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Look for a game with no timer, no score to chase, no ads and nothing to buy, and an ending that makes it easy to stop. Tiny Tidy is built that way: twelve short tidying puzzles where you pair socks, stand crayons short to tall or rub the dust off a treasure, at your own pace, with a little bird named Pip to help. It's coming to iPhone.

There's no date yet. Tiny Tidy is playable in our workshop with all twelve scenes, and we're finishing it for iPhone and the browser; before it ships it needs time in real families' hands. When it's out, this page will link to it.

Its price isn't set yet. As it's built today, Tiny Tidy has no ads and nothing to buy inside the game: no coins, no energy and no paid hints.

It's made to be. There are no ads and nothing to buy inside, no account or names, no chat and no other players. It plays without the internet, and progress stays on the phone. If something goes wrong, you can choose to send a problem report: your words, a picture of the screen (which you can leave out) and where the scene stood.

We made it for children from about five, and the grown-ups beside them enjoy it too. You move things by dragging or tapping, nothing is timed, and the clues are in the pictures, so children who don't read yet can play; Pip's hints are short sentences a grown-up can read aloud. That's our guidance, not an official rating.

It's easy to stop. Each scene takes a few minutes, the game saves after every move, and there's no timer, streak or daily reward pulling anyone back. A finished scene just waits, which makes “one more scene, then done” an easy deal.

Each of the twelve scenes starts a little messy: socks loose under a drawer, crayons beside an empty holder. Drag each thing where you think it belongs, or tap it and then tap the spot. When the whole scene makes sense, it celebrates (a sun rises, rain stops) and Pip the bird drops by. Undo and restart are always there, and some scenes have a second way to tidy them. It's for one player.

Tap the light bulb and Pip helps in steps: a nudge to look closer, then the idea in plain words, then see-through pictures of where things go, and finally “Do it for me”. Help is free and unlimited, and every scene is open from the start, so you can always try another one.

No. Once it's on your iPhone it plays without the internet, there's nothing to sign up for, and progress is saved on the phone after every move.

It's being made for iPhone and for the browser, so you'll be able to play it in a web browser on other devices too. There's no public version to play yet; this page will say when there is.