Mobile App Development Case Studies
Apps designed, built and shipped to the App Store and Google Play. 7 case studies in this category, among them My Chess Rating, Meowzy and SimpleV VPN. Each case shows the problem, the design decisions and what shipped.
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An iPhone app and home-screen widget that puts Chess.com and Lichess ratings in one place and explains why they move: tilt check, best hours, openings that cost points, goals and a Sunday report. SwiftUI, WidgetKit and StoreKit 2 on a Node and Postgres backend.
Mobile App Design · Mobile App Development · Product Design · Live on the App Store and Google Play · 2026

A cat-themed match-three game for kids: 25 levels on a meadow map, nine looks to win for the cat and a nap after about 30 minutes of play. Native SwiftUI and SpriteKit on iPhone, Kotlin and Compose on Android; paid with no ads on the App Store, free with child-safe ads on Google Play.
Mobile App Design · Mobile App Development · Product Design · Live on the App Store and Google Play · 2026

A one-tap VPN for Android: no account to start, no traffic logs, WireGuard or Xray Reality to get through networks that block VPNs. A Kotlin and Compose app, an Express and Postgres control plane on Railway and exit nodes on Vultr that start on demand, live on Google Play about two weeks after active work began, plus a Chrome extension that protects the browser on the same accounts.
Mobile App Design · Mobile App Development · Product Design · MVP · Live on Google Play and the Chrome Web Store · 2026

Match-three game for a Cape Town founder who arrived with only an idea: wireframes and the full game design, native iOS and Android builds to prove the mechanics on real phones, then a TypeScript Telegram Mini App with a real server, leaderboard, ads and an admin panel, in about three weeks of active development.
Mobile App Design · Mobile App Development · Product Design · MVP · Idea to Telegram Mini App in ~3 weeks of development · 2026

An iPhone camera that removes tourists and strangers from travel photos in one tap, or keeps just the person you choose. People are found on the phone with Vision, a cloud model repaints only inside that mask, and a Node and Postgres backend charges only for results. Live on the App Store and Google Play.
Mobile App Design · Mobile App Development · Product Design · On the App Store and Google Play · 2026

A world radio app: a night globe lit only by 40,000+ stations from 200+ countries, whose horizon bends into an analog tuner dial when you dive into a country. Native for iPhone, Apple Watch, Mac and Android, plus a WebGL2 web player; live on Google Play and the web, with the iPhone and Mac apps in App Store review.
Mobile App Design · Mobile App Development · Product Design · On Google Play · iPhone in review · 2026

A world clock where every city is a card: drag one sideways and a single shared time moves across all of them, with the weather for that hour. Built natively for iPhone, Apple Watch and Android, with a Mac menu bar app. Widgets, GPU weather shaders and 8 languages. On the App Store and Google Play.
Mobile App Design · Mobile App Development · Product Design · On the App Store and Google Play · 2026
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