Funly — Your Gems
A collection of facts and stories · free on Google Play
Twelve short facts an hour. Then it stops.
Most apps are built so you never reach the end. Funly is built so you do. Twelve short, true things — then it runs out, on purpose, and you get your evening back.
This is the whole app.
Tap the card. It evaporates — gone for good, never shown to you again — and the next one rises. Do that twelve times and Funly says goodnight. Turn stories on and a fable arrives once a day as well.
The colour changes every time you open the app. Keep tapping and you will walk from pale paper into the bolder ones. There are 144, and you will not see the same one twice for months.
Tap the card when you’re done with it
Running out is the feature.
A feed that never ends is not generous. It is built that way so you keep going past the point you meant to stop.
Funly has no infinite scroll to fall into, because there is nothing left to scroll. You finish, and the finishing is the point. Come back in an hour if you like — twelve more will be waiting.
- No endless feed — twelve, then done
- No notifications begging you back
- No streaks, no scores, no levels
- Nothing you read is fed into what you see next
Facts and stories, quoted — never rewritten.
Every card is quoted word for word from a published source, names that source, and links to it. Nothing is summarised, paraphrased or composed — not by us, and not by a machine.
The app refuses to publish a passage it cannot find in its source exactly as written. That is a rule in the code, not a promise in a footer.
Facts come from reference works, public bodies and scientific agencies, museums, libraries and archives. The stories are Aesop’s fables in a 1912 translation, out of copyright and quoted whole.
The oldest bristlecone pine in the White Mountains is Methuselah, which has a verified age of 4,858 years.
A Cat heard that the Birds in an aviary were ailing. So he got himself up as a doctor, and, taking with him a set of the instruments proper to his profession, presented himself at the door, and inquired after the health of the Birds. “We shall do very well,” they replied, without letting him in, “when we’ve seen the last of you.”
Nothing to sign up to.
There is no account, no sign-in and no password. You open it, read, and close it.
What you have read is stored on your phone. There is no server that knows you — which is also why reinstalling starts you over.
- No account, no email, no password
- Nothing to type in, ever
- Your reading stays on your phone
- No analytics watching what you read
What is in the collection.
Short facts across ten subjects, and Aesop’s fables for anyone who wants one story a day. More arrive as they are found, checked and quoted.
A few gems, then done.
Twelve short true things an hour, and an app that lets you finish.
Free · Android · iPhone version to come