About the studio

Grateful Dev AI LLC is an independent software studio founded in 2026 and based in Cincinnati, Ohio.

The studio

Grateful Dev AI operates as a single-purpose entity: designing and building AI-powered applications for iPhone. It is not a subsidiary of a larger company, not a franchise, and not a rebrand of an older product line. It was formed in 2026 specifically to develop and publish iOS software under one consistent name, so that everything released carries the same standard of craft and the same accountability.

The company is registered as Grateful Dev AI LLC, a limited liability company organized under the laws of the State of Ohio, and it operates out of Cincinnati. That's the entity behind every app that ships under the Grateful Dev AI name, and the entity you'd be dealing with for anything from a support question to a business inquiry.

The founder

Jeff Schroeder founded Grateful Dev AI in 2026 and is currently the sole person behind the studio, responsible for product direction and engineering. Jeff's approach favors shipping small, well-made things over announcing big ones, and building tools that solve a problem he'd actually use himself before considering whether anyone else would want them too.

Why "Grateful Dev AI"

The name says what the studio is: grateful developers building with AI. It's meant to carry a little warmth and humility into a category, artificial intelligence, that can otherwise sound cold or overpromised. Gratitude is an odd thing to put in a software company's name, which is rather the point, it's a reminder that getting to build things for a living is good fortune, not entitlement.

How we work

Because the studio is small by design, decisions move quickly and every app gets direct attention rather than being handed off through layers of process. That comes with real tradeoffs: a small team ships fewer things at once, and it means we're deliberate about which problems are worth building for. In exchange, what does ship has been built end-to-end by someone who understands all of it, not assembled by a rotating cast of contractors.

We take the platforms we build on seriously. That means following Apple's Human Interface Guidelines and App Store policies as a baseline, not a checklist to satisfy at the last minute, and treating user privacy and data handling as a design constraint from the start rather than a legal afterthought. Our full data practices are laid out on the privacy page.