Study intelligently.
Spaced repetition brings each word back at the moment you are about to forget it — so review time goes where it is needed.
Thoughtfully crafted software.
Nomada Studio is an independent software studio dedicated to building thoughtful, beautifully crafted applications that help people learn, create, and explore.
We believe great software should be simple, delightful, and designed to make a meaningful difference in everyday life.
Nomada Studio designs and develops consumer mobile applications and software products — start to finish, in house. We choose our own problems and we ship our own work.
Modern Chinese learning.
Master Chinese vocabulary through flashcards, real examples, and personalized practice.
Kaya is a mobile application designed to make learning Chinese more effective, more intuitive, and considerably more enjoyable. It is currently in development at Nomada Studio.
Spaced repetition brings each word back at the moment you are about to forget it — so review time goes where it is needed.
Real example sentences turn isolated vocabulary into Chinese you can actually use, with pinyin and meaning close at hand.
Personalized exercises move you past recognition and into recall — building sentences, not just reading them.
Kaya has not been released yet. It is in active development and will be announced here when it is ready. We would rather take the extra time than ship something we would not use ourselves.
Complexity is something to remove, not something to expose. The hard work belongs inside the software, not in front of the person using it.
Typography, motion, sound, spacing, interaction, the tiny details nobody names — together they decide how a piece of software actually feels to use.
Technology should adapt to the person using it, not the other way around. We design around real habits, real attention, and real days.
New technology earns its place when it makes the experience meaningfully better. If it does not, it stays out.
Nomada Studio is an independent software company that builds and publishes its own products. We are not an agency and we do not take client work. Everything we release is designed, developed, and supported here.
Staying small is a deliberate choice. It keeps the distance between an idea and a shipped detail very short, and it means the people who decide what a product should be are the same people who build it.
We are exploring new ways software can help people learn, create, and navigate the world around them. Nomada Studio is built to release more than one product — Kaya is simply where we started.