The Happy Light suite · one account

One suite of apps
for work, life and play.

Happy Light Development builds a growing family of browser apps that belong together: notes and lists, dashboards and stock tracking, learning, creative tools and party games.

Sign in once with your Happy Light account and every app knows you. One plan, if you want one, supports the whole suite. Most apps open free in one click, no account needed.

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  • 20 apps, one login
  • Free to start, most apps need no account
  • Nothing to install, no ads

Everything in one place.

20 apps for work, life, learning, creativity and play, with one account across all of them. Open one from here, or search the full catalogue.

Game night, too.

The Play department: party games on the TV with phones as controllers, tournaments with Battle, and your own character drawn in Pixel Studio and tried out in the Sandbox.

Play it · Compete · Make your own

Play with friends, then make a game of your own.

  • The Arcade home screen: four ways in — open the screen, controller on my phone, controller on this computer, online — above a Battle tournament code box and the start of the game cabinet.

    Arcade

    The cosiest, most relaxing couch gaming platform.

    29 couch party games, from Paddle Powers and Snake Arena to Kick Off, Short Fuse and Chop Chop Soup. Put the game on the big screen, everyone else joins with a four-letter room code and plays with their phone. No app to install, and no account to play.

    • 29 party games
    • Phones are the gamepads
    • Four-letter room code
    Open Arcadeno account needed
  • The Battle front page: crossed pixel swords over the BATTLE title, the tagline "Keep it friendly, but show no mercy!", and an Organise a tournament card with a sign-in button.

    Battle

    Keep it friendly, but show no Mercy!

    A tournament organiser for the Arcade or any other game or sport: single and double elimination, round robin, Swiss, groups then knockout, and free-for-all heats. Share one link so everyone can follow the bracket live, and another so players can report their own results. Running a tournament takes a free account; playing and watching do not.

    • Brackets, leagues and Swiss
    • Live share link for everyone
    • Players report their own results
    Open Battleno account needed
  • The Pixel Studio editor: a mushroom character drawn on the canvas, tool and colour panels on the left, and a live animation preview with the walk poses filled in on the right.

    Pixel Studio

    Draw a character, pose by pose.

    Draw a sprite as named poses — idle, walk, run, jump, attack — or as eight compass headings for top-down and isometric work. Mirror a walk cycle, set the speed of each pose, watch it animate as you draw, and export PNG or JSON.

    • Poses, compass or free sheet
    • Speed per pose
    • Export PNG or JSON
    Open Pixel Studiono account needed
  • The Sandbox: a pixel character standing on a platform level with hazard stripes, and a movement panel on the right with sliders for jump, gravity, walk and run.

    Sandbox

    Put your sprite in a level and see how it moves.

    Send a sprite over from Pixel Studio in one click and walk it around. Drag out platforms, ledges and hazards, tune jump height, gravity, walk and run speed while it plays, bind keys to attack or block poses, and check it all side-on, top-down and isometric.

    • Side, top-down and isometric
    • Jump, gravity, walk and run sliders
    • Platforms, ledges and hazards
    Open Sandboxno account needed

Arcade, 1 of 4

Tell us what to build next

The suite grows with the people who use it. Tell us which app you want next, what's missing or what broke — the forum is where we read it.

Planned One day this becomes a little isometric world. You wander it as a pixel ghost with a few silly animations, every thread is a room, and comments are notes you pin to its walls.

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Why Happy Light

Four promises we keep.

  • No ads.

    Your attention isn't the product. Supporters pay for Happy Light, not advertisers. We do count a few things ourselves, like page visits and games played, to see what gets used. Those numbers stay with us. Google Analytics and the Meta Pixel only run if you say yes to them.

    What we count

  • No account wall.

    15 of the 20 tools open the moment you click them. The rest, and sync, need a free account.

  • Private by default.

    Your work stays in your own browser. Nothing leaves it unless you choose to connect storage, sync or an AI model yourself.

  • Yours to keep.

    A paid plan comes with a download of the apps and their source code. Your copy keeps working after you cancel.

    How that works

Signing in with Google? We keep only your name, email address and Google account ID, and anything you save to Google Drive goes straight from your browser to your own Drive. How we handle Google data

The deal

Fair, simple, no tricks.

Every tool is free to use. We charge for what costs us money (hosting, updates and support), we're open about where it goes, and subscribers get something real back.

  • Free to start

    Every tool on this page is free to use, today. Paid plans are a way to support the work, not a gate in front of it.

  • Fair and transparent

    Clear prices, cancel anytime, and an honest page about why we charge at all.

Buy the software. Keep the software.

Your subscription isn't a rental. A paid plan comes with a download of the apps and their source code. Use them offline, change them to suit you, and keep your copy forever — even if you cancel. You just stop getting updates.

  • Offline access. Download the apps and run them on your own machine, no connection needed.
  • The source code. Read how it works, fix what bugs you, build the feature you wish it had.
  • Forever. Your copy keeps working after you cancel. No licence server, no kill switch.

Source-available, not open source: the code is yours to run, read and improve for yourself, but not to redistribute or resell. Search runs on our server, so it isn't part of the download.

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