Tools that take repetitive work off your hands — from recording a sequence of clicks to assigning hotkeys and building automation with conditions and image search. Everything here is free to download.
Pick by the job: TinyTask to record and replay a task in seconds, Actiona when the macro needs logic or must survive windows moving, Clavier+ for hotkeys and text you type every day. Project Mercury is listed for reference but has not been updated since 2017.
Guides: Free Windows automation tools · TinyTask alternatives for Windows and Mac
Actiona isn’t trying to be clever. It’s just trying to make your day a little smoother. If you’ve ever found yourself repeating the same boring task and thinking “I should really automate this,” Actiona’s the tool that lets you do it — without turning it into a project.
Clavier+ is one of those tools you forget about — until you rebuild a workstation and realize how much time those few hotkeys were saving you. It’s not fancy. It doesn’t sync to the cloud or come with a 30-page manual. But it gets the job done — fast, quiet, and exactly how you told it to.
Project Mercury is a minimalist fix for a real-world annoyance: Windows not knowing what you actually care about right now. It doesn’t try to be everything. It just makes your active app faster — and that’s usually enough.
TinyTask is the automation tool you don’t plan to use — and then can’t stop using. It doesn’t care about your scripting skills, it doesn’t need a manual, and it doesn’t get in your way. It just says, “Did you want this repeated? Okay, watch this.”
