Best Productivity Tools & Alternatives (2025)
Compare popular productivity tools for different use cases, pricing, and features.
Popular Productivity Tools Compared
| Tool | Primary Use | Best For | Pricing | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Updatest is a Mac app that unifies updates from Homebrew, Ma... | General use | Free | ||
| Remember everything and tackle any project with your notes,... | General use | Free | ||
| look, we both know how this goes. you sit down to work. you... | General use | Free | ||
| When information is too much, remio is just right. Your AI-i... | General use | Free | ||
| Creaibo is an AI-native integrated creation space that suppo... | Writers, Marketers | Free | ||
| Tasks, docs, goals, chat, and everything imaginable to make... | Startups, Small Teams | Free | ||
| Browser extension that proactively organizes tabs, shortcuts... | Startups, Indie Hackers | Free | ||
| Create AI agents that work 24/7, cost 90% less, and don't ha... | Startups, Indie Hackers | Free | ||
| Ask Scouts to track anything on the web -- news, price drops... | Startups, Indie Hackers | Free | ||
| OMEGA: an ultra-fast, security-first 3.6 MB native browser f... | General use | Free | ||
| Movens is the ultimate private travel wallet. It organizes f... | General use | Free | ||
| NotchDrop transforms your MacBook notch into a smart product... | General use | Free | ||
| Honter is a workspace built specifically for designers to co... | General use | Free | ||
| Stop juggling Notion, Anki, and PDFs. BrainLoom is the local... | General use | Free | ||
| A simple Finder extension that lets you create folders with... | General use | Free | ||
| Build local apps that work exactly how you think — powered b... | General use | Free | ||
| Trace helps you keep up by pulling content from multiple sou... | General use | Free | ||
| Access your Cloudflare resources from the menu bar. Jump to... | General use | Free | ||
| Phinder turns Product Hunt into a fast, fun swipe deck. Like... | General use | Free | ||
| Small habits. Big change. Stay consistent, focused, and in c... | General use | Free |
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relayd
Most tools let you monitor agents. relayd lets you control them — from your phone. A lightweight dae...
StackPatch
StackPatch is a CLI that patches production-ready authentication into Next.js projects. Run one comm...
WizzyPoke
WizzyPoke is a browser extension that lets you send subtle screen shake to get someone’s attention w...
Manus
Manus is a general AI agent that turns your thoughts into actions. It excels at various tasks in wor...
AI Test Engineer by BlinqIO
BlinqIO’s AI Test Engineer builds and maintains Playwright automation in minutes - generating real c...
Indy
Indy is a free, AI-powered ADHD support app designed for how ADHD brains actually work. Informed by...
Cal.com
The open source Calendly alternative. Self host it, or have it hosted. Integrate it seamlessly into...
Binary
Binary is a new-age ATS built for those who want something simple yet powerful. It comes with a free...
TeamOut
TeamOut offers easy-to-book venues for team retreats. Managers often spend months planning for a ret...
Waylight
Waylight is an AI assistant that understands everything you do on your computer — your meetings, doc...
LocalMark Studio
LocalMark Studio is a local-first Markdown editor designed for speed and privacy. What’s special her...
LinkNotch
LinkNotch transforms your MacBook's notch into a productivity powerhouse. Access your most-used Work...
Colloqio
Meet Colloqio, the revolutionary AI companion that runs 100% on your device. No cloud servers, no da...
Enote
Enote is designed for speed and simplicity, making it ideal for everyday notes, quick memos, and ins...
One Dot
Transform time into visual art. Generate custom high-resolution wallpapers for memento mori and prod...
Tidey
Hey everyone! I built Tidey because my desktop was always a disaster. Screenshots, random downloads,...
BlocPad - Project & Team Workspace
BlocPad is a modern project management app built on one belief: your work shouldn’t be used as lever...
Taphouse
Taphouse is the best Homebrew GUI for Mac. A visual Homebrew manager to browse, install, and update...
