Est. 2026 · A studio of two

Built by two humans,
on three.

UX/UI and iOS, made by two people in Leeuwarden. We build apps that take friction out of the day.

See Forkiee → hello@thirdfloorstudios.nl →
Currently building Forkiee · not taking client work Leeuwarden, NL · 53.20°N
01Our Story

From Skopje, to the top floor.

We met in Skopje in 2023. Alexandra was on a gap year, Berke had just moved there for work. Two years and one country later, we're in Leeuwarden, running a studio out of a third-floor home office that overlooks the lake.

01 · Co-founder
Leeuwarden, NL
a.
Alexandra Jammali
UX/UI · Research · Strategy

Brings the user interviews, the systems thinking, and strong opinions about typography. The one who'll insist we re-read the brief before opening Figma, and the reason Forkiee has a real research foundation underneath every design decision.

User research Design systems Strategy Writing
02 · Co-founder
Leeuwarden, NL
b.
Berke Arca
iOS · UI · Engineering

Years of mobile work; ships the interface, owns the polish. Cares about the haptic on tab change and the spring on the modal. The one who will rebuild a flow at midnight because the transition felt 40ms off.

Swift / SwiftUI UI design Motion Shipping
02Now

What we're heads down on.

A small, honest snapshot of the studio this week. Updated when something actually changes, never quarterly. Inspired by Derek Sivers' /now page.

Updated September 7, 2026

Right now,
this week.

A live page. If you're curious what two people in a top-floor studio actually do all day, here it is. No filters, no humblebrags, no quarterly roadmap.

Shipping Forkiee 1.2.1 is live on the App Store: new name, new home at forkiee.app, and a review ask that waits for a real moment. / app store
Designing Forkiee 2.0. A ground-up redesign around one question: what should I eat? / in figma
Reading The Design of Everyday Things (re-read), and a stack of papers on celiac diagnosis rates. / on the desk
Listening Tycho on loop, and the new Khruangbin record when we want something slower. / studio speakers
Eating The last of the summer tomatoes. Still a lot of bread from the bakery on Eewal. / leeuwarden
Avoiding Twitter, the urge to add streaks to Forkiee, and any meeting that could have been an email. / deliberately
Open to Hearing from people building quiet, useful apps. Not open to: client work, or anything with the word "synergy." / inbox open
03Our Work

Our first app, shipping now.

Forkiee scores every dish on a restaurant menu for your goals and diet: calories, macros, allergens. Our App Store launch, and the proof we ship the things we design.

Live · App Store

Forkiee. Eat out healthy.

Scan any menu in 4 seconds. Every dish gets a personal match score and dietary tags based on your goals, allergies, and macros. From research to App Store, designed and built by us.

4s
Avg scan time
Match%
Per-dish score
100%
In-house build
See the case → App Store ↗
LiveApp Store
Designed in‑house
04Principles

Six things we actually believe.

Not a manifesto, not values written for a recruiter. Just the rules we keep coming back to when a decision is hard. We break them sometimes. Then we feel bad about it.

01 / Pace

Ship slowly.

A finished thing once a year beats a half-finished thing every month. We'd rather miss a trend than ship something we don't believe in.

02 / Research

Talk to users, not personas.

Every Forkiee feature starts with a real conversation. Personas are a useful summary, not a replacement for the actual humans we're building for.

03 / Scope

Two people is the right number.

Big enough to disagree, small enough to hold the whole product in our heads. We have no plans to grow. The studio is the team.

04 / Craft

Sweat the small stuff.

Haptics, micro-copy, the timing of a sheet animation. The things nobody asks for in research, and everybody feels in their hands.

05 / Honesty

Don't add what we wouldn't use.

No streaks, no notification spam, no "engagement" features designed to inflate retention. If we wouldn't tolerate it on our phones, we don't ship it.

06 / Life

Eat properly. Sleep well.

A studio of two doesn't survive on hustle. We close laptops at six, walk by the canal, cook dinner. The work gets better when we do.

05What we're into

Three things we love doing.

This isn't a service menu, it's just what we spend our days on. Right now, all of it is going into Forkiee. We're sharing the stack here because it's the honest answer to “so what do you two actually do up there?”

