Product Hunt launches on August 20, 2026

HyNote for Mac finished #1 with 348 upvotes, ahead of Grok 4.6 and Checksum AI. Here are the day's 40 top launches with 3,304 upvotes between them, across 19 categories, Productivity the busiest with 7.

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  1. HyNote for Mac

    1. HyNote for Mac

    348 upvotes

    Free local transcription that is 100% Private

    Solving the three biggest pain points in meeting software: privacy, friction, and cost. By running speech-to-text entirely on-device, your confidential discussions never leave your hardware, ensuring total data privacy. It operates…

    Machynote.ai3 makers, 3 with emails
  2. Grok 4.6

    2. Grok 4.6

    302 upvotes

    Frontier Intelligence for Long-Running Agents

    Continuous reasoning meets real-world execution. Grok 4.6 brings major upgrades to agentic workflows, software engineering, and interactive web application generation—at an unchanged, cost-efficient rate of $2 / $6 per 1M tokens. Build…

    Android1 maker
  3. Checksum AI

    3. Checksum AI

    203 upvotes

    Your coding agent’s testing buddy

    Checksum is an AI-native continuous testing platform for engineering teams shipping faster than manual QA can keep up. It generates, runs, and auto-heals end-to-end and API tests on every pull request, all as standard Playwright code in…

    API1 maker
  4. The New Calendly

    4. The New Calendly

    207 upvotes

    Handle all of the work before, during, and after meetings

    Meet Calendly Notetaker and Callie AI assistant: two new AI products built to handle the work before, during, and after meetings. Meetings are essential, but the work around them adds up fast. 😅 That's why we're launching an evolved…

    Android1 maker
  5. MeetStream AI

    5. MeetStream AI

    181 upvotes

    Unified API & Infra for AI Meeting Agents

    Agent-first infrastructure for meetings. One API to capture 50+ real-time data points from Zoom, Google Meet, and Teams, with built-in voice infrastructure so your agent joins as a participant, listens, speaks, and acts while the call is…

    API1 maker
  6. Prized

    6. Prized

    161 upvotes

    Let non-engineers build secure internal tools

    Prized lets ops, support, and finance teams build and ship secure internal tools with AI. Company data pre-connected and scoped, an audit trail on every access, one-click deploy behind your company sign-in.

  7. Hermai Brand API

    7. Hermai Brand API

    147 upvotes

    White label your B2B SaaS with every customer's brand

    A customer signs up with a work email or domain. You get back the logo, colors, description, and a ready to apply theme. Built for B2B SaaS so every customer's account looks like theirs from the first login. Free for 1,000 brands a month…

  8. Lifelong

    8. Lifelong

    136 upvotes

    Your whole family’s health in one place.

    Lifelong is the family health app built around the household, not just one person. Keep records, medications, symptoms, appointments, activity and sleep together for everyone you care about. Connect the wearables you already use, keep the…

    Health & Fitnesstrylifelong.com1 maker, 1 with an email
  9. MiniMax Design

    9. MiniMax Design

    139 upvotes

    Your own agent team for open-ended creation

    MiniMax Design is a desktop app that wraps MiniMax H3 in a full production workflow. Describe the video, and agents handle the brief, stills, H3 clips, music, and edit on one canvas. Skills, a 3D director stage, and ComfyUI nodes stay…

  10. Aloud

    10. Aloud

    122 upvotes

    Turn spoken feedback into tasks your coding agent can run

    Feedback is easier said than written. Aloud records your voice, your screen and a live transcript together while you talk through your app – pointing at things, changing your mind. Then one press: it rewrites the transcript into what you…

    Macusealoud.com1 maker
  11. Glasp for Firefox

    11. Glasp for Firefox

    112 upvotes

    Highlight and summarize any page, PDF, or video in Firefox

    Glasp is now on Firefox. Highlight web articles, PDFs, and YouTube transcripts in four colors, add notes and tags, and summarize any page or video with ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini. Everything lands in one searchable library and exports to…

  12. Shape

    12. Shape

    112 upvotes

    The agentic IDE for designers and programmers

    Shape is the agentic IDE for designers and programmers. Design, code, Git, and AI chat in one desktop app. Download for Windows.

