Lotus Apps · Knoxville, Tennessee · since 2015

I spent years making software for other people. Now I’m making my own.

I’m Matt, and Lotus is my one-person studio in Knoxville. I make apps for iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and Apple TV, down to the corners nobody looks at.

Meet Bobara What’s on my desk

Momo the capybara, sipping a boba tea in a wooden hot tub.

New from LotusBobaraiOS · out now

Out now · iOS

Bobara

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.

November 9, 2026
$4.99
iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch & Apple TV

Get it on the App Store See Bobara Visit bobara.app

Bobara on Apple TV: a postcard reading Marrakesh, 5:45 PM, Clear, over the onsen at sunset, with a red panda and a rabbit on the lawn and the tea house to the right.

Bobara on iPhone at dusk: Momo soaks in a round stone hot spring while a white rabbit sits on the edge, under paper lanterns and a cherry tree.

Bobara’s tea house on iPhone: shelves of the friends and treasures that have visited Momo.

Bobara on Apple Watch: Momo against a sunset sky.

Momo’s world, from Bobara’s art: cherry trees, a red torii gate and bridge, and a tea house with a teal tiled roof, set in green hills. — Momo’s world, from Bobara’s art

On my desk

What I’m making right now.

Something new

Tuck & Seek

In testing

A two-player hidden-grid guessing game, made for iPhone Duo and playable on any iPhone.

Visit tuckandseek.app

Discovery
Design
Development
Testing
Launch

Something new

Kitchenstead

In development

Preorders, boxes, drops and bake plans for people who sell food from home.

Visit kitchenstead.com

Discovery
Design
Development
Testing
Launch

An app

Bobara

Out now

A calm collecting app for iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and Apple TV. Check in a real boba tea and a new friend might visit Momo the capybara’s hot spring. It’s been on the App Store since November 9.

See Bobara

An app

Flipcorder

Out now

A retro camcorder for iPhone, made for iPhone Duo. Little 20‑second flips through your day become one home video on today’s tape by tonight. It’s been on the App Store since October 23.

See Flipcorder

About

Hi, I’m Matt. Lotus is me, in Knoxville.

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.

Matt More about me and Lotus