Independent Android studio

We build small apps that keep your data yours.

Shura Studios is a small independent Android shop. Three apps on Google Play, all built the same way: no account to create, no profile to sell, no dark pattern nagging you into a subscription. What happens on your phone stays on your phone.

The catalogue

Three apps, one set of rules

Different subjects — a locked diary, a field guide for birds, a first piano for small hands — held to the same standard about your data.

Kuro app icon

Kuro: Private Diary Journal

com.shura.studios.diary

A journal that locks. PIN and fingerprint, 71 illustrated themes, moods and tags, photos and voice notes, a calendar and full-text search. Entries live in the app's private storage — and if you want a backup, it goes to a hidden folder in your Google Drive, never to us.

PIN & biometrics71 themesDrive backup9 languages
Tengu app icon

Tengu: Bird ID & Sounds

com.shura.studios.birds

Point the camera at a bird and get an identification with a confidence score, or record two minutes of song and let the acoustic model name the singer. Browse an illustrated guide, save a collection, and keep a record of what you have seen — in 15 languages.

Photo IDSound IDField guide15 languages
Shura Kids Piano app icon

Shura Kids Piano

com.shura.studios.kids.piano

A first instrument for small hands: big colourful keys, animal sounds, nursery songs to play along with. Built to Google Play's Families rules — it works fully offline, asks for no permissions, collects nothing, and the advertising ID is stripped out of the app entirely.

Families policyFully offlineNo advertising IDAges 3+
0Apps on Google Play
0Languages shipped
0Accounts required
0Rows of data sold
How we work

Six rules we don't break

These aren't marketing lines. They are the constraints we design against, and they are what the privacy policy and terms on this site actually commit us to.

On the device by default

Your diary entries, your saved birds, your settings: written to private app storage. Nothing leaves the phone unless a feature you switched on has to send it, and the policy says exactly which ones do.

No account, ever

We don't run a login server, so there is no profile of you to leak, subpoena or sell. The only sign-in anywhere in the catalogue is optional Google Drive backup in Kuro — and that is your Drive, not ours.

Honest monetisation

Ads and an optional one-time or subscription upgrade, priced up front through Google Play. No countdown pressure, no fake discounts, no subscription you have to email us to escape — you cancel in Play, like everything else.

Kids' apps stay clean

Shura Kids Piano follows Google Play's Families policy: no advertising ID, no location permissions, no analytics profile, and ads restricted to general-audience content only.

Legal you can actually read

One privacy policy and one terms of service for the whole catalogue, written in plain sentences, with a per-app table so you can see at a glance what each one touches.

A human answers

Support goes to one mailbox and the people who wrote the code read it. Bug report, refund question, data request — you get a person, not a ticket robot.

Get in touch

Something broken, or just curious?

Write to us about a bug, a refund, a translation that reads wrong, or a request to see and delete what an app holds about you. We read everything that arrives.

shurastudios@gmail.com