Small tools. Sharp edges. Made for Mac.

We build the utilities we needed in our own edit bay — fast, native, Apple Silicon, no subscriptions. Two of them are ready now.

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Replace with a silent 8–10s loop of a real search and a real conversion.
Replace with a silent 8–10s loop of a real search and a real conversion.

Pick your problem.

Two apps, two problems, both discovered the hard way in the middle of an edit.

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Built by the same hands.

Scout

Scout

Search only the drives you choose, and actually see what you found.

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Anvil

Anvil

Watches a folder and quietly converts whatever lands in it.

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Every one of these started as a real hour lost.

Not a market gap, not a roadmap. Scout exists because Finder will not search one drive. Anvil exists because browsers hand you files your NLE refuses.

Your edit bay — a real photo beats a render here.
Your edit bay — a real photo beats a render here.

No subscriptions. No accounts. No nonsense.

Pay once. It keeps working. That is the whole pitch.

Truly native

Swift and AppKit. Launches instantly, sits still, uses almost nothing.

Stays on your Mac

No cloud, no telemetry, no account to create. Your files never leave.

Built for real projects

Tested against multi-hour timelines and drives full of footage.

Keyboard first

Everything reachable without the trackpad, because that is how editors work.

Respects your time

No onboarding tour, no tips popup. It does the thing on launch.

Quiet updates

Told about new versions once, never nagged again.

Something broken? Something missing?

Bug reports and feature requests go to one place, and I read all of them myself.

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