Marginalia is a small software studio. We make iOS apps that read like books — slow, considered, made by hand. Two so far. More to come, slowly.
We named ourselves after the notes readers write in the margins of books — the small annotations that outlive the page. Software, we think, should aspire to the same. Quiet. Specific. Worth keeping.
The editorial travel guide.
A pocket Lonely Planet for the slow traveller. 94 destinations across Southeast Asia, Australasia and South America — every page written by hand, no scraped reviews, no sponsored pins. Trails, field notes, an AI travel companion grounded only in what we've actually written.
wendapp.coMental health, made for Ireland.
A pocket toolkit for the days that aren't easy. Mood tracking, breathing exercises, journaling, a CBT-grounded library, a private AI companion, and crisis resources tuned for Irish services — all on-device, all yours.
clarusapp.ieThe pages a reader marks are the pages that did the work.
— a note in the margins
We don't ship features to fill a calendar. We ship them because a reader needed one. The pace is deliberate. The result lasts.
Every destination, every field note, every microcopy line in our apps is written by a person, edited by a person. No scraped reviews. No model-generated filler.
We never sell data. We collect the minimum. iCloud sync is opt-in. Reading lists, trips, journal entries — they belong to the reader, not to us.
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Cormorant Garamond
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JetBrains Mono
Display sets the voice. UI carries the reading. Mono marks the editorial scaffolding.
The pilcrow — the editor's mark for "new paragraph." Our north star.
Reader feedback, press, partnerships, or just to ask what we're reading this month — write to us. We read every message and reply within a few days.
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