Independent software studio · est. 2019

Software built
with uncommon care.

ConfirmDev is a small studio shipping eight native apps across iOS, Android, and the web — connected by one identity, one sync engine, and one unhurried standard of quality.

8
shipped apps
2.1M+
users worldwide
38
countries
0
dollars in funding
studio.confirmdev.local
$ cdv ship --all
[build] altimeter v3.2.1
[test ] 1248 passed · 0 failed
[ship ] ios · android · web
[users] 12,403 active · +2.1% wow
✓ deployed in 41s ▌
Featured in App Store ✦
Apple Design Award nominee 2024 ✦
TechCrunch · Studio of the year ✦
The Verge · One to watch ✦
Product Hunt · #1 of the day × 6 ✦
Fast Company · Innovation by Design ✦
Featured in App Store ✦
Apple Design Award nominee 2024 ✦
TechCrunch · Studio of the year ✦
The Verge · One to watch ✦
Product Hunt · #1 of the day × 6 ✦
Fast Company · Innovation by Design ✦
Why ConfirmDev

Quality is a schedule, not a sprint.

We've stayed independent on purpose. No board, no growth-at-all-costs runway, no pressure to bolt on AI just to keep the deck warm. Every app gets the time it actually needs.

01

Performance is design.

We measure cold-start, frame budget, and battery before we ship. A beautiful UI that hitches on a 3-year-old phone is a broken UI.

120fps target
02

Native where it matters.

We use the platform's own building blocks — UIKit, Compose, the web platform — instead of fighting them. Apps feel at home, not transplanted.

0 hybrid shells
03

Quiet by default.

No streaks, no dark patterns, no infinite scroll. We optimize for whether the app made your day better, not whether you came back tomorrow.

Zero ads, ever
04

Ship the rough draft.

We write our own tools, dogfood for months, and let real use shape the product. Marketing pages come last; product comes first.

9-month avg dev
The Platform

Apps that know each other.

Every app rides on three shared layers we built ourselves — identity, sync, and billing — so signing into one means signing into all, and your data moves between them at the speed of thought.

ConfirmID
Single sign-on
Sync Engine
End-to-end encrypted
Wallet
One subscription
Altimeter
Hearth
Fieldnote
Loopback
Cadence
CDV / PLATFORM TOPOLOGY
● core ● app
ConfirmID

Single sign-on across every app. Hardware-backed, passkey-first.

Sync Engine

End-to-end encrypted CRDT sync. Offline first, conflict-free.

Wallet

One subscription unlocks the entire suite. Family sharing built in.

What's next

Pick an app, or
follow along as we build.

One short letter every two weeks — what we shipped, what we cut, what we learned. No tracking, no upsells, never sold.

┌─ next on the bench ──────────────┐
│ app #09 · status: dogfood │
│ platform: ios, web │
│ category: [redacted] │
│ eta: when it's good │
└──────────────────────────────────┘