Beautiful software that assumes nothing about you.
Barium Labs, LLC builds native software for people who would rather own their infrastructure than rent it. We are never in the middle of your data.
An independent Texas studio, funded by nothing that wants your data
We solve the privacy first, then build the software.
Native Apple platform work
Swift and SwiftUI for iOS, watchOS and macOS — including the parts most apps skip.
Secure systems and protocols
End-to-end encryption and open protocols, built so that we cannot read your data.
Infrastructure that stays yours
Self-hosted deployments on hardware you own, outlasting any vendor’s change of mind.
The privacy-respecting option should also be the better one.
Otherwise it is a compromise, and compromises do not survive daily use.
Private should not mean worse
Nobody keeps using the option that wins on principle and loses on everything else.
Beautiful is not decoration
Type, motion, what happens on a slow network. Not polish at the end — the whole thing.
The hard features are the point
Encrypted search. Notifications that decrypt on a locked phone. Skip these and you shipped a demo.
Say what it costs
Every decision has a downside. We publish our own audits with the findings intact.
Encrypted content, unencrypted context.
Plenty of software encrypts what you write. Almost none encrypts who you talk to, or how often. That pattern is often more revealing than the contents.
Only a different operator changes that — you. Your infrastructure, open protocols, so that leaving is always possible.
Real work to run. But it should be your choice.
