Independent software developer · South Tyrol
Solo developer,
making small apps
in the Alps.
I’m Michael Steurer, an independent developer in South Tyrol. I make small iOS and macOS apps under my own name, with the odd thing for the web. I design and write all of it myself.
Currently building
Film Logbook since 2020
A logbook for film photographers. More than a thousand of them use it to note down their rolls, cameras, and exposure settings by hand, the way you would on paper.
Mountain Passes since 2024
Counts the alpine passes you’ve crossed, on its own. It picks up each summit by GPS as you ride or drive over the top. I built it for the roads I know, around South Tyrol and the mountains either side of the border.
Orbit in progress
A space puzzle game I first built as a student. I’m making it again from scratch, the way I wish I’d done it the first time.
Also shipped
I made this so my family could draw names for Christmas without everyone standing around a hat. You sign up once, it pairs people without showing anyone the full list, and each person gets a private link to the name they drew.
Visit
RateBud A place to rate and rank the things you try, so you remember what you actually thought of them. 
DiskBuddy A small macOS utility for seeing what’s eating your disk. Open source. 
CardsFlash A flashcard app with a swipe-to-learn, Tinder-style review flow. 
NewsFlash An RSS reader with a backend that pushes the stories you actually care about. Off-screen
I studied computer science in Graz, mostly multimedia and machine learning, and now work on my own from a valley in South Tyrol. Keeping things small lets me answer to the people who use the apps instead of to a roadmap.
I work in German, Italian, and English, and I use whatever lets one person ship real software, AI included. Most of what I make started as something I wanted for myself and figured a few other people might want too. Client work runs through Twentyseven.
