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LATENT SIGNAL LABS

A solo studio. I build a few things with obsessive care — software that respects your attention instead of competing for it, made the slow, old-fashioned way: one detail at a time, until it's right.

// SHIPPED — iOS / 2026

Stay app icon

Stay

// screen time for parents
LIVE
Status
Available
Platform
iOS 17+
Released
2026
Price
Free · Premium Subscription Available

// BRIEF

Stay protects family time from doomscrolling. When you try to open a blocked app during a protected moment — dinner, bedtime, mornings, homework — Stay shows a gentle pause with your own family photos, so you choose with intention instead of habit, before the scroll starts.

Built for real parents, not productivity theater — a light dopamine detox for the whole family.
  • A gentle app blocker and screen-time control built for family life
  • Calm app locks and time limits for protected moments like dinner and bedtime
  • Keep the focus on the people in front of you, not the feed
  • Override when life requires it, without shame

// CAPTURES

Stay screenshot 1
Stay screenshot 2
Stay screenshot 3
OPEN_IN_APP_STORE trystay.app ↗

// COVE — macOS / 2026

Cove app icon

Cove

// personal reading archive for mac
BETA
Status
Free Beta
Platform
macOS 15+
Released
2026
Price
Free during beta · One-time purchase at 1.0

// BRIEF

Cove is a native Mac RSS reader that doesn't just sync feeds — it keeps them. When a feed only sends a teaser, Cove quietly fetches the full article, so the whole thing is waiting in your reader instead of behind a browser tab full of cookie banners and popups.

Not another RSS reader. A library that builds itself — private, on-device, yours until you delete it.
  • Full articles pulled automatically, even from teaser-only feeds
  • Whole articles kept permanently on your Mac — never auto-deleted
  • No account. No subscription service. No reading profile.
  • Reader View strips clutter; toggle between publisher layout and clean reading
  • Clips: save passages from any article with persistent highlights and notes
  • Listen: system narration of any article with a floating mini player
  • Genuinely native macOS — Liquid Glass, SwiftUI, built for the Mac

// CAPTURES

Cove screenshot — library, article list, and reader
Cove screenshot — article in reader view
Cove screenshot — clips library with saved passages
DOWNLOAD COVE BETA ↗ covereader.app ↗

// ABOUT THE LAB

Latent Signal Labs is a solo studio. One engineer. I work on the software I want to exist.

Nothing ships until it's right — every detail considered, sweated over, and built to last.

// DIRECT LINE