Our story
A small studio with a long memory.
iCube Labs has been shipping iOS apps since 2011. Office Reader has been on the App Store since 2014. Here's how we got from a desk in Haiti to the only doc app you actually own.
- 2000
Founded in Haiti.
iCube Labs starts as an independent software studio out of Port-au-Prince, building custom apps for local businesses. The founding belief — software should make people more capable, not more dependent — hasn't changed since.
- 2011
First App Store release.
The iPhone 4 was out. iPad 2 was new. iCube Labs shipped its first App Store app and kept shipping. Over the next decade, the studio's iOS portfolio reached hundreds of thousands of lifetime installs without outside funding.
- 2014
Office Reader Pro launches.
A multi-format file reader for iPhone and iPad under the App Store record id578228992 — the same record that still hosts Office Reader today. Over the years it collected 1.2K+ ratings at 4.8 stars from people who wanted to open a PDF without a subscription.
- 2018–2025
Maintenance era.
The app kept pace with every iOS release — quietly, competently — while we built other products in the background. Users stayed. The category changed around us.
- 2026
Rebuilt, not refreshed.
The iPhone became people's primary computer. Office subscriptions hit $15/month. Documents by Readdle had 615K ratings but still didn't edit real .docx files. We rewrote Office Reader from scratch on SwiftUI — real Office editing, a smart editor that drafts documents format-by-format, dictation, Doco, a scanner with text search, Face ID privacy. Same App Store record. Same users. Completely new app.
What we believe.
Software is a tool. Tools belong to whoever pays for them. A $15/month subscription is not a purchase — it's rent, and it goes up.
The apps you use most should work offline, without asking for permission to read your documents, and without needing an internet connection to open a file you already own.
Making great iOS software for the long run costs time, not subscriptions. We price accordingly. Lifetime plans aren't a gimmick — they're a signal that we expect to be here when you open the app in 2036.
Human + Machines.