Indie mobile developer · Portugal

I'm Santana. I build mobile apps from Portugal — and I ship every part of them myself.

Design, code, icon, even the App Store screenshots — all me. By day I'm a mobile developer at a company, deep in Kotlin Multiplatform and SDK work. In my free time I take freelance jobs and build my own apps. Five on the store so far.

Free time's open for freelance · Portugal (GMT+0)

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Cartoon of Santana at his desk in Portugal, coding a mobile app on a large monitor with the Glaner recipe app on screen, a Woody and Buzz figurine and a DEV mug beside him.
// THE APPS

Five apps, start to finish.

Each one designed, built, and published on my own. No team, no design hand-off. Here's what they actually do.

FEATURED
Live on the App Store iOS · SwiftUI

Glaner

Open the fridge, take a photo, get three recipes back. No meal planner, no pantry inventory to maintain — just an answer to "what do I cook with this?"

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9:41
Glaner

Cook what
you already
have.

Snap your fridge. Get three real recipes in seconds. Waste less, eat better.
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Live iOS

Spleis

Bedtime stories, generated. Pick three things your kid is into and get a short story about them. Made for the ten minutes before lights-out.

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Live iOS

Devagar

For putting the phone down. Notes and ambient sound, fully offline, nothing tracked. The rare app that wants less of your attention, not more.

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Pre-launch iOS

CADERNO

Notes by voice or text, with voice-to-text that keeps up with you mid-thought. Nearly ready to ship.

Coming soon
In development Flutter

Trones

Trip planning that isn't a spreadsheet. Built in Flutter so it runs everywhere. Still cooking — but it's the one I keep opening myself.

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// WHAT I DO

What I actually do

Most of my week belongs to a company, building mobile apps and the Kotlin Multiplatform layer that sits underneath them. A lot of it is SDK work — native libraries other teams build on top of. It's the harder, less visible end of mobile, and it's the part I'm best at.

Evenings and weekends are mine. That's when I take on freelance jobs, and when my own apps get made — idea, design, code, and the App Store listing, all by one person.

I think most apps are bloated because too many hands touch them. I keep mine small on purpose. If a feature can't earn its place, it doesn't ship.

Swift / SwiftUIFlutterKotlin Multiplatform
Cartoon of Santana smiling at his desk in a green-and-white Vitória de Setúbal shirt, giving a thumbs up, with the Spleis app on his phone and Woody and Buzz figurines nearby.
// WHO I AM

I do the whole thing myself.

I'm Santana — a solo developer in Portugal. I like making the whole thing myself. It's slower than working in a team, but nothing gets lost in a hand-off, and the app ends up feeling like one person made it. Because one person did.

There's a Woody and a Buzz watching over my desk, and a Vitória de Setúbal shirt in most of these drawings. Neither makes the apps better. Both stay anyway.

// CONTACT

Have something that needs building?

I'm in Portugal (GMT+0) and open to freelance in my free time. Email is the fastest way to reach me — I read everything and reply to most.