01 — SIMPLE FIRST
Simple on the surface
Power belongs under the hood. If you need a tutorial to write your first note, we've already failed.
// about us
A small studio with a long list
BrosCo Designs is an independent app studio. We design, build, and ship every app ourselves.
We started BrosCo Designs because the tools we reached for every day kept getting in the way. Study apps buried the studying under menus. Planners wanted an hour of setup before they saved you ten minutes. Journals asked for a subscription before they asked what you wanted to write.
So we started building our own. The rule was simple: if a feature didn't earn its place on the screen, it didn't ship. What came out of that is a small collection of apps that do one thing well and get out of your way.
We're still small, and that's deliberate. Every app is designed, built, and supported by the same hands. When you email us, you reach the person who wrote the code.
// the founder
Zachary Nickerson
U.S. NAVY VETERAN
I'm a U.S. Navy veteran. I served with the Seabees as an Equipment Operator and deployed once to Africa.
That deployment is where all of this started. I took a two-week CompTIA Security+ course, passed the certification, and something clicked — I wanted to understand how the software itself actually worked. Learning to code stopped feeling like studying and became the part of the day I looked forward to.
Building apps turned into a hobby, and then into something more deliberate. I started making the apps I wished existed — the ones that worked the way I'd always wanted the tools I was using to work. That's how BrosCo Designs was born.
I'm excited to keep building, and to help other people get more done and keep learning along the way.
// how we build
Four things we hold to
02 — YOUR DATA
Your work stays yours
Our apps save locally by default and work offline. Sync is something you turn on, not something we assume.
03 — NO GATES
Free to start, always
Every app has a real free tier — not a countdown timer. Pay only when an app has already proved itself useful.
04 — EVERYWHERE
Works on what you own
No downloads, no store gatekeepers, no minimum OS version. If it has a browser, it runs a BrosCo app.
Want to know why we bother?
The short version is on the mission page. The long version usually involves coffee.