Product Hunt launches on October 18, 2026

Inbox Zero finished #1 with 371 upvotes, ahead of MyLens and shim-cli. Here are the day's 41 top launches with 2,425 upvotes between them, across 18 categories, Productivity the busiest with 13.

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  1. Inbox Zero

    1. Inbox Zero

    371 upvotes

    Open-source Superhuman alternative

    Inbox Zero Mail is an open-source email client for Gmail and Outlook. Fast, keyboard-first, and free to use, on web, Mac, Windows and iPhone, with all your accounts in one inbox. Add AI for $20/mo: every email is sorted, and replies are…

    Emailgetinboxzero.com1 maker, 1 with an email
  2. MyLens

    2. MyLens

    216 upvotes

    1-1 Live Presentations at Scale with AI.

    MyLens is AI for live 1-1 presentations at scale. You add your raw sources, say what matters, and invite your audience. MyLens AI gives every person a live, private presentation, answers their questions using your sources, and create new…

    Productivitymylens.ai1 maker, 1 with an email
  3. shim-cli

    3. shim-cli

    194 upvotes

    See what your coding agent sends. Mask what you can.

    An open-source hook and local proxy for Claude Code, Codex, Copilot CLI and VS Code. In Claude Code it masks secrets and personal data in tool results before the model reads them, and shim watch shows what a session sent and cost. No…

  4. Tower 18 for Mac

    4. Tower 18 for Mac

    157 upvotes

    The most powerful Git client with a better CLI experience

    Tower 18 for Mac is here! This update is all about improving the Tower experience in the terminal: the Tower Command Line Tool can now take you straight to any view in Tower (History, Blame, the Working Copy, Branches Review, and more)…

    Mac1 maker
  5. MeetPaw

    5. MeetPaw

    137 upvotes

    Instant meetings from your mac menu bar

    MeetPaw is a lightweight macOS menu-bar app that puts your meetings one click away. Spin up an instant Google Meet, Zoom, or Microsoft Teams link the moment you need it. The link is created, copied to your clipboard, and ready to share…

    Productivitymeetpaw.app1 maker
  6. XBOX Nano Controller

    6. XBOX Nano Controller

    120 upvotes

    Pocket-sized wireless gamepad with all 18 inputs

    Take play to more places with the XBOX Nano Controller. Fit more play in your everyday in a smaller form factor. Connect via Bluetooth & play across devices.

    XBox
  7. 3AM Super Intelligence

    Production incidents: investigated, proven, fixed

    Meet 3AM, the AI on-call engineer for systems you can’t rewrite. It finds the root cause, rehearses the fix, and resolves the incident with one tap in Slack, all from inside your network.

  8. Tomo for ChatGPT

    8. Tomo for ChatGPT

    96 upvotes

    Ask anything. Then play it, Duolingo-style.

    Ask ChatGPT for a Tomo course on black holes and a game drops into the chat. Quick questions, hearts on the line. Any topic, even the chat you’re in. Pick your teacher, from The Professor to The Pirate. Add Tomo from Plugins in ChatGPT.…

    Education1 maker
  9. Bee Frontier and Bee Eclipse

    Amazon's personal AI memory, now on your wrist or phone

    Bee Frontier and Bee Eclipse are Amazon's new personal AI devices that help you remember what matters. Frontier is a wearable for your wrist or clothing, while Eclipse attaches magnetically to your phone. Both capture conversations and…

  10. Openbroca

    10. Openbroca

    94 upvotes

    Lightweight AI dictation for Mac that sounds like you

    Openbroca is a native Swift AI dictation app for Mac, with a ~6.5 MB download. Press a shortcut, speak naturally, and get clean text right where you're typing. It removes fillers and repetition while keeping your meaning and tone, with no…

    Productivityopenbroca.com1 maker
  11. Vampire Crawlers™

    11. Vampire Crawlers™

    89 upvotes

    The Turbo Wildcard from Vampire Survivors

    From the somehow triple-BAFTA‑winning creators of Vampire Survivors, Vampire Crawlers: The Turbo Wildcard from Vampire Survivors turns the snowballing thrill of Survivors into a hyper turn‑based, card‑driven BLOBBER with rogue-lite…

  12. Popcraft

    12. Popcraft

    93 upvotes

    Generate video, images & audio from any AI agent

    Paste one URL into Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or Claude Code and your agent can plan, cost-preview and generate video, images, music and SFX with Seedance 2.5, Veo 3.1, Kling 3.0, Nano Banana Pro and 20+ more. OAuth sign-in, no API key. 100…

    Developer Toolspopcraft.ai1 maker
  13. PasteKit

    13. PasteKit

    88 upvotes

    Format JSON, YAML & SQL privately

    Paste JSON, YAML, XML, SQL, CSV or code and get formatted, validated output instantly. 58 formats, 48 converters and JSON tools (diff, schema, repair, jq). Everything runs in your browser, enforced by a strict CSP, so nothing you paste…

