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Ten Apps in Production: Everything GriswoldLabs Has Shipped to Google Play

People sometimes ask what GriswoldLabs actually ships. Fair question — a lot of what I write about here is infrastructure and tooling. So here’s the concrete answer: as of today, ten Android apps are live on the Google Play production track. Not betas, not internal tests — production, installable by anyone.

This is the full list, pulled straight from the Play Console rather than my memory, with an honest sentence or two on each.

The lineup

AppWhat it does
RxLogMedication tracking with reminders, blood pressure and glucose logs
SiteSnapJobsite photo documentation with checklists and PDF reports
dBLogNoise incident logging with decibel evidence and exportable reports
dB ScoutReal-time sound level meter with live SPL gauge and min/max stats
PawJournalPet health journal — vet visits, meds, vaccines, weight
ThoughtWellPrivate encrypted journal with mood tracking, no account required
CoinCoveSimple expense tracking with categories and spending charts
InkSafePrivate notebook with PIN lock, drawing, and custom templates
OutlineSketchTurns any photo into a printable coloring page
WiFi ShareWiFi QR code generator and scanner — guests connect in one scan

Health and home life

RxLog is the flagship and the one with the most real-world miles on it. It started as a straightforward pill reminder and has grown into a full medication tracker with blood pressure and glucose logging, Health Connect integration, and a Wear OS companion for heart rate. It follows current AHA/ACC blood pressure guidelines for its category labels, and it’s had more field testing — and more bug reports from actual daily users — than anything else in the fleet.

PawJournal is RxLog’s thinking applied to pets: vet visits, medications, vaccine schedules, and weight trends in one place. If you’ve ever stood in a vet’s office trying to remember which month the last rabies shot was, that’s the problem it solves.

ThoughtWell is a journal that takes the “private” part seriously — encrypted, offline, no account, no sync to anyone’s cloud. Mood tracking and rich text without the data harvesting that plagues the journaling category.

Sound, measured and documented

dB Scout and dBLog are siblings. dB Scout is the instrument: a real-time decibel meter with a live SPL gauge, octave analysis, and min/max stats. dBLog is the paperwork: it logs noise incidents with measured evidence and exports reports structured enough to bring to a landlord, an HOA, or a courtroom. One measures the problem, the other builds the case.

Getting work done

SiteSnap documents jobsites — photos organized into projects, checklists, and PDF reports, all generated on-device and offline. It was built with tradespeople in mind and, like most of the fleet, shaped heavily by feedback from real users in the field.

CoinCove is deliberately simple expense tracking: log a purchase in seconds, organize by category, see where the money goes. No bank linking, no subscription pitch on launch.

WiFi Share is the smallest and most-used idea of the bunch: put your WiFi network in a QR code so guests connect in one scan. Free, offline, done.

Creative tools

InkSafe is a private notebook that grew drawing muscles — PIN-locked folders, photo backgrounds, typed text, sport court and sheet-music templates, and a kids’ tracing mode. It ships updates constantly because its most demanding user files bug reports faster than I can close them (thanks, Jared).

OutlineSketch turns any photo into a black-and-white coloring page — snap or pick a picture, get a printable outline, or color it right in the app.

How a one-person shop ships ten apps

Short version: a shared React Native + Expo template, a build pipeline with hard quality gates (typecheck, tests, emulator smoke tests, and an eight-gate release check every build has to pass), and a lot of AI-assisted development — which I’ve written about in the multi-agent app factory case study. Every app also goes through a human tester before anything reaches the production track.

The honest tradeoff of this model: breadth over depth. Some of these apps are small, focused tools that do one thing. That’s intentional — I’d rather ship ten sharp single-purpose apps than one bloated everything-app. Each listing states plainly whether it’s free, ad-supported, or has a paid upgrade; several of them are just free, full stop.

More are in the pipeline. When they reach production, they’ll show up here.

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