Product & AI studio · Dubai

We build apps, and help teams launch theirs.

Rhine Bird is a small product & AI studio. We design, build and ship our own apps for iPhone and iPad, and we work with companies on product, launch planning and AI agents: careful about privacy, honest about what’s built, and with a person in the loop wherever it matters.

  • Our own apps on the App Store
  • Product & launch for AI-first teams
  • Private by design
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Good products are built carefully, and launched on purpose.

Rhine Bird is a small studio, and we like it that way. Small means every screen and every decision gets looked at by someone who cares about it. We build our own apps for iPhone and iPad, and we bring the same care to the products we help other teams launch.

Building our own apps keeps us honest. We pay the same costs, read the same reviews and work within the same App Store rules as the teams we work with, so our advice comes from shipping, not from slides.

Privacy isn’t a settings page for us; it’s an architecture decision. Wherever we can, there is no account to create and no server of ours to trust, and nothing leaves your device without a clear reason and your consent.

And AI? We think it’s the most interesting tool to arrive in a decade. We build with AI agents every day and use them where they remove real work, always with a person deciding anything that can’t be undone.

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Our own apps. Built to be opened.

Live on the App Store

Basket Case

Smart tasks for iPhone

Organize tasks, shopping, and shared plans into simple baskets. Basket Case turns scattered to-dos into something you actually want to open.

  • Baskets for any project or context
  • Priorities: Normal, Medium, High
  • Home-screen widgets
  • Completion stats to watch grow
  • Share a basket with one person
  • No trackers or third-party services

Private by default. Your baskets stay between your device and your own iCloud.

Basket Case on an iPhone, tilted, showing the Baskets list with Birthday Party, Errands, Fitness, and Groceries
Live on the App Store

Tonight

What to watch next · iPhone & iPad

Stop scrolling. Start watching. Tonight is a fast, quiet companion for film and TV: what’s trending, where it’s streaming, and a watchlist that lives on your device.

  • Browse what’s trending in film and TV
  • Watch the trailer without leaving the app
  • See where a title is streaming in your region
  • Search by title or person, filter by runtime
  • Follow actors and directors, keep custom lists
  • Release-day reminders

Free. No account, no sign-up, no tracking. Requires iOS 26 or later.

Tonight's Trending list on iPhone, with open films such as Big Buck Bunny and Spring Tonight's Watchlist on iPhone, with films to watch and a watched tab Tonight's home screen on iPhone, featuring the open film Spring with Play Trailer, Details and Watchlist buttons

Next up: Loudiary, the private voice diary for iPhone. Coming soon.

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Product, launch and AI, for teams building what’s next.

We work with a small number of companies at a time, usually where a new product, or a new way of working with AI agents, has to go live without surprises.

  1. Product

    From a fuzzy idea to a plan a team can build: customer journeys, scope, pricing and the unit economics behind them.

  2. Launch

    Getting every workstream ready to go live together (product, payments, legal, support and communications) in the right order, with the gaps found before launch day.

  3. AI agents

    Products and teams where AI agents do real work safely: clear permissions, consent before data moves, and a person in the loop for anything that can’t be undone.

How we work together

Advisory
Focused sessions on a specific product, launch or AI question.
Launch lead
Owning the launch plan across workstreams until the product is live.
Embedded
A product & engineering lead inside your team for a defined period, hands on with the code.
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Four things we won’t compromise on.

These aren’t slogans for a wall. They’re the questions we ask before anything ships, in our own apps and in the products we help launch.

  1. Private by design

    No accounts where we can avoid them, no third-party trackers, and no data leaving a device without a clear reason and clear consent. Privacy is decided in the architecture, not in a toggle.

  2. Simple by default

    Every feature has to earn its place on the screen. If something needs a tutorial, we treat that as a design bug and go back to the drawing board.

  3. A person in the loop

    We use AI where it quietly removes real work, and keep a person in charge of anything that can’t be undone. You should feel the benefit, not the buzzword.

  4. Promise only what’s built

    A launch is honest when every claim on the page is something the product actually does today. We’d rather ship a smaller promise and keep it.

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Say hello.

A product you want to launch, an idea for something we should build, a bug that’s been bothering you, or a question about how we handle your data. We read everything, and we answer.

contact@rhinebird.com