Code Store: Your Next Favorite App Might Come from Someone Like You

There’s more waiting for you on your BT Speak or BT Braille, and some of it was created by people just like you.

Meet Code Store, a growing collection of games and applications shared by fellow BT Speak and BT Braille users. It’s part of BT Code, but you don’t have to write a single line of code to enjoy it. Most projects are complete applications, ready to download and run.

At the time of writing, Code Store has 15 titles, with more arriving all the time. Each one starts with someone’s idea: something useful, something fun, or something they simply wished their device could do.

That’s what makes this exciting. The user community is helping shape what these devices become. You can discover someone else’s creation today and share your own tomorrow.

No Coding Required. Curiosity Recommended.

You don’t need to take a programming lesson or learn Python before exploring Code Store. If you’re here for the apps, jump right in!

To browse and download a project:

1. From the Options menu, press A for Applications, E for Education, then C for BT Code.

2. Press C for Code Store to open the list of available projects.

3. Press Enter on a project, then select Download Project.

Your device will download the project and confirm that it has been saved to your projects.

Downloaded It? Let’s Run It!

Your downloaded apps have a convenient home right in the Applications menu.

Open Applications, press D for Downloaded, and choose the app you want to run. Press Enter, and you’re off!

Many apps begin with friendly instructions to help you get started. Others include a ReadMe file with more information. To look for one, open the BT Code main menu, select My Projects, and choose the project. This opens its main folder, where ReadMe files are typically found.

Go Ahead. Peek Under the Hood.

Every project in Code Store is open source. That means you can explore the code behind it, learn how it works, and make changes of your own.

Ever played a game and thought, “I wish it did this instead”? Wanted to adapt an app to suit the way you work? Felt that your study tool was missing a talking spider named Yimmer?

That last one might just be us. But the point stands: you can make it your own.

Open BT Code, select My Projects, and choose a project to browse its files. Press Enter on a file to open it. Python files, which end in .py, open in BT Code’s code editor.

You might start by changing a message or adjusting a game’s difficulty. As your confidence grows, you can add features, try different approaches, or build something entirely new from what you’ve learned. You can also submit your modified project to Code Store, giving credit to the original creator and following the project’s license.

One person’s idea can become another person’s starting point. That really is a powerful way to learn and a wonderful way for a community to build together.

From “Wouldn’t It Be Cool?” to “I Made That!”

You don’t need to be an experienced Python programmer to create something worth sharing. A simple game can make someone smile. A small utility can save someone time. An app that solves a problem for you might solve that same problem for someone else.

Python is approachable for beginners and powerful enough to grow with your ideas. BT Code gives you a place to put those ideas to work.

To start a project, open BT Code and press B for Build. Then give your project a name. After a brief setup, you’ll arrive in your project’s main folder.

Inside, you’ll find main.py, the starting point for your application. You can edit this file and add other files and folders as your project grows.

Start small and try things. Make something you’d enjoy using. Your first project doesn’t have to do everything to offer something worthwhile. And don't be afraid to ask your favorite AI agent (or Cody) for help!

Your Creation. Someone Else’s New Favorite.

When your app is ready to share, open Project Options from your project’s main folder and select Send to Code Store.

Your device will guide you through the information needed for your submission. Blazie Technologies will review the application to make sure it's good to go and email you once it has been published. Then someone else can discover it, download it, and put your idea to use on their own BT Speak or BT Braille.

That’s the possibility Code Store opens up: more apps to enjoy, more code to learn from, and more opportunities for blind creators to share what they can do.

Your next favorite app may already be waiting there. Someone else’s might be the one you haven’t written yet.

You Don’t Have to Finish to Get Started

Have the beginnings of an app, but aren’t sure how to make the rest work? Share it! Code Store welcomes unfinished projects and starter apps, even ones that don’t run yet.

From the beginning, Code Store was designed to help our community build together, one improvement at a time. Your starting point could give someone else an idea. Their contribution could help you take the next step.

Whatever your skill level, you’re welcome to contribute. When submitting an unfinished project, describe what you’re trying to create, what works so far, and where you could use help. You don’t need a finished app to bring something valuable to the community.

What’s in Code Store Now?

Ready to find your next favorite? Whether you want to edit a recording, tackle a text adventure, organize your finances, or tune your ukulele, there’s plenty to explore. Here’s what’s waiting for you.

Music & Audio: Make Some Noise or Clean It Up!

Audio Editor

Trim a recording, piece together audio clips, or add a smooth fade, all from your braille keyboard. Audio Editor works with MP3, WAV, and M4A files, letting you navigate down to a tenth of a second and cut, copy, paste, or insert silence. Undo and redo give you room to experiment, while bookmarks and recovery of unsaved sessions help you pick up where you left off. Export your finished work without changing the original file.

