Area 13 is on the App Store

We build little apps for big obsessions.

A small software company in the California desert. We build the tool your hobby deserves.

13Beacons logo: a skull piloting a flying saucer

Who we are

A studio, a workbench,
and a very good sticker.

Each app ships under its own name. 13Beacons, LLC is the one desk behind all of them: no roadmap theater, no funding round.

Built for the obsessed

Collectors, readers, completionists, list keepers. If you have a spreadsheet for your hobby, you are the audience.

Ship small, ship often

One useful app beats five decks about apps. Everything here is built to reach a real phone, not a pitch meeting.

Everything under one roof

Design, code, release, and support come from the same desk. Fewer handoffs, faster fixes, one person to blame.

Area 13 app icon: the 13Beacons skull pilot in its saucer dome

Area 13

Free daily puzzles from restricted airspace, now on iPhone and iPad. A new one every day at midnight Pacific.

Night Signal
Decode one five-letter transmission in six tries.
Flight Path
Fly through every beacon in order and cover the whole grid.

Also made here: a retro skate iPhone icon pack on Etsy.

Send up a flare.

Questions, bug reports, or an idea you think we should build. It reaches an actual human, usually within a day.

hello@13beacons.com