Productivity Tools
3401 best Productivity tools and apps, curated and ranked by community upvotes on ProductCool. Updated daily as new Productivity products launch.
Apple removed Launchpad in macOS 26. CubbyPad brings back the full-screen app grid: pages, folders you arrange, F4, hot corners and the trackpad pinch. Then it goes further: a search bar that does maths, opens System Settings pages and runs your Shortcuts; Apple Intelligence that sorts your apps into folders on your Mac; and a row of the apps you use at this time of day. One-time purchase for 2 Macs, in 20 languages.
Make your iPhone Duo screen a creative studio with adjustable screen lighting, a live makeup mirror, color animations, and personal photo displays. LumaFold lets you use two screen areas differently. Light your face while checking your makeup, pair two colors for a creative shot, or combine a favorite photo with a handwritten message. LIGHT FOR YOUR BEAUTY ROUTINE Use the live camera mirror on one side and adjustable light on the other.
Turn async TypeScript functions into internal tools. Every await io.input shows a form in the browser and waits for the answer. Build a secure, self-hosted back office in minutes with zero frontend code and zero telemetry. Free for up to 3 users.
BaseTab turns your browser's empty new tab into a dashboard you arrange yourself. Drag in 30+ widgets: notes, to-dos, Kanban, Pomodoro, bookmarks, weather, Google Calendar, Gmail, and chat with Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini. Missing a widget? Describe it in plain words and AI builds it for you. Keep separate workspaces for work and life, share one with your team, and pick a background that feels like home. Free forever, works without an account, and asks for site access only when a widget needs it.
Mo lives on your Mac screen and does the work for you: files, PDFs, photos, email, calendar, settings, routines and more, 232 tasks with no other app. Talk or type, get answers as cards, undo anything. Private, local models or your key. $19.99 once.
Native macOS app that hides menu bar icons behind one item, rescues icons stuck behind the notch, pins menu commands to hotkeys, keeps new menu bar apps hidden, flags battery-hungry hidden apps, and syncs your layout across your Macs with iCloud.
Tap twice to mute your mic in any meeting. Three times to play music. Four for a menu of anything.
Talk to your coding agents and hear them talk back. SKI runs Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, OpenCode, Antigravity and pi side by side on your Mac, and tells you the moment one needs you.
Chopstick notices what you repeat on your Mac and builds notch widgets for it, using the coding agent you already have. Your activity log stays local.
Faylee records the screen, console, every network request and each click behind a bug, on one timeline, and shares it all as one link. Your team opens it and sees exactly what broke, with the failing request already open. Paste the link into Claude Code, Codex or Cursor, and Faylee's MCP server gives the agent the whole report so it can find the cause and fix it. Instant replay saves the last few minutes after a bug already happened. Free for up to 3 members.
New since our first launch: StepGrab runs on Windows, and projects open on Mac and PC. Black out emails, names or prices, and the box is burned into every export so nobody can lift it off. Every guide opens in an editor: rewrite steps, add arrows, boxes and text, reorder, undo. The direct Mac download uses Accessibility to read the real name of every button you click, so steps get more precise. Still the core: every click becomes a screenshot, arrow and sentence. No account, nothing uploaded.
Nocto turns your MacBook's notch into a small control center. Hover to see what's playing and skip songs. Ten minutes before a call it starts a countdown, and when the meeting begins the notch opens with a Join button (Zoom, Meet, Teams, Webex, FaceTime). Park files on the shelf, find anything you copied in clipboard history, and check your Mac and AirPods battery at a glance. Native, light, macOS 14+. One-time purchase, 7-day free trial. Music stays free forever.
iSurge is one app for people who live on their Mac: live stats at the notch, each app's volume and mic, disk clean-up, an uninstaller, dev tools for ports, projects and Homebrew, a focus timer and Keep Awake. $14.99 once, $10.99 with PHPROMO20. No account.
SparkBots can be trained to deeply analyze any web page or PDF. Once trained, your Sparkbot can be run on similar pages returning answers in less than a second. Perfect for analyzing and extracting key details for leads, businesses, resumes, listings, contracts or any PDF. SparkBot use AI, but it isn't a slow LLM like Claude or ChatGPT. It can't hallucinate or make up details that don't exist. Every answer comes straight from the content on the page and anything it doesn't find is left blank.
Someone asks a question on a call and you need the answer now. Cluinn listens on your Mac and answers mid-call from what was just said, with no bot joining the meeting. Smart Cards flag a question nobody answered. When the call ends you get the action items, and Coach shows how the call went against a goal you set. It also does AI dictation: speak, and clean text lands in any Mac app. For Apple silicon Macs. 14-day trial; LAUNCH30 takes 30% off for 12 months.
XWiki MCP Server is an open-source, self-hostable extension that connects XWiki to the AI agent of your choice: OpenCode, Pi, Codex, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, and more. You can already use the extension to query your knowledge base to get answers, create and edit pages, and work with structured data directly in XWiki. Try out the extension and let us what's should we improve next!
Give visitors a way to say hello. Add free live chat to your website or app, or turn your bio link into a personal contact page. Visitors can start chatting without signing up. Built for founders, creators, and small teams.
Turn natural speech into real work with SpeakON Agent. It understands your Notes, connects your tools, and prepares Actions for you to review and confirm.
Arco is a free, open-source Codex plugin for managing GitHub and Linear issues. You can - View issues in chat, in a side panel, or full screen. - Create, close, and reopen issues. - Add comments. - Select passages from issues and add them to your next Codex prompt. Arco runs locally on your machine. No server hosting required🎻
MCP stands for Model Context Protocol, an open standard that lets AI assistants work with other apps. The Suno MCP connects your Suno account to the AI assistants you already use, like ChatGPT and Claude. Once it’s connected, you can ask your assistant to make a song, extend it, cover it, and more, right in the conversation you’re already having! Your assistant can use everything you’ve already discussed (lyrics, a project, a video plan) so you don’t have to re-explain your idea.
Polylane brings your production context into ChatGPT. Ask what changed, read logs and metrics, trace dependencies, and investigate issues using your code and infrastructure. Explore service maps, blast radius graphs and issue cards right in the chat, with evidence linked back to Polylane. Install the plugin, sign in, and ask.