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GemType

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Checks grammar and rewrites text right inside Gmail, LinkedIn, X and Reddit, using a Gemini API key you provide yourself, free and open source, no subscription.

FreeNo sign-upOpen sourceNo subscription
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How it works
Checks grammar and rewrites text inline on any website — Gmail, LinkedIn, X, Reddit — using your own free Google Gemini API key.
What's different
Free and open source, and runs on a Gemini key you supply yourself instead of a paid subscription.
Pricing
Free, no account or subscription.
Best for
People who want a Grammarly-style writing checker without paying for a subscription or handing over data to a third-party service.

Watched for 13 days · last checked 7d ago

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Willow

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A local-first Mac AI agent you own outright for a one-time fee, using your own API key or a fully offline Ollama model, built for technical builders.

Domain registered 1 month ago

Works offlineNo subscription
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How it works
A local-first desktop AI agent that runs on your Mac, can drive the browser and desktop, and completes multi-step tasks while data stays on-device.
What's different
A one-time lifetime fee instead of a subscription, with your own API key/model or a fully offline Ollama setup.
Pricing
€299 lifetime, no subscription.
Best for
Technical builders who want to own their AI agent outright rather than rent a cloud subscription.

Watched for 14 days · last checked 8d ago

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DevShop

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A marketplace selling ready-to-deploy developer templates and bring-your-own-API-key AI tool kits for a one-time crypto payment with instant, lifetime-access delivery.

Pay onceNo subscription
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How it works
Browse Next.js SaaS starters, AI tool templates, dashboards, and e-commerce templates; pay in USDT or 300+ other cryptocurrencies and get instant delivery.
Pricing
One-time crypto payment per product, lifetime access, no card or bank needed.
Best for
developers who want to skip boilerplate setup for a new SaaS or AI tool.

Watched for 12 days · last checked 6d ago

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Oaicys — Your key, your privacy.

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Scrubs sensitive data out of your prompts before they reach ChatGPT or other AI you already use, then keeps the cleaned conversations organized and searchable, entirely on your device.

Works offlinePay onceNo subscription
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How it works
Scrubs sensitive data out of your prompts before they reach ChatGPT or other AI tools you already use, and keeps the cleaned conversations organized in folders with instant search.
What's different
Works alongside AI you already pay for rather than replacing it, with everything processed on your device.
Pricing
Founding price of $12, one-time payment.
Best for
People who paste private data into ChatGPT and want it removed before it reaches the AI provider's servers.

Watched for 17 days · last checked 11d ago

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Vaaya

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One connector that plugs your AI agent (Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or Codex) into outside tools for building demos, running outreach and researching your market.

FreeNo subscription
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How it works
A single connector that plugs into AI agents in Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or Codex, sitting between the agent and paid outside services (web search, scraping, contact enrichment, image/video generation, email, phone calls, code sandboxes) so the agent can call them without you creating separate vendor accounts or managing API keys.
What's different
You pay per successful call in cents rather than maintaining multiple separate subscriptions; failed calls cost nothing.
Pricing
Starts with free credits, no card required, then pay-per-call with no subscription.
Best for
Developers and teams building AI agent workflows who want their agent to reach outside tools (outreach, research, demos) without managing each vendor integration separately.

Watched for 18 days · last checked today

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Foldif

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Keeps the good parts of your AI chats. It sits on top of ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini in the browser, lets you highlight answers and annotate them in the margin, then pulls the keepers into a document you can export.

No subscription
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How it works
Installs as a browser extension (Chrome, Edge, Brave, Arc) and adds highlighting and margin notes directly on the chat pages you already use. Selections collect into a "book" you can export as PDF, HTML, Markdown or PNG.
What's different
Covers three assistants rather than one — a thread can move between ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini. Notes stay on the page where you made them instead of in a separate app you have to remember to open.
Pricing
Free tier: no credit card, no time limit. Pro is $89/year or $249 lifetime; the first 100 buyers get a $79 one-time Founder Lifetime.
Best for
People who use more than one AI assistant every day and keep losing good answers in the scroll-back — researchers, writers, and students who turn answers into flashcards.
Watch out
Needs an account. Storage is local by default and cloud sync is opt-in and encrypted (the site says AES-256-GCM), but sync still means the data leaves your machine. Every claim here is the product's own — we have not verified the encryption.

Watched for 18 days · last checked today

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