OBS Studio is a heavyweight but a popular tool amongst streamers. A popular choice for a collaborative work environment. Loom is a freemium app to record and instantly share video messages of your screen, cam, or both sith others. Afterward, you can edit and save the animation as a gif, png, video, psd, or png image. ScreenToGif is an open-source, easy-to-use tool that allows you to record your screen, webcam feed, or sketch board drawings. A must-have tool for designers and web developers. These are just the basic ones I used frequently, but they could get pretty advanced if you’d like.Īpart from capturing screenshots and recording GIF/mp4, it also supports other utility tools like color picker, screen ruler, image editor, file sharing, etc. Capture screenshot → copy image to the clipboard and save it to a folder.Record GIF of a region → upload it to Imgur → copy upload URL to the clipboard.You can build your own workflow like a single shortcut for: ShareX is probably the most advanced screen capturing, annotating, and recording tool out there for Windows. It supports side-by-side live previews of images and the results are indeed impressive. It's technically a web app but can be downloaded as a PWA for offline access as a desktop app. Squoosh (by Google) is an image compression app that reduces image sizes through numerous formats. RIOT (Radical Image Optimization Tool) is a free tool to optimize and compress images with live preview (side-by-side). GIMP is another popular image editor, but it has a considerable learning curve and an overkill for quick edits. It also supports fast switching between images-much more feature-rich than the built-in Windows image viewer. Image Glass is an open-source, lightweight image viewer that supports a wide format of images. Image viewers and editors Image Glass - Image viewer Multiple tools are available to add/edit/delete entries in your right-click context menu. For example: Customize context menu, permanently disable Windows Update, customize entries in Navigation Pane in File Explorer, Alt+Tab Appearance, etc. Winaero Tweaker is an all-in-one app that comes with dozens of options for fine-grained tuning of various Windows settings and features. You could also configure it to throttle the internet for some applications. Helpful to keep an eye if some application is consuming massive bandwidth (ahem ahem Windows update). NetBalancer shows network traffic in taskbar toolbar. Bing Wallpaper (from Microsoft) is a lightweight app that sets a new high-res beautiful image each day as your desktop wallpaper (same as shown on their Bing search page). Static desktop background can get boring after some time. Supports 2-way live sync.Ĭustomization Bing Wallpaper - Dynamic wallpapers RBTray is a small program that runs in the background and allows windows to be minimized to the system tray by right-clicking its minimize button.Īdvanced Renamer is a batch renamer program that can dynamically rename multiple files and folders at once.įreeFileSync is a free and cross-platform (Win, Linux, Mac) to synchronize files and folders. See my favorite scripts and how to use them: Remap keys and create your own keyboard shortcutsĪutoHotkey is an open-source scripting software for Windows that is used to automate repetitive tasks, remap keys, build small utility tools, etc. Hotkey to globally mute both your microphone and camera when in a video conference (for those embarrassing zoom call moments when every second adds up to it) Instantly search and launch any app with a shortcut Show SVG icons (.svg), Markdown (.md), and PDF file previews in the preview pane in File Explorer PowerToys is an open-source tool from Microsoft that adds multiple useful features like: Stardock Groupy is also a similar (Freemium) app to add tabs to programs: PowerToys Supports images, text transformation on the fly, search, pin items, auto-clear entries, etc. Trigger a hotkey to invoke popup window and paste any of your past clipboard items. Productivity Ditto - Clipboard managerĭitto is a lightweight and feature-rich clipboard manager for Windows. Someday, I’ll probably write a similar list of tools I use on Mac. PS: I switched to Mac (M1 MBP) at starting of 2022. All tools are free to use (or freemium with a generous free version), and many of them are even open-source (source code links are provided where applicable). ![]() In this article, I categorized these tools under their use cases. I’ve been a Windows (power-) user for a decade, and throughout the journey, I found tools and apps which made me work more efficiently on Windows. OBS Studio - Live streaming and recorder.
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