An indie studio building native Apple tools, focused on niche problem solving with first-ever solutions. Zero existing alternatives: We pull these concepts directly from the Void~ No telemetry. No tracking. We ship a lot, answer every email, and still think the terminal is beautiful.
The first true symlink manager on macOS. The first real data-carving app on iOS. The first terminal on tvOS. Live screen translation on the Mac. The first search that spans your entire manpath. Speech-to-text auto-typing with no models to download. And AppVoid, which has no competitor to be compared against. Not marketing "firsts", actual ones.
No analytics, no trackers, no "anonymous usage data." Most apps run fully offline. If one needs the network, it's for an obvious reason, every individual endpoint and domain, is for an obvious reason and the reason is never for us.
Every app is built natively for Apple's platforms. Fast, small, and properly at home on your Mac or iPhone, not a browser wearing a costume.
It's just me. I read every message, fix what's broken, and put my name on all of it. Complaints go to a real inbox that I actually read, unfortunately.
Not a flex so much as a symptom. Every "first" here started with me hitting something oddly specific, going looking for the fix, and finding that nobody had bothered, which says as much about how I use a computer as it does about the software.
terminalOS is the first terminal on tvOS. A real Dash shell, Node.js and npm, Python, Git, and an SSH server. On your Apple TV. Yes, the one in the living room.
Explore terminalOS, the first terminal on tvOS โCreate, repair and manage symbolic links in a real GUI. Offload huge files to external drives, build lndir-style mirror folders, and let broken links quietly fix themselves.
Explore Symlinks โData carving on a phone. Resurface skips the file system and reads raw bytes to recover photos, videos and documents by their signatures, fully offline, nothing uploaded.
Explore Resurface โAn overlay reads your screen and re-renders it translated in real time, plus speech-to-text and type-to-translate. Offline, zero telemetry, on Apple's own language packs.
Explore translated โI could not remember the rclone subcommand. I knew the man page contained the word listremotes, I just couldn't recall what the command was called, and there is no good way to search man pages by flag. So ManPage got full-text search across your whole manual archive and highlighting that persists, so the next person who forgets only forgets once.
Most of these apps exist because I ran into something exactly that specific and declined to accept "just scroll" as an answer.
That's a deliberate choice and it costs months. ManPage could have shipped far sooner if I'd released outside of the App Store, for many reasons, dancing around in the sandbox for approximately 2 additional months to achieve similar functionality inside the sandbox. Every app here got that same tuning.
DragDealer needs access the sandbox doesnโt allow. LabsFX and Toki have a less technical origin story.
Move and resize any window with the keyboard and mouse movement alone, hold right โ and move the mouse to drag a window, hold left โ to resize it. No clicking, no aiming at a title bar or a 4-pixel corner. Reaching into other apps' windows means the Accessibility API, and the sandbox does not hand that out. So it can't be a store app, not because I didn't do the work.
Both are native SwiftUI clients, both are sandboxed, and both ship directly. I misunderstood the App Store guidelines a while back. Turns out they could probably go on the store. Anyway, here they are.
This is the useful distinction when anyone hands you a download link: the sandbox can't grant what this app does is a real answer. Policy said no is a real answer. The shortcut is to hand you a notarized installer and describe it as professional. If an app could be sandboxed and isn't, that's a fair question to ask, and when the sales pitch leads with not being an anonymous developer rather than with the software, that's worth noticing too.
XScribe is sandboxed, always offline, and free forever, not 'free while in early access', and it pastes straight into other apps without accessibility permissions. A copy that asks for more permissions to do less is not the professional one.
Audio illusions on your TV, plugins on iOS and macOS!
New! Create beautiful soundscapes from anything. Included with your existing Pro purchase.
Quality improvements and a smoother user interface.
File Manager for iOS, macOS, watchOS, tvOS, one app for browsing, and viewing. Supports video on all platforms.
Permissions, base64, regex, hashes, unit conversions, plus the shell integration that drops sarcastic quotes into your terminal. Everything runs entirely in your browser. Nothing is sent anywhere. Obviously.
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