NovAPR Technologies

NovAPR Technologies

Apps and games made of a different material.

NovAPR Technologies is a one-person studio. It makes apps, games and the interface technology underneath them. In its material, whatever is still in flight flows like liquid metal, and whatever is confirmed sets into stone.

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Move through the pool. Press and hold to gather it, release to split it.

Products

The work

Two products, and the two technologies underneath them.

  • App · fitness

    BetterGains

    All your fitness in one place. Workouts, nutrition and runs that know about each other, a coach mode for trainers, and a companion character called Gainzy.

    • Workouts
    • AI food scanning
    • GPS runs
    • Squads

    Web app live · iOS and Android in beta

    About BetterGains

  • Game · puzzle

    ClickSort

    A tube-sorting puzzle. Tap pieces into place until every tube holds one kind. Built for the web, Android and iOS.

    ClickSort puzzle board: eight tubes holding colored shapes, partly sorted.
    • Levels and stars
    • Five themes
    • No account needed

    Android and iOS in testing

    About ClickSort

  • Technology · interface material

    LavaMorphism

    Our interface material. State you can see: pending things flow like mercury, confirmed things set into obsidian.

    • Obsidian
    • Mercury
    • Ember
    • Liquid sound

    Research prototype

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  • Technology · React toolkit

    Alive States

    Honest feedback for interfaces. It adapts to latency, connection and risk, and never confirms what the server hasn't.

    • Latency-aware
    • Risk-aware
    • React 19 SDK
    • Optional haptics

    Prototype · running in BetterGains

    How it works

The material

Saving is a phase change.

Most trust problems in an interface are about state: is it saved, is it sending, did it fail? We make that physical. When you act, the surface turns to liquid metal. When the server confirms, it sets into obsidian, starting from the point you touched. If it fails, it drains away and nothing pretends it worked.

Obsidian
What's settled.
Mercury
What's in motion, or being measured.
Ember
The instant something sets.
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Also in the lab: the state language and the components built from it.

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Lunch · today

Chicken bowl

640 kcal

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About

One person, several things that work.

NovAPR Technologies is the studio of Andrei Raducanu, a solo developer. I build BetterGains, ClickSort and the interface technology underneath them, and I publish the research as it matures.

Everything on this site is something I made. Prototypes are labeled as prototypes, and the page you are on is built with the same material it describes.