About the App Garden
AppWork is a digital platform where every app follows a visible path from idea to release. The App Garden is the public showcase for this journey—a place where apps, prototypes, and experiments are shared openly as they move toward direct release.
The vision is simple: every app begins as a seed of an idea. Some bloom into polished products, others remain experiments, and each one represents a step in the journey of building software that solves real problems.
The Lifecycle
Apps move through this lifecycle transparently. The App Garden keeps them visible at every stage—whether actively building, refining in beta, released directly, or archived as experiments worth remembering.
By the Numbers
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App categories from Productivity to Experimental
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Lifecycle stages from Idea to Released
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Experiments in progress and planned
Founded By
Marylene Sawyer is a product founder and creative technologist based in Cape Town. She builds AppWork apps while exploring product thinking, design patterns, AI-assisted workflows, and release strategies.
Read more on the AppWork blog about what's being built, why, and what's being learned.