Permit Pending A city builder where you are the mayor and every building needs approval
qrsticks A QR code drawn as stick figures that still scans
Bundle All of it, indexed and given away Collections scanned, catalogued and handed over whole, for free.
InfiniDomino An endless shared table of dominoes, and everyone is toppling it at once
Yara Reads Picture-book stories a new reader can sound out alone, one tapped word at a time
2007.mobile The original iPhone, running iPhone OS 1.0 in your browser
The Duck Pond Twelve mallards, no recordings, every quack synthesized live
Music Atlas 74,000 artists laid out as a galaxy, joined by real playlists
Lost & Found A 70-second film on how TCP delivers what the internet drops, then a storm you can make yourself
Weatheristic The weather as one scrollable, stock-chart-style line
Museum of Ages: Leonardo da Vinci A free 17-stop walk to Leonardo's last house, rebuilt in code
A. Boogert's Colour Book A one-of-a-kind 1692 watercolour manual, scanned in full
Yesterday Today's weather, drawn against yesterday's
Lunatic Fling Newtonian space combat in a new sector every day
Weball Roll any web page up into a Katamari ball
Still Wet Oil paintings made stroke by stroke by AI models, with a replay of each one
Jikji, the Oldest Surviving Book Printed with Movable Type Korean Zen teachings printed in 1377, scanned page by page at the BnF
Lofi Cities Pixel-art city nights with lofi composed live in your browser
On Verticality An architect's archive of the human urge to get off the ground, from a ninth-century tower leap to towers nobody built
iNCYNC Up to six recordings of Terry Riley's In C at once, 1968 to 2026, each with a rate slider to line up the pulse
Print Graph Paper 57 kinds of paper, from Smith charts to genkō yōshi, printed at true scale
Book Corners An open map of 37,000 public bookcases, charter sign or not
Ceramic Beats A drum machine whose nine tracks are the Met's nine ceramic materials, each struck by its own sound
Canyon Groove Real canyon terrain played like a record's groove
Compositor A free, open-source Photoshop for the Mac that downloads in 8 MB
MidiSlayer A sight-reading trainer that grades you on the notes you keep dodging, not the ones you already know
Swarm A family-tree app that knows the Russian word for your husband's brother
Flyover Country Point your phone out the window and the river below gets a name
Frost A Linux icon theme where a Dockerfile is a stack of crates and a lock file is a padlock
Usenet-Rewind A working search box in front of the conversations the web was built on top of
Apple's Dimensional Drawings Ninety PDFs of every recent product, dimensioned to the hundredth of a millimetre
Fugleramme A microphone hears the bird; an e-ink frame draws it from a nineteenth-century plate
CommentPulse Every comment in a Google Sheet, listed with the tab and cell it hangs off
What Just Pinged Me? A free menu-bar app that names the sound your Mac just made, then replays it
CSIRAC Emulator Australia's first computer, running again in a browser tab
The Peeping Tom of Tallinn A gilded lorgnette on a 1909 gable, and three incompatible stories about why it is up there
less-sheet A CSV viewer that never imports the file — only the rows the window needs, so 10 GB opens as fast as 10 KB
Palm Temple A cedar dome of dichroic glass outside a chemistry building, with a bell inside counting the day's extinctions
The Rabbit Hole, Rue Jankowski Six storeys of anamorphic painting that turn a Le Mans dead end into a tunnel, from one spot on the pavement
SIRENFALL A shelter window, a rainy city, and a civil-defense siren built from a rotor model rather than a recording
Intertapes Found cassettes from around the world, played back
National Gallery Imaginarium The room where the paintings float off the walls
Afterglow The original 68k module code, running on your Mac as a screen saver
Buddy Icon Archive 514,752 AIM icons, each one filed with where it was found
Freedom Park Twenty miles of mountain bike trail, and three cabins that were somebody's address
Pushup RPG: Fitness Quest The gear can improve your loot. It cannot do a single rep for you.
