Focused beats broad
Every product in the catalogue does one thing for one person at one moment. CatchLens is not a general nature app; it is the answer to keep-or-release on the water.
The studio
We build small software that answers big questions.
Astraveon is an independent studio. No agency layers, no outsourcing: the people who decide what to build are the same people who design it, build it and support it.
Studio at a glance
19Apps built
2Platforms: iOS & Android
5Product categories
52Locales at most
Approach
Four rules we do not bend.
The answer has to arrive fast
Our users are standing in a thrift aisle, on a beach, or in front of a snake. Latency is a design constraint, not an engineering detail.
Honest output over confident output
Value estimates ship as ranges, identifications ship with confidence, and warnings ship when they matter more than the answer.
Design is the product
Icon, onboarding, empty state, paywall. Nothing is left to a default because defaults are how good products look like every other product.
Capabilities
What it takes to run nineteen apps.
The same six disciplines run through every product in the catalogue.
Vision & on-device AI
Camera-first products where the model has to answer in seconds, on a phone, with a bad signal. We design for the moment of use, not the demo.
Product design systems
Every app ships with its own tokens, type scale and component set. Nineteen products stay coherent without nineteen redesigns.
Localisation at scale
Between 16 and 52 store locales per app, with copy written for the market instead of machine-translated into it.
Subscriptions & paywalls
Onboarding, trial and paywall flows tuned per category, wired to real store infrastructure and measured end to end.
Store operations
Listing research, screenshot systems, keyword iteration and release cadence — the unglamorous work that makes a launch compound.
Ship, measure, iterate
Analytics, funnels and crash signal wired in from day one, so the second version is informed by behaviour instead of opinion.
Process
From a one-page brief to a finished build.
A typical product goes from that first page to a tested, release-ready build in weeks, not quarters.
Scope
One page, one job. We start from the decision a user is trying to make and cut everything that does not serve it.
Design
Directions, real screens, real copy. Nothing is signed off as a grey box.
Build
Expo and React Native on the client, typed end to end, with the AI layer behind our own proxy.
Operate
We run what we ship: store listings, pricing, localisation, and the release after the release.
Stack
Deliberately boring where it counts.
TypeScript
React Native
Expo
Swift
Kotlin
Node.js
Cloudflare Workers
Vision models
RevenueCat
Fastlane
PostgreSQL
Figma
Contact
Questions, bugs, or press.
If something in one of the apps is broken, tell us and we will fix it. Questions, press and partnership enquiries all reach the same place.