Small, sharp apps that mind their own business.

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.

Things that literally didn't exist before.

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.

Symlinks

Create, 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.

Resurface

Data 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.

translated

An 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.

How a feature actually gets born

I 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.

Everything in the catalog ships sandboxed, through the App Store

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.

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.