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Five paid apps, about $865 a year together, and a free open-source version of each. I ran every one myself.
5. AutoClip, instead of OpusClip: long video in, captioned vertical clips out, offline. https://github.com/artbyjazi/autoclip
4. bg0, instead of Canva Pro's background remover: runs in your browser, nothing uploaded. https://bg0.dev
3. Woxi, instead of Mathematica: the Wolfram Language rebuilt in Rust. https://woxi.ad-si.com
2. Indra OCR, instead of Acrobat's OCR: a 1M-parameter model that reads a page in under a second on a CPU. https://github.com/datalab-to/indra
1. Bento, instead of PowerPoint: the whole slide app in one HTML file. https://bento.page
Each does the one job shown. None is a full copy of the paid app. Star counts are from GitHub and prices from each
company's pricing page, 7 Nov 2026. Not affiliated with any of these projects or companies.
Footage and images:
- John F. Kennedy, Rice University speech, 12 Sep 1962 (NASA, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons).
- William Safire, "In Event of Moon Disaster" memo, 18 Jul 1969 (US National Archives, public domain, via Wikimedia
Commons).
- "Pomeranian in Tallinn" (CC0, via Wikimedia Commons).
- Bento's showcase deck: bento.page (MIT).
Fonts: Geist and Geist Mono (Vercel, SIL OFL), Instrument Serif (SIL OFL). Animated with Remotion.
Music: Deliberate Thought by Kevin MacLeod, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Deliberate_Thought_(ISRC_USUAN1100261).mp3)
What the video says
These five apps cost about eight hundred and sixty-five dollars a year. Every one has a free version now. Five free rebuilds, ranked by GitHub stars, and I tested every one on this laptop. Five. AutoClip, instead of OpusClip. I gave it JFK's eighteen-minute moon speech, and it cut the vertical clips itself, captions and all, offline. Four. bg0, instead of Canva Pro. It cut this dog out, leash gone, fur kept, and the photo never left my browser. Three. Woxi, instead of Mathematica. Someone rebuilt the Wolfram Language in Rust, and it runs right in your browser. Two. Indra, instead of Acrobat. It read the speech Nixon never had to give in under a second, even tilted. Number one. Bento, instead of PowerPoint. The editor and the slideshow live inside one HTML file. Send the file, and they've got the app. Comment FREE, and I'll send you all five links.