Software
with teeth.

Focused, thoughtful tools built for people who care about how their software works. No ads. No engagement metrics. No dark patterns. Just fast, native apps that do one thing well.

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The Catalog

Five apps. One point of view.

Each one built for its platform, not ported to it — and designed to stay out of your way until you need it.

Available iOS iPadOS
Bearcell app icon

Bearcell

The card game you know. The forest you didn't expect.

A freecell solitaire game wrapped in a hand-drawn natural theme — moss, bark, stone, and sky. Same classic rules. Almost every deal is winnable if you think it through. No ads, no loot crates, no reason to feel guilty about twenty minutes of play.

Stack Swift SpriteKit
Download on the App Store
Bearcell gameplay
Bearcell hand
Bearcell win
In Development macOS
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Bear Runner

Your projects. Running.

A Mac menu bar app for developers working across multiple local projects. Start, stop, and monitor dev servers. Track git state across repos. Get native notifications when a build fails or a server crashes. No Electron. No web wrapper. Just a fast, native tool.

Stack Swift AppKit Git CLI
Bear Runner interface Bear Runner projects Bear Runner git status Bear Runner notifications
In Development macOS
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Bearscribe

Write the book. Not the workaround.

A native Mac writing app for long-form projects — novels, screenplays, nonfiction. Launches fast, stays responsive with manuscripts of any length. AI features designed for writers: structural feedback, character voice analysis, pattern surfacing. The AI reads your work. It doesn't replace it.

Stack Swift AppKit SwiftData LLM
Bearscribe panel view Bearscribe editor Bearscribe editor 2 Bearscribe split view Bearscribe editor 3 Bearscribe panel
In Development tvOS
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Bearviewer

Your photos. Your TV. No special hardware.

Turns any Apple TV into a digital picture frame — wood, metal, gallery matte, or frameless. Ambient mode dims to match the time of day. Shuffle by albums, favorites, or curated sets. The "Frame TV" experience without locking you into a $3,000 display or one manufacturer's ecosystem.

Stack Swift tvOS SDK PhotoKit
Bearviewer frame mode Bearviewer gallery Bearviewer ambient
In Development macOS iOS
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BearMarkets

See what the market sees. Faster.

Monitors prediction markets and equities simultaneously, flagging moments where the same event or asset is priced differently across platforms. Not a trading bot — a monitoring dashboard. Clean data, fast alerts, no noise. For anyone who follows markets and is tired of a dozen browser tabs.

Stack Swift AppKit WebSocket REST APIs
BearMarkets dashboard BearMarkets detail
Philosophy

We make tools we want to use ourselves — and hold them to the standard that software should respect the people running it.

Native first
Every BearWare app is built for its platform — not ported, not wrapped. Swift all the way down. It launches fast, integrates with macOS/iOS properly, and doesn't fight the system.
No dark patterns
No ads, no engagement metrics, no artificial friction or hidden subscription walls. If an app is free, it's free without asterisks.
Focused scope
Each app does one thing well. Features are added when they're the right answer — not to fill a feature list or justify a price bump.