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Software for the seconds
between thoughts.

ctrl8 makes local-first Mac utilities for typing, pasting, fixing text, and organizing work — small tools that remove the little interruptions you hit fifty times a day.

Programs

A growing shelf of independent apps and libraries.

PolyType icon

PolyType

Fix words typed in the wrong keyboard layout. ghbdtn → привет. Double-tap your language shortcut and keep typing.

Alpha macOS menu-bar
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SlipWay

Reusable AI macros for your clipboard. Translate, summarize, clean up, OCR or reformat copied content — no code, just describe it once.

Alpha macOS clipboard · AI
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ioDiacritics

Restore Bosnian / Croatian / Serbian diacritics offline, in apps and scripts. citaj → čitaj. Deterministic Swift & C++, no API call.

Stable Swift · C++ macOS demo ↓
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DrPaste

A lossless clipboard history at your cursor. Bring back text, images, PDFs and files, then paste without ever switching windows.

Beta MIT macOS clipboard
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MenuBarFolder

A universal menu-bar viewer for two kinds of content — your folders and your browser bookmarks. Pin a folder or a Chrome / Safari profile; click to open. No Finder window in sight.

Stable MIT macOS

Which tool do I need?

Some of these overlap. Here's the quick map.

  • Fixing words typed in the wrong keyboard layoutPolyType
  • AI transformations on whatever you just copiedSlipWay
  • A fast, lossless clipboard historyDrPaste
  • B/C/S diacritics inside your own app or scriptioDiacritics
  • Your most-used folders, one click away in the menu barMenuBarFolder

About

ctrl8 is the workshop of iLya Os — independent software built one focused tool at a time. The recurring themes: local-first (your data stays on your machine), explainable (statistics and rules you can reason about, not opaque models), and a tactile hold, choose, release feel that keeps you close to the cursor.

Most projects are open source on github.com/ilya000. Built across macOS, iOS, Windows and Linux.