Free
No purchase price, no in-app purchases, no paid tiers, no “pro” features. Everyone gets the whole app.
- free-forever
- no-ads
- no-tracking
- open-source
- apache-2.0
Public data usually stops just short of the people it’s about. We build the final stretch.
The Final Stretch Project is a free, open-source project building iOS apps that carry public data the rest of the way — to the people whose lives it describes.
Illustration — you ask in your words, it answers in them too.
The problem
Governments and public institutions publish enormous amounts of data: clinical trials, safety recalls, inspection records, court dockets. Nearly all of it is published for institutions — researchers, regulators, professionals — not for the people it’s actually about.
The information exists. The last stretch to the person who needs it doesn’t. That last stretch is what we build: apps that meet people where they are, in the words they’d actually use, at the moment they need to know.
Non-negotiable
Our commitments
These aren’t policies we might revisit. They’re the reason the project exists.
No advertising
Ever. No ads, and no analytics that exist to sell you to someone else.
No data collection
What you type stays on your phone. Our apps have no accounts, no logins, and no servers of our own — your queries go directly from your device to the public source.
No interested funding
We take no money from anyone with a stake in what you’re shown. For health apps, that means no trial sponsors, no recruitment firms, no pharmaceutical companies.
The test every feature must pass
Does this move the data closer to the person, or move the person closer to the data?
A search form that requires knowing the right medical term fails the test. Accepting what someone would actually say, and translating it, passes. If a feature only makes sense to someone who already understands the source dataset, it’s the wrong feature.
What we’re building
The apps
In testing
Trialhead
A clinical trial finder in your words
Searching for a clinical trial shouldn’t require speaking the language of ClinicalTrials.gov. Trialhead lets you search in plain words, explains eligibility criteria in plain language, and shows you what to bring to a conversation with your doctor.
Trial-search services exist today, but most are funded by trial sponsors and patient-recruitment firms — parties with an interest in what gets surfaced. Trialhead has no such interest: nobody pays us to show you anything.
Trialhead never tells you whether you qualify for a trial — that’s a decision for you, your doctor, and the study team. It surfaces trials, explains them, and hands you off to the people who can actually enroll you. It is not medical advice. Privacy · Support
In testing
Rxcall
Recall alerts for the medications you actually take
Drug recalls are published every week, but they’re announced to institutions — most people never hear about the ones that matter to them. Rxcall keeps your medication list on your device and checks it against public recall data, so the one recall you need to know about actually reaches you.
Your medication list never leaves your phone. And if something you take is recalled, Rxcall tells you what the recall says and points you to your pharmacist or doctor — it never advises you to stop or change a medication. Privacy · Support
Exploring
What’s next
We’re exploring other places where public data stops short of the people who need it at hard moments — choosing a care facility under time pressure, navigating a court process without a lawyer, getting around a city when the elevator outage feeds never reach your transit app.
Have a dataset that deserves a final stretch? Tell us about it.
Open source, all the way down
Everything we ship will be open source under the Apache 2.0 license. You’ll be able to read every line of code that runs on your phone — and verify for yourself that it does what we say and nothing else.
Privacy claims you can’t inspect are just marketing. Ours will be checkable.
We’re at github.com/finalstretch. The app repositories are private while the apps are in testing and will open once the apps land on the App Store.
Who builds this
Two siblings, one rule
The Final Stretch Project is built by two sibling developers, Ruhi and Reeha. Each app has one owner, and no change ships on the owner’s own say-so — every change is reviewed and approved before it merges, starting with the sibling who didn’t write it.
A signed agreement locks in the commitments above: free forever, no advertising, no data collection, no interested funding. There are no investors, no sponsors, and nothing for sale.
When the apps reach the App Store, the code behind them will be published under the Apache 2.0 license — so none of this will have to be taken on faith.
Contact
Questions, ideas, or a dataset you think deserves a final stretch:
hello@finalstretch.org