Computers can aid humans in our most noble endeavors: art, science, thinking, self-improvement. But today’s dominant computing platforms increasingly work against the needs of creative professionals.

Ink & Switch is an independent research lab working on this problem.

Our Research

• Upwelling: Combining real-time collaboration with version control for writers (2023)
• Untangle: Solving problems with fuzzy constraints (2023)
• Inkbase: Programmable Ink (2022)
• Potluck: Dynamic documents as personal software (2022)
• Crosscut: Drawing dynamic models (2022)
• Peritext: A CRDT for Rich-Text Collaboration (2021)
• Backchannel: A relationship-based digital identity system (2021)
• Cambria: Translate your data with lenses (2020)
• Pushpin: Towards Production-Quality Peer-to-Peer Collaboration (2020)
• Local-first software: You own your data, in spite of the cloud (2019)
• End-user programming: Empowered computing (2019)
• Muse: Designing a studio for ideas (2019)
• Pixelpusher: Real-time peer-to-peer collaboration with React (2018)
• Capstone: A tablet for thinking (2018)
• Slow software: Observations on latency (2018)

Production Software

In addition to research, we also spin out production software.

• The beautiful Muse application, created by our friends and colleagues, is a spatial canvas to support deep thinking.
• Automerge, an ongoing collaboration with Martin Kleppmann, is a data-structure for building local-first applications.

Got something to tell us? @inkandswitch or [email protected].