The Annual Report Gallery Three thousand corporate covers from when a balance sheet got an illustrator
Bunski Kanal The last 850 metres of a river that is only nine kilometres long
Gin Drinkers Line Eighteen kilometres built to hold for weeks, navigated by London street names, overrun in two days
Odyssey Explorer Seventeen landfalls, every Greek word openable, and a running count of the men who never got home
'The Missing' Cabin A film set left standing in a volcanic bowl, twenty-three years after the crew left
Ransom Center Movie Posters Five thousand sheets that actually hung in Texas lobbies, free to download at printing size
Portsmouth Flood Wall Murals The wall Portsmouth built to keep the Ohio River out, painted into a half-mile gallery of its own history
Mic Drop A party game with no audio in it at all — the room is the speaker, the scoreboard and the judge
The Bankes Homer Sixteen columns of Iliad 24, and a second man's handwriting all over them
How Buildings Learn Six hours on what happens to a building after the architect leaves
Stowaway Live Click any plane overhead and ride in its window seat, under a sky that is rendered rather than mapped
The Listening Museum 36 keyboards you can hear by typing on the one you already have
Isopolis All 121 square kilometres of San Francisco, hand-checked quadrant by quadrant
ssh.place A shared canvas with no app, no account, and one rule that everybody breaks
Elevators An interactive case that the fancy elevator kiosk is making you wait longer
bIRC A native Mac IRC client for the post-Textual era
ScrollPods Scroll Mac windows by tilting your head, using the motion sensors in your AirPods
Lunacy A native player that runs the original Lunatic Fringe module, unchanged, on a modern Mac
App Monitor One free, open-source dashboard for Mac app usage, storage, and updates
tldraw Instant browser-based infinite whiteboard, no account needed
Blip AirDrop for everyone, even the Windows users
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- Jev Cards Race a vision model through 490 picture puzzles
- Permit Pending A city builder where you are the mayor and every building needs approval
- qrsticks A QR code drawn as stick figures that still scans
- Visual cdecl Edit a C declaration as English, as code, or as a box-and-arrow diagram
- Hyperland Douglas Adams' 1990 BBC film imagining the web, with Tom Baker as your software agent
- Towers of Babble A word game where every word you spell becomes a tower
- Yara Reads Picture-book stories a new reader can sound out alone, one tapped word at a time
- Bullet Script A tiny Lisp for bullet-hell patterns, with the game running behind the editor
- Dopamine Shop A real-looking store where the checkout total is always $0
- InfiniDomino An endless shared table of dominoes, and everyone is toppling it at once
- Five Hundred Clocks 500 odd ways to tell the time, written by an AI model
- 2007.mobile The original iPhone, running iPhone OS 1.0 in your browser
- Photos to Gaussian Splats Drop in photos of an object, get a 3D splat, with nothing uploaded
- The Duck Pond Twelve mallards, no recordings, every quack synthesized live
- Book of Shapes Generative SVG patterns you can tweak and download
- Music Atlas 74,000 artists laid out as a galaxy, joined by real playlists
- Museum of Ages: Leonardo da Vinci A free 17-stop walk to Leonardo's last house, rebuilt in code
- A. Boogert's Colour Book A one-of-a-kind 1692 watercolour manual, scanned in full
- Mactracker 8.3 Every Apple product since 1976, down to the model number
- Yesterday Today's weather, drawn against yesterday's
- A Walkable History of Art Zoom through a thousand years of painting, then walk into a 3D gallery
- Bigwords.page Type a message and the link itself becomes a sign that fills any screen
- Deflector Launch Shortcuts from the Dynamic Island without opening the app
- Hiku A calm number puzzle where each number jumps as far as it says
- Build with Python A beginner course where your first programs draw pictures
- Mac Performance Monitor Scrub back to the moment your Mac started to slow down
