About
An iOS studio built around narrow problems, solved properly.
Most software fails by expanding. A product that begins as a shift tracker becomes a scheduling suite, then an HR platform, and somewhere in that expansion it stops being good at the thing it was built for. Drongo builds in the opposite direction.
What we do
Drongo develops and publishes iOS applications across four categories — healthcare, productivity, reference and wellbeing. Six products are live on the App Store, the earliest shipping since 2022 and now in its seventh major version.
Each product is scoped to a single, well-defined problem. NurseShift models nursing compensation — differentials, overtime rules, multi-site contracts — and nothing else. AntiqScan identifies and values objects from a photograph. TTS Reader turns documents into audio. The constraint is deliberate: a narrow product can be made genuinely good, and stay that way through years of releases.
How we build
Local-first by default. Customer data is stored on the device and synchronised through the customer's own iCloud account. Several products have no account system at all, because the architecture never required a server to hold the data. This is a structural decision rather than a policy one — the guarantee holds because there is nowhere else for the data to go.
Native to the platform. Widgets, Live Activities, Lock Screen presence, Apple Watch complications, iCloud sync, Vision Pro support — implemented with Apple's own frameworks where each earns its place, rather than a web view in an app shell.
Transparent commercially. Pricing is published on every product page before download, including exactly what the free tier covers. Two products offer a lifetime licence for customers who prefer not to hold a subscription.
Supported directly. Support requests reach the people who build the product. Typical response time is two business days. Customer requests shape releases — NurseShift's custom overtime rules exist because a nurse in California explained precisely why the federal weekly-40 calculation produced the wrong number for her contract.
Where the name comes from
The drongo is a small black bird found across South Asia. It mimics the alarm calls of other species convincingly enough to fool them, and it will drive a bird ten times its size off a branch it wants. Small, precise, and considerably more capable than its size suggests — which seemed like the right thing to aim at.
Currently shipping
- NurseShiftMedicalKnow what your paycheck says before it lands.
- Focus MateProductivityBlock the distraction, keep the streak.
- TTS ReaderProductivityListen to the PDF you don't have time to read.
- AntiqScanReferencePhotograph it. Find out what it is, and what it's worth.
- PlannedProductivityA day with a shape, not a list with no end.
- AffirmlyHealth & FitnessOne minute in the morning. One at night.
Details
- Studio
- Drongo
- Publisher
- Khandker Tafiqul Islam
- Location
- Dhaka, Bangladesh
- Shipping since
- 2022
- Products live
- 6
- Platforms
- iPhone · iPad · Mac · Apple Watch · Vision Pro
- Contact
- info.drongo@gmail.com
Work with us
Product feedback, press enquiries, partnerships and support all reach the same place.