Frankendrop presents · in the basement · nightly

A stitched green ghoul with a bolt through its neck holding a phone as lightning arcs off it.

FrankenDrop

Starring FrankenCases and FrankenKeys

It was assembled out of parts in a basement by somebody with no formal training. So was your phone.

N/I
Rated N/I: no internet permission
Contains no telemetry, no ads, no accounts.
Go and verify it in Android's own settings.

Warning to the audience

Contains flashing keys, audible switch noise and one keyboard that will not stop grinning at you. Does not contain adverts, accounts, telemetry, or an internet permission. Persons hoping to be tracked will leave disappointed.

A grinning green Frankenstein ghoul in a stained lab coat, presenting with one arm swept out.

Evening. One case, one keyboard, both cut from the same number. Fifty of each and then I put the lights out. Have a look while I am still standing.

A crate prised open with a crowbar, a patchwork case and a glowing phone packed in straw inside.

Drop 001 · in production

One case. One keyboard. Cut from the same body.

A drop is a limited run of a phone case paired with the keyboard theme that was born alongside it. Not a colour match. One seed feeds the generator twice: one object you can hold, one on your screen, both stitched out of the same parts.

Every unit is a different splice, because the artwork is drawn per case rather than printed from a file. Fifty seeds, fifty cases, no two panels sewn the same way. The keyboard half rides in the box on a card you scan.

Run

50

Identical units

0

Keyboard half

Free, always

No date yet · Run of fifty · Anything unsold when a drop closes is a seed that never gets rendered

A sick full moon over a dead forest, with an open cellar door in the ground pouring green light into the sky.

The permission it does not have

The keyboard holds no internet permission.

Not a policy. Not a promise buried on a privacy page. Android itself blocks it: open Settings, Apps, Permissions, and there is no network entry to revoke, because the app never asked for one. The AI clean-up runs on your phone. Voice typing is handed to Android's own recogniser, which on Android 12 and up we bind explicitly to the on-device one. Release builds ship unobfuscated, so you can pull it apart and check all of that.

Which is the joke, really. Of everything on your phone, the thing stitched together in a basement out of spare parts is the one that cannot get out.

Read the permission list
A cellar workshop: patchwork cases hanging from meat hooks over a bench, a Tesla coil throwing sparks.

Where it comes from

One person, a bench, and no committee.

Both halves of this are made by one person. That is the reason the cases are a run of fifty instead of ten thousand, and the reason the keyboard has no accounts to manage, no server to pay for and no quarterly target that would make tracking you tempting.

It is also the reason it can be this weird. Nobody had to approve the teeth.