Heavy metal,
light wings

Tungsten Skylark builds small, precise, beautifully made apps for Apple platforms.

See the apps Explore the themes

2 apps in the family 9 verified themes AAA body-text contrast 100% Swift & SwiftUI

The Tungsten Skylark mark — a charcoal skylark with gold edges, ascending with a trail of sparks, on a cream field

The Tungsten Skylark mark — an incandescent amber skylark ascending with a trail of sparks, on graphite

01 — The family

Multiple apps, one design DNA

Every app we ship carries the glowing skylark, the squared-brutalist type, and the graphite-and-amber palette. Small enough to be perfect.

ColourPicker

macOS · iOS · iPadOS

Randomise the palette. Keep the good ones.

Draw 1–5 named colours from the chosen named-colour table — and watch the slots spin, lock in, and glow as they settle.
Browse collections as tappable swatch grids; tap any swatch to copy its hex.
Save named palettes, each stamped with the date and time; copy hexes or names in one tap.
All theme-library themes, with Day / Night / Auto appearance in Settings.
CloudKit sync built in — palettes follow you across your devices.

Coming soon First in the family

Coming Soon

Countdown

macOS · iOS · iPadOS

Every second, accounted for.

Multiple live countdowns ticking every second, calendar-accurate: a year is a real anniversary, a month is date-to-date, a week is exactly seven days.
Pick the units you want — hide anything, and hidden units fold into the rest, so a 4-year timer can read as days without losing the big picture.
All theme-library themes, with Day / Night / Auto appearance in Settings.
iCloud sync keeps every timer current across your Mac, iPhone, and iPad.

Coming soon One codebase, three platforms

Coming Soon

02 — Theme library

One bird, one metal, multiple themes

Named for the metal or for the bird. Every theme is a pure colour swap — same layout, same type, same behaviour, and every value WCAG-verified. Tap a card to run this page in it.

Tungsten Skylark Brand “Heavy metal, light wings.” Apply

Tungsten Ember Metal “The heat before the shine.” Apply

Skylark Dawn Bird “The skylark’s hour over a cool sky.” Apply

Skylark Frost Bird “First frost on the fells.” Apply

Tungsten Harbour Metal “The river running through the city.” Apply

Skylark Meadow Bird “Where the skylark actually sings.” Apply

Skylark Dusk Bird “Coming in against a violet sky.” Apply

Tungsten Rose Metal “The human side of the metal.” Apply

Tungsten Ink Metal “The element itself, no flame.” Apply

03 — The studio

Where the name comes from

Three parts, one idea: strength with lift, engineering with poetry.

Tungsten

The element with the highest melting point of any metal — and the filament that glows. You can heat it until it shines, and it still holds.

Skylark

A British songbird famous for ascending vertically — singing while it climbs out of sight. Lift with a voice.

Sheffield

A steel city. Northern English pragmatism: no bloat, no noise, no waste. Craft you can hold.

Heavy metal, light wings.

Tungsten Skylark is a software studio rooted in Sheffield’s steel heritage but reaching for the sky. Every app released under the name carries the same visual DNA — the glowing skylark, the squared-brutalist typeface, the graphite-and-amber palette, the nine-theme library you can try above — forming a family of software built with craft, precision, and northern English pragmatism.