Studio · est. 2026

Software, with will.

A small studio building software that lasts.

2026 · Bassano del Grappa, Italy

We build software with will.

Most software is built for the average case. We build for the user who is paying real attention. The unsent sentence. The two seconds before a scroll. The page you came back to three times. The product is the point. Everything else is interface.

What does it know
The user, not the segment.
What does it do with what it knows
It acts on it.
What does it refuse to do
Everything else.
What would break
The product, if it weren't there.
ochiwa

BeBook.

A PDF reader that turns pages like a real book.

BeBook understands reading. It notices the page you linger on, the passage you come back to, the note you wrote in the margin — and turns those signals into a more tactile, more human surface. Pages turn with weight, paper carries grain, binding is visible at the spine. A book, on a screen, that remembers it’s a book.

macOS 14+ Swift 3 MB
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Small tools, built with care.

ochiwa is one person, a Mac, and the products he has chosen to put his name on. It is not a company. It is a studio. The studio is small on purpose and will not grow past the point where every product’s fourth answer can be described from memory.

Maker
Filippo Gerin
Where
Bassano del Grappa, Italy
Since
2026

Say hello.

Feedback, ideas, or just curious — we’d love to hear from you.

ochiwa.apps@gmail.com