Tools

HetrixTools

DevOps & Self-Hosting

Free monitoring that alerts you when your website or server goes down, checking every minute from up to 12 locations worldwide. It also tells you if your IPs or domains land on spam blacklists.

MVT (Mobile Verification Toolkit)

Security & Malware Analysis

A free forensic toolkit from Amnesty International's Security Lab. It checks Android and iOS phones for traces of known spyware, such as Pegasus.

UptimeRobot

DevOps & Self-Hosting

Checks your website around the clock and alerts you the moment it goes down. The free plan includes 50 monitors.

Wayin Video

Video Editing tools

An AI video assistant that turns long videos into short clips, summaries, and text.

BirdsEyes

Learning & Education

A "second brain" tool built from what you actually read, watch, and explore.

Free AI image generation tool from Google Labs producing ultra-realistic images with prompt controls, style presets (35mm film, minimal, sketchy, etc.)

Free, open threat intelligence sharing platform — free alternative to paid threat intel feeds like Recorded Future.

xAI's second-generation image model — precision editing (Magic Wand region-select), background removal, multi-reference support (up to 5 images), smart resize across aspect ratios; ranked #2 globally on text-to-image and image-edit arenas as of Aug 2026.

Open-source agentic assistant, UI-first, no config-first setup.

Lightweight TTS app from Kyutai Labs designed to run efficiently on CPUs — 100M params, ~236MB, ~200ms latency, 6x realtime on CPU, multi-language, voice cloning, can run client-side in browser.

Built-in, free endpoint protection for Windows — free alternative to CrowdStrike for basic endpoint security.

Free domain name registration service (.dpdns.org, .us.kg, .qzz.io, .xx.kg) for individuals/organizations to get a free web identity — 350,000+ domains registered, fiscally sponsored by The Hack Foundation (501c3 nonprofit).

Open-source, self-hostable voice agent — separates the AI 'brain' from the physical device so any board with mic/speaker/WiFi can act as the body. Fully documented hardware/software connection.

Claude Code skill that runs an After Action Review after any task/session — pulls concrete lessons into a persistent LESSONS.md file so the agent stops repeating the same mistakes across sessions.

Web design tool referenced for cloth-effect/3D web design workflows.

Rust vector index with Python bindings built on Google Research's TurboQuant algorithm — shrinks a 31GB float32 vector corpus to ~4GB while searching faster than FAISS, fully local/air-gapped.

Open-source WebGL game engine, npm installable.

Well-known bootable rescue/repair disk toolkit for Windows PC diagnostics, data recovery, and repair — long-established, widely used sysadmin tool.

Open-source tool to put multiple bootable ISOs on one USB drive — just drag and drop files in, no reformatting needed for each new installer.

Open-source OS giving AI agents a real physical body (humanoid robot control).

AI skill providing design intelligence for building UI/UX.

Free open-source desktop anime companion engine, 3.4k stars.

Rust-powered JavaScript/TypeScript linter, 50-100x faster than ESLint, 500+ rules, zero-config, used by Shopify/Airbnb/Mercedes-Benz.

Free, open-source download accelerator and video downloader — boosts download speed up to 500%, saves streaming video from YouTube/Vimeo/Facebook/1000+ sites, resumes broken downloads, integrates with all popular web browsers.

Autonomous white-box AI pentester for web apps/APIs — analyzes your own source code, maps attack surface, and executes real exploits with proof-of-concept to catch vulnerabilities before production. Automates security auditing.

Free, open-source (MIT) screen recorder and editor for macOS/Windows/Linux with automatic cursor-following zoom, motion effects, webcam overlay, and styled backgrounds — a free alternative to Screen Studio.

Fast, offline, privacy-first English grammar checker written in Rust — an independent alternative to Grammarly (not a fork/clone of it), with integrations for editors, Obsidian, and WebAssembly. Apache-2.0 licensed.