Vellum
Build AI agents by describing your task in plain English. Vellum turns it into a working agent you c...
TabDog
TabDog is an open source macOS menu bar app that helps you to use super simple shortcuts to search t...
o11
Unlock extreme productivity within the Microsoft 365 suite using o11's AI add-ins. Build or edit any...
Pane
The first agentic spreadsheet where AI edits cells and formulas with human-level precision.
one elsewhere
It is a focus challenge. Start a run, put your phone down, and don’t touch it. Your ship keeps flyin...
FreeUpMyMac
A Mac disk cleaner app that finally fixes the "System Data" problem. Find the cache, junks and logs...
Funding Goal
Most founders pick a fundraising number without really knowing if it makes sense. This funding goal...
Beam Browser
Beam is a powerful, desktop-class browser built specifically for iPad. It brings sidebar-first brows...
TypingMate
🚀 TypingMate — AI That Lives in Your Keyboard TypingMate is an AI-powered iOS keyboard that helps y...
Alpine
Alpine brings docs, tasks, and chat together in one app. See updates from across your company with a...
Status Ninja
Status Ninja syncs the context of your Google Calendar, including focus time and emojis, directly to...
Recent.dev
Stop hunting for updates. Select your stack - from Next.js to Attio - and receive instant email upda...
Phia
Phia turns screen recordings into polished videos automatically. It adds intelligent auto zoom, smoo...
Purifai
Text copied from AI tools or the web often pastes with fonts and headings you'd never use yourself,...
Aden
The Enterprise Layer for AI Agents. Stop losing deals to Infosec purgatory. Aden is a 5-minute SDK t...
Meety
Stay on time from your menu bar: quick join, configurable reminders (including full-screen Hard Aler...
Owl Browser
Owl Browser: Enterprise stealth automation that actually works. While Puppeteer fails 56% of bot det...
Kuulto
A modern terminal that bridges classic CLI power with an intuitive interface. Use /ai to organize fi...
Promptsy
Promptsy - Your Personal Prompt Vault. Save, organize, version, and share AI prompts.
Too Many Buttons
Too Many Buttons is a chaotic browser game where only ONE button works. Every other click unleashes...
Intrascope.app
Intrascope is a shared AI workspace that helps teams stay organized, reduce costs, and keep all AI u...
PingPrompt
Most people still manage important prompts in chat history, docs, and text files. PingPrompt keeps e...
Alias Bot
Teams often end up typing long @Alice @Bob @Charlie mentions cluttering the channel. Sometimes, some...
Biker: Track, Maintain, Repair
Biker is a smart bike maintenance app that helps you keep track of your bikes and their components i...
NexTalk
A modern voice input tool built exclusively for Linux. Featuring a transparent "capsule" UI, 100% of...
Habi
Unlike other habit trackers, our app fully integrates with your calendar. You can link events such a...
PDF Generator in ChatGPT
Create professional PDFs with math notation and graphs directly in ChatGPT. Edit conversationally or...
Dirac
Stop spending 20 minutes catching up. Jump straight into the important stuff. Dirac gathers updates...
FlowTask
I wasted 15 hours every week doing the same thing. Read client email → Open Asana → Create task → As...
Tock
Tock is a lightweight macOS menu bar timer built for keyboard-first workflows. It lives in the menu...
Paper
Paper is a realistic digital notebook made only for writing. No folders. No productivity systems. No...
Dessix
Dessix is a logic-first visual space for deep creators. Instead of wrestling with prompts, you build...
Zyve
Zyve is a context-aware day planner built for real life. It upgrades events with live intelligence l...
TheTabber
TheTabber.com helps creators upload or pull content from another account, then repurpose and publish...
Gridfy.io
Gridfy.io turns your Airtable, Notion, or Google Sheets data into live, customizable website widgets...
AgentNotch
AgentNotch is a macOS menu bar app that lives in your Mac's notch, providing real-time visibility in...
Planelo
Planelo is an idea-first workspace for developers. Capture, structure and connect ideas across iPhon...
