iPhone · iOS 26 and later
DM Apps builds narrow apps for people who need one number, one list or one answer — without an account, without a subscription wall on the basics, and without a server holding their history. Tools first; quieter things you open for their own sake come next.
You open these because you need a number, a total or a straight answer, and you want to be done in under a minute.
Lifestyle
A painted diary of every product you have tried, and what you thought of it
Vanity is a hand-painted diary for your skincare, makeup and perfume. Snap a jar, and it lands on the right shelf with its brand and name already read from the label.
Food & Drink
Know what is in the freezer without opening the door
Tap a tile or snap the pack and it is in. Each card frosts over as the food ages, so the oldest pack is the one your eye lands on first, and Coming up says what to cook tonight.
Finance
Tip out, take-home and a shift log that survives a new phone
Three numbers at the end of the shift — net sales, cash tips, card tips. Cashout applies your house's tip out rules, shows the split role by role, and files the night away so the whole year adds up later.
In the workshop
More tools are on the bench, each held to the four rules below.
Apps with no chore attached. Nothing to keep up with, nothing that nags — you open them because they are pleasant to use.
Lifestyle
Turn a photo into a cross stitch chart you can actually stitch
A chart with real DMC numbers, the skeins you need to buy, the finished size in inches and the hours it will take. Then it holds your place, square by square, while you stitch.
In the workshop
More of these are on the bench, each held to the four rules below.
How the studio works
Every app answers a single question. No dashboards, no feeds, no second tab that exists to fill space.
No sign-up and no server of ours. Data lives on your phone; where an app syncs or backs up, it does so through your own iCloud, which we cannot read.
Not in the free tier either. If an app earns money it does so from people who chose to pay for it.
When a subscription lapses, records stay put and stay exportable. Paying reopens them; not paying never erases them.
Latest writing
What project pan is, how to pick the products, how long it takes to hit pan, and how to keep the record so the empties tell you what to rebuy.
The five things a first project actually needs, what they cost, which needle goes with which count, and the kit items that sit in a drawer forever.
Households throw away around a third of the food they buy. Here is where it goes, which habits change the total, and which ones only feel productive.
