About the studio

Regular Rate and Rhythm Software was founded in 2008 by Evan D. Schoenberg, MD — a cornea, cataract, and refractive surgeon practicing in Atlanta, Georgia. The apps here are built to fix problems he actually has: in clinic, on rounds, at the podium, and on the couch.

Before medicine and alongside it, there was open source. Evan spent many years as lead developer of Adium, the classic free instant-messaging client for the Mac — and that lineage of Mac craftsmanship runs through everything since.

Why "Regular Rate & Rhythm"?

It's what a physician writes after listening to a healthy heart: regular rate and rhythm. Nothing dramatic to report — everything doing its job, beat after beat. That's the goal for software, too: steady, predictable, quietly reliable.

The old site put it this way, and it still holds: gloriously benign software solves problems and makes your life easier "with panache, without ever getting in your way, and with a clear idea of its boundaries and scope." Today we say it shorter: benign by design.

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