free tools
7 small apps. Free, no account.
Built to scratch an itch and left running. 3 are open source. None of them collect anything or ask you to sign in.
VdoCard
Animated greeting cards in about thirty seconds.
Pick an occasion, pick a look, share the link. Twenty-one occasions, no signup, nothing to install.
StarWalls
NASA photography, framed for your lock screen.
Browse the daily NASA archive on a phone and crop a shot to your screen properly. Built because every other viewer treats mobile as an afterthought.
301st
Interactive 3D countdowns for any moment.
Started as a New Year timer and grew into a countdown for anything — launches, birthdays, deadlines. Shareable and stream-ready.
UniFonts
Universal font generator. 𝕵𝖚𝖘𝖙 𝖑𝖎𝖐𝖊 𝖙𝖍𝖎𝖘
Turns ordinary text into every Unicode variant, for places that will not let you set a typeface. The conversion library underneath is open source and on npm.
reSearch
A new tab page that gets out of the way.
Switch search engines without touching settings, on a clean page with a daily wallpaper. Also a Chrome extension.
Pixearch
Search Pixabay and download. Nothing else.
A clean client for the Pixabay library. Search, look, download. Installs to a home screen if you want it there.
EyeHack
A 20-second eye break every 20 minutes, whether you want one.
A macOS menubar app that blanks every display for twenty seconds, every twenty minutes. You cannot dismiss it, which is the only reason it works. Open source.
The paid work is built the same way.
Same two people, same stack. If you have something half-finished, the prices are on the home page and there is no call in the way.
Written and asynchronous. Nobody here will ask you to book a call.