About Bramble
Bramble is a free, open-source baby name app for couples — or anyone — trying to find a name they all like. You both swipe through the same names independently, and the app surfaces the ones you both said yes to. No accounts. No paywall.
How it works
- One person taps "Start a session" and shares the URL.
- Each person picks a name on the join screen and starts swiping.
- The matches page shows the names you both swiped right on.
That's the whole product.
Where the names come from
The name list combines two public datasets:
- US Social Security Administration — name frequencies from every year back to 1880 (public domain).
- Behind the Name — gender and related-name data, distributed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Because the bundled dataset includes Behind the Name content, the dataset itself is also CC BY-SA 4.0. The app code is MIT.
What happens to your data
- A session lives in Cloudflare KV, keyed by a random session ID.
- Your swipes are tied to whichever name you picked on the join screen.
- No accounts, no email, no tracking pixels, no third-party analytics.
- Sessions don't have a hard expiry yet, but they're not designed to stick around forever either.
Why I built it
The other baby name swipe apps charge for the swipe-and-match feature — the one feature that's actually the whole point. The underlying data is public. So this exists.
Open source
App code: MIT. Bundled name dataset: CC BY-SA 4.0. Source will be public once Phase 1 polish lands.