Nathan Cole · Independent app & web developer · Redruth, Cornwall

I make useful things
feel a little bit alive.

Seven live Apple apps, each at the scale of life it serves — from a cot at 3am to the edge of the solar system. Scroll to zoom out.

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Nathan Cole · Independent app & website developer · Redruth, Cornwall

I make useful things feel a little bit alive.

Seven live Apple apps, with Orbitarium coming next — plus websites, data products and full-stack systems designed, built and shipped from Cornwall.

Tiny Care on iPhone

2 m · the cot

Tiny Care

Calm tracking for families.

A gentle baby tracker for feeds, nursing, bottles, nappies and naps. Built for tired parents with fast actions, clear daily patterns, family handoffs, care summaries and optional private cloud backup.

  • One-tap care logging
  • Family handoff notes
  • 24-hour summaries

iPhone · iOS 15.1+ · Lifestyle · 2.0

PairPlate on iPhone

3 m · the table

PairPlate

Nutrition, together.

A calm nutrition tracker for people who eat better together. Log meals in natural language, review AI-assisted estimates and share a routine through Circles, streaks, nudges, reactions, household profiles and coach mode.

  • Natural-language meals
  • Shared Circles
  • Household and coach modes

iPhone + iPad · iOS 16.4+ · Productivity · 1.0.10

Hey, Love on iPhone

12 m · the home

Hey, Love

Love, kept safe.

A private place for voices, photographs, videos, notes, people and ordinary moments worth keeping. There are no feeds, likes, followers or public profiles — just personal keepsakes and trusted sharing.

  • Voice and video keepsakes
  • Private people and pets
  • No public feed

iPhone · iOS 16.4+ · Lifestyle · 1.0.6

SiteMate on iPhone

35 m · the street

SiteMate

The trade desk in your pocket.

A mobile workspace for sole traders and small trade businesses. Voice or type what happened on site, then turn it into structured work logs, expenses, customer records, invoices, earnings and simple tax estimates.

  • Jobs and customers
  • Invoices and expenses
  • Voice-to-work-log AI

iPhone · iOS 17+ · Productivity · 2.1.2

Care Circle on iPhone

750 m · the village

Care Circle

A private circle around someone.

Care Circle Companion helps trusted friends coordinate gentle support for someone living alone. It combines simple check-ins, optional notes, care actions, friend rotation, private circle chat and concern-pattern prompts.

  • Daily check-ins
  • Helper rotation
  • Private circle messages

iPhone · iOS 17+ · Lifestyle · 1.2

The Brief on iPhone

16,000 km · the planet

The Brief

Calm news, clearly sourced.

A finite daily briefing with the breadth and story count you choose. Pick regions, topics and emotional intensity, then read attributed stories with update history, evidence context and clear uncertainty labels — without an endless feed.

  • Finite daily queue
  • Source attribution
  • Intensity controls

iPhone + iPad · iOS 17+ · News · 1.0.1

VectorPoint on iPhone

100,000 km · in orbit

VectorPoint

UAP research without the noise.

Explore a large sightings archive, curated cases, media and document evidence, global patterns and live-sky context. Field reports can include photos, video, location and nearby aircraft, satellite, astronomy and weather signals.

  • Global sighting map
  • Source-rich case archive
  • Live sky context

iPhone · iOS 16+ · Education · 1.09

13 AU · the solar system

Orbitarium

The solar system, made explorable.

The next app: a native astronomical world built around an interactive orrery, living-sky context, spacecraft missions and source-pinned scientific data — designed to make our place in space feel tangible.

  • Interactive 3D orrery
  • Living sky layers
  • Missions and worlds

Native iOS · Coming next · In development

Next appBuild note

Redruth, Cornwall · the studio

I build the whole useful thing, not just the shiny screen.

Independent product developer. Thirty-three. Five years in. I design, build, test and ship native apps, websites and full-stack products from Cornwall. The work reaches from the interface to authentication, payments, databases, cloud services, AI controls and release engineering.

Native, web & cloud
Swift and SwiftUI, React Native and Expo, React and Next.js, Node, PostgreSQL, Supabase, Cloudflare Workers, R2 and Render.
AI with boundaries
Explicit consent, bounded inputs, structured output contracts, validation, human confirmation and useful fallbacks.
4½ years at RouteNote
Inside a high-volume global music-distribution platform: structured metadata, release checks and content operations.
Cornwall foundations
2:1 BA (Hons) Music Technology from Falmouth University.

Back at the desk

Got a rough idea?

Every scale on this page started as something small: a voice note, a half-sentence, a problem someone kept bumping into. Tell me who it is for and what it should make possible — I’ll reply with useful questions and a sensible next step.