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August 11, 2026

The lineup is eight

When this blog opened in July, we said we were working on three apps. That number is now eight. Here's where everything actually stands.

Live today

  • TrailWeight — a backpacking trip planner that turns your gear list into pack weight you can feel.
  • MenuPlan — on-device AI meal planning that builds a week you'll actually cook.

Coming soon

  • Upkept — home maintenance that understands seasons, not just intervals. Hemisphere-aware, so a Southern Hemisphere heating season lands in the right month.

In development

  • Undim — an insight-first take on digital wellbeing, with a one-time price and no guilt trips.
  • Quietworth — a local-first net worth tracker for iPhone and Mac. No bank logins, no server holding your balances.
  • Askvault — photograph a warranty, policy, or bill and it's read, filed, and searchable, entirely on your device.
  • Voice Log — a voice-first symptom logger for chronic conditions. It captures and exports; your clinician does the interpreting.
  • Loadcraft — zero-tap plate math, plus an on-device AI workout generator for the days you want the app to build the session.

Two of them changed names

Paper Trail became Askvault and Loadstar became Loadcraft, both after trademark and App Store name collisions turned up during launch prep. Renaming an app late is genuinely annoying — bundle IDs, schemes, test targets, and a few hundred references across a codebase. It's still much cheaper than discovering the conflict after launch.

A few apps also carry a longer name on the App Store than they do here in conversation — "Voice Log: Talk & Track", "Loadcraft: Plates & Workouts", "Upkept: Home Upkeep". Apple requires the listing name to be unique across the entire store, and the short versions were taken. The app itself is still just Voice Log.

What hasn't changed

Every one of these is local-first, has no accounts and no servers, and does its AI work on-device. Where an app needs outside data — Quietworth looks up stock quotes and exchange rates — it fetches directly from your device and sends nothing but the symbol it's pricing. That's written down in each app's privacy policy, and it's meant to stay true.

More soon.