Built here.
Run here.
Bookmark-grade
software.
Boring data.
Excellent sites.
Load fast.
Stay up.
Show the data.
Small sites.
Long horizons.
Our data.
Our servers.
Our problem.
We don't
sunset
things.
Still up.
Still updated.
Shipped once.
Maintained
ever since.
Drake Apps builds and operates its own portfolio of data-heavy apps and web properties from Austin, Texas — weather radar, price trackers, reference libraries, sensor networks, and statistical tools. We ship them, run them, and keep them online. The kind of site you keep in a tab, not the kind you close. Built and operated in Austin, Texas. Radar scans, game prices, product manuals, sensor readings, lottery odds. Unglamorous inputs, seriously good software on top. Three rules behind every property Drake Apps builds and runs out of Austin, Texas. A one-studio portfolio of focused web properties, each built to still be here — and still be maintained — years from now. Nothing in this portfolio was built for a client and handed off. We own it, we host it, and we're the ones who fix it at 2am. Drake Apps builds data-heavy web properties in Austin, Texas — and then keeps them running long after the interesting part is over. A portfolio of data-heavy web properties, built and operated in-house in Austin, Texas. An independent Austin studio. Every property in the portfolio is still owned, still updated, still ours.
Portfolio
Every scan.
Pro radar, satellite and forecast models for iPhone, iPad and iPhone Duo. Every NEXRAD and TDWR radar in the U.S. and about 140 across Europe, at every tilt, minutes after each sweep, with NWS storm tracks, alerts and live lightning on top. Every frame is decoded and rendered on our own servers.
- U.S. radars, every tilt
- All
- European radars
- ~140
- Forecast models
- 17
- Lightning, flash to map
- ~1 min
To the second.
Personal weather stations, airport METARs and Harris County flood gauges on iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch. Each reading lands live, stamped with its age to the second, and the Live Activity moves with every one. Air quality is scored from the sensor's own PM2.5 on the EPA's 2024 table, the same number the website shows.
- Every reading, as it lands
- Live
- Readings to the tenth
- 0.1°
- Harris County flood gauges
- ~370
- Readings as watch complications
- 16
On your shelf.
The manual for anything you own, on iPhone and iPad. Search by brand, model number or just “my dishwasher,” read it in a reader made for manuals, and jump to the page with your fault code. Download a manual and it opens with no connection; your shelf follows your Apple ID. Nothing to sign in to.
- Manuals
- 165K+
- Brands
- 900+
- Products
- 90K+
- Search inside downloaded manuals
- Offline
Before the lane.
MoPac and 183 North express lane prices, live, on iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch. Pin your commute, see today's price against a typical day at the same hour, and get a push when the lane drops under your number. A Live Activity, home screen widgets and watch complications keep the price in view. No account, no ads, no tracking.
- Priced toll points
- 65
- Roadways
- 7
- Between rate checks
- 2 min
- Accounts, ads or tracking
- None
Ranked daily.
Every scratch-off in 24 states and DC, ranked by how much better a ticket bought today is than one bought the day the game launched, from each lottery's own prize tables. A full prize breakdown for every game, and a ledger for the tickets you buy. No account, and nothing about you is sent to us.
- Lotteries, 24 states and DC
- 25
- Scratch-offs ranked
- ~1,900
- From each lottery's prize tables
- Daily
- Data collected from you
- None
Nintendo Switch price tracking — every title, every store, every drop. Watch a game and know the moment it hits your number.
Statewide EDM event listings and calendar.
The world's largest paintball manual archive — 1,000+ documents, 60+ brands.
Visualize and convert JSON structures into readable HTML.
Everything is owned and operated in-house — fast, accessible, and built without bloat. We contribute to open source and keep public repositories for the tooling behind the portfolio.
Problems? Advertising? Partnerships? Opportunities?
It all reaches the same inbox.
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