Independent app developer
We make straightforward apps for play, work and everyday life — the sort of apps you can open and understand without a training course.
*The engineering is less questionable than the name suggests.
Our apps
Some apps exist because life could do with more fun. Others exist because something genuinely useful could be simpler. We build both.
Games, challenges and things made primarily to make ordinary moments more entertaining.
Closed testing
Multiplayer photo game
Take it. Hide it. Findsy it.
One player takes a photo and chooses an object hidden somewhere inside it. Everyone else gets the first letter and races to work out what the Findsy is before the clock runs out.
The first correct player wins the round and creates the next challenge.
Currently in closed testing · Available soon
Closed testing
Family storytelling app
Three random words. One story.
Stuck for a bedtime story? Just Three Words generates three random words and gives you one simple challenge: tell a story that connects all three.
A quick way to make bedtime storytelling easier, more imaginative and different every night.
Currently in closed testing · Available soon
Practical tools built to solve real problems without making the solution more complicated than the problem.
See the section. Understand the performance.
SectionIQ is a rail performance insight app designed to turn a user-started journey recording into useful operational evidence without demanding constant interaction from the person carrying the device.
It is being built to map journeys, measure station dwell and sectional running times, calculate average speeds and compare observed running against timetable information so recurring performance patterns are easier to see.
Prototype stage · Currently in development
About us
Bodge Job Apps is a small independent developer building straightforward apps around ideas we actually want to use ourselves.
We’re not trying to build the next enormous social network, invent a new form of subscription, or add seventeen features nobody asked for. The goal is simpler: make something enjoyable or useful, make it easy to understand and make sure it works.
Some ideas are games. Some solve practical problems. Either way, we build, test, discover what we’ve accidentally broken, fix it, then keep improving from real feedback.
The Bodge Job method
Our philosophy
Does this really need to be complicated?
Usually, no. We like apps that make sense when you open them. Simple idea. Clear purpose. Whether it’s useful or just good fun, it should do its job without getting in the way.
What’s next?
Findsy, Just Three Words and SectionIQ are only the start. More games and more serious tools are already finding their way onto the workbench.
Get in touch
Bug report, feedback, app idea or just a hello — send it straight to the workbench.
Prefer email? hello@bodge-job.com