Clarendon / Studio

One person. Every line.

An independent iOS studio. Chicago · est. 2026 · one craftsman.

№ 01 The Studio

One chair at the bench.

Clarendon Labs is an independent iOS studio with one chair at the bench. The same person designs the icon, writes the Swift, ships the build, and answers the support email.

01
Person, start to finish
04
Apps in the catalog
'26
Year founded
CHI
Chicago, Illinois
№ 02 The Thesis

Made carefully. Shipped slowly.

The trade-off is that we ship slowly. The benefit is that nothing leaves the bench before it's good.

RULE 01

Finished before it ships.

No early access, no roadmap promises. If it's in the catalog, it works.

RULE 02

One app, one job.

Each app does a single thing well. No feature creep, no everything-apps.

RULE 03

Native, every layer.

Swift and SwiftUI, top to bottom. Apps that feel like they belong on the platform.

RULE 04

Pay once, when we can.

One-time purchases wherever the economics allow. No dark patterns, ever.

RULE 05

No tracking, ever.

No ads, no analytics SDKs, no data brokers. The house rules apply to every app.

RULE 06

Replies from the founder.

Support email goes to the engineer who built the app — not a queue, not a bot.

№ 03 Provenance

The particulars.

Founded2026
HeadquartersChicago, Illinois
TeamOne person
StackSwift, SwiftUI, AppKit
EntityClarendon Labs LLC