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A small label out of Germany making apps for iPhone, iPad and Mac. Each app does one thing — as well as it can. Fairly priced, no trackers, no ads. A publisher, not a corporation: designed, built and supported by one person.

A single individual based in the Ruhr Valley. A designer, not a developer — running concept, design, code and support in parallel. The legally responsible person is listed in the imprint.

Some do. Where an app is finished after the purchase (e.g. Verso), you pay once and own it. Where ongoing costs apply — servers, OCR, sync (e.g. Quitto) — there is a subscription. The price follows what the app actually needs, not what the market currently treats as normal.

At the moment, three:

• Verso — minimalist document scanner for iPhone and iPad. → versoscan.app
• Quitto — receipts and expenses for the German tax return. → quittoapp.de
• Tasto — menu bar utility for the Mac: Finder keys the way Windows taught you. → hyperzero.de/en/tasto

More apps will follow. They ship when they are ready. The list lives at /en/apps.

Mostly not. Some apps have a limited free mode for trying things out — a few scans or receipts before a purchase decision is needed. After that: one-time payment or subscription, depending on the app. The exception is Tasto: free as a direct download — pay what you want, €0 included.

Because the Mac App Store's sandbox rules don't allow apps that intercept keystrokes system-wide — which is exactly what Tasto does. So Tasto ships as a direct download: signed, notarized by Apple, delivered through Gumroad. Everything else stays the same — no tracking, no ads.

The price matches the value. Where an app is finished after the purchase, you pay once. Where ongoing costs apply — server sync, OCR compute, storage — there is a subscription. No artificial pressure, no hidden fees, no dark patterns at checkout.

No. No analytics SDKs, no advertising IDs, no third-party trackers. Where an app needs cloud data (e.g. for sync or server-side OCR), it says so in the privacy policy of that specific app — transparently and minimally.

It depends on the app. Where possible: yes. Verso, for instance, scans entirely offline on your iPhone, and Tasto works on your Mac without internet. Apps with sync or cloud features need a connection for those features — everything else runs locally.

Not at the moment. The focus is the Apple ecosystem — iPhone, iPad and Mac. That's where you can go deeper (iCloud, Widgets, Shortcuts, VisionKit, Share Sheet). Never say never, but for the foreseeable future it stays that way.

By email at hello@hyperzero.de. The reply comes from the same person who built the app — usually within one or two working days.

In Germany, more precisely: in the Ruhr Valley (Essen). The full address, tax details and the responsible person under § 18 MStV are listed in the imprint.

As often as they are ready — sometimes more, sometimes less. No promises, no quarterly targets. An app only ships when it sits.