Tools for creators — music, video, design — Open source

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Open Screenshot Generator

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An open-source, template-based design tool for building App Store and Play Store screenshots, feature graphics, and preview videos entirely in your browser or desktop app, with no account or upload required.

Domain registered 13 days ago

FreeNo sign-upData stays with youOpen source
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How it works
pick a template, drop in your app screens, and export every required store size, including MP4 previews
What's different
an optional AI agent can build the whole listing from raw screenshots
Best for
app developers and designers preparing store listings

Watched for 7 days · last checked 6d ago

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ArtistPass

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An open-source, self-deployed portfolio template for actors and artists, with a browser-based admin for credits, gallery, showreel, and contact info, that keeps content in your own Vercel project instead of a locked-in SaaS.

FreeOpen source
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How it works
Deploys as your own project on Vercel with a browser-based Admin panel for managing credits, gallery, showreel, and contact details; ships with a fictional demo profile to start from.
Pricing
Free and open source.
Best for
Actors and artists who want a portfolio they own and control instead of a subscription SaaS.
Watch out
Requires deploying your own instance on Vercel rather than signing up for a hosted service.

Watched for 11 days · last checked 5d ago

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Podframes

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Turns a topic into a two-host AI video podcast with lip-synced avatars and captions, driven from the CLI or a studio UI using your own AI API keys. Open source.

Open source
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How it works
Turns a single topic into a two-host video podcast with mixed AI voices, lip-synced avatars, and word-timed captions, rendered to MP4, driven from the CLI or a live studio interface.
What's different
Open source and runs on your own API keys, so you pay the underlying provider's rates directly.
Best for
Developers or creators who want to generate AI video podcasts from the command line.

Watched for 18 days · last checked today

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Shumai

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An open-source Frame.io alternative for uploading creative files, giving feedback, and collaborating on creative work, including with AI agents, built for creative teams rather than developers.

Domain registered 4 months ago

Open source
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How it works
An open-source platform for uploading creative files, managing projects, collecting precise feedback, and collaborating with AI agents in one workspace.
What's different
Open source, positioned as an alternative to Frame.io.
Best for
Creative teams reviewing and collaborating on creative files, rather than developers.

Watched for 10 days · last checked 4d ago

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Markhand

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A free, open-source tool for drawing and practicing your signature with custom pens and guides, then exporting it as PNG or SVG. General-purpose, not a developer tool.

FreeNo sign-upOpen sourceCan export my data
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How it works
A tool for drawing and practicing your signature with customizable pens and guides, then exporting it as PNG or SVG.
Pricing
Free, open source, no sign-up required.
Best for
Anyone who wants to design or practice a personal signature and export it as an image.

Watched for 17 days · last checked today

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Vellium

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A free, open-source desktop app for AI character chat, roleplay and long-form writing, where your data stays in a local database even with a cloud AI backend.

FreeWorks offlineOpen source
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How it works
A desktop AI workspace for character chat, multi-character roleplay, and long-form writing with RAG, LoreBooks, and MCP tools and plugins; you bring your own backend, such as OpenAI-compatible APIs, OpenRouter, LM Studio, Ollama, or KoboldCpp, while chats, characters, projects, and knowledge are stored in a local SQLite database.
What's different
Keeps your data in a local database even when you connect a cloud AI backend, and is free and open source.
Pricing
Free and open source.
Best for
Writers and roleplayers who want to choose their own AI backend while keeping their data local. Native builds are available for macOS, Windows, and Linux.

Watched for 14 days · last checked 2d ago

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ZIRO EDA

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Gives hardware engineers a browser-native, open-source PCB design environment instead of proprietary EDA tools.

Open source
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launches July 25; incubated at IIT Madras Nirmaan

Watched for 1 day · last checked today

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CineKive

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A free, open-source, local-only app for filmmakers to organize reference frames and moodboards, with on-device AI search — no cloud subscription needed.

FreeWorks offlineData stays with youOpen source
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How it works
A local-only app for filmmakers to organize reference frames, moodboards and production assets, with lightweight on-device AI for natural language search and instant moodboard creation.
What's different
Keeps the entire visual library local instead of requiring a paid cloud subscription.
Pricing
100% free and open-source.
Best for
Filmmakers who want to keep reference and moodboard assets private and local rather than in a cloud subscription tool.

