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Intelligent software. Beautifully built.

We're an independent Canadian studio making carefully crafted apps and games for Apple devices. From creative tools to new adventures, we build software that respects your time and your privacy.

Write, create, organize, broadcast and play. Explore our growing family of apps and games, including Photato, our native image editor for Mac in development.

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Photato

A fresh take on image editing for Mac. Layers, colour and retouching, built in native Swift with open-source roots.

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Free & open source on release · macOS 14+

Photato’s cheerful potato artist holding a rainbow paintbrush
Available now

Remarque

Markdown, beautifully refined. Live preview, offline math and diagrams, and exports that look exactly the way you meant them to.

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Coming soon

Embroidery Studio

Create, edit and stitch. Turn fonts, artwork and your own shapes into machine-ready embroidery, right on your Mac.

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An embroidered letter E in coral, gold, teal and green thread, stretched in a wooden hoop
Coming Very Soon

Freefall Armada

Take the cockpit. Protect the convoy. Bring your people home in a solo space-combat adventure for Mac, iPhone and iPad.

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Freefall Armada's three cyan spacecraft emblem
In development

Structa

Build real databases on your Mac. Tables, forms, scripts and dashboards in one local-first app, with nothing phoning home.

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Structa app icon
In development

CartDeck

The broadcast cart machine, reimagined for Mac and iPad. Fire, layer and sequence audio instantly, live on air.

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Explore our projects

Six projects, each with a purpose. Find what’s available today and follow what we’re building next.

In development

Photato

A native Swift image editor for Mac, with layers, masks and retouching. An independent port of PhotoCraft.

Explore Photato
Available now · Free

Remarque

The native Markdown editor that leaves nothing out: math, Mermaid, and pixel-perfect export.

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Coming soon

Embroidery Studio

Draw, letter and digitize your own designs, then export for your machine.

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Coming Very Soon

Freefall Armada

Fly the campaign. Save the convoy. Keep your solo career alive beyond the ending.

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In development

Structa

A visual database builder for people who'd rather own their data.

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In development

CartDeck

Broadcast-grade instant audio playback, with iPads as wireless control surfaces.

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From the development desk

See how Photato
takes shape.

An ambitious app, an open record. Follow the native Swift port from its first source audit through working features, difficult bugs and the decisions behind them.

Read the developer diaryOur engineering process

Photato is being built for a free and open-source release. Full Photoshop functionality remains a goal; it is not a claim about the current build.

Photato on GitHub

The repository is private during development. It will become public on the same day the software is released.

Photato’s native workspace displaying the original Field Notes landscape artwork, with tools, layers and colour controls.
Photato development build · 9 October 2026.
Actual rendered interface, using original demo artwork. Source and image credits.

How we build

Software that respects you.

Great software doesn't need to spy on you, bombard you with ads, or harvest your data. Every app we ship starts from that idea.

Private by default

Local work comes first. Optional cloud features are a choice, with their requirements and data handling explained in each app.

Made for your device

Thoughtful controls and interfaces that feel at home on the devices you use.

Open files

Plain, portable formats wherever we can. What you make is yours to keep and move.

Ready when it's ready

We ship when things are right, not when the calendar says so. Quality over quantity.

About us

Small team.
Big standards.

Forensic Intelligence is a software company based in Richmond, British Columbia. We build apps that are useful, well-crafted, and respectful of the people who use them.

Every app we ship is built with privacy as a foundation, not a marketing checkbox. No dark patterns, no misleading copy. We say what we do and do what we say.

6apps and games in the family
0trackers, ever
🇨🇦made in Canada

Get in touch

Feedback on one of our apps, a partnership idea, or just want to say hello? You'll reach a real person who reads everything.

john@forensicintelligence.ca

Forensic Intelligence, Ltd. · 3580 Moncton Street, Unit 265 · Richmond, BC, Canada V7E 3A4