Games and tools that work
wherever you are.
Traverse Digital Labs is an independent software studio building apps and games for iPhone and iPad. Different genres, different ideas — held to the same few rules: they run offline, they don't track you, and you pay for them once.
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Geode & Growth
A miniature terrarium that grows on its own, in real time. Plants fill in from the soil while crystal formations rise alongside them — two kinds of slow growth sharing one glass dome.
Free to grow with a connection. A single one-time purchase lets it keep growing with no signal at all, and lets you keep more than one.
What's next
Geode & Growth is our first release, not our only direction. We have a working catalogue of concepts across several genres, and we build them one at a time — each one finished before the next one starts.
Puzzle & logic
Spatial and deduction puzzles — light routing, folding, pattern inference. Short sessions, no timers.
Word games
Word play without the daily-streak pressure or the subscription: search, deduction, and vocabulary built for one-off sessions.
Idle & ambient
Things that grow or change on their own while you're not looking, and reward checking in rather than grinding.
Strategy & defense
Tactical, turn-based and tower-defense ideas with a twist on the standard formula rather than another reskin.
Exploration
Hidden-object and collection games with environmental storytelling and no fail states.
Small tools
Focused utilities built to the same standard as the games: offline, private, and bought once.
How we build
The genres vary. These don't.
Offline first
Our software is designed to work without a network. If an app needs a server to function, we consider that a design failure, not a feature.
No data collection
We don't run analytics, advertising, attribution, or crash-reporting SDKs. There is no backend to send data to, so there's nothing to leak.
Pay once
Where something is paid, it's a single purchase that stays bought. No subscriptions, no consumables, no loot boxes, no currencies.
Finished, then shipped
Each app is complete at launch. We'd rather release a small thing that is done than a large thing that needs a content treadmill.
No dark patterns
No engagement streaks, no artificial urgency, no notifications engineered to pull you back. You decide when to open it.
iPhone and iPad equally
One codebase, laid out properly for both. Not a phone app stretched to fill a tablet.
About
Traverse Digital Labs, LLC is an independent software studio based in the United States, building for Apple platforms — iPhone, iPad, and Mac.
We're small on purpose. Rather than chasing engagement metrics, we build software we'd want installed on our own devices: quiet, finished, and free of the usual extraction mechanics. That applies whether we're making a puzzle game, an ambient one, or a utility.
At a glance
Entity
Traverse Digital Labs, LLC
Focus
iOS & iPadOS games and applications
Business model
One-time in-app purchases
Contact
support@traverse.llc
Contact
For support, press, or business enquiries, email support@traverse.llc. We read everything and reply to most things.
Looking for help with a specific app? The Geode & Growth support page covers the common questions.