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.
Small tools, made with care.
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Thyme Capsule
A digital recipe box for the dishes worth passing down. Capture, organize, and cook the recipes your family actually makes. Mobile apps in development.
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tabout
Effortless tab splitting for friends and coworkers. Add the bill, tap who had what, and settle up — no math, no awkwardness.
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New apps are always in the works. We stay narrow on purpose and ship when it's right.
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.