Yesterday's Top Launches: 5 Tools from September 30, 2026

What Shipped on September 30

Five launches landed yesterday, and the spread says a lot about where new developer tools are heading right now: a messaging platform betting that context beats volume, a Mac monitor that decides a thousand processes is a thousand too many, Microsoft’s latest attempt to make an assistant that finishes work rather than just describing it, a screen recorder that edits itself, and a utility that hides your controls in the corners of the display like they were always there.

Community voting hasn’t produced rankings for this batch yet, so what follows is a read on each product on its own terms.

SaleSmartly

If your team answers customers on WhatsApp, Instagram, Messenger, TikTok, Telegram, LINE and a handful of others, you already know the failure mode: the same person asks about an order in three places, and nobody has the full thread. SaleSmartly attacks that with a single inbox spanning fourteen channels, an AI layer that responds, qualifies, translates and hands off to humans, a social CRM that keeps tags and lifecycle stages attached to a profile, and retention campaigns aimed at dormant or high-value customers.

The pitch is coherent. Centralising conversations means fewer dropped leads, and the CRM means the detail survives after the chat closes. Whether that 30% lifetime-value figure holds up in practice depends on how well the AI handles your specific traffic. The bigger question is differentiation. The omnichannel-plus-AI-plus-CRM space is genuinely crowded, and SaleSmartly doesn’t publish detailed pricing on the page, which makes comparison shopping harder than it needs to be. Free start and all channels included in the trial softens that. Support and sales teams on smaller brands will get the most from it.

Vitals

Activity Monitor is fine at telling you what your Mac is doing this second. It is terrible at telling you which app is responsible. Vitals fixes that by rolling every helper process into the app that spawned it, which takes a typical Mac from around a thousand rows to roughly sixty. One row per app, one number for memory, CPU, GPU, disk, network and energy.

The extras are what make it interesting: thirty days of per-app history, alerts when something starts growing or hammering the disk, a menu bar you can arrange to your taste with a Command-drag, and a Projects view that notices a dev server has been idle for three days and offers to kill it. No account, no analytics, data stays local. That posture will matter to anyone working on private code.

Nine dollars during launch, climbing toward twenty-nine as licences sell. Mac only for now, with a Windows waitlist open.

Microsoft Copilot

Microsoft’s framing has shifted from “AI assistant” to “AI built for work,” and the mechanism is Work IQ, which anchors responses to your company, your team’s roles and the context behind your projects. Copilot sits inside Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and Teams rather than beside them, and an Auto mode picks between models based on accuracy, speed and cost per request.

The more interesting pieces are peripheral. Cowork handles multi-step work across apps and data, Copilot Code builds dashboards and trackers from a plain description, and Agent Builder turns your own expertise into a work-grounded agent in minutes. Autopilot, an always-on agent with its own memory, sits in private preview.

It only makes sense if you already live in Microsoft 365. Pricing starts at $9.99 a month for individuals and runs to $30 per user monthly for enterprise, and that number is easier to justify for a large org than a small team.

Dina 4.5

Screen Studio, Loom and Tella all have a claim on the screen recording market. Dina’s angle is that the refinement should happen automatically: record screen, camera, mic, cursor and keystrokes in one take, then let automatic zoom, smooth cursor motion and subtle 3D camera movement do the polishing. There’s manual control when you want it, plus mask layouts for sensitive regions, and transcript-based editing that lets you cut video by deleting words while fillers get stripped out.

Everything runs on-device through Core ML, recordings stay local, and there is no account. The constraint is real: Apple Silicon, macOS Sequoia or later, no Windows. Fifty-eight dollars per device, one-time, lifetime updates.

Stash

Stash puts volume, brightness, keyboard backlight and audio output at the edges and corners of your display, hidden until your pointer arrives. Alongside that sit a Hidden Dock that works with your existing Dock rather than replacing it, an expanding App Launcher, and App Profiles that swap your control set based on what you’re running. The iPhone companion, Stash Deck, turns your phone into a remote and adds contextual tools for Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, Premiere Pro and Blender. Stash Deck is free.

The catch worth flagging: it requires macOS Tahoe. Twenty-four hours free, then $3.99 a month or $19.99 lifetime at launch, covering up to three Macs.