A small studio
that sells software, not access to it.
We make focused desktop and mobile apps that run on your machine, keep your files in folders you control, and never phone home. You pay once. Nothing expires, nothing renews, and nothing stops working because a server went away.
What we make
Lacy Digital Labs, LLC is an independent software studio. We build a small line of productivity and study apps — a markdown workspace, a task manager, a flashcard app, a ham-radio logbook, a teleprompter, and an SDR client on the way — and we take on custom software, AI and consulting work alongside them.
The apps run natively on macOS, Windows, Linux, iOS and Android. Not a web page in a wrapper, and not a Linux build that arrives a year late: the same application, on the platforms you actually use, usually on the same day.
Why local-first
Most software in these categories now rents you access to your own work. Your notes, your tasks and your study progress live on somebody else’s servers, cost a monthly fee, and disappear if either of you stops paying attention.
We build the other kind. Your data sits in plain files or an open SQLite database on your disk. There is no account to create, no server we run that you depend on, and no telemetry — no analytics, no trackers, no “anonymous” pings. The apps work with the network cable out, and they cannot be switched off remotely because there is nothing to switch off.
That constraint costs us things. We cannot show you a usage dashboard, we do not know which features you use, and we have no recurring revenue to smooth out a quiet month. We think the trade is worth it, and we would rather say so plainly than bury it in a privacy policy.
How we price
- Once, per platform. Buy it and it is yours. No subscription, no renewal, no feature held back for a higher tier.
- No cross-platform bundle. Deliberately — verifying one would mean knowing who you are, and we would rather not know.
- Sold where you already have an account. The App Store, the Microsoft Store, Google Play, and our own store for Linux.
We also give some away
TermLogger is a terminal-based amateur-radio logger, free and MIT licensed, built for the ham community to use, fork and improve. It is not a funnel to a paid product — some things are better simply given away.
Our foundation
As a Christian-owned business, we strive to honor God in all that we do. That is not decoration on a values page: it is why the apps do not track you, why the pricing has no dark patterns, and why we answer our own support queue rather than hand you to a bot.
We aim to deliver real value for what you paid, treat people the way we would want to be treated, and be straight with you when something is broken or not ready yet.