Zhenyi Tan And a Dinosaur

My Apps

Looking for something? These are my apps for iOS and Mac.

Vinegar

Vinegar replaces the YouTube player with a minimal HTML <video> tag. It removes ads, prevents tracking, restores picture-in-picture, and keeps videos playing in the background.
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Baking Soda

Like Vinegar, Baking Soda replaces custom video players with a <video> tag. It works on all websites other than YouTube. Baking Soda doesn’t block ads.
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Gibberish

Gibberish is a weird blogging app that looks and feels like a messaging app. This UI tricks my brain into writing mode, just like when I write long messages to my friends.
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Lucky

Lucky is a Safari extension that removes the clutter from the Google search results page, leaving you with the 10 blue links.
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Lucky Notes

Lucky Notes is a companion notes app to Lucky. When you search with Lucky, it will also search through your saved notes and include the relevant results.
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Doomscroll

Doomscroll is a news reader app designed to be used for just a few minutes each day, helping you stay updated without getting sucked into the 24-hour news cycle.
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History Book

History Book automatically saves the content of your browsing history in a privacy-friendly way. You can use it as a personal search engine for webpages you know or as a read-later app.
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Web Inspector

Web Inspector is a full-fledged web development tool for iOS and iPadOS. You can view, inspect, edit, and search DOM elements. There’s a JavaScript console and a network inspector.
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Medley

Medley is a music player that looks like the pre-iOS 6 Music app.
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Spool

Spool is a Safari extension that enhances the Threads web app. It lets you set Following as your default timeline and filter unwanted posts.
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Imgpls

Imgpls is a Safari extension that loads Imgur images directly when you click on links like i.imgur.com/fxBBsLx.gif.
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Monies

Monies is a very very basic expense tracker app I made for my wife.
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Unprocrastinator

Unprocrastinator is a Safari extension that makes you wait 30 seconds before you can see some websites.
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Crappy VPN

Crappy VPN is a menu bar app that makes it easier to create an SSH tunnel proxy.
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Sideways

Sideways is a Safari extension for rotating webpages when screen rotation is off.
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AMP Shockwave

AMP Shockwave is a simple Safari extension that redirects AMPs to regular web pages. It’s only 50 lines of code.
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Makeover

Makeover is a lightweight Safari extension that lets you change the appearance and behavior of web pages with CSS and JavaScript.
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Staring

Staring is a tiny app that prevents your Mac from sleeping. The source code is available on GitHub.
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Ikura (Retired)

Ikura is a cycle-tracking app that takes your privacy very seriously.
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Rewinder (Retired)

Rewinder is a Safari extension that lets you go back in time and see how websites looked in the past.
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Search Filter (Retired)

Search Filter lets you swipe-to-delete search results from domains you don’t like. Deleted search results will stay deleted in subsequent searches. It supports Google and DuckDuckGo.
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Sessions (Retired)

Sessions is a Mac app for watching WWDC session videos. The videos are resizable.
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ActiveTab (Retired)

ActiveTab makes it easier to spot the active tab in Safari by drawing a line below it. It tries to fix the problematic tab design introduced in Safari 15.
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Time Capsule (Retired)

Time Capsule lets you save web pages as .webarchive files and search their full-text content. There’s also a web service for syncing your saved pages.
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