Keep the studio shipping.
Every app the studio makes is free to use, and the developer tools are open source — no paywall, no subscription, no account. That is a deliberate choice, and it has a real cost: the Apple Developer fee, the signing and notarization, and the after-hours time each release takes are all carried by one person. If one of these has earned a place in your day, a sponsorship is what keeps the next release coming.
Monthly or one-off, billed alongside the rest of your GitHub. The closest thing to funding the roadmap directly.
A one-tap coffee, no account needed — the simplest way to say a release was worth it.
One-off or monthly, and Ko-fi takes no fee — the whole amount reaches the studio.
Where it goes.
The Apple Developer Program
The $99-a-year fee every signed, notarized and Mac App Store build depends on — due whether or not a release ships that year.
Claude Code (Max)
The $200-a-month subscription behind the AI pair-programming that ships these releases at a one-person pace.
Time for the next release
Features and fixes are built after hours. Sponsorship is the one thing that turns into more of those hours.
Keeping the essentials free
Charging for what an app is actually for is the obvious way to cover its costs. Not doing that is the choice sponsorship pays for.
