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ALT Promotional card for Craft Anything, a free, open-source (Apache-2.0) app shown with a black-and-white raven logo on a blue tile. Pitch: "Study websites, apps, games and files with evidence-backed tools, then work with a coding agent to build and check your own project." Tags: Windows, Mac, Linux, United States. Alternative to Ghidra. Top screenshot shows a dark interface with a project plan checklist, a permission prompt, and a ready-made centred card.

ALT MacSpace: a free, open-source macOS utility that splits System Data into caches, logs, reports, system assets, app data and version history, and frees safe parts. Tags: Free, Open Source (MIT), Mac, Homebrew, Brazil. Alternative to CCleaner and CleanMyMac. Central app icon over a treemap storage view: 113.13 GB used of 245.11 GB, system data 27.97 GB, other system files 2.54 GB, Siri & AI at 367.3 MB, and a disabled/enabled toggle panel.

ALT Codenotch app card. Free, open source (MIT), for Windows and Mac. Pitch: a screen-edge notch showing how much of your AI coding assistants' usage limits you've used and whether agents are still working. Preview shows a dark "Claude Usage" panel with 73% current session used (resets in 51 min) and 7% of all models used (resets Thursday 12:00 AM), plus a 73% ring and a ChatGPT ring on a notch beside a date and time, "Thu 27 Aug 11.22.

ALT Musike app card: "Musike," free and open-source (MIT), an ad-free player for YouTube Music's catalog that plays songs as audio or music videos without login. Tags: Music Streaming Service, Windows, Mac, Linux, Self-Hosted, Android, iPhone, Docker, Android TV. Alternative to Spotube and Nuclear. Dark-themed desktop app shows "Good evening" home view with playlists, recently played albums, and a now-playing panel for Radiohead's "Paranoid Android.

ALT Firenook app card: app icon (orange-red and yellow flame-like logo) above the name "Firenook." Tags: Free, Open Source (Apache-2.0), Windows, Mac, Linux, npm. Pitch: a drop-in replacement for the Firebase Local Emulator Suite that runs without Java and persists data between restarts. Footer: "Alternative to Supabase and PocketBase." Dark dashboard screenshot shows a user list with emails, names, and a details panel for a selected user.

ALT Space Glider app card. App icon: a blue-purple square with a white double-arrow crosshair over an oval. Tagline: "Space Glider makes a 3Dconnexion SpaceMouse scroll, zoom and rotate smoothly in the apps you choose, like a trackpad." Tags: Free, Proprietary, Mac, Germany, EU. Footer: "Alternative to X-Mouse Button Control and AntiMicroX." Background shows a settings window with Speed, Response and Momentum controls and toggles, plus an About window showing version 1.1.1.

ALT Lemmy app card: the app's mascot icon (a white mouse face) sits above the name "Lemmy." Tags read "Free," "Open Source (AGPL-3.0)," "Lemmy Client," "Online," "Self-Hosted," "Android," and "iPhone." The pitch: "Similar to Reddit, Lobste.rs, or Hacker News, you subscribe to forums, post links and discussions, then vote and comment. Anyone can run a server." Footer: "Alternative to Reddit and Hacker News." A dark-mode interface screenshot shows post listings with vote counts, trending and subscribed communities, and a navigation bar.










