An independent iPhone app studio
susnoodle makes private, offline iPhone apps that do one job properly — a French vocabulary trainer, notes that expire, a return-and-renewal deadline tracker, a scratch-card decision game, a habit and bill tracker, and a museum of rotary phones. Free to try, nothing ad-supported.
The apps
An offline French vocabulary, verb and pronunciation app for iPhone — 1,252 curated words and phrases in real sentences, 273 verbs conjugated across six tenses, pronunciation, listen-and-shadow speaking practice and spaced-repetition review. A calm reference you keep, not a streak machine.
A temporary-notes app for iPhone: a scratchpad where notes delete themselves. The parking level, the gate code, the guest wifi password, the name of the guy in the blue shirt — there while it matters, gone when it isn’t, so your real notes app never becomes a junk drawer.
A return-window, free-trial, subscription-renewal and warranty tracker for iPhone. Every deadline tells you what happens if you do nothing — the refund you’ll miss, the trial that turns into a charge. Receipts are read on your phone; nothing is uploaded anywhere.
A scratch-card decision game for groups — who pays the bill, where to eat, who drives, who goes first. One phone in the middle of the table, real haptic foil, a synced countdown, and provably fair outcomes sealed before anyone scratches. Thirty seconds and it’s settled.
A habit tracker, quantity log and vendor-bill tracker in one. One tap logs a habit or a quantity — milk litres, gym days, water cans, pages read — and bills with a rate total themselves for settling-up day, with a PDF to hand over. The fridge diary, on your phone.
A pocket museum of vintage rotary phones. Eight rooms, eight real telephones from 1919 to 1972 — pull the dial to the stop and feel every pulse as it winds back, ring the bells, hang your own photo on the wall, and finish a number to really place the call. Satisfying, nostalgic, oddly calming.
The studio
susnoodle is a small independent studio making apps for iPhone. Every app starts as something we wanted ourselves and couldn’t find done properly — and ships only when it feels right: fast, private, and quiet enough to live on your Home Screen for years.
The rule for every app is the same. Do one job properly. Work offline. Ask for nothing it doesn’t need — no account, no contacts upload, no location, no tracking permission. Never sell anyone’s attention. Upgrades are priced plainly on the app’s own page, and nothing is ad-supported.
If that’s how you want software to behave, the six apps above are for you.
Questions
Every app is free to download and genuinely usable for free. Upgrades vary by app: Sumday and Landline are a single lifetime purchase; Pocket French and Cinder offer monthly, yearly or lifetime; Ajar and FateCard offer monthly or yearly plans. Nothing is ad-supported.
No. Every app works fully without signing up or handing over an email address; your data lives on your iPhone. The one optional exception is Sumday, which offers Sign in with Apple purely for backup — only if you ask for it.
No ads, no cross-app tracking, no advertising identifiers, and no App Tracking Transparency prompt — there is nothing to ask permission for. A couple of apps send anonymous crash reports so bugs get fixed; that is declared on each app’s privacy page and in its App Store privacy label.
Yes. Every susnoodle app is built to work with no connection at all — on a plane, in a basement car park, or with data switched off.
The apps are built natively for iPhone. Sumday is in closed testing on Google Play; the others are iOS-only for now.
Each app has its own support page and email address, listed in the footer below and inside the app’s Settings screen. Messages are read by the person who built the app.