Software that runs on your machine, not ours.
Small tools that each fix one thing your computer should already do well — your memory, your credentials, your connection, your displays, how long your pages take, and the data you keep asking questions of.
- JetsamAvailable
Free the RAM your inactive tabs are holding
- FoveateAvailable
Search every drive you own, even the unplugged ones
- TransparencyAvailable
Decide how much of each app you can see through
- VaultIn development
The password manager that never sees your passwords
- TesseraIn development
Every chain, one mosaic
- Rotor AuthenticatorIn development
Your 2FA codes, on your machine and nowhere else
- TroveIn development
Your Mac's trove. Backed up, in sync, never lost.
- LinkfuseIn development
Every connection you have. One faster internet.
- TockIn beta
The page loaded. Here is how long it took.
- Adaptive PacerIn development
The speaker's pace changes. Yours does not.
- AudiowireIn development
Route any app's audio anywhere — on all three desktops
- yankdIn development
Clipboard history that isn't quietly storing your API keys
- Display UpscaleIn beta
Every Mac display on its sharpest 1:1 mode, automatically
- Video WallpaperIn beta
Your desktop, alive. Your Mac, still fast.
- JoineryIn development
Ask your database in plain English
- dockyIn development
A dock on every screen, holding what that screen is for
- tokenplugIn development
Keep a captured web session alive in your own gateway
dfacto.ai builds a small number of focused software tools. Each one does a single thing your computer should already do well, and each one runs on your machine rather than on someone else's server.
No accounts you did not ask for, no telemetry, and no data leaving your device unless a feature you chose requires it. Every product is sold outright or by subscription, with a clear refund policy and a real person answering support.
It runs on your machine
No server holds your data, because there is no server. Every product works with the network disconnected unless a feature you chose needs it.
No account to use it
Install and go. An account exists only where a paid licence has to be tied to something, and even then activation is a single request.
Refunds without an argument
Fourteen days, no questions asked, on every paid product. Cancel a subscription any time and it simply stops renewing.
A real person answers
Support goes to one inbox, read by the person who wrote the code, usually within two business days.
Seventeen products, one idea
Own the software you run. No account required to use it, no server holding your data, and nothing phoning home.
Jetsam
AvailableFree the RAM your inactive tabs are holding
A Chrome extension that unloads every tab you are not looking at, across every window, and hands the memory back. Tabs stay in the strip and reload where you left them.
- Chrome, Edge, Brave, Opera, Arc
Chrome · Edge · Brave · Opera · Arc
- Measured savings, read from system memory before and after
- Never touches the tab you are reading, audio, or pinned tabs
- No account, no tracking, no network requests
Foveate
AvailableSearch every drive you own, even the unplugged ones
macOS search across external drives, network shares and your boot disk. Spotlight forgets a drive the moment you eject it; Foveate keeps it indexed, names the drive to plug in, and shows a cached snippet with the disk still in a drawer. On device, no account.
- macOS
- CLI
macOS · CLI
- Finds files on drives that are not plugged in, with the text
- Reads PDFs, Word, Excel and PowerPoint on device
- Nothing leaves the machine: no cloud, no account, no telemetry
Transparency
AvailableDecide how much of each app you can see through
A macOS menu bar app for per-app window opacity. One slider per app, applied live to every open window, and written into your own yabai config rather than a database only we can read.
- macOS
- CLI
macOS · CLI
- Rules live in your yabairc and keep working after the app is uninstalled
- Requires yabai and SIP partially disabled — stated before purchase, not after
- One-time purchase; licences verify offline, with no server to call
Vault
In developmentThe password manager that never sees your passwords
Your vault is encrypted on your device with AES-256-GCM and synced through your own Google Drive — a private per-app folder Vault cannot read beyond. There is no Vault server holding your secrets, encrypted or otherwise.
- macOS, iOS
- Windows
- Linux
- Android
- Chrome, Edge, Brave, Opera, Arc
- CLI, TUI
macOS · Windows · Linux · iOS · Android · Chrome · Edge · Brave · Opera · Arc · CLI · TUI
Planned platform coverage.
- Passkeys and TOTP codes on the free tier, not behind a paywall
- Biometric unlock re-wraps the same vault key rather than weakening it
- Weak and reused password detection runs entirely on your device
Tessera
In developmentEvery chain, one mosaic
A non-custodial wallet that draws a portfolio as tiles, each one sized by what it is worth. Six VM families and 28 chains from a single recovery phrase, with the keys encrypted on your own device and exportable to any other wallet at any time.
- Chrome, Edge, Brave, Opera, Arc
Chrome · Edge · Brave · Opera · Arc
Planned platform coverage.
- Keys never leave the device, and the recovery phrase exports to any other wallet
- Every transaction is simulated against a node before the signing sheet appears
- Demo wallets hold no key at all, so they cannot sign even by mistake
Rotor Authenticator
In developmentYour 2FA codes, on your machine and nowhere else
A privacy-first, offline TOTP/2FA Chrome extension. Seeds are encrypted at rest with Argon2id into AES-256-GCM, and a code is a pure function of (secret, time) — no account, no server, no network. It imports every format, including the Google Authenticator migration QR that is broken in most competitors, and exports to everything in two clicks.
