Café is the studio behind Bandleader and Communed. We design, build and look after web and mobile apps for people who love what they do.
We build products of our own, which means we deal with the same app store reviews, support emails and roadmaps our clients do.
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Your whole band, on the same page.
Chord charts in letters or numbers with your own key, capo and notes on top, set lists that work offline on stage, a shared calendar with RSVPs and a band chat. One place for everything the band plays and everywhere it plays it.
On any phone, tablet or laptop. $5 USD a month per band after a 30-day free trial, with no card needed to start.
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Write the song together, wherever you are.
One chord chart that every co-writer edits at the same time. See each other’s cursors, try a line without losing the old one, hear it in any key, and hand the finished song to your band on Bandleader.
In the browser on phones, tablets and computers. $5 USD a year per writer after a free trial, and included for anyone in a band on Bandleader.
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School management for independent Christian schools.
One record for every family, from first inquiry to the AGM. Communed runs the life of the school around the classroom, from households, attendance and admissions to tuition, receipts and the society, with a parent app made for phones.
For independent Christian schools, JK to grade 8. Runs in the browser, with a parent app built for a phone in the pickup line.
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Every pallet, tonne and yard of it, accounted for.
Inventory, pricing and orders for masonry and landscape supply yards. YardRunner runs the counter, the yard, the trucks, the rental fleet, the crew’s hours and the receivables in one system, built around how a yard actually sells: by the bag, the pallet and the tonne, on account, with a deposit on every pallet.
Runs in the browser on any desktop, tablet or phone, and installs to the home screen. $749 CAD a month per business after a 14-day free trial, with Rentals and Time & Attendance as add-ons.
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Share the cottage, not the spreadsheet.
Cottager runs the calendar, week trades and shared costs for co-owners of a cottage, and keeps the record of what the place is worth. Nothing that’s yours changes without your OK.
Made for phones first. $20 CAD a year per cottage after a 14-day free trial, with everyone in the group included.
The process matters as much as the result. Six steps, from the first conversation to the hundredth release.
We learn everything we can about you, your customers and what you want the app to do. Clear goals make every later decision easier.
We look at your market and your users, then decide what the first version must do and what can wait.
Our favourite part. The strategy becomes screens and prototypes you can tap through, revised until they feel right.
We build in short cycles you can see and test, on foundations that will hold up as you grow.
Everything goes live: the stores, the servers, the announcement. It is the start, not the finish.
We watch how people use it, learn what works, and keep improving the app month by month.
Have an app idea, or one that needs rescuing? Tell us a little about it. Or just suggest a coffee and we'll talk it through.