Don Bonaddio
Indie iOS developer. I build small, careful apps for everyday people.
donstech is where my apps live. Five so far. Each one started because I needed it myself and couldn’t find anything that wasn’t bloated, ad-supported, or trying to be a feed.
I ship on iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — and now the Mac. Everything I make respects your data — on-device intelligence first, your iCloud second, nothing on any server I control unless absolutely necessary.
If that sounds like what you want from your phone, take a look at the apps below.
Currently shipping
Xgest
Just ask your manual. Get the answer. Your car, your range, your garage door opener — ask in your own words, and get the page that proves it.
Live on the App Store
What’s For Dinner Tonight
The family meal planner that finishes what it starts. Picks dinner from your library, shows you how to cook it, syncs across the whole household.
Live on the App Store
GoSosh
Today’s buzz, sorted. A live dashboard of what’s actually moving across the topics you care about. No feed, no rabbit hole, no chatbot.
Live on the App Store
Sandeeze
Forward your work-schedule PDF, get your shifts in Apple Calendar. Built for shift workers tired of typing schedules into their phones every week.
In beta
TotalVu
One searchable map of your digital life — files, photos, mail, notes, external drives, even your social media archives. Indexed entirely on your Mac. Nothing is uploaded, nothing leaves.
Free beta for Mac
What is it? Xgest it.
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What I build for
The pattern across everything I ship: real households, real frustrations, no feed. I’m not building software for power users with infinite time to configure things. I’m building for the people in my actual life — my wife, my parents, my coworkers, my neighbors — who just want their phone to help and then get out of the way.
That means a few things consistently. The apps work without setup pain. They respect the data they touch — usually by not touching it (your meals stay in your iCloud, your buzz topics stay on your device, your work schedule passes through a stateless parser). They don’t ask you to make an account because you already have an Apple ID. They don’t recommend brands because nobody’s paying me to. And they aim to do one thing very well rather than five things badly.
If I had to summarize: I build apps I’d want my wife to use without me having to explain anything first.
About me
I’m Don. I live in the U.S., I work a day job that keeps me grounded in the real world, and I build apps in the in-between hours — early mornings before my shift, evenings after the family’s settled in.
Most of what I build comes from a real moment of frustration in my own house. WFD started as a Notes file my wife and I were both editing every Sunday and never quite agreeing on. Sandeeze started because Workforce Tools doesn’t talk to Apple Calendar and I was tired of typing my schedule by hand. GoSosh started because I wanted to know what was happening in the world without scrolling for it. Xgest started in my driveway, squinting at a warning light I couldn’t name, with a 532-page PDF on my phone and no idea what to search for. TotalVu started when I wondered how many of my photos existed only on an old drive in a drawer — the answer turned out to be sixteen thousand.
I’m not trying to build a unicorn. I’m trying to build software my family uses, that respects the people who pay for it, and that I’m still proud of in five years. If a few thousand families end up using one of these the way mine does, that’s a win.
If you find one of the apps useful, tell me at don@donstech.com. If you find a bug, tell me twice as loud.
WFD → · GoSosh → · Sandeeze → · Xgest → · TotalVu →