Software that respects your time.
Most software asks for your patience. Ours is built the other way round: we spend the months, so you spend the seconds. Every product starts with a real problem and ends when it feels like part of your computer.

Four rules we keep.
We measure before we decide.
Every choice comes with a number: seconds, megabytes, frames. Taste decides the rest.
It should feel like part of your computer.
Native controls, native fonts where they belong, and no surprises on the screen.
Every click has to earn its place.
If a step can disappear, it does. Most of the work is taking things out.
We fix causes, so problems stay fixed.
A fix is done when we know why it broke and a test makes sure it never breaks that way again.
Most of the work happens before you see it.
Research
We start with the problem people already have, and how they solve it today. Most of a product is decided here.
Sketches
Many rough versions, on paper and in code. Most are thrown away, which is the point.
Measurements
Every idea gets a number before it gets a decision: seconds to start, megabytes fetched, frames dropped.
Rewrites
When the first working version teaches us something, we rebuild it instead of patching around it.
Testing
Every bug becomes a test, and the full set runs before every release, on real machines.
Polish
The last mile: spacing, timing, wording, the one click we can still remove. It takes as long as the rest.
What we have shipped.
Aura Scanner arrives on Google Play.
Lynx 1.0: a download manager for the Mac.
Lynx is signed and notarized by Apple.
Lynx 1.1: clipboard history in the notch, Auto-delete, and a one-click browser extension.
Lynx 1.1.2: downloads reconnect by themselves, and clips cut on exact frames.
Your files and photos are yours.
Lynx
Files go straight from the site to your computer. They never pass through our servers. Since Lynx 1.0.7, every Mac release has been signed and notarized by Apple.
Lynx privacy policyAura Scanner
Your photo is read by an AI model to write your cards. What is kept, for how long, and how to delete it is set out in Aura Scanner's own policy.
Aura Scanner privacy policyThis website
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