- Black Hole Raytracer Fly around a Schwarzschild black hole, rendered live in your browser
- Jikji, the Oldest Surviving Book Printed with Movable Type Korean Zen teachings printed in 1377, scanned page by page at the BnF
- Free Games for Seniors Big-print browser games with no timers, no dragging and no sign-up
- Космос сейчас (Space Now) The real Solar System in your browser, with 526,000 asteroids and every tracked satellite
- Destroy Any Website Type a URL and fight your way through its own text and images with an SMG
- Low Poly Earth The whole planet in 3D, with 231 landmarks modeled by hand
- CaughtShipping A work curfew for Mac and Windows, enforced by a public wall
- Print Graph Paper 57 kinds of paper, from Smith charts to genkō yōshi, printed at true scale
- reladraw A diagram language where you say where things go — in words, never coordinates
- Book Corners A crowd-mapped directory of 37,000-plus little free libraries worldwide
- Catfishing Guess the Wikipedia article from nothing but its list of categories
- Ceramic Beats A step sequencer whose tiles are real ceramics from the Met's open collection
- Choreoglyphs Type a word, watch the invisible swipe-keyboard gesture that would draw it
- Digitron Synthesizer An 8-track modular-style synth and sequencer for iPhone and iPad, patched with your finger
- FLYBOX An open-source sandbox built around a real, 166,700-neuron fruit-fly connectome
- iNCYNC Layer up to six of 99 recordings of Terry Riley's In C on top of each other, tempo-synced
- Low-FPS Spinners A gallery of loading spinners that update at 1-30 changes a second instead of 60fps
- Posty A digital postcard with a manufactured 7-to-14-day wait before it lands
- Roads About a Theme 1,068 themes mapped across America's street names, and counting
- Pipe Fitter A parametric pipe-joint designer for 3D printing, right in your browser
- Canyon Groove Real canyon terrain played like a record's groove
- Digital Dada Library The Dada movement's own magazines, scanned from the originals
- Katamari Object Library Every object from Katamari Damacy as a 3D model you can spin and download
- Tim's Markdown Reader A free Mac app that only reads Markdown, Mermaid diagrams included
- Compositor A free, open-source Photoshop for the Mac that downloads in 8 MB
- Ifso Ask your finances what happens if you retire five years early, and get an actual answer
- Judge Jev All shapes are innocent until proven guilty
- MidiSlayer A sight-reading trainer that grades you on the notes you keep dodging, not the ones you already know
- Radius For the plan that's too small to be a group and too specific to be an RSVP
- Swarm A family-tree app that knows the Russian word for your husband's brother
- TinyBrains A boxing-style ladder for neural networks you trained yourself
- Flyover Country Point your phone out the window and the river below gets a name
- Frost A Linux icon theme where a Dockerfile is a stack of crates and a lock file is a padlock
- Concat An open-source CapCut with no watermark, no account and no cloud upload
- Page Rage A browser extension that runs Matter.js physics on whatever tab you're already angry at
- Paper Effects Types your keyword into a fake newspaper page, then films the reveal
- Kosmic Kart A free browser kart racer for up to 8, with video chat built in
- Restarted A full fake startup, generated fresh on every reload
- Usenet-Rewind A real search box in front of 45 years of Usenet
- Apple's Dimensional Drawings Ninety PDFs of every recent product, dimensioned to the hundredth of a millimetre
- Farseer Fly anywhere in the universe, on catalogue data that says where it stops
- HonestSky No ads, no tracking, no paywall, and no premium tier to hold anything back
- NYC Tree Map 892,947 trees, each one its own record you can look up
- Tycho — Transformation (Burning Man Sunrise 2026) One hour fifty-one, with the sunrise marked between tracks 22 and 23
- L.O.S.S. Clock in as a manual inference unit and press the button
- CommentPulse Every comment in a Google Sheet, listed with the tab and cell it hangs off
