A small studio that ships software with care.
AC Forge, LLC is an independent studio that designs, builds, and runs its own consumer apps. No clients, no investors, no roadmap dictated by a metric — just software we'd want to use ourselves.
It began as "AC Software" — little applications written at age eight and sold on floppy disks at the local Radio Shack. The instinct hasn't changed: make something genuinely useful, put it in people's hands, and sweat the details nobody asked us to.
Decades later, the "AC" became AC Forge, LLC — a Texas company formed to give that work a proper home. The forge is the metaphor we build by: raw ideas brought together under heat and pressure into something solid, precise, and made to last.
Today AC Forge is the parent studio behind a growing family of apps. Each one is owned and operated here, held to the same bar, and shaped by the same belief — that software should respect the person using it.
Sketch. Forge. Polish.
Three moves, repeated until the thing holds under load.
Sketch
We start narrow: one real problem, drawn out by hand before a line of code. If an idea doesn't earn its place, it doesn't get built.
Forge
We build it properly — fast, private, tested under load. The unglamorous engineering is exactly where the quality lives.
Polish
Then we sweat the details nobody asked for, until the app feels solid and precise — a little hot to the touch, and finished.
Fast by default
Cold-start in under a second, no spinners where a result would do.
Private by design
Your data stays on your device wherever it can. No ad SDKs, no quiet tracking.
No dark patterns
Honest pricing, easy cancel, no manufactured guilt to keep you around.
Yours to keep
Local-first files and open formats where we can. Nothing held hostage in our cloud.