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 and Apple Watch, down to the corners nobody looks at.

Out November 9 · 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
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.

An app

Bobara

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.

  1. Discovery
  2. Proto­types
  3. Built
  4. With Apple

41days until it launches, on November 9, 2026

A website

madebylotus.com

Being rebuilt

This site, rebuilt around the apps instead of the agency it used to be, phone first, with every old link kept working.

Something new

Overdue - Photo Library

Not ready to show

On the drafting table: a new app for your photos.

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's desk in the evening: a big display, a white and lilac keyboard, a small wooden capybara, and a framed “Yum.” poster lit by an orange lamp
the desk, Knoxville