01 · Crafta.

UX / UI design

Research, wireframes, full interactive prototypes, a design system that doesn't fall apart on the third screen. We start by talking to the people who'll actually use the thing, never from vibes alone.

Research Prototyping Systems
02 · Craftb.

iOS development

Native Swift and SwiftUI. We like apps that feel like they belong on the platform: the small animations, the haptics, the bits Apple quietly does well that most people copy badly.

Swift SwiftUI App Store
03 · Craftc.

Full product

The fun part: a real idea, a Figma file, and an app that actually ships to the App Store. Modern AI tooling where it saves time, design fundamentals where it doesn't. Forkiee is the current proof.

End-to-end AI-assisted Launch
06Field Notes

Things we're writing about.

Short essays from the third floor. Mostly about building Forkiee, designing for chronic illness, and what it's actually like to run a two-person studio. Slow blog. Real opinions.

Product04 min read

Why Forkiee has no streaks.

A short note on why we deliberately left out the engagement loop every productivity app ships with, and what we built instead.

Read →
Studio06 min read

On living in a two-person studio.

What changes when your design partner is also your co-founder, your roommate, and the only other person at standup. The good parts and the awkward ones.

Soon →
Research08 min read

Designing for chronic illness.

Notes from a year of user research with people living with Hashimoto's, celiac and IBS. The patterns we noticed and the assumptions we threw out.

Soon →
07Say hi

We're heads down, but not unreachable.

We're not taking client work right now, all our hours go into Forkiee. But if you want to nerd out about food apps, design systems, or living in Leeuwarden, our inbox is open.

👋 Open inbox · slow replies · always read

Just say hi.

No forms, no calendars, no "book a discovery call." Two people, one inbox, both of us actually read it. Replies come when we surface from Forkiee, usually a day or two, sometimes longer if we're shipping.

hello@thirdfloorstudios.nl →
Things we love getting emails about
01Forkiee feedback: bugs, features, "wouldn't it be cool if…"/ replies fast
02A friendly hello from another two-person studio/ love these
03Anything food-related: restaurants, recipes, weird ingredients/ always
04"Are you taking client work?" Not right now, but flattered./ honest no
A Third Floor Studios product →

Eat out
healthy. worry-free. macro-fit. gluten-free. allergy-safe. healthy.

Forkiee scores every dish on any restaurant menu for your goals, diet and allergens, instantly. No more reading every label or interrogating waiters.

Download on the App Store forkiee.app →
Platform
iOS · iPhone
Status
Live · App Store
Pricing
7-day trial, then paid
01 / Origin

Why we built Forkiee.

Leeuwarden, NL · 2025

The first version of Forkiee lived in a notes app on Alexandra's phone. A list of ingredients she could and couldn't eat, kept open under the table at every restaurant for two years.

What started as a quiet workaround for one person's diet became obvious: nobody should have to research a meal before ordering it. Not the people with allergies, not the ones counting macros, not the ones who just want to eat well in a city they don't know.

"I got tired of reading every ingredient label on every menu before I could order."

So we made the app she'd been faking. You tell it about you, once. It reads the menu, you eat. The phone does the labour the diner used to do.

It is, on some level, the most personal thing we've shipped, and the easiest one to explain to anyone who's ever stared at a menu and felt their stomach tighten before they'd even ordered.

Alexandra & Berke
02 / Principles

How Forkiee thinks about food.

Six rules we kept coming back to while building. They show up in the smallest decisions: a copy line, a missing notification, a feature we said no to.

01 / Honest

No fake certainty.

If we can't be sure a dish is safe, we say so. A "probably" is more useful than a confident wrong answer.
02 / Quiet

No streaks, no guilt.

We don't reward you for opening the app. We try to need you less, not more.
03 / Personal

Your profile, not ours.

Allergens, diets, goals. Every dish is judged against you, not a generic average diner.
04 / Calm

Eating out is already stressful.

The interface is quiet on purpose. Big type, soft surfaces, nothing flashing for attention.
05 / Useful

Answer the real question.

