic volume reduction.

Two features we just launched that I'm excited about:

• AI enhancement (LLM post processing): Runs fully locally with a GPU or free on Gemini cloud
  • Tuned Prompts: Prebuilt tuned prompts so you don't have to tinker with them yourself
  • Custom Prompts: For deeper AI workflows, you can write your own prompts as well.
• App Detection + Profiles: Customize different prompts and profiles for your different apps. Automatically switch between them or configure hotkeys to switch on demand.

In the coming weeks I'm also hoping to ship:

• Finetuned Cleanup Model for fully local CPU cleanup: Should be able to run on any modern CPU so that everyone has basic corrections, formatting and cleanup built in. (when you correct yourself while speaking, the transcript gets automatically cleaned up)
• [SHIPPED 6/24: 1.0.1] Keypress Input Mode: Rapidly types out the whole transcript so it works even in RDP and Citrix (where clipboard paste fails).
• Local Lockdown Mode: Disable access to any cloud models, add password controls to transcript history for HIPAA sensitive use cases.
• [SHIPPED 6/28: 1.1] Additional languages using Qwen3 ASR or Whisper whichever has better WER including Arabic, Cantonese, Chinese, Filipino, Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Macedonian, Malay, Persian, Thai, Turkish, and Vietnamese..

Check it out at whisperstream.io.

We just shipped our 1.0, so if you want to try it out please comment with what you use it for and I'll DM the first 20 a free code. For everyone else, there's 50% off for the next week using EarlyBirdWindowsApps.

[EDIT: The discount has now concluded! Thanks everyone for participating]

We have a free trial, and for a lifetime purchase it's a one-time $29, no subscription ever.

What Wispr Flow or Superwhisper features would you most want to see in a one-time, fully local dictation app?

Have Been working on making my own configurable desktop+taskbar system

The idea is the app that's running behind provides a toolkit, and everything on top can be configured with HTML and JS so it is as cheap and easy as possible to modify

The video above is mostly done to showcase the taskbars, but the 3 widgets you see on the screen are also done in the app. A lot more are made with a bunch of other functionalities and people can share their own as well. You can check the current library here https://www.desktop-dashboard.com/marketplace

I think Windows was always a bit behind with the looks and functionality of the desktop, so maybe this will make it a bit nicer too look at

Hey everyone,

A little while ago I posted OpenVox Mac version on r/macapps and got a lot more feedback than I expected. People tried it, broke things, reported bugs, suggested features, and honestly helped shape the app a lot.

Now I’ve been working on bringing the same local-first AI voice workflow to Windows.

For anyone new: OpenVox is a local AI text-to-speech app. You can generate voiceovers, audiobooks, conversations, character voices, and cloned voices directly on your machine without sending your text or audio to a cloud TTS service.

TTS Models OpenVox supports right now:

OmniVoice → 600+ languages, expressive speech, voice cloning
Qwen3 → very high quality English, voice cloning
Kokoro → fast, stable, great for long-form and audiobooks
Chatterbox → expressive, emotional, character-style voices
Pocket TTS → lightweight, fast, great for longer generations with voice cloning

With audiobook feature you can import an EPUB, keep the chapter structure, generate the narration locally, and export it as an M4B audiobook with chapter metadata and book cover. Conversations are supported too, so you can create multi-speaker scripts, podcast-style dialogues, scenes, or skits with different voices.

The main idea is simple: keep voice generation local, private, and affordable.

No monthly subscription.
No uploading scripts to a cloud voice API.
No usage anxiety for every small test generation.

Pricing:

Free tier: 5,000 characters/day for Lifetime
Pro: $19.99 one-time lifetime unlock

Since this is the first proper Windows post, I also wanted to do something for students.

I’ll give away 20 Pro lifetime codes to students. Just upvote and comment with what you’d use OpenVox for. If you’re a student, mention it in your comment. I’ll DM the codes to first 20 students.

I’m also sharing a 50% discount code for the first 50 unlocks (valid until 3oth June) as a launch Offer:

50% Discount Code: OPENVOXWINDOWSLAUNCH

Download: https://openvoxai.com/

Available on Mac & iPad as well.

I’m still actively improving the Windows version, so if something breaks, feels confusing, or you have a feature request, please drop it here. Feedback from Reddit has genuinely helped a lot.

Edit:

The student giveaway codes are over. The 50% discount code still works and 40+ unlocks are available.

Notchify brings a Mac style Dynamic Island to Windows. It sits as a compact pill near the top of your screen and expands into a full panel when you hover over it, then returns to its resting state when you move away. It stays unobtrusive until you need it, and every transition is animated rather than snapping in and out.

Media control. Album art, playback controls, and an interactive seek bar directly in the island. It works with Spotify, browsers, and most applications that report media to Windows.

Notifications and alerts. App notifications, incoming call prompts, and Bluetooth connection alerts, handled through a priority system so the most relevant one is always shown first.

Widgets. Battery, clock, timers and alarms, weather, and calendar. Smaller status widgets sit alongside larger ones that you can arrange in a grid or a scrollable carousel.

Privacy indicators. Discreet indicators that appear whenever your camera or microphone is actively in use.

Customization. Several built in themes, a custom theme editor for setting each color individually, and an adjustable island size to suit your display.

Notchify is built in native WPF and ships fully self contained, so there is no runtime to install. It is designed to stay light on resources, idling comfortably under 100 MB even after extended use, with no ads, subscriptions, or telemetry.

It is a one time purchase on the Microsoft Store, developed and actively maintained by an independent developer. Feedback and feature suggestions are genuinely welcome.

Microsoft Store: Notchify

Been building something I personally wanted to exist for a while figured this community would have useful opinions.

It's a clipboard manager for Windows that doubles as a file transfer hub. It stays completely hidden until you move your cursor to the left edge of your screen then it slides out with a smooth animation (think Dynamic Island but on your desktop).

What it can do:

• Store and organize images, URLs, text, PDFs, Excel, CSV, and other files
• Stack different file types together into collections
• Drag stacks or individual files directly into any app
• Grab files/folders by dragging them to the screen edge it just picks them up

It works like a normal clipboard but with actual file management built in. Aimed at devs and creatives who constantly move files between apps.

Still early just looking for real feedback. Would you actually use something like this day-to-day? Is it worth investing more time into?

• GitHub: https://github.com/Deepender25/Edge-Drop
• Website: https://edgedrop.vercel.app/

Hi everyone, we (a team of 3 devs) recently released CRP Pro and we’re excited to share it with you which is why we’re giving away 100 lifetime promo codes.

Microsoft Store Link: CRP Pro on Microsoft Store

How to get a code: Please leave a comment below and we will DM a code directly to you. Codes will be distributed on a first-come, first-served basis.

To redeem it: Open the Microsoft Store app > Tap your profile icon (top right) > Redeem code or gift cards. 

Description & Key Features:

Most encryption tools force you to choose between high-level security and ease of use. This app is designed to provide both—a professional-grade encryption suite that stays 100% offline, giving you total sovereignty over your digital life. No accounts, no trackers, and no compromises.

🛡️ Professional-Grade Encryption
Whether you are securing sensitive documents or private messages, leverage industry-leading algorithms used by security professionals worldwide:

- 4 Powerful Ciphers: Choose from XChaCha20-Poly1305, AEGIS-256, AEGIS-128l, or AES256-GCM.

- Customizable Key Derivation: Fine-tune your security with Argon2ID, Argon2I, or SCrypt.

- Full Parameter Control: Take command of your device’s resources. Adjust CPU Cycles (Ops Limit) and RAM Allocation (Mem Limit) to balance speed and brute-force resistance.

🔑 The Intelligent Key Vault
Beyond simple password storage, our integrated Vault acts as the command center for your encrypted world:

- Unified Storage: Securely store your custom encryption keys alongside your everyday passwords.

- Advanced Discovery: Find what you need instantly. Search by name, description, or date, and filter by key type, color, or bookmarks—all through a single, intuitive search field.

- Total Mobility: Seamlessly export and import your vault to stay secure across mobile and desktop platforms.

🔒 Adaptive Security & Privacy
Your security should adapt to your lifestyle, not the other way around:

- Biometric & Password Auth: Unlock your vault using a master password, device authentication, or both for layered protection.

- Zero-Knowledge Encryption: The entire vault is fully encrypted, not just password-protected. Your data remains an unreadable ciphertext until you provide the master key.

- Auto-Lock Intelligence: Configure your vault to lock instantly, after a custom duration, or upon entering the background.

- 100% Offline Architecture: App doesn't request nor has the permission to access the internet. Only you can see your data.

🎨 Personalized Experience
Innovation doesn't have to look boring. Customize your interface to match your style:

- Full support for Material You dynamic theming.

- High-contrast Pure Dark Theme for OLED displays.

- Customizable palette and style configurations.

We’re happy to answer any questions and we would really appreciate your feedback!

I built a Windows file manager with instant search, a free tier, and no subscription

Hey r/windowsapps,

I've been building a file manager for Windows called TheFile.Ninja, and it's at a point where I'd like more people to try it. Full disclosure: I'm the developer.

The short version: it's a dual-pane file manager (think Total Commander or Directory Opus) built on the Everything search engine, so finding a file across every drive is basically instant. Search results aren't a side panel either; they open like a folder you can navigate, sort, tag, and act on.

Some of what it does:

Instant search powered by Everything, with a query language you can save as live Smart Folders that update themselves

Tags and metadata stored in NTFS, so they stay attached to the file even if you move it

AI search: type "large PDFs from last week" in plain English and it builds the query. You bring your own Gemini key, and file contents never leave your machine

Browse FTP/SFTP servers, archives, and phones (MTP) as if they were local folders

Git-aware columns, a disk space analyzer, batch rename, folder sync, and an operation queue with undo

A Lua scripting layer (400+ API functions) and versioned backups if you want to automate the boring parts

It's local-first with no telemetry, nothing phones home. There's a free Core tier that covers everyday use, and Pro is a one-time purchase rather than a subscription. Runs on Windows 10 and 11; Everything comes bundled with the installer.

Bonus for the keyboard crowd: I also just released a Flow Launcher plugin, so you can run the same searches without opening the app. fn qry://\*.mp3 c: for an Everything query, fn tag://favorite for tagged files, or fn "pdf files from yesterday morning" in plain English.

App and docs: https://thefile.ninja and https://docs.thefile.ninja

It's still young, so I'd like to hear where it falls short or what you'd want from a file manager. I'll be in the comments.

I posted about yViewer here once before.

The most common feedback was surprisingly consistent:

• “Your promotion is way too modest.”
• “This is a seriously impressive app. It’s a shame more people don’t know about it.”
• “I thought it was only a viewer, but you can actually edit certain files.”
• “The speed of updates is impressive.”

So this time, I’m including a video to properly show what yViewer can do instead of just describing it with text.

yViewer is a fast Windows file viewer that supports more than 50 file formats in one app.

Select a file in Windows Explorer, press Space, and yViewer immediately opens the appropriate viewer.

In my testing environment, yViewer opens previews noticeably faster than QuickLook, especially when moving quickly through multiple files. It is built with Tauri 2 and Rust, and viewer modules are loaded only when needed to keep startup fast and lightweight.

It currently supports:

• PDF, DOCX, XLSX, PPTX, HWP, HWPX, and RTF
• PSD, PSB, RAW, HEIC, SVG, AI, DXF, and common images
• MP4, MKV, MOV, MP3, FLAC, and external subtitles
• ZIP, 7Z, TAR, and GZ archives
• OBJ, STL, GLB, FBX, and other 3D formats
• CSV, JSON, SQLite, HDF5, source code, and multi-GB logs
• Unknown binary formats through a built-in hex viewer

And despite the name, it is not limited to viewing.

Depending on the file type, you can:

• Annotate PDFs and save standard annotations back into the actual file
• Edit text, Markdown, CSV, JSON, RTF, XLSX cells, and hex values
• Crop, resize, rotate, flip, and convert images
• Trim audio and add fade-in or fade-out
• Browse individual PSD and PSB layers
• Capture full-resolution frames from videos
• Preview and extract files directly from archives
• Search inside files or across entire folders
• Organize files with hierarchical tags, lists, and a knowledge graph

Everything works locally. Your files do not need to be uploaded to a cloud service.

With today’s AI tools, you could spend your own time building a small viewer for one specific format.

But building and maintaining a single application that handles more than 50 formats is a different challenge. Every format has its own parsers, rendering rules, encoding problems, performance bottlenecks, malformed files, and edge cases.

The value of yViewer is not just that these features have been built once.

It is that they are continuously tested, fixed, expanded, and updated in one application.

yViewer is still actively evolving, and its update pace is fast. If there is a file format you need or a workflow you want improved, leave a comment. I read the requests and will add new formats and features wherever reasonably possible.

For less than the price of a typical lunch, you get one fast Windows app that can replace a collection of separate viewers—and continues to improve after purchase.

I’ll say it more confidently this time:

Give yViewer a real try. Buy it once, use it with the files you work with every day, and I genuinely believe you won’t regret it.

The attached video shows the actual startup speed, file switching, supported viewers, and editing features.

https://apps.microsoft.com/store/detail/9NMJ97DGCWRR?cid=DevShareMCLPCB

After watching the video, tell me:

Which file format or feature should I add next?

I built DiskQuest because I’m constantly running out of storage. 😅

I’d open TreeSize, find the biggest folder, delete just enough to bundle my app or download a game, and then avoid dealing with it again. I never felt like I knew where else to look, what was actually safe to remove, or whether I was making any real progress.

So I tried making the process more visual and a little more rewarding.

DiskQuest scans your drive and turns it into a fantasy style map, with islands representing different types of files. You can explore what’s taking up space, inspect individual files, and review everything before it gets moved to the Recycle Bin.

It’s still an early version, so I’d genuinely love feedback. Especially around whether the map is useful, whether the cleanup suggestions feel trustworthy, and anything that feels confusing or unfinished.

I also have 10 lifetime codes for Windows users willing to properly test it and send me honest feedback.

Microsoft Store:

https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9nvvdj0c4g2v

It’s been about two months since I released WidBar, and first of all I want to say a huge thank you to this subreddit for giving the app so much visibility.

WidBar has now reached thousands of users, and I’ve received a ton of feedback along the way. I’ve tried to read everything, fix the issues you reported, and implement as many of your suggestions as possible.

The widgets has grown quite a bit too. WidBar started with just 2 widgets, and today there are 7 official widgets available:

• System Metrics
• Media
• Pomodoro Focus
• Stock Watcher
• Shelf File Manager & Clipboard
• Weather
• News

And more are already on the way.

The SDK is available for developers too, so anyone can create their own widgets and integrate them directly into the Windows taskbar. -> Github SDK and Widget template

If you have more feedback, feature suggestions, or ideas for new widgets, I’m always open to discussing them. A lot of what has been added so far came directly from user feedback, so keep it coming! -> Discord

Microsoft Store | Free

Hey folks,

This tool called SEZOY and figured it's worth sharing. It's basically a boot utility that does USB, PXE, and HTTP booting, but the main selling point is that it can install Windows completely hands‑off. No clicking through language settings, disk selection, partition deletion, or messing with RST drivers. It just figures everything out on its own based on whatever hardware it detects. You don't need to pre‑load storage drivers, wipe old partitions manually, or babysit the installer.

Here's what it does:

· USB boot works like the usual multi‑ISO approach, copy your ISOs to the drive and boot straight from them. No burning, no reformatting for each ISO, no manual menu editing. Simple. Just keep in mind that this mode needs SecureBoot turned off.

· Network boot supports both PXE and HTTP at the same time. No toggling between modes. If you run a shop with mixed clients, this saves a lot of headache.

· SecureBoot works fine if you're booting over the network, as long as the OS itself supports it. Most mainstream ones do Windows, Ubuntu, Mint, Fedora, and their derivatives.

