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Practical apps that solve modern problems.

Every mark we ship is one letter on a near-black tile. Four products, four letters, and the same idea behind each: the work happens on your machine, the records stay where you can reach them, and there is no account standing between you and either one.

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Crosswalk · macOS, Windows beta

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Crosswalk

Terminal sessions for coding agents

Terminal manager to manage all your running AI agents. Give each session a note so you remember what you set it working on. Easily group terminals by topic or view them all at once, start new sessions with designated envs or folder paths, copy text out without AI formatting, and paste commonly used snippets.

  • Engine Real PTYs on a Mac, real consoles on Windows. Your shell, your PATH, your tools.
  • Switching Easily re-open panes, switch with hotkeys, drag and drop layouts.
  • Notes A note on each session, shown above its terminal and on its pane in a layout.
  • State Each session reports working, finished, or waiting on you, and says so in a banner.
  • Delivery Direct downloads and no subscription, just a one time purchase.
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Maintenance Log Book · iPhone

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Log Book

Cars, home and equipment service

Cars, mowers, tractors, boats, generators, furnace filters. Anything on a service interval. Intervals advance from the day the job was logged rather than on a calendar repeat that fires whether or not the work was done, and each one stores the part number, the size and a photo of the part being replaced.

  • Storage SwiftData on the device, and your own iCloud if you enable it. Fully functional without it.
  • Intervals Time, distance, or engine hours.
  • Estimates A phone cannot read an odometer. Projections are labelled as projections.
  • Import CSV out of your old app. Importing the same file twice changes nothing.
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Gift List & Ideas · iPhone, iPad, Mac

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Gift List

Ideas all year, every occasion

Record an idea against a person when you hear it, and get it back before their date arrives. Capture needs a person and a title; price, link, notes and a photo are optional, so an idea can be filed in three taps and completed later.

  • Capture Three taps, from the share sheet, Siri, or a widget, without opening the app.
  • Sync Your own iCloud, across all three devices, included for everyone rather than sold with Pro.
  • Private No wishlists, no shared lists, nothing sent to anyone. There is no sharing feature to turn off.
  • History What was given, to whom, by year, for as long as you keep the app.
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Truewares · Web service

Truewares

One catalog, three storefronts

Square is the source of truth for a shop's catalog. Truewares carries the whole listing, prices, photos, variants and live stock, out to Shopify and Etsy and keeps it in step. This one cannot run on your machine, because it sits between other people's systems.

  • Runs on Servers. It needs an account, and it is filed as a service for that reason.
  • Also The seller of record for Crosswalk licences.
  • Terms Its own terms and its own privacy policy, at truewares.com.
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How we build

Three constraints

These are constraints on what we are allowed to build, not features. They are listed because they account for most of the trade-offs in the apps above.

01 No server of ours

The apps are fully functional with the radio off, with sync off, or with sync failing. Nothing of ours sits between you and your own records, so there is nothing of ours that can go down, expire, or change hands. Truewares is the exception, which is why it is filed as a service.

02 No third-party code

Apple frameworks and our own source, and nothing else inside the binary, so there is no third-party SDK with access to what is in the app. The privacy label reads Data Not Collected because nothing in the binary collects anything.

03 Export is never locked

Each app is a one-time purchase. Export is free in every version and every tier, including the free tier, and it writes open formats rather than a format only this app can read.

Small tools, built to keep working without us.

Each app should continue to work with no maintenance from us and no service of ours running. That is the practical reason the records are stored locally: keeping them does not depend on this company still existing.

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