# Curio Studio: Hobby Workbench — Calm planner for many hobbies

> Calm planner for many hobbies (iPhone/iPad app by Ben Geelan.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/curio-studio-hobby-workbench/id6824823189 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Ben Geelan](https://appshunter.io/developer/6810127971)
- Category: Productivity, Lifestyle
- Price: Free with in-app purchases (on sale, was $4.99)
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 16.4 · 104 MB
- Languages: American English, French (France), German (Germany), Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese, European Spanish
- Released: 2026-10-24
- Data updated: 2026-10-29

## What is Curio Studio?

Launch offer: unlock everything for half price, until 25 November 2026.

Curio Studio is a calm, private home for all the things you love to make, collect and explore.

No account. No ads. No subscription. No tracking. Free to start, and one payment unlocks everything. Your projects, photos and notes stay on your device, and you can export everything whenever you like.

For many interests, and for the deep dives
Some of us flit between a dozen hobbies; some of us vanish into one for days. Curio Studio helps with both. It keeps the big picture of everything you care about in view, so nothing gets forgotten, and gently helps you surface from a hyperfocus when it's time to come back to the rest of your life.

One next step, every time
Each project shows a single next step. Done? The next one appears. Too big? Shrink it. Tell it where you are, at home, at work or outside, and the steps that fit come first.

Every hobby in one place
Each hobby is a Curio with its own projects, collections, tools and materials. Pick from dozens, from miniatures and woodworking to reading, gaming and bird watching, or make your own.

Focus without pressure
Set a focus window, watch the light shift as time passes, and hear a soft chime at the end. No streaks, no scores.

Your collections on display
Books on an oak shelf with their real covers, an army in a walnut case, fossils in a drawer.

A journal, not a scorecard
Look back on months of making, with how it felt, what went well and what got in the way.

Jot it down
Catch a thought, a thing to buy or a reminder before it slips away.

Private by design
Lock it with Face ID. iCloud sync is optional and uses your own iCloud. Optional lookups, like finding a book cover, only send what you ask for, when you ask.

Free to start, pay once to unlock
Use one Curio with three open projects for free, for as long as you like. Jots, focus, the journal, collections, export and iCloud are never limited. One in-app purchase unlocks unlimited Curios and projects for good, and Family Sharing is included. Bought Curio Studio before it went free? Everything is already unlocked. Generated pictures are optional: an online service makes them with picture credits, sold in packs.

Made by someone with far too many hobbies, for everyone who flits between theirs or loses themselves in one.

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Unlock everything | $2.99 | one-time |
| 5 + 5 Credits | $1.99 | one-time |
| 20 + 20 Credits | $5.99 | one-time |


## Is Curio Studio safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess Curio Studio.

## Is Curio Studio legit?

Curio Studio: Hobby Workbench has limited verification signals. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Curio Studio is 58 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.


## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 1.4.0 — 2026-10-27

More ways to make Curio Studio your own.
• Supplies now suggest types and settings for your hobbies, with standard sizes, custom brands and 28 sourced material presets, including filament and electronics.
• Colour sliders show their gradients.
• Change Curio pictures and icons in Edit Curio. Hide unwanted generated or uploaded images and restore them later.
• Your chosen book and film covers appear in libraries, and process materials are easier to recognise.
• Fixes for bookshelf controls, cover uploads and Focus navigation on folding devices.

### 1.3.1 — 2026-10-26

• Launch offer: unlock everything for half price, until 25 November.
• Picture generation is back: create covers and icons for your Curios, with optional picture packs.
• Redesigned for iPad: a fuller Workbench, a side-by-side Focus studio in landscape, and a Journal and Curio pages that use the whole screen.
• Pin a method or experiment beside the Focus timer on iPad.
• Better on iPhone Duo: titles and controls no longer collide with the status display.
• A back-to-top button on long pages, and a link to guides and walkthroughs on our website.

### 1.3 — 2026-10-26

Curio Studio is now free to start. Use one Curio with three open projects for as long as you like, and unlock everything with a single in-app purchase. No subscription.
Bought Curio Studio before? Everything stays unlocked.
New Home Screen widgets for jotting and your next step, and Shortcuts to open Jot or the Workbench.
Small fixes throughout.

### 1.2 — 2026-10-25

• Picture credits: generate your own Curio banners, cabinet pieces, cabinets and Focus windows and views.
• Choose freely between each Curio's original picture, your photos and generated ones.
• Focus: two new sailing views, Greece and Fiji, from a boat's cockpit, more birds, and drifting stars and meteors at night.
• Note what's holding up a project, or a single step, and change it any time.
• Text fields grow as you type, so nothing hides below the box.
• A lighter, faster app: smaller download and quicker pictures.

### 1.1 — 2026-10-24

Make your Curios your own.

- Generate pictures: banners, cabinet pieces, cabinets, Focus windows and Focus views, and line icons, in the app's own style. Every new owner gets one free picture and one free icon.
- Each Curio keeps a library of its pictures. Switch freely between the original, your photos and generated ones.
- Choose the app's language in Settings: English, Deutsch, Français, Español, 日本語 or Português (Brasil).
- Search when adding a Curio, in any language.
- Small fixes throughout.

## More apps by Ben Geelan

- [Telltale Sailing](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/telltale-sailing/id6810127969)

All apps by Ben Geelan: https://appshunter.io/developer/6810127971

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