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Four apps, one philosophy

All four on Google Play, Vegvísir on the App Store too. No ads, no tracking.

Vegvísir — Vegvísir screen Vegvísir — Trip Logger screen

Vegvísir

Your smart ride companion. Live weather, places for bikers, trip logger, and SOS emergency tools — built for motorcyclists, in one clean app.

🍎 Now on iPhone 🗺️ Places for bikers 🚨 SOS tools 📏 Trip logger 🌐 5 languages
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Smiðja — the garage Smiðja — winter storage, counting the days

Smiðja

Your bike’s service book — what was done, when, at what odometer reading and what it cost. Intervals, parts wear, fuel and the Nordic winter, all on your own phone.

📲 Now on Google Play 🔧 Service log ❄️ Winter storage 🌍 5 languages
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Kvitro — home screen Kvitro — receipts list with warranty badges

Kvitro

Scan receipts with AI — store, total, date and items in seconds — and never lose a warranty again. A reminder lands a month before it expires.

📷 AI scanning 🛡️ Warranty tracking 🔔 Reminders 🌍 5 languages
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1001 Excuses — excuse generator screen 1001 Excuses — categories screen

1001 Excuses

Instant funny excuses for any situation — from skipping work to escaping awkward moments. One tap, endless excuses, seven styles of trouble.

🎲 One-tap generator 😂 7 styles 📋 Copy & share 🌍 5 languages
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What's New

Fresh from the workshop

What SassaGold Studios has been up to lately.

October 2026

Kvitro 1.3.3 — small fixes, and the app may ask for a rating

Settings now shows your unlock and remaining free scans the moment you open it, and the unlimited-scanning row takes you straight to the unlock. Saved receipts keep opening after a reinstall. After your third scan the app may ask, once, for a rating. Under the hood, a memory fix from the framework update.

October 2026

Smiðja is out — on Google Play

A garage log for motorcyclists: service history, intervals, parts wear, fuel and the Nordic winter, all on your own phone. Your first bike is free; a one-time key opens the garage for more. Thank you to the riders who tested it — read about it here.

September 2026

Vegvísir is now on the App Store

Vegvísir has crossed to iPhone. Same app, same five languages, same rule: no ads, no tracking, no account. Download on the App Store, or read more here.

September 2026

Kvitro 1.3.2 — a smaller download, nothing else changed

No new buttons this time. The app has been tidied under the hood so it takes up less space on your phone. Your receipts, settings and everything else stay exactly as they were.

September 2026

Vegvísir 1.4.16 — the maps zoom, and come back after you lose coverage

Every map now pinches to zoom and drags to pan — ride routes included — with + / − buttons big enough for gloves. And if the signal drops and a map goes black, the app says so and offers Try again, instead of staying black until you restart it.

September 2026

Smiðja — a new build for the testers

The testers got a new build in September: the bike’s registration number and a card with its facts, and every service interval and part can now be tapped and edited in place. Still in closed testing, still looking for people who ride — read about it here.

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September 2026

Taxi Travel Iceland — a website, not an app this time

A small, fast site for a family-run taxi in Iceland: fixed-price airport transfers and day tours, booking by form or WhatsApp, no cookies and no tracking — built the way the apps are. See it at taxitravel-iceland.com.

August 2026

Smiðja — a fourth app, and it needs testers

A garage log for motorcyclists: service history, intervals, parts wear, fuel and the Nordic winter, all on your own phone. It is finished and in closed testing — Google Play asks for twelve testers over fourteen days before an app like this can be released. If you ride, read about it here.

August 2026

Kvitro 1.3.1 — the PDF card opens the PDF

A receipt scanned from a PDF showed a card for the document, and tapping it did nothing. It now opens the PDF in your phone's own viewer, where you can read it, zoom in and share it like any other file.

August 2026

Vegvísir 1.4.7 — more reliable search for nearby places

Searches for food stops, fuel stations, sights and services could sometimes come back empty — one of the two map data servers had gone silent. It has been removed, and the app now retries when a server stumbles. Thanks to the rider in Greece who reported it.

August 2026

Kvitro 1.3 — ReceiptVault has a new name

Same app, new Nordic name: kvittering (receipt) + ro (calm). A new icon on your phone — everything else exactly where you left it: receipts, warranties and your purchase included.

