Rival Bear

A small software studio in California

We build the apps we wished already existed.

Rival Bear is a small studio making careful apps for travel, family money, and everyday life. We ship them only when they’re genuinely good. It started, of all things, with a treasure hunt.

Why a treasure hunt?

It started in the Rockies.

Rival Bear started, of all things, with a hunt for Forrest Fenn’s hidden treasure in the Rockies. No chest at the end of it, but a stubborn habit of building the things we wished existed. The apps came next.

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