Apps, products and prints, made in Staffordshire.
Hoome is a small studio in Lichfield. We design and build mobile and web products for clients, and increasingly for ourselves: a golf companion, a football alarm clock, a walking game about ducks, a shelf of cosy games and a print shop for people who love their ground.
Our product · Live on iPhone, Android and Apple Watch
The Caddy
Score every round solo or with friends, track shots, see where the strokes really go, and follow a plan to break 100, 90 or 80. Free to start, with an Apple Watch companion.
- 19,400+
- courses with tees, pars and stroke index
- 4
- scoring formats: stroke, match, Stableford, skins
- 14
- trophies to earn from your scorecards
- Free
- to start, with an optional Pro plan
Our game · Live on Google Play, coming soon to iPhone and iPad
Mud & Glory
A village club, a muddy pitch and six levels to climb. You pick the team; the whole club talks to you.
Take a village club from step 7 to the top flight, a season at a time. Pick the team, set it up to play and make the calls from the touchline, while the chairman, the groundsman and the local Gazette write every week. Free to try, then a one-off £6.99 Season Ticket. No ads.
- 152
- made-up clubs in six levels, from step 7 to the top flight
- 35
- seasons in a career, then the Managers’ Wall
- £6.99
- once, for every match of every career. No ads
Our product · Live on iPhone and Android
Football Alarm Clock
Wake up to your club. On silent.
A gentle alarm that follows your club. It rings through the mute switch, wakes you before kick-off on matchdays, reads Saturday’s result on your lock screen, and lets you send a mate the scoreline as their alarm with your voice note attached.
- 104
- clubs across the Premier League, EFL and Scottish Premiership
- 6
- gentle wake sounds, composed in-house
- 15s
- voice notes to rub a result in
- Free
- to use, with rival wake-ups as a one-off
Our game · Live on Google Play, coming soon to iPhone and iPad
Fudge & Fizz
One summer on the prom. Make it in the morning, sell it all day.
Nana Ivy has left you her sweet shop on the prom at Saltmarsh Bay, shown cut open like a doll's house. Each morning you make the stock by hand: fudge, seaside rock with a word traced through it, chocolates and honeycomb. Every piece comes out first-class or seconds, and the seconds sell as broken bits. Free, with no energy and no premium currency.
- 30
- played days in Saltmarsh Bay, from its Easter weekend to October half-term
- 165
- commissions by letter, by phone and at the till
- 25
- townspeople, each with a summer of their own
Our games
Six cosy games, one sticker sheet.
Pocket-sized, one thumb, a minute at a time. Drawn by the same tools, so a teapot, a hen and a gnome all look like they came from one sheet. Each one written twice, natively, for iPhone and Android. Free with gentle ads, or £2.99 once to remove them.
Crumb & Kettle
A cosy café game where every shift is a sixty-second cup of tea.
Pip & Trowel
A cosy garden that keeps growing while your phone is in your pocket.
Not Your Eggs
A cosy reflex game about a broody hen who has decided, firmly, that nobody is taking her eggs.
Post & Parcel
A cosy post office game where every shift is over before the van leaves.
Wool & Whistle
A cosy herding puzzle about a collie, a wandering flock, and the oldest trick on the hill.
Clue & Cuppa
A cosy village crossword: swipe a ring of letters to fill a mini grid before the tea goes cold.
Our game · Live on the App Store and Google Play
Duckabout
There’s a duck around the corner. Walk your town. Befriend ducks.
Ducks appear on a live map of wherever you are and refresh every fifteen minutes. Walk to one, meet it through your camera, flick some bread, and it joins your Pond Book. Real parks, ponds and canals hand out bread and eggs, and eggs hatch as you walk. Free, no adverts, and nothing leaves your phone.
- 16
- species, from the Mallard to a Golden Duck hardly anyone has met
- 15 min
- between spawns, so the walk to the shops is never the same twice
- 0
- adverts, servers or accounts. Everything happens on your phone
Our shop · Open on Etsy
The Grounds Man
Football ground prints for your local team.
Our Etsy shop, run from Rugeley by two long-suffering Wolves fans. Minimalist prints of the grounds people love, plus cards, jigsaws, tea towels and homeware. Five-star rated and trading since 2022.
Visit the shop on EtsyClient work
Trail Maps
Turn a ride, run or hike into a print.
Trail Maps sells posters of the routes people have ridden, run and hiked. We built the Design Your Own builder: bring in a route from Strava or a GPX file, style it on a live Mapbox map, then save it, share it or add it to the Shopify cart.
Client work
Liquor Store Clothing
A Shopify store that talks to the tills.
A premium menswear shop wanted its in-store experience online. We built the Shopify store, linked it to the existing till system so stock stays honest in both directions, and added interactive denim guides.
Fall in love with the process and the results follow.
Four steps we have run since 2013, on apps for global brands and on our own products. The steps stay the same. How long each takes depends on you.
- 01
Define
We agree what the project is for, what it must do, what it can cost and how we will know it worked. Everything else flexes around that.
- 02
Design
The visible design and the product design underneath it get equal weight. We work on both at once so it looks right and works right.
- 03
Refine
You see work early and often. Reviews are built into the schedule, not bolted on the end.
- 04
Deliver
We test against what we defined, ship it, and stay around for the first weeks when real people start using it.
Data-informed designers, since 2013.
A small studio led by Cameron, bringing in trusted collaborators when a project needs more hands. We have built for global brands and inspiring start-ups, and lately for ourselves.
UK App Awards 2022 nominee.
Got a project? [email protected]
- C
Cameron
Technical Director
Leads engineering across mobile, web and native. Builds The Caddy and co-runs The Grounds Man.
- Mobile apps
- Native iOS and watchOS
- Web platforms
- E-commerce systems
- Brand
- Typography
Questions people ask
- What does Hoome do?
- Hoome is a design and development studio in Lichfield, Staffordshire. We design and build mobile apps, web products and e-commerce systems for clients, and we make our own products: The Caddy golf app, Football Alarm Clock, Duckabout, a shelf of cosy games and The Grounds Man print shop.
- Who made The Caddy?
- The Caddy is designed and built by Hoome. It is a free golf companion for iPhone, Android and Apple Watch with scoring, strokes gained, AI swing analysis and coaching plans.
- Where is Hoome based?
- Lichfield Business Village, Lichfield, Staffordshire, WS13 6QG. We work with clients across the UK.
- How do I start a project with Hoome?
- Email [email protected]. Tell us what you want to make and a rough budget, and we reply within two working days.