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Noraneko

by @stelabouras

Noraneko - https://noraneko.cat Lots of strays where I live, so I wanted an app to photograph and identify street cats and help get them adopted. Written mostly with Claude. The recognition runs on device: Apple Vision detects the cat, DINOv2-Small decides whether it's one already in your library, SigLIP2 names the coat. No accounts and no backend. There's a trading mechanic on top where you can trade cards via Wi-Fi (with Bluetooth as a fallback) and levels for both the user and each cat. You can also turn any cat into a shareable adoption poster. TestFlight is open, so feel free to try it.

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