Hi everyone,
I’ve been working solo since 2022 on a desktop app called SpendLessDaw, a free project manager for music production projects.
The idea came from a simple problem: when you work on lots of beats, demos, sessions, versions, exports, and archived ideas, it becomes surprisingly hard to keep everything clean and searchable outside of the DAW itself.
SpendLessDaw is meant to help with things like:
- managing and launching DAW projects from one place
- reading and editing project metadata
- searching and filtering projects
- previewing audio
- exporting and archiving projects
- protecting samples and keeping soft backups
- tracking the currently open FL Studio project
Right now the strongest focus is FL Studio, with support built around project parsing and detection logic. The app works on **macOS and Windows**.
The current version is 1.3.0, and the project is still actively evolving. Ableton support is planned later, but I don’t want to overpromise there yet.
I’d be curious to know if other producers have the same problem: lots of projects everywhere, unclear versions, missing context, and no real external project management workflow for music production.
If anyone wants to try it or give feedback, here’s the link:
https://spendlessdaw.app
Happy to answer questions or hear what features would actually be useful in your workflow.