Which Girkov Arpa Tools Can Be Run in the Browser for Free?

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On the Girkov Arpa itch.io page, the items explicitly marked “Run in browser” are the G25 France Heatmap, G25 Europe Heatmap, Relative Browser, and the educational game Who Wants To Be The Next Voltaire?. These are the only listings the page evidence identifies as browser-playable; it does not state that they are free, so treat “no download required” as confirmed and “free” as unconfirmed. Other tools on the page show prices—$3.50, $4.99, or $25—and are presented as downloads rather than browser apps.

Browser tools listed on the page

Tool What the listing says it does Page signal
G25 France Heatmap “Paint France w/ your coords!” Run in browser
G25 Europe Heatmap “Generate a heatmap with your G25 coordinates!” Run in browser
Relative Browser “Sort relatives by haplogroup, surname, gender, & more!” (tagged 23andMe) Run in browser
Who Wants To Be The Next Voltaire? “Are you a good debater?” (tagged Educational) Play in browser

The two heatmap tools take G25 coordinates as input and produce a visual map. Relative Browser works with 23andMe relative data and lets you sort that list. Who Wants To Be The Next Voltaire? is a debate-style educational game.

Paid items and their prices

The page shows these prices:

  • $3.50: Region Relatives (23andMe), PostDaddy
  • $4.99: G25 Europe Heatmap PLUS, Genetic Origins Heatmap, Phaser (23andMe), GIF GameScripter.JS, PikPicPASTE, Super Advanced Update Utility, Clipomagic, LengthDir GML Generator, TransTube
  • $25: Calligrapher AI (“Machine Learning with Rust”)

Note that G25 Europe Heatmap PLUS ($4.99) is a separate, paid listing from the free-to-run G25 Europe Heatmap. The PLUS version is described as painting a heatmap with K36 or G25 coordinates, so it adds K36 support. If you only have G25 coordinates, the browser version covers the basic task.

Free-looking utilities without a “Run in browser” label

Several listings have no price and no browser label, such as File Content Search, ColPik, Floating Clipboard, Nifty Image Previewer, FunWrite, German Gender Highlighter, and Splash Changer for GIMP. These read as free downloads, but the page evidence does not confirm either their price or whether they run in a browser. Check each item’s own page before assuming.

How to decide

  • You have G25 coordinates and want a quick visual: start with G25 Europe Heatmap or G25 France Heatmap in the browser. If you also have K36 coordinates, compare with the $4.99 PLUS listing.
  • You have 23andMe data: Relative Browser runs in the browser for sorting relatives. Genetic Origins Heatmap ($4.99) and Phaser ($4.99) are paid downloads for ancestry visualization and parent-contribution views.
  • You want a free desktop utility: the unpriced utilities are the candidates, but verify on the individual listing page.

One practical caution: these ancestry tools process personal genetic data. The page evidence does not describe how data is handled, so review each tool’s page before uploading coordinates or 23andMe exports.