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Geek Tools: free Windows utilities from TechyGeeksHome
A growing range of Windows apps, plus a WordPress theme, built because we needed them ourselves. Every one is free at home and free at work, with no Pro tier holding anything back, no adverts and nothing bundled alongside the installer.
Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit · every tool below is a direct download from us, GitHub or SourceForge
The apps
Each one does a single job properly rather than trying to be a suite.
AppGeek
Scans everything installed, matches it against winget and shows you what is out of date. You tick what you want; nothing ever installs itself. Pin the versions that must not move.
AuthGeek
Your two-factor codes on your own computer, in one encrypted file. Paste a link, read a QR code out of a picture, or bring the whole lot across from Google Authenticator. No account, no sync, no server.
CleanGeek
Clears the caches, temporary files, crash dumps and update leftovers Windows hangs on to. Shows the number before anything goes, and there is no registry cleaner. That is deliberate.
CutGeek
Cuts the background out of a photo on your own machine, at full resolution, with nothing to buy.
DiskGeek
Find out exactly where the disk space went. Treemap and list views, exact and near-duplicate detection, batch rename, and snapshots so you can see what grew since last month.
DriverGeek
Lists every driver on the machine and the updates Windows Update files under Optional and never offers you. It reports; it installs nothing.
LingoGeek
Translates Word documents, PDFs, subtitles, Markdown and plain text on your own machine. No account, no character limit, and nothing is uploaded.
PDFGeek
Merge, split, rotate, compress, watermark and convert PDFs entirely on your own machine. Nothing is uploaded anywhere, and there are no file-count caps.
ReelGeek
Turns a folder of photos into a vertical edit cut to a beat grid, with movement on every shot. Renders a 1080×1920 MP4 that uploads as it is. Nothing is ever uploaded to make it.
ShortGeek
Turns one of your guides, an RSS feed or a bare idea into a narrated, captioned vertical short. Real screenshots and code cards rather than AI art, rendered on your own machine.
SoundGeek
Cleans up a recording and writes the copy beside it: background noise gone, mains hum gone, levels evened out. Nothing is uploaded, and it tells you what it changed in numbers.
TranscribeGeek
Turns recordings into text on your own machine. Transcripts and subtitles, offline, with no per-minute limit.
Ultimate Settings Panel
250+ Windows settings, tools, diagnostics and commands behind one search box. A native Windows app and a web edition that runs anywhere.
WordPress add-ons
Three plugins on the official WordPress directory, plus the theme this site runs on.
Controlled Draft Publisher
Publishes your drafts on a schedule instead of all at once. Set the gap between posts, keep it to working hours, skip weekends, and watch the queue from a dashboard.
LinkGather
Puts every published post and page on your site into one sortable, filterable table, with CSV export. Built for auditing a big archive without clicking through the admin all day.
BackBurner Post Archiver
Moves old posts out of circulation once they pass an age you choose. They drop out of the homepage, archives, search and RSS, but nothing is deleted and no URL breaks.
NeoDark
The dark WordPress theme this site runs on. Free, with the source on GitHub. There is a paid Pro edition too, with the extras a review site needs.
All free, all the time
No trials, no upgrade prompts, nothing that phones home. If one of them saves you an afternoon, a coffee is welcome and never expected.
Most are open source under the GPL, all are free for personal and commercial use.