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Best Automation software, apps and tools

292 curated resources for automation, online and offline.

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Automation tools take repetitive steps off your plate: moving data between apps, sending routine messages, filing documents and starting the next step of a process without anyone clicking a button. The best ones are easy to set up, easy to check and easy to switch off when something changes.

This list covers no-code workflow builders, browser and desktop automation, AI agents that work across apps and developer tools for scripting. Start with one task you do every week, automate it, and watch it run for a while before adding more. Keep a note of what each automation touches, so you can fix it quickly when an app changes.

RaycastEditor's pick, verified

A launcher that turns your Mac into a command palette.

Mac AppFree planmacOS, Windows

Agentfiles

Browse, create, and edit AI agent files across Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and 12 coding tools — from Obsidian.

WebsiteFreeWeb, macOS

MailDev

Free, open-source local SMTP server and web inbox that catches every email your app sends in development.

WebsiteFreeWeb, macOS

AutoClip

AI-powered video clipping and highlight generation for YouTube and Bilibili content.

AI ToolFree planWeb, Cross-Platform

hol-guard

Open-source antivirus for AI agents: block risky tools, secret access, prompt injection and malicious packages.

AI ToolFreemacOS, Windows

Tally

Forms that work like a document and stay free.

No-Code ToolFree planWeb, Cross-Platform

ASO Skills

AI agent skills for App Store Optimization, keyword research, metadata, competitors and app growth.

WebsiteFreeWeb, Cross-Platform

Hypit

Open-source AI agent pipeline that clones viral videos: swap faces, rewrite scripts, replace B-roll and render 100 variants from one command.

AI ToolFreeWeb, Cross-Platform

VoiceStudio

Open-source, fully-local ElevenLabs alternative for voice cloning, dubbing, transcription and audiobooks.

AI ToolFreeCross-Platform

Superstreamer

An open, scalable, online streaming setup from ingest to adaptive video playback.

WebsiteFreeWeb, Cross-Platform

Agent Reach

Give your AI agent eyes on the entire internet: Twitter, Reddit, YouTube, GitHub and more, one CLI, zero API fees.

AI ToolFreemacOS, Windows

Dify

Open-source platform for building and operating LLM apps and AI agents.

AI ToolFree planWeb, Cross-Platform

ServerKit

A lightweight, open-source server control panel for deploying and managing web apps, databases and containers on your own VPS.

WebsiteFreeWeb, Linux

MetalForge

Generate beautiful SwiftUI Metal shaders by tweaking sliders — no MSL required.

WebsiteFree planWeb

OpenHarness

Open-source software and hardware for building with coding agents across software, design, circuits, data and video.

AI ToolFreeCross-Platform, Linux

Aliens Eye

An AI-powered OSINT username scanner that hunts a username across 840+ social platforms.

WebsiteFreeWeb, Linux

Dormice

The SQLite of agent sandboxes — self-hosted, E2B-compatible. One machine, sandboxes that live forever, idle costs nothing.

AI ToolFreeLinux, Web

n8n

Open-source automation you can host and shape yourself.

Automation ToolFree planWeb, Linux

ZapierFeatured, verified

Connect your apps and automate repetitive work.

Automation ToolFree planWeb, Cross-Platform

RubyLLM

The Ruby-native AI framework with one consistent API.

FrameworkFreeWeb, Cross-Platform

Prismor

Self-hosted runtime control plane to observe, approve or block rogue AI agent tool calls.

AI ToolFreemacOS, Linux

simslim

Run more iOS simulators on one Mac by disabling background daemons the simulator does not need.

Mac AppFreemacOS

agmsg

Cross-vendor messaging for CLI AI coding agents — let Claude Code, Codex, Gemini and Copilot talk to each other.

FrameworkFreemacOS, Windows

Open Edit

Open-source, agent-driven editing pipeline for subtitles, motion graphics, slides and video.

AI ToolFreeWeb, macOS

Orca

An agent development environment for managing a fleet of parallel coding agents.

Desktop AppFree planmacOS, Windows

toolport

Local-first MCP gateway — one port for every tool and AI client, with lazy discovery saving ~90% of tokens.

AI ToolFreemacOS, Windows

mengram

Human-like memory for AI agents — semantic, episodic and procedural, with experience-driven procedures that learn.

AI ToolFreeCross-Platform

Open Run

Schedule Claude Code, Codex, Grok and Gemini like cron jobs on your machine.

Web AppFreeWeb, Cross-Platform

SavvyCal

The scheduling tool designed for you and your guests.

Web AppPaid but AffordableWeb

GCF

AI-native wire format for structured data with fewer tokens than JSON.

FrameworkFreeWeb, Cross-Platform

Sentio

Email inbox API for AI agents — every agent gets its own real email address.

FrameworkFreeWeb, Linux

Emulate

Local API emulation for CI and no-network sandboxes, from Vercel Labs.

FrameworkFreeCross-Platform

Caddi

Narrate a screenshare of a back-office task once and Caddi turns it into an AI automation.

Automation ToolFree planWeb

Genie

Wishes in, PRs out — a CLI agent that interviews you and ships code.

Desktop AppFreemacOS, Windows

slackcli

Slack CLI for humans and AI agents — read, send, search and reply from the terminal.

Desktop AppFreemacOS, Windows

Onorca

Lightweight platform for building and deploying AI-powered workflows.

Web AppFree planWeb

DecisionBox

Autonomous AI agents that query your data warehouse and surface validated insights without being asked.

AI ToolFreeWeb, Cross-Platform

Minimal

Run your agent in a Minimal box — isolated sandboxes on your own computer.