    Productivitypastekit.dev1 maker
  14. Gravity Notes

    14. Gravity Notes

    87 upvotes

    One list of notes, for you and your AI agents

    Gravity is a notes app built on Andrej Karpathy's append-and-review note. Everything goes into one list, newest at the top. Old notes sink, and a swipe brings one back. You pay once, and your notes stay on your devices. New since the last…

    Android1 maker
  15. Krea 3

    15. Krea 3

    82 upvotes

    Krea's AI image model: 2K edits in under 8 seconds

    Krea 3 is a fast AI image editing model built for creators and production teams. Edit images in under 8 seconds at native 2K resolution for just $0.06 per image. Change backgrounds, objects, materials, or lighting while preserving the…

  16. SpeechFast

    16. SpeechFast

    82 upvotes

    Local Whisper for Mac

    Hold fn and talk. SpeechFast types clean text at your cursor, in any app. Everything runs on your Mac. The speech model is downloaded once; after that, no audio and no text ever leaves your machine. It works offline, on a plane, behind a…

  17. Latch

    17. Latch

    80 upvotes

    The app blocker you unlock by walking to your key

    Latch locks distracting apps until you scan your key, and the key lives where you have to walk: an NFC sticker on the fridge, a printed QR code, or a number of steps. No account, no ads, no analytics. iPhone and Android; Pro is $9.99 once.

    Android1 maker
  18. Zalcro

    18. Zalcro

    37 upvotes

    The pre-build planning tool for vibe coders and AI builders

    Zalcro is the pre-build planning tool for AI app builders. Jumping straight into prompting usually leads to a doom loop where the AI loses context and breaks your app. Zalcro solves this by mapping out your architecture before you begin.…

  19. Startories

    19. Startories

    21 upvotes

    The AI engine that finds your next B2B customers

    Startories is an AI engine that catches B2B buyers while they're actively looking for solutions. It monitors Reddit, X, Product Hunt, directories and search for fresh buying signals, qualifies each company against your ICP, finds the…

  20. Evane

    20. Evane

    15 upvotes

    Every Event Cognitively Convened

    Evane is an AI agent designed for government-enterprise collaboration and complex, multi-stakeholder programs, where alignment, accountability and speed determine outcomes. It replaces fragmented communication with a unified data…

  21. Pairon

    21. Pairon

    14 upvotes

    Giving AI its multiplayer Moment

    AI agents move fast; context gets lost between chats. Pairon brings your team and locally running coding agents into a shared conversation. Teammates can add constraints mid-task, run tasks in parallel, hand work across computers, and…

    Productivity3 makers
  22. Syllaby Mobile App

    22. Syllaby Mobile App

    22 upvotes

    Save Up to 70% Of Your Content-Creation Time on the Go

    Syllaby is your all-in-one AI studio for viral video creation. Instantly turn ideas into faceless or cinematic content with trending topics, ready-to-film scripts, and studio-quality visuals. From planning to publishing, Syllaby…

    Android1 maker
  23. TypeKey

    23. TypeKey

    12 upvotes

    AI writing tools and a keyboard for your iPhone

    Paste your text, tap a tool, copy the result: humanize AI text, paraphrase, fix grammar, summarize, or write a cover letter or an email. No keyboard setup needed. Or turn on the TypeKey keyboard to reply, translate and fix spelling in…

    Productivitytypekey.app1 maker
  24. Ellie — Elephant in the Room

    A deaf baby elephant who fingerspells any word in ASL

    Ellie is a deaf baby elephant who signs with her trunk. Give her any word and she'll fingerspell it for you — one letter at a time, with big, friendly captions. Choose your manual alphabet: ASL, Libras, or BSL (her sister Tunk helps with…

    Kids1 maker
  25. KelpShot

    25. KelpShot

    15 upvotes

    Screenshots that say what you mean.

    KelpShot is a fast, private screenshot tool for macOS: capture, annotate, redact, recognize text, and share in seconds. One-time purchase, no subscription.

  26. The Soapbox Email

    26. The Soapbox Email

    8 upvotes

    What will you say to 1 million people?

    Every morning, one subscriber is picked at random to write a single email. It goes to the whole list. Tomorrow, it could be you. What happens if you give one random person an enormous platform to use their voice?

    Email1 maker
  27. Buildhorn: CI/CD Alerts

    Know the instant your build breaks

    Buildhorn watches your CI pipelines and notifies you the moment a build fails, right on your Apple device. Get push notifications with custom sounds for failures and turn your home screen into a build-status dashboard.

