Software polished to a shine.
Burnished Labs is a software studio founded by James Braaten II. We build iOS apps and websites with an obsessive focus on quality — every pixel considered, every interaction refined.
To burnish means to polish something until it shines. That's not just our name — it's how we work. We'd rather ship one thing that's exceptional than ten things that are forgettable.
A premium soap-making companion. Recipe creation, lye calculations, oil blending, batch tracking, inventory management, and AI-powered insights — available in 34 languages.
App StoreNative Swift and SwiftUI apps built for the Apple ecosystem. Performance, polish, and platform conventions — never an afterthought.
Fast, clean websites and web applications. No bloat, no unnecessary frameworks — just the right tool for the job.