The Breakroom
Category: Development
Iconfactory Tapestry 2.0: What You’ve Always Wanted
September 21, 2026
Today’s update of our personal timeline app, Tapestry, is the one you’ve been waiting for and pushes the app to a whole new level. Bring together your social media, RSS feeds, podcasts, YouTube and more in one chronological timeline—with no algorithm deciding what you see. Version 2 most notably enables subscribers to reply and post directly to […]
Pro Icons. Indie Prices.
July 28, 2026
Bringing an app to life is difficult. It’s a labor of love that’s the culmination of thousands of hours of hard work. A personal expression of yourself. After all that, your app’s icon might seem like a finishing touch, but it’s actually an important part of your software’s identity. It may just be one little square, […]
Bringing More Fun, FREE Retro Gaming to iOS
January 21, 2026
This week we announced a new Kickstarter that’s aimed at expanding the game offerings of Ollie’s Arcade, the fun, ad-free retro gaming app we introduced back in 2023. Ollie’s Arcade has always been a great way to escape doomscrolling, even if just for a little while, and now we have an opportunity to bring these […]
Let’s Talk Tapestry
March 21, 2025
There’s a lot to be said about an app that you pour your heart and soul into for well over a year. For nearly as long, we’ve been making the rounds, chatting up our friends and peers about Tapestry and have been grateful for the chance to talk about our work. If you’ve missed any […]
Supercharge Tapestry with Connectors
March 11, 2025
Since Tapestry’s launch, customers have been enjoying the app’s ability to combine content from across the open web into a personal, chronological timeline. And Tapestry continues to get even better thanks to a bevy of useful connectors, created by talented third party developers. Connectors retrieve the content that gets woven into your Tapestry timeline. The […]
Tapestry: Past, Present, and Future
February 25, 2025
After a successful Kickstarter campaign, and ten months of development, Tapestry is finally an App Store reality. Tapestry presents content in chronological order, with no algorithm or other person deciding what you should or shouldn’t see. Content can come from social media services like Bluesky, Mastodon, or Tumblr, as well as RSS feeds, podcasts, YouTube […]
Enter Tapestry
February 4, 2025
We’ve been making apps for decades and have acquired the skills to build all sorts of great things. But even talented teams can be challenged, and our latest product has been the hardest yet. I’m talking about Tapestry. It’s taken ten months since 3,369 folks agreed that the idea of putting all the things you follow […]
Thinking Outside the Box with MuseBox
July 16, 2024
Sometimes a design project can hit a roadblock and stall out – a point where for some reason it becomes difficult to leap over a certain potential solution in order to arrive at an even better one. Brushed Pixel came to us for help with this very situation. They had developed a solid starting point […]
Developers, Developers, Develop!
January 12, 2024
Two of our most popular developer tools were updated this week. It’s not just our website that’s getting the love! xScope Our primary focus with xScope version 4.7 was to update the screen recording code. Alerts in the Sonoma beta gave us pause and we noticed an increase in crashes with the older APIs. There […]