  28. DOT Audio Recorder

    28. DOT Audio Recorder

    8 upvotes

    Record anything your Mac plays, with key, tempo and chords

    Press Cmd-R while anything plays on your Mac (a YouTube video, Apple Music, a preset demo) and DOT keeps it: trimmed, filed in a library, with its key, tempo and chords. Drag clips into your DAW, or export the chords as MIDI. DOT records…

    Mac1 maker
  29. File Converter

    29. File Converter

    7 upvotes

    Free Online PDF & File Converter : Simple, Fast, Secure

    Meet FileCorner, your all-in-one toolkit for PDFs, documents, and images. Merge, convert, organize, protect, and customize PDFs, work with different file formats, and enhance images with built-in image tools. Explore AI-powered features…

    Productivityfileconverter.dev1 maker
  30. NakkoBroker

    30. NakkoBroker

    7 upvotes

    Zero-brokerage rental discovery across Indian tech hubs

    NakkoBroker eliminates broker commissions in Hyderabad, Bengaluru, Chennai, Pune & Vizag. Discover flats directly on an interactive map, schedule visits, chat with verified owners, and build a portable Good Renter reputation badge.

    Web App1 maker
  31. Charter

    31. Charter

    6 upvotes

    Open-source Composio alternative for AI agents

    A Python library that turns any API into an agent tool you own. No third-party server, no per-call pricing, no rate limits on top. Your rules decide what the agent sees and sends, and a call that breaks one never reaches the API.

  32. HealthPilot

    32. HealthPilot

    6 upvotes

    Turn Apple Health data into clear, personalized guidance.

    HealthPilot transforms your raw Apple Health metrics into actionable daily insights. Designed with a privacy-first, on-device architecture, all your personal health data is processed entirely on your phone—never sent to external servers.…

  33. What the Fetch

    33. What the Fetch

    5 upvotes

    A network agent in your browser

    What the Fetch is a network agent in your browser for debugging web apps. Record requests and console output, ask AI what failed, and follow citations to the evidence. Export HAR, cURL and recordings. Try limited included AI or connect…

  34. MySiteGPT Assistant

    34. MySiteGPT Assistant

    5 upvotes

    Create an AI assistant from your website content

    Turn your website content into an AI assistant that answers your visitor questions using your information. Help visitors find information find answers faster and support your business with automated conversations.

    SaaS1 maker
  35. GmailClass - Gmail Email Classifier

    GmailClass adds categorized labels to emails in your inbox

    Your inbox, labeled in your own words! GmailClass uses Jev AI to match emails to categories you describe, then adds colorful labels right inside Gmail. Spot invoices, travel updates, newsletters, or whatever matters to you at a glance!…

    Email1 maker
  36. Holdy

    36. Holdy

    4 upvotes

    AI agent that turns more trials into paying customers

    Holdy analyzes how accounts use your SaaS, finds where activation and trial conversion stall, and delivers a GitHub PR or in-app tip ready for your approval. It then measures each change against a control group to show its impact on…

  37. Amy

    37. Amy

    6 upvotes

    AI tutor with live voice, interactive visuals & quizzes

    Meet Amy, an AI-powered tutor built to make learning more interactive and personalized. Go beyond simple text explanations with live voice tutoring, interactive whiteboards, visual diagrams, quizzes, and AI-generated learning materials…

    Education1 maker
  38. Viewlify

    38. Viewlify

    5 upvotes

    See exactly why any TikTok blows up, in seconds

    Paste any TikTok @handle and see which videos really broke out. Viewlify scores every video by its multiple: how many times it beat the creator's own usual views. Then it shows the hooks, formats and posting patterns behind each breakout…

  39. AudioEnhancerMAX

    39. AudioEnhancerMAX

    6 upvotes

    Local audio editing with AI governance built in

    Clean, transcribe and edit audio on your Mac with AI governance built into the workflow. Review and approve proposed speech edits, undo decisions and preserve the original recording. Processing reports and Project Capsules document…

    Mac1 maker
  40. VoicedByMe

    40. VoicedByMe

    4 upvotes

    Any text, voiced by you: AI agents, audiobooks, messages

    VoicedByMe reads any text aloud in your own cloned voice, made from a 20-second recording, or in one of 35 ready-made voices, from natural narrators to a pirate. It all runs on your computer and nothing is uploaded. AI agents like Claude…

  41. The Whole Day

    41. The Whole Day

    4 upvotes

    News that ends

    One page of science going right. One paragraph per story. Nothing grim, ever. Edition No. 565 — 27 stories, about 12 minutes.

    News1 maker

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Questions

What was #1 on Product Hunt on October 18, 2026?
Inbox Zero ("Open-source Superhuman alternative"), with 371 upvotes. MyLens (#2) and shim-cli (#3) followed.
How many launches are listed here?
41: the top of the day's leaderboard, ranked launches first. Junior has 40 makers on file for them, 2 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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