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Free digital fidget toys for your browser: nine retro hi-fi, synth and control-room instruments to click, flip, twist and slam. No download, no sign-up, and sound is optional.
The hi-fi and synth control panel. Flip, twist, slam.
Every key is an alien instrument.
A black void of dust. Disturb it.
A checkerboard of cartoon sound effects.
Rods, pumps, alarms and one very big button.
Drag cables between jacks. Hear the patch.
Chunky transport keys and scrubbable reels.
Steer glowing curves you can also hear.
Toggles and lamps from a room-sized computer.
Fidget Labs is a small collection of free, browser-based digital fidget toys. Each one is an instrument you can poke at for a minute or an hour: knobs that click, faders that slide, switches that clack, particles that scatter, cables that swing. There is nothing to win, nothing to download and no account to create.
The look comes from old hi-fi stacks, analogue synthesizers, vintage computers and control rooms: brushed metal, walnut, brass, glowing lamps and chunky plastic keys. The sound, when you want it, is generated live in your browser, so there are no audio files to wait for. And every toy is fully playable with the sound off.
Use a mouse, a trackpad, a touchscreen or a physical keyboard. Open any toy from the grid above, or press Surprise me in the header.
A hi-fi and synthesizer control panel packed with things to touch: metal, cream and emerald knobs, faders, bat-handle toggles, rocker switches, latching lamp buttons, a 16-pad grid, VU meters and a rolling click counter. The sounds are modelled on real switches, so a bat toggle snaps differently from a rocker or a rubber-dome button.
Every key on your keyboard becomes a pad that plays a synthesized sound from an invented alien technology: FM bloops, ring-modulated warbles, crystal bells, glitch swarms, theremin ghosts and growling drones. Pitches come from a scale that divides the tritave into 13 steps, so nothing sounds quite familiar. Hold Shift for the deep register, hold keys to sustain, and drag across the pads on a touchscreen.
A black screen filled with thousands of glowing particles that drift on a flow field. Move the pointer to push and swirl them, hold to pull them into a gravity well, release to send out a shockwave, and press 1 to 5 to change the colour palette. An optional ethereal pad and soft chimes follow how fast you move; switch them off and it is a purely visual toy.
A black and white checkerboard with 64 squares, wired to 48 cartoon sound effects in the spirit of classic slapstick animation: boings, hammer hits, slaps, anvil drops, slide whistles, sad trombones, tiptoeing pizzicato and cuckoo clocks. Squares squash, stretch, spin and flatten, and a comic caption bursts out of every hit. Mash the keyboard, or hold Shift for chipmunk speed.
A fictional nuclear power plant control room in olive enamel. Slide eight control rods, switch coolant pumps on and off, watch the dials, and learn how a 24-window alarm annunciator flashes, gets acknowledged and resets. Lift the cover on the guarded SCRAM switch and slam it for a klaxon and a dramatic shutdown. It is a toy, not a simulation of a real reactor.
A wall of modular synthesizer modules: two oscillators, noise, an LFO, a filter, an amplifier, an echo and an output with a scope. Drag springy patch cables between jacks and the sound changes as you plug. Hit Random for a ready-made patch, or play the oscillators from the keyboard.
A reel-to-reel tape deck with six piano-style transport keys, reels that grow and shrink as the tape moves, a counter, and VU meters. Drag a reel to scrub the tape forwards and backwards, bend the pitch with the speed fader, add wow and flutter, and choose between five built-in tape loops: ambient, hip hop, jungle, synthwave and dub.
A green phosphor oscilloscope in X-Y mode. Turn the frequency, phase and amplitude knobs, pick a ratio preset, or drag across the screen to steer the glowing Lissajous curve, rose or spirograph pattern. The two oscillators are audible in stereo, with X on the left and Y on the right, so you can hear the shape you draw.
A front panel in the style of a 1970s minicomputer: sixteen toggle switches, rows of red address and data lamps, and EXAMINE, DEPOSIT, RUN and STEP controls. Flip the switches to set an address, deposit bytes, then press RUN and watch your bytes play back as patterns of light, with a small click-beep for every step.
The layout adapts to phones and tablets, and decorative animation is reduced when your system asks for reduced motion. Fidget Labs has no accounts, no advertising, no tracking cookies and no analytics. Your browser's local storage is used only to remember things like whether sound is muted and where a knob was left, and it never leaves your device.
Fidget Labs is a free collection of nine browser-based digital fidget toys with a retro hi-fi, synthesizer and control-room look. Everything runs in your browser, so there is nothing to install.
It is free. There are no accounts, no sign-ups and no ads.
No. Every toy is playable with the sound off. Sound is synthesized in your browser and only starts after your first click or key press. The sound button in the corner of each toy turns it on or off, and your choice is remembered.
Yes. The homepage adapts to small screens and the toys respond to touch. Keyboard-style toys such as Xeno Keys and Toon Board are most fun with a physical keyboard, and a phone is best held in landscape.
Any recent desktop or mobile browser with JavaScript and the Web Audio API should work, including Chrome, Edge, Safari and Firefox.
No. There are no tracking cookies and no analytics. Your browser's local storage is used only to remember things like whether sound is muted and where a knob was left, and it stays on your device.
No. They are made for play and for fidgeting, not as medical devices or treatment. If you are struggling, please talk to a qualified professional.
No. It is a fictional toy that borrows the look and feel of a control room. The numbers and behaviour are invented for fun and do not model a real reactor.