Two ways to build a history app
Fetch the articles from a server so the library can be "expanded". Ask for an account so the bookmarks can be "synced". Add a weekly notification, because retention is measured in returns. Put the second half of the material behind a subscription and call the first half a free trial.
Every one of those decisions is about the business, and each one makes the app slightly worse at the only thing it was for: being read.
Ships whole. Every entry, both language versions, the images, the search index and the matching game are compiled into the download, so the app opens the same on a train as at a desk and never asks for a connection it does not need.
There is no account, because there is nothing to attach one to; no notification, because the classical world is not urgent; and no price inside it, because nothing in it is held back.
Entries describe the ancient world as historians record it — including the parts that were brutal, and the places where the sources are partisan, thin, or written centuries after the events.
The Ancient Greek City-States
Sparta and Athens were two answers to the same question: how should people live? Hellenika is a guide to that world — the rival city-states, their warriors and thinkers, their politics, warfare and daily life. Sparta, Athens, Thebes, Corinth and the rest, each with its own character: how it was governed, how it fought, what it valued, and what set it apart from its neighbours.
Alongside the guide there is a game that makes it stick: a memory matching challenge pairing each city-state with what defined it — its symbol, its institution, its famous trait — so the connections come from playing rather than memorising. Browse by topic, search for anything, and bookmark what interests you.
The strangest institution they had
Not a city-state page and not a quiz — one piece of arithmetic that the app's entries describe and this bench lets you check. Classical Athens filled most public offices, and its Council of Five Hundred, by lot rather than by election. Draw a council here and watch what randomness does to its composition.
One institution, one histogram, no cities named and nothing to match — this bench cannot tell you what Sparta valued or how Thebes was run. Hellenika is the part that can, in English and Slovenian, entirely on your handset.
Who publishes it
NovaHarbor Digital is the app name used by AM Solar 1 d.o.o., a company registered in Slovenia. The code, the artwork, both language versions, this website and the Google Play account are handled from one address in Ljubljana.
An entry that reads oddly in Slovenian, a source you think we have leaned on too hard, or a question about privacy — the mail reaches the person who wrote the app. Pišete lahko tudi v slovenščini.
polis@solar1.onlineNovaHarbor Digital is a trading name of AM Solar 1 d.o.o., registered in Slovenia at Ulica Jožeta Jame 12, 1210 Ljubljana-Šentvid. Hellenika and its artwork belong to the company. The Hellenika privacy policy applies to the Android application com.agorafold.hellenika. The app presents the classical world as historical material. Copyright 2026.