An independent studio with one product

Why each platform gets its own application

The cheap way to be everywhere is to build once and let a toolkit paint the result on every screen. It also produces an application that feels borrowed on all of them: a terminal that scrolls wrong on a Mac, a window that ignores how Windows arranges windows, a phone app that is a website in a frame. We took the expensive way instead. Each platform gets a client built for that platform, and what they share is not the code but the promise: the same connections, the same vault, the same names for the same things.

That promise is the whole design, and it is why a change to it is a change everywhere on the same day rather than a feature that arrives on your desktop in June and on your phone in November.

Four languages in the application, one on this page

BURSU Connection Manager speaks English, Russian, Ukrainian and Georgian, because that is who writes to us, and a string that exists in one of those four does not ship until it exists in all of them. This site is English only, and deliberately so: a studio page translated worse than the software it describes says the wrong thing about the studio.

What we are not doing

There is no telemetry in the application and no analytics on this site. We do not know how many connections you have, what you called them, or where they point — and the sync service is built so that we could not find out if we were asked. That is a deliberate limit on what we can learn about our own product, and it is the right trade for software that holds the keys to everything else.