pawl is a focus timer that sits in the menu bar as a cat's paw, and you start a session by pulling it, which is the entire interaction. It runs as a straight timer or alternates focus and break cycles, with eight paws to choose between, a few themes, and controls you can pin on screen if you want the clock in view. Ryana May Que charges ten dollars once for it, and before a session ends it warns you, with how much warning you get left up to you, so you can land the sentence you are in rather than being stopped mid-word by a chime.

Badgey turns an iPhone into a name badge, so you clip the phone to a lanyard, hang it upside down, and the badge rotates to face whoever is standing in front of you, swinging a little as you walk. Slide it top first into a chest pocket instead and it shrinks to a strip so the name still clears the edge, and the way it tells which of the two you have done is by running the front camera for a few seconds through a small model on the phone, keeping none of the frames. Marco Luthi makes small iPhone apps on his own, which is roughly the kind of detail that gives that away.

Clips cuts a single song into a separate ad for every part of it, so you drop in the track and your footage and it works out the tempo and the sections, then builds a vertical lyric video for each one with the cuts on the beat and the words synced, and exports them all together. Kai Williams is a musician who built it while promoting his own album, having worked out that song ads do better when you test several parts of a track and then found that cutting one song fifteen ways by hand costs a whole evening, so he made two and guessed. It runs offline on the Mac, so a record nobody has heard yet never leaves it.