Desktop AppFreemacOS, Windows

Aurora

AI-powered agentic incident management and root cause analysis for SREs.

AI ToolFreeWeb, Cross-Platform

AgentPipe

A high-performance multithreaded task execution engine for agents and dweb apps.

FrameworkFreeCross-Platform

agnix

A linter and language server for AI coding assistant configuration files.

AI ToolFreeCross-Platform

Aweb

Communication for AI agents with stable identity and durable mail.

FrameworkFreeCross-Platform

bunqueue

A fast job queue for Bun with SQLite by default and no Redis required.

FrameworkFreeCross-Platform

Capsomnia

Turns Caps Lock into a physical keep-awake switch for closed-lid MacBook work.

Mac AppFreemacOS

Comanda

Run coding-agent workflows from inspectable YAML programs.

Automation ToolFreeCross-Platform

Dais

Your desktop AI staff: run several agent tasks at once with MCP tools and skills.

Desktop AppFreeWindows, Linux

dbt-charts

Declarative YAML dashboards for dbt, easy for agents to write.

Automation ToolFreeWeb, Cross-Platform

DeskRPG

A self-hosted 3D virtual office where AI employees sit at desks and do the work.

Web AppFreeWeb, Cross-Platform

ElevenLabs CLI

The entire ElevenLabs platform, and your voice agents, from the terminal.

Automation ToolFree planCross-Platform, macOS

hcom

Let AI agents message, watch and spawn each other across terminals.

Automation ToolFreeWindows, macOS

Limoni

Terminal UI engine for Go that tests can click and AI agents can drive.

Automation ToolFreeWindows, macOS

Myna Recorder

A Windows macro recorder you can read and edit, with image anchors and an AI assistant.

Windows AppFree planWindows

Orkas

Local-first AI desktop app where a commander LLM directs specialist sub-agents and your coding CLIs.

AI ToolFreemacOS, Windows

Phil

A self-improving AI agent that trades prediction markets and rewrites its own strategy.

AI ToolFreeWeb, Cross-Platform

The Pair

Two AI agents cross-check each other's code so you get reviewed, validated work.

Desktop AppFreemacOS, Windows

Tracely

Trace-native CI/CD for AI agents: production failures become regression tests.

AI ToolFreeCross-Platform, Web

EGC

One shared brain for every AI coding agent — memory, skills and context in sync.

FrameworkFreeWeb

Wife

Local-first, evidence-aware memory and project continuity for AI coding agents.

AI ToolFreemacOS, Windows

Writ

Governance runtime for Claude Code with workflow gates and decision provenance.

FrameworkFreemacOS, Windows

Guardana

Open-source AI security verification for models, endpoints, MCP servers and agent traces.

FrameworkFreemacOS, Windows

oc

Turn any website into a compact CLI tailored for AI agents.

Desktop AppFreemacOS, Windows

Emisar

Let AI agents investigate and operate infrastructure through declared actions bounded by policy.

AI ToolFreeCross-Platform, Linux

Stabilize

Queue-based state machine for high-throughput DAG workflow execution.

FrameworkFreeWeb, Cross-Platform

Aeon

An autonomous AI agent framework that runs unattended on GitHub Actions.

FrameworkFreeCross-Platform

Anvia

A TypeScript runtime for provider-agnostic agents, tool workflows and structured extraction.

FrameworkFreeCross-Platform

Atmosphere

A portable AI agent runtime for the JVM that runs on Spring AI, LangChain4j, Anthropic and more.

FrameworkFreeCross-Platform

httpSMS

Use your Android phone as an SMS gateway with a simple HTTP API.

Web AppFree planWeb, Android

Jido AI

AI integration layer for Jido agents, with LLM orchestration and reasoning strategies.

FrameworkFreeCross-Platform

mcptoon

One zero-dependency CLI for every MCP server and agent skill, with heavy token savings.

AI ToolFreeCross-Platform

Merrymen

Autonomous trading agents for Robinhood Chain, inside hard on-chain limits.

AI ToolFreeCross-Platform

OnionClaw

Tor network and dark web access for AI agents, for OSINT and security research.

AI ToolFreeCross-Platform

OpenASM

An AI-powered, open-source platform for attack surface management.

Web AppFreeWeb, Cross-Platform

Gawkbot

Open-source Grok bot that automates your menial work and builds you microapps to manage the outcome.

AI ToolFreeWeb

tlgr

Control your whole Telegram account from the terminal, built for AI agents.

Automation ToolFreemacOS, Windows

Uni-CLI

One command for searching and running real software across APIs, browsers, desktops and MCP.

Automation ToolFreemacOS, Windows

Dive

Quickly build AI agents in Go, from agentic CLIs to backend services.

FrameworkFreeCross-Platform

Gold Band

A desktop app for harness engineering, loop engineering and graph engineering in local AI-agent workflows.

Desktop AppFreemacOS, Windows

DeskVNC

One native client for VNC, RDP and SSH, with an MCP control plane for AI agents.

Desktop AppFreemacOS, Windows

Automation tools: common questions

What are the best automation tools?
The highest-rated automation picks in the directory right now are Transformers, Raycast and Awesome LLM Apps. Each one is checked by hand, and the full list above is sorted by our recommendation.
What is the best free automation tool?
Transformers and Awesome LLM Apps are the top-rated completely free options. If a free plan is enough, Raycast is also worth a look.
How many automation tools are listed?
292 automation resources are listed: 239 completely free, 47 with a free plan and 6 paid. New ones are added as they are checked.

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