About the studio · Est. 2025
A small studio, an honest shape.
Olnesta Ltd is a UK-registered software company building quiet, persona-led iOS apps in a small number of practices.
Olnesta is a small software studio in the United Kingdom, founded in 2025. We design and build iOS apps for people who prefer their software to behave like a quiet room — well-made, well-furnished, and not constantly trying to sell them something else.
The studio is independent. We don’t take outside investment. The apps fund the studio; the studio funds the next app. This shape is on purpose: a company that owes no one anything can take its time, refuse fashionable features, and ship things at the size they ought to be.
We work across four practices — quiet collecting, companion tracking, contemplative tools, and steady habit work. Each is described in detail on the Practice page; each shares a temperament that is, in the end, what holds the studio together.
A small set of standing decisions.
The studio runs on a small number of decisions that we don’t revisit per project. Naming them out loud is a way to keep ourselves honest.
Everything is in-house. Interface, copy, illustration, sound, even the character voices that live inside the apps — all designed and written here. Outsourced craft is visible to users in ways outsourced engineering isn’t; we prefer the work to look like the studio thought about it.
One persona per app. Every app carries a single named character whose voice the interface speaks in. The persona is a designed thing — written, costumed, given a tone of voice — not an AI assistant pasted onto a feature. It is the first thing we build and the last thing we change.
Refusals as features. No streak shame. No notifications after nine. No leaderboards. No data sold or shared. No advertising on our apps. The list is short and load-bearing. A feature that requires breaking one of these doesn’t get built.
Small apps, considered. An Olnesta app does one or two things well. Not a platform, not a hub, not a launcher for other apps. If a feature feels like it belongs in a different app, it does.
The default in our apps is that your data lives on your device. Sync, where it exists in a given app, is opt-in and runs on infrastructure we control — not a third-party analytics vendor wearing a sync hat.
We don’t sell, share, or commercially analyse the records people keep in our apps. We don’t run third-party analytics SDKs across our apps. We don’t fingerprint, cross-app track, or build advertising profiles. The privacy policy linked below sets out the specifics; the principle is short — your record-keeping is yours.
For the record.
Olnesta Ltd is a private company limited by shares, incorporated in England and Wales. The studio has been operating since 2025.
- Legal name
- Olnesta Ltd
- Company number
- 17191832
- Jurisdiction
- England & Wales
- Founded
- 2025
- Registered office
- 17 Kings Gardens
Walton on Thames
Surrey, KT12 2DW
United Kingdom - Companies House
- find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk
- VAT
- Not VAT registered (below threshold).
- Team
- A small studio. We hire when the work needs it, not before.
Three addresses, depending on what you need. We read everything. Most replies arrive within two working days.
By post, write to the registered office above.