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OpenClaw: a personal AI assistant in every chat app you already use

Self-hosted AI gateway that puts the same assistant into WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack, iMessage and more. Open source, MIT-licensed, runs on your own machine.

May 5, 2026via github
AIself-hostingopen-source

Avec: 'Tinder for email,' minus the dating part

Free iPhone email app that lets you swipe through Gmail one message at a time. Voice replies, smart filtering, learns what matters to you. iOS only, US and Canada.

May 4, 2026via web
emailAItools

When Your Documents Are More Than Text

A new open-source tool reads PDFs the way humans do — charts, tables, diagrams and all — instead of pretending they're just paragraphs.

Apr 24, 2026via github
AIopen-sourceworkflow

Teaching AI to Work Like a Senior Engineer

A Google engineer published 20 ready-made instruction sets that stop AI coding tools from cutting corners — and they're free to use today.

Apr 23, 2026via github
AItoolsworkflow

754 Security Skills You Can Give to Your AI Assistant

A free, open library that teaches AI assistants to think like a cybersecurity expert — covering 26 areas of digital security across the frameworks big companies actually use.

Apr 22, 2026via github
AIopen-sourcecybersecurity

A Bloomberg Terminal for the rest of us

A free, open-source tool that puts professional-grade financial research on your desktop — no $27,000 subscription required.

Apr 21, 2026via github
financeopen-sourceAI

Teaching AI to Have Taste

A tiny file you drop into any AI-built project that stops the agent from producing the same generic, purple-gradient website it made for everyone else.

Apr 20, 2026via github
AItoolsworkflow

Dictation that reads your screen

Aqua Voice turns speech into text across any app — but the twist is it reads what's on your screen and matches your tone. Free tier plus a bonus with code DP-FH8V.

Apr 20, 2026via web
AIvoicedictation

AI can now edit video by writing HTML

A new open-source tool turns plain web code into rendered video — which means AI agents can finally produce video content without touching a timeline.

Apr 19, 2026via github
AIautomationopen-source

One File That Teaches Claude Some Manners

A tiny config file inspired by one of AI's sharpest minds turns Claude Code from a confident intern into something closer to a careful engineer.

Apr 16, 2026via github
AItoolsworkflow

Google's AI Knows What Your Files Really Are

Google open-sourced the AI it uses to scan billions of Gmail and Drive uploads — and it identifies file types with 99% accuracy in the blink of an eye.

Apr 15, 2026via github
open-sourceAItools

A text prompt walks in. A finished video walks out.

An open-source project that works like a tiny film studio on your computer — you describe a video, it writes the script, plans the shots, and produces the whole thing while you sleep.

Apr 14, 2026via github
AIautomationopen-source

What if your docs actually worked?

A small YC-backed agency figured out how to fix broken developer docs in weeks, not months — by letting AI do the tedious parts and humans do the thinking.

Apr 12, 2026
AItoolsworkflow

Teach Your AI to Speak Less, Think More

A tiny add-on makes Claude respond like a caveman — and somehow that cuts costs by up to 87% while keeping every useful answer intact.

Apr 11, 2026via github
AItoolsworkflow

A Tiny Download Manager That Respects Your Machine

The best download manager around went quiet in 2023 — someone just rebuilt it from scratch, and it's smaller, faster, and free.

Apr 10, 2026via github
open-sourcetoolsself-hosting

Graphify for Claude Code: a free, open-source codebase knowledge graph

Free, open-source Claude Code skill that turns any codebase into a knowledge graph. Ask questions in plain English, runs 71x cheaper, works with a local mode.

Apr 8, 2026via github
AItoolsworkflow

A real email address for your AI agent

Molted gives AI agents their own managed mailbox — with built-in safety rails so they can't spam your contacts or leak sensitive data.

Apr 7, 2026via web
emailAIautomation

One person. One AI. 740 job offers evaluated.

Someone built an AI-powered job search system for themselves, used it to evaluate 740 offers and write 354 tailored CVs — then got hired as Head of Applied AI.

Apr 7, 2026via github
AIworkflowautomation

A Design File That Teaches AI What Your Brand Looks Like

A plain text file called DESIGN.md can now tell an AI agent exactly how a website should look — colors, fonts, spacing — so it builds interfaces that actually match your style.

Apr 6, 2026via github
AItoolsworkflow

Drop a receipt. Get tidy accounts.

TaxHacker is a free, self-hosted app that reads any receipt or invoice — in any language — and turns it into clean accounting data, automatically.

Apr 5, 2026via github
self-hostingopen-sourceAI

Beautiful product demos, free forever

OpenScreen does what expensive demo software does — zoom effects, clean backgrounds, polished exports — at zero cost and with no watermark.

Apr 3, 2026via github
toolsopen-sourcevideo

The invisible ruler for text on screens

A tiny open-source tool just went viral for solving something deceptively boring: measuring how tall a block of text is, without making the browser stutter.

Apr 1, 2026via github
open-sourcetoolsworkflow

An hour of voice, handled in one breath

Microsoft quietly released a voice AI toolkit that can transcribe a full hour of audio — speakers, timestamps, and all — without breaking it into pieces.

