Top Tools from Aug 17–23, 2026

Apache-2.0 native replacement for Logitech Options+ written in Rust by Xuan Zhang, driving Logitech mice, keyboards, webcams and Litra lights directly over HID++ and UVC with no account and no telemetry. It covers button and F-key remapping, per-direction gestures on any capable button, DPI presets, SmartShift, static RGB, and webcam controls written straight to the hardware so zoom, focus and exposure changes apply in Meet, Zoom and OBS alike. Configuration is a single TOML file you can sync between machines, there is a CLI alongside the GUI, and Linux is treated as a first-class platform rather than an afterthought. Free, installable via a signed macOS cask, funded through GitHub Sponsors and a Stripe donation link, and still labelled pre-stable at v0.7.10. 15.5k stars as of 24 August 2026

AGPL-3.0 application platform for Kobo e-readers from Bandar Labs, made up of a launcher, a signed app store, a Rust SDK, an e-ink UI toolkit and a Clara BW simulator. One USB install gets it onto the device and every app after that arrives over Wi-Fi, with app releases decoupled from platform releases so new apps appear in the store without reinstalling Cobalt. Apps run as separate unprivileged processes behind per-app capability checks for network, storage, audio and frontlight, and ship as static ARMv7 binaries with no device-side package manager. The project is unaffiliated with Rakuten Kobo and fully hardware-tests three models so far, the Clara BW, Clara HD and Elipsa 2E, with open issues recruiting testers for Libra Colour, Libra 2, Clara Colour and Aura. Free. 303 stars as of 24 August 2026

Cursor now hosts code. Origin is git hosting with browsing, search, pull requests, diffs, comments and merges, plus integrations for Vercel preview deployments, Depot and Buildkite, and Cursor's agents working alongside the repo and the PRs in one interface. Existing GitHub repositories can be synced instead of migrated, with comments flowing both ways and GitHub remaining the source of truth for anything synced, so it is reversible rather than a one-way move. Closed and proprietary, in early beta for every paid plan at no separate charge, which starts at 20 US dollars a month for Individual Pro and 40 per user a month for Teams Standard; enterprise organisations can opt out.

Alternative Rust language server from Igor Aleksanov, dual-licensed MIT and Apache-2.0, aiming to stay under 100MB of RAM on reasonable projects and to skip re-indexing entirely when you restart your editor. Four months old and explicitly not trying to be rust-analyzer 2.0 — the stated target is 90 per cent complete, enough for day-to-day work — but it already has a full indexing pipeline with type inference and the chalk trait solver, plus goto definition, hover, inlay hints and completions. The author's own benchmarks put full indexing at 9 seconds against rust-analyzer's 14 on a 2020 MacBook Pro with 8GB. The README carries a disclosure that the project is built with heavy LLM assistance. Free, installable as a VS Code extension. 368 stars as of 24 August 2026

MIT-licensed vector index from Ryan Codrai, written in Rust with Python bindings and built on Google Research's TurboQuant, a data-oblivious quantizer that needs no separate training phase. The headline claim is a 10 million document corpus in 4GB rather than the 31GB it takes as float32, with hand-written SIMD kernels for NEON, AVX-512 and AVX2 that the README says beat FAISS IndexPQFastScan in every measured configuration. Vectors are indexed on add with no rebuilds as the corpus grows, sync persists only what changed since the last call, and search takes an id allowlist so filtered queries still return k results without over-fetching. Nothing leaves the machine. Free, installable with pip install turbovec. 16.3k stars as of 24 August 2026

MIT-licensed quantizer from Bobby Grayson that sizes a model to the machine instead of the other way round. Preset quantizations like Q4_K_M ignore your hardware, so you either waste hundreds of megabytes of quality or discover at load time that it did not fit; shoehorn starts from the VRAM you actually have, subtracts what the KV cache and compute buffers will need, and solves a per-tensor mixed-precision assignment that lands within a rounding error of the remainder, spending each spare megabyte where the importance matrix says it buys most. One command finds the BF16 GGUF on Hugging Face, picks up or generates an imatrix, writes the fitted file and launches llama-server on it. The quantizer is written from scratch in Rust with no llama.cpp code linked, and the output is standard GGUF v3. Free, with a browser-side calculator on the site. 80 stars as of 24 August 2026

