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Today keeps the day’s posts close, Saved keeps pieces worth returning to, and All holds your whole library.
Indie apps and games, pawsitively playful.
We’re a small independent studio making apps and games with the kind of polish you feel in your thumbs. If something can wink, wobble or purr without getting in your way, we’ll probably do it.
Things we make
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Inkstead
Your home on the indie web.
Follow the sites you love and write your own, all in one calm app for iPhone, iPad and Mac. No noisy timeline, just the websites and people you care about.
See it once.
Group feeds into a lens and read the stories that matter once, not five times. Miss a day, and a short recap catches you up.
Keep it private.
Feeds, saved stories and reading progress stay with you through iCloud.
Write back.
Connect Inkstead Writer when something you read deserves a post on your own site.
Inkstead is a NekoLab app. See everything we make
Michimachi みちまち
Build a little life in Tokyo, one drive at a time.
A calm, realistic driving game set in a true-to-scale Tokyo. Take a job, learn the streets and take the long way home whenever you feel like it.
In development. Coming to the Epic Games Store.
Life behind the wheel
Tokyo, street for street
The city recreated at true scale. Find a favourite route, a clever shortcut, a view worth pulling over for.
Start from nothing
No car, no savings. Pick up delivery work and get paid to learn your way around.
A car of your own
Save up, choose your car and work for yourself: carry passengers, run deliveries or just go for a drive.
A city with moods
Rain rolls in, traffic builds and the radio keeps you company. No two evenings feel quite the same.
Sit in the driver’s seat
Put on a VR headset and you’re in the car, looking out at Tokyo. Yes, on Mac too.
Feel the road
Plug in a wheel for full force feedback, or play on a controller or keyboard. It feels right either way.
Better with friends
Invite friends into your Tokyo to share jobs, or just cruise around together.
Pick up some Japanese
Play in English, Japanese or a mix of both, and learn a little of the language as you go.
Michimachi is a NekoLab game. Follow progress in News
News
Releases, progress and the occasional detour, straight from the lab.
A new home for NekoLab
NekoLab started as a place for games. These days it is a small studio for apps as well, and the old website no longer had room for both.
So here is the new one. Every project now has its own page, with its own colours and its own personality, and this News section is where updates will land.
The cat stays, obviously.
Privacy Policy
1. Who we are
NekoLab is an independent studio and a trading name of Ivo Nunes, based in Manchester, UK. Ivo Nunes trading as NekoLab (“we”, “us” or “our”) runs this website and is the data controller for any personal data it collects.
For any privacy-related questions, contact: privacy@nekolab.studio
2. What data this website collects
a) Emails you send us
If you contact us via an email link on this website, we will receive your email address, the content of your message and any information you choose to include. We use this information only to respond to your enquiry and for any follow-up related to that conversation.
b) Website analytics (Cloudflare Web Analytics)
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The data is aggregated and anonymised and helps us understand things like page views, general traffic trends and approximate geographic regions (not precise locations). This data cannot be used to identify you as an individual.
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We do not:
- run contact forms
- collect account details
- collect payment information
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- sell or share personal data with third parties for marketing purposes
4. Legal basis for processing (UK GDPR)
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- Legitimate interests: to operate and improve our website
- Consent: when you choose to email us directly
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5. How long we keep your data
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- Aggregated analytics data is retained by Cloudflare according to their standard retention policies.
6. Data sharing and processors
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Under UK data protection law, you have the right to:
- request access to your personal data
- request correction of inaccurate data
- request deletion of your data
- object to or restrict processing
- lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO)
To exercise any of these rights, contact: privacy@nekolab.studio
9. Children’s privacy
This website is not specifically directed at children, and we do not knowingly collect personal data from children.
10. Changes to this policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Any changes will be posted here and the “Last updated” date will be revised.
11. Products
This Privacy Policy applies only to this website. Our products may have their own separate privacy policies, which will be provided alongside those products.