BrewingStack

Consumer apps and desktop tools for everyday problems

BrewingStack is a small software studio that builds consumer apps and desktop tools for everyday problems that deserve a thoughtful solution. The team is small, and its members come from product design, engineering and storytelling. The studio says it builds for specific communities, such as writers, careful spenders and creators, rather than for mass markets.

The apps it makes

Three products are presented on its site. TrueSpend is an app for personal finance that follows spending on Amazon, with the aim of making every charge understandable instead of leaving the user with unexplained amounts. Naan of the Fluff is a recipe tool for the web that weaves ingredient quantities into the cooking steps, so the user does not have to hunt between a list and the method. Quillchemy is a desktop writing app built specifically for fantasy authors, combining worldbuilding with drafting in one place.

Principles behind the software

The studio says software has become unnecessarily complex and that its tools should do one thing well, without features that slow everyday use. Privacy and clarity come first, and it says each product is designed without dark patterns or manipulative design. It also says that a user's data belongs to the user.

Working method

The team says every app is one its members would use themselves, and that it avoids corporate habits such as growth hacking. The work is run as a small project studio, with each product taking its own shape and new projects announced as they are ready.