XLUNA Studio
Founded in 2026 for the next generation of apps. Its first releases are in development across seven orbits.
- New apps, designed from scratch
- Home: xlunastudio.com
- Contact: contact@xlunastudio.com
A new moon for software you own
XLUNA Studio is an independent software studio founded by Hasnain Butt Akhtar in England. It builds apps that run on your own device, ask for no account and are paid for once. XLUNA is the founder's second studio, after Hasnain Studio X.
- Founded
- 2026
- Founder
- Hasnain Butt Akhtar
- Based in
- England, United Kingdom
- Ownership
- Independent, privately owned
- Sister studio
- Hasnain Studio X
- Contact
- contact@xlunastudio.com
Every full moon begins as a thin crescent
XLUNA did not start with investors, a boardroom or a big team. It started with one developer, one belief and the patience to build, release after release.
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Chapter 1 · The spark
A simple belief
Hasnain Butt Akhtar believed something the software industry had started to forget: when you pay for a tool, it should be yours. Not rented by the month, not locked behind an account, not watching what you do. That belief was the spark for everything that followed.
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Chapter 2 · Proof
Hasnain Studio X
The belief became a studio. Hasnain Studio X grew into a catalogue of 79 local-first apps for Windows and Android, all designed, coded and shipped by its founder. It proved that one independent maker, working with care, can build what people usually expect from a whole company.
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Chapter 3 · The lesson
Ownership is the feature
Every app taught the same lesson. People want tools they can trust: no subscriptions, no sign-ups, and AI that runs on their own machine with their data kept close. Those weren't features to add later. They were the whole point.
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Chapter 4 · The new moon
XLUNA is born
In 2026 that lesson got a home of its own. XLUNA is named for the new moon, the quiet moment when a cycle begins and the sky is still dark. Not an ending, a beginning: a studio built from its first line around the promise that what you buy stays yours.
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Chapter 5 · The light ahead
Building for the next ten years
The first XLUNA apps are being built now across seven orbits. They are made to still be working, and still be yours, long after today's trends have faded. Each release adds a little more light, the way a crescent grows night by night into a full moon.
"The sky is darkest at the new moon. That is exactly when the light begins."XLUNA Studio
Everything in XLUNA comes from the night sky
The name
X is the crossing point. Luna is the moon. Together they name a studio built around one fixed promise, with apps travelling around it.
The mark
A new moon's first crescent, cut by a beam of light. The crescent is the start of every cycle; the beam is each app setting out from it. Together they draw the X.
The phases
The studio's roadmap follows the lunar cycle, from new moon to full. The site even shows tonight's real phase, calculated live in your browser.
The orbits
Apps are grouped into seven orbits by what they help you do: Create, Think, Power, Connect, Play, Build and Explore.
XLUNA MARK · CRESCENT AND BEAM
Founder
Hasnain Butt Akhtar
Founder of XLUNA Studio and Hasnain Studio X. An independent developer based in England, Hasnain designs, codes, tests and ships every app in-house, from the first sketch to the store listing. The work centres on local-first software: apps that put AI and powerful tools on the user's own device and leave the data there.
XLUNA Studio and Hasnain Studio X
Both studios belong to the same founder and share the same values. Each has its own name, brand and catalogue.
Hasnain Studio X
The founder's original studio, with a catalogue of 79 local-first Windows and Android apps. It continues to publish, update and support those apps.
- Existing Windows and Android catalogue
- Home: hasnainstudiox.com
- Contact: contact@hasnainstudiox.com
Designed to keep working, whatever comes next
An app you buy should outlive trends, price changes and even the studio's own plans. XLUNA designs for that from the start.
LASTING 01
No server to switch off
Apps run on your device, so they do not stop working if a cloud service changes or closes.
LASTING 02
No account to lose
There is no login to forget, lock or expire. The licence comes from the store you bought it from.
LASTING 03
Your files stay readable
Work is saved in common, open formats wherever possible, so it can move with you to other tools.
LASTING 04
AI that grows with your hardware
On-device models get faster as your computer improves, with no per-use fees and no data sent away.
Four rules for every app
CODE 01
Owned
Pay once and the app keeps working, keeps improving and stays on your machine.
CODE 02
Private
No telemetry and no accounts. What you make is nobody's business but yours.
CODE 03
Straight
One clear price, a real trial and a checkout without tricks.
CODE 04
Finished
Fewer apps, each completed properly, instead of a crowd of half-built ones.
Ownership
Proprietary studios
XLUNA Studio and Hasnain Studio X are proprietary studios, privately owned and operated by Hasnain Butt Akhtar. The names XLUNA and Hasnain Studio X, their logos and marks, and all software, designs, artwork and text published by either studio are the founder's property. Nothing on this site grants a licence to them, except as set out in each app's own terms. XLUNA™ and Hasnain Studio X™ are trademarks of Hasnain Butt Akhtar.