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Productivity-tools projects on GitHub

Apps that speed up everyday work like launchers and text expanders.

As of , the most-starred Productivity-tools projects on GitHub are desktop (45K stars), BetterDisplay (34.1K stars) and refined-github (32.3K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 17 Productivity-tools repositories with 228.3K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 19 was QuickLook, with +29 stars in a day.

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228.3KStars in total
+160Stars in a day
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Hot right now

Most stars gained in a day · Oct 19

+29

QuickLook

QL-Win/QuickLook · ★ 25.4K

QuickLook brings macOS's 'Quick Look' feature to Windows: select any file in File Explorer, press Space, and get an instant preview without opening a full application.

+26

desktop

zen-browser/desktop · ★ 45K

Zen is a desktop web browser built on top of Firefox, focused on making you more productive — its tagline is 'Welcome to a calmer internet'.

+17

BetterDisplay

waydabber/BetterDisplay · ★ 34.1K

BetterDisplay is a macOS menu bar app that unlocks extra display controls on your Mac, including flexible HiDPI scaling, XDR/HDR brightness boosts, DDC and HDMI-CEC hardware control, virtual screens, and picture-in-picture streaming.

+15

lazyskills

alvinunreal/lazyskills · ★ 580

LazySkills is a terminal UI that acts as mission control for agent skills, showing every installed skill in one place and which coding agents can actually use it.

The all-time top

17 projects · by stars

  1. #1 · zen-browser/desktop

    desktop

    Zen is a desktop web browser built on top of Firefox, focused on making you more productive — its tagline is 'Welcome to a calmer internet'.

    45K
  2. #2 · waydabber/BetterDisplay

    BetterDisplay

    BetterDisplay is a macOS menu bar app that unlocks extra display controls on your Mac, including flexible HiDPI scaling, XDR/HDR brightness boosts, DDC and HDMI-CEC hardware control, virtual screens, and picture-in-picture streaming.

    34.1K
  3. #3 · refined-github/refined-github

    refined-github

    Refined GitHub is a browser extension that cleans up GitHub's interface and bolts on dozens of small quality-of-life features, from sticky sidebars to better diff and comment tools.

    32.3K
  1. 4

    Wox

    27.5KWox-launcher/Wox · Go

    Wox is an open-source launcher for Windows, macOS, and Linux — an alternative to Raycast, Alfred, or Spotlight. One input pops up, and you search and act from the keyboard.

  2. 5

    QuickLook

    25.4KQL-Win/QuickLook · C#

    QuickLook brings macOS's 'Quick Look' feature to Windows: select any file in File Explorer, press Space, and get an instant preview without opening a full application.

  3. 6

    IQKeyboardManager

    16.6Khackiftekhar/IQKeyboardManager · Swift

    IQKeyboardManager is a drop-in iOS library that automatically prevents the keyboard from sliding up and covering a UITextField or UITextView, with no code or manual setup needed.

  4. 7

    Flow.Launcher

    15.8KFlow-Launcher/Flow.Launcher · C#

    Flow Launcher is a quick file search and application launcher for Windows, similar to Alfred or Spotlight, with support for community-made plugins.

  5. 8

    espanso

    14.7Kespanso/espanso · Rust

    Espanso is a cross-platform text expander written in Rust that detects a keyword you type and instantly replaces it with something else, like a snippet, date, or script output.

  6. 9

    Dayflow

    7.3KJerryZLiu/Dayflow · Swift

    Dayflow is a private, automatic work journal for Mac that watches your screen activity and turns it into a clear, chronological timeline of what you actually did during the day, no manual timers or notes needed.

  7. 10

    floral-notepaper

    5.5KAchilng/floral-notepaper · Rust

    Floral Notepaper (花笺) is a lightweight, elegant cross-platform desktop sticky-notes app with Markdown editing and live preview.

  8. 11

    StarPie

    1.2KStar-Pie/StarPie · C#

    StarPie (星盘) is a lightweight radial/pie-menu and mouse-gesture tool for Windows 10/11 that lets you trigger hotkeys, launch apps, open URLs, folders, run commands, manage windows and run screen OCR by holding a mouse button and flicking toward a sector.

  9. 12

    Doll

    1.2Kxiaogdgenuine/Doll · Swift

    Doll is a Mac app that keeps the unread badges of message apps like Mail, Slack and Teams visible in the macOS Menu bar, so new messages catch your eye on any screen.

  10. 13

    lazyskills

    580alvinunreal/lazyskills · Go

    LazySkills is a terminal UI that acts as mission control for agent skills, showing every installed skill in one place and which coding agents can actually use it.

  11. 14

    noty

    496aimen08/noty · Swift

    Noty is a native macOS sticky-notes app that hides at the edge of your screen as a small pill, fanning out into note tabs when you move the pointer there, instead of sitting in a dock or window.

  12. 15

    multi-row-tabs

    255hezhizheng/multi-row-tabs · JavaScript

    A Chrome extension (Manifest V3) that displays all tabs in the current window as a multi-row tiled grid, shown as a floating overlay you trigger with a button or shortcut, without modifying any page styles.

  13. 16

    org-timegrid

    187Gleek/org-timegrid · Emacs Lisp

    org-timegrid is an SVG week calendar for Emacs that reads timed timestamps from your Org files and writes edits back to their source headings, so you can create, move, resize, rename and remove calendar blocks with the mouse or keyboard.

  14. 17

    awesome-efficient-devtools

    88ejboy/awesome-efficient-devtools

    A curated list of developer tools chosen for cutting overhead — compute, AI context and tokens, terminal noise, setup complexity, or workflow friction. It spans AI-context helpers, fast CLIs, lightweight monitoring, and environment managers.

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