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.
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.
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, no server, no sync. The data is a file on your phone and a backup in your own iCloud Drive.
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 belongs in a shift record, why tip logs die on a phone upgrade, and how servers use their own numbers to catch a payroll error before payroll does.
Comps, discounts and sales tax sit between gross and net sales. Which figure your house multiplies decides whether you tip out on money you never collected.
A percentage of sales and a percentage of tips look similar on a rules sheet and behave nothing alike on a slow night. Worked numbers for both, side by side.