A baby seal lives in your lake. Skip the thinking and a data center drinks it. Think first and it fills right back up.
Norppa lives here. Every time you reach for AI, you get to choose.
Open AI on autopilot and a data center starts drinking the lake.
Every thought of your own brings rain. The lake fills right back up.
Half a minute of your own thinking. That's the whole trick.
Norppa steps in first.
Your question, your own guess.
+10 points and a raindrop.
Still need AI after thinking? Open it, and your streak keeps going. Only skipping the thinking breaks it.
Everything you earn stays, even if your streak breaks.
Add friends with a code and see who thought for themselves the most this week. Or start a crew for your class, team or followers.
2.5 billion
prompts are sent to ChatGPT every day.
OpenAI via TechCrunch, 20252×
Data centres' electricity use is set to more than double by 2030.
International Energy Agency, 20255 drops – ½ litre
Water estimates for AI answers range from five drops per prompt to half a litre per 10–50 answers.
Google, 2025 · UC Riverside, 2023Weakest
brain connectivity of three groups was measured in people who wrote essays with ChatGPT.
MIT Media Lab, Kosmyna et al., 2025 (54 people)Less effort
The more knowledge workers trusted AI, the less critical thinking they reported.
Microsoft & Carnegie Mellon, Lee et al., 2025
We're not anti-AI.
We're pro-brain.
Norppa doesn't ask you to quit. Think first, then use AI if you still need it.
The lake in Norppa is a metaphor, not a meter. The app counts the times you thought for yourself, not the water you saved.
Norppa can't even see which apps you block. Apple keeps that private.
What you type when you think first disappears when you leave the screen.
No email or password needed. Your data is never sold or sent to an AI.
Norppa is Finnish for ringed seal. The Saimaa ringed seal lives only in Lake Saimaa in Finland, and only about 530 were left in 2025. Its lake needs clean water. So does yours.
Finnish Government, 2026No. Think first, then use AI if you still need it. Your streak keeps going. Only skipping the thinking breaks it.
Yes. Norppa uses Apple's Screen Time, the same system built into iPhone. You choose which apps to block, and you can turn it off any time.
No. iOS gives Norppa only anonymous tokens for the apps you choose, and your Screen Time data never leaves your phone.
Norppa can't block those, because they sit on the same page as normal results. We'd rather tell you than pretend.
Not yet. iPhone first.
Norppa is coming to iPhone.
