App Development
Native iOS & Android that work where the signal doesn't — offline-first and hardware-aware, with BLE radios, maps, AR, and on-device AI. Designed, built, and shipped to the App Store by one team.
A veteran-owned studio that designs and ships custom apps, websites, and the software behind them — App Store–live iOS, bespoke sites like this one, and AI built in where it earns its place. Available for independent and contract work.
Independent design-and-build for founders and teams who need something real — shipped to the App Store, deployed to production, and designed by the same hands that write the code. These three are where we live.
Native iOS & Android that work where the signal doesn't — offline-first and hardware-aware, with BLE radios, maps, AR, and on-device AI. Designed, built, and shipped to the App Store by one team.
Bespoke marketing sites, product launches, and branded portals — fast, hand-built, template-free. The page you're reading and every product page on it are exhibit A.
System design, API contracts, data models, and UX flows — the decisions before the code that decide whether v2 is a refactor or a rewrite. From greenfield MVP to production rescue.
Most projects pull from more than one — an app that ingests drone-survey output, an AI assistant that watches gauge data, a GIS layer that ties it all to the ground beneath your feet.
Native iOS and Android, plus cross-platform when it makes sense. Offline-first, sensor-integrated, hardware-aware.
Custom internal tools, integrations, and pipelines that delete the spreadsheets your team hates.
LLM-powered agents, vision models, on-device ML, and AI-assisted workflows. Used where they help — never as decoration.
Custom map applications, offline tile pipelines, geospatial analysis, geology overlays, and field-grade vector tooling.
Meshtastic LoRa mesh radios, MANET-style peer-to-peer comms, BLE protocol design, off-grid messaging stacks.
FAA Part 107 pilots flying optical, thermal, and RTK payloads. Orthomosaics, 3D models, inspections, surveys.
Marketing sites, product landing pages, custom branded portals. Bespoke design — no templates, no Wix. Just this one as exhibit A.
Architecture, API design, system planning, UX flows — including experience with crypto and Web3 applications. The decisions before the code that decide whether v2 is a refactor or a rewrite.
Five products of our own — three already live on the App Store, two in final build. Each one is a piece of working evidence: this is the software we ship when the client is us.
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Offline backcountry navigation, field guide, and mesh-radio coordination. Nine map sources, Meshtastic LoRa support, AI species ID, AR horizon, and a full survival guide — all working without cell service.
A 100% offline on-device AI studio — private chat on a bundled 4B model, a full neon beat studio, an offline Wikipedia, notes and voice. No account, no internet, nothing ever leaves your phone.
The only app that speaks both Meshtastic and MeshCore at once — one contact list, one map, one inbox. Honest delivery status, offline maps, plain-English privacy, and an optional forward-secret encryption layer.
An offline-first games house: play Chess, Go, GeoQuest and Risk against ten AI characters — each with their own voice, personality and strength, driven by a language model that thinks on your phone.
A calm, fully-narrated nature world for ages 2–5. Five gentle habitats with real animal sounds, 200+ collectible friends, no-fail mini-games, 46 sing-along songs, and a quiet wind-down — with no ads and zero tracking.
Not everything is an app on a storefront. Some of it is a website customers actually use in the field — and some runs quietly in the background of someone else's operation.
A live restaurant site plus an offline-first ordering system for a Colorado bar with no cell service. The menu caches on-device, orders queue in an outbox, and one tap falls back to a text message when data can't get through.
Mudlogging-shack automation engine. Watches the wireline directory, imports ROP / gamma / gas / XRF / survey curves into the geological log automatically, every two minutes, so the logger can focus on the rock, not the keyboard.
Got a workflow that should be an app, an integration that should be automatic, or a field problem nobody's solved? That's exactly the kind of thing we build. Let's talk about it.
Not our words — real App Store reviews. MeshTrail is rated 4.7★ by its early users.
SC-ience Labs is veteran-owned and deliberately small — small enough that the person you talk to is the person who designs the screens, writes the code, and signs the build. No account managers, no offshore handoff, no game of telephone between you and the work.
That's a software engineer who ships real apps to the App Store, and an FAA Part 107 pilot who can put a sensor over the same site the software is built for. The thread through all of it: tools that hold up in the field, code you could actually read, and honest scope.
Reviews are nice, but the products are the real references. Here's what every engagement also comes with, in writing.
The person who scopes your project is the one who designs it, writes it, and ships it. Nothing gets lost in a handoff or a status meeting.
We've put an app on the App Store and code into production. You get working, signed, deployed software you can hold — never just a deck.
A clear estimate up front, and a straight answer if we're not the right fit. No padded hours, no scope creep by stealth, no surprise invoice.
You keep the source — documented, clean, and yours. No black boxes and no lock-in: the next developer (or you) can pick it up and run.
We take a small number of projects at a time and stay close to them. Most engagements run 6–14 weeks to a working v1, with retainer-style maintenance after.
One week. We map the real workflow, the budget, and the hard edges before any code or flights.
Two to three weeks. Working prototype on real hardware, real data, real terrain.
Four to ten weeks. Production code, signed builds, deliverables in the format you actually use.
Optional retainer. We fix what breaks, ship the next thing, and stay reachable when it matters.