Cape Town, South Africa · Technology company
A technology company in Cape Town building and publishing its own software. Five products are live today, and you can open every one of them right now.
The record 2026
Release dates and store identifiers, as published. Every one can be checked against the store.
Prepaid electricity, finally legible.
A South African word a day, on the home screen.
One tap, one very loud bird.
A smart catalogue for the toolbox.
Know who is running, in seconds.
Tools of the trade PowerMeter · Fettle
Point the camera at a prepaid meter and the reading comes back without typing, or read the numbers out and it hears them on the phone itself. Those readings become cost per kilowatt hour, usage history and a monthly forecast, in VAT-inclusive rands.
Photograph a tool and Fettle identifies it, files it, and remembers where it lives. The part that earns its keep: it knows which batteries fit which tools across Milwaukee, DeWalt, Makita and Bosch.
Play Hadeda Havoc · Frenchie Trivia
Flap a hadeda past Table Mountain, down jacaranda-lined streets and through a Highveld thunderstorm, dodging power lines and minibus taxis.
Quick rounds, a large question bank, and thirteen French Bulldog coats to play as, from fawn and brindle to blue merle. Live on both stores.
At the races silkspotter
Point a phone at the jockeys before a South African race. silkspotter identifies the silks, matches them against that day's race card, and links straight through to the race.
Word of the day Izwi
Most language apps are a dictionary you forget to open. Izwi puts a different South African word on your home screen every morning, across isiZulu, isiXhosa, Afrikaans, Sesotho, Tsotsitaal and Kaaps.
South Africa
Also from Burton Labs On the bench
Some are live, some are still being built. The status column says which.
| Product | What it is | Where it runs | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frenchie Trivia | Quiz game with a strong opinion about small dogs | iOS, Android | Live |
| Wildlife Migration Tracker | An interactive 3D globe tracing the migration routes of 62 species | Web | Live |
| ShotKit | Turns a plain sentence into a planned DJI drone mission | Web, iPad | Live |
| Will It Fit | Measures whether the thing will actually fit, using LiDAR | iOS | In development |
| FiscalAI | Tax operations for South African accounting firms, on the firm's own machine | Web | Private pilot |
| Brainblitz | Two-player trivia built for the television in the lounge | Smart TV | In development |
The company Burton Labs
Burton Labs is a technology company based in Cape Town, South Africa, founded by Stewart Burton. It builds and publishes its own software products, and is open to conversations about development and AI work where the problem is a good fit.