Tapfare
Take card payments with just a phone
Turn any modern phone into a contactless terminal. No dongles, no rentals, no monthly minimum.
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We build quiet software.
Pale Blue is a small product studio shipping apps people keep on their home screen — on iOS, Android and the web.
Scroll to appsProducts we're proud of
Ledgerly
Invoicing that stays out of your way
Send polished invoices and estimates in a minute, collect payment in the same thread, and see when a client opens it.
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Onyx
A private AI that never leaves your phone
Open models running fully on-device. No account, no sync, no server — the conversation stays where you typed it.
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Scribe
Scan, sign and send in seconds
A pocket document desk: capture receipts and forms as clean PDFs, sign them, and share them without a laptop.
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Fresh from the blog
The slow death of the pixel-perfect handoff
Design systems moved the interesting decisions upstream. What is left in a spec, and what should teams stop arguing about?
Continue reading →Shipping on-device models without wrecking battery life
Notes from tuning quantised models on phones: memory budgets, thermal throttling, and what users actually notice.
Continue reading →Small teams should write fewer tests, better
Coverage numbers are a poor proxy for confidence. A pragmatic take on where a four-person studio spends its testing budget.
Continue reading →What we're about
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Engineering-first
We came up through platform teams at large product companies. Clean, scalable code is the baseline, not the retrospective.
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Design we can defend
Every screen earns its place. We prototype early, cut hard, and keep polishing until the flow feels obvious.
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Built around real friction
We only start things that remove a genuine annoyance for someone — ideally an annoyance we have lived with ourselves.
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In it for the long run
Decades of combined experience across three countries, and products we still maintain years after launch.
Partners we've built with
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