August 2026

Kvitro 1.2 — a new look, and receipts shared straight from email

The app now wears the studio's colors: deep forest green and gold, easier on the eyes and quicker to read. You can share a PDF from Gmail or any other app straight into Kvitro instead of hunting for it in the file picker. Currency now follows your language unless you pick one yourself, and unlimited scanning stays unlocked when you are offline.

August 2026

Kvitro 1.1 — now you can scan PDF receipts from email

Order confirmations that arrive by email no longer need printing or photographing: tap Import PDF, pick the file, and the AI fills in store, date, total and items exactly as it does from a photo. Also in this release: the Scan button no longer hangs if the purchase service is slow to answer.

August 2026

Kvitro 1.0 is live on Google Play

Our third app is out: scan receipts with AI, track warranties with expiry reminders, and search by store, item or category — in five languages. Your first 10 AI scans are free; one small one-time purchase unlocks unlimited scanning. Get it on Google Play.

August 2026

Vegvísir 1.4.6 — language polish across the app

Emergency instructions, weather terms and dozens of other texts reviewed and corrected in Icelandic, Norwegian, Swedish and Danish, with clearer, more consistent wording on the trip screen — and a few small fixes in the English texts too.

August 2026

Vegvísir 1.4.5 — distances you can trust

Nearby places are measured from where you are now — not from where you last searched, so no more '300 m' to somewhere you left behind an hour ago. A saved ride now says if part of its distance was guessed across a gap in the tracking, and starting a ride warns you if background location is off instead of quietly recording less than the whole trip.

July 2026

Vegvísir 1.4.4 — top speed is real now

Saved rides missed every speed measured while the screen was off, so a fast ride could save with a walking-pace max. Fixed — the whole ride counts now. And places with no name in OpenStreetMap no longer show up as 'POI'.

July 2026

Vegvísir 1.4.3 — accurate rides, farther-reaching search

Saved ride distances are accurate again, and the screen you knew as Rider HQ is now called Vegvísir. Searches look much farther afield where places are sparse — and when a search fails, the app says so and shows your latest results instead of pretending the area is empty.

July 2026

1001 Excuses now speaks Danish and Swedish

Danish and Swedish join English, Norwegian and Icelandic — every excuse, now in five languages. Every SassaGold app speaks all five.

July 2026

Kvitro — our third app is coming

Scan receipts with AI, track your warranties, and get reminded before they expire. In final testing now — join the waiting list to be first in line.

July 2026

Vegvísir 1.4.1 — location fixed, and better privacy

Location is working again — a bug had stopped Rider HQ, nearby searches, trip logging and SOS from finding your position. Also in this release: recorded rides now stay entirely on your phone, fewer third-party servers see your searches, and the header tagline speaks your language.

July 2026

Vegvísir 1.3.0 — Nordic makeover + MC Season

A brand-new Nordic Aurora look across every screen — plus the new MC Season companion: winter-storage and spring-prep checklists, multi-bike support, and per-country inspection reminders so you never miss a deadline.

July 2026

1001 Excuses 1.1.0 — the big refresh

Hundreds of brand-new excuses in all three languages, never the same excuse twice in a row, and a smoother experience on small screens.

July 2026

sassagold.com gets a new home page

The site is now the studio's home base — all our apps, one place. You're looking at it.

The Studio

What is SassaGold Studios?

A small independent studio making apps the way we think apps should be: fast, focused, and respectful of your privacy. No accounts, no ads, no analytics — your data stays yours.

Vegvísir was born on the road, built by a rider for riders. 1001 Excuses was born the morning after — when the ride mattered more than the meeting. Kvitro was born at the kitchen drawer — where receipts went to die, and warranties with them. Smiðja was born in the garage — where the paper trail of every job ends up in a shoebox.

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We also build for others

The same hands that make our apps build websites and apps for people and businesses. Design, code, domain, hosting, email — we take a project from idea to launch, and build it the way we build our own: fast, focused, no clutter.

The first one is already on the road — Taxi Travel Iceland, private transfers and day tours in Iceland, taken from a parked domain to a live site.

And together with Smalausnir we are building Veldi — personal asset management for everything you own. Houses, cars, cabins, boats: one place for what they cost, what they need, and when. Free during beta.

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