BetuWorks Independent app studio, Netherlands

Independent app studio Netherlands Since 2026

BetuWorks builds small Android apps and games.

Two are published on Google Play: Tents & Trees, a logic puzzle game, and DinnerFlow, a meal planner. Two are not out yet: 3D Nonogram, still in development, and Even Out, which is built but unreleased.

Each one was built because nothing on the shelf did the job properly, and released only once it was genuinely good. Work happens on the device wherever it reasonably can, and no user data is sold.

Four apps

Four apps and games for Android

Tents & Trees app icon: a round green tree and a blue camping tent silhouetted against a large setting sun in a dusk-purple sky.

Tents & Trees

Offline logic puzzle game

Published on Google Play, Android

Give every tree its own tent, keep the tents from touching, and match the numbers printed along the edges. No board in the game can be finished by guessing: a solver checks every one using only the deductions a person can make, and any board it cannot finish is thrown away.

hand-made levels, in 8 ladders
800
languages
21
ways to play
8
rule variants
4
DinnerFlow app icon: an orange ribbon looped into a figure of eight, ending in a fork on one side and a green leaf on the other.

DinnerFlow

Meal planner

Published on Google Play, Android

Store your recipes, plan a week of dinners on a calendar, and let the app build one grocery list out of that plan. DinnerFlow has its own site at dinnerflow.app, which is where the feature and support detail lives. The page here is a studio note on how it was built.

ways to import a recipe
3
languages
5
the phone holds the truth
Local-first
3D Nonogram app icon: the characters 3 and D built out of blue and orange cubes drawn in isometric projection on a cream ground.

3D Nonogram

Voxel logic puzzle game

In development, no release date

A solid block of cubes with a shape hidden inside it. Every line of cubes running through the block carries a number saying how many of its cubes belong to that shape. Work out which are waste, chip them away, and a teacup or a lighthouse or a cat is left standing.

levels designed, in 2 packs
36
kinds of clue marker
3
ads, and no network permission
0
largest board
10×10×10
Even Out app icon: a navy seesaw tipped off level, with an orange disc weighing down the low end and a blue disc on the raised end.

Even Out

Household chore planner

Built, not yet released

Chores shared by the time each person has said they can give, rather than split equally. Everyone sets a weekly capacity in minutes, and each new task goes to whoever is furthest below their own target. No points, no streaks, no leaderboard.

assignment modes per task
4
weeks in the fairness window
4
points, streaks or rankings
0
a shared plan needs one truth
Needs a connection

The studio

An independent studio in the Netherlands, building software meant to last.

BetuWorks is small and independent. There is no growth team, no investor pressure, and no advertising business hiding behind the products. Each app started as something that ought to have existed already and got built because nothing on the shelf did the job properly.

Small, focused apps, and a real commitment to keeping your data yours.

That shapes the technical decisions more than anything else. Work happens on the device wherever it reasonably can. DinnerFlow treats the phone's own database as the source of truth and syncs only when asked. Tents & Trees generates and solves every puzzle locally, with no gameplay server at all. 3D Nonogram currently ships with no network permission.

Even Out is the exception, and its page says so plainly: a chore plan several people are working from has to have one authoritative copy, so that app needs a connection. Stating it is more useful than a claim about privacy that quietly does not hold.

Where an app carries ads, they fund the work and nothing further. Nothing is sold or handed on for marketing, and the intention is quiet, maintained software rather than the next thing chasing your attention.