Lyre&Lens
lyreandlens.com
An independent software studio · two houses, one workshop

Lyre&Lens

Tools tuned for clarity.

After Apollo — god of music,
light, foresight, and healing.
01The Studio

One workshop, kept under two roofs — a lyre for what should feel close to home, and a lens for what needs to be seen clearly.

Lyre — family & everydayLens — engineering & clarity
House № I — Lyre

Lyre.

FOR HOME · FOR HOURS

Software for the people you live with, and the hours that are yours.

Privacy-first family apps that never leave your device. No accounts, no servers, no analytics. Everything happens on your phone.

  • 01
    Oriana
    A private contraction tracker for labor. No account, no subscription, no server.
    iOS · AndroidBeta
  • 02
    GentleThrive
    Baby tracker for feeding, sleep, growth, and first foods. Everything stays on your device.
    iOS · AndroidComing soon
  • 03
    Ember
    A quiet hot flash log. Track patterns over time, share a summary with your doctor.
    iOS · AndroidComing soon
House № II — Lens

Lens.

FOR CRAFT · FOR CLARITY

Instruments that make engineering work legible — to the people who shipped it, and the people who decide their trajectory.

The most important parts of building software are the least visible: judgment, mentorship, the quiet refactors. Lens makes that work seen.

  • 01
    Vantage
    Product-development flow, made legible across your whole tool chain.
    Web · B2BComing soon
02House rules

What we’ll always do, and what we’ll never do.

i.

Your data, your device.

Lyre apps are client-side only. Nothing leaves the device unless you carry it there yourself. There is no "Lyre cloud" for family data, and there never will be.

ii.

No telemetry. No tricks.

Zero analytics, zero session replay, zero growth dark patterns. If we want to know how something works we'll ask — and we'll tell you why.

iii.

Make the invisible visible.

Lens exists because the most important engineering work is the least legible. We build instruments that let craft be seen by the people who decide your trajectory.

iv.

Small, sharp, slow.

One studio, two houses, no growth team. We ship when a thing is good. We charge once, or once a year. We don't chase markets we don't believe in.

v.

Pay the maker, not the middleman.

Pricing is plain. One-time purchase where it makes sense. No subscriptions for apps you use once in a lifetime.

vi.

Open about what we ship.

Public roadmaps. Plain-language changelogs. If a product is sunsetting, we say so — in advance, in writing.

Currently on the workbench.

03Specimens
Lyre · Shipping
Oriana
Oriana
A contraction tracker that never leaves your phone.
Lyre · Coming soon
GentleThrive
GentleThrive
A baby tracker for the household. On-device, ad-free.
Lyre · Coming soon
E
Ember
A quiet hot flash log. Track, spot patterns, share with your doctor.

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