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Gyazo
Gyazo
Take screenshots, GIFS, and replays that are ready to share. Save what's on your screen without missing a moment. After you capture we upload and copy a unique link that's private but ready to paste & share instantly. Reliably save interesting and useful moments for your friends, your fans, and your coworkers. Every capture is saved to your account together with its details. Get Gyazo Pro to search and organize all your captures fast. A screenshot or GIF is the perfect way to grab what you see. New screenshot links are copied and ready to paste so you can instantly share anywhere. Sometimes text can miss the point or just take too long to explain something. Send a screenshot or screen GIF and your message is crystal clear. Everyone wants more content for their blog, social media, and website. Capture and edit in seconds to create powerful visual content you can post instantly. Everything you capture is privately tagged for you so it can easily be found.Starting Price: $3.99 per month -
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Screenpresso
Screenpresso
Time saver for explaining something to your colleagues and clients. Screenpresso captures your desktop (screenshots and HD videos) for your training documents, collaborative design work, IT bug reports, and more. Screenpresso is a NEW Light-weight screen grab tool with built-in image editor, user guide generator and sharing options. Press the Print Screen button, and you will see how Screenpresso magically assists you in screen capture, the mouse cursor will turn into a crosshair, and moving it around the screen will automatically highlight the area that can be captured in red. It does some pretty cool edge snapping to the screen, so you can choose to grab part of a window, or the entire window, or even the whole screen. Capture full screen, part of the screen or a specific window with the same shortcut/hotkey. Make sure to capture what you need. Click and drag anywhere on your screen to select a region with pixel-perfect accuracy thanks to the zoom lens at the right bottom.Starting Price: $716.09 one-time payment -
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Snipaste
DigitalOcean
Snipaste is a simple but powerful snipping tool, and also allows you to pin the screenshot back onto the screen. Download and start the application, press F1 to start snipping, then press F3 to paste it as a floating window. That's it! You can also convert text or color info in the clipboard into a floating image window. Such windows can be zoomed, rotated, flipped, made translucent, and even made click-through! If you are a programmer, a designer or whoever works much time before the computer, you will be surprised how it can help you get your work done more efficiently! Snipaste is easy and intuitive to use, but there are also many hidden features that can make your life even more efficient. Read the manual if you are interested. Snipaste has to stay in background, because it is indeed a 'paste' tool, which requires it to keep running. You may use it just for snipping, but you cannot demand it to be a pure snipping tool.Starting Price: $19.99 -
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LivingWriter
LivingWriter
Start your book, plot your book, write your book, organize your book, and export it for publishing all in one place. Simple drag and drop organization for all your chapters, subchapter, and elements. LivingWriter stores your story elements and suggests them as you type. Organize your story with time-tested outlines used by best-selling authors. Spend less time organizing and planning. Spend more time growing your ideas into books. Order and reorder your chapters and story elements without the hassle of copying and pasting. Jot down your chapter notes quickly on the sidebar. Everything on one screen means never leaving your story. We don't believe in reinventing the wheel, but we're fans of greasing it a bit. You can now use the same outlines used in world-famous stories and movies right in LivingWriter. We'll lead you through each step with detailed guidance. No other writing app out there will do that for you.Starting Price: $8.99 per month -
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iA Writer
iA
Get focused. The simple, award-winning design of iA Writer delivers the essential writing experience. Used by half a million people worldwide, its minimal interface is crafted to cut out noise. It’s just you, your thoughts, and the words on the page. No rulers, no formatting bars. iA Writer provides the crisp, uncluttered environment you need to write well, supported by discrete, powerful features, from content blocks, to syntax highlighting. Focus is the key to good writing, and the guiding principle behind iA Writer. With shortcuts and simplified settings, you can keep your hands on the keyboard and your mind in the text. We think every craftsperson should own their own tools, so when you download iA Writer, you own it. No forced subscriptions, microtransactions, or compatibility concerns. Your work, your files, your app.Starting Price: $29.99 per license -
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ApowerREC
Apowersoft
ApowerREC is a screen recorder popular among advanced and novice users. Able of capturing all activities on your PC and mobile screen, you have all the tools you need to complete your recording. The application is nested in a sober and intuitive interface, to facilitate its handling. Now record a specific part of your screen or large-screen or just the audio. If you are a game fan, you can choose the "Game Screen Recording" option to film your game. Once the recording is complete, you can directly share the video to social media and cloud platforms.Starting Price: 19.95$ -
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Akiflow
Akiflow
Akiflow is a personal task manager + calendar desktop app (win+mac) that will help you keep yourself always organized. By becoming 10x faster on the basics, keeping yourself organized will not be a burden or require too much time throughout the day WHY AKIFLOW? We built Akiflow focusing on speeding up the fundamentals of productivity: capturing tasks, processing them, and always knowing what to work on. → Reduce the effort By becoming 10x faster on the basics, keeping yourself organised will not be a burden or require too much time throughout the day. → Prevent mistakes Akiflow is built to prevent the most common mistakes that affect productivity. Our features are designed to help you avoid cognitive overload, distractions, over-scheduling and context switching. → Peace of mind A single source of truth. A clear schedule. Notifications to guide you throughout the day. Everything one shortcut away. Akiflow is built to keep your mind clear and focused.Starting Price: $15/month/user -
