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Savage Impulse

Four desktop tools, one shelf

Desktop Tools for People Who Work with Content.

Savage Impulse is a small house of tools made for content work: editing footage, recording voice-over, finding the right shot in a folder of hundreds, fixing the glitches AI stills come back with. Each tool started as a fix for something the off-the-shelf options got wrong, then stayed in daily use long enough to share.

They live on your desktop. No telemetry, no subscription, no account. Your footage stays on the drive it was always on, your voice-over stays on the machine that recorded it. Plekto sends a region to your chosen AI provider only when you mark one and ask. Just the thing that does the thing, where the work happens.

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The shelf

Four tools, in alphabetical order.

Each page has the screenshots, the pricing, and how the thing actually behaves.

Animated illustration of the Kyklos ring snapping open under the cursor with one wedge highlighted.

Windows / Coming soon

Kyklos

A radial launcher for Windows.

Click your trigger, a ring snaps open under the cursor. Six wedges you chose. Hit one to launch an app, open a URL, send a hotkey, or dive into a nested ring.

Open the Kyklos page
Rekolla cleanup view showing flagged filler words and silences laid out for one-pass review.

Windows / Coming soon

Rekolla

A voice-over studio where the recording session is the editing session.

Tap spacebar when you flub a line. Rekolla scans the waveform back to the last natural silence and drops you in for the next take. By the time you stop, the audio is mastered.

Open the Rekolla page
Trova app showing a semantic search for 'golden hour, wide desert, slow push-in' returning a grid of matching clip thumbnails in a windowed app frame.

Windows / Coming soon

Trova

A semantic clip browser for video editors.

Point Trova at a folder of footage. It builds a local index so you search the library by what's in the shot rather than scrolling through filenames.

Open the Trova page
Plekto app in dark mode with four faces auto-detected on a sunset street portrait, cyan FACE labels on the canvas and right-panel thumbnails listing the detected regions.

Windows / Free

Plekto

Mend glitchy faces, hands, and objects in AI stills.

Drag in the still. Plekto pre-marks every face. Add regions for hands, props, anything else you want to direct: fix it, remove it, swap it, redirect the expression. Plekto re-generates only those patches and re-weaves them into the surrounding image, edges intact, lighting intact. Direct the region. Keep the frame.

Open the Plekto page

Common ground

What ties the shelf together.

  1. Local-first, by design.

    No sync, no telemetry, no account. The footage stays on the drive it was always on. The voice-over stays on the machine that recorded it.

  2. Built by a practitioner.

    Each tool started as a fix for something the off-the-shelf options got wrong, then stayed in daily use long enough to share.

  3. One app, one job.

    Single-purpose desktop tools. No bundles, no platforms, no accounts to manage. Just the thing that does the thing.

  4. Where the work happens.

    Desktop apps for desktop work. The kind of work that involves long timelines, heavy files, and a quiet room.

Where to start

Four tools. Pick the one your work needs.

Four tools, alphabetical, all local-first. Each page tells you what it does and how it works, with screenshots from the actual app.

Kyklos Rekolla Trova Plekto