By Carat International

Apps for the gate, the planet and the couch.

We're a small studio making apps for iPhone and iPad. Three are on the App Store now. The fourth, for following animal migration and pests near you, is on its way.All four are on the App Store now.

Through the terminal glass before dawn, a white jet waits at the jet bridge on wet tarmac, its beacon lit

TickKet

Flight alerts and receipts, plus places near your hotel. Your work trip on one timeline, watched for you.

Download TickKet on the App Store
Earth in deep space, slowly turning, with the Milky Way below it and two small asteroids drifting past

Restless Planet

Earthquakes, hurricanes, wildfires and the Space Station, live on a globe you can spin.

Download Restless Planet on the App Store
A young couple laughing at the TV on a mustard velvet sofa, she with a bowl of popcorn, he with the remote

Couchy

Keep track of every show you watch, see what's on tonight, and chat along with friends.

Download Couchy on the App Store

TickKet · Flight alerts for work travel

Track your whole trip, from the first flight to the last.

Forward a confirmation and the trip comes together on one timeline: flights, hotels, cars and dinner. Then TickKet keeps watch. Gate changes, delays and cancellations reach you as the airline posts them, along with a "be in line by" time for security and the rain that's arriving before your dinner reservation.

  • Receipts land in the right trip
  • Hugo finds places near your hotel
TickKet Home a day before a trip: the weather at home in Omaha, at the connection in Chicago and in Austin, then in Denver next week and Seattle in two weeks, with a tip to leave a little early for the snow, and the next flight, American 1416 on Tuesday 3 November, over an aerial map of Austin marking your hotel, 1 day out, departing 7:15 AM and landing at ORD at 8:55 AM
TickKet's Lock Screen card for AA 1396 from DFW to AUS marked Gate change: boards in 15 minutes, was gate C19, now gate C21

Restless Planet · Live hazards on a 3D globe

Track earthquakes, hurricanes and the Space Station in real time.

One globe you can spin, with quakes, wildfires, floods and volcanoes where they're really happening. Hurricanes show the track they've actually taken, with the forecast drawn separately, because a forecast isn't a promise. Overhead, the Space Station, and the asteroids passing close today.

For iPhone and iPad. It isn't an emergency service and doesn't replace official warnings.

Download Restless Planet on the App Store
Restless Planet on iPad: Africa on the globe with live wildfire and earthquake pins, the latest earthquakes listed on the left and 160 live natural events on the right
Restless Planet on iPhone: tropical depression Tc2630 over the Pacific, with its position and 8 observed track points

Couchy · Track your shows, chat along

Every show you're watching, in one place.

Open Couchy and tonight is sorted: the next episode of everything you're part way through, how long it runs and where it's streaming. Star a show and you'll hear about the new season three days before it starts, without an episode ever being named.

  • Chat parties for up to 25 friends
  • Every season and episode counted
Download Couchy on the App Store
Couchy's Tonight screen: Severance season 2, episode 7, 46 minutes, one from the finale, with a Watch S2E7 button
A Couchy chat party for Severance with 15 of 25 people in the room, messages scrolling and a Start S1E4 button
Coming soon to iPhone and iPad

Backporch Almanac

Follow the migration, get ahead of pests, and identify what you find.

Follow the birds, butterflies and other animals migrating through your area. Get a heads up before boxelder bugs, lady beetles and mice come looking for a way inside. And take a picture of any plant, bug or animal to find out what it is.

On iPad it's Backporch Almanac HD, laid out like a ring binder: the list on the left page and whatever you picked on the right.

Read about Backporch Almanac

iPhoneDownload Backporch Almanac for iPhone on the App Store
iPad · Backporch Almanac HDDownload Backporch Almanac HD for iPad on the App Store
Backporch Almanac HD on iPad, open like a ring binder: Today for Elkhorn, Nebraska on the left page, clear and 63 degrees with a barometer and a house mouse due Tuesday, and the next 30 days on the right page, from the common house spider to the yellowjacket queen
Backporch Identify: buttons to take a photo or choose one, above the specimen cabinet
Backporch Pests for Omaha, Nebraska: an October calendar with what is due on the 1st, the 11th and the 22nd
Backporch following the Ruby-throated Hummingbird south on an engraved map, August to October