Applications

Each app here is a small, self-contained tool: one that makes something, works something out, or helps you decide. The aim is an app you want on your home screen — quick to open, clear to use, and done with the job in a few taps.

Easy to pick up

An app should open straight into the thing it does — the first screen is the tool itself, ready to use. Where a screen would need a paragraph of explanation, it gets redesigned until it explains itself. Settings and the finer controls stay where you can find them the moment you go looking.

Interface and experience

Each app follows the conventions of the platform it runs on, so it behaves the way the rest of the phone does: the same gestures, the text size you chose in Settings, the same sense of where things are and what a swipe will do. What you already know about your phone carries straight over.

Layout, wording and the states in between get the same care as the features themselves — what an empty screen says, what appears while something is loading, how the app explains a problem when one comes up. In practice, that is most of what using an app feels like.

Privacy and security

An app asks for the permissions it needs in order to work, and for the least information about you that it can. Where an app has an account, signing in is part of what the app does — it is what keeps your data with you from one device to the next — so it is asked for at the start, and it asks for no more than that role requires.

Everything published meets the privacy and security requirements of both stores. The details — what an app may fetch, what stays on your phone, how anything you entrust to it is handled — are set out in the privacy policy.

Where to find them

The current apps, and the latest updates to them, are on the App Store and Google Play: