Lotus Apps · Knoxville, Tennessee · since 2015
I’m Matt, and Lotus is my one-person studio in Knoxville. I make apps for iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch, down to the corners nobody looks at.
Out November 9 · iOS
Momo is a capybara who lives in a small hot spring, and when you buy a boba tea in real life, you tap it in and a new friend might wander into the water.
On my desk
Awaiting Apple review
The discovery, the prototypes and the build are done, and it’s submitted to Apple for review. After that, the only thing left to do is wait for November 9.
It’s out now, for iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch.
41days until it launches, on November 9, 2026
Being rebuilt
This site, rebuilt around the apps instead of the agency it used to be, phone first, with every old link kept working.
Not ready to show
On the drafting table: a new app for your photos.
About
I’ve been obsessed with the Mac since I first saw OS X running on an iMac G3. I ran a podcast for years interviewing indie Mac developers and reviewing Mac software, and finally in 2008 I was hired for my first software engineering role.
It’s been a wild ride since then, founding Lotus Apps in 2015. For most of those years it was a small consultancy, working for clients who cared about the details and would sit through a proper discovery process with us. A few of our original clients are still on retainer, over a decade later and counting, but most of my time now goes into apps of my own, built in the evenings, early mornings and lunch breaks, and worked out on long walks around my neighborhood.
Before the apps
Writing
I’ve written here on and off since 2014.
