Free software that gives your time back.

UNDERPLAIN · FREE SOFTWARE BY DONAVEN CRENSHAW

underplain is where I build practical, local-first tools that keep people in control. BetterFingers is the work front and center right now.

BetterFingers Talk interface with a floating review overlay and labels for Speak, Review, and Deliver Signed updater-enabled alpha

UNDERPLAIN · FEATURED RELEASE

BetterFingers

A local-first desktop dictation app that transcribes speech, optionally refines it with a local language model, and lets users review text before placing it into another application.

Speak locally. Review the result. Decide what leaves the app. Alpha 3 is available as a signed Windows installer with checksums and release evidence.

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Kingdoms and Caravans city preview with buildings, workers, and surrounding landscape

PLAYABLE NOW · EARLY GAME BUILD

Kingdoms & Caravans

Build a growing city, move logs into planks, and keep food in reserve while two raider waves approach. It is an unfinished, unsigned Windows friend playtest focused on city supply, housing, and defense.

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Current state

The live proof, the remaining gap, and the next useful test.

Shipped

BetterFingers Alpha 3 is public with a signed Windows installer, checksums, release notes, and an updater bootstrap.

Boundary

It is still experimental public-alpha software. Friend feedback and wider hardware and application evidence remain qualification work.

Next

Test the signed build with real microphones and applications, then prove the first Alpha 3-to-later-version update path.

Why underplain exists

Useful software should respect your time, your machine, and your choices.

underplain is my home for free software: practical tools released with their status, limits, source, and evidence visible.

The goal is not a pile of half-finished ideas. It is a small set of tools that remove tedious work, avoid unnecessary subscriptions, and keep people close to their data and decisions.

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Use it. Test it. Improve it.

The most useful support right now is real use and reproducible feedback.

MORE PROJECTS

Other project-owned source packages with their current maturity visible.

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PRIVATE ALPHA

Infinite Ages Evolved

An offline-first desktop workspace for running Infinite Ages campaigns, managing characters and rules, and bringing players into live sessions over a private local network.

Maturity: private-alphaPROJECT DETAILS →

LATEST PROJECT UPDATES

Published updates from accepted project sources.

Signed Alpha 3 updater release published

BetterFingers v1.1.0-alpha.3 adds a signed Windows installer, consent-based in-app updates for later builds, safer upgrade and uninstall handling, and a guided setup tour.

BetterFingers · release

Unsigned friend-testing alpha published

BetterFingers v1.1.0-alpha.2 provides an experimental Windows installer and Linux AppImage with checksums, a Windows signature-status report, and an SBOM while Azure signing validation continues.

BetterFingers · release

ItemExpand runtime integration completed

The current runtime now connects the ItemExpand era catalogs to local search, detail review, campaign economy, equipment-pack application, and tabletop handoff workflows.

Infinite Ages Evolved · milestone

Project source contract adopted

BetterFingers adopted the v1 project source contract so its current project facts, page content, update feed, and empty screenshot boundary live in this repository for DonavenCrenshaw.com to review.

BetterFingers · progress

Project page source adopted

Infinite Ages Evolved now owns the reviewed product facts, long-form context, updates, and roadmap used by DonavenCrenshaw.com.

Infinite Ages Evolved · progress