---
title: "The apps shelf — state of the collection"
date: 2026-08-01T10:15:00
draft: false
categories: ["Apps"]
tags: ["flove", "apps", "shelf"]
---

A shop window is honest about one thing: it shows what's there. The apps shelf
is flove's window — roughly **eighty small applications**, each one a single
HTML file that you can read in your browser and take home with you. No
frameworks, no login, no account. Just the work, out in the open.

This post is the shelf's opening statement: what's on it, how it got here, and
what's still on the bench.

## What's on it

Every app lives under [flove.org/solo/](https://flove.org/solo/) and is
gathered on the [apps catalogue](https://flove.org/solo/apps/). They come in
clusters, because flove thinks in clusters — related little things that talk to
each other:

- **appy** — the hello-world of tools: small personal utilities, including
  [nety](https://flove.org/solo/apps/appy/nety.html), the decentral messenger.
- **trusty** — people and places: [trusty.html](https://flove.org/solo/apps/trusty/trusty.html)
  and its family of relationship apps.
- **puzzy** — interfaces and things that need fiddly care, a whole lab of its
  own: [puzzy/](https://flove.org/solo/apps/puzzy/).
- **blogy** — the writing corner: [blogy/](https://flove.org/solo/apps/blogy/),
  the making-of for this very blog.
- **economy, metas, lowai, psicosocial, bio, liberada** — money, goals, the
  local AI, the mind, and books. Every cluster is a drawer, and each drawer is
  the seed of a longer story.

Because they're single files, every app is a walking thing: bookmark it, save
it, open it offline — the PWA layer makes [the whole solo area](https://flove.org/solo/)
work even without a connection.

## How it got here

The shelf grew the way flove grows everything: one small thing at a time, from
the bottom up. Apps started as bare sketches and were worked up through tiers —
**mini → basic → advanced** — so a tool earns its complexity instead of
inheriting it. Then came the restructuring that flattened everything into the
`solo/` area, so that every app, and the catalogue that shows them, share one
home. What you see on the shelf today is that flat, honest layout.

## What's ahead

- **nety** keeps growing — the decentral network is the shelf's most ambitious
  drawer and the one with the most road in front of it.
- **flove-apk** — an Android build of the solo experience, so the shelf can fit
  in a pocket.
- More drawers, and a few old ones getting the *advanced* pass they've earned.

The shelf is a place you can actually reach into. So reach. If something you
need isn't there yet, that's not a missing feature — it's a hint about what
flove should build next.

_slow it · flow it · love it._