- Chrome, Edge, Brave, Opera, Arc
Chrome · Edge · Brave · Opera · Arc
Planned platform coverage.
- Two permissions and no host permissions — Chrome shows no install warning at all
- Export is free forever, in two clicks, and a CI test fails the build if it ever is not
- Imports the Google Authenticator migration QR that Aegis, Ente and 2FAuth still fail on
- No account, no server, no telemetry — `connect-src 'none'` makes that browser-enforced
- Firefox and Safari packages build from the same bundle and pass their validators — but neither has been run yet, and the site says so rather than claiming support
Trove
In developmentYour Mac's trove. Backed up, in sync, never lost.
Scheduled Google Drive backups that move deletions into a dated archive rather than destroying them, plus two-way folder sync that reaches a phone in seconds. Built around the way backups actually fail: a pair of hand-rolled scripts stopped running for five days and nothing said so, which is why the menu bar reports health rather than merely existing.
- macOS
macOS
Planned platform coverage.
- Deleted files move to a dated archive in Drive, never a hard delete
- Menu bar goes amber when a backup is overdue and red when one fails
- Two-way sync reaches your phone within seconds of a change
- Files go straight to your own Drive — no dfacto server in the path
Linkfuse
In developmentEvery connection you have. One faster internet.
Spreads your connections across Wi-Fi, ethernet, cellular tethers and nearby devices, entirely on your own machine. Per-flow multiplexing rather than packet-level bonding — which is precisely what lets it work with no server in the middle. It also measures itself: name a configuration, and a comparison grid times every profile against every site you care about so the tuning is a number rather than a claim.
- macOS, iOS
- Windows
- Linux
- Android
- CLI, TUI
macOS · Windows · Linux · iOS · Android · CLI · TUI
Planned platform coverage.
- Each connection is placed on the best link available at that moment
- Traffic leaves through your real interfaces — no VPN, no relay, no extra hop
- Failover to a working link is free on every tier, never paywalled
- Save a configuration as a named profile, then measure every profile against every site you care about in one grid
Tock
In betaThe page loaded. Here is how long it took.
A stopwatch for page loads. It counts up on the toolbar from the moment a request is about to leave to the moment the last resource lands, colours the number on a logarithmic green-to-dark-red scale, and answers the question that number is usually asked in service of — whether a change to your network actually helped.
- Chrome, Edge, Brave, Opera, Arc
Chrome · Edge · Brave · Opera · Arc
Planned platform coverage.
- Times the whole navigation, first request to last resource — not just the document
- The badge counts up ten times a second while the page is still loading
- Only sites measured both with a change and without it count toward the verdict
- Two permissions and no content script, so it cannot read a page you visit
Adaptive Pacer
In developmentThe speaker's pace changes. Yours does not.
A words-per-minute pacer for YouTube. It reads the caption track, works out how fast the person is actually talking — words divided by the time spent speaking, so pauses do not count against them — and moves playback speed continuously to hold a constant reading rate. A slow lecturer comes up, the dense passage two minutes later drops back down, and the change lands just before the fast passage rather than during it because the measurement window looks ahead.
- Chrome, Edge, Brave, Opera, Arc
Chrome · Edge · Brave · Opera · Arc
Planned platform coverage.
- Measures words per minute of speech, not of elapsed time, so a pause is not a slow speaker
- Reads 12 seconds ahead, so the speed changes before the fast passage instead of during it
- Held at 2.5× by default, because past roughly there the time-stretched audio stops being worth hearing
- One network request, to YouTube, for the captions of the video you are already watching
Audiowire
In developmentRoute any app's audio anywhere — on all three desktops
Virtual audio devices you create yourself, fed by applications, hardware inputs or other virtual devices, with channel-level wiring and monitors so you can hear what you are routing. The tool that does this well is macOS-only at $99; the Windows options are unmaintained cables. This is one product, one config file and one key across macOS, Windows and Linux.
- macOS
- Windows
- Linux
- CLI
macOS · Windows · Linux · CLI
Planned platform coverage.
- Audio round-trips through a virtual device at unity gain on macOS and Linux — each tone within 0.41 dB, with the other channel at least 51.9 dB down
- Per-app capture measured on macOS: peak 0.549321 from the tapped application, and 0.000000 from a second one at the same instant
- On macOS that round trip is the driver's own loopback, not the engine's mix, and the Windows driver has never been compiled
- Free tier is one stereo device with two sources, permanently and without a key — and on Linux the free build is the whole product
yankd
In developmentClipboard history that isn't quietly storing your API keys
A local-first clipboard manager for macOS. The vault is encrypted on every tier, credentials are detected and badged rather than left in a plaintext database, and pasting the fifth thing you copied costs one keystroke instead of six.
- macOS
- Windows
- Linux
- CLI, TUI
macOS · Windows · Linux · CLI · TUI
Planned platform coverage.