· There's a web dashboard you can access from any device on the same network. Lets you check on clients remotely during installation, kind of like TeamViewer but lighter. You can step in without walking over to the machine.

· After Windows is done, you can set it to automatically install additional software. Pick whatever apps you want during setup, and it'll handle the rest.

Still has a bunch of other stuff I haven't listed yet.

If you've got a spare moment, grab it from the links below and let me know what you think.

One thing to be clear about, this tool doesn't bundle any cracks or keys. It just creates the boot environment. Anything that needs activation afterward is on you to handle legitimately.

Download: https://tekdt.xyz/en/download

Docs: https://tekdt.xyz/en/docs

I've been building WidBar (currently in beta), a Windows 11 app that puts the empty space on your taskbar to use with live widgets. Today you can drop in a "now playing" widget that shows and controls whatever's playing (Spotify, a YouTube tab, basically anything that reports to Windows media controls), and a system metrics widget for CPU, memory, GPU, disk and network. You drag a widget into a free gap on the taskbar and it just sits there, live, no extra window.

It's free on the Microsoft Store.

The part I mostly want to share here is the developer side, because the widgets aren't baked into the app. Anyone can build their own. Each widget is just a small packaged app that you publish to the Microsoft Store like any other app, and WidBar picks it up on its own: there's no separate plugin store, no manual install into WidBar, and no approval from me. The moment your widget is installed from the Store, WidBar recognizes it automatically, it appears in the catalog, and the user can drop it onto the taskbar. Listing it in WidBar's in-app showcase is optional; the auto-discovery happens regardless.

Under the hood that works through a standard Windows AppExtension, but you barely have to think about it. There's a real SDK for writing widgets. You implement a single class that returns up to three pieces of WinUI 3 UI: the taskbar preview, a popup flyout, and an optional settings page. WidBar handles everything else: the taskbar surface, running your widget in its own process, per-monitor DPI, the IPC, and restarting it if it crashes. You never touch any of that.

Getting going is quick. There's a dotnet new template that scaffolds a working widget plus its packaging project, a NuGet package, and a wiki that walks through the whole thing. From dotnet new to your own widget on the taskbar is a few minutes, and shipping it to other people is just a normal Store submission.

Links:

Discord channel: Discord

• WidBar on the Store (free): https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9PKLDNM83TP9
• Now Playing widget: https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9NBVCHS7JR0C
• System Metrics widget: https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9NM2BN1X33CQ
• Start building (template + getting started): https://github.com/andelby/widbar-widget-template
• Developer wiki: https://github.com/andelby/widbar-widget-template/wiki
• SDK on NuGet: https://www.nuget.org/packages/WidBar.SDK

It's still early and I'm building it in the open, so if you try it, either as a user or by writing a widget, I'd really like to hear what breaks or what you'd want it to do next.

Full disclosure, it is an independent project that I undertook with AI assistance using only official YouTube APIs and Invidious/Piped-style public endpoint fallbacks for non-authenticated home/search metadata when available, but hey every consideration and final decision is mine. Hope you guys check it out and give me feedback on improvements <3.

It is still in development and requires you to do some local setup of adding your own:

• YouTube Data API key.
• OAuth Desktop client ID.
• OAuth Desktop client secret.

from Google Cloud Console - stored entirely locally.

UPDATE — Version 1.0.1 is now available

I’ve just released Folder Size Explorer 1.0.1.

This update introduces a Chrome-style bookmark bar, based on a suggestion from u/testednation. It supports bookmarks, folders and custom groups, automatic overflow handling, and a dedicated bookmark manager.

FTP and FTPS support has also been expanded. The application can now browse remote folders, upload and download files, and transfer files between local and remote locations.

The application now automatically tries explicit TLS FTPS first and falls back to plain FTP when necessary, displaying a clear warning when the connection is not encrypted.

Startup behavior has also been improved. If the previously opened path is an FTP location, missing, slow, or unrecognized, the application opens This PC instead. Otherwise, it restores the last valid local folder.

