Graphic Meat — independent product studio
Well done isn't a requirement
Independent software worth paying for—built to earn trust, not capture attention.
Private by default · Sustainable by design · Est. 2013
↓ What we're building
Your mailbox is full. Your archive doesn't have to be.
Archive your IMAP emails locally as standard .eml files — free up server storage, keep everything searchable offline. Forever.
Beautiful photobooks, automatically.
A native app for Mac, iPhone and iPad that turns your photo library into a print-ready album — import from Apple Photos, auto-arrange the pages, export a PDF for print or sharing. Free, and your photos never leave your device.
Start with a note. Stay for the editor.
A local-first Mac workspace for notes, Markdown, and code projects — full-text search, real code folding, project search, themes, trusted commands, and optional language-server intelligence.
One suite, not five vendors.
Six Shopify apps built on one shared engine: a cart drawer, bundles, popups, post-purchase upsells, subscriptions, and analytics. Free until an app has driven you $200/month, then priced on the revenue it adds — never on your total sales.
Move your mailbox. Keep your privacy.
Move email from one IMAP provider to another — Gmail, Outlook, iCloud, Fastmail, or any IMAP host. Credentials stay in memory, messages stream provider to provider, and the transfer record is purged after 7 days. Preview free, pay once.
Every MailVault feature ships only after a machine has opened the real app and clicked through it. How the end-to-end suite works, and why it runs on a Mac mini instead of the machine we work on.
Google caps IMAP downloads at 2,500 MB per user per day, and locks the account for up to 24 hours when you cross it. What that means for anyone archiving a large mailbox.
We sell no food and harm no animals. The name is graphical satire: meat stands for the substance of the work — the shipped result of coding you can actually chew on.
Graphic Meat is an independent product studio, running since 2013. We build small, sharp tools that respect your data and do one thing well. Some are paid by subscription, some are free and open source—the model follows the product, while the goal stays the same: useful software and a studio that can keep making it. Well done isn't a requirement.
Small tools still deserve real engineering. We lean on the patterns the software world already proved, and pair them with AI to go from empty repo to shipping product fast — without the mess that usually comes with speed.
Small, self-contained pieces with clear seams. Each part does one job, so features drop in and bugs stay boxed in.
Write the test first, then the code that passes it. The behaviour is pinned down before it ships, and stays pinned as the code grows.
Code shaped so it can be verified — pure functions, injected dependencies, no hidden state. If it's hard to test, it's badly designed.
The simplest thing that works, every time. No speculative abstractions, no cleverness to decode at 3am. Boring code is a feature.
Time-tested design principles keep responsibilities clean and change cheap, so the codebase bends instead of breaking.
AI does the heavy lifting on scaffolding, refactors and reviews — under human judgement — so quality goes up while build time goes down.
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