Things to do while AI does its thing.
Small, playful desktop apps for the moments between prompting and generating. Keep your hands busy, your brain switched on and your attention away from another endless scroll.
You asked AI to generate something.
- 1. You wait.
- 2. You open your phone.
- 3. You begin scrolling.
- 4. Ten minutes disappear.
We made something better to do.
DeGenerate Apps turns those awkward little waiting periods into moments of play, movement and mental stimulation without dragging you into another feed.
Not every distraction is created equal.
Some apps sharpen your brain. Some simply keep your hands busy. Others are proudly, gloriously useless. We rate every DeGenerate app by how far it has fallen.
Keeps your brain active, helps maintain focus or turns waiting time into something useful.
Playful desktop distractions that keep you away from endless feeds without pretending to improve your life.
Pointless, chaotic and deeply satisfying. It achieves nothing and asks nothing from you.
Where the current apps sit
Short logic puzzles and timed challenges keep your brain occupied without stealing the rest of your day.
It provides companionship, interaction and absolutely no measurable professional value.
You throw balls, swing ropes and interfere with desktop physics until your AI finishes thinking.
The best waiting-time app is not the one that traps you longest. It is the one you can enjoy for a minute and leave the moment your real work is ready.
No streaks. No feeds. No guilt.
Three small worlds for the in-between moments.
A companion that lives on your desktop.
A small companion that lives across your Mac desktop, wanders between screens, reacts to you and goes on tiny adventures while you work.
- • Choose from multiple pets
- • Feed and play together
- • Collects treasures
- • Health & sleepiness systems
- • Blinks, yawns, sleeps
- • Multi-display movement
Twelve tiny puzzles for a one-minute brain.
Fast, tactile puzzles designed to occupy your brain for a minute without pulling you into an endless game or feed.
- • Logic & pattern puzzles
- • Multiple difficulty levels
- • Timed challenges
- • Instant mistake feedback
- • Clear performance scoring
- • Built for quick sessions
A physics playground for your cursor.
A physics playground of balls, ropes and objects that live on your desktop and give your hands something satisfying to do.
- • Drag, throw and bounce
- • Real-time desktop physics
- • Ropes and anchor points
- • Moves across displays
- • No scores, no pressure
- • Open, play, return to work
Pick your waiting mode.
Tell us what you need right now.
AI made waiting weird again.
AI tools are fast enough to feel instant but slow enough to leave small gaps throughout the day. Those gaps are where attention disappears.
DeGenerate Apps creates tiny desktop experiences for those in-between moments. They are intentionally easy to enter and easy to leave. No infinite feeds. No daily streaks. No pressure to stay.
Prompt. Play. Continue.
Whether you are waiting for AI to finish a chat response, code, image or video, a DeGenerate app sits quietly on your desktop until it is done.
Made to live on your Mac.
These are not browser games disguised as productivity tools. They are native desktop experiences built to interact with your windows, screens, cursor and workspace. They come from a small studio building useful distractions for the AI generation era.
- • Native macOS applications
- • Multi-display support
- • Lightweight desktop behaviour
- • Adjustable interactions
- • Mouse and trackpad native
- • Built for Apple silicon
Be there when they escape.
The first DeGenerate Apps are currently being built. Join the list for launch updates, early access and the occasional strange experiment.
Stop scrolling while the robots think.
Choose a pet, solve something or throw a ball around your desktop.