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 seventeen apps and counting — including 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. Our privacy policies aren't boilerplate — they're short because there's genuinely nothing to disclose.

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 — enters closed testing, 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.

• 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: