Why I build my own apps
There's an app for almost everything already. The hard part is choosing one you'll still be using in ten years, learning all of its habits, and hoping it doesn't shut down, change its pricing, or get sold. I kept running into that, so I started building the small tools I need myself.
Each app here began as something I wanted for my own day: tracking my investments without handing the numbers to a broker, keeping count of my prayers without ads in the way. If it's useful to me, it's probably useful to someone else, so I publish it.
What stays the same across them
Your data lives on your device. When an app has a backup, it goes to your own Google Drive, in a folder only that app can read. I don't run a server that sees what you put in.
They cost almost nothing to run. The web apps sit on free hosting and the phone apps don't need a backend, so there's no subscription to keep them alive, and no reason to fill them with ads.
And because I use them myself, they get fixed when they break.
The name
Sararia is Sundanese for “all of you”. That's who the apps are for: everyone, not a niche. The mark is a sapu lidi, the Indonesian stick broom. Each stick is thin on its own, but tied together they do the job. Same idea here: many small apps, held by one tie.