We took a long look at the App Store, and decided to make fewer things, better.
Holistiq Apps is an independent app studio. We build deliberately, fund the work ourselves, and intend to keep it that way.
Most software is built to win you over, then keep you. We're not against business — we have one too — but the business of pulling at your attention seven days a week has produced an internet that nobody loves.
Holistiq Apps exists to make tools that do one quiet thing well — help you measure what matters, rest your eyes, and set down the apps that aren't serving you. Tools, not feeds. Sessions, not engagement.
If we can keep making apps like this for the people who want them, we'll consider the studio a success.
We build slowly and in the open. An idea earns its place only after it survives being deleted a few times — we'd rather ship one considered thing than five rushed ones.
Every app is designed, built, and supported around the same small set of principles: privacy first, no dark patterns, and a long view measured in years, not quarters.
We're independent and intend to stay that way — sustained by the people who buy our apps, not by advertisers or investors.
No ads, no tracking, no third-party advertising SDKs, and we never sell your data. Our apps are paid software; when pricing is set, it'll be simple and shown up front.