- Kinesis Points Meta's Neural Band at macOS, where a pinch and turn moves the volume
- What Just Pinged Me? A free menu-bar app that names the sound your Mac just made, then replays it
- hcker.news A Hacker News reader with a switch that hides every AI story
- Session Context What one web page can work out about you, in plain English, with the raw values underneath
- Sill A Mac system monitor drawn as one wave along the edge of your wallpaper
- Couchers.org Couch surfing rebuilt as a non-profit that has promised never to charge
- 12 Crank Mechanisms Visualized Twelve mechanisms drawn on one sheet, each proving something about itself before it moves
- Fashionguessr A daily fashion quiz that ends by asking you to draw the outfit from memory
- Jugend, 1896–1940 The Munich weekly that gave Jugendstil its name, every issue scanned at Heidelberg
- Livedin Design Patterns Twenty-six architectural patterns, from a window seat to a hillside town, as 3D models you can turn
- Math Gambling Stake some processor time on finding three cubes that add up to 114
- Bayeux Go! An endless runner stitched into the actual Bayeux Tapestry
- CSIRAC Emulator Australia's first computer, running again in a browser tab
- Lyrimuse Word-synced Mac lyrics that pick the right version of the song
- Rdltr Inbox zero for your reading list, navigated like a terminal
- Relativity Park A walkable park where light only moves 5 km/h
- Spaceships Asteroids, inverted: you play the rocks, not the ship
- The 101 Plays Itself A live LA freeway camera, rescored as generative music
- Raven Encrypted messages hidden inside an ordinary-looking sentence
- CSV Preview A CSV viewer, sorter, and filterer that never leaves your browser tab
- Litterbox A Safari extension that pops open X posts without a trip to x.com
- Paper2Audio Turns a PDF, EPUB, or web article into narrated audio, free up to 56 hours a week
- ScreenCoord Drag a rectangle, get exact screen coordinates, no permissions needed
- Trackables Apple Health's activity, heart, and sleep data on one glanceable dashboard
- Beat A free Mac app that turns a script into storyboards, set plans, and a shot list
- less-sheet A native CSV viewer that opens a 10 GB file as fast as a 10 KB one
- Davy Jones Tentacles Mask A printed beard that swings like a bead curtain
- NGPDFs Fifty PDF tools that never see the PDF
- Floe A free, open-source instrument engine for sample libraries
- BentoPDF A PDF toolkit that never uploads the PDF
- Break 5 A word ladder you can finish inside a coffee break
- Defrag98 The Windows 98 defragmenter, blocks and all
- National Gallery Imaginarium The room where the paintings float off the walls
- Cosmic Collisions Watch a moon assemble itself out of the wreckage
- @towns.satyrs.eu One British or Irish town, on the hour, in its historic county
- Marked Share A permanent home on the web for one Markdown file
- 3D-Printed NPT Thread Checker Five minutes of printing instead of calipers and a lookup table
- Sam Learns Things — World Map A geography drill that stops asking about the boring islands
- The Tiny Awards 2026 A small handmade trophy for the small, handmade web
- The Vintage AI Archive Artificial intelligence from before it got awkward
- Afterglow Flying Toasters, running the original 68k code
- Buddy Icon Archive 514,752 tiny pictures people chose to be
- Chonkcraft Warcraft II off the original disc, on a Mac from this year
- MyRate FX What your bank actually charges, not the mid-market rate
- s-1.space What they said before going public, checked against what happened
- Voronoi Go Go, with the grid taken away
- Cirrus Stop guessing whether iCloud Drive is stuck
- Pushup RPG: Fitness Quest The only way to level up is to actually go down
- Tarmak22 Chris Ofili and Max Ernst, at a small Alpine airfield
- GlassBox Every signal your browser hands over, sorted by what survives what
- TeXbrain pdfTeX compiled in the tab, with the paper never leaving
- Conway's Doomsday Rule Two secrets and you can name the weekday of any date
- copynpaste Paste bold text into Slack and keep the bold
- Octophobia Clear the grid, and never make an eight
