From Product Hunt
Claude gets a major upgrade, plus solid macOS utilities and developer tools launched today.
Cowork — Claude as Your Digital Coworker
Anthropic's new Cowork feature for Claude desktop. Work directly with local files, connect to code editors and databases. Assign tasks instead of chatting. Available on Max plan for macOS.
Phia — Cinematic Screen Recordings
Native macOS screen recorder with automatic cinematic enhancements. Intelligent zoom, smooth cursor motion, animated titles and captions. Metal GPU acceleration. $29 one-time, offline.
Voquill — Open Source Voice Typing
WisprFlow alternative for voice-to-text dictation. macOS/Windows/Linux. Supports local Whisper with GPU acceleration or cloud APIs. AI cleanup removes filler words. AGPLv3 license.
Recent.dev — Changelog Aggregator
Select your tech stack (Vercel, Railway, Cursor, etc.) and get curated changelog updates in one feed. No need to monitor dozens of changelog pages manually.
Meety 2.0 — Menu Bar Calendar
macOS menu bar Google Calendar app with quick-join for meetings. Two-way sync, privacy-first. Full-screen alerts for deep work mode. One-time purchase.
Dawiso — MCP Context Layer for AI Agents
Enterprise data catalog that connects AI agents to governed metadata via MCP. Auto-generates context through metadata scanning. For building enterprise AI agents with proper data governance.
Beam Browser — Power User iPad Browser
Arc/Zen-style sidebar with vertical tabs, spaces, and command bar for iPad. Pinned tabs, keyboard shortcuts, built-in ad blocking. $4.99 one-time. Built by a 16-year-old developer.
From Reddit
Pentagon embraces Grok, OpenAI hardware leak, and Moxie builds private AI.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced Pentagon will integrate xAI's Grok into military networks this month. Grok will be available to 3 million DoD personnel at Impact Level 5 for classified workflows.
Part of $200M contract awarded in July 2025. Controversial timing given recent deepfake image scandal and UK investigation into Grok generating non-consensual images.
OpenAI's Sweetpea: Hardware Leak Details
Leaked details on OpenAI's audio device codenamed Sweetpea. Metal "eggstone" design with pill-shaped capsules worn behind ear. Custom 2nm Samsung Exynos chip. From Jony Ive collaboration, designed to replace AirPods with AI-first experience.
Confer — Moxie's Privacy-First AI
Signal creator Moxie Marlinspike launches Confer, a privacy-first AI assistant. Uses passkeys and trusted execution environments (TEEs) to keep prompts encrypted even from platform operators. Open source and cryptographically verifiable.
SurfSense — OSS NotebookLM + Glean Alternative
Self-hostable RAG platform connecting any LLM to internal knowledge sources (50+ file formats, Drive, Slack, Notion, GitHub). Hybrid search with 6000+ embedding models. Team collaboration with RBAC. Can generate podcasts in 20 seconds.
From Reddit
LTX-2 video model gets major updates, Z Image Base coming soon, and new TTS training tools.
LTX-2 Team Releases Comparison Videos vs Wan 2.2
LTX-2 video model released comparison videos. Community divided — some prefer LTX-2's higher framerate and longer videos, others note Wan 2.2 has better prompt comprehension. Also released updated Video VAE with improved detail quality.
Z Image Base Model Release Imminent
Alibaba's Z Image Base model (non-Turbo version) appears imminent based on developer activity. Community also speculating it could be GLM Image model instead. Either way, new open image model coming soon.
Soprano TTS Training Code Released
80M parameter TTS model runs 20x realtime on CPU, 2000x on GPU with 15ms latency. Open source training framework allows creating custom voices. Small footprint suitable for on-device deployment.
AI Toolkit Adds LTX-2 LoRA Training
Ostris AI Toolkit now officially supports training LoRAs for LTX-2 video model. Can train character LoRAs from images with RAM offloading. Training on videos with audio also possible. RTX 4080+ with 64GB RAM can work.
From Reddit
Apple bundles creative apps into subscription, plus self-hosted tools and macOS utilities.
Apple launches Creator Studio bundle ($12.99/mo or $129/yr) including Final Cut Pro, Logic Pro, Pixelmator Pro, MainStage, Motion, Compressor, plus premium tiers for iWork apps.
One-time purchases still available for standalone apps. Interesting timing as Affinity just went free. DaVinci Resolve remains free/one-time purchase as alternative.
Nametag — Self-Hostable Personal CRM
Track relationships with people you care about (not sales leads). Docker Compose setup. Features relationship mapping, birthday tracking, interactive network graph visualization. AGPL-3.0, works offline. Monica CRM alternative.
Keeper — macOS Photo Culling App
Aftershoot alternative for photographers. Keyboard-first rating/flagging, AI-assisted face detection and open/close eye detection. Integrates with Lightroom/Capture One. Local-first, privacy-first. Free on Gumroad.
Relinq — Convert Music Links Between Services
Native macOS menu bar app that converts music links between Spotify, Apple Music, and YouTube Music. Copy a link, get a toast, one-click to convert. $5 one-time purchase.
SimpleDMS — Document Management System
Open source DMS for small businesses and families. Metadata-driven filing with document types and fields instead of filenames/directories. Inbox workflow for quick filing. Simpler alternative to Paperless-ngx.
Quick hits — smaller releases.
Aurora — OSS Lossless Music Player
Local music player for FLAC, MP3, M4A, WAV. Clean UI, basic playlists. macOS ready.
Audioer v2.2 — Batch Audio Converter
macOS batch audio format converter. AAC, FLAC, MP3, OGG, WAV. Drag-and-drop, local/offline.