Independent Software Studio

Apps worth keeping
on your home screen.

AC Forge is an independent studio that builds and runs its own consumer apps — fast, private, and free of the junk. Made by someone who's been shipping software since floppy disks were a thing.

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01Our apps

Small tools, made with care.

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02What we stand for

Software that respects you.

We make the apps we wished existed, and hold them to the bar we'd want as users — not the bar that maximizes a metric.

Fast by default

Cold-start in under a second, no spinners where a result would do. Speed is a feature we never trade away.

Private by design

Your data stays on your device wherever it can. No ad SDKs, no quiet tracking, no selling you back to you.

No dark patterns

Honest pricing, easy cancel, no manufactured guilt. If an app needs tricks to retain you, we built it wrong.

Yours to keep

Local-first files and open formats where we can. Nothing important held hostage in our cloud.

1992
Since day one

It started as "AC Software" — little apps written at age eight and sold on floppy disks at the local Radio Shack. Same instinct today: make something genuinely useful, put it in people's hands, and sweat the details nobody asked us to.

Made something useful? Let's hear it.

Questions, feedback, or just want to know what's next from the forge? Reach the studio directly.

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