Chistes

Chistes is a reader for short jokes in Spanish, for the whole family. The jokes come with the app, so there is no search engine in the middle and nothing arrives that you would rather not read out loud.

What you can do with it

• Read. The jokes are grouped into five categories: animals, wordplay, family, computers and odds and ends. The order is shuffled on every visit, so you never read the same list twice.
• Find the one you want. Type a word in the search box or pick a category, and the two combine. Searching for "animals" brings up the jokes filed under animals, not only the ones that happen to use the word.
• Ten at a time. The list shows ten jokes and a button loads ten more. No pages, and no waiting for the end of a scroll.
• Share it. Every joke has its own button. On a phone it opens the system share sheet; on a computer it copies the joke to the clipboard. Sharing a joke is half of what a joke is for.
• Send yours. There is a form for sending in a joke of your own. It goes to review before publication, so it does not appear straight away.

What it does not do

• It does not search the internet for jokes. It only shows the ones that come with the app.
• It does not publish what you send without someone reading it first, and it does not generate jokes of its own.
• It does not keep anything on your device beyond the page itself, which is what lets it work offline.
• It asks for no account and no email, and it has no ads.

Details

It is free, needs no install and no sign-up, and can be added to the home screen like an app. After the first visit it works offline, because the browser keeps the page and the jokes.

If you are after something longer than a single joke, the number puzzle, chess and the maze generator give you more to do. And if writing is your thing, the text editor is the place to note down the one you have just thought of.