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Introducing PHINNEAS: built for yourself

Make the app you need, put it on your own devices, and share it with exactly who you choose. Free while in beta.

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Most software is made for millions of strangers. PHINNEAS is for the opposite case: the tracker, the tool, the little system that fits exactly how you live. Built by you, for you, and kept yours.

AI made building those apps easy. Getting them onto your own phone and laptop, privately, is still the hard part. That's the part PHINNEAS does.

How it works

Start with a name and get a simple working app, let your AI build it (Claude Code, Cursor and Codex connect with one key), or bring a GitHub repo. An optional "Is it ready?" check tells you in plain words what's missing.

Then one click publishes it for Windows, Linux, Android, and iPhone and web. Each version is sent the moment it's ready. How it works shows each step.

Private by default

Share with a link, a QR code or an email invite. Every new device waits for your approval. Turn someone off and the app locks on its next check-in. The honest limit: it can't delete what's already on their machine. Privacy and security has the details.

Free while in beta

Ember is free during the beta: 3 apps, 15 publishes a month and 10 people per app. Beta apps aren't code-signed yet, so the first install shows a warning. Forge and Olympus come later. See pricing.

Try it

The getting started guide is the shortest way in.

By Nayan Mishra, building PHINNEAS: private software you build for yourself and share only with people you choose.