Small on purpose.

Why free

There is no catch, and here is the arithmetic

Outer Meadow apps have no servers. Your runs, your glasses of water and the rest of your history live on your phone, which means there is no storage bill that grows with every person who installs something, no account system to maintain, and no infrastructure quietly demanding a subscription to pay for it.

That is the whole trick. An app that costs almost nothing to run does not need to charge you, sell you, or measure you. Most apps are not expensive because they are good — they are expensive because of what they were built on.

The honest cost of that choice: no social feed, no leaderboards, and no automatic sync between devices. Moving to a new phone means bringing your iPhone backup with you, or an export file of your own. We think that is a fair price for keeping your history off anybody else's computer. If you disagree, that is a perfectly reasonable position — there are excellent apps that made the other choice.

What we promise

• Free stays free. Not free-for-now, not free-with-a-paywall. No premium tier will ever appear holding your own history hostage.
• Your data stays yours. No analytics, no advertising SDKs, no third-party libraries watching you. If a feature would need to phone home, it does not get built.
• You can always leave. Everything exports to open formats that other apps can read. Lock-in is a business model, not a feature.
• Features earn their place. An app you can use without reading a manual is worth more than a longer list on a marketing page.

The name

A meadow under a sky that keeps going — somewhere calm, with a great deal of room above it. Each app is a star in that sky and carries the Tayli™ name; the studio is the ground they all stand on.

The mark changes with the light. In daylight it is a wash of colour around a single star; after dark the same star appears with its orbits visible. One identity, two skies.

Where we are

Online, and all over the place. Outer Meadow is a small international studio that builds for iPhone first, for anyone the App Store reaches. Android is wanted but not promised — the iPhone apps have to be genuinely good before anything else begins.