The short version
Open source means the code is published for anyone to look at, use in their own projects, and improve. We have given away three pieces so far, and we intend to give away more.
What is open right now
Three small tools that other developers actually use. All free, all public.
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Google Profanity Words
Full list of bad words and top swear words banned by Google.
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Remove PII
Designed to help with privacy by removing personally identifiable information (PII) from text.
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Maths Captcha
Maths-Captcha is a simple Node.js module that generates random math questions and verifies user answers.
Why we are opening up more
Nearly everything we build stands on code someone else wrote and gave away for nothing. That has always been true, and it is even more true now that we build with AI tools, because those tools learned from decades of freely shared work.
It feels wrong to take all of that and put nothing back. AI makes it faster than ever to build things, which means there is less excuse than ever for keeping the useful bits to ourselves. So we are going to keep opening more of what we make.
What comes next
We are working through our own projects and pulling out the parts that would be useful on their own, starting with the small helpers we keep rewriting. We are not going to promise a date or a list we might not keep. When something is ready, it will appear on our GitHub and we will write about it on the blog.
Can you use this in your own work?
Yes. Personal projects, school projects, and paid work are all fine. Each project has its licence written in the repository, which is the file that tells you exactly what you are allowed to do. Read that one first, and if anything is unclear, ask us.
Want to help?
Open an issue if something is broken or confusing. Send a pull request if you have a fix. Tell us if you built something with it, because that genuinely makes our week. You can also come and say hello in our Discord.
The rest of what we make
Not everything is open, and we are honest about that. Our apps and extensions are how we pay for the time to build any of it. Helperbird is its own product with its own story, over at helperbird.com.
Last updated: 4 August 2026.