Free Tools & Utilities

Small things we built to solve real problems. Take them.

Over four decades of building software, you accumulate a pile of small utilities — the script that finally made a stubborn export behave, the template that turned a two-day estimate into a two-hour one, the reference sheet you keep re-deriving. None of it is worth selling. All of it is worth sharing.

Everything on this page is free and unrestricted. No signup, no email address, no license key. Download it, use it, modify it, ship it inside your own work. If it saves you an afternoon, that's the whole point.

Downloads

Standalone applications and utilities. Windows installers, portable executables, Android APKs, and self-contained packages.

Handset

The fastest three taps to a phone call. A replacement dialer for Android built around big favorite tiles, a thumb-sized keypad, and nothing else.

  • Version 1.0.1
  • Size 20 MB
  • Platform Android
Details Download APK

Deadstop

The phone locks itself when you start driving. Maps, calls, music, and 911 stay reachable — everything else waits until you deliberately unlock it.

  • Version 1.0.0
  • Size 19 MB
  • Platform Android
Details Download APK

Handset

The fastest three taps to a phone call.

Handset replaces the part of your phone's dialer you actually use — the bit before the call connects. Nothing else changes: calls hand straight off to your phone's normal in-call screen.

Favorites that fill the screen

The people you call most become big tiles, sized to use every pixel of the display. No list, no scrolling, no hunting. One tap dials. Long-press to rearrange or remove them.

A keypad built for thumbs

Full-bleed keys, giant digits, and a call bar that's always in the same place. Start typing a name on the number keys and Handset shows the one best match — not a dropdown of twelve. Tap it to call.

Recents, plainly

Your call log, newest first, one tap to call back. Missed calls in red. That's the whole feature.

Private by construction

No account, no sign-in, no analytics, no ads, no network access at all. Your contacts and call history are read from your phone and never leave it. There's no server for them to go to.

Installing

Handset is distributed as an APK rather than through the Play Store. Download the file on your phone, tap it, and allow installation from this source when Android asks. Once installed, set Handset as your default phone app in Settings → Apps → Default apps — or keep using it alongside your existing dialer.

Deadstop

The phone locks itself when you start driving.

Almost nobody hurts someone because they answered a call. It happens because they slipped into something — a thread, a search, a conversation — and the driving quietly became the background task. By the time you're deep in it, you have no idea you stopped watching the road.

Do Not Disturb doesn't help

It silences what comes in. It does nothing about the reach you make yourself.

A screen that survives the reach

Deadstop notices you're driving, confirms it with GPS, and puts a screen in front of your phone. Maps, phone, music controls, 911. Nothing else, until you deliberately unlock it.

Free

No account, no ads, no subscription.

Nothing leaves your phone

Location is used to confirm you're moving and nothing else. It never leaves the device — ever. There's no server for it to go to.

Getting out takes twenty seconds of your eyes

There's no PIN. Nothing to set up, nothing to memorise.

To unlock, Deadstop shows you two random ten-digit numbers and asks you to type them back — on a keypad that reshuffles its digits between them — inside twenty seconds.

That sounds fussy. It's the entire product. A number you've memorised can be tapped out by feel with your eyes on the road, which is exactly what this app exists to prevent. A number you've never seen before can't. You have to read it, hold it, find each digit in a grid that just changed, and do it again. There's no moment in that task where your attention can go back to the road — and no way to do it in snatched glances at a light.

The act of unlocking is itself the proof that you've stopped.

You can never be locked out

Deadstop doesn't store a code, so there's nothing to forget, lose, reset or recover. Anyone holding the phone can get out. That's deliberate — it was never protecting your phone from you. It's making sure that getting past it costs twenty seconds of undivided attention, which is twenty seconds you can't spend while driving.

Installing

Deadstop is distributed as an APK rather than through the Play Store. Download the file on your phone, tap it, and allow installation from this source when Android asks. On first run it will ask for location access so it can detect driving — grant it, or the app has nothing to work with.

A note on security warnings. Our desktop executables and Android packages are not code-signed, so Windows SmartScreen and Android may warn you before installing. That's expected for independently distributed software. Scan anything you download, and only install it if you're comfortable doing so.

In-Browser Tools

Utilities that run entirely in your browser. Nothing is uploaded, nothing is stored, nothing leaves your machine — the work happens locally in JavaScript.

Browser tools are in progress. Check back shortly.

Code & Templates

Source code, project scaffolds, configuration templates, and spreadsheets. Hosted openly so you can read every line before you run it.

Repositories are being cleaned up for release. Check back shortly.

Guides & Documents

Reference sheets, checklists, and short guides — the kind of thing worth printing and pinning next to the monitor.

Guides are being written up. Check back shortly.

The Fine Print

  • Free means free. No cost, no signup, no email capture, no strings.
  • Use them anywhere. Personal projects, client work, commercial products — all fine.
  • Provided as-is. These are utilities, not products. No warranty and no support commitment.
  • Test before you trust. Try anything that touches your data on a copy first.

Need Something That Isn't Here?

If one of these tools is close to what you need but not quite there — or if you're facing a problem that deserves a real solution rather than a utility — that's the work we do. Tell us what you're trying to solve.

Last updated: July 2026