One person, 11 apps, and a list that keeps getting longer.

Ashhub is one person: an engineer in Tianjin who makes apps on the side. Design, code, artwork, localisation, App Store operations and this website are all the same pair of hands.

Every app started the same way — as a note that said "why does this not exist?". A scorer for one dialect of mahjong that nothing else gets right. A wok you toss by flicking your wrist. A light that keeps travelling, at the speed of light, for a pet who has gone. None of them are the demo of something bigger; each one is the whole thing, made properly because it should exist.

The notes fall into three piles: things to play with, quiet company for hard moments, and reference done properly — the formula next to the result, the source next to the fact.

1Developer
11Apps in 2026
11Languages shipped
10 / 1iOS / macOS
0Outside funding
0Subscriptions

How the apps are built

Small on purpose

Each app does a narrow thing properly rather than a broad thing loosely. That is what one person can actually ship well.

The source next to the fact

Reference apps show their working — the formula beside the result, the record beside the claim — so you can check it rather than trust it.

Bought once, not rented

Paid features are one-time unlocks. There are no subscriptions anywhere in the line, and anything already given away free stays free.

On your device by default

Whatever can run on the phone, does. Most apps never open a network connection; the few that do say so on their own page. No accounts, no trackers — a habit, not a headline.

On the App Store
Apps are published under the founder's own name, 明 齐 (Ming Qi) — that is what Apple displays as the developer. Ashhub is the studio those apps belong to, and the name used everywhere else.