"Can I eat this?" before macros. "Will this fit?" before history. Nobody opens Forkiee for fun.
06 / Slow

Ship less, better.

Two people, one app. We'd rather hold a feature for a month than push a half one this week.
03 / Inside the app

Every screen, shipped.

Pulled straight from the live build. Hover to pause.

04 / Built around you

Your allergens. Your goals. Your food.

Forkiee checks every dish for the things you care about, not a generic database of warnings. Tag it once during onboarding, change it any time in your profile.

Gluten Dairy Tree nuts Peanuts Shellfish Fish Eggs Soy Sesame Vegan Vegetarian Pescatarian Keto High-protein Low-cal Macro-fit
Forkiee · Allergy selection
05 / Where it's going

What's next for Forkiee.

An honest look at what we're working on. Dates slip; the order doesn't.

Q3 · 2026 Forkiee 1.2.1: the new name, the new home at forkiee.app, and a calmer review flow. Live
Q4 · 2026 Forkiee 2.0. A ground-up redesign around one question: what should I eat? Ask, snap a menu, get an answer. Next
Q4 · 2026 Travel-ready: your allergens and diet, explained to the waiter in their language. Next
2027 Shared profiles for families and people who eat out together. Later
2027 Android, if and when we can match the iOS quality. Not before. Maybe
06 / Pricing

Seven days free.
Then it's a paid app.

No ads, no data harvesting, no "freemium" bait that nags you for an upgrade. Try everything for seven days, then decide.

Day 0 → Day 7

Free trial

Full app, no limits, no card needed up front. The whole thing.

  • Unlimited menu decoding
  • Allergen and diet flagging
  • WiseChat AI assistant
  • Favourites and meal log
  • Cancel anytime, zero friction
Day 8 onwards

Subscription keeps everything on.

A small monthly cost so we can keep shipping, answering emails, and saying no to the things that would compromise the app.

i No ads. Nothing in the app is for sale to anyone but you.
ii No data sales. Your allergens and meals stay yours.
iii Two people, full focus. Subscription pays for time, not feature creep.
07 / Said about us

Early readers & reviewers.

★★★★★

"Finally an app that doesn't shame me for eating out. Found three safe dishes at a place I'd been avoiding for a year."

App Store · Beta tester
★★★★★

"The onboarding alone is worth it. It's the first time a health app actually asked me what I cared about."

App Store · TestFlight, Mar 2026
★★★★★

Press & review slot. Your write-up could go here.

hello@thirdfloorstudios.nl
08 / Questions

Things people ask.

Couldn't find yours? Email support@forkiee.app. We read every one.

Is Forkiee free?
No, Forkiee is a paid app. You get a 7-day free trial when you download, then a subscription unlocks everything: unlimited menu decoding, allergen flagging, WiseChat, favourites, and meal logging. We chose paid because no ads, no data harvesting, no "freemium" bait.
How does it know what's in a dish?
We pull menus from publicly available restaurant websites and shared menu sources. Each dish is decoded against your profile (allergens, diet, goals) and flagged with what we're confident about, what we're inferring, and what we'd rather you double-check.
What if I have a serious allergy?
Forkiee is a research tool, not a medical clearance. We err on the side of caution and flag anything we're uncertain about. For severe allergies, always confirm with the restaurant. We're a head-start, not a substitute for asking.
Does it work offline?
Searching new restaurants needs a connection, but anything you've saved (favourites, recently-viewed menus) works offline.
Which countries are supported?
The US has the strongest coverage right now. The UK and Canada are solid, and most of Europe works well. We're expanding to more countries every week, and the goal is the whole world. If your city feels thin, tell us. We prioritise by request.
How private is it?
Your profile and meal log are yours. We don't sell data, don't run ads, and don't share anything with third parties. Account deletion is one tap and removes everything from our servers.
Android, when?
Not yet. We're a small team, so we want iOS to feel right before we split focus. Android comes when we can match the same quality, not before.
09 / Get Forkiee

It's live.
Your turn.

Try it free for 7 days. After that, a subscription keeps everything on. iOS 17 and up.

Download on the App Store