I make small things, mostly for a little E Ink phone. They keep to themselves — no accounts, nothing sent to me, nothing that needs looking after. Most of the work is deciding what to leave out.
There is a plainer index of it all at wanderwildwood.github.io.
The Kompakt is a phone with a small E Ink screen, no colour, and a slow redraw. These are built for that screen: black on white, no animation, lists you can read in sunlight.
None of them phone home. None carry analytics, accounts or crash reporting. Where an app has
no business reaching the network, it holds no internet permission at all, so the question
cannot arise. All are under version 3 of the GPL, and every release publishes a .sha256
beside the APK.
| Messaging | SMS, MMS and Signal in one inbox, and a page your phone serves to your own computer so you can text from a keyboard | APK |
| Audio Reading | An audiobook player. Point it at a folder and it reads what is in it | APK |
| Music Box | A music player, for a folder of your own music and for YouTube Music | APK |
| Clippings | Feeds read as plain text, with Gemini, gopher and Spartan alongside them; fetched on wifi, read with the radio off | APK |
| Birding | Names the birds it hears, offline, with BirdNET running on the phone | APK |
| Mushroom Journal | Write a mushroom down properly while you are standing over it, and narrow what it might be; it never decides, and never says anything about eating one | APK |
| Detour | Press once and it picks somewhere near you to walk to, and gives you an arrow to follow | APK |
| Speedometer | How fast, how high, and what the air is doing; press the number and it fills the screen | APK |
| Tuning Fork | A tuner — chromatic, per-instrument, and well past equal temperament if you want it | APK |
| Level | A spirit level; it knows whether you are holding it flat or on edge, and says level only when it is | APK |
| Star Chart | The sky over you, drawn like a paper atlas; set it to any time and anywhere | APK |
| Cycle | A cycle tracker with no permissions at all | APK |
| Go | A game of Go on a 9×9 board, against GNU Go or the person opposite | APK |
| Chess+ | The phone's own chess app, with a second player in it | APK |
| Handheld Games | Game Boy games, drawn in four greys for a screen that has no colour; the picture lands at exactly three times size and nothing is resampled | APK |
Five are written from scratch; ten are forks, and say whose work they continue. Each repository can be added to Obtainium to be told about new releases.
These are free and they stay free; there is nothing here to buy. If you would like to send something somewhere anyway, there are some llamas who go through a great deal of hay: https://hotspringsllamas.org/donate/
Something broken, or an app not doing a thing you expected it to? The issue trackers are open.