Independent app studio

Small studio.
Careful software.

FrogWood Labs builds the kind of apps you actually want on your phone — quiet, fast, and finished. No ads. No accounts you didn’t ask for. No dark patterns dressed up as features.

Products

Out in the world

GiftFlow app icon
Android · iOS soon

GiftFlow

Every gift. Every occasion. One calm list. A year-round gift planner that follows a gift from idea to given — including the part every other app forgets: the week it’s in transit.

  • A real Arrived stage, so you know what’s actually in the house
  • Budgets per person and per occasion, with the math done for you
  • Photos and links that stick around instead of vanishing
  • Christmas mode and a year-round Occasions mode — birthdays, weddings, anniversaries
GiftFlow Christmas list screen GiftFlow Occasions screen

In the workshop

The next one is being built the same way this one was: slowly, in public, and only shipped when it stops annoying us.

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Approach

Three rules we don’t break

Most apps are built to capture you. These are built to get out of your way.

Works offline, works alone

Your data lives on your device. No mandatory account, no sync you didn’t ask for, nothing that stops working when a server goes down.

No ads, ever

Free tiers are generous because they’re meant to be used, not endured. Paid features are a one-time unlock, not a subscription treadmill.

Fixed, not shipped

Every feature starts as somebody’s complaint about an app they already use. We read the one-star reviews so you don’t have to write another one.

About

A one-person workshop with good taste

FrogWood Labs is the software arm of Brain Spanking Media, LLC — a small Minnesota company that has spent the better part of a decade making things for an audience rather than for a pitch deck.

That background shows up in the apps. They’re made the way a good video gets made: obsess over the details nobody will consciously notice, cut everything that doesn’t earn its place, and ship something that respects the person on the other end.

StudioFrogWood Labs
Parent companyBrain Spanking Media, LLC
Based inMinnesota, USA
PlatformsAndroid · iOS
ShippingGiftFlow
Contact

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Bug reports, feature requests, partnership ideas, or a note that something is broken — all of it goes to the same inbox, and it’s read by the person who wrote the code.