Insanely Cool Tools - Substack Edition #15
Best tools in your pocket! 📱
Hello! 👋
I’m still in Budapest (Hungary). So I’m going to keep it short!
Every year, Tomas, my friend of 20 years, and I meet up. This time, we decided to visit Budapest. It was really nice, the weather was good, and the food was delicious.
Thank you all for the recommendations. I visited many of the places you suggested and ate at the restaurants you liked (Jessica, photo on the right is for you!).
Sending you all the best vibes! 👋
Flying back home tomorrow. ✈️
Also, last week I received this email (I’m not mad about it) and I decided to share a few things.
Each issue is created manually. During the week, I collect the tools, test most of them, and some are sent to me by friends or people online.
Then, during the weekend, usually on Sundays like today, I spend around 2-3 hours adding all the information, writing descriptions, and double-checking everything.
Yes, I use AI, but only to improve the descriptions. I’ve told you many times that I’m not a native speaker.
So to avoid mistakes, grammar issues, and similar things, I let AI review everything and fix it. But it doesn’t add anything. I write the descriptions, and AI improves them.
So just to make it clear for all of you, this newsletter is made manually. No AI agents, and no one else is doing it for me.
I’m not sure if this changes anything, but I just wanted to address it.
That’s it. Now I’m going to spend the rest of the day with my friend, grab a beer, and eat some pizza. 🍕🍺
I really appreciate every like ❤️ and comment and email you sent me!
Thank you for reading and for your support!
You can find me on LinkedIn & X. Let’s connect!
🔥Trending Tools
Recordly
An open-source desktop app for recording and editing screen captures with motion-driven presentation tools built in. Perfect for walkthroughs, demos, product videos, and more.
Taxhacker
A self-hosted accounting app that saves time and automates expense and income tracking. Upload photos of receipts, invoices, or PDFs, and TaxHacker will automatically recognize and extract all the important data you need for accounting.
Feather
A photo editor with local AI. AI generative infill, AI magic selection, and smart stacking are all processed offline on your Mac. The UI is modern and designed to be intuitive. Mac only for now, but Windows is coming soon.
Video AI Me
Helps to create AI videos with realistic actors. Feed the platform a selfie, a prompt, a product photo, a script, or a reference clip, and get ads, explainers, talking-head content, courses, short ads, and viral content in 70+ languages.
DocuSeal
An open-source platform that provides secure and efficient digital document signing and processing. Create PDF forms and have them filled out and signed online on any device with an easy-to-use, mobile-optimized web tool.
Lazyweb
Tools to make your AI agent great at design. 257k+ real screens, research-backed best practices, and opinionated workflows from people who live and breathe design research.
Hera
An AI motion designer that creates animations. Hera generates code-based animations where every parameter can be fine-tuned.
ScreenVeil
A Mac-only app that helps you hide sensitive parts of your screen and place useful overlays on top of any app on macOS. It’s built for screen sharing, presentations, live streams, recordings, and everyday work when you need full control over what stays visible.
Marx
A platform where autonomous AI agents discuss news, share market signals, and debate positions. It adds a social layer where agents analyze recent events from a financial perspective.
EzResize
A free image resizer that lets you resize, crop, flip, or rotate any image online with no upload required. It’s 100% free, runs locally, is easy to use, and works in all browsers.
Breaks
A Pomodoro app that lives in your Mac menu bar. Free, open source, and sandboxed.
📱Mobile Apps
iPhone Apps
📍Parc
Parc detects when you leave your vehicle, understands the parking rules where you are, starts your parking session automatically, keeps it active while you’re away, and ends it when you return.
📍Barometric Pressure
An offline barometer and altimeter for iOS. Track sea-level pressure and altitude anywhere, add notes, follow trends, track migraines, and get alerts when pressure changes quickly.
📍Adapted
A personalized AI prehab and recovery app for athletes. Tell it your injury history, your sport, and your goals, and it builds a personalized program to help you recover and prevent future injuries. No generic exercises, just training that adapts to you.
📍Bloka
AI object recognition that turns everyday items into focus triggers. Point your camera at your laptop, coffee mug, or a book, and Bloka recognizes it and instantly blocks apps like Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube.
Android Apps
📍Compressor
A video compressor for Android, period. It’s completely native, ad-free, with no paywalls or subscriptions. It has everything you’d want from a video compressor, presets, target size, and more, without any extra bloat.
📍Androidify
Lets you create and share Android characters that look like anyone.
Both (iOS + Android)
📍Famnest
A privacy-first family organizer app to manage schedules, health, bills, and more in one place.
📍Moti
Compete and build your community with challenges. Instead of using WhatsApp or spreadsheets to track them, this app helps people stay motivated and participate.
📍PalGo
Connect your fitness apps and watch your virtual companion, a PalGo, grow as you stay active. Complete weekly missions, unlock outfits with Diamonds, battle friends or AI, and take care of your PalGo by feeding, hydrating, and playing with it.
📍Pillzy
Pillzy is a complete medicine tracker app for medications, vitamins, and supplements. Smart reminders, flexible scheduling, and clear history tracking help you never miss a dose.
📍Canary
A language-learning app powered by music. Pick a song, see real-time translations, save words to your vocabulary list, sing karaoke to practice pronunciation, take quizzes based on songs, and practice with others.
📍Ube
An AI mental health companion designed to help you reduce stress, sleep better, and build calmer daily habits. It includes guided meditations and breathing exercises to ease anxiety, lower stress, and help you sleep through the night.
📍Ayer
Pick any calendar date and instantly see all the photos and videos you took on that exact day across every past year. Most photo apps decide which memories you see. Ayer lets you choose.
🤪 Crazy/Fun/Cringe/Strange
BaldLooks
Upload one photo and get a free, personalized report on your head shape, facial features, and overall bald fit before you decide to shave.
Textlab
Type anything and get a clean iOS UI for free. Perfect for content creation, with support for up to 8K. Maybe someone will find it useful.
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If you try anything from this list and it sticks, hit reply!
Always curious what actually makes it into people’s daily stack.
See you next week! 👋