Colla Futurity is a small studio that designs and engineers native applications for iOS and Android. One team from the first sketch to the release build, so nothing gets lost between the people who draw the screens and the people who ship them.
We keep the whole path in one place. Research, interface, engineering, infrastructure and store submission are handled by the same people, which is the only way we know to keep a product coherent.
An idea in a message thread is not a plan. We turn it into a scoped first version: what the app does, what it deliberately leaves out, and what has to be true for people to open it twice.
Screens designed as a system, not as a folder of pictures. Type scale, spacing, states, empty states and motion are defined once and reused, and dark mode is part of the first draft rather than a later patch.
Swift and SwiftUI on iOS, Kotlin and Compose on Android. We write code that a different engineer can pick up next year: small modules, readable state, tests where they actually protect something.
Most mobile apps need a thin, boring, reliable backend. We build one on edge infrastructure: authentication, sync, push, feature flags and metrics, sized for the app instead of for a slide.
The build is not the finish line. We prepare the listing, the privacy declarations and the review notes, and we answer the review team in plain language when something needs clarifying.
Apps decay if nobody watches them. We keep an eye on crashes, cold-start times and the numbers that matter, then ship small releases instead of one heroic update a year.
No phase closes with a status update. It closes with a document, a prototype, or a build you can install and try on your own phone.
We sit with the idea until it has edges: who it is for, what the first version has to do, what we are not building yet. Written down in one document both sides can argue with.
Flows, then screens, then a clickable prototype. Decisions about navigation and hierarchy get made here, where changing them costs an afternoon rather than a sprint.
Two-week cycles, a new internal build at the end of each one. You watch the app grow instead of waiting for a reveal, and the direction stays correctable the whole way.
Store listing, screenshots, privacy answers, submission. Then the first weeks of real users, which is where the interesting bug reports always live.
Four apps we are building for ourselves, and the stage each one is at. Working titles and screens keep moving while a product is being built, so read both as work in progress.
Class-action settlements, data breach payouts and unpaid wage cases are all public record, and almost nobody reads court dockets for fun. Cashnova scans thousands of open cases, matches them against a short profile, and shows the ones a person can actually file for: payout ranges, deadline countdowns, and a filter for claims that need no paperwork at all.
Where it stands: matching and the claim flow are built, the subscription runs on StoreKit 2 with a three-day trial, and the product site is live at cashnovaclaim.com. The app is an independent aggregator of public settlement information, not affiliated with any court, defendant or settlement administrator.
Streak counters punish one bad day and then lose you for good. Tideline plans habits by the week: you decide how many times something should happen between Monday and Sunday, and the app shows the week filling up rather than a number waiting to be broken.
Where it stands: the tracking engine and the weekly view work end to end on device. We are rewriting notifications, because the first version nagged in a way none of us wanted on our own phones.
Every pantry app dies the same death: keeping the inventory current is more work than cooking. Pantry Owl bets that a fast camera flow and a forgiving list will survive real kitchens, and suggests meals that need nothing you do not already own.
Where it stands: in design. Flows and the component library are done, and the recipe matching rules are being tested on paper before anyone writes the screen.
A route recorder that expects no signal and asks for no account. You walk, it traces, and you pin notes and photos to points along the way. Everything stays on the device unless you export it yourself.
Where it stands: a prototype that records and draws a track reliably on both platforms. Battery use during long recordings is the current focus.
Colla Futurity, LLC is a mobile product company based in Los Angeles. We started it because we kept seeing the same thing: good ideas arriving as beautiful decks and leaving as unmaintainable code, with three vendors in between blaming each other.
So we kept the team small and the chain short. The people who design the app are the people who build it, and they are the people who answer your email. It limits how many projects we can take at once, and that is the trade we chose.
Most of our capacity goes into our own products, and we take on a small number of outside projects alongside them.
Source code, design files and accounts are yours from day one, in your repository and under your developer account.
We collect the minimum an app needs to work, and we can explain every line of a data disclosure because we wrote the code behind it.
If a week went badly you will hear about it that week. Bad news early is cheap, bad news late is not.
Documented, conventional, boring architecture, so another team could take the project tomorrow without a rewrite.
We are deliberately conservative about tools. Native frameworks, mainstream languages, and infrastructure someone else could operate if we disappeared tomorrow. New technology has to earn its place in a shipping product.
When a project has good reasons to use something else, we will say so and explain the trade before anyone commits to it.
Every product gets a closed test before it goes out. Write to us and name the app you are curious about, and we will put you on the list for its test round.
Yes, a small number at a time, alongside our own products. We are a better fit for a first version, or a rebuild of something that has outgrown its original code, than for adding one screen to an app somebody else maintains.
For a focused app with a small backend, usually a few months from the first conversation to a build in review. The thing that changes that estimate most is not the feature count, it is how quickly decisions can get made on your side.
Per phase, agreed in advance. You approve the scope and the price for the next phase before it starts, which keeps both sides able to stop without an argument. We do not quote a whole product from a one-paragraph brief.
You do. Work happens in your repository where possible, apps are published under your own developer account, and design files are handed over in an editable format. We sign a mutual NDA before detailed discussions if you want one.
Los Angeles, California. We keep a written trail of every decision so progress does not depend on being awake at the same time, and we hold one live call a week at an hour that works for both sides.
Two paragraphs are enough to start: what the app should do, who it is for, and where you are today. You will get a straight answer, including when the answer is that we are not the right studio for it.
info@collafuturity.com
New projects, questions about the apps, working with us: it all lands in the same inbox.
We read everything ourselves and usually reply within two business days, Monday to Friday, Pacific time. If the project looks like a fit, the next step is a call of about half an hour with the people who would actually build it.
We are not hiring agencies, resellers or SEO services, so those messages get no reply.
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