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Hypernotes
Axonic Informationssysteme
With Hypernotes you can finally express your knowledge in a natural way – easy to create, easy to expand, and – maybe most importantly – easy for others to understand. Your notes, tutorials, wikis, intranets, books, scripts, articles, research activities – from now on, they have a new home. Everything is connected. So is your knowledge: It forms a network. With Hypernotes you easily create a semantic network of your knowledge. The result? Less text, but more understanding. When your projects get bigger and more successful, you need your team. That’s also true for knowledge bases. Hypernotes has powerful task management features in place: Share and assign writing-related tasks with your colleagues, friends, and family. Some of the most important steps of the content creation process happen not at your desk – but when you are out there, in the real world.Starting Price: Free -
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Apeaksoft Screen Recorder
Apeaksoft
The most professional way to record any online and streaming video/audio in various popular formats and take snapshot of game and screen with high quality. Apeaksoft Screen Recorder is a professional tool to record any video/audio and capture screen on your Windows or Mac. This screen recorder enables you to record any on-screen activities you want with original image/sound quality. For instance, you can use it to record online videos, Skype calls, GoToMeeting, games, podcast, webinars, lectures, online conference, webcam videos, etc. in full screen or customized screen size. With up to 60 fps frame rate, you can record any gameplay and then share the project with friends on Twitch, YouTube or Facebook. Wheather the gaming screen or the camera screen, you can get all in recording. Record videos and take pictures about your products and service to show its features and functions detailedly, how to use and other information for business partners and clients.Starting Price: $19.96 per month -
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Supernotes
Supernotes
Supernotes is your new home for ideas, records, tasks, and lists. Enjoy efficient note-taking without the hassle. No more bloated files for taking notes. Create simple yet powerful digital note-cards with rich and varied content, like math equations, tables, images, checklists, and emojis. Organise your note-cards into a hierarchy that suits you. Use filters, search and sorting to find any note, anywhere. Establish links between your thoughts, something never possible with a traditional document. Your content is stored securely on our servers, making them accessible from all of your devices. You can keep your cards to yourself, or collaborate on them with friends & colleagues in real time! We understand that you don’t have much time on your hands, Supernotes takes care of lots of things for you, so you can focus. No formatting, no downloads, no loading screens. It just works!Starting Price: $8.32 per month -
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Standard Notes
Standard Notes
Your notes are encrypted and secured so only you can decrypt them. No one but you can read your notes (not even us). Keeping our app simple means you'll spend less time fighting and more time writing. It's faster and lighter than most notes apps. Our apps are built carefully to optimize overall lifetime and long-term survivability. Standard Notes is free to use on every platform, and comes standard with cross-platform sync and end-to-end privacy. For those wanting a little more power and flexibility, we created extended, which unlocks powerful editors, themes, and automated backups. All your data — no matter if you’re using a PC, a phone, a tablet or a gaming system — is encrypted everywhere you don't control. On our servers. On our network. On a public network. In the cloud. On mars. Whenever your information moves anywhere away from your direct control, it will be seriously encrypted with a passcode that no one else in the world knows but you.Starting Price: $2.48 per month -
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Inkdrop
Inkdrop
Organizing your Markdown notes made simple. With 100+ plugins, cross-platform and encrypted data sync support. Get a low-friction personal note-taking workflow and accomplish more. With your notes well-organized effortlessly, you can stay focused on doing your best work. It comes with multi-language code highlighting, multi-cursors, line numbers, scrolling beyond the last line, showing invisible characters and more. An intuitive and clean user interface and 'Distraction free mode' don't distract you from the text. With nestable notebooks, pin-to-top, tags and workspace view, it allows you to flexibly organize your notes. Track your work progress with note status and task progress view in the note list. Your notes can be shared on the web with a public link. It also supports exporting as HTML, PDF and Markdown file format. Whenever, even while in offline, you can read and write notes.Starting Price: $4.16 per month -
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Craft
Craft Docs
Craft is an all-in-one workspace designed for capturing notes, managing tasks, and organizing ideas in a seamless and visually appealing environment. It combines documents, to-do lists, calendars, whiteboards, and daily notes into a single platform, allowing users to keep everything connected in one place. With its intuitive interface, Craft makes it easy to move from quick ideas to polished documents across devices. Users can embed tasks directly בתוך documents, ensuring that planning and execution stay aligned. The platform also supports templates, publishing, and sharing, making it suitable for both personal and professional use. Craft integrates with popular tools and AI assistants, enhancing productivity and workflow automation. Its flexible structure allows users to organize content using spaces, folders, tags, or collections. Overall, Craft provides a unified environment for thinking, writing, and planning.Starting Price: $4.80/month -
