Inside the workshop

The wonderfully messy bit behind every app.

This is where the polished App Store pages step aside. Come in for the first scribbles, awkward screenshots, ideas that changed their minds, bugs that refused to behave—and the fixes that eventually did.

☕ Honest notes from a self-taught iOS developer
Open notebooks

Every app has a story before it ships.

Choose a notebook to follow an app from its earliest idea through design, development, launch and everything learned afterwards.

Shipped · actively maintained

MochiMoney

The calculator that kept growing into a kinder everyday money toolkit.

Name changeNo-guilt designBug diary
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In the workshop

Questory

A gaming journal becoming a home for adventures, memories and progress.

Messy notesFeature cutsIn progress
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TheCozyDev Blog

The journal has a new home.

All the development diaries, monthly round-ups and honest notes from behind the builds now live on the blog.

Read the blog →
Nothing swept under the rug

The whole journey, kept in one place.

01

The first scribble

Screenshots, rough sketches and the small idea that started everything.

02

The middle bit

Design detours, features that changed shape and decisions that only made sense after trying them.

03

The stubborn bugs

What broke, why it happened and the fix that finally made it behave.

04

The tiny wins

First builds, TestFlight moments, App Store milestones and the details worth remembering.

Pinned to the wall

Notes from the workbench.

Workshop promise

Progress counts, even when it looks untidy.

The first attempt does not need to be the final one. Changed ideas, slow fixes and scrapped features are all part of making something thoughtful.

Currently on the desk

Questory

Game memories, journal details and plenty of SwiftUI problem-solving.

The sketch pile

Before the pixels behaved.

A deliberately unpolished home for rough layouts, notebook scribbles, early concept art and every strange little idea in between.

Cozy Pom

Cozy Pom
Cozy Pom early app sketch
Cozy Pom early focus timer set to 15 minutes with coral and pink watercolor artwork
Cozy Pom early Stats screen with parchment-style cards on a pink and lavender background

Rough sketches, abandoned directions and concepts worth keeping.

MochiMoney

MochiMoney
MochiMoney early app sketch
MochiMoney early Calculator screen in the pink sakura theme
MochiMoney early Moments screen with savings goals in the pink sakura theme

Rough sketches, abandoned directions and concepts worth keeping.

Lumarii

Lumarii
Lumarii early app sketch
Lumarii early Today screen with a reflection prompt and mood choices
Lumarii early Journal screen with dated entries

Rough sketches, abandoned directions and concepts worth keeping.

Questory

Questory
Questory early home dashboard conceptQuestory early collection tracking concept
Questory early daily reward concept
Questory early blessing reward concept

Rough sketches, abandoned directions and concepts worth keeping.

Built in public, gently

No perfect process. Just thoughtful progress.

New notes will be added as the apps keep growing—one sketch, bug fix and cozy commit at a time.

TheCozyDev ☕

Independent iOS development, one cozy commit at a time.

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