Great software is only one piece of the puzzle, with the other being the hardware running it. The best way to ensure that the hardware is running as you’d expect? More software, of course! This category includes all of the tools you need to both monitor and tweak the performance of hardware new and old, and will surely help you get what you expect out of the hardware you paid for.
In addition to this, software to properly utilize emerging technologies such as 3D printing can be found here.
Free command-line tool for recovering lost partitions, repairing non-booting disks, supporting multiple file systems and converting disks to basic format.
France
EU
Graphical GNOME application that analyzes disk usage with detailed graphical representation, supporting scans of both local and remote directories.
United States
WinDirStatand
Advanced system info tool offering fast, lightweight scans and detailed hardware overview with real-time temperature monitoring. Portable and ad-free.
United Kingdom
Grafana provides a powerful and elegant way to create, explore, and share dashboards and data with your team and the world.
SwedenEU
Podman is a daemon-less container runtime for managing containers, pods, and container images. It is intended as a counterpart to CRI-O, to provide low-level debugging not available through the CRI interface used by Kubernetes.
United States
Dockerand
Docker Desktop
Open source RGB lighting control that doesn't depend on manufacturer software. For Windows, Linux, MacOS.
United States
InputConfig is a free controller mapper for Mac. It turns a PS5, Xbox or Switch controller, a MIDI keyboard, a spare mouse, your trackpad, or a knock on the MacBook's case into a full keyboard and mouse for your Mac.
United States
Power by app in real watts, the minutes you'd get back by quitting one, and a measured receipt two minutes later. For Apple silicon Macs.
PolandEU
Waku is a fast, native desktop app for working with local coding agents. It is built in Rust with GPUI and keeps projects, sessions, transcripts on your machine.
Singapore
Run large language models locally on an Apple Silicon Mac. Quantize, fine-tune and serve, MLX-native.
Free, open-source menu bar app for macOS that offers HiDPI scaling, DDC brightness controls, display presets, virtual displays, and drag-to-arrange monitor canvas.
Norway
A native macOS menu-bar utility that frees up disk space by keeping apps and large files on an external drive using symbolic links, while they still appear where you expect them.
