Khaos Studios
A small team building Mac, Windows, and iOS apps we wanted to exist. So far: an audio visualizer, a calendar of your remaining weeks, an honest disk visualizer for the Mac, and two more in development.
Who we are
We're a handful of engineers who got tired of waiting for somebody else to build the tools we wanted. So we built them ourselves, mostly at night, mostly for free. Some of them turned out well enough that other people started using them, and the studio came together around the work.
Last month we spent the better part of a week tweaking a 300 ms transition. Then we rewrote an audio pipeline because the latency was 4 ms too high to feel right. Most people would never notice either one. We use these apps every day, so we do.
Synthscape happened because one of us wanted to watch a playlist on the second monitor instead of listening to it. Delve happened because every other Mac disk tool was either lying about APFS clones or hadn't been updated since Mojave. Pretty much everything we ship started as a frustration first.
No investors, no quarterly targets, no growth deck, no PM telling us an app about your remaining weeks of life is too dark. We pay for the servers, cover the costs, and ship the things we want to use. Some of those calls will turn out wrong, and we'll fix them when they do.
How we work
We don't run sprints and there isn't a roadmap. Projects start when somebody on the team can't stop thinking about a problem, and finish when the build is doing what we wanted. There's a loose pattern.
Usually in Discord, usually at an odd hour. "Why does no Mac disk tool tell the truth about clones?" or "why can't I watch this album?" If the question survives a week of back-and-forth, it becomes a repo.
None of us knew how to do real-time FFT analysis before Synthscape, or how APFS clone bookkeeping actually works before Delve. We tend to pick problems we haven't solved yet, then learn what we need as we build.
We push the build out the door the moment it's useful to us, not when it has a polished feature matrix. Sometimes people pick it up right away. Sometimes nobody downloads it for a month. Either way it's out in the world, and we keep improving it from there.
Synthscape is open on someone's second monitor right now. Delve runs every time one of us is low on disk. When something annoys us, it usually gets fixed by the next day, because we're the ones living with it.
The hard parts
On APFS, two 4 GB files can share the same blocks. Most disk tools count 8 GB and promise space you won't get back. Delve does the clone and hardlink bookkeeping, so the number you see is the number you free.
Real-time FFT analysis driving 24 visual styles inside a frame budget. We rewrote the audio pipeline because 4 ms of extra latency was enough to feel wrong against the beat.
Your whole life fits on one screen, in weeks. Drawing the grid was the easy part. Making it feel like a gift instead of a threat took most of the design time.
What we don't do
We pay for everything ourselves, so there's nobody upstairs asking us to add a subscription, a tracking pixel, or a "your data helps us improve" checkbox. Delve is $4.99 once, after a 14-day trial of the whole app. Synthscape has a one-time price because building it ate a year of weekends, and that felt fair. Warden will be free. Nothing we ship phones home with your filenames, your audio, or anything else beyond an anonymous crash count. If any of that ever changes, we'll say so here first, in plain English, before the app changes.
Our work
See your sound.
Real-time audio visualizer with 24 styles and a virtual camera, so your music becomes your webcam in Discord, Zoom, or OBS.
Read one word at a time.
A local speed reader. Drop in a book and Fovea plays it back one word at a time on a fixed point, so your eyes never move. Runs in the browser; nothing leaves your machine.
Your life, visualized.
Your life as a grid of weeks. Tracks health data and quietly tracks how the time is spent.
Delve for Mac
See your Mac clearly.
A beautifully clear map of every file. Find what’s large, preview it, and free space with confidence.
The League companion you actually wanted.
Mode-aware build, rune and augment recommendations read straight from your champ select, imported in one click. Free, lean, private. Try the live preview now.
In early development.
Quiet for now. We'll share more when there's something worth showing.
Get in touch
The team is in Discord. Fastest way to reach us, request features, or file bugs. The form below works if you'd rather email.