Issue Nº 001Est. 2024No logins · No tracking · No BS
Small tools,
built better.
Nothing else.
betterapp.org is a quiet collection of single-purpose web apps — a financial calculator, an ebook reader, a color palette tool, solitaire — and the list keeps growing. Open the page, use the thing, close the tab. No accounts, no installs, no telemetry. One ad on the whole site, and that's the whole business model.
04 apps live+ 11 in the workslast update · 04.29.25v0.1.0
The catalogue.
— 001 / appsTool · FinanceA.01
Financial Calculator
Mortgage, loan, compound interest, retirement runway. Math without the spreadsheet, charts without the dashboard, no sign-up sermon.
$ 142,389.00
Open tool→
Reader · BooksA.02
BYOB Reader
Bring your own book. Drop an EPUB, get a clean reader with type controls, bookmarks, and zero cloud roundtrip.
Open tool→
Tool · DesignA.03
Color Palette
Build, lock, shuffle, export.
Open→
Game · ClassicA.04
Solitaire
Klondike. The way it should feel.
♠ ♥ ♣ ♦
Open→
Coming · Q3A.05
Markdown Pad
A scratchpad that remembers, locally.
Soon· · ·
The one ad
Google Ads — 728 × 90
Keeps the lights on● 002 — manifesto
Software shouldn't need an account to do one small thing.
- 01One job, done well. Each app is a single page that does one thing without nagging you about it.
- 02No login, ever. If a tool needs your email to function, it's the wrong tool.
- 03Local first. Your data lives in your browser. We don't have a database to lose.
- 04One ad. Forever. A single Google banner pays for the domain. That's the whole business.
- 05Always growing. New tool every few weeks. Old tools never break.
● 003 — say something