A serious home for unserious-hour projects.
Garage Project Lab is a quiet, deliberate workspace for the web projects you build on your own time — organized in a clean library, edited and previewed entirely on your device. No account required. Nothing leaves your hands.
What we stand for
Local-first
Your projects live in the app on your device — not on someone else's server by default.
Private by design
No ads, no tracking, no third-party analytics. Privacy is the architecture, not a setting.
Built for builders
Real HTML, CSS, and JavaScript documents — the raw material of the web, not a proprietary format.
Long-term thinking
Small, disciplined releases. Data safety before features. An ecosystem built to be trusted for years.
A project library that respects the craft — and the drafts.
Every builder has a drawer of half-finished ideas. Garage Project Lab gives that drawer structure: a library of lightweight web projects, each with its own documents, each ready to be picked up exactly where you left it.
Organized project library
Capture ideas as projects. Review, revisit, and refine them in a calm, focused space.
Real documents, starter included
Every project begins with clean HTML, CSS, and JavaScript starter files you edit directly.
Static preview, on device
Render your work instantly with a local static preview. No server, no round-trip, no waiting.
Your data, exportable
Back up your entire library to a single local JSON file whenever you choose. It's your work.
Sign-in optional, always
Core features work without an account, and the app never forces you to sign in.
We'd rather tell you exactly what exists.
Trust is built by being precise about the present — not just ambitious about the future.
The iOS & iPadOS app
A local-first project library on the App Store. Create projects, edit HTML/CSS/JavaScript documents, preview statically, and export a local backup. Signing in is optional — core features never require an account.
This website
A static public presence: the brand, our privacy stance, and support contacts. It collects nothing, runs no analytics, and asks nothing of you.
The web ecosystem
A broader web experience is being designed with the same discipline. It does not exist yet — there is no web app, no cloud project storage, and no online workspace today.
In the current app, projects and documents stay on your device. The app does not upload, sync, or share your project content.
Designed like an ecosystem. Shipped like a craft.
The long-term direction, stated plainly. Everything below is future work — planned, documented, and deliberately not launched until it meets our standard.
A web workspace Planned · not yet available
A considered web experience for your project library — designed security-first, on infrastructure chosen for privacy and permanence rather than fashion.
Identity across platforms Planned · not yet available
The app already treats identity as optional and minimal. That philosophy extends forward: accounts that carry only what they must, and never become a wall in front of your work.
Sharing on your terms Planned · not yet available
If your work ever travels, it will be because you explicitly sent it. Consent-first sharing is a design constraint we set before writing a single feature.
Security before surface In design
Threat models, quota discipline, and abuse resistance are being written before the first screen — because a platform you trust has to be engineered that way from the start.
To be explicit: none of the above is live. There is currently no web app, no cloud sync, no sharing, no feed, and no messaging. We publish direction because we believe in it — and we ship it only when it's ready.
Product discipline is a feature.
Privacy as architecture
We don't collect what we don't need — and mostly, we don't need anything. No ads, no tracking, no third-party analytics. When the app added optional sign-in, it was built to work without your email address at all.
Data safety before features
Versioned storage, safe migrations, and local backups shipped before any new surface did. Your work surviving an update matters more than a new button.
Honest releases
We describe what exists, label what's planned, and never dress a roadmap up as a product. What you read here is held to the same standard as what we ship.
Built to last
Open formats, exportable data, deliberate infrastructure choices. A tool for your projects should outlive trends — including ours.
Questions, answered without hedging.
Is this a web app I can use today?
No. Today, Garage Project Lab is an iOS and iPadOS app, and this website is a static public presence. A web experience is planned and in design, but it is not live.
Does the app sync or upload my projects?
No. In the current app, projects and documents stay on your device. The app does not upload, sync, or share your project content.
Do I need an account?
No. Core project features work without an account, and the app never forces you to sign in. Sign-in exists as an optional identity layer — and it doesn't ask for your email address.
What platforms exist right now?
iPhone and iPad, through the App Store. That's it — and we'd rather say so clearly than imply otherwise.
What's planned for later?
A web workspace, cross-platform identity, and consent-first sharing — designed security-first, in that order of principle. All of it is future work, none of it is live, and we'll label it honestly until the day it ships.
Questions, ideas, or a bug to report?
A person reads every message.