Independent app studio · San Francisco Bay Area

Small, private apps for everyday life.

Rakaworks is an independent studio in the San Francisco Bay Area. We build iPhone apps that each fix one everyday annoyance, and we build them so your data stays on your phone.

Road Trip CopilotSweepBayPankuMobShell

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iPhone · React Native · Expo Beta

Road Trip Copilot

A live, time-aware road trip planner for iPhone.

How you use it

  1. Set a start, an end and when you need to be there
  2. Pick what you like: scenic, hiking, food, drone, nightlife
  3. Drive. The plan updates itself as the day changes

What it does

  • A timeline of stops from A to E that watches the clock
  • Replans when you are running late: skip, shorten or take a faster route
  • Photographer mode with drone airspace guidance, golden hour and camera settings
  • Eat near here: nearby restaurants open when you arrive
  • Multi-day loops from a home base with a daily driving cap
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Tahoe by sunset
Leave by 9:40 · arrive 6:52 pm
San FranciscoLeft 9:44
SacramentoLunch · 45 min
Donner LakeGolden hour 6:12 · drone OK
Emerald BayViewpoint · 20 min
South Lake TahoeHotel check-in
Running 25 min late. Shorten Donner Lake to keep sunset at Emerald Bay?
iPhone · React Native · Expo Beta

SweepBay

Street cleaning reminders for the Bay Area, so you never get a sweeping ticket.

How you use it

  1. Park. SweepBay saves the spot, or tap Park here
  2. It checks the cleaning schedule for that side of the block
  3. You get a reminder before you need to move

What it does

  • Saves where you parked automatically when you leave CarPlay or Bluetooth
  • Reminds you before the street sweeper comes
  • Covers San Francisco, San Jose, Oakland, Berkeley and South San Francisco
  • Schedules are built into the app, so lookups work offline
  • Countdown ring and status card show if your spot is safe
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SweepBay App Store screenshot
SweepBay App Store screenshot
SweepBay App Store screenshot

All screens

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iPhone · Swift · SwiftUI Beta

Panku

Split expenses with friends, sorted by what you spent on.

How you use it

  1. Start a group, like Tahoe Road Trip or Friday dinners
  2. Add expenses as they happen and who paid
  3. Settle up in as few payments as possible

What it does

  • Groups by category: subscriptions, food, road trips, hotels, travel and city outings
  • Equal splits to the cent, with running balances per friend
  • Settle up suggestions with the fewest payments
  • Import your history from a Splitwise export
  • Works with no account and no internet
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Tahoe Road Trip
4 friends · $1,284.60 total
SubscriptionsFoodRoad tripHotelTravelCity
AKArungets $214.15
MPMayaowes $96.40
JLJordanowes $117.75
MeYousettled
Settle up in 2 payments
iPhone · Swift · SwiftUI Beta

MobShell

A pocket SSH terminal for running your Mac from your iPhone.

How you use it

  1. Add your Mac once: address, username and password
  2. Pick a project. It opens its own tmux session
  3. Close the app. Your session keeps running for next time

What it does

  • Saved hosts with a live check of which ones are reachable
  • Projects as tmux sessions that keep running when you disconnect
  • Quick-key bar with an Allow button for coding agent prompts
  • Copy, paste, text size and one-tap reconnect
  • Passwords stored in the iOS Keychain
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Hosts
2 of 2 reachable · checked just now
alex@home-mac ~/projects % tmux a -t work
Building app…
✓ 42 files compiled
Allow this command? (y/n)
esctabctrl↑Allow

How we build

Every app follows the same four rules.

No accounts

Open the app and use it. There is nothing to sign up for.

No ads, no tracking

No analytics SDKs, no ad networks, nothing sold or shared.

On your phone

Trips, parking spots, expenses and hosts are stored on your device, not on our servers.

Free data first

Built on open data and free public services, so the apps can stay free.

Questions, bugs or ideas

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