Mobile utility studio
A small studio shipping native iOS and Android utility apps in six fixed categories. Patient timelines, written cadence, plain pricing — apps you reach for once a week and never delete.
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What we build
01
Cleaners
Photo and storage cleaners that do one kind of cleanup per release. We refuse to round up a number, refuse to inflate gigabytes that did not exist, refuse to run a fake sweep on an empty cache. The user gets the truth and decides what to delete.
02
VPN
Lightweight tunnel apps designed to be forgotten once turned on. Connect, stay connected, never need a settings excursion. There are no dashboards because nothing on a dashboard would still be true ten minutes from now. One toggle, one indicator, the rest is invisible.
03
Scanners
On-device document scanning that returns a clean PDF and walks away. Edge detection done right. OCR where it earns its weight. The user owns the file and the file leaves with them — no nudge to subscribe to keep the scans they just made, no cloud-stored archive opt-in.
04
Converters
Files in, files out. Image, audio, document. Drop a file, pick a format, get back a file. We do not delete the source to look efficient and we do not enrol the user in a recurring subscription to keep their own outputs. Conversion finishes in a tap; the original stays.
05
Privacy utilities
Apps designed to minimise the data they touch. Local-first when we can be, transparent about every off-device call when we cannot. We are careful never to claim guarantees we cannot defend in writing — “minimises tracking” rather than “never tracks”.
06
Battery & device
Diagnostic-style apps that surface what the device is actually doing. We refuse to ship a “boost” button — phones do not get faster from a button, and shipping one would be a small lie compounding across the years a user keeps the app installed.