Better Things

Better Things is an independent software company in Tampere, Finland.

We design, develop and publish apps and digital services for iPhone, Apple Watch, Mac, Android and the web.

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Save Your Time

Block the apps that take your time

Choose the apps and websites to block, on a schedule or for a focus session. The block holds even with the app closed.

Available now for iPhone and Android

Visit save-your-time.app
A watercolour of a desk with an hourglass, a weekly planner, a pencil, a phone lying face down and a cup of coffee.

Port Monitor

A menu bar app for Mac that lists the processes on your development ports and stops any of them in one click.

Visit port-monitor.app
Port Monitor's menu bar window on a Mac: four Next.js servers on ports 3000, 3001, 3002 and 3004, each with its project folder, process ID and a stop button.

Verorahat

Where Finnish tax money comes from and where it goes: the state, municipalities, company taxes and public procurement, all from public data. Free, in Finnish.

Visit verorahat.fi
Verorahat's tax receipt for Finland's public finances in 2024: social security 3,207 €, health care 1,682 € and administration, research and interest 1,541 € of 10,000 € in taxes, each with a bar.

Coming soon

Forced Rep

Workout planner and rest timer

Run your training split, log every set and time every rest. The plan, the log and your progress stay in one live workout across iPhone, Apple Watch and the web.

Coming to iPhone, Apple Watch and Android

Visit forcedrep.app
Forced Rep's plan for a chest and biceps day on iPhone: bench press and incline dumbbell press, each with working sets, target reps and a rest interval.Forced Rep on iPhone during a chest and biceps workout: two bench press sets ticked and the rest timer counting down from 1:20.Forced Rep on Apple Watch showing the same bench press rest timer.

Read It Later

A library for everything you meant to read

Save links from anywhere and keep your X bookmarks in sync. Everything unread keeps its corner folded down until you get to it, on Mac, iPhone, Android and the web.

Coming to Mac, iPhone and Android; open now on the web

Visit read-it-later.app
The Read It Later Mac app: a sidebar with Unread, Favorites and Read, and a list of saved articles and posts, each with its corner folded down.The same Read It Later library on iPhone, open on the Unread tab.