Observed arrival · 2026-10-03
Rook & Barrow’s quiet iPhone apps
A Texas software studio outlines four planned iPhone and Apple Watch apps, from a Tor browser and on-device vault to pollen and horse-heat guides.
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- iPhone and Apple Watch users seeking privacy or outdoor guidance
- Worth noticing
- Allium is described as routing through Tor with JavaScript, fonts, and images disabled by default; the site says it is still coming to the App Store.
Field notes
The homepage lists four apps as “Coming to the App Store”: Allium, Kist, PollenPeek, and Too Hot To Ride. It says the apps are native Swift and describes house rules against accounts, analytics, ads, and tracking; data is said to stay on-device unless a feature requires a network request, whose destination the company says it will disclose. The name combines a sociable crow with a burial mound, glossed as “one watches; the other keeps.”
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