Different job than Mac.
DesktopOddities is ambient life on the Mac desktop. PocketOddities is the companion that helps you browse, manage, and review - not the same experience compressed into a smaller screen.
iPhone companion
Your collection and journal, in your pocket.
PocketOddities is the iPhone surface of the Oddities family: browse and manage characters, review discovery and achievements, catch lighter play, and carry the current App Store listing identity for the universal binary. It is not DesktopOddities shrunk onto a phone.
Why iPhone
Companion first, playground second.
The iPhone job is to stay useful between sessions: collection, discovery progress, and the achievement journal. Play exists here in a bounded form. The large persistent playground belongs on iPad.
Not a miniature playground.
PlaygroundOddities is the play-first iPad canvas. Pocket keeps Try Me and lighter play intentionally bounded so the phone stays a companion, not a tiny arena.
Universal binary home.
Under the current product architecture, PocketOddities is the App Store listing identity for the shared iPhone and iPad binary. The store itself is not linked on this page.
Meaning is carried in the headings and paragraphs. Decorative motion on this site is optional; with Reduced Motion enabled, the same story remains fully readable.
Collection and detail
Browse, manage, and peek at Oddities.
Pocket is where you keep track of the characters you care about: browse the collection, open details, and review previews without needing the Mac desktop open.
Collection managementSee what you have, organize attention, and return quickly to favorite Oddities.
Oddity detailPersonality and status summaries stay spoiler-aware. Deeper public-safe relationships live on OddityDex.
PreviewsDetail views can include bounded previews. They are not a substitute for the iPad playground.
Discovery
Learning is part of play - without spoilers.
Discovery means progressive learning of traits, behaviors, and selected interactions. Pocket is a natural place to revisit what you have learned. The full OddityDex journal surface stays unpublished until its owning phase.
Reveal over time.
Personality and behaviors unfold through play. This page does not dump secrets or interaction matrices to look dense.
Detailed journal later.
Deeper discovery browsing is planned for OddityDex. Until that route ships, Pocket copy stays summary-level.
Public now Browse OddityDex (catalog may be empty; species pages publish when projection rows exist)
Achievements
A journal for what happened.
Achievements are long-term milestones distinct from discovery. Under the current product-role plan, the iPhone is the primary journal and review surface for that progress.
Distinct from discoveryLearning traits is not the same as earning milestones. Both deepen the experience without collapsing into one list.
Examples at a safe levelFirst interactions, repeated activity, collection moments, and secrets where disclosure policy allows.
No sync promise hereCloud synchronization and cross-device notification behavior are not claimed until release evidence supports them.
Bounded play
Try Me is a preview, not a full playground.
Pocket can invite lighter, bounded play so you can poke and preview characters on the go. It is not framed as a persistent multi-Oddity arena or a tiny version of PlaygroundOddities.
Session-sized interaction.
Try Me and similar previews stay intentionally limited. Depending on the Oddity, gesture support differs - the same moves are not universal.
Only where implemented.
Recent activity or notifications may appear when those capabilities ship. This page does not invent a always-on alert system.
Story preview Status follows product release evidence
Continuity and store
Honest about sync and acquisition.
Cross-device continuity language stays gated by actual sync and ownership evidence. App Store handoff is owned by release/Availability authority later - not invented here.
No cross-device ownership claimOwnership that works the same everywhere is forbidden public copy until those gates open. Account stays unpublished.
App Store · coming laterPocketOddities remains the listing identity in story terms. No live store URL, price, or purchase button on this page.
Availability · coming laterOddities-specific Availability routes publish with SMPW-6 / verified release destinations.
Company TrustSeaSoup Trust for company-level posture - not a duplicate Oddities Trust page.
FeaturesFamily capability overview
Family
How PocketOddities relates.
PocketOddities is the iPhone surface and the listing identity for the shared universal binary. PlaygroundOddities is not a second store product.
DesktopOdditiesMac desktop home for ambient presence and direct play. Public Mac download 0.1.17 is live.
PlaygroundOdditiesiPad play-first experience delivered through this universal binary. Not a separate App Store listing.
FeaturesFamily capability overview with honest status labels.
Why OdditiesPhilosophy and experience story for the family.
Family overviewOrientation for all three named experiences.
Boundaries
What this page deliberately omits.
Unknown availability stays unavailable. Unpublished routes stay absent rather than soft-redirected.
No fake prices or purchase buttonsCommerce appears only after approved adapters exist.
No invented store or download URLsUnknown release state stays unavailable.
No Account / Your Collection linkReserved until identity and entitlement contracts authorize it.
Marketplace + OddityDex liveBoth are browse-only projections. Account stays gated.
Continue
Return to Oddities experiences
Continue to the family landing, Why story, or another SeaSoup product. Store destinations remain unpublished.