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iOS games with personality and useful apps for your Mac. Discover daily puzzles, colourful challenges and small tools for everyday life.

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Our games

Every game, its own world.

Different challenges, all made with the same ambition.

Daily puzzles

Daily Paws

  • Out now
  • iOS
  • Web
  • AndroidEarly Access

Three new dog-themed puzzles every day: Pawdle, Connect Paws and Paw Paths. Quick to play, with streaks and leaderboards to keep you coming back.

Download for AndroidPlay online
Installation details

Version 0.1.0 · 23.9 MB · Android 10+

Open the APK, allow Install unknown apps for your browser if prompted, then tap Install. You can turn the permission off afterwards.

Future Google Play updates are not yet confirmed compatible. Switching may require uninstalling and could remove local data.

Puzzle

  • Out now
  • iOS

A colourful tile-blast puzzle with a pack of helpful dogs. Clear matching tiles, team up Zoomies, Dig, Sniff and Howl, and explore seasonal boards with unlimited retries and offline play on iPhone.

Football

  • In development
  • WebBrowser prototype

Fast, physical 3D six-a-side football on an enclosed pitch, with quick passes, committed tackles and no offside. Play the browser alpha, rough edges and all. Other platforms are not confirmed.

Play nowAbout the game
  • Underdogs gameplay: the goalkeeper in the box as Brazil attack, with the stand full of fans behind the goal
  • Underdogs gameplay: a lofted shot heads for goal with the keeper set, beside a crowded seaside stand
  • Underdogs gameplay: the ball in the net and the crowd on its feet after a goal
  • Underdogs replay: a striker takes the ball past the defender and faces the goalkeeper, with fans in the stand and the sea beyond

Real gameplay from the browser prototype

Puzzle adventure

  • In development
  • Platform to be confirmed

A physics-based puzzle adventure following a golden retriever through the countryside. Draw bridges, navigate logs and boulders, and solve clever environmental puzzles.

  • Draw bridges
  • Move logs and boulders
  • Solve environmental puzzles
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  • Houndbound gameplay: Barney the golden retriever stands at the start of a log bridge that runs over a rock pillar towards a gatehouse, with forested hills in daylight beyond
  • Houndbound gameplay: Barney crosses a braced log bridge towards a rope-and-pulley lift with a counterweight crate, in a misty pine forest
  • Houndbound gameplay: Barney runs along the second of two log bridges beside a wooden gatehouse and portcullis above a misty ravine
  • Houndbound gameplay: Barney walks along a heavy fallen log that rests on a drawn log bridge between two ivy-covered cliffs

Work in progress: real gameplay from the latest development build

Built for macOS

Small tools. A better day.

Free Mac apps to keep track of your AI limits, tidy up unused apps and see how your memory is doing. Plus browser tools for your everyday browsing.

Mac apps

For Brave and Chrome, explore GeoFeed for X.

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About

An independent studio. A curious outlook.

Pocket Giant makes games and software with care: iOS games full of personality, useful Mac apps and new ideas in development.

Our games range from daily and colourful puzzles to atmospheric adventures. Each begins with its own idea and grows its own look, feel and character, rather than following a formula.

Our Mac apps take the same approach to everyday tasks: focused tools that are easy to understand and useful to have around.

Studio Updates

Where things stand

What you can play today and what is still to come. News is shared on X.

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  1. Studio

    Games and Mac apps, in one place

    Explore our games, find AppSweep, MemoryBar and QuotaBar, and get product help from the new Support section.

    Explore software

  2. Software

    GeoFeed for X 1.0.2 adds audits and custom highlights

    The free Brave and Chrome extension now highlights your chosen countries and regions in your own colours, with Following and Followers audits.

    Get GeoFeed

  3. Barkburst

    Barkburst is now iOS only

    Find Barkburst on the App Store. The browser game has been retired.

    See Barkburst

  4. Daily Paws

    Now on Android in Early Access

    Daily Paws is now available for Android, and already on iOS. Three free dog-themed puzzles every day, with streaks and leaderboards.

    Get Daily Paws

  5. Software

    Three free Mac apps released

    QuotaBar, AppSweep and MemoryBar are small menu bar apps for your Mac, free to download.

    See the software

  6. Houndbound

    In development, with no public build yet

    The environment and concept art shown here is work in progress, and the platform is still to be confirmed.

    About Houndbound

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A little help, when you need it.

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