Bookmark Assistant
Transform your Chrome bookmarks into an organized Notion database with one click. Bookmark Assistant...
Dashly
Dashly is a personalized productivity dashboard that cuts out the fluff. * Encrypted todos & notes *...
Invoce.ai
Invoce.ai helps freelancers and small businesses avoid bloated invoice tools by letting them simply...
Friendware
Friendware is not only a tab to complete everywhere. It’s a new paradigm of the proactive AI. The de...
Resell AI
Save Hours using AI Price Evaluations to sell your products in Seconds, track your Progress and view...
Timelines Time Tracking
Timelines is easy-to-use, flexible yet powerful time tracking app. Record what you're doing and get...
CalPal
Most calculators give you answers but lose the context. CalPal is a literate calculator that combine...
Radial
Radial is a modern pie menu for macOS. Create macros that automate repetitive tasks, then trigger th...
Griply
Griply is an all-in-one app that brings together your goals, habits, and tasks – making them easier...
NoteTabs
Still missing the tabbed experience of Notepad++ on your Mac? Meet NoteTabs. We brought the 'horizon...
Notchification
You're deep in code. A build kicks off. You switch tabs, check Slack, read docs—then wonder: "Wait,...
CalendarJet
CalendarJet is the AI powered scheduling platform that gives you what Calendly charges $15,000/year...
8udget
8udget is a personal finance app that actually works offline - no internet required. Track your budg...
Brief My Meeting
Get an AI briefing email before every meeting with research on who you're meeting and full context f...
Gitdocs AI
Gitdocs AI analyzes your GitHub repository and generates clean, structured, production-ready README...
FunKey 3.0
FunKey adds satisfying mechanical keyboard and mouse click sounds to your Mac, making typing more im...
Notchie
Mac teleprompter that sits in your MacBook notch — right below the camera. Read your script while lo...
Inspiration by Mind Dock
Explore AI like never before! AI Data Map integrates models, news, research, and trends, delivering...
wink-cursor
I built Wink Cursor to bring joyful micro-interactions on click to everyday UI. It's a tiny React co...
Meetings Wrapped
Meetings that could have been emails... analyzed and visualized.
StandBy Mode Pro
StandBy Mode Pro is a take on iOS StandBy Mode built for Android. We were initially inspired by the...
Dropstone
Dropstone v3 introduces Horizon Mode, a recursive swarm architecture that breaks the "Linearity Barr...
Time
Working with a global team? Time lives in your menu bar, showing multiple time zones at a glance. Se...
NBot
NBot reads the entire internet for you - news, niche blogs, social media, forums - then kills 99% of...
JetBrains
Powerful IDEs for most programming languages and technologies along with products for team collabora...
Typeless
Speak naturally, and Typeless will turn your words into polished messages, emails, and documents tha...
ScreenREC
? ScreenREC: The simplest screen recorder ever Record screen, webcam & audio in-browser—no downloads...
Dvina
Meet Dvina: World's most connected, private and reliable AI platform. Unified for analyzing, creatin...
ArkTabs
ArkTabs t is lightning-fast tab organizer that turns your browser into a productivity powerhouse. In...
Sprout
A few months ago I started looking for a simple kanban board to manage all my tasks, as I was gettin...
Enter Space
Connect to 62 different cloud storage accounts on your Apple device with seamless Finder and Files i...
Routine
Routine is an all-in-one work platform: tasks, projects, documentation, wiki, calendars, contacts an...
Surgeflow
See the plan. Approve it. Watch it execute. SurgeFlow turns browser chaos into transparent automatio...
Aident AI
Aident AI is an agentic automation editor. Describe what you want in plain English and Aiden turns i...
NoteGPT
NoteGPT is an AI-powered note taker that records, transcribes, and summarizes anything: meetings, le...
hq0
Why send customers to zoom.us when they could meet at meetings.yourcompany.com? hq0 lets you run ful...
Zone Share-Ultrawide Screen Sharing Tool
Struggling to share your ultra-wide screen in video calls? You do not want to share sensitive data t...
