Released
Globo
2026Point your camera. Meet the story.
Travel
App studio
Hot Forge
Studio
We design, build and publish apps people download on iPhone and Android.
Who makes apps you can download on Apple and Android?
Hot Forge Studio is an independent app studio in Paris that designs, builds and publishes its own mobile apps for the App Store and Google Play. Founded in 2025, the same small team takes each product from idea to a downloadable release, including Globo for iOS and Android.
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IDEA
Finding the spark.
From idea to download on Apple and Android.
Great apps come from small teams who design, code and ship together - not from decks and handoffs.
We take products all the way to the App Store and Google Play, so people can find them, download them, and use them.
Selected apps
Out of the forge.
About the studio
- How do I get an app on the App Store and Google Play?
- You need a product people can install: design, engineering, store listings, privacy disclosures, and a review that Apple and Google will accept. Hot Forge Studio does that end-to-end for its own apps, and shares what the process actually requires in its articles.
- Does Hot Forge Studio build apps for iPhone and Android?
- Yes. The studio designs and ships mobile apps for both Apple and Android so users can download them from the App Store and Google Play. Globo is available on both platforms.
- What does Hot Forge Studio do?
- Hot Forge Studio designs, builds and publishes its own mobile apps. It is a studio rather than an agency: it owns the products it makes and earns from users after launch, instead of being paid to build software that a client will own.
- What apps has Hot Forge Studio published?
- Globo is the studio's current travel app: point your camera at a place and it returns history plus audio stories. Smaller products - notes, focus timing, project tracking - sit in the catalogue at various stages.
- Does Hot Forge Studio take on client projects?
- Only a few collaborations a year, and selectively. The studio's main work is its own portfolio of apps. If you are building something and want to talk it through, write to contact@hotforgestudio.com.