We design and build a handful of mobile apps at a time, each one obsessed over until it feels obvious. No growth hacks, no dark patterns — just useful software.
A quiet journaling app that turns your daily photos into a private timeline — no feed, no likes.
→ App StoreSplit bills with friends, without spreadsheets or awkward group chats.
A minimal scorekeeping app for weekend sports leagues — stats, standings, and nothing else.
→ App StoreJoSorion Labs is an independent studio of two — a designer and an engineer — building mobile software on our own terms. We ship one app at a time, support it for years, and only start the next thing once the last one earns its keep.
We're not chasing scale. We're chasing apps we'd want to use ourselves, built with the same care whether ten people download it or ten thousand.
Four things we check every decision against before we ship it.
We'd rather spend three extra weeks getting one interaction right.
No inflated screenshots, no fake urgency, no vanity metrics.
A launch is day one. We measure ourselves in years of updates.
We're staying small on purpose. Every hire dilutes the thing we're protecting.
Ten years designing consumer apps before deciding most of them didn't need to exist. Now designs the three that do.
Built mobile infrastructure at two startups before wanting to own something small enough to actually finish.
We start with a problem we personally have, not a market gap from a deck.
Weeks of paper and Figma before a line of code, so the shape is right first.
Small releases, real devices, dogfooding from day one.
Every app gets years of patches, not a slow fade into "legacy."