SERVICES.
The six categories we ship in~6 minutes, paced.
Six categories, one inbox, plain pricing.
A field guide.
What follows is the full list of categories we work in, described one by one. Each entry says what we will build there, and — usually more importantly — what we will refuse to build.
If your idea fits one of these, the email address at the bottom of the page is the right next step. If it sits outside the six but adjacent to one, ask anyway.
- 01
Privacy utilities.
For the slow privacy decision — the one where you read the toggle label twice.
We label the toggles carefully. The off state is the off state, and we say so in the screen rather than in a help article you would never visit. These apps live close to the data they touch and try not to touch any data they do not need. When something does have to leave the device, we name it plainly in the place a user would actually look.
- 02
VPN apps.
A VPN is supposed to disappear once you have turned it on.
We try to make ours forgettable in a good way. Connect, stay connected, never need a settings excursion. There are no dashboards in our VPN apps because nothing on a dashboard would still be true ten minutes from now. The product surface is one toggle and one indicator. The rest of the work is invisible, which is the point.
- 03
Camera tools.
The narrow gap between the system camera and a full editor — that is where we live.
These apps know that they are not replacing the photographer's tool of choice. They are the tap-once tool kept on the home screen alongside the calculator. Document mode that respects the original. Fixed grids for product photography. Batch capture for receipts. They open quickly, finish in a tap, and do not ask the user to pick a subscription plan before they can use the shutter.
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Battery & device.
Honest readouts, surfaced the way an engineer would describe them.
Battery health, storage breakdown, what the device is busy doing right now. We refuse to build a 'boost' button. Phones do not get faster from a button, and shipping one would be a small lie that compounds across the years a user keeps the app installed. The work in this category is in earning trust through accurate numbers and refusing the easy lie.
- 05
File managers.
The filing tool you reach for when something is missing inside Downloads.
If you have ever lost a PDF inside Downloads on a Tuesday and rediscovered it on a Friday, this category is for you. The apps we build here move bytes around the device in a manner you can predict and undo. There is no hosted backend behind any of them. The original copy of every file remains the original until the user explicitly says otherwise, in language a user would actually understand.
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Scanners.
A scanner that respects the source.
We process on-device, return a clean PDF, and walk away. No nudge to subscribe in order to keep the scans the user just made. Scanning a tax receipt should not be the start of a relationship with a billing platform. The apps in this category are tap-and-finish; they are not gateways to a recurring service.
Five we get most.
These are the questions a first call usually opens with. The longer ones go in the email below.
Can we see something the studio has worked on?
Not on this site, by design. We describe categories of work rather than specific outputs — partly because every project is a co-creation with a partner whose name and timeline are not ours to publish, and partly because we would rather have a written conversation than show a portfolio. A short brief in email gets you a more useful reply than a portfolio click ever would.
What does an ideal first email look like?
One paragraph telling us what you would like to ship. One paragraph saying which of the six categories you think it fits in. Optionally a sentence on timeline. That is enough information to get a written reply with the next set of questions, usually within a working day.
Do you take on work outside the six categories?
Almost never. The categories are how we keep the calendar honest — taking on a category we have not shipped well in is, in our experience, how a small studio quietly gets in trouble. If your idea is close to one of the six but not quite, ask anyway. The closeness sometimes matters more than the category label.
What if our idea is too small?
It is almost always not too small. Small ideas are the studio's preferred input. The thing that makes an idea hard to ship well is rarely its size — it is the scope creep around it. We would rather start small and stay small for a release or two than start broad and finish nothing.
What about NDAs?
We sign mutual NDAs for projects under active discussion. We do not keep public case studies, so the NDA is largely a paperwork formality, but we would rather formalise it than wing it.
Email is the channel.
We watch the inbox during the working day and reply by the next one — usually faster, never on weekends. If your project has a real deadline, put a date in the subject line and we will prioritise honestly.
Subject lines like “cleaner app, possible RC by July” are read first. The body of the email does not need to be polished — it does not need a deck or a calendar invite. Tell us what you would like to ship, which of the six categories you think it fits in, and roughly when you would like to begin.