- OpenLogi Your Logitech mouse settings, in a text file you own
- Wavepocket A four-track tape loop that fits in a pocket
- The Annual Report Gallery 3,000 corporate covers from when companies hired illustrators
- The Cryptic Cryptid Crossword A 15x15 grid where every answer is a monster
- Folding Globes Print a planet, cut it out, fold it into a sphere
- The Helmet Time Machine Every NFL helmet, every season, back to 1960
- Tomarigi A thousand live cameras, arranged on a map of Japan
- Doubly Blackbox Checker Paste a Spotify link, find the royalties nobody claimed
- Ocean Photographer of the Year 2026 This year’s winners, category by category
- PawVis Fold two fingers to scroll, dip a pinky to right-click
- Photocopy Run your own face through the copier until it falls apart
- REGOLITH: The Silence at Anaxagoras A lunar rover sim with ground that gives under the wheels
- ShadeMap Drag the time slider and watch the shadows move
- So Very Bright Make a logo glow brighter than white
- Dashboard Touch Thirty dollars of parts, and your old Mac gets a fingerprint button
- Gramola Cover Flow, exiled to the edge of the screen
- Isis Heiligtum A Roman temple left in place under a shopping mall
- Odyssey Explorer Tap any Greek word and the ten-year voyage explains itself
- RollTab Play eight notes and your phone finishes the phrase
- SetShot Proof that the update changed your settings
- 'The Missing' Cabin A 2003 film set the Park Service decided to just leave standing
- Ransom Center Movie Posters 5,000 posters from the company that owned nearly every cinema in Texas
- ASCII City A walkable neon cyberpunk city where every texture is a character
- DeltaFree Answers the actual question: how many weeks of backup space are left
- Desktop Colors Every solid background color classic operating systems ever shipped, with the hex
- hncli Hacker News in the terminal, with the keys written on every screen
- Rijksstudio 840,000 works from the Rijksmuseum, free to download and free to cut up
- statuslin.es A gallery of Claude Code status lines, each rendered from the script that makes it
- Visimer Edit a Mermaid diagram by dragging the diagram instead of the syntax
- Beeswax Five spoken words a day, and one wrong letter ends the run
- Encyclopedia of Concise Concepts by Women Philosophers Two thousand years of ideas, one concept at a time, in 300 words
- Mic Drop You get a word, you buzz in, you sing a real song that contains it
- Punchy A spare tablet by the door becomes an honest record of the hours
- Mazurka Cafe A listening room where DJs can get pelted with tomatoes
- Radiooooo Pick a country and a decade, hear what was playing
- The Bankes Homer A 2nd-century Iliad papyrus, now readable at full resolution
- Vonnegut's Eight Tenets of Storytelling Rule three: every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water
- How Buildings Learn Stewart Brand's six-part series, scored by Brian Eno, free to watch
- DDIA, as a Live Comic Distributed systems drawn as panels, then pushed until they break
- UTC Time Every timestamp format a program can ask for, one click each
- MacPacker Browse an archive like a folder and drag out only the file you wanted
- Write.md A Markdown editor where you design the room, not the syntax colours
- BingeBuster A walkable 3D video store stocked from your actual streaming subscriptions
- I Love The 90s A shared 90s TV lineup, a radio you can't rewind, and one 74-minute blank CD-R
- Send Henry Poems Type a poem here and it prints on a stranger's thermal printer at home
- Stowaway Live Pick any plane or satellite overhead and take its window seat
- BAP Studio An MPC-style drum machine that runs in a browser tab
- BoxSquad Its limbs are draggable, and so are its borders
- NearbyWiki Everything Wikipedia knows about where you're standing
- The Listening Museum 36 keyboards you can hear without owning one
- Isopolis San Francisco redrawn tile by tile, and you can post a card from it
- Project ESPAÑOL Ten thousand Spanish poems, sorted by the verb tenses you've learned
- ssh.place r/place in a terminal, one pixel every fifteen seconds
