About StratPollen Studio
StratPollen Studio is a small, independent app studio. We build simple, useful apps for everyday life, for anyone who wants technology that is easy to use and fair with their information.
Why the name StratPollen
StratPollen is strategy plus pollen. Strategy, because every app starts with a plan: a real problem people meet every day, and the simplest way to solve it. Pollen, because good ideas travel. What we learn building one app carries over to the next, so our tools keep getting smarter and easier to use.
Why we started
Our first app, WhisperLite, came out of a plain frustration: staying in touch shouldn't eat a whole data allowance. On ships, abroad and on prepaid plans, every megabyte is counted. Popular messengers keep getting heavier, with autoplaying media, background syncing and large previews, and the people with the least data feel it most.
So we built a messenger the other way round. We started from the smallest message we could send safely, encrypted it on the phone, and only then added features, checking the data cost of each one. The result is a messenger where a text costs under half a kilobyte and calls let you choose what you spend.
Win% started from something smaller: we kept needing a clean way to work out winning percentage with draws, and the calculators we found were cluttered or counted draws only one way. SeaDAST came from the seafaring world too, where a quick, private way to reflect on stress and anxiety on board can make it easier to start a conversation about it.
What we believe
- Strategy first. Each app solves a real everyday problem, and every feature has to earn its place.
- Ideas should spread. What works in one app makes the next one better.
- Privacy is the default. We don't ask for more than an app needs, and we don't sell personal information.
- Simple wins. Fewer screens, clear words, and help pages written in plain English.
- The basics stay free. Paid plans add extras; they don't hold the core of an app hostage.
Our apps
- Floobly: a friendly AI ghost that floats over any app to reply, translate, explain and answer anything.
- WhisperLite: an end-to-end encrypted messenger built to use very little data.
- Win%: a free winning percentage calculator for wins, losses and draws.
- SeaDAST: a web edition of the Seafarer Digital Anxiety Screening Tool questionnaire.
- TideSpeaker: a maritime compliance SaaS for ship managers, an MLC-compliant crew grievance and whistleblower platform.
Guides
We also write plain-English guides on the subjects behind our apps, like how winning percentage and standings work, how much data messaging really uses, and what end-to-end encryption does and doesn't protect. Each guide includes worked examples, so you can check the reasoning yourself.
Get in touch
Questions, ideas or a bug to report? See our contact page. We read every message.