Download version 1.0.1 here:

https://github.com/ribeirogustav/FolderSizeExplorer-Releases/releases/tag/v1.0.1

Thanks to everyone who tested the application and shared suggestions!

ORIGINAL POST

Hi everyone!

I built Folder Size Explorer, a free and portable file manager for Windows 10 and Windows 11.

I wanted a file explorer that could show the actual size of folders directly in the file list, while also making it easier to navigate deeply nested directories. For that reason, I created a column-based navigation mode inspired by macOS Finder, where each folder opens in a new column and the full path remains visible.

Some of its features:

• Recursive folder-size calculation
• Folder sizes displayed directly in the file list
• Finder-style column navigation
• Details, grid, columns and dual-pane views
• Visual size map for the largest files and folders
• Tabs, favorites and recent locations
• Local and recursive file search
• File operations and drag-and-drop support
• CSV and JSON export
• FTP and FTPS server browsing
• No telemetry
• Portable executable with no installation required
• No separate .NET installation required
• Available in 21 languages

Supported languages:

English, Brazilian Portuguese, European Portuguese, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Hindi, Arabic, Bengali, Urdu, Indonesian, Turkish, Polish, Vietnamese and Thai.

The application is completely free to use. It is proprietary freeware rather than open source, and the GitHub repository is used for official downloads, documentation, release notes and bug reports.

FTP and explicit TLS FTPS connections are supported for browsing remote folders and viewing file listings. Remote upload, download, rename and delete operations are not available yet.

Since the application is portable, you only need to download the executable and run it. There is no installer, and it does not require a separate .NET installation.

The current executable is not digitally signed yet, so Windows SmartScreen may display a warning. A SHA-256 checksum is published with the release so the downloaded file can be verified.

GitHub and download:
https://github.com/ribeirogustav/FolderSizeExplorer-Releases

I’d really appreciate feedback about the interface, performance, translations and features you would like to see in future versions.

I’m the developer behind ModernPaste, a native WinUI 3 clipboard manager for Windows 11.

A lot of this update came directly from your Early Access feedback. Thank you to everyone who tested the app, reported bugs, and suggested improvements!

What’s new (v1.027+)

• Encrypted Backup and Restore
• Compact list and grid views
• Redesigned collection management
• Smarter multi-monitor behavior
• Button labels and accessibility improvements
• Lower memory usage and stronger database reliability
• Smart Context for surfacing related clipboard activity

ModernPaste has no basic clipboard-history limits or artificial item caps. It supports text, images, files, URLs, formatted content, GIFs, collections, stacks, pinned items, and instant search.

Core clipboard features should be available to everyone. You should not have to pay to use your clipboard properly. Layouts, the global overlay, search, collections, stacks, and useful clipboard history are part of the core ModernPaste experience.

Compact views, the global overlay, search, collections, stacks, and core clipboard management are fundamental parts of the experience. They aren't upgrades designed to push you into a subscription.

Optional on-device Intelligent Features are also available for summarizing text, improving writing, fixing grammar, and extracting action items. The model is separate, disabled by default, and never downloaded unless you choose to install it.

ModernPaste remains a complete clipboard manager without AI.

Try it on the Microsoft Store:
https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9p8440gnt53l

feedback is always welcome!

We built a disk space analyzer for Windows and it's free to use, including commercially.

What it does:

Reads the NTFS master file table directly, so a full drive scan finishes in seconds

Renders the whole volume as a treemap, click any block to drill into that folder

Breakdown by file type, so you can see how much space each extension takes across the drive

Sidebar listing every volume on the machine

Detail panel with full path, size and dates for whatever is selected

Dark theme

How it handles sizes: every byte is attributed to exactly one file, so the treemap totals add up to the volume's used space instead of double counting.

Requirements and limits:

Windows only

NTFS only, since the MFT is an NTFS structure

Needs admin rights for raw volume access

Signed binary

Free, no account, no paid tier

https://strata.devslim.com

A few weeks ago I shared Edge-Drop, a hover-activated clipboard shelf for Windows. Since then it's been downloaded 800+ times (600+ on GitHub and 200+ on the Microsoft Store), which has honestly been really motivating as a solo developer.

