jalada GmbH, founded in 2004, is an independent software company located in Hamburg, Germany. jalada creates applications and games mainly for Mac OS X

Mac OS X

Mac OS X is a series of Unix-based operating systems and graphical user interfaces developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. Since 2002, has been included with all new Macintosh computer systems...

. Its products are distributed as shareware or demo versions that can be freely downloaded and used for a limited time.

Its first product was jalada Language Alchemist, a wordbook application, followed by a translation tool called jalada Just Translate.

The company is also known for the production and the distribution of games. Its first game was jalada Spinball, a Breakout styled

Breakout clone

A Breakout clone is a sub-class of the "bat-and-ball" genre introduced with the Magnavox Odyssey's Tennis and Atari's Pong...

 arcade game. This initial success led jalada to produce a number of other games. These include jalada Ultimate Racing, jalada Air Strike and YAM .

Productivity Tools

jalada applications, in alphabetical order:

• jalada Collage
• jalada Fractual
• jalada Just Translate
• jalada Textual
• jalada Language Alchemist

Games

jalada games, in alphabetical order:

• jalada Air Strike
• jalada AstroChase
• jalada Boskonian
• jalada Blocked
• jalada Catalina
• jalada Children of Arisia
• jalada Rail Madness
• jalada's Spinball
• jalada Spinball II
• jalada Ultimate Racing
• jalada Yam - The Killer Potato
• jalada YAM II - Return of the Killer Potato