Projects Case study
BookKit: your pocket front desk.
A native appointment-booking and client-management app for iPhone, iPad, and Mac — scheduling, invoicing, and client history that run entirely on your device. No account, no subscription, no server.
The product
BookKit is for independent service providers — anyone whose week is a calendar and whose month is a stack of invoices. One app reshapes itself per device: a pocket front desk on iPhone, a week-at-a-glance layout on iPad, and an adaptive sidebar on Mac. It's a native app that works offline, one app for iPhone, iPad, and Mac.
The availability engine
Scheduling is where most booking tools leak complexity. BookKit sets recurring working hours, blocks off holidays and breaks, and lets the availability engine prevent double-bookings before they happen. Then the part I like most: share one link, and clients request a time from your live availability — no app, no account, no back-and-forth texts — because your availability rides inside the link itself.
Invoices without the paperwork
Client profiles carry notes and full appointment and invoice history. Invoices number themselves, export to PDF, and draw from a services catalog. Point the camera at a printed invoice and OCR lifts the line items, dates, and totals into a digital record. And payments stay honest: payment handles are user-typed, so money never moves through BookKit — it's infrastructure, not a middleman.
Private by design, not by promise
Everything lives on the device, locked behind Face ID or Touch ID. Reminders are local notifications, so there's no push service to depend on. Backups are encrypted and portable between devices. Two-way Apple Calendar sync keeps the rest of life in step. The privacy pitch in one line: BookKit doesn't have a cloud to breach.
BookKit launches on the App Store soon: one app for iPhone, iPad, and Mac, free to start with a single one-time upgrade — no subscription, ever. Its promo site is bookkitapp.com, live now, and it joins FileComb, pocket/grammer, Blue News Network, Killstamp, and Podkipedia.