Verdant Studio — Est. 2019 · Kyoto · Lisbon
We're a small studio making quiet software — tools that do their work and then get out of the way. Nothing here watches you back.
A dry-landscape garden. Drag your cursor across the sand — it keeps the rake marks for a while.
- We don't sell attention. We never have, and the studio is built so we can't start.
- If we can read your data, we consider that a bug.
- Software should feel like a quiet room, not a crowded street.
- Slow is fine. We'd rather ship a thing once, well, than ten times, anxiously.
The first project
One thing, finished — then the next.
Garden
Your whole financial life in one calm place — and nobody else's business.
Most money apps make a living by knowing too much about you. Garden makes a living the old way: people pay for it. Your accounts, your numbers, your plans — encrypted, on your device, sold to no one.
Walk through GardenA second project is in the soil. We'll show it when it's ready, and not before.
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The best software is like a good garden. You feel it was tended, but you never catch it trying.
Mira Tanaka — founder
The gardeners
Small on purpose.