Games & apps · Quito
pablin.me is a one-person studio making games and apps for Apple devices, one at a time. No accounts, no analytics, no network calls of their own — everything here does what it does entirely on your device.
Game · iPad · iOS 17 · US$4.99 on the App Store
Mend it. Tune it in. Put it back on the air.
A tube-radio repair game, across the street from Tick Again. Sixteen radios nobody came back for, six real circuits, and a station to hear when you are done.
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Game · iPhone & iPad · iOS 17 · Free on the App Store
Grow flowers. Jar the honey.
A beekeeping garden. Plant flowers for your bees, harvest the honey by hand into jars the colour of what they visited, and trade them in a town that shares one sky.
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Game · iPhone & iPad · iOS 17 · US$4.99 on the App Store
Open it. Mend it. Hear it run.
A watch-repair game. Twelve watches nobody came back for, six real calibers, and every part where a watchmaker would find it.
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Game · iPhone & iPad · iOS 17 · Free on the App Store
Build the gears. Let Milo out.
A gear puzzle. Set gears on the pegs, let the mainspring turn the crank, and every dial has to stop exactly where the level asks — then the door opens for Milo.
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Game · iPhone & iPad · iOS 26 · Free on the App Store
The run is written. Build the level.
A puzzle game with the runner turned round. The tape presses the one button and never changes; you place the pieces so the run gets through.
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App · iPhone, iPad & Apple Watch · iOS 18 · Coming to the App Store
How sure is the forecast?
A weather app that says how sure it is: one plain sentence, the temperature and three tally marks, with the reason one tap deeper. Forecasts from Apple Weather. No accounts, no ads, no analytics.
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App · iPhone & iPad · iOS 26 · Free on the App Store
Every number stays yours.
Expenses, subscriptions, debt, and goals — tracked and narrated entirely on your device. No accounts, no cloud, no analytics.
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App · iPhone & iPad · iOS 26 · Free on the App Store in Ecuador
Qué paga cada banco por tu dinero.
What Ecuador's banks and cooperativas pay on your savings, ranked from most to least. Every rate is read by hand from the institution's own rate sheet, dated, and linked to the document. In Spanish.
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App · iPhone & iPad · iOS 27 · Free on the App Store
Many shots. One picture.
Five tools for photographs shot more than once: stack the focus, average the noise away, clear the crowd out of a square, build star trails, or keep the sharpest frame of a burst.
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App · iPhone & iPad · iOS 26 · Free on the App Store
Shoot it. Step through every frame.
Frame-by-frame video for coaches: step through every frame of the clip you just shot, measure angles and airtime, compare two attempts, talk it through, and send it back slowed down.
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App · Mac · macOS 15 · Free on the Mac App Store
Everything around the edit.
Everything around the edit, on the Mac: copy a card to two drives and check every file, cull RAWs at the speed of the keys, merge focus brackets and night skies, then geotag, caption and export.
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App · iPhone & iPad · iOS 17 · Free on the App Store
Change the photo after the shot.
Light, air and focus, after the shot. Rake Plus reads how far away everything in a photo is, then clears haze, relights with real shadows, adds fog and shafts of light, and moves the focus.
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A weekly series
One new Metal shader every week. A short video builds it from nothing; a page has the full source, every parameter explained, and the sound it makes, which the shader generates too. Open source.
What we won't trade away
Four commitments every project here is built on — decided before a single feature, not adjusted for one.
We ship AI on-device only, through Apple's own Foundation Models. No server call, no account, no analytics — it isn't a setting, because it was never a choice.
We draw interfaces from actual shapes and native components, not pictures of them. If it's on screen, it's the same geometry the code collides against.
We write Swift, SwiftUI, and Apple's own frameworks end to end. No cross-platform runtime stands between an app and the OS it ships on.
We treat a third-party package as a liability until it proves otherwise — one more thing a user trusts with their data without ever agreeing to it.
Longer technical write-ups, grouped by topic.
How to use threads on different scenarios with C#.
5 posts · C#Parallel execution using OpenCL and OpenMP, also covering the use of intrinsics.
7 posts · OpenCL · OpenMPSimulation and statistics concepts, implemented with C# and Windows Forms.
12 posts · C#How relighting a photograph works: the depth a Portrait photo carries, turning it into surfaces, and lighting them with three lights that cast real shadows.
7 posts · Photography & renderingThe calculation engine behind Tally: running balances, savings rate, runway, recurring projections, debt payoff, and goal pacing.
7 posts · SwiftThe person behind it
A software engineer based in Quito, Ecuador, working mostly in Swift and C#. pablin.me is where that work ships. Outside of it: books, music, and more podcasts than is reasonable.
