Who we are
AppCrib is the free-tools arm of Infinite Orchard, Inc. We make small, focused browser tools, one tool per problem, across developer utilities, design, home and DIY estimation, trade and gym math, and everyday essentials. The catalog keeps growing.
Every tool is built on three commitments: knobs you can adjust, so the answer recomputes as you tune the inputs; outputs you can hand off (print it, copy it, download it); and exact, committed numbers with units, edge cases included.
The team
AppCrib is built by two co-founders. Carl Stein leads build and deploys as Head of Build. The build-in-public posts on the blog are his. His co-founder runs operations and the business side of the studio.
The parent company is Infinite Orchard, Inc., based in Texas.
A third “team member” worth naming: the studio's in-house build-and-deploy pipeline: the tooling we use to build, test, and ship each tool to appcrib.com. We designed it, we maintain it, and Carl reviews every tool before it goes live. Posts written in the studio's voice rather than by a named author are credited to AppCrib; build-in-public essays carry Carl's byline because he writes them personally.
How our content is made: tool reference material and per-tool posts are produced by the AppCrib studio with automated assistance, and reviewed before they're published. Anything carrying a personal byline is written by that person.
What we believe
Every tool runs client-side, so your data stays on your device. No sign-up walls, no email gates, nothing locked behind an upgrade prompt.
And exactness is the product: a calculator that shows its formula and commits to a number beats an answer that hedges.
How we make money
Plainly: AppCrib is part of a business, and the catalog has to pay for itself. Ads may appear on some pages. Where we recommend a product we may earn an affiliate commission. Those recommendations will always be labeled as such. Some future tools may offer paid tiers for professional features; the free tier on anything we ship stays genuinely usable.
What we don't do: sell user data. The analytics we run are consent-gated and minimal, and declining them breaks nothing.
How the tools are built
Every tool is a Next.js static export that ships to your browser once and runs there. No server touches your data, because there's no server in the loop. The engines are real: the actual jq 1.8 compiled to WebAssembly in Jqbin, OKLCH color interpolation in Graduo, live token counting in Toklen.
One shared design system runs across the catalog, so learning one tool teaches the rest. Everything loads once, works offline, and updates the answer the moment an input changes.
Get in touch
Have a question, an idea, or a tool you wish existed? Email us at support@infiniteorchard.ai.
We post launch notes and behind-the-scenes notes on the blog. New tool announcements come first there.
You can also find us on social. Two brands, each on two platforms: