A small studio · Toronto, Canada
Small software, made slowly and on purpose.
SimpleGames is a one-person studio building quiet, privacy-first apps and little games for iPhone, iPad and PC. No accounts, no tracking, no subscriptions, just things that are pleasant to own.
Out first
Qualian, a quieter kind of habit tracker
Track how it felt, not just that you did it.
Pick a petal to log a habit, rate the feeling in five stars, and watch your month bloom into a garden worth printing. No account, no analytics, no server of ours, and your entries live on your device and in your own iCloud. Buy it once; there is no subscription anywhere in the app.
How everything here is built
The same few rules, every time
Privacy is the default
No accounts, no third-party SDKs, no trackers. Where there's no server, there's nothing to leak.
Buy once, keep it
One-time purchases over subscriptions. No dark patterns, no timers designed to make you pay.
Small on purpose
Fewer features, finished properly. A studio of one means every detail was actually decided by a person.
Made in Canada
Designed and built in Toronto, for phones, tablets and desktops around the world.
The maker
One person, a long runway of code behind them.
SimpleGames is Florin T. Pătrașcu, a developer in Toronto. I've spent more than 12 years writing Elixir, and even longer writing Java, open-source and commercial, in domains that quietly turned out to be higher-stakes than the tidy code suggested: ecommerce, military, and stock exchange systems among them. Add a long stretch of iOS and Ruby, and lately Rust and Godot. Tennis fan, chef wannabe, and someone who genuinely enjoys shipping small, sturdy things.
A good chunk of that work is out in the open. I maintain open-source libraries used by other developers: a Neo4j driver for Elixir, a closure-table library for hierarchical data, a small Java web framework, and a pile of smaller tools and editor plugins.
Start with Qualian. Stick around for the rest.
One app is out today, more is on the workbench. If you like software that respects you, you're in the right place.