ESNC Software · An independent app studio

Software that brings you back to yourself.

We make calm apps that follow natural rhythms: waking with the sunrise instead of an alarm, keeping what friends send you, and making plans without the weight of a group chat. No ads, no shame, and nothing built to keep you scrolling.

Scroll through a day

What we believe

Most technology is built to capture your attention. We build the other kind.

  1. Rhythm over urgency

    Bodies keep time by light, breath and seasons. Our apps work with those rhythms, not against them.

    In Sunrise Sync and Tethr

  2. No engagement traps

    No infinite feeds, no likes, no shame. If there's nothing on the screen, you're free to go.

    In here&now, Tethr, freeFlow, Quill, PorchLite and godMode

  3. Value flows to people

    No ads. When something good spreads, the people who passed it along share in what it earns.

    In Nourishing Roots and Secret Garden

  4. Yours stays yours

    Local-first and on-device wherever we can manage it. Your days, words and money are not our product.

    In Sunrise Sync, here&now, freeFlow, Quill, Nourishing Roots, PorchLite, Secret Garden and godMode

The apps

A day, made gentler.

9 apps, each made for one part of the day. As you scroll, the sun moves with you from sunrise to deep night, using the real sunrise and sunset times where you are.

  1. iPhone · HomeKit In development

    Sunrise Sync

    Sunrise Sync turns your HomeKit bulbs into a thirty-minute sunrise that starts candle-warm and ends in clear daylight, so you're already waking up before the alarm would have gone off. It also moves your wake time two minutes a day for the thirty days before each clock change, so the change doesn't knock you off.

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    • A real sunriseThirty one-minute steps take the bulb from its warmest glow (about 2,500 K) to daylight (about 7,100 K). Brightness eases in slowly, the way dawn does.
    • Clock-change glideSunrise Sync finds the next daylight-saving change in your time zone and moves your wake time two minutes a day for the thirty days before it.
    • Breathe with the lightHeart-coherence sessions of thirty slow breaths, five seconds in and five out, paced by your own lamp.
    • Built on your homeSunrise Sync uses HomeKit. With a home hub, the sunrise runs from the hub on time, even while your phone sleeps.
    Live demo

    Your next clock change

    Finding your next clock change…

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  2. iPhone · iPad · Mac · Vision Pro In development

    here&now

    Presence is a habit, and a habit needs somewhere to happen. here&now gives you one: a single HERE button for each day, with a quiet grid of the last thirty days filling in behind it. There's nothing to scroll and nothing to chase.

    • One button
    • Thirty days at a glance
    • Gentle numbers
    • Everywhere you are

    Explore here&now Get early access

    Last 30 days

    0 days present · longest run 0

    Tap once for today.

  3. Web · Private network In development

    Tethr

    A thinking partner for minds holding too many open loops. You can get anything out of your head without stopping to sort it. At most five things are active at once, and Tethr hands you back one physical next step. When something's done, it leaves.

    • Capture is relief
    • A hard cap of five
    • One next action
    • An agent that reflects

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    Active 5 of 5

    What do I touch right now?

    1. Mac · Local web app In development

      freeFlow

      freeFlow shows your money as a river instead of a spreadsheet. Drop in your statements and it shows where money came from, where it went and where it's heading, alongside your budgets, debts and student-loan plans. Your ledger stays on your own computer.

      • The River
      • Remembers your corrections
      • Debts with a plan
      • Local-first

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      The River · a sample month

      PaycheckSide workHomeFoodGetting aroundSaved, and heading on

      Every branch is something the money did. The river keeps going as a projection of where it's heading.

    2. Web · Runs on your computer In development

      Quill

      A calm writing room with a thesaurus that understands context and a coach for your craft. Ask for a better word and Quill reads the sentence around it. Entries are saved to your own vault, and Quill only runs on your own computer.

      • A thesaurus that reads the sentence
      • A coach for your craft
      • Beautiful by default
      • Your vault, your words

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      A thesaurus that reads the sentence

      The house was quiet when I finally came home.

    3. Web · Add to Home Screen In family use

      Nourishing Roots

      Plan the week's meals as a family and get one grocery list, combined and grouped by store. Import a recipe from any link, or have Claude read what the web already knows about a dish and draft a master recipe from it.

      • One list for the week
      • Master recipes
      • A family tree of recipes
      • Links, not passwords

      Explore Nourishing Roots Get early access

      This week, one list

      1. MonRed lentil soup
      2. TueSheet-pan salmon
      3. WedLeftovers
      4. ThuBlack bean tacos
      5. FriPizza night

      Farmers market

      Co-op

      Fish counter

    4. iPhone In development

      PorchLite

      A calm alternative to the group chat. Post a plan in seconds, whether it's a walk, a coffee or a fire in the backyard, and friends reply with one tap: I'm in. Posts disappear once they're over, so nothing piles up.

      • Faster than a text
      • One-tap RSVP
      • Gone when it's over
      • An identity you own

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      Your feed

      Maya is hosting

      Fire pit in the backyard

      Maya's place · from 7:30

      3 going

      This post disappears when the evening's over.

    5. Web · Local-first Prototype

      Secret Garden

      One inbox for everything your friends send you on Instagram, TikTok, Spotify, Messages and email. Each share is saved on your device the moment it arrives and planted into a garden. Makers sell directly to the people who love their work, and when someone passes a piece along and it leads to a sale, everyone who carried it shares in the sale. There are no ads.

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      • One master inboxShares from every app land in one place, with fast keyboard triage and Magic sort suggestions.
      • Saved on arrivalShares that would disappear are saved to your device as they arrive, and your files never leave it.
      • GardensCollections in the style of Pinterest for links, lyrics, poems, podcast moments, reels and photos.
      • The reseed economyMakers set a carrier share of up to 30%. The three people closest to the buyer split it 60/25/15, and the closest can keep it, give it to the buyer as a discount, or return it.

      Follow a reseed

      The real split, live

      $40
      15%
      People who carried it
      The closest carrier chooses to
        • Only real purchases pay
        • Nobody earns for sign-ups
        • Three people, at most
        • Anyone who could earn is labeled
      • Web · Mobile-first In development

        godMode

        Accountability circles for men practicing conscious discipline. A leader opens a circle and invites members by link. Each man chooses his path, gives his word for 3 to 90 days, and names the repair he'll make if he falls. The circle sees what happened and when, and his journal stays his own.

        • Circles
        • Vows and repairs
        • Badges, not rankings
        • A private journal

        Explore godMode Get early access

        EMJTSALY5held today

        Your circle

        Your word 30 days

        Your repair a cold plunge

        Everyone in the circle sees a lit dot for anyone who checked in within the last 24 hours.

      The studio

      A small studio for calm technology.

      ESNC Software LLC builds for the parts of life that matter most and are easiest to lose: sleep, attention, money, food, friendship and meaning. We design from the body outward, then build natively for Apple platforms and on the open web.

      Most of these apps are still young. If one of them is what you've been looking for, we'd love to hear from you.

      What we build with

      • Swift
      • SwiftUI
      • SwiftData
      • HomeKit
      • CryptoKit
      • visionOS
      • TypeScript
      • React
      • Next.js
      • Astro
      • Node.js
      • Hono
      • Python
      • FastAPI
      • SQLite
      • Postgres
      • IndexedDB
      • WebGL
      • Claude
      9apps in the studio
      5platforms: iPhone, iPad, Mac, Vision Pro and the web
      0ads, in any of them

      Contact

      Let's build something human.

      Early access, partnerships, press, or a conversation about calm technology: write to us.

      hello@esnc.software

      Rest well. Tomorrow's sunrise where you are: —