Apache-2.0 marketplace payouts platform from Ben of Tiny Projects, built after he found himself paying around 9,000 US dollars a month in Stripe Connect fees on his own marketplace, PromptBase. It settles in USDC with a near-identical API and dashboard to Stripe, adds KYC on payout recipients through Didit, blocks OFAC-listed wallet addresses, and covers seller countries Connect will not onboard. He says he has run 3,000-plus payouts to 5,000-plus sellers with it and that 74 per cent of his new sellers now choose it over Stripe. Self-hosting is free forever with no transaction fees; managed Zoneless Cloud is free to 1,000 payouts a month, 99 US dollars a month to 10,000, and 499 a month to 100,000. 493 stars as of 24 August 2026

Free browser tool that takes a Spotify artist, album or track link and reports which of your recordings are unregistered or unclaimed at The MLC, and roughly what that is costing you. It sorts each recording into linked-and-fully-claimed, needs-matching, missing-shares or fully-unclaimed, and explains that the MLC matches Spotify, Apple and Pandora copies of the same recording separately, so money can sit behind the ones that did not land. The hook is a deadline; The MLC holds 656M US dollars nobody has claimed, and the oldest tranche, 6.41M from January 2021, is scheduled to be distributed to existing market share in January 2027 and is gone after that. No signup. Built by Doubly, an independent bootstrapped publishing administrator, as the free end of its paid catalogue-cleanup service.

Clipto indexes the video, audio, images and documents already on your machine — transcribing speech in 99-plus languages, tagging people and scenes, and making the lot searchable by keyword down to the timecode — and MCP is the new layer that hands that index to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or Clipto's own agent, with every answer traceable back to a source timestamp. Processing is local-first on Apple silicon Macs with 16GB and on Windows with 12GB, currently in beta; the iPhone, Android and web clients are cloud-powered. Plugins exist for Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve. Closed and proprietary, 7-day free trial, then Pro at 24.99 US dollars a month billed monthly, discounted to 9.99 for a first month, or 12.49 a month billed yearly.

App Store rank tracker from indie developer Dmytro Chuta, watching Top Free and Top Paid charts across 175 countries and 54 categories around the clock and pushing an alert when one of your apps enters a new country, jumps sharply or hits the top. It needs no API key and no App Store Connect access — you add an app by name or store link — and it turns ranking wins into shareable achievement cards. Free while you grow, with everything unlocked automatically for apps not yet in the global charts or ranking in fewer than four countries, which the site says covers 87 per cent of apps. Beyond that, Toplify Pro is an in-app purchase at 3.99 US dollars a month, 29.99 a year, or 84.99 once for lifetime. Closed source, iPhone, iPad and Mac, version 1.0.8 as of 24 August 2026.

MIT-licensed self-hosted music application from Lee Kelly, which up to now had been a discovery and acquisition tool and with 2.5.0 grows a native library for browsing, organising and playing music you already own. Discovery keeps previews and acquisition, Library takes full playback, and the release adds hosted Subsonic support so any Subsonic-compatible client can browse and play the collection, plus local listening history and scrobbling, better playlist import and sync from Spotify, ListenBrainz and Last.fm, and the ability to promote a Flow track into a permanent playlist. Split Lidarr and Aurral ownership modes are named as the next release, not this one. Free and self-hosted, funded through GitHub Sponsors. 1.6k stars as of 24 August 2026

AGPL-3.0 omnichannel customer support desk from Abhinav Raut, shipping as a single Go binary that needs only PostgreSQL and Redis. Email and an embeddable live chat widget land in one inbox, alongside a multi-language help centre, an AI assistant grounded in that knowledge base which hands off to a human when it cannot help, an agent copilot for drafting and summarising, event-driven automation rules for tagging, assigning and routing, role-based permissions, macros, custom attributes, and CSAT surveys with response and resolution analytics. Positioned against Zendesk, Intercom and Chatwoot. Completely free with no paid tiers and no hosted version — self-hosted only, with a public live demo. 2.8k stars as of 24 August 2026