empearl

Crafting experiences
that matter.

Apps that make everyday life simpler and help people create, work, and achieve more. Every experience is crafted with care to feel fast, intuitive. So the technology stays out of the way and people can focus on what matters.

Apps

What we're building

Built end to end — the design, both platforms, and the parts underneath that nobody sees.

QuoteDiary

iPhone

A quiet place for the quotes worth keeping. Scan a book's barcode or the page itself, organise what you save into collections, and turn any line into a card worth sharing — many backgrounds to choose from. No accounts, and nothing leaves the device.

  • Swift
  • SwiftUI
  • SwiftData
  • Metal
  • WidgetKit
  • VisionKit
The QuoteDiary home screen: a Quote of the Day card above a library of Book and Poetry collections.

Approach

How we build

Three decisions that shape everything else.

Native on both platforms

Swift and SwiftUI on iOS; Kotlin and Jetpack Compose on Android. The same product, written twice — because the shortcut that avoids writing it twice is what makes an app feel foreign on both.

Your data stays with you

Our apps create no accounts and run no analytics, and there is no server holding your library. Where syncing exists it runs through your own iCloud account, so we never hold a copy of anything.

The details are the work

Compute shaders behind the share cards, a launch animation that respects reduce-motion, a quote of the day that lands on the same quote whether the widget or the app asks first.

Working on something?

If you have an app that needs building properly — or you just want to talk about one — we'd like to hear about it.

support@empearl.net