About the Studio

Yes, somebody lives here. 🏡

Bayou Byte Studio is a real, independent, U.S.-based app studio — founded in 2026 on decades of career systems-engineering experience keeping enterprise infrastructure running, and a long-held itch to build the small, warm, personal software we always wished existed.

The name says it all: bayou for the mood we put into everything — Spanish moss, porch lanterns, fireflies, slow evenings — and byte for the engineering underneath. Our apps look beautiful and run like production systems.

What we build

Calm, private mobile apps — and a few beautiful little games — spanning everyday tools, wellness, play, and creativity:

The family has grown to twenty-four apps and counting — including Bayou Solitaire (classic Klondike with no ads), Bayou Puzzles (relaxing nature jigsaws), Bayou Fishing (a calm fishing game under the moon), Bayou Idle (a cozy bayou town tycoon), Pizza Panic (a chaotic pizzeria arcade platformer), ForgeLore (a Game Master's toolkit for tabletop RPGs), Bayou Claw (a painted claw-machine arcade), Bayou Probability (real-world risk, explained), Bayou Pet Health (a warm, private pet-care companion, in closed testing), Nightveil (a dark-Victorian paranormal mystery), Bayou Rush (an endless bayou runner), Bayou Finder (clap to find your phone), plus Bayou Coins, Bayou Dreams, Bayou Fidget, AuraLens and Bayou Scratchpad. See them all →

Every app follows the same house rules: no accounts, no ads, no tracking, works offline. What you type, record, or log stays on your phone. In the games that sell coins or unlocks, the store's purchase system receives a random device ID so purchases work — no ad IDs, no profiles, nothing sold. That's the entire disclosure, and each app's privacy policy says so in plain words.

How the studio earns its keep

We keep the money side simple, boring, and transparent:

That's the whole business model — app purchases and tips. No data resale, no dropshipping, no crypto — just software made by hand and supported by the people who enjoy it.

The story so far

• Early 2026

  The studio is founded

  After years of building and maintaining enterprise systems by day, the home workbench officially becomes Bayou Byte Studio.

• June 2026

  Journal Spaces ships

  Our first app launches on Google Play, and bayoubytestudio.com goes live along with it.

• July 2026

  Two more apps reach testing

  Bayou Pill Reminder and Bayou Water Break both enter closed testing on Google Play — one for the medicine cabinet, one for the water glass.

• July 2026

  Bayou Feedback joins the water

  Our fourth app — a haunted instrument watching five streams of random numbers — goes from sketch to closed testing on Google Play in a single day. When the numbers align, the bayou responds.

• July 2026

  Driftlands — the biggest build yet

  An entire open world — endless realms, a living town with voiced villagers, quests, weather, and the Hunter — is submitted for closed testing on Google Play.

• August 2026

  Driftlands and Scratchpad launch to everyone

  Driftlands graduates out of testing to a full Google Play release, and Bayou Scratchpad — a warm, endless whiteboard with handwriting-to-text and PDF export — ships alongside it.

• August 2026

  A whole wave of new apps

  Bayou Coins, Bayou Dreams, Bayou Fidget, Bayou AuraLens, Bayou Rush, Bayou Finder and Nightveil join the family — arcade play, sleep sounds, fidget toys, aura visualizations, an endless runner, a phone-finder, and a paranormal mystery.

• August 2026

  Bayou Probability — our fourteenth app

  A calm, intelligence-style command center for real-world risk — probabilities for severe weather, outages, disease and traffic, always explainable — launches to everyone on Google Play, complete with its own cinematic trailer.

• August 2026

  Bayou Claw — our sixteenth app

  A painted claw-machine arcade from deep in the bayou — a real physics claw, 20 painted prizes, six machine scenes, and a Cajun announcer calling the wins — enters closed testing on Google Play, with its own trailer.

• August 2026

  The family heads to the iPhone

  The first wave of Bayou apps — seven of them, from Journal Spaces to Bayou Claw — is submitted to Apple's App Store review. iOS, here we come.

• August 2026

  Bayou Pet Health — our fifteenth app

  A warm, private companion for a pet's whole life — medications and doses, vet visits and vaccinations, walks, meals and weight, plus a keepsake journal — enters closed testing on Google Play, complete with its own cinematic trailer. Everything stays on the device.

• August 2026

  ForgeLore — our seventeenth app

  A complete Game Master's toolkit for tabletop role-playing — forge a world, prep the session, and run it at the table with encounters, NPCs, monsters, a cinematic dice roller, ready-to-run adventures, and a printable session kit. Now in closed testing on Google Play, with its own trailer.

• August 2026

  Pizza Panic — our eighteenth app

  A fast, forgiving arcade platformer set in a chaotic pizzeria — climb the counters, ride the machinery, dodge the grumpy chef, and deliver every pizza to the oven before the timer runs out, across twenty-five kitchens. Now in closed testing on Google Play, with its own trailer.

• August 2026

  Inkwell — our nineteenth app

  Our first social app takes shape: a dark-academia home for book lovers — discover your next read, build a library that's truly yours, and gather with fellow readers. Built for readers 18 and up, curated rather than scraped, and ad-free. Now on Google Play.

• September 2026

  Bayou Blast — our twentieth app

  A one-touch platformer in a neon-lit haunted bayou: the mossy crate runs on its own, you tap to jump, and twenty-five painted levels climb to a glowing portal at the top — with three quests hidden on every one. Enters closed testing on Google Play.

• September 2026

  The first two clear Apple

  Bayou Claw and Bayou Feedback are approved and go live on the App Store — our first titles on iPhone and iPad, and both still free, ad-free and account-free.

• September 2026

  Three more open to everyone

  Pizza Panic, ForgeLore and Bayou Pet Health finish their testing rounds and go out to everyone on Google Play.

• September 2026

  Four new games

  Bayou Puzzles, Bayou Idle, Bayou Fishing and Bayou Solitaire enter closed testing on Google Play: nature jigsaws, a cozy boardwalk town, a quiet night on the water, and classic Klondike. All four are free, ad-free and offline.

• Next

  More porch-light software

  Bring the newest apps out of testing and into everyone's hands, then onward — same art, same care, same house rules.

Reach a human

Every address below lands in a mailbox a real person reads — usually within one to two business days: