How zlarp works

Every app here looks and moves like an app you know, so it's great on camera, in a video, or as a joke with friends. None of them are made by or affiliated with the brands they look like, and nothing real sits behind them: no app on zlarp can hold, send or receive real money, or connect to a real bank account or crypto wallet.

And no app lets you write your own transactions, statements or receipts. A big balance is a flex everyone in on the joke can see for what it is; a record you made up could be passed off as proof that money moved, so we keep those out. Read our rules.

Every app here is built for your phone, your computer, or both. The little tag under each app tells you which one you're looking at.

Mobile apps

Under the hood these are websites, but you won't use them like one. You add the app to your home screen, and from then on it opens from its own icon, full screen, with no address bar. It looks and feels like any other app on your phone. It only takes a few taps, and we walk you through them right after you buy.

They can send notifications too. Once an app is on your home screen it can light up your lock screen with the alerts its developer built in, like a new order in a store dashboard simulator.

Desktop apps

These work like any website you already use. Once you've got access you get a link, you sign in with your zlarp account, and you're in. Nothing to download, nothing to set up.

For desktop apps we made something you won't find anywhere else: the zlarp Browser. It's Google Chrome with one extra trick. Press Ctrl+Shift+L and you can make the address bar say whatever you like, so the address at the top matches the page underneath it.

It's free, for both Windows and Mac.

The design, the icons and the animations are what make a simulator fun, so we put the work in there. When the app it's inspired by changes its look, we update ours to keep up.

The crypto and trading simulators show prices from the live market, so the charts move the way the real ones do. The balances and holdings you set on top of them are only on your screen: none of it is real money.

You can pay by card or in crypto. Cards go through Stripe and crypto goes through NOWPayments, two providers you've probably paid through before. That covers pretty much every way people pay online, from Visa and Mastercard to Apple Pay and Google Pay, plus over 300 cryptocurrencies. Your card details never touch our servers.

How much of yourself you share is up to you.

When you buy, you pick how long you want the app for: a month, six months, lifetime, or anything in between. Go for 6 months or more and the whole thing is 33% off. On a card your plan renews until you cancel, and lifetime is a single payment. With crypto you pay once for the time you chose, and you can press Extend whenever you want more.

We're the cheapest on the market for most of what we offer, and there's a simple reason: we build every single app ourselves. Plenty of others resell the same white-label product with their name on it. We don't.

Once a mobile app is yours, press Open. Before it opens we play a short walkthrough on a phone so you can follow along. In case you'd like it in writing:

iPhone, in Safari

1. Tap the Share button.
2. Scroll down and tap Add to Home Screen.
3. Tap Add, and the icon appears next to your other apps.

Android, in Chrome

1. Tap the ⋮ menu in the corner.
2. Tap Add to Home screen or Install app.

You sign in the first time and it remembers you after that. The one catch is that it needs an internet connection, because every launch quickly checks your access is still active.

Every app has a hidden panel we call Backstage. It's where you set the names, balances and pictures the app shows. There isn't a button for it, so it stays out of your shots. What it won't do is let you write transactions, statements or receipts; any activity an app shows is built in by its developer, the same for everyone.

1. Press and hold the very top of the screen for about a second. You'll see the strip up there brighten as it charges.
2. Let go when the panel slides up, and change anything you like.
3. Close it. Everything saves as you type.

On a computer it's the same idea: hold the mouse button down on the top edge of the window.

Everything you own lives in your Library, each with an Open button. It's also where you can see when a plan renews or runs out, add more time, update your card, or cancel. If you do cancel, the app keeps working until the time you paid for is up.