An independent software studio

Every product AKdev publishes starts the same way. A problem worth doing properly, where what already existed was priced well beyond what the job was worth, or was available and simply not very good. That is the whole method, and it is why Crub, KinopiQ, BusyWait and SwingFactor look unrelated to each other: each one was a gap somebody had to keep working around.

It also sets the shape of them. A product built to close one gap tends to be narrow, to stop where the job stops, and to be priced like a tool rather than a platform.

The same goes for what is inside them. A model gets added when it does a job that needs doing, and not otherwise. Crub, KinopiQ and SwingFactor each use one, and in each it proposes and a person decides. There is none in BusyWait and there never will be. Which kind each product uses, what leaves AKdev when it does, and what we will not build are on the ethics page.

What we build

AKdev Ltd is a small independent software studio registered in Scotland, Companies House number SC892925. It designs, builds and publishes its own software. Rather than spreading products across several entities, everything we ship sits under a single accountable publisher, so it is always clear who stands behind an app. They are all on the apps page.

We also take on a small amount of work building apps for other people, limited to Scotland. Small deliberately: it is capacity we can give properly without the products suffering for it.

How we work

The footprint stays small and the focus stays narrow. We develop and maintain every product in-house. One set of terms, privacy, security and support policies covers all of them, so a policy does not change depending on which app you happen to be using.

Being small cuts both ways: support reaches the people who build the thing, and work happens in an order rather than in parallel. What that costs you is written down too.

Get in touch

For business, partnership or support enquiries, email hello@ak.dev or use the contact page.