Wolf's Raven
Independent software studio

Software that doesn't ask for more than it needs.

Wolf's Raven builds tools for creative and professional work — private by default, priced honestly, made one at a time. This page borrows its color from the world, the same way our first app does.

Sampled
#C0432B
Golden Gate Bridge, 4:40pm
RGB
192, 67, 43
HSB
10°, 78%, 75%
SwiftUI
Color(red: 0.75, green: 0.26, blue: 0.17)
Palette history

Pick a sample and the whole site takes its color from it — a working demonstration of what ColorPickr does on your phone.

What we're building

Two things. Both finished before the next one starts.

ColorPickr

Coming to the App Store
Real-world color, one tap away.

A camera that reads color instead of taking pictures. Aim, capture, and copy the result as HEX, RGB, HSB, SwiftUI Color, or UIColor — carried to your Mac by Universal Clipboard. No frames are saved, and there is nothing to sign into.

Platform
iPhone · iOS 17+
Price
$1.99, once
Data
None collected
colorpickr.wolfsraven.com →

PolicySquirrel

In development
Trusted policies. Clear answers.

A governed workspace for organizations that have outgrown shared folders and spreadsheet trackers. Drafting, approvals, checkout locks, version history, audit trails, and acknowledgement campaigns — with assisted answers arriving only after the source of truth can be trusted.

Platform
Web · multi-tenant
For
Compliance, HR, operations
Stage
MVP build
policysquirrel.com →

How we work

Four positions we're willing to be held to.
01

Privacy is a default, not a setting

No account where an account isn't needed. No analytics, no ad identifiers, nothing collected because it might be useful later.

02

Governance before intelligence

Control, versioning, and audit trails ship first. A confident answer drawn from an ungoverned document is worse than no answer at all.

03

Charge once where once is fair

Software that runs on your device and costs us nothing to operate is a purchase. Recurring prices are for things that carry recurring service.

04

State the limits plainly

Camera color shifts with light and surface, so we say so on the product page instead of hiding it in a footnote after the sale.

Who's behind it

One person, deliberately.

Wolf's Raven is the working name of Donald W. Jordan, an independent developer in Modesto, California. Products are designed, built, shipped, and supported here — the person who wrote the code is the person who answers the email.

Thirty years of writing, art, music, and teaching came before the software work, which is less of a detour than it sounds. Each of those disciplines is the same exercise: work out what a person actually needs, then take away everything else.

The studio operates as a sole proprietorship and is preparing to incorporate. Purchases, support commitments, and privacy promises carry over unchanged.

The Wolf's Raven mark: a raven perched above a wolf's head inside a teal ring.

The studio mark, since 2024

The hardest part of a tool is deciding what to leave out. That's an editorial problem before it's an engineering one.