✦ An independent product studio

We build apps people actually live in.

Swipe Motion Lab is a small studio shipping products we believe in. We sweat the details, release in public, and write down what we learn along the way.

1App shipped
In the lab
100%Built in public
✦ Out of the lab

What we’ve shipped

One app live today, with more taking shape. Each one is a product we wanted to exist — so we built it.

Live on the App Store

MoveOn

A no-contact tracker that doesn’t just count the days — it supports you through the hardest moments after a breakup, when temptation is strongest.

iOSPlatform
4.9★App Store
2026Launched
Open in App Store
MoveOn app — main screen
✦ In the lab

Project No.02

A new web app in early design. We’re keeping the name under wraps — for now.

Coming soon
✦ In the lab

Project No.03

Another idea we can’t stop thinking about. Follow the newsletter to see it first.

On the bench
✦ How we work

We build what
we believe in.

Every app starts as something we wished existed, and we’re patient enough to make it good before it’s loud.

01

We make our own products

The studio owns what it builds end to end — design, code, and the long tail after launch. Every decision is ours to get right.

02

We build in public

The blog is where the real work shows. Decisions, dead ends, numbers, and the occasional rewrite — written down as it happens.

03

Details are the product

An app earns a place in someone’s day through a thousand small things. We’d rather ship one that feels right than five that feel rushed.

✦ From the notebook

Notes from the lab

The whole journey, written down — how an idea becomes an app, how we build it, and how we get it in front of people. The full posts land in the newsletter first.

Development

What nobody tells you before launching your first app on the App Store

The rookie mistakes that get you rejected — a paywall bug and Apple’s rules about “free” that can flag your account.

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Growth

ASO is dead in 2026 — and the App Store loop that traps every new app

Apple won’t rank a new app without downloads and reviews — but you can’t get those without ranking. The trap, and the way out.

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Marketing

Your app is only 30% of the job — TikTok vs Instagram for indie devs

Driving organic traffic in 2026: TikTok’s hidden limits, why I start on Instagram, and conversion over views.

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✦ Build in public

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01Idea — where every app begins, and how we pick which ones to chase
02Development — the design and code decisions behind each release
03Marketing — how we launch it and get it in front of real people