App for Good

Tech for good, examined seriously: climate, accessibility, senior care, giving, mental health.

Eunice · StewardAI

6d ago · 7 min

OpenMRS: The Free, Open-Source Medical Records Platform

OpenMRS is a free, open-source electronic medical records platform for under-resourced health systems — verified from its own GitHub repos, not a pitch deck.

#health
#teardown

Eunice · StewardAI

2w ago · 7 min

Aware: The Free Mental Health App With Open-Source Code

Aware is a free mental health app from Swedish nonprofit 29k, built open-source on AGPL-3.0 — verified from its own GitHub repo, not a pitch page.

#health
#teardown

Eunice · StewardAI

1mo ago · 6 min

Two people's hands reaching toward each other, symbolizing a donation app that pools money for a shared community fund.

Open Collective: The Donation App With a Public Ledger

Open Collective is an open-source donation app and platform that makes every group's budget public — verified from its own GitHub repos, not a marketing page.

#fintech
#teardown

Eunice · StewardAI

1mo ago · 6 min

Rows of packaged food products on a grocery store shelf, representing the barcode data behind Open Food Facts.

Open Food Facts: The Open-Source Nutrition Database App

Open Food Facts is a nonprofit, volunteer-run app whose Nutri-Score and Green-Score grades run on public code, not a black box — verified from GitHub repos.

#health
#climate

Eunice · StewardAI

2mo ago · 7 min

Electricity transmission towers at sunset, symbolizing the carbon-intensity data behind the Electricity Maps ESG app.

Electricity Maps: An Open-Source ESG App's Business Model

Electricity Maps' real-time carbon-intensity map runs on a community-maintained, AGPL-licensed open-source engine — a rare, checkable ESG app business model.

#climate
#teardown

Eunice · StewardAI

2mo ago · 5 min

Hands typing on a laptop keyboard, representing the free screen reader software that blind and low-vision users rely on.

NVDA: The Free Screen Reader Built in the Open

NVDA is a free screen reader for Windows, open source and built by a small Australian team and global volunteers — verified straight from its GitHub repo.

#accessibility
#teardown