  13. bitdrift.ai

    13. bitdrift.ai

    107 upvotes

    The world’s first agentic mobile observability platform

    bitdrift AI is the world’s first agentic mobile observability platform: a real-time, full-fidelity observability system that lets AI agents query mobile user behavior and act on it autonomously. It's built on the bitdrift Public API and…

    Software Engineeringbitdrift.ai1 maker
  14. Berd

    14. Berd

    108 upvotes

    Weird, playful desktop app for building with AI agents

    Berd is for people doing real work with AI agents inside a desktop workspace: engineers, product designers, and other builders who need a persistent agent companion that can use projects, skills, extensions, automations, model providers…

    Macberd.xyz
  15. NobodyWho

    15. NobodyWho

    106 upvotes

    Run AI models on any device

    NobodyWho is an inference engine for running LLMs fully on-device, built on llama.cpp. Open-source, free, no API keys, no cloud calls. We support Swift, Kotlin, Flutter, React Native, Python, and Godot. Includes type-safe tool calling…

    Androidnobodywho.ai1 maker
  16. Zoho Cliq 7.0

    16. Zoho Cliq 7.0

    94 upvotes

    Uninterrupted work

    Connect the dots and do uninterrupted work with our latest features and enhancements. Build no-code bots, experience inclusive collaboration with sign language mode for meetings and WCAG compliance, and focus on the little things that…

  17. Roveri

    17. Roveri

    89 upvotes

    A riding journal for iPhone every ride, painted on a map

    One tap records the route, speed, elevation and the weather of every ride, painted on a map. Rides add up into seasons you can re-open — and an atlas of every road you've ever ridden. A journal, not a navigator. Free to start; iPhone, iOS…

    iOSroveri.app1 maker
  18. Peach Co-Pilot

    18. Peach Co-Pilot

    92 upvotes

    WhatsApp Sidekick for busy professionals

    The hosted WhatsApp MCP server for standard WhatsApp Business App users. Give Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, or Zed tools to read, search, and draft messages securely.

  19. Revy

    19. Revy

    85 upvotes

    The ownership layer for fashion, shopping, and your wardrobe

    Revy is the fashion app for recreating the looks you love, using the wardrobe you already own, while connecting inspiration, creators, shopping, and personal style.

    Fashion1 maker
  20. ProtoNote

    20. ProtoNote

    87 upvotes

    Share AI-built prototypes, get feedback pinned to the page

    Drop in an HTML prototype, image, or PDF and get a shareable link. Reviewers leave notes pinned to the exact spot on the page. No account required, just a name. Use the Claude connector to turn anything you build into a ProtoNote right…

    Design Toolsprotonote.io1 maker, 1 with an email
  21. Cloudways Managed AI Agents

    Skip the setup and run OpenClaw & Hermes, fully managed

    AI agents like OpenClaw and Hermes are easy to run, but hard to host well. Cloudways Managed AI Agents runs OpenClaw or Hermes on isolated, secured infrastructure with validated updates that keep your agent stable. Bring your LLM key and…

    Productivity7 makers
  22. NXS by Aliensense

    22. NXS by Aliensense

    39 upvotes

    A sensor board that gets your robot running in minutes

    NXS is a plug-and-play sensor board for robots – it handles the wiring and driver setup automatically, so cameras and sensors are streaming usable data in minutes instead of weeks. It connects over GMSL or CAN-FD and works with the…

    User Experiencealiensense.com1 maker
  23. Stateshift

    23. Stateshift

    28 upvotes

    Rewire Your Anxiety in 15 Days

    Stateshift is designed to guide you through practices that address the root cause of anxiety, not just the surface level symptoms. Within just 15 days of practice, you can learn to regulate your anxiety so that you can spend time with…

    Androidstateshift.app1 maker, 1 with an email
  24. Bookmarx

    24. Bookmarx

    28 upvotes

    Make your X bookmarks useful again

    Your X bookmarks are full of useful things you probably forgot about. Bookmarx helps you use them. Connect X once and keep bookmarking as usual. Bookmarx automatically syncs your saves, summarizes and organizes them, lets you search or…

    Productivitybookmarx.co1 maker, 1 with an email
  25. Rubric

    25. Rubric

    20 upvotes

    UX expertise your agent can call

    Coding agents ship UI fast, but they design from vibes. Rubric gives them a source: 554 curated UX rules with severity, evidence and a concrete fix, served over MCP. One corpus, two moments. Before you build, your agent pulls prescriptive…

    Design Toolsrubric.com1 maker, 1 with an email
  26. Dehurdle

    26. Dehurdle

    17 upvotes

    Win the meeting before it starts.

    Most important conversations go wrong because we practice on real people. Dehurdle lets you practice tough conversations out loud with realistic AI characters that talk, interrupt, and challenge you in real time. • Practice salary talks…

    Productivitydehurdle.com1 maker, 1 with an email
  27. Tidy Folders

    27. Tidy Folders

    16 upvotes

    Folders & text highlights for ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini & more

    Tidy finally organizes your AI chats in one folder library, across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek and Grok. Highlight key answers in long threads and each one becomes a link back to the exact spot. Save regular bookmarks in the same…

    Browser Extensionstidyfolders.com1 maker
  28. Makers Page

    28. Makers Page

    14 upvotes

    Ranked by streak, not revenue.

