An independent studio shipping focused consumer apps — camera-first identification tools, the search content that makes them findable, and the automation that lets two people run a portfolio.
Live screens from Mineralyst & Aviarist
We don't build everything — we build one thing per product and we build it properly. Point a camera at the world and get an answer. Then the unglamorous half: the content, the pipelines and the tooling that let a two-person studio ship like a bigger one.
Camera-first apps that recognize birds, rocks and minerals — an answer in seconds, wrapped in an interface anyone can use.
We also publish print puzzle and activity books — six titles and counting.
Our own operations dashboard: plans, proofs, approvals and spend, in one place. We use it every day before anyone else sees it.
Everything below is live — real listings, real pages, real screens.
Point, shoot, and know the bird. Aviarist identifies a species from a photo in seconds, shows the field marks that justify the call, and keeps a life list that grows with every walk. Behind it sits a 309-species reference guide that brings birders in from search and hands them the app.
Get Aviarist on Google Play →
A pocket geologist. Photograph any rock, mineral or crystal and Mineralyst tells you what you're holding — hardness, formula, how it forms — then helps you build a collection worth showing off. Its 246-specimen reference index doubles as the front door from search.
Get Mineralyst on Google Play →
We also publish print puzzle and activity books. Its first line, the 2027 vision board series, is six titles published; a word-search line is in production behind it.
Front covers as published, 2026.
The studio runs on this. Every project carries a plan with milestones, so progress is counted from declared steps rather than guessed at from activity. Work that needs a decision arrives as a proof with real approve and send-back controls, and an approval automatically starts whoever owns the next step. Questions queue as answerable options instead of open-ended asks, image spend is metered against a cap before it is committed, and nothing reports success it cannot prove.
Real screen. Project names, figures and personal details blurred.
The alarm clock with a heart. Solve a quick wake-up mission, then feed your farm animals their breakfast. Get up, stay up — they're counting on you.
We build for moments people actually have — "what bird is that?", "what rock is this?", "I can't get out of bed."
One feature, done end to end. No bloated roadmap — a working app in your hand fast.
Checks that can't fail aren't checks. We reinstate the bug and watch the test go red before we trust it.
Anything done twice becomes a script with a number attached, so it still holds when nobody remembers why.
Every launch comes with the unglamorous work that makes a product get found: store listings, search content, and web foundations that keep compounding long after release day.
Listings built around real search terms — titles, descriptions, feature graphics and screenshot sets designed to rank in Play search and convert the tap.
309 bird species, each its own landing page — pulling birders in from Google and funneling them straight into the app.
246 rocks, minerals, gemstones and fossils with dedicated pages. Collectors search for a stone, land on an answer, and leave with the app.
No paid-install treadmill. Content, keywords and listings are assets we own — they keep working while we build the next thing.
Questions, ideas, partnerships or press — or you just want to know when Barnrise hatches. We read everything.
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