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Stardock Fences
Stardock
Fences helps you organize your PC by automatically placing your shortcuts and icons into resizable shaded areas on your desktop called fences. Its many customization features are what make Fences the world's most popular Windows desktop enhancement. Eliminate clutter from your desktop - but keep your Fences where it's easy to find them - with our roll up feature. Double-clicking on a Fence's title-bar will cause the rest of the Fence to "roll up" into it, saving you valuable space. To reveal your fence, you can move your mouse over the title-bar or double-click it again to view the title and all of its icons as normal. Create multiple pages of fences on your desktop and quickly swipe between them. To change to a different desktop page, just take your mouse cursor to the edge of your screen and click and drag. Then a new page of fences will be displayed.Starting Price: $10.63 one-time payment -
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Parallels Toolbox
Parallels
Parallels® Toolbox is our all-in-one solution with over 30 tools for macOS® and Windows 10. Save space on your hard drive, create high-quality content, and quickly optimize your computer for a presentation. Designed for creative individuals, students, small business owners, chronic multitaskers, IT managers, and everyone in between. Parallels Toolbox allows everyone to make the most out of their Mac or PC, without learning complicated system settings. Download a 7-day trial or buy for macOS or Windows 10. Scan a barcode with a built-in camera or import an image to recognize content encoded with a barcode or QR Code. Links are automatically recognized and can be clicked directly. Take a screenshot of a single window. Keep your Mac clutter-free and running at max speed. Scans, detects, and lets you choose what to delete. Forget having to choose only one item to copy and paste. Automatically collect multiple copied items to easily paste what you want, when you need it.Starting Price: $19.99 per year -
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WidsMob Capture
WidsMob
Record online streaming audio, system audio and microphone audio.It enables you to record music, presentation audio, game commentary, oral explanation and more other audio files. Moreover, it also helps you extract audio from video. Access to recorded audio files within a simple method. Adjust the Sample rate to the desired quality with ease. Custom screens to take snapshots with mouse cursor or manually adjust the screen size. Add lines, rectangle, circle, arrow, draw pencil and more other elements. Adjust the size and color of these elements. Moreover, it enables you take some important screenshot when recording the video files. Whether take a screen video or a screenshot, the program has multiple annotation tools to add line, circle, rectangle, callouts, arrow, pen, markpen and more. If there is any mistake, the program is able to undo or clear the action. It also enable you adjust the color and size of these elements to get a desired result.Starting Price: $19.99 per year -
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WhatPulse
WhatPulse
WhatPulse is a small application that measures your keyboard/mouse usage, down- & uploads and your uptime. You can send these stats to our website, where you can use these stats to analyse your computing life, compete against or with your friends and compare to other people. It can provide you with a keystroke by keystroke tally of, most frequently used apps and which apps utilize the greatest amount of bandwidth. WhatPulse is designed for those curious about how much actual PC work is done by counting exactly what you are doing while working.Starting Price: $29.99/year/user -
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HitPaw Screen Recorder
HitPaw
HitPaw Screen Recorder is a user-friendly screen recorder. It can help content creators to record video, screen, webcam, and record your camera and screen at the same time. With its keyboard and mouse capture, users can easily let viewers know what they are saying. Also, you can change the effect of the mouse and keyboards. These tools are very important to online teachers. This screen recorder has a hardware acceleration function that can make your computer work faster and export much quicker when using it. If you are worried about unexpected situations which may result in your video loss, you can enable its segment recording. It will save your videos at the duration you set. With advanced operation studio, this screen recording software makes everything interesting happen. You can add screen, window, webcam, game, iOS devices, pre-recorded videos, pictures, or texts to record at the same time, switch from content only, presenter only, or content + presenter, etc.Starting Price: $9.99 per device per month -
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Ferdi
Ferdi
Ferdi is a free and open source all-in-one desktop app that helps you organize how you use your favorite apps.Starting Price: 0 -
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Walling
Walling
Walling is your visual space to organize ideas, manage tasks and see the big picture of your projects on visual collaborative walls. The visual experience of the walls provides clarity and visibility into your ideas and project details. Visual walls for your ideas, projects and research. With your ideas side by side, Walling empowers you to step back and get a high-level understanding of what you're working on. Keep your bookmarks organized on a wall and easily create beautiful mood boards. Collect bookmarks & create mood boards. Visualize the entire context of your projects, plans, tasks, research, creative briefs and much more. All visually organized in one place! Walling helps you visually work through tasks, plans and research, without layer after layer of clicks to reveal your ideas. You can invite your team or clients to your walls to collaborate with you in real time, add their own ideas and leave comments, or you can share a public link to the wall to share it with everyone!Starting Price: $8 per month -
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Effie
7S2P Inc.
