Some days are just full of palaver.

Not hard, exactly — just the form that wants filling in, the call you’re still waiting on, the thing you keep turning over at the traffic lights. Poppa is a calm bubble popping game for those days: something for your hands to do while the top of your mind goes quiet.

Get it on Google Play Coming soon App Store

Right-click, or tap with two fingers, for a blast of bubbles. Touch one to pop it.

That’s the whole game

Hold a finger down and a bubble swells under it. The longer you hold, the bigger it gets.
Move, and it stops growing and gathers speed instead. Let go and it flies off, trailing a few small ones behind it. Now and then one is carrying a surprise.
Touch any bubble to pop it — a soft bloop, pitched to its size. A big daisy floats through, shouldering them aside.

Nothing to win

  • No score, no timer, no fail state. Nothing to unlock, nothing to collect, no account and no sign-in.
  • Every part of it has a switch, so anything that’s too much can go.
  • There’s an optional screen lock, off by default, that pins the app so it can’t be left by accident.
  • It is free, and there is one banner, on the title screen. Nothing interrupts you while you are playing, and if you have left the screen lock on, it opens straight into the bubbles and never passes the title screen at all. Poppa has no server of ours to send anything to; Google Mobile Ads and Google Play Billing do process data, and the privacy policy says what.

Autism and ADHD friendly

Nothing here asks anything of you, and nothing can be done badly. It counts the bubbles you’ve popped, and that is the only number in it.

It’s built to be easy to stim with — the same motion over and over, a soft sound pitched to each bubble, and something happening whether or not you’re steering it.

Every part of it has a switch: sounds, surprises, wind and rain, the birds, the things that go off on their own. Turn off whatever is too much and leave the rest. Nothing is taken away for switching something off, because there’s nothing to take.

Something for idle hands.