Quiet tools to reclaim your digital focus.
We craft beautiful, offline-first applications that protect your privacy and shield your attention. No accounts, no streaks, no distraction.
The internet is built to harvest your attention.
Modern web applications are designed like slot machines, competing for every second of your focus. They build profiles of your habits, store your thoughts on remote servers, and feed you notifications designed to keep you reactive.
Constant Distraction
New tab pages filled with search boxes, ads, and news feeds optimized to distract you instantly.
Algorithmic Pressure
Gamification and streak metrics that use guilt to force engagement, turning tools into obligations.
Data Dispersal
Your intentions, notes, and habits mapped, synced, and stored on databases you don't control.
Digital hospitality for a calm mind.
We know how exhausting the hyper-stimulated internet is because we live in it too. That is why we founded Zahir & Batin—a digital guild dedicated to slow, quiet software.
We think of software as a physical room you walk into. It should be constructed from quiet luxury aesthetics, local-first architecture, and absolute privacy.
Browse Our SuiteLocal-First Architecture
Your data belongs to you. Our utilities store all settings, notes, and metrics directly on your device. We make zero network calls, meaning your thoughts never leave your machine.
Intentional Friction
We omit gamified badges, dopamine loops, and pushy reminders. Instead, we provide generous spaces, elegant layout typography, and slow frameworks that encourage genuine reflection.
How to simplify your browser
Reclaiming your space is simple. We remove the registration forms and setup wizardry.
Choose Your App
Explore our suite of utilities and select the app that matches your current horizon. Start with Lumen to override your browser's new-tab layout.
Add to Browser
Install the extension locally with one click. No account signup, no email subscription, and no database setup. It works instantly.
Arrive with Focus
Open a new tab and step into a calm, private room. Align your daily steps with your long-term vision in an environment built for clarity.
The Slow Suite of Utilities
We design utilities that serve you, not our business analytics. Here is what we are crafting.
Lumen
A calm new-tab dashboard. Align your daily actions with your quarterly and yearly horizons using the Cascade Framework.
Available Now Learn MoreScribe
A text editor that doesn't save files, but saves your focus. It only remembers today's writing, encouraging fresh ideas every morning.
In DevelopmentVesper
A quiet email inbox. It only fetches messages twice a day, at sunrise and sunset, allowing you to work in uninterrupted blocks.
In DevelopmentTell us how it went.
If Lumen helps you ship a project, finish a season, leave a job, sit with a grief, or simply hold a quieter week — we would love to hear. And if it helps you go further...
- If you started that business
- If you finished the book
- If you ran the distance
- If you mended the relationship
- If you bought the home
- If you conquered that mountain
- If you finished the course
- If you came home to yourself
As crazy as they sound, as delusional as they feel — they are yours. Own them. Believe in yourself, for it is only you who can bring them into the world. So go for it.
We are here to cheer you all the way.
Send us your story