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Ad-free arcade app on iPhone built mostly by Claude Code

Catnip Arcade has four free games and launched on October 14. Claude co-authored 1,227 of 1,243 commits, and no AI runs inside the game.

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What the research found

Catnip Arcade, a free ad-free four-game iPhone and iPad app built mostly by Claude Code, launched on the App Store on October 14, with the developer noting Claude is co-author on 1,227 of 1,243 commits and that AI does not run inside the game.

Claims and how well the evidence supports them

  1. Catnip Arcade launched on the App Store on October 14 99%
  2. Claude is co-author on 1,227 of 1,243 commits since late June 99%
  3. The game is free with no ads, no account and no data collected 99%
  4. Nothing AI runs inside the game 99%

Evidence

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