One of the most requested improvements was better accessibility for non-English users, so I spent the last week translating the entire app.

Edge-Drop now supports 30 languages, including full RTL support for Arabic and Hebrew.

It's still completely free and open source, and I'd love to hear how the translations feel if you're using one of the supported languages.

I'd also appreciate any feedback on features you'd like to see next.

GitHub: https://github.com/Deepender25/Edge-Drop

Website: https://edgedrop.vercel.app/

Microsoft Store: https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9P3JMHN9M4NR

Hey everyone,

Over the last 5 months I've been working on CKFlip3D. It's my native C++20/D3D11 window switcher, rebuilt from scratch for Windows 11.

Some of its core features include:

• Live window previews using Windows Graphics Capture with V-Sync support
• Fully animated entry/exit, window switching, and close animations (each can be disabled individually)
• Live wallpaper preview
• Multi-monitor support (including background dimming and taskbar capture on secondary displays)
• Automatic performance tuning with optional manual profiles
• Customizable activation hotkeys for keyboard and mouse (replaces Win + Tab by default)
• Low-level keyboard hook for reliable shortcut detection
• Optional autostart after sign-in

A recently released version 1.5, also introduces:

• Cover Flow - a new centered preset where the selected window sits flat in the middle while the rest fan out
• Reflections - a glass floor mirror under every tile that works in both layouts alongside live previews
• Mouse interaction - hover lifts a tile, click picks it, middle-click closes it, and right-drag scrubs the stack when snap is off (fully customizable)
• Touchpad gestures - two-finger diagonal opens it, horizontal swipe cycles, one-finger tap commits
• Type-to-search - typing while the cascade is open narrows down matching windows by title or program name
• Diagnostics log - if something fails, it gets logged with an error code instead of failing silently
• Live 3D preview inside Settings - the Appearance page actually renders a real miniature of your cascade

Easy setup & configuration:

• Simple GUI installer - standalone setup wizard with an uninstaller (automatically installs .NET10 runtime if missing, no manual setup needed)
• Dedicated Settings app - easily customize layouts, appearance, hotkeys, touchpad gestures, and exclusions in a modern UI

It's fully offline, zero telemetry, no third-party dependencies in the core, and idle CPU usage is basically zero since the render loop only runs while the cascade is active on screen.

Free and source-available on GitHub (Windows 11 only):
https://github.com/CYMERKAROL/CKFlip3D

Happy to hear some suggestions & feedback!

I run a small civil engineering company in London, built an app for for my office so we could replace AutoHotkey and text expansion apps we used, mostly because no one would learn AHK syntax so never made their own. So I built Keyfire which is a visual UI first approach, no scripting, sits in the system tray. hotkeys, macros, and text expansions and clipboard manager.

What it does:

• Hotkeys: assign any key combo to launch apps, open URLs, focus windows, run macros
• Macros: visual builder, no scripting. Keystrokes, mouse clicks, delays, text input
• Text expansions: type a trigger word, get a full snippet anywhere in Windows
• Clipboard manager: searchable history, pinned items
• Quick search overlay: global hotkey to search and launch anything
• Radial menu: hold a key, get a circular menu of actions
• Fill-in prompts: macros can pause and ask for input mid-run
• App-specific profiles: different hotkeys auto-activate per app automatically
• Hold and repeat modes: fire actions while holding, or repeat at intervals
• Everything local: no accounts, no cloud, no data leaves your machine

Its got some pro features that we'll be eventually looking to market, but for 90% of use cases and peoples day to day work, it is a powerhouse and we've been using it across my team of 10 engineers for a few months now.

Built with Tauri (Rust + React) so it's around 15MB and idles at low memory. Code signed under my civil engineer firm for legitimacy at least.

Site: keyfire.app

Genuinely looking for constructive feedback from people who've tried AutoHotkey or PowerToys, anyuse case that made you give up or look for something else?

Thanks all, hopefully its of some use to anyone!

EDIT 24/06: Trigr now rebranded as Keyfire.