Effie, a light, clean yet powerful mind mapping and writing software for Mac, iOS, Windows. Features: All your work is in one place and within reach. So there’s no confusing file management. Autosave and sync all your work in the cloud, so you can access anything from anywhere. An immersive writing environment to keep you away from distractions. One tap to convert an unordered list into a mind map, and vice versa. Edits on the unordered list will be synced with a mind map, saving you from jumping the hoops from one app to another. Flexible export to a PDF, DOCX, Markdown, EffieSheet, and JPEG file. Simplified markup language allows you to finish your writing without lifting your fingers away from the keyboard. Markup Insight panel woken by a “/” makes it much easier to use the markup language. You can choose to write in the dark or light theme, whichever drives your creativity and productivity. Different styles are available for your mind maps. Built with native code.Starting Price: $4.99/month -
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OpenDrive
OpenDrive
A Powerful, Cloud Storage and Office Suite Accessible from Anywhere. OpenDrive Drive: Store, sync or backup your documents, music and pictures online with instant access, sharing and collaboration, all in a simple to use, secure environment. OpenDrive Notes: In a simple but effective interface, create notepads with single notes and to-do lists. Attach pictures and documents to any note and write comments. Taking notes when something comes up is crucial for any number of business and personal needs. We feel that taking notes and keeping them organized can make everyone more productive. ….and of course it helps us to not forget things. OpenDrive Tasks: A powerful task and project management tool that helps you manage and collaborate on any project within a single interface. Share tasks with your account users or anyone else.Starting Price: $9.95 per month -
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EaseUS RecExperts
EaseUS
Record part of the screen or a full screen based on your needs. You can even record multiple screens simultaneously. Capture video, audio, webcam or image for any occasion. Record Zoom meetings, YouTube videos, tutorials, games, etc. Record screen with internal audio and your voice on Mac/Windows. Record sound from your computer or/and microphone. You can also extract the audio from the recorded video file or during the recording. Videos that include a speaker are more engaging! Capture your face via a web camera while you are recording the screen. Auto-stop recording when it reaches a set time, duration, or file size. Or auto split recording to multiple files for later use. Set the frame rate of recorded footage as you want and save it to 10+ formats, including MP4, MOV, AVI, MP3, PNG, etc. Enjoy smooth & simple video recording! With GPU acceleration technology, EaseUS screen recorder lets you record gameplay, live streaming, and other videos without any lag even on a low-end PC.Starting Price: $19.95 one-time payment -
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AnyRec Screen Recorder
AnyRec Studio
AnyRec Screen Recorder is professional in recording the activities on your computer, and you can record online videos and audio, meetings, gameplay, and webcam simply. The Snapshot tool allows you to take screenshots and edit the captured screenshots. Record videos played on your computer with high quality. You could also record meetings and Skype calls on your computer. It supports various formats like MP4, MOV, WMV, AVI, F4V, and TS. With AnyRec Screen Recorder, you can record both system sound and microphone sound. You could choose the one according to your need. You could also reduce audio noise while recording. Record gameplay and webcam. AnyRec Screen Recorder benefits game lovers a lot. You can export game recording in a 60 fps frame rate with high quality. Mouse recording and task schedule function With the mouse recording function, you could show the mouse cursor, record mouse clicks, and record the mouse area in custom colors.Starting Price: $14.50 per month -
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TextMaker
SoftMaker
DOCX is the default file format of TextMaker 2021. This lets you skip the annoying import and export. You can open documents created with TextMaker in Microsoft Word, and vice-versa, directly, without conversion. With TextMaker 2021, you can also edit DOC and RTF files, as well as create high-quality PDF files. You can now also create archival PDFs in PDF/A format for the long-term preservation of your documents. SoftMaker Office Professional and NX Universal even enable you to create great-looking e-books in EPUB format. Daily correspondence is handled quickly with TextMaker 2021. Practical time-savers such as the built-in address book, automatic marks for folding pages, and attractive document templates make creating letters, mail merges, labels, and envelopes child's play. Create attractive flyers, invitation cards, and posters in no time at all using the sophisticated desktop-publishing functions of TextMaker, such as its unique object mode, intelligent object guides, etc.Starting Price: $16.50 per year -
