Espyeon
Independent software studio · Est. 2026

We build software
that sees further.

Espyeon is an independent studio designing and shipping privacy-first applications for iOS, Android and the web — from the first sketch through store review and everything that comes after it.

iOS · Android · WebPlatforms we ship to
Privacy-firstDefault data posture
IndependentStudio-owned and operated
What we build

Four disciplines, one team, no handoffs.

Design, client, backend and release are not separate departments here. The same people who draw the screen are the ones who answer for it at 3am, which tends to focus the mind.

Native mobile applications

Applications built for iOS and Android that feel like they belong on the platform, because they use the platform.

  • Swift and SwiftUI on Apple platforms; Kotlin and Jetpack Compose on Android
  • Designed against Apple's Human Interface Guidelines and Google's Material design system
  • Full support for dynamic type, dark mode, VoiceOver and TalkBack
  • Offline-first data layers so the app keeps working without a connection

Backend and infrastructure

The unglamorous half that decides whether an app survives its first thousand users.

  • Typed APIs, managed Postgres, and background job pipelines
  • Authentication, authorization and audit trails designed in from the start
  • Automated backups with restores that are actually tested
  • Observability — structured logs, tracing and alerting on the paths that matter

Privacy engineering

Data you never collect is data that can never leak, never gets subpoenaed, and never has to be disclosed on a nutrition label.

  • Data minimisation reviewed before a feature is written, not after
  • On-device processing wherever the feature allows it
  • Honest App Store privacy labels and Play Data safety declarations
  • Deletion paths that actually delete, end to end

Release and lifecycle

Shipping is a process, not an event. We treat store review as part of engineering, not an afterthought.

  • App Store and Play Console submission, review responses and phased rollouts
  • Crash triage and regression tracking across OS versions
  • Store listing, screenshots and metadata prepared to each store's spec
  • Ongoing maintenance as platform APIs and policies change
How we work

Five commitments we hold ourselves to.

01

Small releases, often

Long release cycles hide problems. We ship narrow, well-understood changes on a steady cadence so that when something breaks, the surface area of the mistake is one week wide instead of one quarter.

02

Privacy is an architecture decision

Deciding what not to collect happens at the design stage, before a schema exists. Retrofitting privacy onto a product that already hoards data is expensive, and it never quite works.

03

Accessibility is not a phase

Dynamic type, contrast, focus order and screen-reader labelling are part of building the screen, not a cleanup ticket filed after launch. It is also the difference between an app that ages well and one that does not.

04

The platform's rules are the spec

Apple's Human Interface Guidelines, App Review Guidelines, Google's Material system and Play policy are read as requirements, not obstacles. Designing against them up front is how a submission clears review the first time.

05

Maintenance is the product

An app is only as good as its behaviour on next year's OS. Dependency hygiene, deprecation tracking and a working crash pipeline are treated as features with owners, because that is what they are.

Get in touch

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