One person.
Every departure.
A UK software company where every app, every pixel and every line of the privacy policy comes from the same pair of hands.
Three words. Every decision.
If a feature needs a manual, it isn't finished. Everything should make sense the second you open it — no onboarding maze, no settings labyrinth, no learning curve standing between you and the thing you came to do.
Good enough isn't. The animation, the detail, the feel — an app should be something you want to show someone. A passport that actually flips. A board that actually departs. Craft is the feature.
No accounts. No setup. No friction. Download it and it just works — and keeps working, offline where possible, without asking anything of you in return.
Software has picked the wrong side.
Somewhere along the way, most apps stopped working for the people using them. Attention became inventory to sell. Personal data became a product. Features you already paid for got moved behind a monthly fee.
JGApps exists to be the other thing. Where a feature needs data to work, that data stays on your device; where it doesn't, it simply isn't collected. And when you get in touch, a human answers — never a bot, never a void.
The journey so far.
Hi, I'm James.
I started JGApps because I want to make software that people enjoy using.
I don't like unnecessary subscriptions. I don't like invasive tracking. I like building products that are simple, enjoyable and respectful of the people using them.
The board will get longer — more apps, more categories, transport beyond London and tools beyond travel. What won't change is why anything departs. It's not about the money; it's about making the person happy.
If one of my apps saves you a missed train, or helps you remember a trip that mattered — that's the whole point. Everything else is just the departures board doing its job.
— James Giles
Founder, JGApps
United Kingdom