Codonic

Independent software studio

Tools built with the whole platform,
not a fraction of it.

Codonic builds native tools for creative work and travel on macOS, iPadOS, iOS, Windows and Android. Few products, each taken further than the category usually bothers to go — and each written for the way the job is actually done.

Repertoire

What we make

Four products: a drawing and handwriting surface for a computer, a travel ledger built for solo and group trips, a private command center for AI agents and an always-on Mac, and a browser extension that makes the speaker in a recorded lecture audible again.

Pad

Turn a tablet or phone into a pressure-sensitive drawing and writing pad for Mac or PC

Pad streams your Mac or PC display to a tablet or phone and sends the stylus or touch input back to the computer. Draw with pressure in creative apps, handwrite notes for class, annotate a desktop document or add a quick signature without transferring the file.

  • macOS
  • Windows (beta)
  • iPadOS
  • Android
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MyCNC

Control AI agents and Mac apps from anywhere on your own network

MyCNC turns an iPad or iPhone into a command center for the AI agents, terminals, localhost services and native apps running on an always-on Mac. A separate MyCNC Host app on the Mac provides direct screen streaming and input over your LAN or tailnet.

  • macOS host
  • iPadOS
  • iOS
  • macOS client
  • visionOS
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Souvenir

Track a trip alone or together — expenses, budgets, splits and memories in one place

Travel together without reconciling several notes and spreadsheets later. Souvenir gives the group one shared ledger: record who paid, split each expense equally or unevenly, keep everyone’s balance current and settle up with fewer payments — alongside the photos, places and memories from the trip.

  • iOS
  • Android
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Front Row Audio Enhancer

Hear every lecture from the front row

Front Row makes the speaker’s voice in web videos clear and comfortable. It was built for university lecture recordings with bad sound, and it works on any site with video. Noise reduction, clarity, a leveler and volume boost all run live inside your browser.

  • Chrome
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Alea Suite

Small instruments for improvising musicians, built around random elements. Alea is Latin for dice, as in aleatoric music.

Alea Scale Shifter

Random notes from any scale, slowly morphing into another

An improvising human player, and a machine that randomly shifts from a diatonic scale to complete dodecaphony over time. Pick a preset or set up your own two scales, morph between them, or hit AUTO-SWEEP and let Scale Shifter travel on its own.

  • macOS
  • Windows
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Alea Chord Randomizer

Random chords to improvise over

Generate a short random chord progression, loop it, and improvise over it with your instrument. A progression you did not choose forces your ear and your hands out of familiar shapes.

  • macOS
  • Windows
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Approach

What every app is held to

These are working rules, not slogans. They decide what gets built and what gets cut.

  1. 01

    Native, not wrapped

    Swift and SwiftUI on Apple platforms, native toolkits elsewhere. Hardware video encoders, the real pencil APIs, the platform’s own frameworks — the things that make an app feel like it belongs on the machine.

  2. 02

    Built around the hard part

    Every app starts from the one thing the category keeps getting wrong, and refuses to ship until that part is right. The rest of the feature list follows from it.

  3. 03

    Fast enough to forget

    Latency is a feature. We budget it, measure it and show it, because a tool you have to wait for is a tool you stop reaching for.

  4. 04

    Answered by the people who wrote it

    A small studio, a short list of products, and a reply from someone who can actually open the file you are having trouble with.

Get in touch

Questions, bug reports and feature requests all go to a person, not a ticket queue.