Small, deliberate iPhone, Mac and Vision Pro apps, each built around ideas worth keeping!
Liminal — The Atrium
Liminal is a native SwiftUI app for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch, backed by a small Node server that talks to Anthropic’s Claude. All voices ship inside the app, their writing, their portraits, and about half the games — so it opens instantly and a good deal of it works with no connection at all. When you ask something live, the server assembles that thinker’s character prompt, gives the model room to actually reason before it replies, and streams the answer back a word at a time. Your keepsakes and reflections live on your device and in your iCloud; the server stores only your account and your credits.
Liminal — The Atrium
A hall of doors. Behind each one, a mind.
A philosophy game. Nineteen thinkers — Marcus Aurelius, Nietzsche, Rumi, Hafez, Simone de Beauvoir, and more — reconstructed from their writings, each with a chamber of games and conversation. Ask a real question and watch a mind think it through; set two voices against each other; draw an omen from the Oracle. On iPhone, iPad, and Mac — or in the browser.
All other Apps:
More doors
Theseus — Plank by Plank
Habits
The old paradox, made daily. Each habit you keep replaces a plank in a ship that rebuilds itself as you do — miss a while, and the hull shows it.
Ulysses
Self-control journal
Bind yourself to the mast. Name the sirens you mean to sail past, log the moments you held course, and watch your resolve become a record.
Pendar-e Nik
Daily practice
Good thoughts, good words, good deeds. Tend a small fire with the Zoroastrian triad — three embers a day, gentle reminders, and the old festivals kept.
Futures Study
Journal
A journal for your expectations. Write what you believe comes next, let time pass, then study the distance between the two of you. No AI — just you, then and now.
Need a List
Collections
For collectors and the chronically curious: the things you keep, the things you want, and the things you’re hunting — in lists you’ll actually find again.
Wickly — Candle Tracker
Collections
For candle people. Your collection, burn by burn — what’s lit, what’s left in every wick, and which one deserves tonight.
Futures Study
Built around core strategic frameworks like the Cone of Possibility and STEEP horizon scanning, Futures Study brings the power of strategic foresight directly to leaders, strategists, and everyday decision-makers. Rather than relying on rigid, traditional forecasting, the app empowers users to systematically evaluate possible, plausible, probable, and preferred futures. Operating on the core framework to “Predict. Resolve. Calibrate.”, Futures Study helps you uncover hidden blind spots, stress-test long-term strategies against unexpected disruptions, and make value-aligned, resilient choices in an unpredictable world.
You can read more about this topic in my blog here:
One of my own favorite apps has become Pendar-e Nik
Pendar-e Nik
Good Thoughts, Good words, Good Deeds
This app idea first came to me during a visit to the Fire Temple of Yazd. Years later, technologies like Vision Pro and augmented reality (AR) finally made it possible to bring that vision to life. While the app is also available on iPhone, iPad, and Mac, my personal inspiration was simple: to be able to return to that place whenever I wanted, to walk through it, reflect, meditate, and experience its atmosphere again.
Yazd, a UNESCO World Heritage city, is a remarkable testament to our shared human heritage. Its architecture, culture, and history offer a glimpse into the traditions, beliefs, and values that have shaped civilizations over centuries. It is a place that encourages reflection and helps us better understand the enduring connections between people, culture, and time. That is also why I chose to make this app completely free—forever.
You ca read more about the App HERE.
My hope is that anyone, anywhere in the world, can visit, explore, reflect, and enjoy this extraordinary place, regardless of where they live or what device they use.
One of the most remarkable aspects of the Fire Temple of Yazd is that the sacred fire is older than the building itself. The temple’s fire has been continuously burning since around 470 AD, preserved and cared for across generations for more than 1,500 years. It stands as a powerful symbol of continuity, resilience, and humanity’s enduring ability to preserve its heritage, values, and traditions across the centuries.
The fire is kept behind a glass enclosure to protect it. In this photo, you can see my reflection in the glass as I captured the image!
Vision Pro
The visionOS app was my second AR project, following a simpler app called Theseus — Plank by Plank. While it isn’t fully interactive, it offers an immersive way to experience and explore the environment firsthand.
The cat you see is my cat, Pirooz!
You can walk through the courtyard and into the sanctum, where you can view the sacred fire.
3D Prints:
If you are interested in more tangible physical items here are my designs available to download and Print on any 3D printer:
The Games
Dezh
Coming soon!
Dezh (The Citadel) is a Persian-themed tower-defense game inspired by Ferdowsi’s epic poem, the Shāhnāmeh, where players defend a winding road against hordes of dark creatures (Dīvs) using specialized towers and legendary champions like Rostam, Ārash, and Kāveh. Across a 17-chapter story campaign, endless modes, and roguelite campaigns, players manage resources, brand towers with masteries and runes, and even play historic mini-games like Shatranj/Chess and Nard between sieges.
Uniquely crafted with zero external image files or art assets, generating all of its visual design procedurally through code, the game offers an ad-free, cross-platform experience across iOS, iPadOS, and macOS.
DEZH
The Citadel · A Shāhnāmeh Tower-Defense
Hold the road from the gate to the town while the host of Dīvs pours down it — a defence drawn, pixel by pixel, inspired by Ferdowsi’s Book of Kings.