Open-source AI research agent CLI — audits papers against public codebases, runs autonomous research loops, produces cited literature reviews and polished paper-style drafts. Built on the Pi agent runtime.

Interactive malware sandbox, real-time execution view.

Free, open-source digital forensics platform — free alternative to X-Ways Forensics for disk image and file analysis.

AI hardware design tool by 3E8 Robotics.

Free, open-source bulk program uninstaller for Windows.

Price history & price-drop tracker for Indian e-commerce.

Pure-C, zero-dependency inference engine that runs frontier MoE models (GLM-5.2 744B, Kimi K3 2.8T, etc.) on consumer hardware with ~25GB RAM by streaming experts from disk/SSD.

Free, open-source SSH/Telnet honeypot — free alternative to Attivo Networks for capturing and logging attacker behavior in a controlled, defensive setup.

AI tool that audits UI/design and scores usability, spacing, contrast.

Desktop customization tool: live wallpaper, custom dock, gacha widget tracker.

Free, open-source log management and analytics stack — free alternative to IBM QRadar for centralized logging and visualization.

Peer-to-peer file transfer tool — send files from one device to many in real time via WebRTC, no size limit, no accounts needed, QR code room sharing.

Unified OpenAI-compatible endpoint routing across 34 free-tier LLM providers (Gemini, Groq, NVIDIA NIM, OpenRouter, etc.) with smart routing and automatic failover; ~7.4B tokens/month pooled.

Open-source Windows boot logo changer.

Sandbox malware analysis, runtime behavior.

Free PHP & MySQL web hosting, no ads.

Customizable desktop widget/dock suite for Windows.

Deep malware analysis, static + dynamic reports.

Free, open-source password security auditing tool — free alternative to Passware for testing password strength (defensive/authorized use).

Free, open-source wireless network detector and IDS — free alternative to Ekahau AI Pro for WiFi network analysis.

Toolkit compiling diagnostic/recovery tools (password removal, malware recovery, disk utilities).

Free, open-source penetration testing and exploit development framework — free/community edition alternative to Metasploit Pro, for authorized security testing.

Free download manager and accelerator for macOS/Windows using dynamic segmentation to maximize download speed; browser extension support, resumes interrupted downloads.

Free, open-source web application security scanner — free alternative to Burp Suite Pro for finding vulnerabilities in web apps.

Open-source local AI assistant, observes screen/audio, gives suggestions.

Free, open-source vulnerability scanner — free alternative to Nessus for identifying security weaknesses in systems and networks.

Free, open-source cloud security assessment tool for AWS/Azure/GCP — free alternative to Wiz for cloud security posture checks.

Hunts down social media accounts by username across many social networks. Well-known, widely used OSINT/recon tool, 88k+ stars, MIT license.

Client-side APK analyzer (permissions, libraries, certs).

Self-hosted PDF toolkit: 50+ tools to edit, merge, split, sign, redact, convert, OCR, and compress PDFs. Desktop client, browser UI, and API; enterprise SSO/auditing available.

Easy 2D to 3D model generation tool.

Scans files/URLs against 70+ AV engines.

Free, open-source SIEM and XDR platform — free alternative to Splunk for log analysis, threat detection, and compliance.

Free, open-source network protocol analyzer — free alternative to Darktrace for packet-level network traffic inspection.

Tailwind CSS component plugin for faster, cleaner development.

AI tool to create interactive presentations from a prompt.

Chrome extension that converts any website into an editable Figma design — 700k+ users, 4.6 stars, featured on Chrome Web Store.

Rust terminal tool that scans your hardware (CPU/RAM/GPU) and scores hundreds of local LLM models for fit, speed, quality and context so you know what will actually run before downloading.

Free, open-source interactive HTTPS proxy — free alternative to Fiddler Everywhere for intercepting and inspecting web traffic.

Self-hosted deployment platform — open-source alternative to Vercel, 2k+ stars, 4 contributors.