Independent software studio

We build focused apps.

Cut what you don’t need.

Kerf is an independent studio. Our first app, Game Pulse: Score Keeper, is a live scoreboard for friends’ tournaments and leagues — now on Google Play.

  • Independent studio
  • Focused apps
  • Game Pulse
  • Productivity
  • Lifestyle
  • Social
  • Creative
  • Entertainment

About

What Kerf means

Kerf is an independent software studio. We design, build, and ship our own apps across more than one category, each focused on a clear job. The studio is the through-line; the products are not copies of each other.

The name comes from woodworking: a kerf is the width of a cut. We treat it as a working standard. Quality over clutter. Trim the interface until it matches the job. Keep what earns its place.

That standard is the brand. Deep Canopy — forest, moss, and cream — is the palette. The Kerf mark is the cream nucleus: a focused core, without the moss paint-splash. Live Core, with the splash, is the Game Pulse app icon — that product’s mark, not the studio logo.

Apps

What’s shipping

Game Pulse is the first Kerf app. More will land here when they’re ready — each with a different job, not a copy of this one.

Game Pulse
Live Core: Game Pulse app icon with moss paint-splash

Available

Game Pulse: Score Keeper

Live scoreboard, leaderboard & standings for friends' tournaments and leagues

Keep score live across every match, with a season leaderboard and standings for your friend group. Host or join with a join code. Built for football, card, board, and party game tournaments and leagues.

Apple

Game Pulse iOS QR code — coming soon Coming soon

Game Pulse: Score Keeper on Product Hunt

More apps in the works

After Game Pulse, Kerf will add more of its own apps across utility, creative, social, and other categories as the studio grows. A name lands here once a product has a job. Until then, the page stays honest.

Plans

Where the studio is going

Direction, not a calendar. No invented dates, no fake metrics — just the work in front of Kerf.

Now

Game Pulse is live

Game Pulse: Score Keeper is live on Google Play — live scores, season leaderboards, standings, and join codes. Now the work is sharpening it around the crews already playing.

Next

Grow the catalog

Build more Kerf apps across utility, creative, and social categories, each with its own job. The lineup isn’t locked to play, and no app is a clone of Game Pulse.

Always

Keep the cut

Stay independent. Stay small enough to care about the grain of each product. Cut what the software does not need.