Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to TaskCooker
Stop babysitting terminals. Start shipping tasks.
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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TaskShell▲86I initially built this for myself but some folks asked me to open access to it. Let me explain what I built and why. I'm a product designer who transitioned from only designing to building complete software products myself and I found myself using AI coding agents literally every day. I started with cursor, then codex and claude code, then kilo code, and then moved to opencode. The only thing AI agents couldn't get done for me was to keep track of my todos and tasks for all my projects. I ended up vibe coding a todo app separately or using apps like TickTick. The main issue with separate…
Apr 2026 · taskshell.app · its alternatives →
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Peek▲404Hey HN, My cofounder and I have gotten tired of CC ignoring our markdown files so we spent 4 days and built a plugin that automatically steers CC based on our previous sessions. The problem is usually post plan-mode. What we've tried: Heavily use plan mode (works great) CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md, MEMORY.md Local context folder (upkeep is a pain) Cursor rules (for Cursor) claude-mem (OSS) -> does session continuity, not steering We use fusion search to find your CC steering corrections. - user prompt embeddings + bm25 - correction embeddings + bm25 - time decay - target query embeddings -…
2024 · gopeek.ai · its alternatives →
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TabTasker▲239Zero servers. Total privacy. Your new favorite toolbox.
May 2026 · tabtasker.com · its alternatives →
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Don’t fear the terminal. No, really.
2017 · abookapart.com · its alternatives →
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Caret▲211We've been heads-down building this for a few weeks and want real feedback before we open it up. Caret runs in the background and completes your thoughts across every app: email, terminal, notes, wherever. Hit Tab and it finishes the sentence. We're onboarding the first users ourselves, one by one. So if you're interested, one of the three of us will get on a call with you to set you up and understand how you work. Looking for 20 people.
Apr 2026 · trycaret.com · its alternatives →
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tsk.lol▲116a customizable, open source, local-first, task manager
Nov 2025 · tsk.lol · its alternatives →
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nudge2.0▲107Hey HN! Nudge captures your screen every minute and uses GPT-4o to detect when you're distracted. Describe what you want to work on ("Review PRs on GitHub for 20min") and Nudge will alert when it sees you doing something else. I built Nudge because I get easily distracted at work. I've been using it for a few weeks and I'd say my procrastination is down 20-30%. (That's partly because Nudge forces me to break my day into small, concrete activities.) The AI detection can work perfectly but it depends on how clearly you describe your goal. For example, "I want to reply to my boss" is bad, but…
Jul 2026 · nudgetaskai.com · its alternatives →
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Freeter▲143Open-source workspace. For people working on their computer.
2016 · freeter.io · its alternatives →
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TermHere▲147“Open Terminal Here” shortcut for Finder
2016 · hashbang.productions · its alternatives →
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Schedulist▲101Hey HN! I built Schedulist to solve my own problem: task fragmentation across Linear (work) and personal/smaller tasks and also only see what I need to see next (inbox zero). The core insight: most productivity apps want you to migrate everything to their system. Schedulist takes a different approach - it connects to where your tasks already live. In 2.0, we've added some new things: - Linear integration (for developers/PMs using Linear) - Microsoft ToDo & Google Tasks sync - Swipe actions to complete and schedule tasks for later - Effortless recurring tasks - Mobile share sheet…
2022 · schedulist.app · its alternatives →
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Free task manager that gets things done
2024 · approveit.today · its alternatives →
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Task Pigeon▲118Create, assign & manage your teams everyday tasks
2017 · taskpigeon.co · its alternatives →
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Hi HN I recently got married, promptly had a bit of a meltdown, and decided to lock myself in a room and build for a while. At the same time, I was trying to outbound sell for my startup and kept running into the same problem: I wanted an automation tool that could actually use my computer like a person. Click through UIs, copy/paste between apps, handle messy workflows — not just APIs and webhooks. I couldn’t find anything that felt: - consumer-friendly (non-technical) - local-first - flexible enough for real-world, UI-driven tasks So I challenged myself to see how far I could get…
Jan 2026 · automatewithtasker.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN friends, I keep getting distracted working from home and always end up watching youtube, browsing blogs like HN or just mindlessly scrolling then I feel like crap because I didn’t do enough. I went through dozens of productivity tools but they’re quite overwhelming to use and none of them actually helped me focus. So I built http://complish.ai, a web-based sidebar that helps me focus on one task at a time. I launched it last month and have over 3,000 users now and I’ll be keeping it free. Would love for you all to try and give some feedback!
2023 · its alternatives →
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As a software engineer, my reflex has always been to script everything I can. Scripting is easy, but everything around it is tricky: scripts have to run somewhere, they need access to credentials, they need to be monitored. None of it is simple. No-code automation platforms such as Zapier or IFTTT are too restrictive for technical tasks; CI/CD platforms make it easy to script tasks related to a repository, but are limited when trying to do anything else. I wanted the low level control you have when writing scripts while retaining the comfort of a platform managing execution for me. So I…
2022 · exograd.com · its alternatives →
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Hi everyone! I built this because I wanted a little bit more organization around my Claude sessions, worktrees and plans while staying in the terminal and not relying on another SaaS tool. Since it's a command line tool, the added bonus is that Claude can use `td` directly. The td calendar was just a fun add-on but the Claude session stats have been pretty interesting! Let me know what you think!
Apr 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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