Tempore — Software development and engineering

What we do

End-to-end product engineering

One team from architecture to App Store, with no hand-offs between agencies. We take on the hard parts that many teams avoid.

Web apps

Fast, accessible web applications and sites, with serverless back ends and edge hosting that stay quick under load.

Mobile apps

Native mobile apps that feel right on the device, from real-time audio to offline-first data and sync.

Desktop apps

Serious desktop software: document-based apps, custom rendering and file formats, signed, notarized and self-updating.

Hard engineering

Signal processing, computational geometry, performance work and binary formats: the problems that decide whether a product works.

Payments & licensing

Checkout, licence keys, trials and entitlements that protect revenue without punishing paying customers.

Release engineering

Automated builds, tests and releases, with continuous integration, code signing and staged roll-outs you can trust.

Audits for AI-built apps

A 48-hour review of apps built with Lovable, Bolt, Cursor, Replit or Claude Code, with fixes at a fixed price.

See the audit service →

Our work

Products we build and run ourselves

Our own apps are proof of our engineering. Each one is designed, built, released and supported by Tempore.

Satinsmith on a Mac, showing an embroidery design with its stitch sequence and inspector

Native Mac app

Satinsmith

Professional embroidery software for Mac

A native editor for machine-embroidery designs, with its own stitch engine. It generates fills, satin columns and running stitches from editable shapes and lettering, and reads and writes the formats embroidery machines use.

Custom stitch-generation engine, editable lettering and artwork import
PES, DST and eight more machine-embroidery formats
Licensing, checkout and signed, notarized auto-updates
Website, free video lessons and privacy-respecting analytics

Visit satinsmith.tempore.net → Free lessons with practice files →

Stretchwise on iPhone, showing the note E5 at minus 0.1 cents, in tune

Stretchwise Coming soon for iPhone and iPad

Real-time piano tuning for technicians

A tuning app that listens to each string, measures its inharmonicity from the partials it hears, and shapes the stretch curve for the piano in front of the technician. It is built for a busy tuner's hands-free workflow.

Real-time audio analysis on the device
All 88 keys, 56 historical temperaments, reference pitch from A392 to A497
Hands-free AutoNote that follows the next key
Works offline; collects no data

Visit stretchwise.tempore.net → Guides for piano technicians →

How we work

A clear path from idea to release

Small, senior and direct. You work with the people who build your software, and you see working software early and often.

Discover

We learn the problem, the users and the constraints, and agree what success looks like before any code is written.

Design

Architecture, interface and a plan with clear milestones, so the risks come up early rather than late.

Build

Short cycles with working builds you can try, automated tests from the first day and honest progress reports.

Ship & support

Release, monitoring and maintenance, with documentation and a clean handover if you take it in house.

Engineering standards

Built to last, not just to demo

The standards we hold our own products to are the ones we bring to yours.

Tested and automated

Automated tests and continuous integration on every change, and repeatable, signed release builds.

Private by design

Collect only what the product needs, with no hidden tracking, and follow the platform's privacy rules.

Accessible

Keyboard, screen-reader and contrast support designed in from the start, not added at the end.

Yours to own

Readable code, written documentation and your intellectual property, all delivered to you.

Work with us

Have a project in mind?

Tell us what you want to build. We'll reply with honest questions, a realistic plan and whether we're the right team for it.

Email support@tempore.net