Frowning Gorilla Ltd  /  United Kingdom

We build the things we wanted to use.

An independent software company, making apps for Mac, iPhone and iPad. Decades of shipping software, now focused on two of our own.

Apps

Two · Mac, iPhone and iPad

Mac · iPhone · iPad

Shape n Ship

Takes an app from idea to the App Store: reality-check the concept, track bugs and features, prep the release, get through App Review, and promote the launch.

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Shape n Ship's concept wizard, scoring an app idea against demand, competition and effort before any code is written

Mac · iPhone · iPad

Nearing

Countdowns that live on your desktop, visible while you work rather than tucked away in a menubar. With widgets, and companions for iPhone and iPad.

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Three Nearing countdowns floating on a Mac desktop, in teal, purple and pink, each with rings for days, hours and minutes

Who we are

Independent · UK

Decades of shipping software — today focused on Mac, iPhone and iPad.

We build things we want to use ourselves, and that we think other people might find useful too.

About the name

Gorillas can't frown.

They lack the facial muscles humans use for it. But they still experience the same emotions. They just can't express them that way.

It's a reminder not to judge others by our own capabilities, or assume that people who can't express things the way we do don't feel them just as deeply.