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App development in Cardiff & South Wales.

Mobile and web apps built properly, to the standard that matters.

Apps work by ctrl.alt.elite

We design and build apps for businesses in Cardiff and South Wales - mobile apps, custom web apps and the internal tools that run the parts of a business no off-the-shelf product fits. Built to the engineering standard of systems where a bug isn't a bad review, it's a very bad day, and looked after long after launch by the people who shipped it.

What you getApps

Mobile apps.

iOS and Android apps designed and built to feel native, get through app-store review and hold up in real hands, not just a demo.

iOS & Android

Custom web apps.

the bespoke product - bookings, dashboards, portals, marketplaces - when nothing off the shelf does what your business actually needs.

Web platforms

Internal tools.

the workflow software that runs your operation, replacing the tangle of spreadsheets and manual steps your team has outgrown.

Operations tooling

Built to scale.

fast, tested and architected to grow - so it still works when you have ten times the users, not just on launch day.

Tested & ready
Why it mattersThe point of it

You get software shaped around your business, not your business bent around someone else's software.

It holds up under real use because it's properly tested, not rushed out.

The team that built it is the team that maintains it - no handover, no vanishing.

How we workOur approach

We map the thing before we build it. Who uses it, what they're actually trying to get done, and where an off-the-shelf product stops fitting - that conversation decides whether you need a mobile app, a web app or an internal tool, and saves you paying for the wrong one. Then we build to a real engineering standard: tested, architected to grow, and shaped so it still works when you have ten times the users rather than just on launch day. The team that designs it is the team that writes the code and the team that maintains it - no handover, no developer who never saw the brief. After launch we stick around for hosting, support and the next round of work, so the same hands answer two years on. We're based in Cardiff and build for businesses across South Wales and the rest of the UK.

Selected workProof, not promises
In their wordsStraight from the people we built for
It's not just a site. I've got the customer portal, the CRM behind it, and automatic update emails fire whenever I move a job through stages. I'm not chasing my own diary anymore.
SlickSkinsWraps, tints & PPF
We kept watching solo detailers lose jobs to missed DMs and paper diaries, so we built the booking and ops layer they actually needed - branded page, card payments, smart calendar.
ctrl.detailOur own SaaS

Common questions

Straight answers.

What to expect from apps with the studio.

Depends on who uses it and how. We'll map that out with you before a line of code, so you spend on the thing your customers and team will actually reach for.

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