I think most folks here are familiar with most of the apps offered on AOMEI's Xmas / New Years giveaway. A couple [maybe more] only have a 30 day license, e.g., Focusee & AnyEnhancer. Ashampoo Background Remover, Aiarty Image Matting, & AOMEI Fast Recovery are three that you may not have come across yet. Ashampoo Background Remover and Aiarty Image Matting are fairly new AI-based tools designed to select the subject(s) in an image, so that you can either copy/paste that selection into another photo, or replace the image background, same as the background removal in Windows Photos. IMHO Ashampoo's app is a hard pass -- it's also unforgivably annoying, opening 1st time full screen with a smaller window asking you to log into your Ashampoo account, so I had to twice Alt + Tab to see my password mgr. to get that info. Aiarty Image Matting OTOH does a better job than using Windows Photos. Note that you're given a choice of AI models to use, which are going to be downloaded to C:\ProgramData\ Aiarty\ when you select one and use it -- that can take up over 1GB, though you can of course delete those models once you're done. I didn't find Aiarty Image Matting all that intuitive, & their help page helped a lot. aiarty[.]com/support/aiarty-image-matting/quick-start.htm#add
AOMEI Fast Recovery was *to me* a nice surprise. I don't know how well it works as a recovery app, but it lets you create a bootable USB stick with the app, which is something folks have asked for when a recovery app's been on GOTD. The reason is that once a file's deleted or lost it can be overwritten very easily simply by Windows doing its thing, running normally. And once it's overwritten it's gone forever. So you want to shut Windows down, create a sector by sector clone [or image backup] and run recovery on that, or run the recovery app from a bootable USB stick/drive. Note that like Backupper, you have to modify that USB stick before you use it. AOMEI Fast Recovery also runs *more or less* portably -- once activated you can copy/paste the program's folder and run it activated on a different copy of Windows, But, it will make changes to that copy of Windows, adding registry entries and files.
