productivity Tools
3393 best productivity tools and apps, curated and ranked by community upvotes on ProductCool. Updated daily as new productivity products launch.
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.
ChatInbox rebuilds the inbox around people instead of time. Every customer, vendor or friend becomes one conversation: full history, every file, whose turn it is. That is CRM-grade context inside your mailbox, across Gmail, Outlook, iCloud and any IMAP account, with newsletters and receipts filed into Feeds automatically. Three years of iteration, native on Mac, iPhone and iPad. Apple Intelligence powers drafting, summaries and triage on-device, so your mail never leaves your devices.
What's different: ChatGPT and Claude lock you into one vendor. Intrascope 2.0 gives your team 120+ models (GPT-6, Claude, Gemini, Grok, Qwen) plus an AI agent that works in 1,650+ apps like Gmail, Slack, Drive and Notion. The company stays in control: admins approve apps and models, set budgets per team, project and person, and see every token and dollar. New in 2.0: agent, connectors, Skills, Auto routing, full redesign. Private and on-prem deployments for enterprise.
Download Recall for macOS. Real-time call live transcription without bots, smart clipboard manager, live music & video activities with lyrics, temp shelf, live atmospheric weather, and floating desktop widgets for Mac. Apple Silicon and Intel.
JIMMY runs on your Windows PC and listens to your WhatsApp self-chat. Text "send the resume in Downloads to Rahul" or "screenshot" and it does the task, asks before sending anything, and replies. Scheduled tasks, custom commands, /stop and an undo log included.
Enclave turns your MacBook's notch into a live dashboard. Hover it to see Now Playing, your next meeting, to-dos, a focus timer, a file shelf and clipboard history. Closed, it shows music, downloads, AirDrop, volume and battery. For developers, it tracks Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and more: approvals, questions, test results and deploys, right in the notch. Native SwiftUI, private and on-device.
AssemblyAI-TTS-1: natural speech for voice agents, streaming in 90 ms. Unlimited concurrency, no annual contract, $15 per 1M characters.
AutoShelf is a Mac app that automatically files, renames, tags, converts, and sorts new files in folders like Downloads and Desktop, based on rules you set once. New: sort into subfolders built from tokens like %kind% and %date%, unarchive, Finder color labels, and rules that cover all or selected subfolders. Free with 1 rule, or $19.99 one-time for unlimited rules ($29.99 from Nov 25). Requires macOS 14 Sonoma or later.
Most small business owners face the same problem when trying to use AI tools: they don't have time for re-explaining their business in every chat. Empacer is designed to skip this part. Three questions at setup, then spoken requests become a ready plan and finished work: customer replies, social posts, invoices and more. Nothing is sent without the owner's approval.