Privacy by default
No analytics SDKs, no crash reporters, no telemetry. Data that does not need to leave your phone does not leave your phone. When an app needs to talk to a service, we say so in plain language and link the policy.
About ZoraStudio
An independent studio shipping small, sharp tools.
ZoraStudio is a small, focused mobile studio. We ship Android utilities we would actually keep on our own phones — and we build them in public, in the open, one quiet release at a time.
We started ZoraStudio because every “utility” on Google Play seemed to be doing too much — too many trackers, too many permissions, too many login screens for what should have been a two-tap task. The shelf was full but nothing felt like it was built for the person actually using it.
So we narrowed our scope. Each app we ship has one clear job and one clear audience. A speedometer for daily drivers. A privacy scanner for travellers. A daily-claim helper for one very specific game. When the job is done, the app stays out of your way.
Everything we make follows the same six principles below — they are not branding, they are constraints we hold ourselves to before a release ships.
Our principles
Six commitments we ship every release against.
Small, fast, considered
We optimize for cold-start under a second, minimal battery cost, and the smallest install footprint we can ship without sacrificing the experience. Animations are tuned to feel right — not loud.
Transparent about ads
When we serve ads, they are Google AdMob and nothing else — no SDK soup, no third-party trackers behind them. Premium upgrades remove ads entirely where they exist.
Useful before viral
We do not chase engagement metrics. Each release solves one specific, real problem a little better than what we tried before. The work is the marketing.
Built by people, not committees
ZoraStudio is a small team. There is no roadmap PowerPoint and no quarterly OKRs. Decisions are made fast, in writing, and in public commit messages.
Long-lived over flashy
We update what we ship. Apps get patches and improvements long after launch — no abandonment, no surprise sunsets. We pick technology with the same eye on longevity.
Our stack
The tools we trust to ship.
Boring tech where possible. Sharp tools where it matters. No Firebase, no Crashlytics, no analytics warehouses on top of a speedometer.
- Mobile
- Kotlin · Jetpack Compose · Material 3 · MapLibre · Room · Coroutines
- Tooling
- AGP 9.x · Gradle Kotlin DSL · Versions catalog · Detekt · ktlint
- Ads & growth
- Google AdMob (the only SDK we ship). No Firebase Analytics, no Crashlytics, no third-party trackers.
- Web
- This site: Next.js 16 · React 19 · TypeScript · Tailwind CSS v4 · motion/react
3 apps in flight, and we are just getting going.
If any of this resonates, the best way to support the studio is to try the apps and tell us what you think — good, bad, or brutal.