We build the software we wanted to use
Veyla Studios is a small independent studio in Canada. We make apps for reading, writing and keeping track of your own things, and we make them the way software used to work: it opens, it does the job, it leaves you alone.
Why we started
Somewhere along the way, ordinary apps got heavy. A notebook wanted an account. A reading app wanted a subscription before it would show you a file you already owned. A file manager wanted permission to look at everything and then showed you an advertisement for a cleaner. The tools got worse while the terms got longer.
Veyla Studios exists because that is a choice, not a law of nature. It is entirely possible to write an app that stores your work on your own device, runs without a connection, asks for nothing it does not need, and still feels good to use. It just takes longer and earns less, which is why fewer people do it.
So that is what we do. Every app we make is aimed at a pile of things you already own and cannot quite keep in order: your books, your notes, your days, your files.
What we stand for
These are not marketing lines. They are the rules we check a feature against before it ships, and the reason a few obvious features have never shipped at all.
Your things stay on your device
Every app we make stores its data locally, in ordinary files, in a folder on hardware you own. Not a cache of a copy that really lives on our server. The actual thing. If our servers vanished tomorrow, your library, your notes and your journal would open exactly as they do today.
Accounts only where they earn it
You should not have to identify yourself to read a book or write a shopping list. You can install any of our apps, use them for years, and never see a sign-in screen. Where an account does exist, it is doing one specific job: proving you paid for a plan, or letting two of your own machines find each other. It is never a toll gate on a feature that would otherwise work fine.
No ads, no trackers, no resale
We do not sell advertising space. We do not embed the analytics kits that quietly follow people between apps. We have not sold anyone's data and we do not have a business model that would ever tempt us to. Where an app can send us a crash report, it asks first, it is off until you turn it on, and it carries no personal content.
Bring your own cloud
Syncing is useful. Becoming your storage provider is not. When our apps sync, they sync through a service you already chose and already pay for: a pCloud folder, a Drive account, a Proton Drive folder your desktop client mirrors, or just a directory on a drive you own. You keep the relationship with your cloud, and we stay out of the middle of it.
Offline is the default
Reading, writing, searching, sorting, backing up and restoring all work with no connection whatsoever. Not degraded, not read-only, not a cached subset. The connection is for the optional parts, and the app never treats a plane, a basement or a bad month of data as a malfunction.
Plain files, and a door out
Your content sits in formats you can open without us. Standard book files, readable text, ordinary folders, backups that are just zip archives. Every app can export everything it holds. Leaving should be as easy as arriving, and if it ever is not, that is a bug worth reporting.
A real person answers the email
One studio, one inbox, no ticket robot in front of it. When you write in about something broken, the message reaches the person who wrote the code that broke, and they are the one who writes back. That is slower on a busy week and far better on every other measure.
Things we will not do
Easier to promise than to explain, and easier for you to hold us to.
Sell your data
Not to advertisers, not to brokers, not to anyone, at any price.
Show you ads
No banners, no interstitials, no sponsored anything, in any tier.
Hold your files hostage
Export is always available, including on the free tier.
Force an account
The core of every app works without ever signing in.
Break the free tier
Features that were free stay free. We do not move things behind the wall later.
Pretend to be big
No fake support hours, no invented team page, no chatbot in a headset.
How we work
Each app keeps its real logic in a shared core, separate from the screen it happens to be drawn on. That is why the Android version and the Windows version of the same app read the same files and behave the same way, and why a fix lands in both at once instead of drifting apart over a year.
Releases are slow on purpose. Everything is tested on real devices, including old ones, before it goes out. We would rather be late than ship something that eats a chapter of your book or a week of your notes.
Accessibility is not a later phase. Adjustable text size and spacing, read aloud, high contrast options and large tap targets go into the first build, because an app you cannot comfortably read is not finished.
Where we are
Veyla Studios is based in Canada, and the apps are built and tested here. You can reach the studio directly at veylastudios@protonmail.com, whether that is a bug, an idea, a licence question or a note to say something worked.
Have a look at what we make
Every one of them built to the rules above. Reading, notes, days and files.