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When you're bored, training your brain beats scrolling a feed. We built three brain games, and each one teaches you to think rather than guess.

Sudoku: five levels graded by solving technique; a hint doesn't reveal the digit, it explains the move. There's a daily puzzle and printable sheets.
Minesweeper: boards are solved by logic from the very first click, with no 50/50 guesses, and after a loss you can see where the safe move was.
Solitaire: Klondike, Spider and FreeCell; above the table you can see whether this deal can still be won.
All three work on a phone, a tablet and a big screen, including full screen.

And to argue less at home about who didn't do what, there's the Chore Chart. Add chores, rotate them or give them to one person, and tick off what's done: everyone sees their chores for today, and kids don't need an email. You can now add your relatives to Family in your profile on the site and invite them to the shared chart with one tap. An old tablet in the kitchen becomes a shared board.

There are now more than 850 tools on the site, and we try to make every one of them comfortable on any device: phones and tablets, laptops and desktops, TVs and even smartwatches.

But we missed one thing. On very large monitors — 32 inches and up — and on curved ultrawide ones, the tools use only part of the screen and the rest stays empty. The site works, but it isn’t designed for that width yet. A single setting won’t fix it: each tool has to be reworked by hand and tested on a screen like that. The first ones are done; hundreds are still ahead.

So we’re asking those of you who have such a monitor. If something feels awkward — a button covers something, a setting is missing, the workspace is too small, or we simply didn’t think something through — let us know. And please name the tool you use: we’ll rework that one first.

One more new screen: Apple has just introduced HomeView, a smart home display. We’ll work out how to adapt the design for it as well.

Not sure what monitor you have? Open What Is My Monitor: it shows your screen’s diagonal, resolution, refresh rate and model. Press “Copy report” and paste it into your message — that way we’ll see your screen right away.

How to reach us: if you have Premium, write straight to the support chat — the button is in the corner of the screen. If you don’t, email us at moc.acirbmet@troppus.

We promised games for people who can’t see the screen. Here they are, and anyone can play.

With a screen reader
• Battleship — every square announces itself: move with the arrow keys and fire with Enter.
• Chess and Checkers — the board is read square by square: arrow keys to move around, Enter to make your move.

By ear
• Guess the Country by Sound — a street, a market or a train station somewhere in the world; type the city or the country. On the same page: Guess the language.
• Musical Ear Trainer — intervals, major and minor, chords and a perfect pitch test on piano sounds.

Our site is running steadily, with no outages, and we do what we promise. We hurried to keep our word, so the games may still have bugs. If something doesn’t work right, write to us at moc.acirbmet@troppus — we’ll fix it. Ideas for new games are welcome there too.

We’ve launched an online e-book reader. Drag your books onto the shelf and they open right in the browser, on the page where you stopped last time.

What it can already do:
• EPUB, FB2, MOBI, AZW3, PDF, DjVu, CBZ and CBR comics, plus TXT, DOCX and RTF;
• bookmarks, color highlights and notes;
• day and night reading themes, fonts, margins and line spacing;
• reading aloud with the current sentence highlighted and a sleep timer;
• tap-to-translate for words and Wikipedia lookups;
• stats: minutes read, days in a row, a yearly goal;
• “What happened so far” — a short recap of what you’ve read, with no spoilers.

Your library is kept in your browser, and the Save library button moves it to another device along with your bookmarks and notes.

This is the first version, and we really need your help. If you read e-books, open one of yours in the reader and tell us what’s missing — a feature, a format or a setting. Write in the comments under this post or use the Share Your Idea button at the bottom of the reader’s page. We’ll be glad to add what you actually need.

Over the past two weeks we haven’t just been building new tools — we’ve also fixed a lot, including mistakes we made ourselves earlier. A few examples:

• Trim Audio: fades are now smooth, with no steps;
• Vocal Remover no longer leaves vocals in the instrumental;
• Archive Extractor now unpacks Windows ZIPs with accented or non-Latin file names;
• Video Editor no longer fails on videos made from cut clips.

Our tools get better every day, largely thanks to you. Thank you for reporting bugs! We read every message and try to fix things the same day. If something isn’t working right, click “Tool not working?” below the tool.

And so you don’t leave empty-handed, try our recent Animated Greeting Cards. Pick an occasion and type a name — the lettering appears in gold and shimmers, with snow, petals or confetti swirling around it. A greeting is suggested in one click, and you can add your own song or voice. Save the card as a video, GIF or picture for messengers and social media — or send a link: the recipient opens an envelope and the music starts.

Classic cartoons were drawn one frame at a time: sheet after sheet, the character nudged a little on each, then the drawings were shown in a row — and the picture came alive. Today a neural network assembles a clip in seconds, but the pleasure of drawing a line yourself and watching it move is still here.

For those who enjoy exactly that, we rebuilt the Frame by Frame Animation tool. Draw a frame, add the next one — the previous frame shows through like tracing paper, so you can see where the motion should go. There is a brush, an eraser, a fill bucket, shapes and a selection tool: move a part of the drawing, rotate it or carry it to another frame. The background is drawn once and stays under every frame, and each frame can have its own duration.

It works on a phone too: draw with a finger or a stylus, pinch to zoom. A finished cartoon is saved as a GIF or, where the browser can encode it, as an MP4 video; an unfinished one is kept for you to come back to.

Not sure where to start? Open the example — a bouncing ball in twelve frames, every animator’s first exercise. Give it a try: it may turn out to be your thing.

Financial literacy starts with a simple question: what is my money worth today? A thousand ten years ago and a thousand now buy different things — and it helps to know how different.

We have updated the inflation calculator. It now has:

• 44 countries, from official statistics;
• two countries on one chart, and a ranking of all countries for the period you pick;
• an answer to “what if my savings had been in dollars or in gold?”;
• your own inflation from your own basket of spending.

For example, since January 2000 prices have risen 17% in Japan and Switzerland, 67% in Germany and nearly doubled in the US. Several-fold differences within one generation — and the chart shows them in a second.

It helps when choosing a deposit, asking for a raise or planning a big purchase. Try your own amount — it takes a minute.

One of our users is blind. He asked us to make games that can be played by voice, through a voice assistant. We took it on: over the next three weeks we’ll build such games, and maybe useful tools for people who are blind or have low vision.

We won’t charge blind people for them. Almost no one makes games like these, precisely because they don’t pay for themselves.

So here is our request to everyone who can: from October 1 to 7, buy tokens or Premium. The tokens stay in your account, Premium starts working right away, and all the money from purchases this week will go toward building games and tools for blind people.

When everything is ready, we’ll tell you about it in our news.

Send your ideas to moc.acirbmet@troppus. Write to us if you have health problems or other difficulties a tool could help with. We build tools for everyone. Not always fast, but we build them.

We don’t write about every new tool: many of them aren’t for everyone, and the people who need them find them. But so you can see that the work goes on and we keep moving toward our goals, here are some of the tools that appeared over the past week.

Video Editor With A Timeline — clips, photos, transitions, titles, music and a logo in one video.

Dash Cam — your phone records the road in a loop, saves the footage on impact by itself and puts your speed in the frame.

Bingo & Lotto Caller — numbers called out loud, a board for the TV and printable cards.

Backgammon Online — backgammon and long nardy: against the computer, two players on one screen or with a friend by link.

Digital Music Stand — for musicians: sheet music on a tablet, pages turned with a pedal, a head turn or a wink.

Film Negative Scanner — point your phone camera at old film and see a regular color photo you can save.

Online Camera — self-timer, burst, photo booth and manual settings for a webcam or phone.

Algebra test — shows a student in grades 5–11 a map of topics: what they’ve mastered and where the gaps are.

Eye Contact — if you read a script from the screen in a video, your eyes will look into the lens.

Mashup Maker — the vocals of one song over the music of another; tempo and key are matched automatically.

Phonetic Spelling — how a word, phrase or song is read aloud, with stress and audio.

You’ll find the rest in the site search: describe your task in your own words.

Few people know this, but a few days ago the site was hit by a sudden wave of visitors: almost 300,000 visits in just three days.

That’s a huge load for a website. And in all that time the site didn’t freeze for a single minute and didn’t let anyone down. The rush is over now, and without this post most people would never have known.

For us it was a real stress test, and it looks like we passed. Now we know we’re ready for a big influx of visitors — and we have room to grow.

A reminder: the best features come with a Premium account.

On September 22, someone wrote to us: "A virtual electric guitar — a real one, for rock, with a choice of genres." No email was left, so we are answering here. If that was you, thank you — the instrument is ready: electric guitar online.

We did not stitch together recorded sounds. The strings are calculated by a physical model, and its sound was checked against recordings of real guitars: tuning, decay, the slight rise in pitch after a pluck. Then the signal travels the way it does in a real rig: pedals, a tube amp, a cabinet.

Just starting out? Pick a genre, play with the chord buttons or your keyboard, and turn on a band with drums and bass. Been playing for years? Change the tuning and capo, connect MIDI or your own guitar through an audio interface, record a take and download it as WAV, MP3 or MIDI.

19 rock genres and a clean tone, from classic rock to metal. Tell us what is missing: we read every request.

A new tool: AI Sound Effects for Video. Upload a clip without sound, and the AI looks at the frames and creates audio that matches the action: footsteps, splashes, a bouncing ball, street noise, a school bell.

Who it’s for: anyone making videos with AI, since those clips often come out silent; anyone whose recording lost its sound to the wind or never had any; timelapses, drone footage, animation and video reports where silence feels awkward.

The tool splits the clip into scenes on its own and writes what each one should sound like — you can edit the description in your own words. Don’t like the sound in one scene? Redo just that scene. You can add background music, or keep the clip’s own audio and turn it down. Listen right along with the video and download the finished MP4.

The page has before-and-after examples made from real clips.

We have opened the AI video generator: animate a photo, or build a clip from a description of a scene.

We have no models of our own — we are the middleman. Inside are eight engines from different providers: Seedance 2.5, Kling, Hailuo, Grok and others. Next to each one stands its price in tokens, its maximum length and the waiting time we measured ourselves. And its own examples: each clip is labeled with the model that made it.

Everything is computed on the server: you can close the page and come back later — the finished MP4 waits in My generations. If a run fails for a technical reason, the tokens come back.

The tool is new, and these are its first days. Somewhere it will surely behave differently than you expect. Try it carefully and not with all your tokens at once: a run that has already started cannot be stopped — the job has gone to the provider. An expensive run asks again before it starts.

We are looking for a tester. If you have generated video on other services and know how it ought to be, write to us: moc.acirbmet@troppus, subject «Tester». We will gift you tokens: you generate at our expense, keep the clips, and tell us what is missing here.

And simply your impressions, or any bugs you find — in the comments; we read them.

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Suno v6 is out — and from today every song in the AI Song Generator, the AI Music Generator and Song in Your Own Voice is made on it.

What changed. v6 is Suno's new flagship: according to its makers it follows the style more precisely, blends vocals and instruments more cleanly and holds quality across the whole track. It was trained on licensed catalogues from Warner Music, BMG and Believe — real recordings, not whatever could be scraped.

There is a choice now. Next to the standard v6 the model list offers v6 Wild: less predictable, with bolder, more textured results. A gamble by design — sometimes better than you asked for, sometimes nothing like it. Same charge.

Old tracks stay as they are: the caption under each still names the version that made it. The voice from “Song in Your Own Voice” sings on v6 too, no need to record it again.

If you still have tokens, this is the moment to compare with your earlier generations.

We built a tool against room boom in voice recordings.

Who it is for: audiobooks, podcasts, voice-over, lessons — anything recorded at home, in a closet or in a tight booth.

What it solves:

— «The voice sounds like a barrel». The tool finds the resonances in the pauses between phrases and shortens the ring instead of cutting a whole band out.
— «Noise reduction left an echo». That is exactly what happens: steady noise was masking the room, and a gate chops the ring off a fraction of a second after each word. Here the ring goes away without those cut-offs.
— «I remove the boom and lose the voice». An EQ cut at 200 Hz takes the pitch of the voice with it — for a woman reading aloud it sits right there. The tool removes only the excess and never takes the low end below the norm for a voice of that pitch.

There is a reference mode: load a chapter of yours that sounds right, and the low end of a boomy recording is matched to it. The narrator whose letter started all this had a chapter she had rejected because of the boom. After matching it to her own good chapter, the two differ by less than one and a half decibels.