Apps No Ads

Simple apps.
No ads. No tracking.

Sick of apps stuffed with ads, pop-ups, sign-up walls, and trackers? Apps No Ads builds the opposite: distraction-free apps that do one thing well — no ads, no subscriptions, no accounts, and nothing tracking you. Just the app you came for. Quiet by design.

No account needed  ·  Works fully offline  ·  Your data stays yours

The Apps No Ads mark — a copper spiral with an open gap, after a Basenji's curled tail. Quiet by design.

The apps

Made with care, not clutter

Every app here follows the same rules: no ads, no subscriptions, no accounts, no tracking, fully offline. Free editions stay free; a Pro edition is bought once, never rented.

Simply Sudoku

Puzzle · free

Just the puzzle. Unique boards with exactly one solution, a daily puzzle that’s the same for everyone, notes, sticky numbers, hints, undo and best times.

On Google Play & App StoreAndroidiOSWindows soon
Explore Simply Sudoku →

Simply Sudoku Pro

Puzzle · paid once

Everything in Simply Sudoku plus Hard and Expert, custom games from a number or word, the full statistics page, all ten themes and twelve board looks, landscape play and screenshots.

Coming to the storesAndroidiOSWindows
See what’s in Pro →

LexiFlux

Word game with physics · free

Letters fall like Tetris pieces, every letter has a weight, and each word you spell fuses into a rigid bar that drops onto your tower. Build the tallest stable tower — before it topples.

Coming soonAndroidiOSWindowsmacOS
Explore LexiFlux →

LexiFlux Pro

Word game with physics · paid once

LexiFlux with custom games: any number — or any word — deals the same letters every time, so a game can be replayed or handed to a friend as “play MIKE”.

Coming soonAndroidiOSWindowsmacOS
See what’s in Pro →

Crosswords

Puzzle · free

Freshly generated crosswords, made on your device from an open, offline dictionary of tens of thousands of clued words. Four difficulties, 7×7 and 11×11 grids, auto-check or check-when-done, reveal a letter, a word or the lot.

Coming sooniOSmacOSWindowsLinux
Explore Crosswords →

Crosswords Pro

Puzzle · paid once

Everything in Crosswords plus the puzzle timer and pause, the density picker, and — as they’re finished — larger 15×15 and 21×21 grids and themed clue sets. A separate edition, bought once; never an in-app purchase.

Coming sooniOSmacOSWindowsLinux
See what’s in Pro →

Another File Manager

AFM · Windows utility

A multi-panel Windows file manager built on the real Explorer file view: dock, tab and float as many panels as you like, browse a phone over USB, Source → Destination copy and move, Quick Access, themes.

In developmentWindows
Explore AFM →
No tracking No ads No in-app purchases No nagging No accounts Works offline Cross-platform

The philosophy

Software should not frustrate you.

Most apps are built to capture your attention and sell it — which is why they inundate you with ads, pop-ups, upsells, and trackers. Apps No Ads exists to do the opposite: to make genuinely useful, appealing apps that are fast and hassle-free, then get out of your way. You install it, it works, and nothing interrupts you. That’s the whole idea behind everything here.

Read why software is not a service →

The #1 way to help — bigger than a coffee

Please rate & review the apps you use

A quick rating and review is the single most powerful thing you can do to help — and it’s completely free.

Apps No Ads apps have no ads and no advertising budget. They can’t pay to appear on the app stores — they only get noticed when people like you leave a review. Every rating pushes an app higher in search, helps new people discover honest, ad-free software, and keeps it growing without spending a cent on ads. Great reviews are the advertising.

  • Takes about 30 seconds
  • 100% free — the biggest way to help
  • Helps others find an ad-free app

Already left a review? Thank you — it genuinely makes the difference. Telling a friend helps just as much. 🙂
Simply Sudoku is live on Google Play and the App Store; links for LexiFlux and AFM will appear here when they ship.

Enjoying the apps?

Buy the author a coffee

Every app here is made by one person, in the evenings, with no ads to pay for it.

If an Apps No Ads app has brightened a few minutes of your day, a coffee is a lovely way to say thanks. It isn’t required and never will be — the free apps stay free, and nothing is locked behind it. It simply helps cover the programming tools, app-store developer fees and hosting that keep this software ad-free for everyone.

☕ Buy the author a coffee

Any amount, one time, via Stripe. No strings attached.

Rather buy something you can keep? A Pro edition — Simply Sudoku Pro today, LexiFlux Pro soon — is paid once and owned forever, and it keeps the free editions free.