Private sensing tools
Signal clarity for real-world routines.
Cognerva builds focused iPhone products that turn sound, time, vehicle signals, and environmental cues into useful local insight without accounts, ads, or cloud processing.
Products
Focused products and experiments.
Released tools, active projects, and focused simulations—each designed around a narrow job, clear boundaries, and useful local behavior.
Engine Lab
An engine and sound simulator for iPhone and iPad. Build and tune virtual engines, hear the exhaust respond, and compare simulated dyno pulls.
Tempochron
An iPhone timegrapher for mechanical watches, built for bench-side timing checks, position comparisons, and raw capture review.
RBMK Lab
Explore a deterministic reduced-order nuclear plant model, adjust the controls, and follow power, steam voids, pressure, level, and feedback terms.
Acoustic Tachometer
Estimate engine RPM from exhaust or engine sound with your iPhone microphone. Watch confidence, harmonics, and candidate frequencies while checking idle speed without attached hardware.
AeroGlide
Plan an iPhone or iPad flight with a pre-flight briefing, native hangar, replay tools, gamepad support, and compatible community-file imports.
Kinemetron
Screen analogue film camera shutter timing, organize three cameras for free, and track each body’s measurement history privately.
FlickerSafe
A camera-first light flicker analyzer for video creators, streamers, and venue techs. Measure LED flicker, find safer shutter speeds, and keep fixture notes privately on device.
WaxTap
Write NFC stickers for your records and albums with your iPhone. Search a release, pick a playback link, and tap a sleeve to open the music — on-device library, no account required.
MotorQue
A car dashboard and OBD-II scan app for reading live engine data, trouble codes, emissions readiness, and trip history — on-device, no account required. Works with Bluetooth and WiFi ELM327 adapters.
Clack Lab
A private on-device keyboard analyzer for measuring keystroke character, saving builds, and comparing modifications side by side.
Lulliq
A private baby monitor for iPhone with on-device AI detection, automatic soothing, paired alerts, and clear sleep history.
Anarch: FPS Shooter
Available now. Explore maze-like levels, fight hostile robots, and survive a complete retro FPS campaign with touch controls and controller support.
DeCiv
Build a hex-based empire on iPhone and iPad, grow cities, explore technologies, and load Unciv-format mods. Waiting for App Store review.
Frame & Film
Waiting for review. Apply considered film looks to still photos and Live Photos on iPhone and iPad, then save a new copy while the original stays untouched.
Central Banker: Inflation Game
Steer Fiatsylvania from the Governor's desk. Set rates, resist the Money Printer, and keep your word. A complete free crisis with an optional one-time Full Game unlock.
Three Body: Gravity Chaos
Coming soon. Watch real three-body orbits, a chaos twin and a chaos map, with posters and video to share.