Your Subscription Gives Back
Introducing RustyBux
A slice of every subscription goes back to the world. Every month, you earn RustyBux — real donation credits you spend on causes that matter. Privacy. Education. Equity. Repair. Every dollar tracked, every transaction verifiable.
Subscribe
$10/month for ALL apps
Earn
$1.41 credited as RustyBux
Browse
49 vetted causes, 12 categories
Donate
We donate in your name (or anon)
Track
See every dollar across apps and causes
Honest Pricing.
We don't use deceptive pricing. No $X.99 tricks. No psychological games. A flat, honest number. No dark patterns. You'll get it once you go rusty.
80%
Studio Operations
Development, infrastructure, code signing, hardware testing, and keeping the lights on.
15%
RustyBux
Credited to you as donation currency. Browse the store. Donate to causes. Verify every dollar.
5%
Community Fund
Does NOT go to the studio. Bug bounties, indie dev grants, open-source sponsorship. TBD.
Full Transparency
Every Dollar. Traceable.
Every RustyBux earned and every donation made is logged in a tamper-proof audit trail. Each record is mathematically locked to the one before it — change one entry and the whole chain breaks. Public ledger, downloadable records. Sounds fancy — it's really just math. No trust required.
Permanent record — Every transaction is written once and can never be modified or deleted. The database enforces this automatically — no human can change it after the fact.
Hash chain (cryptographic fingerprints) — Every record contains a unique fingerprint of the previous record. Change one entry and every fingerprint after it breaks. Tamper-proof by math, not trust.
Public audit page — Total RustyBux collected, total donated, per-cause breakdowns, and downloadable reports. No login required.
No blockchain bloat — No cryptocurrency chain. No mining, no tokens, no gas fees. Just cryptographic fingerprints on a local database. Verifiable by anyone.
The Store
49 Causes. 12 Categories. Your Choice.
Every cause on this list is vetted — verified nonprofit status, active website, aligned mission, transparent financials. No generic mega-charities. These are the organizations actually doing the work.
Privacy & Digital Rights
Fighting discriminatory surveillance — Ban the Scan, Flock cameras, facial recognition
Independent privacy research center — no clients, no shareholders, 30+ years
Free no-login VPN, privacy microgrants, 100% donation-funded
Open-source anonymity network used by whistleblowers and journalists worldwide
Exposing AI bias and facial recognition harms — led to IBM, Microsoft, Amazon pausing sales to police
Mental Health in Tech
Schizophrenia Research
Animal Welfare & Rescue
Leading the no-kill movement — largest no-kill sanctuary in the US, 3,700 acres, 4,400+ shelter partners
45+ years filing lawsuits to protect animals — fighting ag-gag laws and animal abuse in courts
Pioneered the farm animal sanctuary movement — rescue, lifelong care, and anti-factory-farming advocacy
No-kill rescue taking animals others won't — seniors, medical cases, low-cost vet clinic for all
35+ years rescuing farmed animals — 600 acres, 300+ residents, adoption program and education
Women & Underrepresented Groups in Tech
760K+ girls, women, and nonbinary individuals learning to code
Equipping young Black and brown women with tech skills since 2011
Tech training for mothers with on-site childcare — 62% now work in tech
Empowering Black software engineers — 20K+ member peer mentorship network
Largest community of Latinx tech professionals — 16K+ members
50K-member LGBTQ+ tech community with coding scholarships
Anti-Hate & Anti-Racism
Founded by former extremists — helping people leave hate movements. 95% retention.
Nation's largest online racial justice org — holds tech companies accountable
40+ years dismantling structural racism through institutional transformation
Organizing white people into anti-racist action — allyship as practice, not performance
Open Source & Right to Repair
Legal defense for 40+ FOSS projects — protecting copyleft and software freedom
The original open-source advocacy org — GNU project, Fight-to-Repair campaign
Largest Right to Repair advocacy group — all 50 states now considering laws
Free repair guides, university partnerships, global tool donations
Keeping the internet a public resource — funding open-source, fighting monopoly
1 trillion+ web captures — preserving internet history under active legal threat
Youth STEM & Makers
By teens, for teens — real hacker culture, not corporate STEM theater
1,250+ free volunteer-led coding clubs in 69 countries. One Rule: Be Cool.
Training Black male youth in tech — free 15-month program that pays participants
STEM for underserved communities — 20K+ students through equity grants
Hands-on STEM for K-12 — New Orleans-rooted, expanding nationally
Press Freedom & Whistleblowers
Builders of SecureDrop — open-source whistleblower system used by NYT, WaPo, Guardian
Data-driven tech accountability journalism — publishes all methodologies openly
Protecting whistleblowers and advancing free speech for decades
Championing AI Whistleblower Protection Act — 7 major campaigns in 2025
Hands-on support connecting whistleblowers with journalists, legal, and security
Community Tech & Digital Equity
Anti-E-Waste & Environment
25 years refurbishing tech for vulnerable populations — 1M+ lbs e-waste/year
Community repair events — 120K+ people helped, 3K+ tonnes emissions prevented
Refurbished computers + $15/mo internet for low-income families — 825K people helped
Devices, internet, and digital skills for underserved families, veterans, and seniors
Why a curated list?
We don't let RustyBux go just anywhere! Every cause on the list is vetted — verified nonprofit status, active operations, and a mission that aligns with what we stand for. That's accountability.
Open-ended donation routing is how money gets misused. We won't enable that. Every endpoint is researched, every org is real, and every dollar is tracked from subscription to donation receipt.
Subscribers can propose new causes. Every proposal is vetted publicly. Approvals and rejections are documented with reasoning. This list grows with the community.
$10/month — every app, every update, every RustyBux