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.
GitHub Sponsors
Monthly or one-off, billed alongside the rest of your GitHub. The closest thing to funding the roadmap directly.
Sponsor on GitHubBuy Me a Coffee
A one-tap coffee, no account needed — the simplest way to say a release was worth it.
Buy a coffeeWhere 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.
Who builds it.
Abdelraouf Sabri
Senior Android engineer · Egypt
Abdelraouf Sabri is a senior Android engineer with seven-plus years shipping production mobile apps, Google-certified in Android, and an independent developer working from Egypt. He builds the studio’s apps and developer tools end to end — design, code and release — and takes on Kotlin Multiplatform client work alongside them.