Small Hours Studio

Small apps.
Each one made
in the hours between.

A one-person studio making considered apps for Android, iPhone, and Steam. Built in the small hours, with intention.

Apps

Surface
Surface
A daily tidying companion
Habit iOS & Android Free
"One small act. Every day."
App Store Play Store
Soon
Untitled
Phonics for young readers
Education iOS & Android Coming soon

The studio

A one-person studio making considered apps in the margins of a full life. A job, a family, church, and whatever hours are left after all of it.

Each app is made because it felt worth making — a small act of creativity, in the hope it might touch someone's day. Read more about the studio →

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Surface

Surface

A calm daily habit for keeping your home's surfaces clear. One small act, offered gently, every day.

Habit iOS & Android Free
App Store Play Store

What it is

Surface is not a cleaning app. It is not a task manager. It is a quiet companion — offering one small, intentional act each day. Return something to where it belongs. Clear one surface. Nothing more.

The design draws from Swedish lagom (just the right amount) and Japanese kanso (simplicity). Every screen is an argument for the habit it is trying to build.

How it works

What it doesn't do

No badges. No leaderboards. No streaks. No notifications you didn't ask for. No data collected. Surface is designed so that over time, you need it less. That is success, not failure.

Pricing

Free, permanently. There is an optional in-app purchase to support the studio — framed as appreciation, not transaction.

Privacy policy for Surface →

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Privacy Policy

Surface · Last updated May 2026

Surface is designed to work entirely on your device. It does not collect, store, or transmit any personal data.

What the app stores

Your preferences, configured spaces, notification settings, and tidy history are saved locally on your device in a file that never leaves it. This data is not accessible to the app's developers.

Notifications

If you enable daily prompts, Surface schedules notifications locally on your device. No data is sent to any server to do this.

Purchases

If you choose to support Surface through the optional in-app purchase, the transaction is handled entirely by Apple or Google. Small Hours Studio does not process or store any payment information.

Third-party services

Surface does not use analytics, advertising, crash reporting, or any third-party SDKs that collect data.

Children

Surface does not knowingly collect data from anyone, including children.

Contact

If you have any questions about this policy, please get in touch at [email protected].

This policy may be updated if the app's data practices change. Any changes will be reflected here with an updated date.

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Made in the
small hours between.

There's a particular quality to the hours after the house goes quiet. That's where most of this was built — after work, after family, after church. In the margins. Hence the name.

I'm a developer and designer. I work a full-time job, I'm married to Caroline, we have a three-year-old, and faith is a significant part of how I move through the world. The studio grew out of all of that — not despite it.

The things I make tend to be small and considered. I'm drawn to apps that do one thing well, that feel unhurried, that treat the person using them with some respect. I don't start a project because there's a gap in the market. I start one because something feels genuinely worth making — a small act of creativity I hope might land in someone's life and mean something.

I build for Android, iOS, and Steam, using Godot. I design everything myself. Caroline is involved in concept and testing — she has better instincts than me about whether something actually feels good to use.

If you want to get in touch — about an app, a bug, or anything else — [email protected] is the right place.