Handeware

Software and robotics, since 2012

We build software
we would put on our own phones.

We keep the company small on purpose. Email support and the reply comes from someone who worked on the thing you are asking about. Every app on this page ships to our own devices first — a slower way to work, and the only one we trust.

Take a look around Eight apps. Four are at the App Store getting their photo taken.

Otto, the Handeware owl, wearing round spectacles and a bow tie

Apps

Mahjong Solitaire OttoPlay free1,500 boards and every single one can be finished. I checked. All of them. That is not a marketing thing, that is a man-with-a-spreadsheet thing. Sift - Photo & File CleanupIn reviewYour phone is full. I know. Mine was too, mostly the same photo of a sandwich eleven times. Sift finds all of it, shows you, and lets you decide. Then it learns what you keep. It is a little bit magic. Chartra: Unlimited PDF ScannerIn reviewScan a thing, sign a thing. And when you black something out it is actually gone, not hiding under a rectangle like a bad magic trick. This one matters to us. Sugar Block WorksIn reviewDrop candies, clear lines, bring the whole board down at once. There is a pineapple in a deck chair named Duke who turns up when you do something good and tells you he has seen worse. We do not fully know why.
DuskSoonSleep and meditation. Wind down, drift off, stay asleep. We tested this one extremely thoroughly.
ChatterSoonSpeech practice for kids, for the days between real sessions. This one is personal.
OnecheckSoonBudgeting that shows you the whole month at once. It is the only subscription here, and I will tell you exactly why, because you deserve to know.
MicrodroidsPrototypeSmall robots for a desk. One job, done well, instead of a big machine that does everything badly and gets retired after a year. Yes, robots. We are as excited as you are.

About

Handeware LLC has been building software since 2012 — the first release was a handful of Android apps that earned about five dollars. Five dollars. We thought about framing it. We have stayed deliberately small since, and the rule has not changed: build the small thing properly instead of the big thing approximately.

Everything here runs on your device. No login, no server, nothing uploaded — not because privacy makes a nice slogan, but because an app that stops working when someone else’s server goes down was never really yours. That is also why these cost money instead of quietly selling you. There is no third option. We looked.

We write up what we learn along the way — iPhone storage, PDF redaction, on-device machine learning. Free, no email required, and genuinely useful even if you never install a single thing. Read the guides →

The apps are one half. The other is work for companies moving old systems onto new ones — where the hard part is never the migration, it is proving afterwards that nothing quietly changed on the way across. Same instinct as everything above: show the evidence, do not ask to be believed. Handeware Enterprise →

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Four apps are in review right now. I will email you exactly once, on the day a thing is ready. That is a promise from a man who hates newsletters.

One email when it ships. Nothing else, ever. Privacy.