The rack
Everything shipped & still listed
Who I am and what I build
I am Dolev Franko, an independent app developer. I build mobile apps and games on my own and publish them myself — eight of them so far, all live, all free to install, every one on Google Play and six of them on the App Store as well. There is no studio here and no team: the eight sheets above are the entire catalogue, and one person made each of them.
Every app here started as a problem I actually had. I wanted to sleep on the bus without missing my stop, so I built an alarm that watches the map instead of the clock. I wanted my school average without doing the arithmetic, so I rebuilt the grade book. I wanted to know where my own apps ranked in search, so I wrote the rank tracker.
The games are the same instinct with the stakes removed — a hue you can barely see, fifty numbers against a running clock, a phone thrown as high as nerve allows.
Design, code, icon, store listing and support mail: all of it is mine. That is the whole point of the list.
Questions
Asked often enough to write down
-
Who makes these apps?
Dolev Franko, working alone. One person does the design, the code, the icon, the store listing and the support mail for every one of the eight apps and games on this page. There is no studio, no team and no publisher behind them — the catalogue is one developer’s working record, which is the whole reason it is written as a list.
-
Are the apps free?
Yes. All eight are free to download on Google Play, and the six that are on the App Store are free there too. Some are supported by ads and a few offer an optional in-app purchase, but nothing on this page costs money to install and none of them is a paid or subscription app.
-
Which platforms do they run on?
All eight are on Google Play for Android. Six of them — Bus Stop Alarm, Grader for Mashov, Privacy Guard, One to 50, Color Sense Test and Speedy — are also on the App Store for iPhone and iPad. App Indexer and Tossy Phone are Android only. Five of the eight also have their own website, linked from their sheet above.
-
How do I report a bug or ask for a feature?
Through the store listing for the app in question. Every Google Play and App Store listing carries a developer contact address and a support link that reach the developer directly, and a review left on the listing is read as well. Bug reports that name the device and describe what you were doing get fixed fastest.
-
Why are there no download counts, ratings or review quotes on this page?
Because none of them were verified when the page was written, and unverified numbers are worse than no numbers. The same rule applies to release dates, which is why no year is printed on any sheet. Every claim on this page is either checkable against a live store listing or it is not made at all.
-
Where can I see everything Dolev Franko has published?
The Google Play developer page lists all eight in one place and is the authoritative index, because every app here is published from that single developer account. The App Store developer page carries the six that ship on iOS. Both are linked at the foot of this page, alongside the GitHub account where several of the projects are public.