Rather Useful Apps

Simple, useful apps, games, and browser extensions. No bloat, no data-harvesting, no nonsense. Just software that respects your time and privacy.

Phone Apps and Games

Kalabux

A steampunk paint-mixing puzzle. Pipe the primary colours together, mix to fill every order, and build your paint works from a single machine to a colour empire.

Available Now

Wordfarer

An interactive adventure that plays along with whatever you try. Pick a world, invent a hero, type what you'd do next, and watch your tale unfold to a real ending.

Coming Soon

Swipeloot

The frantic multiplayer phone game the whole family plays together. Swipe the treasure, swerve the traps — 60-second rounds, up to 8 players, free to play.

Available Now

Artsplainer

Point your camera at any artwork and get instant AI feedback on technique, composition, and style. Includes competition practice scoring for photography clubs.

Available Now

Browser Extensions

Review Radar for Amazon

AI-powered fake review spotter that gets smarter with every scan. Spot fake, incentivised, and suspicious reviews before you buy.

Available Now

Timestamp Bookmarks for YouTube

Save multiple timestamps per video with personal labels. Never lose your place in long videos, lectures, or tutorials.

Available Now

Latest from the Blog

Kalabux: a Steampunk Paint-Factory Puzzle for People Who Love Colour

Kalabux is a steampunk paint-factory puzzle for Android and iPhone: pipe red, yellow and blue through brass machinery, mix real subtractive colours where the streams meet, and keep a small Victorian paint works running. It's free, playable in twenty languages, every advert can be skipped, and the only purchase is an optional ad-skipper.

The Surprisingly Hard Problem of Mixing Colours on a Screen

Why does the same orange look completely different on your phone, your laptop, and a printed page? Colour is stranger than it looks.

Characters Who Remember You Are Rarer Than You Think

Most stories - on page, screen or stage - treat memory as a given. But genuine continuity of character is one of the hardest things fiction pulls off.