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About
Small apps for hobbies, routines, and the quiet parts of everyday life — made by one busy mum.
The short version. One busy mum, a few small apps, and no hurry. Nothing here needs an account, and nothing here collects your data.
What this is
Almost an Idea is where I put the small apps I make. Each one does a single thing properly and then gets out of the way — no dashboards to tend, no streaks to keep alive, no notifications inventing a reason for you to come back.
They're built the way you'd build something for yourself, because mostly that's how they start: a job that was fiddly enough to be worth a tool, and small enough that one person could make it well.
What I make
- Hobbies — tools for the things we happily spend too much time doing.
- Little systems — calculators, helpers, and satisfying bits of order.
- Everyday life — useful things for home, routines, and small obsessions.
How they're built
A few things hold across everything here.
- Your data stays yours. What you enter lives on your device. There's no account to make, nothing to sync, and nothing sent to a server of mine.
- Quiet by default. No tracking, no advertising, no engagement mechanics.
- Slowly. Things ship when they're right rather than when they're due. It's a smaller catalogue that way, and a better one.
Out now
- Sock Studio — custom-fit hand-knit sock patterns, worked out from your own measurements, yarn and gauge.
The name
Most of this starts as almost an idea: the half-formed kind you have while doing something else, that turns out to be worth building only after you've sat with it a while. The good ones survive that wait. The name is a reminder to let them.
Get in touch
Questions, bug reports and ideas are all welcome at support@almostanidea.dev. The support page covers the common ones, and the privacy policy spells out exactly what is and isn't collected.