Handl

Apps with a grip on you

Open for projects Los Angeles
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Creative app studio handl.fun
Manifesto

We make apps people reach for. Built by a director who ships, for the gap between a great idea and a thing you can hold.

Founder-builtHandl is run by James DeFina, a filmmaker and director who builds his own products. Every app here started as something he needed on set or in the edit.

Taste firstWe think in frames, cuts and sound before we think in screens. The result is software that feels directed rather than assembled.

Shipped, not pitchedFour products are live in early access right now. We build in public and show working software, not decks.

Four apps,
one studio

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How a Handl
app gets made

Four stages

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