We build the software
your business runs on.
Black Forest is a software engineering studio. We design, architect and ship mobile apps, web platforms, AI, and factory systems - from first prototype to production - for teams anywhere in the world.
One studio, five surfaces.
If it's software and it's worth building well, it's probably in scope. Most clients come to us for one of these and grow into the others.
Apps people keep on the home screen
iOS and Android that feel native - customer apps and the internal tools your staff live in, launched and kept alive on both stores.
- Swift · Kotlin · Flutter
- App Store & Play launch
- Offline & real-time sync
The platform your business runs on
SaaS products, customer portals, dashboards, admin tools - fast as your data and your team grow, with the boring parts done right.
- SaaS · portals · dashboards
- Auth, roles & billing
- APIs & integrations
AI that earns its keep
Machine learning and LLMs applied where they save real hours a month - forecasting, extraction, assistants. No chatbot demos.
- Forecasting & anomaly detection
- Document extraction (OCR)
- LLM assistants & agents
Industry 4.0, on the shop floor
Real-time production visibility, sensor and PLC integration, workflow automation. Our manufacturing practice, with its own home.
- Real-time OEE dashboards
- Sensor & PLC integration
- MyInvois · Industry4WRD
Built around your business
When off-the-shelf doesn't fit, we build the thing that does - designed with your team, for the way you actually work.
- Bespoke internal tools
- Legacy rebuilds & rescues
- You own the code
Not sure which one you need?
Tell us what you're trying to do. We'll help you figure out where to start - and which parts can wait.
We're fluent across the whole stack.
Native and cross-platform, front end and back, data and infra. We pick the tool that fits the job - not the one we happen to know.
Proof, not promises.
Two anonymized builds that show the range - a factory system and a distribution platform, each shipped end to end.
Real-time OEE + demand forecasting
A live production dashboard across every line, plus an ML model that forecasts demand - so purchasing stops guessing and the warehouse stops running out.
Read the caseB2B ordering platform + mobile apps
A self-serve ordering portal for dealers with credit and stock checked in real time, backed by native apps the field team uses on the road.
Read the caseFrom first call to production.
A small senior team, end to end. We don't just write the screens - we help you decide what to build, then make it real and keep it running.
We turn the goal in your head into a real spec - the flows, the constraints, the one thing it has to nail first.
The unglamorous part that decides everything: data model, auth, integrations, scale - so it holds up when real usage arrives.
A small senior team builds it and gets it live - stores, cloud, and the release gauntlet, handled.
Launch is chapter one. Iterations, new features, and the metrics to know what's actually working.
Products we've put in the stores.
Not mock-ups - real apps our studio designed, built and shipped, downloadable today.
Live results · Utility4D Result - Live MY & SG
Every 4D draw, the moment it lands.
A live 4D results app for Malaysia & Singapore - all 7 companies in one fast screen, streaming in real time with no manual refresh. Plus a Fun Match finder, an investment calculator, and 20+ themes to make it yours.
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Health & fitnessGym Planner X
Your weekly split, on autopilot.
A clean, no-nonsense training scheduler. Build your weekly split - legs, back, push, pull - and just follow the plan. Exercise form guides, progress tracking, offline-first, and translated into 18 languages.
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Senior engineers, start to finish.
We're a compact studio that takes a handful of projects seriously, rather than a big shop spread thin. Two of them:
You work with the people who build it. No account layer, no hand-off to juniors.
We build with modern AI across our own workshop - it's how a small team ships fast.
From the first rough build to a system that holds up under real load and real users.
Your code, your data, documented and handed over. No lock-in, ever.
Have something to build?
Tell us what you're trying to build, in plain words. We'll tell you honestly what it takes to ship it - and where to start.
Let's talk