Daisy Player

Settle into a DAISY audiobook with simple commands to play, pause, skip tracks, and adjust the reading speed. Save bookmarks to revisit favorite passages, and let the player move automatically from one track to the next. Currently, Daisy Player supports DAISY audio books; text books aren’t supported yet.

Pitch Pipe

Need a starting note for a song or a pitch to practice against? Type a note letter, add a sharp or flat if needed, and hear it played. You can change the octave, adjust how long the tone sounds, and repeat the last note. Small app, perfectly pitched purpose.

TidyBook

An audiobook collection is much easier to enjoy when its files tell you what they actually are. TidyBook lets you edit author, album, title, genre, and year information in MP3, M4A, and M4B files, and rename files by track number. Preview your changes before applying them. It works on copies first, protecting the originals if something goes wrong.

Ukulele Tuner

Give those four strings a little attention before your next performance. Type G, C, E, or A to hear a reference tone for that string on a soprano ukulele, or press L to hear all four in sequence. Tune by ear, strum a chord, and carry on making music.

Games: Your Next “Just One More Round”

FrotzSpeak

Step into a story where your words drive the action. FrotzSpeak brings classic text adventures to speech and braille, with 404 Life Not Found and Curses included to get you started. Download more games from the IF Archive within the app, or add your own compatible titles. Lines are fitted to your braille display’s width, keeping the adventure comfortable to read.

Open Road

Headphones on and hands on the dots! This one is all about listening! Steer along a two-lane country road, pass slow trucks, avoid oncoming traffic, and brake for curves announced by your navigator. Stereo sounds tell you when you’re crossing the center line or wandering onto the rumble strip or grass. Keeping it between the lines is up to you.

Sky Catch

How quick are your fingers and your ears? In this headphone arcade game, objects fall toward seven positions, and you press the matching key to catch them. Grab balls for points, dodge bombs, and chase bonuses for extra points or lives. Each level picks up the pace. “Just one more round” may become a recurring theme.

Slide Puzzle

A blank space, a board full of tiles, and one deceptively simple goal: put everything in order. Choose a 3×3, 4×4, or 5×5 board and slide tiles into the empty space. Pitch and stereo cues help you navigate, and a chime rewards each tile that reaches its proper place. The game remembers your best move count for each board size. Can you beat it?

Everyday Utilities: A Little Help Goes a Long Way

Checkbook

Keep track of where your money goes with a check register for one or more bank accounts. Record deposits, checks, card purchases, withdrawals, fees, and interest while keeping a running balance. Reconcile your records against bank statements and generate statements you can read or open in a spreadsheet. Your records stay on your device, and you can import entries from the older checkbook program. Help is available on every screen.

Dropbox

Bring your cloud files within easy reach. Browse and search your Dropbox, upload or download files and entire folders, rename items, and check your available space. Folder transfers can be canceled and restarted, and the app checks before overwriting existing copies. Sign in through Dropbox’s secure login process without entering your password into the app.

Learning & Study: Give Your Brain Something New

Flashcards

Vocabulary, study questions, and facts you keep forgetting. Turn them into a deck and start practicing! Flashcards imports decks from plain text or Markdown files and lets you rate cards as you study or mark them memorized. Your progress is saved between sessions, and importing an updated deck adds new cards without wiping out your existing ratings.

Kana

Exploring Japanese braille? Kana gives you a quick way to look up the relationship between kana characters and their romanized spellings. Enter a kana character to find its romaji, or enter romaji to find the corresponding kana. It’s a handy reference to keep nearby as you learn.

Social: Join the Conversation

BTMastodon

Read your Mastodon timelines and share posts from your BT Speak or BT Braille, with sounds to alert you to new posts and notifications. BTMastodon was written with help from AI. It's indeed another example of how an idea, some curiosity, and a little assistance can become something the community can use.

MastMuffin

Another way to join Mastodon from BT Speak, MastMuffin lets you explore your Home feed, check notifications and mentions, read direct messages, and revisit bookmarked posts. Post, reply, boost, and favorite, or listen to audio and the sound from YouTube links. New posts arrive live with a sound, and you sign in using a browser on your phone or computer.

With projects ranging from practical tools to playful experiments, Code Store gives you plenty of reasons to try something new. Download something that catches your interest, see what another community member has created, and let it spark a few ideas of your own.

Let’s Build What’s Next!

Try an app, share a project, or take someone’s idea in a new direction. Whether you’re here to play, learn, or create, there’s a place for you in Code Store and we can’t wait to see what we build together.