Independent software studio · San Francisco

Five apps.
One studio.

Axis Labs builds small, sharp, AI-powered apps — and ships them. If you want one built for you, that’s the same phone call.

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5
Apps live
17
Ship notes
2026
Founded

Shipped & live

Flagship · iOS & web

Forge: the journal that talks back.

An AI journal for men who’d rather see the pattern than talk about it.

Write an entry, get a read on what’s actually going on, then push back on it. Conversation mode, pattern alerts, HealthKit signals, Apple-only by design.

The Forge app showing an AI analysis of a journal entry

Small team, short distance between idea and App Store.

01

One problem per app

Every app here does a single thing properly instead of ten things badly. That's why they get finished.

02

AI where it earns its place

No chatbot bolted onto a settings screen. AI shows up when it does work a person would otherwise have to do.

03

Your data stays yours

Apple-native, no ad networks, no resale. We write about exactly where the data goes because we expect to be asked.

Got an app that should exist?

We take on a small number of client builds a year, alongside our own apps. Tell us the problem, not the spec.

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axislabstechnologies@gmail.com · Bay Area, California