- BoredReading Long-form articles ranked by readers, with a keyboard shortcut printed on every control
- Elevators Why the elevator isn't coming, run at 25× until you can see the answer
- jdanwire A late-nineties file-sharing client that shares nothing and plays your own disk
- Yamanote 3D One loop of Tokyo's Yamanote Line — thirty stations, sixty-seven minutes, nothing to score
- CheapFoodMap A map of meals under $10, with the prices actually checked
- ChipBuilder Start at the AND gate, finish running your own machine code
- CHRONOS I and II Two terminal games where you operate the machines rather than play one
- Hurtle An endless descent with ten sliders on the difficulty
- Beakdown Joust, in a browser tab, with one control
- Kickabout Foosball rules on a touchscreen, two minutes a match
- tale.fyi A whole public-domain book behind one link
- bIRC A native Mac IRC client for the post-Textual era
- brolly.sh A weather forecast that is only text
- Capsomnia Caps Lock as a physical keep-awake switch
- Paper A journaling CLI that leaves you receipts
- Pixel Thoughts Put the worry in a star and watch it get small
- Binaural Studio Binaural beats generated to match the musical key of what's playing
- Hotspot Meter A menu-bar data meter that never leaves your Mac
- Megaphone Mac dictation that never leaves the device
- Text as Music Colors every sentence in your writing by length to reveal its rhythm
- CurrentKey Named, scriptable Spaces with per-app time tracking built in
- Detourmap 71,763 curious places, filterable by how obscure they are
- KeyClu Double-tap and hold Cmd to see every shortcut for the app in front
- PDF Press — Imposition Gallery Turn any PDF into a print-ready sheet, step by step
- Quick Look Doctor Settles the fight when two Quick Look extensions claim the same file
- RetroMac A live Mac desktop that boots as Snow Leopard, System 6, Win98, or BeOS
- Screen Test 34 monitor-diagnostic tests in one native Mac app
- SpotTest A drag-and-drop diagnostic for why Spotlight can't find a file
- Aerial Apple TV's aerial screensaver, free and open source on the Mac
- DockLift Click an app's Dock icon and its window jumps to the display you're using
- ScrollPods Scroll Mac windows by tilting your head, using the motion sensors in your AirPods
- Kanban Pro A free kanban board with a live terminal inside every ticket
- Naturalist's Library Wildlife Illustrations 1,300+ restored hand-colored plates from a Victorian-era natural history series
- DayBar A menu bar calendar with lunar dates and inline TODOs
- Hoffmann Lime Kilns England's best-preserved Victorian ring kiln, free to walk through
- Lunacy A native player that resurrects Lunatic Fringe on modern Macs
- Displace Fixes macOS's long-standing multi-monitor bugs
- Misgellar Gives digitized film scans the EXIF they never had
- Pitch Trail Ear training for kids disguised as a color game
- App Monitor One free menu-bar dashboard for app usage, storage, and updates
- GroupCtrl A workflow-based, git-configurable alternative to Cmd+Tab
- Breaks Free, open-source Pomodoro timer for the macOS menu bar
- Learn AI Layer by Layer Free interactive book building LLM understanding from scratch
- Rarefilmm Free streaming archive of obscure and forgotten cinema
- tldraw Instant browser-based infinite whiteboard, no account needed
- Cathedral Park Gothic stone arches under the St Johns Bridge, Portland
- RevPDF A free, fully offline Mac PDF editor
- ScreenKite A native, free Mac screen recorder that exports 4× faster than Screen Studio
- Skymap An interactive 3D galaxy catalog in your browser, rendered with WebGPU
- AppCleaner Drag an app onto it and every preference, cache, and login item goes too
- Blip AirDrop for everyone, even the Windows users
- 1D Chess Chess puzzle reduced to a single line of squares
- Apple Frames 4 Wraps screenshots in real device bezels, now with frame colors and a CLI
- FlutterTime Menu-bar timezone converter with a draggable timeline
- One Thing Display a single task in your menu bar, and nothing else
- PingPlace Move macOS notifications anywhere on the screen