The Gnomestead Collective

Apps for the life you're already living

Steps that find critters. A word tree with your dog. Distracting apps sealed in amber until you move.

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Little Wings home screen: a hand-painted summer meadow with a step counter, a dial counting down to the next critter find, and recently discovered bugs.
Amber Lock home screen: a glowing amber tank of banked walking time, with a slider to lock or unlock sealed apps.
Kindred word tree: mastered dog training words shown as green nodes connected by branches, with unlearned words in grey.
Little Wings home screen: a hand-painted summer meadow with a step counter, a dial counting down to the next critter find, and recently discovered bugs.
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Amber Lock

Stop doomscrolling. Walk to unlock apps.

There’s an old gnomish legend where a distracted worker’s candied berries were sealed in magical tree sap until he plowed the fields. Amber Lock takes the same idea and applies it to your phone. Seal your most addictive apps in digital amber. To get them back, you have to put the phone down and walk.

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  • Amber Lock's Manage Apps screen: 6 hours 29 minutes less on sealed apps over the last 7 days compared to the previous 7, with Instagram down 4h 12m, Reddit down 1h, and Facebook down 1h 17m.
  • The Amber Lock home screen: a watercolour amber field around a tank of banked time, a 10 minute 00 second readout, and a slider held at LOCKED.
  • The Manage Device screen showing amber melter settings: three storage tank sizes (1,500 Standard, 6,000 Deep, 10,000 Vault) and three melting efficiencies (100 Standard, 50 Boosted, 25 Refined), with the current configuration giving 1 hour on a full tank.
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Little Wings

Turn your strolls into a naturalist adventure!

Join the Critter Collectors! The world's leading researchers of little creatures. Every step you take in the real world stirs something from the undergrowth. Lace up, head out, and let your walk do the finding. Open Little Wings to see every critter you crossed paths with.

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  • The Little Wings home screen over a hand-painted summer meadow: 2,350 steps today, a dial counting down 430 steps to the next find, and a row of recently discovered critters.
  • The Field Notes collection grid of common critters (monarch butterfly, grasshopper, stag beetle, scorpion, ladybird, firefly, honeybee, stick insect, praying mantis, tiger swallowtail, dragonfly, snail and more) with an Uncommon section below.
  • The Elephant Mosquito field note: Toxorhynchites rutilus, 1.5 inches long, first seen in Boot Sucker Bog, active at midday, with a note that despite being mosquitoes they are pollinators with no interest in your blood.
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Kindred

Build a shared language with your dog.

Every dog and every human invent a private language. A word here, a hand signal there, a sound that only means something to the two of you. Kindred is where you keep it. A living word tree that grows from what your dog already knows, with activities that unlock as the words behind them click into place.

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  • Every word your dog knows, one living map. The Kindred lexicon showing mastered words as green nodes in a connected word tree.
  • Real training for every cue. The Down word detail with practice instructions for Lure, Hand signal, and Verbal cue.
  • Your words, not ours. The custom cue word selector showing Sit, Bottom Down, Plant, and Plop your booty with a fluency slider.
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Learn more about the Collective

The Gnomestead Collective is a workshop of gnome makers and storytellers. The apps are what we make; the Gnomestead is where we make them.

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Meet our members

Portrait of Gemma & Minnie TailbrushGemma & Minnie Tailbrush
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Resources

The Great ArchivesEvery critter the Collectors have studiedThe Kindred LexiconEvery word and activity in the word tree