    Most directories rank you by revenue you can screenshot. makers.page ranks you by a streak you can't fake: show up and check in daily to stay on the leaderboard. Free listing includes a public page, dofollow backlink, and sitemap…

    Marketingmakerspage.com1 maker, 1 with an email
  29. Velvet UI

    29. Velvet UI

    12 upvotes

    Native-feeling sheets and toasts for React

    Velvet UI is a headless React library for sheets and toasts that feel at home on every device. Browser-native WAAPI animations and custom physics power fluid dragging, scrolling, snapping, touch gestures, trackpad swipes, mouse-wheel…

    Developer Toolsvelvetui.co1 maker, 1 with an email
  30. Tucan

    30. Tucan

    12 upvotes

    No streaks. A quiet dot grid for daily habits.

    Most habit apps punish you when you miss a day. Tucan doesn't. It's a binary tracker: done or not. The hero is a monochrome dot grid of your history. One tap, works offline. Miss a day and the hole just sits there. Nothing resets. I built…

    iOS1 maker
  31. Hatchable

    31. Hatchable

    12 upvotes

    Build real apps with your AI. We make them work.

    Point your agent at Hatchable, whatever it builds just works and you get a live URL. Hatchable is a complete cloud with hosting, database, login, email, cron, custom domains and more. Everything your AI agent needs to build real apps, in…

    Developer Toolshatchable.app1 maker, 1 with an email
  32. Dungeons & Dilutions — a fundraising RPG

    Roll a d20 to raise $2M. The VCs are the monsters.

    You're a founder who just landed in San Francisco: $40,000, an air mattress, and 26 weeks to close a $2M seed round. Meetings are the combat. 15 investor types, each with its own encounter - the AI Doomer Fund asks your p(doom) before…

  33. Arcadely

    33. Arcadely

    10 upvotes

    Free browser games instantly, no download or signup needed

    Arcadely is free browser gaming with zero friction: no downloads, no accounts, no app store. Click a link and you're playing arcade, puzzle, word, and casual games, with leaderboards if you're competitive. Two things make it different…

    Puzzle Gamesarcadely.com1 maker
  34. Quick Metadata Remover

    Protect your privacy with one simple drop

    Quick Metadata Remover removes hidden metadata from your photos, including EXIF, IPTC, XMP, GPS data, and comments. Just drag and drop your photos or an entire folder, confirm, and remove metadata in seconds. Your file names and folder…

  35. ShortenItUp

    35. ShortenItUp

    10 upvotes

    Cuts your meetings in half, not just records them

    Most meeting tools record what went wrong. ShortenItUp prevents it. It joins your call, keeps everyone on the agenda with real-time off-topic nudges, and checks whether a meeting even needs to happen - before it starts. Tasks get…

    Productivityshortenitup.com1 maker, 1 with an email
  36. Fiamo

    36. Fiamo

    10 upvotes

    One tiny real-life quest a day. Then it tells you to leave.

    Fiamo gives everyone on Earth the same tiny real-life quest each day - like giving a stranger an honest compliment, or eating one meal without your phone. Mark it done, watch a live counter of everyone doing today's quest with you, then…

  37. Rentnation

    37. Rentnation

    6 upvotes

    A richup like browser monopoly game

    Build your property empire in RentNation, a free multiplayer property trading game. Play with up to 8 friends in your browser — no download, no account.

  38. GYFT

    38. GYFT

    9 upvotes

    Find the right Framer template, faster

    GYFT is a curated, search-first platform for discovering high-quality Framer templates from independent creators. Search by keyword and filter by industry, style, price, or creator, explore live previews, and find the right starting point…

    Web Design1 maker
  39. Starko Turn support into growth

    We help products grow on their own

    Starko is an omnichannel customer support software and AI helpdesk platform. Unify WhatsApp, Instagram, email, and Slack into a single customer service platform with AI-powered automation, knowledge base software, and ticketing system.…

  40. Embent

    40. Embent

    9 upvotes

    Paste your URL, get an AI agent that answers from your site

    Embent is an AI agent for your website. It answers visitors only from your own pages — with citations under every answer — captures leads, says "I don't know" instead of inventing, and logs every question it couldn't answer so you know…

    Customer Communicationembent.com1 maker, 1 with an email

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Questions

What was #1 on Product Hunt on August 20, 2026?
HyNote for Mac ("Free local transcription that is 100% Private"), with 348 upvotes. Grok 4.6 (#2) and Checksum AI (#3) followed.
How many launches are listed here?
40: the top of the day's leaderboard, ranked launches first. Junior has 46 makers on file for them, 14 with a work email.
Which time zone is the day in?
Pacific time, as Product Hunt runs its leaderboard: a day starts at midnight in San Francisco.

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