Luareload

A small independent studio. We make apps and websites by hand, put them out into the world, and keep making them better.

Projects

Every project keeps its own colours. Around them, the studio stays black and white.

Live atlant.luareload.com

Atlant

Two illustrated atlases with quizzes, made for Latvian schools. Learn the countries, capitals and outlines of Asia and Europe, collect achievements and climb a leaderboard the whole class shares.

Atlases
Musonu atlants for Asia, printed like a risograph. Kobalta atlants for Europe, glazed like Delft tiles.
Language
Latvian
Sign-up
None. Type your name and play; the leaderboard has no passwords.
Runs on
Cloudflare Workers, on the free plan. Until October 2026, a Raspberry Pi.
Open Atlant
In the works Not out yet

Something

Files, for a phone called Nothing. Nothing phones ship without a file manager of their own, so we're making one: as capable as a desktop file manager, and dressed like the phone in black, dots and a single red.

Phone
Android 11 and newer. Made for the Nothing Phone (3).
Desktop-grade
Tabs, split view, undo, batch rename and a terminal in the current folder. Opens ZIP, 7z and RAR like folders and reaches SMB, SFTP and WebDAV drives.
On the back
A Glyph Toy shows how full your phone is as a level of dots on the Glyph Matrix, with a ring that fills while files copy.
Price
Free. No ads, no accounts, no tracking.
Follow @luareload You'll hear there when it's out.
On hold conflux.luareload.com

Conflux

Every stream, one current. Telegram, WhatsApp, Discord, Instagram, Messenger, Google Messages, Slack, X and your mail in one calm inbox, with one stream of notifications instead of many.

Phone
Android 11 and newer. Made for the Nothing Phone (3).
Networks
Eight messengers and mail
Made with
Kotlin, TDLib for Telegram, whatsmeow for WhatsApp
Status
On hold, and not available to download right now.
Follow @conflux_app News about Conflux goes there first.

About

The Luareload mark: the eight phases of the moon in a ring, and the 30 days of the month around itFull moonWaning gibbousLast quarterWaning crescentNew moonWaxing crescentFirst quarterWaxing gibbous29.53days
Our mark is one lunar month, read clockwise, the way ↻ turns. Around it run the month's 30 days: the ones gone are lit, and the red one is tonight.

Luareload is a small independent studio. The people who design our apps are the ones who build them, ship them and answer your messages.

Why the moon

Lua is Portuguese for moon. Every 29.53 days the moon goes dark, then comes back a sliver at a time until it's full again. Nobody calls that failing. It's a reload, and it's how we like to work.

Look at our mark quickly and it's a loading wheel. Look again and it's the moon. The short form of our name, Luar, means moonlight.

The name also splits more than one way, and the wordmark at the top tries them all: Lua reload, Lu are load, and Luar e load, which is Portuguese for moonlight and load.

How we work

  • Show what's inside. Every project says what it runs on and what it's made of. When something is paused, we say so on the front page.
  • Ask for as little as possible. No account where a name will do, and no passwords where none are needed.
  • Keep it calm. Fewer pings, fewer screens, fewer settings to fight. Good technology gets out of your way.
  • Go dark, come back brighter. We pause things instead of abandoning them, and bring them back when we can do them properly.

Contact

Questions, bug reports, ideas, or just hello. A person reads every message.