Modus · a small family of Mac-native tools
Tools for the people who run the work.
Modus is a small family of Mac-native apps for independent operators — agencies, studios, consultants, and the people who run them. Same design language, same keyboard, same data conventions. Different jobs.
Your data lives on your Mac. Not on someone else's server.
Bought once. Yours forever. No seat math.
Designed for one person doing the work of three.
Three apps. Built to fit together.
Each app does one job — well — and the three share the same conventions when you run them side by side. Standalone is a first-class citizen. We won't hold a feature hostage to cross-app upsell.
Modus Studio
The CRM. Contacts, deals, quotes, invoices, time.
Modus Books
In developmentFinance and bookkeeping for service businesses.
Modus Projects
PlannedPlan and run client projects without the SaaS overhead.
Studio is shipping today on the Mac App Store. Books is in early development — same one-time-purchase terms when it lands. Projects is still on the drawing board.
Available today
Modus Studio — out now.
The CRM half of the family. Pipeline, quotes, invoices, reports, and an on-device assistant. Free to try for 30 days, one-time purchase to unlock.
Modus Studio Solo
$129.99
one-time, via App Store
- Single user
- Syncs across your Macs via iCloud
- All v1 features, paid major upgrades
- 30-day free trial — no credit card
What every Modus app stands for.
Four positions every app in the family shares. The features change by app; these don't.
Local-first, always.
Every Modus app runs against SQLite on your Mac. Search and edits never wait on a network. Sync across your own devices via iCloud when you turn it on — no third-party servers in the loop, ever.
One purchase, not a subscription.
Each app is a one-time purchase through the Mac App Store. Paid major upgrades, never recurring rent. The version you buy is yours — even if Modus disappears tomorrow.
Yours to keep.
Export anything as CSV, PDF, or vCard. Your data is on your Mac, in formats other tools can read. We won't make leaving hard, because we don't need to.
Honest about the limits.
We say what each app does and what it doesn't. No tax filing on your behalf in Books. No team workspaces in Studio v1. No SaaS-style feature ratchet. When something isn't ready, we tell you.