The studio · Den Haag, Nederland

Independent products.
Different purposes.
One standard.

Tolavo Apps is independent and small. There is no investor, no growth target, and no roadmap written by anyone who has not used the software.

01

Why we build

Because most software asks for more than it needs. An account to open a notebook. A server to count your push-ups. A permission dialog for a game that could have run on a plane.

Every product here started from the opposite question: what is the smallest thing that would actually be useful, and what can be removed from it without losing that.

02

How we think

One product at a time, and each one carried far enough that a stranger could use it without being told anything first.

The work is finished when the thing behaves correctly on real hardware in a real hand — not when a feature list is complete. That is why several products on this site say “in testing” instead of pretending to be released.

03

Privacy by design

Not a policy bolted on at the end. Three of the six were built without a network layer at all: no account, no server, no sync. There is nothing to transmit, so there is nothing to switch off.

The one product supported by advertising says so on its own pages and in its own privacy policy, rather than in a footnote. Every claim here is checked against the build before the page goes up, and a document that cannot survive that check is held back rather than published.

04

Products that keep evolving

An app that stops changing has usually stopped being maintained. These are kept: corrections first, then the thing someone actually asked for.

Nothing here is abandoned to make room for the next idea. The list stays short on purpose.

Checked, not claimed

Four things we checked rather than assumed.

  1. Two of the products described here carry a test that fails if a network call is ever added to them, and in one of the two that test runs as part of the release itself rather than being remembered by a person.
  2. No product here asks for App Tracking Transparency permission or is designed to read the advertising identifier. One is supported by advertising, and says so on its own pages rather than in a footnote.
  3. Every app stores its data in its own container on the device. Four of them can erase it from inside the app, in one action and without an account; TRACE clears its saved record only when the app is deleted.
  4. This website loads no third-party script, no external font and no analytics of any kind. It sets no cookie.

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