Small Desktop Apps That Run on Your Machine

Audra crawls your site from your own Mac and scores it on how well it answers questions — not just how well it ranks. Its AEO (Answer Engine Optimization) checks look at the things that decide whether ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Gemini can actually read and quote you: whether AI crawlers are allowed in robots.txt, whether an llms.txt exists and is valid, whether your schema markup describes answers rather than decoration, whether your content leads with the answer instead of burying it, and whether freshness and internal-authority signals are present.

Around that sits a conventional audit you would otherwise pay a SaaS for: 200+ checks across SEO (titles, metas, canonicals, Open Graph, JSON-LD, heading structure), accessibility (the axe-core ruleset, contrast, form labels), performance (Core Web Vitals — LCP, CLS, TBT — plus image and JavaScript weight), best practices (HTTPS, console errors, vulnerable libraries) and a full link map with broken links and redirect chains traced. It drives a local copy of Google Chrome, so the numbers come from a real browser rather than a shared cloud worker.

AI Visibility Tracker answers the question rank trackers no longer can: when a buyer asks an AI assistant for a recommendation in your category, how often does your brand come up? You give it the questions your customers actually ask. It runs them daily across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity and Grok with live web search enabled, reads the answers, and records whether you were named — producing a Share of Answer figure you can watch move week over week.

Because it captures the full answer, it also shows you who is winning the questions you lose. You get a per-question breakdown of which domains the models cite instead of you, which is usually a far more actionable list than a keyword gap report. Runs are scheduled automatically with weekly sweeps, results are stored locally, your API keys are held in the macOS keychain rather than on someone else's server, and hard budget caps stop a runaway job from spending real money.

Indexa watches your sitemap and tells Google and Bing about new and updated pages every day, without you opening Search Console. It talks to Google's Indexing API and to IndexNow — which fans out to Bing and four other engines — using credentials you supply. Nothing is proxied through a third-party service, which matters here: the alternative products in this category ask you to hand over Search Console access.

The fiddly parts are handled for you. Google allows 200 submissions per property per day, so Indexa tracks the remaining quota per site, queues what it cannot send yet, retries failures, and re-submits pages whose content has changed rather than blindly resubmitting everything. If you run several sites it splits quota across them. Everything runs locally and your service-account key never leaves the device.

Carousel Studio takes a topic, researches it with web search, writes the copy, and lays out a 3–8 slide carousel as 1080×1080 PNGs ready to post. It also produces animated MP4 chart slides and 9:16 reels, writes an SEO caption with hashtags, and generates per-slide alt text — so the output is a complete post rather than a folder of images you still have to caption.

Art direction is per-project: colours, fonts, tone of voice and handle are saved as a brand profile, so every carousel from that project comes out consistent. Imagery is either real photography pulled from Pexels or AI-generated. It runs on your own Gemini or OpenRouter key, so you pay the model provider directly at cost instead of paying a per-carousel markup, and generations are kept on your machine and cleared automatically after 48 hours. Finished sets export as a ZIP or schedule out through Buffer or Blotato.