Apps for Artists
Artists have been articulating the problem for years, often without the technical vocabulary to name it: consumer technology is built to extract from them — their attention, their identity, their work. These tools translate those demands into working models of what the alternative looks like. Privacy-first event hosting. Protection from AI scrapers. Grants and opportunities pulled out from behind paywalls and algorithms.
All free. All artist-led. Demand. Translate. Share.
Products built and maintained by the collective. Some are live; others are in active development.
“Arts funding for everyone.”
A free, curated database of grants, fellowships, residencies, and commissions — hundreds of opportunities from organizations worldwide, updated daily. Filtering runs locally in the browser, so personal criteria (region, discipline, identity, deadline) never leave your device. Built by an artist, for artists.
“Party like it’s nobody’s business.”
An event platform with end-to-end encrypted guest data. No phone number required to RSVP. No CSV export of guest lists. No marketing afterlife — data expires, guests opt out anytime. Designed for hosts who don’t want to hand their guests’ information to platforms with documented surveillance ties.
“Beautiful to humans. Poison for machines.”
Protects artists’ work from AI training scrapers. Strips identifying metadata (EXIF, GPS, device fingerprints), embeds invisible ownership watermarks through steganography, and applies adversarial perturbations designed to corrupt AI models that ingest the image without consent. Runs entirely on your device; nothing is uploaded.
Identity protection for artists in the age of AI ingestion.
Extends the Foxglove protection model from artworks to the artist themselves — targeting the pipelines that scrape and profile creators alongside their work. Built as a companion tool to Foxglove for artists whose presence online needs to coexist with refusal of nonconsensual data capture.
Template-based mobile 3D modeling for 3D printing.
Gets artists from idea to printable model on a phone, without the learning curve of desktop CAD. Designed for the maker who wants to sketch, iterate, and send a file to a local 3D printer in an afternoon.
Mobile apparel mockup generator with a social gallery.
Preview designs on shirts, hoodies, and merchandise before committing to a print run — and share drops with a community of other makers. Built so independent artists can move from rough idea to salable product without a desktop design suite.
Artist websites built through the same practice — fast static sites, no tracking, artist-owned.
Portfolio, shop, and intake system for San Francisco–based Iranian American tattooer Shervin, whose practice spans traditional, Persian, Japanese, illustrative, and blackwork styles. Four-step booking flow, gallery of finished work, and a merchandise shop.
Portfolio site for Oakland DJ and selector MonkeyMan — house, funk, and soul. Performance photography, streaming links (SoundCloud, Twitch, YouTube), venue history, booking form, and downloadable press kit.
Portfolio site currently in development.