Screen Studio minus the subscription

gm legends, happy Sunday.

Today: a solo dev who gave away the tool everyone else charges $29 a month for, a guy who wrote his own software to avoid opening Jira, and the audio control your browser should have had a decade ago.

Abdessamad Idboussadel got fed up paying monthly for demo videos, and none of the tools let him scribble on the screen mid-recording to point at what he was talking about. So he built Capptivo, used it every day for months, then put the whole thing out under MIT. Mac, Windows and Linux.

🔥 Our Take: Free is the only card a solo dev has here and he played it. He can't out-support a funded company, so he takes the price to zero and lets strangers fix his bugs for him. Screen Studio's fine for now, but $29 a month gets harder to defend every time one of these turns up.

Finamie lets you hold a button and say what you spent, and it pulls out the amount, currency and category on its own. Santiago Melo Medina built it after noticing he'd log expenses by hand for a week and then quietly give up, so he wired the numbers to your real income and goals.

🔥 Our Take: I'm not convinced typing was ever the problem. You quit these apps because logging your fourth coffee of the week doesn't change anything about your life, and saying it out loud just moves the quitting to week three. Wiring the numbers to your real income and goals is the only bit that might make you look twice.

Borislav Ginov calls himself an enthusiast developer, got annoyed at how things sounded in his browser, and built FreqWave EQ, an 8-band parametric equalizer that sits over any tab. There's a spectrum visualizer and a voice enhancer with four modes for speech. Free on the Chrome Web Store.

🔥 Our Take: The equalizer gets you to install it and the voice mode is why you'd keep it. A lot of podcast audio is just badly mixed, and no amount of bass slider fixes dialogue you can't make out. Chrome won't build either of these in because processing tab audio costs battery, so an extension is as good as this gets.