zylio is an independent software studio. We build games and high-performance tools for people who care how their software feels — fast, focused, and free of the junk.
zylio started from a simple frustration: too much software is slow, bloated, and quietly working against you — bundling toolbars, phoning home, and burying the thing you actually wanted under menus and upsells. We thought power users and gamers deserved better, so we started building it.
Everything we ship is held to the same standard. It should launch instantly, do its one job exceptionally well, and respect both your machine and your attention. We obsess over the details most people never notice — the milliseconds, the memory, the moment a download actually finishes — because that's what separates a tool you tolerate from one you keep.
We publish our releases here for direct download, write about how they're built in the journal, and keep much of our work source-available so you can see exactly what runs on your computer. No accounts required, no dark patterns, no surprises.
We'd rather ship a few things we're proud of than a hundred we're not.
Original games designed to feel great to play and light on your machine — no launchers you didn't ask for.
Network utilities, download managers, and power-user tools — multi-threaded internals tuned to feel instant.
Have something specific in mind? We take on select custom builds — desktop apps, tools, and automation.
Native, multi-threaded internals tuned to feel instant — even on modest hardware.
No toolbars, no telemetry you didn't ask for. What you install is exactly what runs.
Read the code, file issues, send patches. Nothing hidden behind a black box.
Versioned, signed releases from official sources — so you always know what you're running.
We take on a limited number of custom-software projects — desktop apps, utilities, and automation built to the same standard as everything else here. Tell us what you have in mind.