Where craft meets what's next.
Confinium is a small studio making native, offline-first creative tools, built to stay on your machine. Right now we're building Sonitus.
Confinium is a small studio making native, offline-first creative tools, built to stay on your machine. Right now we're building Sonitus.
Confinium develops software for people who make things. Native, focused, offline-first, built to do one job well and then get out of the way. No subscriptions. No tracking. No cloud holding your work hostage.
We're not ready to say much yet. What we can say: the first tool, Sonitus, is taking shape, and it follows from a single idea about where the interesting work happens.
A place of separation and connection, control and freedom. That is what a border really is, and it is where we choose to work.
It separates two worlds, yet it is the one place they are forced to touch. It is drawn to control what passes, yet standing on it is the freest view there is, looking both ways at once.
We build on that line: between the old and the new, the craft people already trust and the techniques only now becoming possible. Neither gets thrown away. Both are made to meet.
So everything we make lives between restraint and possibility, between what your machine can do on its own and what it should never have to send away. Confinium is the studio that works there.
Offline-first by default. Your work is yours. No cloud round-trips, no telemetry, no account standing between you and the thing you opened the app to do.
Focused tools over feature sprawl. We'd rather ship something small and sharp than something large and vague.
We meet proven workflows where they are and extend them with what's newly possible, carefully, and only where it earns its place.
Convert images into dithered artwork using different patterns, styles, and levels of detail. Adjust the look with simple controls, preview the result in real time, and export clean graphics for digital or print use.
Coming soonThe studio is just getting started. Here's the shape of what's coming, with details when they're ready.
Sonitus
Currently building
Our first app. Convert images into dithered graphics using different patterns and detail settings. Fine-tune the result with simple controls, preview changes instantly, and export your final image.
An ecosystem of focused software, same philosophy, same place on the line.
A few things worth saying plainly before there's anything to download.
Yes. The tools run natively on your machine and don't need a connection to function. No cloud round-trips, no syncing, no "you must be online to continue." Once it's installed, it's yours to use, on a plane, in a bunker, wherever.
One-time purchase. You pay once and you own that version, no subscription, no recurring fee, no feature held hostage behind a monthly tier. Final pricing comes closer to launch.
Sonitus is being built for macOS, Windows, and Linux. The aim is a real native experience on each, not one app awkwardly wrapped to run everywhere.
There's nothing to collect because nothing is sent. No telemetry, no analytics, no account required to open the app. Your projects stay on your disk, in formats you control.
When it's ready and not before. It's a one-person studio building carefully rather than racing a deadline. The best way to know first is to follow along on Instagram.
Software that stays on your machine: native, offline-first, and made to be explored from.
Coming soon