- Password-manager copies and API keys are badged on sight, and encrypted at rest
- Hold, tap, release — selection and paste are one gesture
- AES-256 vault on the free tier; encryption is not an upsell
Display Upscale
In betaEvery Mac display on its sharpest 1:1 mode, automatically
macOS quietly parks displays on modes that render larger than the panel and resample back down, which is why text goes soft after a dock, a KVM or a wake from sleep. Display Upscale finds them, restores 1:1 rendering, and keeps it that way.
- macOS
- CLI
macOS · CLI
Planned platform coverage.
- Shows every display's real pixel grid and flags the ones being downscaled
- Edge-triggered menu-bar agent — no polling, so an idle Mac pays nothing for it
- Seeing which display is soft is free on every tier, never paywalled
Video Wallpaper
In betaYour desktop, alive. Your Mac, still fast.
A live video wallpaper for macOS. Paste a YouTube link and it plays below your desktop icons in about a second, or run Apple's aerials — and it stops decoding once your windows have covered the desktop, which is most of the working day.
- macOS
- CLI
macOS · CLI
Planned platform coverage.
- Stops decoding once every display it lights is covered — down to about 2% of one core, measured
- One decode shared by every display, so one screen and three cost within a few percent of each other
- Licences verify offline; no account, and the app makes no network request of its own
Joinery
In developmentAsk your database in plain English
Natural-language querying for structured data. Ask a question in plain English and it writes the SQL, runs it against your database or warehouse, and shows you the query next to the answer so you can check the reasoning. Named for the craft of fitting pieces together precisely — which is what a JOIN is, and the part it works out for you.
- Chrome, Edge, Brave, Opera, Arc
- macOS
- Windows
- Linux
- CLI, TUI
Chrome · Edge · Brave · Opera · Arc · macOS · Windows · Linux · CLI · TUI
Planned platform coverage.
- Reads your schema — tables, columns, keys, types — to write the query
- The generated SQL is always shown, so nothing is a black box
- Connect a read-only role and it can explore but not alter
docky
In developmentA dock on every screen, holding what that screen is for
macOS gives you one Dock, on one display at a time. docky adds as many as you want — any edge of any monitor, each with its own apps, widgets and behaviour. Native magnification, Liquid Glass, and docks that come back to the same edge when a display is unplugged and plugged in again.
- macOS
macOS
Planned platform coverage.
- Each dock keeps its own apps; nothing is copied from the Dock you already have
- Docks are pinned by display UUID, so they return to the right monitor after a replug
- Runs as an accessory app — no Dock icon of its own, no app switcher entry
tokenplug
In developmentKeep a captured web session alive in your own gateway
A Chrome extension and a local companion that record the call a logged-in web app actually sends — headers, cookies, bearer and all — land it in your own omniroute gateway as a provider, and then replay the recorded auth flow to mint a fresh token before the old one expires. The manual version of this is DevTools archaeology every few hours.
- Chrome, Edge, Brave, Opera, Arc
- macOS
- Linux
Chrome · Edge · Brave · Opera · Arc · macOS · Linux
Planned platform coverage.
- Captures what the page actually sent, including the request headers JavaScript never sees
- Writes providers straight into your own omniroute on localhost — no dfacto server is in the path
- Recorded auth flows are AES-256-GCM encrypted in ~/.tokenplug, in a directory kept at 0700
- Refresh is built and unit-tested against fixtures, but has never been run against three live sites — the product page says so rather than selling it
- For your own accounts: replaying a captured session can breach a site's terms and get an account banned
Questions
What is dfacto.ai?
dfacto.ai builds a small number of focused software tools that run on your own machine. There are seventeen: Jetsam, Foveate, Transparency, Vault, Tessera, Rotor Authenticator, Trove, Linkfuse, Tock, Adaptive Pacer, Audiowire, yankd, Display Upscale, Video Wallpaper, Joinery, docky, and tokenplug. Every one of them is local-first — it does the work on your device rather than sending your data to a server — and each product page states plainly whether it is finished and on sale.
What can I buy today?
Jetsam and Foveate — the two with a checkout today. The other fifteen publish their prices so you can plan, but none of them can be bought yet — each product page states its own status plainly rather than taking money for something unfinished.
How is the software delivered?
Everything is digital and delivered immediately. Browser extensions install from the Chrome Web Store; desktop applications are downloaded directly. Paid licences arrive by email as a key you enter in the application. There is no physical product and no shipping.
Who am I buying from?
dfacto.ai is operated by Deepak Marathe, a sole proprietor based in India. Purchases are processed by our merchant of record, who acts as the seller of record, issues your invoice, and handles payment and applicable taxes.
What is the refund policy?
Fourteen days, no questions asked. Email founder@dfacto.ai within 14 days of purchase and you get a full refund without having to explain why. Subscriptions can be cancelled at any time and will not renew.
What data do these products collect?
As little as possible, and usually none. The products are local-first: they run on your device and do not require an account to use. Where a paid feature needs to verify a licence, that is a single request stated in the privacy policy, and nothing about your usage is transmitted.
Start with one that ships today
Jetsam frees the memory your inactive Chrome tabs are holding. Foveate searches every drive you own on macOS, including the ones that are not plugged in. Both are free to start.