Quickleap
Professional domain redirect and URL forwarding service with automatic HTTPS/SSL, 301/302 redirects,...
KnockKnock!
KnockKnock! is built for small, trusted circles: teammates, friends, and family. No meeting links, n...
Lyra
Lyra is the final meeting platform. Work with AI and your team to create follow-ups, drafts, and tas...
BetterWrite
BetterWrite offers a beautiful, distraction-free writing environment designed for those who value si...
Google Labs
Google Labs is an experimental hub where Google publicly tests early-stage AI products and features....
Okara
Okara lets you use 30+ powerful open-source AI models without dealing with infrastructure setup. The...
CLI Manager
The ultimate CLI agent management tool. Organize Claude Code, Codex CLI, and Gemini CLI from a singl...
Mirror
Mirror detects background macOS apps that deliberately hide from Activity Monitor. It exposes stealt...
Peek
Hover your menu bar to see live previews of any website. Monitor stocks, dashboards, social feeds -...
GoMask.ai
Test data bottlenecks kill velocity. Teams wait days for data refreshes or secretly use production....
DocEndorse AI Agent for Microsoft Teams
DocEndorse is an AI-powered e-signature assistant built for Microsoft Teams. Instead of manually pre...
Readever
Chat with books, co-read with legendary personas, and get recommendations that feel like magic. Read...
Kraa
Kraa is for writing. Whether it's private notes, collaborative documents, blog articles, or even mes...
OpenAI
The most powerful platform for building AI products. Build and scale AI experiences powered by in...
Monocle for macOS
Monocle is a modern take on window dimming that elegantly blurs everything except your active window...
Shadow
Half of every meeting happens on screen, but most AI tools miss it completely. Shadow captures both:...
SpacePigeon
SpacePigeon lets you define full “workspaces” for macOS (which apps to launch, what desktop spaces t...
HoverConvert
Chrome Extension that convert units instantly by simply hovering over them. Temperature, metrics, im...
Console.text()
Stop anxiously checking dashboards. console.text() sends you an SMS when specific code paths execute...
Preflight
Preflight replaces messy bug-bash spreadsheets with an AI-powered workspace. Turn product requiremen...
MultiDrive
MultiDrive is a free Windows tool that lets you clone, back up, and securely wipe entire drives. Use...
Scispace
The quickest way to read and understand scientific literature - Highlight confusing text, math, and...
Browser Buddy
Browser Buddy is an AI buddy that curates a feed of thoughtful quotes and essays based on your inter...
AdeptDev
Meet Adeptdev — a lightweight, developer-first project manager built for solo front-end builders. I...
Shelfinder
Shelfinder app is a floating shelf for macOS that lets you collect, pin, and move files instantly. L...
SidePanel Buddy
Browse any website in Chrome's side panel alongside your main tab. Your browsing session stays exact...
Dapple
Dapple is an all-in-one management platform helping businesses in the creative industry collect, rev...
TubeGuide
Turn YouTube tutorials into actionable step-by-step guides instantly. The #1 YouTube notes generator...
HERO
Collaborative workspaces for serious work, combining the flexibility of text, the structure of datab...
SnapTodo
SnapTodo is what happens when a weekly calendar, a todo list, and a bit of AI chaos collide. Drag ta...
ZeroHz
Stop losing focus to YouTube rabbit holes. ZeroHz lives in your Mac menu bar with curated lofi music...
Frequently Asked Questions
What are Productivity tools?
Productivity tools are software solutions designed to help with productivity tasks. They vary in features, pricing, and target audience.
Are there free Productivity tools?
Yes, many tools in this category offer free tiers or free plans. Check the pricing information for each tool to see what's available.
How do I choose the right Productivity tool?
Consider your use case, team size, budget, and required features. Compare tools in the table above to find the best fit for your needs.
Can I use multiple Productivity tools?
Yes, many users combine different tools to meet their specific needs. Some tools integrate with each other for better workflows.