BALANECustom software and 32 apps from Munich.
We find where company processes lose time and money, then develop the software that fixes it. From a free Mac utility to the system a whole company runs on — all written by us.
- Apps we sell
- 32
- Platforms
- 7
- Written by us
- 100%
- Office
- MUC
BALANE is one company.
Two divisions. Three ventures. 32 apps.
We find a problem in a client's process — then we build the tool that fixes it.
- Skalierungsreport
- FlowRefy
- FlowVisual
- Odoo
BALANE has five brands: Balane Tech, Balane Apps, Balane Capital, AGULHAS.ONE and KI-MS. The 32 apps sit under Balane Apps, grouped by the platform they run on. The work flows across them: the Skalierungsreport carries the Balane Flow method, Flow needed a tool so we built FlowVisual, and running it on real processes showed us the gaps our Odoo modules now close.
Advise. Build. Sell.
Everything we make.
32 apps, three Odoo modules, a few sites where we take a position — and three things that are not software at all. Grouped by what they are, not by what they run on.
Software you buy
09Free tools for your desk
07Free apps for your phone
10Odoo modules
03Where we stand
03Not software
03Four rules we keep.
- 01
We ship early
We would rather hand you a rough version this month than a perfect one next year.
- 02
We write our own code
No white-label, nothing outsourced. Every app on this page was written in this office.
- 03
Data we never collect cannot leak
Privacy and security come first, so we avoid gathering data wherever it can be avoided. Most of our apps run on your machine: no account, no login, nothing sent to us.
- 04
Small tools, not platforms
We would rather fix one annoying thing properly than sell you a suite you use ten percent of.
- Jonas Höttler
The Dabbawala Principle: 5,000 Carriers, No Computer, and the Flaw in the Efficiency Story
For 130 years Mumbai's dabbawalas have delivered hundreds of thousands of hot lunches to the right desk, on time, every working day. No app, no control room, no literacy required.…
- Against Certainty
Seven Hundred Best Days
Open the feed and seven hundred people are doing better than you. They are not. Every one of them sent the best of thirty days, and you turned up with a Tuesday. Run the arithmetic…
- Jonas Höttler
Thinking Looks Like Doing Nothing
Since going independent, the most valuable day of my month is the one on which I cannot be reached. In employment it would never have been approved, and for a sensible reason: from…
Where we widen out.
Not investments in the usual sense. Three side channels for building networks and standing on more than one leg.
- 03
BALANE CAPITAL
We put developers, operations and software into a company and take shares instead of sending invoices.
- 04
AGULHAS.ONE
Software architecture and AI systems, run from Munich with engineering partners in Southern Africa.
- 05
KI-MS
Helps mid-sized companies bring AI in properly — worth the money, inside the rules, and with a human still in charge.


























