Independent Mac & web studio
Small Mac and web tools that get out of your way.
I'm Chris. VoilaWeb is me, building a handful of shipped products on my own. AppDecoder is the one I spend most days on; the rest are below, alongside a few open-source tools like GLAuth and KittenDNS that keep the lights on.
Start with AppDecoder ↓Lead product
AppDecoder
macOS 12+ · SwiftUI · ships now
Reads every app in your Applications folder and tells you where it came from, what it can touch, and whether it still earns the space. The kind of thing you reach for at 1am when you find a launch agent you don't recognize.
- OriginRanked homepages, App Store metadata, and download hosts, so you can see where an app actually came from.
- PrivacyEntitlements, usage-string prompts, login items, and hardcoded network domains, read straight from the bundle.
- SpeedNative search, sort, and filters across hundreds of apps. Cache-aware, so a second scan is instant.
- Stays localNothing leaves your Mac. Optional LLM summaries run only when you turn them on.
The rest of the shelf
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Talky
macOS · local-first
Ask your own notes a question. Talky indexes Obsidian, Craft, and Confluence on your machine and answers from them, no cloud round-trip.
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Topsidian
iOS · widgets
Your Obsidian task list, pinned to the Home Screen as a widget. Syncs through a GitHub mirror, so it stays current without opening the app.
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Earlier work
web · macOS · platform
Two decades of shipped products, plus open-source tools like GLAuth and KittenDNS that other people run in production.
Built by one person who has shipped for a long time.
VoilaWeb is Chris Ravenscroft. The work runs from early-90s game studios and a decade of telecom network software to today's small, privacy-aware Mac and web tools. The thread throughout: things that are reliable, legible, and don't waste your attention.
The longer story →