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AbleWord
AbleWord
AbleWord is a very capable word processing application that can read and write the most popular document formats including PDFs. It is fully featured, supports image formatting, tables, headers & footers, and includes spell checking and print preview functions. Best of all it is totally free even for commercial use. There are a few free Word Processing packages available for Windows but none come close to the features offered by AbleWord. It is highly compatible with popular document formats including .DOC & .DOCX but Ableword can also open and save as a PDF which makes it a very useful tool to have. AbleWord very simple to install and use, it is commonly used as a PDF editor and also for converting PDF to Word® but of course, it is also a splendid word processor and supports most of Microsoft Word®'s features. For more information see our getting started guide or online help.Starting Price: Free -
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AbiWord
AbiWord
AbiWord is a free word processing program similar to Microsoft® Word. It is suitable for a wide variety of word processing tasks. Our latest stable release is version 3.0.5. It's available in a number of languages and operating systems. AbiWord is usually available from your Linux distribution repository. AbiWord is rapidly becoming a state-of-the-art word processor, with lots of features useful for your daily work, personal needs, or for just some good old typing fun. This tour gives you a quick look into some of AbiWord's highlights. AbiWord has been designed to integrate perfectly with the operating system it runs on. It will take advantage of the functionality provided by the system, such as image loading or printing capabilities. What use is a word processor when you can't share your documents with your friends? AbiWord is able to read and write all industry standard document types, such as OpenOffice.org documents, Microsoft Word documents, WordPerfect documents, etc.Starting Price: Free -
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Jarte
Jarte
A free word processor based on the Microsoft WordPad word processing engine built into Windows. A fast-starting, easy-to-use word processor that expands well beyond the WordPad feature set. A small, portable, touch-enabled word processor whose documents are fully compatible with Word and WordPad. Jarte is a WordPad-based, free word processor whose unique interface will make you feel like you are piloting a swift, nimble yacht by comparison. Although Jarte doesn't look anything like the office word processor you are used to, it can handle your word processing tasks with aplomb. If this sounds like the kind of word processor you are looking for then maybe you owe it to yourself to give Jarte a try. The Jarte word processor relieves that problem by including only the features likely to be needed by real people. Jarte is designed for students, writers, small business people, and home users.Starting Price: Free -
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RoughDraft
Richard Salsbury
RoughDraft is a freeware word processor for Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, and XP. Although suitable for general use, it has features specifically designed for creative writing, novels, short stories, articles, plays, and screenplays. It's designed to be as practical as possible, offering all the features you need, but without being complicated or awkward to use. Special modes for plays and screenplays make formatting easy. A side panel that makes common operations quicker and more convenient. Instant backup of all open files to the device of your choice, a very convenient way to make sure you don't lose your work. Automatic creation of cover pages for manuscript submissions with word and page counts. Automatic insertion of user-defined words, for character names or commonly used words. Four extra clipboards for inserting longer phrases or paragraphs. A comprehensive but simple printing system, including a print preview.Starting Price: Free -
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PageFour
Bad Wolf Software
In December 2017 we released PageFour as free software. We did this because it is no longer under development and no new versions will be released. It’s now available as-is for anyone to download, install and use at no cost. You do not need a license key. All you need to do is download the software by clicking the button below, and run the installation program. PageFour is Windows software and will run on most Windows operating systems. Organize your work in a way that suits you. Place your character summaries and plot outlines wherever you wish. Chapters and notes are all at your fingertips. PageFour's powerful Search tool helps you quickly find that paragraph you wrote last week. No more Windows Search, or frantically opening document after document. Password protects those sensitive pages or chapters. Spell-checker dictionaries are available in many languages, including German, French, Spanish, etc.Starting Price: Free
