Discover the best productivity apps for designers and creators on desktop and mobile.
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46 Top Productivity Apps
Notchkin — Keep quick notes close at hand on your Mac, with rich text, tags, clipboard capture, and Markdown or RTF export.
Slashit — Expand text shortcuts, reuse templates, rewrite text with AI, and manage clipboard history on Mac and Windows.
Muse for iOS & Android — Chat with Meta’s personal AI agent on your phone, delegate tasks, and review requests for approval.
Hermes Agent — Open-source AI agent from Nous Research that lives in your terminal and desktop — persistent memory, scheduling, subagents, and sandboxed execution.
Xirp — Spotify's vendor-neutral agentic development environment — run and manage agent sessions across Claude Code, Gemini CLI, and Codex from one place.
Notion Agents — The Notion Agents app for iOS — put Notion's AI agents in your pocket to find info, draft, and get work done across your workspace.
Grok Bot — AI teammates you can give real work to — Grok Bots sign in to your tools, use them just like you do, and come back with finished work.
Phi — A remarkably well-behaved browser engineered specifically for macOS — quietly intelligent, beautifully native, and built on Chromium.
CleanShot — The Mac screenshot and screen recording app — annotate, scroll-capture, record GIFs and video, pin to screen, and share via cloud link. Version 5.0 adds Studio Mode for polished recordings.
Supaste — Local-first clipboard and screenshot history app for Mac — searchable timeline of copied text, links, images, files, code, and colors.
FlipPhone — The simplest focus timer ever — flip your phone to start focusing.
Glaze — Build desktop apps with AI — just describe what you want and Glaze creates it.
ChatGPT for Desktop — ChatGPT on your desktop with Work and Codex modes, plus context from your email, screenshots, files, and anything on your screen.
ChatGPT Work — Create and edit polished docs, spreadsheets, and slides with ChatGPT — a work mode built for producing real documents, not just chat.
Taken — Screen recorder for your 9th take. A lightweight macOS menu bar app to capture, record, trim, copy, or export any screen region in a few clicks.
Google App for Desktop — AI-powered search on your desktop — press Alt+Space to search the web, your files, apps, and Google Drive with Gemini AI.
Suprascribe — Free tool that automatically discovers and monitors all your subscriptions in one place.
SpeakMac — Best offline speech-to-text app for Mac — convert voice to text instantly with AI accuracy, full privacy, and no subscription.
Nancy — Light, private, instant clipboard manager for Mac — search 200+ recent copies, paste from the keyboard, pin what you reuse, and nothing ever leaves your machine. Free and open source.
Claude App — Download the Claude AI assistant as a native app — available on macOS, Windows, iOS, and Android for fast access to chat, code generation, and file analysis.
ChatGPT App — Download ChatGPT as a native app — macOS, Windows, iOS, and Android. Voice mode, screenshot context, system shortcuts, and a dedicated window outside your browser.
Claude for Microsoft 365 — Use Claude inside Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook — context carries across all four apps so you can move from email to doc to deck in one conversation.
Notion Mail — AI email client from Notion — auto-organizes, labels, and filters your inbox, drafts replies, and turns repeated responses into reusable snippets.
Clicky — An AI buddy that lives on your Mac — sits next to your cursor, sees your screen, and listens when you talk.
Granola — AI notepad for back-to-back meetings — transcribes, summarizes, and turns your meetings into shareable notes.
Wispr Flow for Mac — AI-powered voice dictation for Mac — speak naturally and Flow writes clean, formatted text anywhere on your computer.
Wispr Flow for Android — AI-powered voice dictation for Android — speak naturally and Flow writes clean, formatted text on your phone.