Build useful things.
Keep learning.
Enjoy creating them.
Nyfir Studios is an independent creative and technology studio built around a simple idea: create useful things, explore ambitious ideas and enjoy the process of turning them into real products.
A studio built because building is worth doing.
Nyfir Studios is a personal project founded and run by Mattias Holmberg. It exists because building, experimenting, learning and turning ideas into working products is something its founder genuinely enjoys doing.
The studio is intentionally independent. The goal is not to become complicated for the sake of appearing larger. It is to make useful, polished products, learn from the process and keep working on ideas that are genuinely interesting to create.
Practical software that can become real workflows.
FigureDesk brings everyday business administration, documents and an integrated accounting foundation together in a local-first Android workspace. Other Nyfir Studios projects explore Android creation, local generative media and interactive worlds.
Privacy, simplicity and low overhead are part of the same philosophy. Nyfir Studios is also home to published fiction, including The Raven’s Legacy and Fimbulwinter.
Some ideas are worth exploring because the problem is interesting.
DroidBake
DroidBake explores a more accessible approach to creating, building, testing and packaging Android applications, with an increasing focus on local tools and local AI.
Explore DroidBake →EIRVID
EIRVID explores local-first generative video on mobile devices and how far modern Android hardware can be pushed toward creating video directly on the device.
Explore EIRVID →VARKELD
VARKELD is a Nordic-inspired game project rooted in the world and atmosphere surrounding The Ravenborn Saga.
Explore VARKELD →These projects may progress at different rates as they depend on experimentation, technology and hardware. That process is part of what Nyfir Studios is about.
Independent by design.
Nyfir Studios is a place to build things that are useful, ambitious or simply worth learning from.
Build useful things. Keep learning. Enjoy creating them.
Notes from real development work.
Nyfir Studios publishes Insights and Development Logs to document decisions, constraints, tests and lessons that emerge while building its own products. Articles are written and manually reviewed by Nyfir Studios. They are intended to explain the reasoning behind the work, including what is still experimental or incomplete.
Product status is kept separate from long-term ambition: a development note may discuss a direction being explored without presenting it as a released feature.
Current projects
Explore the active products and development work across Nyfir Studios.
- FigureDesk — Swedish bookkeeping software.
- Nyfir Studios Hub — Windows desktop software for local AI development workflows.
- DroidBake — Android creation workflow.
- EIRVID — Software project.
- VARKELD — Game development project.