Mar 31, 2026via github
AIopen-sourcevoice

Plan a trip together — without handing your data to anyone

TREK is a free, self-hosted trip planner your whole team can use in real time — maps, budgets, weather, packing lists — and it lives on your own server.

Mar 30, 2026via github
self-hostingtoolsopen-source

When AI coding sessions grow up and become team processes

OpenWork turns solo AI coding sessions into something a whole team can audit, repeat, and trust.

Mar 29, 2026via github
open-sourceAIworkflow

One Plugin, Thirty-Two AI Teammates

A new plugin for Claude Code gives you an instant team of 32 specialized AI agents — architect, designer, librarian, and more — without writing a single line of setup.

Mar 28, 2026via github
AIMCPworkflow

One command. Eight sources. A real picture of right now.

A single command sends an AI agent across Reddit, YouTube, X, and five other sources — and brings back a grounded, cited summary of what people are actually saying in the last 30 days.

Mar 27, 2026via github
AIresearchworkflow

Reading PDFs Without Sending Them Anywhere

A new PDF parser runs entirely on your own machine, handles messy real-world documents surprisingly well, and doesn't need an internet connection or an API account.

Mar 26, 2026via github
AIopen-sourceself-hosting

Your Calendar, Contacts, and Messages — Inside Claude

A small Mac app quietly bridges the gap between Claude and your actual life — calendar, messages, contacts, reminders, and location included.

Mar 25, 2026via github
MCPAItools

An AI That Works When the Internet Doesn't

Project N.O.M.A.D. bundles an AI assistant, offline Wikipedia, maps, and medical references into a self-contained computer that runs anywhere — no Wi-Fi, no cloud, no tracking.

Mar 22, 2026via github
self-hostingAIopen-source

How to see what you pasted in Claude Code

Claude Code collapses anything longer than a few lines when you paste. One key changes that.

Mar 21, 2026
AItoolsClaude Code

A Dashboard for Your AI Assistant's Energy Levels

A tiny open-source tool that shows you exactly how much of Claude's attention budget you've used — before you run out mid-task.

Mar 20, 2026via github
AItoolsworkflow

Teaching AI Agents to Use Desktop Software

A new tool lets AI agents operate desktop software like GIMP or Blender the same way a human would — but faster, quietly, and without anyone touching a mouse.

Mar 13, 2026via github
AIautomationworkflow

A Full AI Team, Ready to Hire

100+ ready-made AI agent personas in one repo - frontend devs, brand managers, growth leads. Copy-paste into Claude, ChatGPT or any AI tool.

Mar 11, 2026via github
AIautomationworkflow

The AI That Tries to Break Your App Before Anyone Else Does

Shannon is an open-source AI that actually attacks your own web app to find real security holes — not just a list of warnings, but proof that something is broken.

Mar 6, 2026via github
AIopen-sourcesecurity

Your Brand on Reddit, Without the Hours

A free, set-it-and-forget-it system that watches Reddit for your brand name so you don't have to.

Mar 5, 2026
automationworkflowtools

A news dashboard that thinks — and never phones home

WorldMonitor pulls together global news, markets, and geopolitical signals into one screen — with AI analysis that runs entirely on your own machine.

Mar 4, 2026via github
open-sourceAItools

Your WiFi Router Can Already See You

A new open-source project turns an ordinary WiFi router into a sensor that can detect where people are, how they're breathing, and whether someone has fallen — no camera required.

Mar 2, 2026via github
AIopen-sourcetools

Your codebase, mapped — without leaving your browser

GitNexus turns any code repository into a visual map your AI assistant can actually read — privately, for free, in your browser.

Mar 1, 2026via github
AItoolsopen-source

Your Spreadsheet Can Now See the Future

Google quietly embedded a powerful AI forecasting model inside Google Sheets — and you don't need to know anything technical to use it.

Feb 28, 2026
AItoolsworkflow

Teaching your AI coder to actually think before it types

A free tool that gives your AI coding assistant a real methodology — so it stops winging it and starts working like a disciplined engineer.

Feb 27, 2026via github
AIopen-sourceworkflow

The Web Scraper That Fixes Itself

Scrapling watches websites change and quietly updates itself — so your data pipelines don't break every time a competitor redesigns their homepage.

Feb 26, 2026via github
automationself-hostingopen-source

What if your AI assistant actually read the document — like a human?

A new open-source tool lets AI navigate long documents the way an expert would — by understanding structure, not just scanning for similar words.

Feb 25, 2026via github
AIopen-sourceMCP

The Instructions Behind the Curtain

Someone published the secret instructions powering Cursor, Claude, Lovable, and 25 other AI tools — and it's the most revealing thing published about AI this year.

Feb 24, 2026via github
AItoolsopen-source

Claude Code: when AI actually builds things for you

Anthropic's tool lets Claude read your entire project, make changes, and even publish updates — while you describe what you want in plain English.

Feb 22, 2026
AItools

Cloudflare gives you a global server network — for free

100,000 requests a day, storage, scheduled tasks, and your code runs in 300+ cities worldwide. No monthly bill.

Feb 20, 2026
hostingtools