Watched for 15 days · last checked 9d ago

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VisualMD

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Turns your Markdown files into a visual workspace with outlines and mind maps while keeping the underlying files as plain Markdown — for developers, writers and creators.

Works offlineOpen source
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How it works
Adds a visual layer, outlines, mind maps, multiple views, on top of Markdown files while keeping the underlying files as plain Markdown, combined with AI-assisted writing and Git-based version history.
What's different
Open-source, local-first, and runs in the browser, keeping files as native Markdown rather than locking content into a proprietary format.
Best for
Developers, writers, and creators who want to navigate long Markdown documents visually without leaving the Markdown format.

Watched for 13 days · last checked 2d ago

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FREE AI Auto Subtitle Caption Generator

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A free, open-source Windows app that auto-generates styled subtitles for your videos using offline Whisper or the cloud Groq API — aimed at YouTube Shorts, TikTok and Reels creators, not developers.

FreeWorks offlineOpen sourceCan export my data
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How it works
A Windows desktop app that automatically transcribes videos into word-level subtitles using either offline OpenAI Whisper or the cloud-based Groq API, then burns captions into the video or exports as SRT/VTT.
What's different
Free and open-source, with styling presets built for YouTube Shorts, TikTok, and Instagram Reels formats.
Pricing
Free.
Best for
YouTube Shorts, TikTok, and Instagram Reels creators who need styled captions on their videos.
Watch out
Windows-only desktop app; cloud transcription option (Groq) requires sending video data off-device, unlike the offline Whisper option.

Watched for 17 days · last checked 2d ago

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Grid Maker

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A free, open-source grid tool for artists — perspective grids, composition overlays, an art projector, paint-by-number and an Instagram grid splitter — kept free where other tools paywall them.

FreeNo sign-upOpen source
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How it works
A free, open-source grid tool for artists offering 9 grid types, including an Art Projector, Paint by Number, and an Instagram Grid Splitter.
What's different
Keeps perspective grids, composition overlays and diagonal lines free, where competitors paywall them.
Pricing
Free, MIT licensed.
Best for
Artists who want grid tools without paying for features other apps lock behind a paywall.

Watched for 15 days · last checked 2d ago

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YouTube Creator Mindset Engine

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A free, open-source AI tool that generates YouTube titles, hooks and scripts modeled on top creators' styles, for YouTubers wanting a quick strategy starting point, not real coaching.

FreeOpen source
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How it works
A fine-tuned Llama-3.2-1B model generates YouTube titles, hooks and scripts modeled on the style of specific top creators (e.g. MrBeast, Ali Abdaal, MKBHD) — you pick a style and it produces a viral framework.
What's different
Free and open-source, built on a self-hosted fine-tuned model rather than a wrapper around a paid API.
Pricing
100% free, open-source.
Best for
YouTubers wanting a quick starting framework for titles and hooks, not a coaching service.

Watched for 18 days · last checked 9d ago

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MemPlato

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Turns your Android phone into a self-hosted MCP server so AI assistants like Claude, Cursor or Perplexity can pull your personal memory without sending data to the cloud. Aimed at developers already using MCP-compatible tools.

Works offlineData stays with youOpen sourceNo subscription
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How it works
Turns an Android phone into a self-hosted MCP (Model Context Protocol) server by installing a Python MCP server inside Termux, with a secure tunnel giving the phone a stable public HTTPS URL that AI clients like Claude, Cursor or Perplexity can connect to for persistent memory.
What's different
Data is stored locally on the user's own phone instead of a vendor's cloud, with no subscription or vendor lock-in.
Pricing
No subscription.
Best for
Developers already using MCP-compatible AI tools who want to own their memory data instead of storing it in the cloud.
Watch out
Relies on a relay tunnel (relay.memplato.com) and requires Termux running on the phone, with a watchdog to restart the server if the phone reboots or Termux closes.

Watched for 10 days · last checked 4d ago

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