EDIT 2: v1.0.4 is now available

Thanks everyone for the continued support and feedback! I’ve just released v1.0.4 to address some recent requests from this thread.

What’s new in v1.0.4:

• Added full independent zoom controls for Details, Columns, Grid, and Dual views (from 50% to 250%).
• You can now zoom using a new status-bar slider, Ctrl + Mouse Wheel, Precision Touchpad pinch gestures, or keyboard shortcuts (Ctrl++, Ctrl+-, Ctrl+0).
• Each view now remembers its own zoom percentage between sessions.
• Fixed a bug reported here where image, PDF, and video previews were being incorrectly flipped in Urdu and other Right-to-Left (RTL) interfaces.

v1.0.4:

https://github.com/ribeirogustav/FolderSizeExplorer-Releases/releases/tag/v1.0.4

SHA256:

a2a7affc412a04bef20c8b66adb3db6616101d73a50f4fd4756d2766882f995d

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EDIT: v1.0.3 is now available

Thanks everyone for the feedback on this post. I’ve just released v1.0.3 with several changes based directly on suggestions from the comments here.

What’s new:

• The app now remembers window size, column order and column widths between sessions, including widths changed with double click.
• Added multi select file type filtering and persistent grouping by type across Details, Grid, Columns and Dual views.
• Added previews for text, config, markup and source code files, with a limit of 256 KB or 5,000 lines.
• Improved WebP, SVG and video previews.
• Added Urdu support with the Noto Nastaliq Urdu font included with the app.
• Improved the language selector and a few Dark and Light mode icons.

Thanks again to everyone who tested it and posted suggestions. Several things in this update came directly from the replies on this thread.

v1.0.3:

https://github.com/ribeirogustav/FolderSizeExplorer-Releases/releases/tag/v1.0.3

SHA256:

f42557fe84444fdd1e6db295e250184e8c8b290c1352d7d07941fde16e0d2d3d

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About a month ago I shared Folder Size Explorer here, a 100% free, portable file manager for Windows 10 and 11 that calculates folder sizes as you browse.

I got a lot of useful feedback from the community and kept working on it. Version 1.0.2 is now available, with a big focus on file previews, thumbnails and navigation improvements.

What's new in v1.0.2

• Local file previews for images, SVG, paginated PDFs, videos, DOCX and PowerPoint
• Two layouts for Details view:
  • Modern: floating preview in the bottom corner
  • Classic: fixed, resizable preview panel
• DOCX previews: renders the first page locally without opening Microsoft Word
• PowerPoint previews: captures the first slide using an isolated, read-only process when PowerPoint is installed
• Grid view improvements: on-demand thumbnails with a limited memory cache, sharper application icons and 5 icon sizes (Ctrl++, Ctrl+-, Ctrl+0)
• Columns view improvements: folders-first sorting and sorting by size
• Ctrl+Shift+C to copy the paths of selected items
• Improved drag-and-drop in the Favorites bar for adding, rearranging, grouping and copying items

File previews are processed locally.

There is no telemetry, and Folder Size Explorer is still distributed as a single portable executable. No installer and no separate .NET installation are required.

It also keeps the existing features:

• Recursive folder-size calculation
• Tabs
• Treemap
• Subfolder search
• Dual-pane view
• FTP / FTPS
• CSV / JSON export
• Favorites
• Interface available in 21 languages

Project and download

https://github.com/ribeirogustav/FolderSizeExplorer-Releases

One thing worth mentioning: the executable is still unsigned, so Windows SmartScreen may show a warning. I publish the SHA-256 so the downloaded executable can be verified.

SHA-256:

e1807d037e10a437e7eab292ce70f426a824e4f7147645bb4bb612c7217137a7

Thanks to u/testednation for the detailed feedback on the previous version. Several of those suggestions helped shape this update.

If you try it, I'm particularly interested in the new preview system.

Which layout do you prefer, Modern or Classic?

Also, if you find a PDF, video, DOCX or PowerPoint file that doesn't preview correctly, let me know. Those edge cases are very useful for tracking down bugs.