Skitter Out
A calm arrow puzzle for iPad. Untangle the board your way — collect critters as you go, or keep it clean and focused. You choose.
Mountain Bolt LLC · Goode, Virginia
Small apps, made calm and careful, in the Blue Ridge.
A one-person studio making focused software — no ads, no tracking, no rush.
Mountain Apps
Software that respects your attention.
Every app here is built to do one thing well and then get out of your way — no ads, no tracking, no dark patterns, no rush.
Mind Cross
A tactile 3D slider puzzle for iPhone and iPad. Start with color goals, then restore exact art on a rotating cross-shaped puzzle box.
Roselathe
A tactile mechanical puzzle for iPhone and iPad. Move metal gears around one shared rim and four crossed spokes until every piece finds its embossed mark.
TurnRake
A railway shunting puzzle for iPhone and iPad. Four turntables on one closed loop of track, and only four empty spaces to work with. Sort every color onto its own road.
LodeCage
A magnet and gravity puzzle for iPhone and iPad. Build a route through a steel cage out of rails, chutes and drops, seat the magnets, and release a ball that has to reach the cup slowly enough to be caught.
Featured apps
Five calm puzzle boxes.
LodeCage
Magnet and gravity puzzle · iPhone and iPad · In development
Lay a route out of rails, bends, chutes and drops, and seat magnets to spend and save speed. The ball starts at 4 and the cup only closes on a ball arriving at 6 or slower.
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TurnRake
Railway shunting puzzle · iPhone and iPad · In development
Drive a rake of wagons into a turntable, turn the deck, and drive it out onto another road. Four gaps in a full yard are all the room you get.
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Roselathe
Mechanical gear puzzle · iPhone and iPad · Coming soon
Slide, flip, and transfer metal gears around a shared rim and four crossed spokes. Match every metal to its embossed target without tying the machine into a knot.
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Mind Cross
3D slider puzzle · iPhone and iPad · Coming soon
A tactile cross-shaped puzzle with premium tile skins, Masterworks painting maps, Dominoes clues, and an exact-placement Master mode for puzzle enthusiasts.
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Skitter Out
Calm arrow puzzle · iPad · Coming soon
No ads. No timers. No pressure. Just you, a tangled grid of arrows, and the quiet satisfaction of clearing it your way — with a new critter waiting behind every board.
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The short version
Built by one person, for people who like a little quiet.
Mountain Bolt is a one-person studio building small, calm software in Goode, Virginia — at its own pace.