Reinventing the Wheel
A project, not a product

Some wheels deserve reinventing.

A small, growing collection of apps that are free, don't want your account, and don't sell your data — not as a gimmick, because the alternatives stopped being good enough.

One so far. More on the way.

Every app here follows the same rule: free, no account required to start, nothing tracked.

Setoff

Live

Free offline packing lists, built from eight years of my own trip spreadsheets.

Next one's already in the works — built the same way.

I kept hitting the same wall. A genuinely useful app, free at first, then a paywall shows up. Or it wants an account before I'm even allowed to try it. Or it's quietly selling what it learns about me.

So I started building the versions I actually wanted to use — free, no account unless the app genuinely needs one, nothing sold. Setoff was the first. It won't be the last.

— The person reinventing the wheel

Three places, so far

1

Apps I've personally given up on and replaced with my own spreadsheet or workaround.

2

Free tools that exist, but don't actually work well enough to trust.

3

Whatever you tell me is missing.

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