Independent iPhone studio / Selected work
Small apps for actual days.
Software that’s soft. Made for caring for plants, starting the next thing, finding something worth hearing, and whatever comes next.
Software that’s soft
The work starts with ordinary friction.
Forgetting when a plant was watered. Knowing what needs doing but not where to begin. Wanting music discovery to feel like a friend pulling a record from the shelf. Each app stays close to the original problem. Each one stays small enough to care about every word.
01 / Plant care
Sprigside
Plants live in rooms, on shelves, and in routines. Sprigside organizes them that way.
Build shelves around a room or window, add plants from a catalog of 166 species, and anchor each care cycle to the day you actually watered. When a plant needs attention, Sprigside tells you without turning care into a streak.
Lab Shelves track propagations separately, with species specific methods, honest progress windows, and a clean handoff once a cutting is ready for a pot.
- 166
- plants in the built in catalog
- 93
- propagation candidates
- 5
- whole app home styles
02 / Gentle tasks
Smallward
A task app that assumes capacity changes from day to day and plans accordingly.
Smallward sorts work into Now, Next, and Later, then puts one task in focus. Completing it promotes the next waiting task automatically. If you’re stuck, there’s a rescue flow; if the day is simply smaller, low capacity mode hides everything but Now.
Routines are made from individual actions. History stays on the phone for 30 days. Suggestions are optional, local, and based on patterns. There is no server watching over your shoulder.
- 1
- task in focus
- 30
- days of completed history
- 0
- accounts, trackers, or subscriptions
03 / Music discovery
Dust Off
Music discovery without a feed, an account, or an algorithmic personality profile.
Tap once and Dust Off reaches into a hand entered catalog spanning jazz, Zamrock, city pop, shoegaze, highlife, ambient house, and more. Four out of five picks favor deeper cuts; the occasional familiar song keeps the crate digging grounded.
The app and Home Screen widget open recommendations in Spotify or YouTube. There’s no sign in and no backend. It is simply a small local collection and a reason to press play.
- 90+
- hand entered tracks
- 70+
- broad and niche genres
- 4 / 5
- rolls favor deeper cuts
The common thread
Useful without being hungry for your attention.
No accounts.
No analytics.
No subscription machinery.
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