I counted it one evening: four apps to get through one working day. one to turn my voice into text, one to record the screen, one to hold the notes, one to keep me off the internet for an hour.
four logins, four charges every month, and every one of them sending my voice and my screen to a server I will never see.
why pay for all the other tools if you can have it in one simple app? that question is the whole thing. I could not find an honest answer, so I stopped looking and started building.
owntools is the desk I wanted: dictate, record, write, sketch, focus. one window, one hotkey, no account. it keeps working with the wi-fi off, and everything you make stays a file on your machine - not a row in somebody’s database.
I am building it on my own and in the open. it is free while it grows, and if it ever saves you an hour, one payment keeps it yours for good - no renewals, no seats, no plan to outgrow.
if something is missing, write to me. I read all of it, and most of what is in the app started as somebody’s message.
szymon - building owntools
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