The Little App Factory is a software company based in Sydney

Sydney

Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...

, Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

 which develops software for the 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...

 platform.

History

The company was founded in 2002 and initially released M-Beat, a freeware iTunes controller. The next year iPodRip

IPodRip

iRip is a commercial iPod recovery tool for Mac OS X, Windows XP and Windows Vista. It features an iTunes style interface, iPod media transfer, and integration with iTunes...

 was shipped and has been extremely successful. Initially licensed as freeware it progressed to shareware in late 2003 and has remained that way since. Due to the nature of the product, no major rewards have been received but it has been reviewed in a number of books and online. iPodRip

IPodRip

iRip is a commercial iPod recovery tool for Mac OS X, Windows XP and Windows Vista. It features an iTunes style interface, iPod media transfer, and integration with iTunes...

 has been renamed as iRip. Other notable products were Connoisseur, a cook book application, and Netflix Freak which was designed to improve upon the Netflix website.

In 2009 the company was relaunched under new management. The new focus has been on media applications as seen with the creation of Evom and the purchase of RipIt

RipIt

RipIt is a Mac OS X DVD ripper developed by The Little App Factory. It enables users to create a playable copy of the contents of a Video DVD on their hard disk...

.

On July 26th, 2010, it was announced that The Little App Factory would be the head sponsor of Team Liquid

Team Liquid

Team Liquid is a popular StarCraft news website and community, as well as a successful StarCraft team, founded by Victor Goossens and Joy Hoogeveen.-History:...

, a professional StarCraft II

StarCraft II

StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty is a military science fiction real-time strategy video game developed and released by Blizzard Entertainment for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. A sequel to the award-winning 1998 video game StarCraft and its expansions, the game was released worldwide on July 27, 2010...

 team.

Current Products

• iRip
• RipIt
  RipIt
  RipIt is a Mac OS X DVD ripper developed by The Little App Factory. It enables users to create a playable copy of the contents of a Video DVD on their hard disk...
  
  
• Evom
• Rivet
  Rivet
  A rivet is a permanent mechanical fastener. Before being installed a rivet consists of a smooth cylindrical shaft with a head on one end. The end opposite the head is called the buck-tail. On installation the rivet is placed in a punched or pre-drilled hole, and the tail is upset, or bucked A rivet...
  
  
• Ringtones
• Tagalicious
• Grappler

Discontinued Products

• M-Beat
• Connoisseur
• Netflix Freak

External links

• The Little App Factory