Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Autotool – open-source gradual automation
Autotool is a native desktop app that helps you formalize and automate processes that give you trouble in terms of toil, difficulty remembering steps, or dealing with workflows someone else has created. The idea was inspired by the "Do-nothing scripting"[1] article published a few years ago. It's actually not an implementation of do-nothing scripting specifically, but enables that if that's what you want to do, and it's something I've been thinking about for a while. Right now this is definitely in very early beta, so currently it's only available for MacOS and Linux. Hopefully this version…
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Autotool – open-source gradual automation launched in 2022; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Retool▲640Hi all, founder @ Retool here. We initially launched Retool on HN five years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14515494. The feedback was extraordinarily helpful then (e.g. we launched source control, on-prem, etc. based on HN comments), and we’re grateful for all of it. Today, we’re excited to get HN’s thoughts on one of our new products: Retool Mobile. It lets you build and deploy mobile apps in minutes, not days. The idea is there is a large class of line-of-business mobile apps, and the process of getting a simple form + button on a mobile device, in a native app,…
2018 · retool.com · its alternatives →
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OpenOwl▲261Automate what APIs can't in one prompt done locally
Apr 2026 · openowl.dev · its alternatives →
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Hey, HN community, We're so excited to share Automatisch with HN finally. Automatisch is an open-source workflow automation tool, an alternative to Zapier. Together with my co-founder (@barinali), we have been working on it for about 15 months and have started getting early adopters. Automatisch is a workflow automation tool that lets you connect different web services like Slack, Github, Twitter, and more to automate your business processes. For example, you can build automation that gets all new tweets, including the "open source" phrase, and post them to the Slack channel you specified.…
2023 · automatisch.io · its alternatives →
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Build, deploy, and manage internal tools with Retool's unified engine. Connect to any database, API, or LLM. Leverage AI throughout your business.
2018 · tryretool.com · its alternatives →
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Automate your work on any website
2021 · browserflow.app · its alternatives →
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Get 10x more productive with automation & AI
2023 · cart.easy.tools · its alternatives →
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A low code platform to build internal tools
2021 · retool.com · its alternatives →
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Open-source foundation of ToolJet AI - the enterprise app generation platform for internal tools, dashboards, business applications, workflows and AI agents. Build visually, from a prompt, or from Claude Code, Codex and Cursor over MCP 🚀 - ToolJet/ToolJet
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Autocode 1.0▲276Automate easily with code and APIs, level up from workflows.
2020 · superuser.app · its alternatives →
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Automate 750+ apps from your Mac's keyboard
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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PROCESIO▲397Automation based on no-code, low-code & full-code
2023 · procesio.com · its alternatives →
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2017 · retool.in · its alternatives →
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Automated▲89Automate any workflow by recording a demo
Mar 2026 · useautomated.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, This is Adrian and David, and we're excited (and nervous) to show you basetool (https://basetool.io). Basetool helps companies view and manage all their data in one place. Companies have data in tons of places like BI tools, data warehouses, 3rd party services, and their databases. However, because the tools are not connected, it's a hassle to have visibility across the whole organization and even more difficult to safely share that data with the team or external collaborators. The vision is to give basetool access to your data source and get a tool that way above a…
2021 · its alternatives →
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Zetoe▲107Hi HN — I’m building Zetoe to make AI feel like a native part of the web. Zetoe adds a small blue action bubble whenever you select text on a webpage. From that bubble, you can instantly run AI actions on the selected text — without switching tabs or copying anything. The goal is simple: instant AI actions for any selected text. Current actions include: - Ask AI about the selected text - One-click summaries - Instant translations - In-context fact checking - Smart form autofill I built this because my own workflow kept breaking due to constant context switching between tools. The…
2025 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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Aitool.ai▲771930+ generative AI tools & 30000+ models & AI tutorial
2023 · aitool.ai · its alternatives →
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