Desktop apps
Native tools for Windows and Linux, written from scratch. Buy once, yours forever.
These are not the trackers. The trackers are web apps you sign in to, and their promise is that we hold your data and never sell it. These are programs you download and run, and their promise is simpler: there is no data and no server. No dependencies, no telemetry, no background service, no network code of any kind. You do not need an account to run one, and nothing about them expires.
They are one developer's daily drivers, built over years against a real workload: a multi-repository codebase, network shares, huge log files. That workload is why they are tuned for not making you wait, ahead of anything on a feature list.
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What you get
Buy once
A one-time purchase, not a subscription. Every future version is included. There is no upgrade fee and no year-one cliff.
Windows and Linux
The same app on both, built from the same source. One self-contained executable per platform; no installer, no runtime to chase.
Nothing phones home
These apps contain no networking code at all. There is no telemetry to disable, no account check, no update ping. Settings are a text file you can read.
Yours on any machine
Personal and commercial use, on as many of your own machines as you like. No seats, no activation, no licence server that can go away.
Why they feel fast
Open a folder with fifty thousand files in it and the list is simply there. Scroll a two-million-line log without a stutter. Search inside every file under a directory and watch the results stream in while the walk is still running. Nothing spins or greys out, and no progress bar stands between you and the next thing you wanted to do.
The whole design is arranged around that. These apps carry no third-party dependencies at all. The archive reader, the search engine, the text buffer and the process samplers are written from scratch, so there is no general-purpose library between you and the machine quietly doing five times the work you asked for. Listing a directory on Windows takes one pass through the operating system's own data: 4,970 files in 1.9 milliseconds.
You notice it in four places:
- The window never freezes. Scanning, searching, fetching and sampling all happen out of the way while you carry on typing. You are never locked out of the app by the app.
- Nothing moves under your cursor. The row you picked stays picked when the list refreshes underneath it, your scroll position survives, and sorting does not throw away where you were.
- Failures say what failed. A file that will not delete names itself and names what is holding it open. A command that fails keeps its error in full, for when you want to read it.
- The keyboard is the fast path. Start typing to filter any list. Every command has a key, and every key can be rebound to whatever your hands already expect.
Getting one
There is no checkout yet. Prices are listed because they are what these will cost, but while alphaTrack is invite-only every app here is free to anyone with an account. Ask, and it is granted. jtm is free permanently.
Downloads are signed in to, not the apps themselves: once you have the binary, it works forever, with or without this site. The terms are short and fit on one page: read the desktop app licence.