Services
What we do!
Great apps
From startups to enterprise apps, we love creating value for our clients. Beauty may be skin deep, but we pride ourselves in writing the simplest, smallest, and most agile solutions that solve our client's needs. If you have a vision that you want to bring to life, we can get it done right, and with lasting value.
Mid Course Corrections
Have an app that needs some love? We can help you update and fix issues with your existing app. Anyone can start a new app, but without proper discipline, projects hit a wall from technical debt. We help clients get back on track by simplifying what they have and adding new features at an increased velocity.
Extra Help
Need to augment your existing team? We know the key to helping teams increase their pace, is to get up to speed quickly. We have helped clients not only catch up to their product road-maps, but also eliminate entire problem areas through automation. If you have an existing team but want to accelerate your place, we can help!
How we do it
Our secret sauce
Prioritization
The most important aspect to delivering value on a budget is doing the right thing with the time you have. We work with clients to determine which features are core, which need to be explored, and which can come later. We focus on the needs of today, with a plan for tomorrow!
Dedication
Simplicity begets velocity. From our experience in helping clients get legacy apps back on track, the common thread is the cost of hastily made decisions. Our secret sauce? Reduce complexity! We start every app with forethought for future needs, and dedication to keeping things simple and clean.
Efficiency
From our dedication to the craft, we filter every decision we make through a feedback loop. We use Swift, MVVM, unidirectional flow, reactive techniques, code generation, and micro libraries for layout, data bindings and UI controls. We leverage the gains from our commitment to judgement and simplicity to create lasting value.
Recent Highlights
Some of our recent work
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Cisco
Cisco needed a new enterprise app to help hospital staff find equipment quickly, with indoor maps and live locations from Bluetooth tags. We built the app and shipped it to the App Store as Cisco Asset Tracker, working alongside Cisco’s product, design, and backend teams.
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GAIN Fitness
GAIN Fitness wanted a polished, AI-driven app that builds a personalized workout every day around each user’s goals, experience, injuries, and time. We built it from scratch, from guided onboarding to progress tracking. Users set up the equipment they have, so workouts fit anywhere from the living room to the gym, and can skip an exercise when equipment is busy and come back to it later. The result was an experience that adapts to each user and their setup.
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Grindr
After a major restructuring, Grindr brought us in through A.Team to help rebuild their iOS capacity. We co-developed Roam, a new paid feature, from concept through launch. At handoff, Roam was on track to meet its revenue goals while still in a limited rollout.
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Toohla
Toohla came to us to build their personal carbon-tracking app. We delivered their MVP and made their web service reliable, then kept the app adapting quickly as they developed their market fit.
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Whisper
Whisper needed an iOS companion app for their ML-powered hearing aids, which improve over time. We built an app that let users pair with and control their hearing aids, share their experiences, and receive updates. The result was a resilient app that kept users connected to better hearing.
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Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare
Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare wanted to give hospital administrators drill-down dashboards on care quality and efficiency, from length of stay to readmissions. We engineered the app on a small set of reusable frameworks, so it could grow to many complex, data-heavy screens and deliver parts of it to other devices, laying the foundation for future projects.
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Twine
Twine, a savings app later acquired by John Hancock, brought us in to support their team and expand their analytics. Instead of hand-writing hundreds of analytics events, we generated them from Twine’s own specification, saving months of work and eliminating a whole class of bugs. That approach powered the app’s analytics for four years, until the app was retired.
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Ava
Ava’s app lets deaf and hard-of-hearing people follow group conversations. Ava brought us in to rescue their pre-launch iOS app, which was behind schedule with an aggressive holiday launch ahead. We redesigned the protocol behind group sessions, simplified the codebase, and hired and mentored a successor engineer. We got them back on track and shipped on time for Thanksgiving. Within two weeks, Ava had 100K users.
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At Curious Applications, the "we" is "me"
Chris Conover
Principal, Accountant
Hi! I’m Chris Conover, do-er of all things at Curious Applications. I have over 20 years of industry experience and a background in computer science. Since 2013, I have been helping clients bring their apps to life on iOS, from startups to Fortune 500 companies in healthcare, FinTech, social, and medical devices. I build the foundation other engineers build on: clean architecture, code generation, and connected-hardware apps that stay reliable on real devices. I use AI tools for planning, prototyping, and code generation, and I validate and own everything that ships.
Working on something? I’d love to hear about it.