About

A one-person dev shop, building small apps for everyday problems.

Abokado Labs is run by one person — Bob Kitchen — out of Nairobi, Kenya. The aim is small and specific: ship considered software for the kinds of problems that show up in daily life.

The name

The studio was founded in a beautiful garden surrounded by avocado trees. Abokado is the Japanese reading of avocado — written アボカド. That's the whole story.

Four rules

The way the studio works. Written down so they're harder to break.

  1. Use it ourselves. Every app gets a week of real use in the maker's own work before it earns yours. If it doesn't earn that week, it doesn't ship.
  2. No telemetry, no tracking, no ads. The apps don't phone home. There's no engagement funnel. The product is the product. The privacy policies are short because there isn't much to say.
  3. Customer feedback is the engine. What gets built next is either something the maker needs in their own work, or something a customer has asked for. The roadmap lives in the inbox.
  4. No roadmaps we can't keep. The studio doesn't promise features by date. Things ship when they're done.

What's shipping

Keys

A vault for developer credentials. API keys, SSH keys, OAuth tokens, .env imports. Encrypted on your devices, synced through your iCloud, no server in the middle. iPhone, iPad, Mac. $4.99 once.

Open
Model Meter

A free menu bar app that consolidates Codex, Claude, and Gemini usage into one glanceable line. Open source under MIT. macOS 26 and up.

Open
Bandwidth Meter

A free menu bar app for understanding what your internet is actually doing — live up/down rates, per-app traffic, Wi-Fi and public IP, outage detection, speed tests. Version 1.1.1 now available. macOS 26 and up.

Open
Weather Meter

A free menu bar app that blends up to five weather services into one best-consensus forecast, with a confidence score for how much they agree. Open source under MIT. macOS now; iPhone and Apple Watch coming soon.

Open
Stock Meter

A free menu bar app that shows your live Robinhood portfolio value, day change, and holdings — read-only, through Robinhood's own connection. It never places trades. Open source under MIT. macOS 26 and up.

Open

What's next

Two apps for athletes are in development. A daily-readiness coach that reads what your Apple Watch already knows about sleep, training load, and recovery, and gives you a specific workout to match. And one more idea that's still in the sketch-in-Notes phase.

Both of those will get the same four-rules treatment. Both will probably take longer than I think.

Get in touch

The fastest way to reach the studio is by email: hello@abokadolabs.com. Feature requests, bug reports, and questions are all welcome. Replies come back within a few days, usually the same one.

Other places: GitHub for Model Meter and Bandwidth Meter source and issue trackers. The studio cross-posts launches and small updates on X and Bluesky, both as @abokadolabs, if you want to follow along that way.