Want a talking-head video from a still portrait? Pic Lock: Turn a portrait, a line of dialogue and a chosen voice into a talking-head video to preview and save. $84.52 once for the Pic Lock 1.2 Windows package. Generation runs through your own Puter or xAI account, which is billed separately by that provider. 14-day money-back guarantee.
Need the date and time on your desktop, not only in the taskbar? Windows can show extra clocks in the flyout: Settings > Time & language > Date & time > Additional clocks.
Solace Clock: Keep the date and time on your desktop in the format, size and time zone you choose. $18.39 once. 14-day money-back guarantee.
C: drive full? Check the built-in tools first:
Settings > System > Storage > Cleanup recommendations, then turn on Storage Sense. To find big photo folders, open File Explorer > Pictures > View > Details and sort by Size. Empty the Recycle Bin after you delete.
For true duplicates and resized copies across many folders, our Solace Sweep is $36.75 once.
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Windows 11 gaming tweaks worth doing, all built in, free and easy to undo:
Game Mode on, the high-performance GPU per game, full refresh rate, Enhance pointer precision off, Do not disturb while gaming, fewer startup apps.
For more than Windows offers (borderless, crosshair, cursors, key sounds, live wallpaper): our Solace Gamer Pack, 7 apps for $29 once. 14-day money-back guarantee included.
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Small shop, big problem: our Windows apps are good, but almost nobody knows we exist. So here's the deal. Tell us the one PC annoyance you'd pay to never deal with again, and we'll point you to the app that fixes it. One-time price, 14-day money-back guarantee.
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Halloween is almost here 🎃
Solace Wallpaper puts small animated scenes behind your Windows desktop icons: ten original wallpapers, from Aurora Ridge to Firefly Glade. They pause when the desktop is covered, there's no account, and you can add your own HTML wallpapers.
Free 14-day trial, then $4.59 once, no subscription. Halloween code SPOOKY: 25% off at checkout until Oct 31, 11:59 PM MT.
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#Windows #Windows11 #LiveWallpaper #DesktopCustomization #IndieDev #Halloween
Windows tip: clipboard history.
Press Win+V and choose Turn on (first time only). After that, Win+V shows your last 25 copied items (text and images up to 4 MB each), so you can paste something from earlier without going back for it.
Pin the snippets you paste all the time, like an address or a standard reply. Pinned items survive a restart; everything else clears.
Clear all is at the top of the Win+V panel, and the switch lives in Settings > System > Clipboard.
The Windows taskbar clock is small, fixed in place and hidden by full-screen apps.
Our Solace Clock is a clean digital clock that floats on your desktop. Drag it anywhere, pick a date and time format (or build your own), a theme, colors, font and size, and keep it on top if you like. It also does a countdown and a second clock for another time zone.
No admin rights, no install. $18.39 once. SPOOKY: 25% off at checkout until Oct 31, 11:59 PM MT.
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Windows disk nearly full? Built-in first: Settings > System > Storage > Cleanup recommendations, or turn on Storage Sense to clear temp files.
For duplicates: our Solace Sweep scans folders you pick for duplicate, oversized, empty and temporary files and groups them for review before any file action. Reference paths protect the copy you keep.
$36.75 once, no subscription. SPOOKY: 25% off at checkout until Oct 31, 11:59 PM MT.
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🎃 Kit out your gaming PC for Halloween.
Solace Gamer Pack is seven of our Windows apps for games and streams, including Cursors (now with a Spooky pack: a wobbling jack-o'-lantern busy cursor and bats), Borderless, Crosshair, Clack, Emotes, Pixel and Wallpaper.
$29, one time. Bought one by one today they cost $54.21, so you save $25.21. One checkout, and every download is on one receipt page.
🎃 Your Windows cursor, but haunted.
The Spooky pack in our Solace Cursors turns the busy cursor into a wobbling jack-o'-lantern with bats flying around it. It's one of six animated packs, and Apply changes all your Windows cursors at once.
Free 14-day trial, then $2.75 once.
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🎃 Halloween at Solace: we've put 25 of our apps into one bundle.
Solace Complete is 25 of our Windows apps for $45, one time. One checkout, and every download is listed on one receipt page. No subscription.
Bought one by one today, the same 25 apps cost $705.43, so the bundle saves you $660.43.
Bored of your desktop?
Our seven Windows apps from SolaceSoftware: live animated wallpapers, custom cursors, animated emotes, Sola the desktop pet, borderless full screen for windowed games, a custom crosshair overlay and auto-zoom on every click for screen recordings.
One-time price, no subscription.
Try borderless full screen free for 14 days.
Solace Borderless makes a windowed game fill the screen with no borders, with one click or Ctrl+Alt+B. Pick the monitor, or a custom size like 2560x1080 centered. It remembers your games, and every window is restored when you quit. Nothing is injected into your games, and there's no account. Then $6.43 once, no subscription.
Try a new cursor free for 14 days.
Solace Cursors changes all 17 Windows cursors at once. Pick one of six animated packs: Solace Glow, Neon Arcade, Pixel Pop, Kawaii Paw, Midnight, or the new Spooky, with a jack-o'-lantern busy cursor and bats. Set the size from 32 to 128 px, add sparkles or a trail, and Restore my cursors puts yours back. Then $2.75 once, no subscription.
New: Solace Emotes 🐱
Turn a selfie, a pet photo or a drawing into animated emotes and stickers. Remove the background on your own PC, pick one of 10 effects (Pet-pet, Party, Bounce, Squish and more), add a caption or outline, and export the emote and sticker sizes streaming and chat sites ask for in one go, each checked against that site's file limit. A one-time 187 MB download for background removal, then offline.
New: Solace Clack ⌨️
Satisfying key sounds as you type, on any keyboard. Pick one of 8 sound profiles (Thock, Cream, Hush and more) or your own .wav folder. It pauses by itself while your mic is in use, Ctrl+Alt+K mutes it anywhere, and it never stores what you type. Works offline, per-user install, no admin.
$4.59 once, no subscription.
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Try a live desktop free for 14 days.
Solace Wallpaper puts ten original animated scenes behind your Windows desktop icons, like Aurora Ridge and Rainy Window. They pause when the desktop is covered, cap at 30 fps and need no account. Then $4.59 once, no subscription.
#Windows #Windows11 #LiveWallpaper #DesktopCustomization #IndieDev
Hi Mastodon! SolaceSoftware makes small Windows desktop apps you buy once, with no subscription and no auto-renewal.
Five have a free 14-day trial right now:
- Solace Wallpaper ($4.59): animated desktop wallpapers
- Solace Crosshair ($9.19): a crosshair overlay for games
- Solace Pixel ($18.39): pixel art and sprite animation
- Solace Dictate ($26.68): offline speech-to-text
- Solace BateStamp ($19.99): Bates numbers for PDFs
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