About
The name didn't come from a branding workshop. It came from a childhood obsession with The Matrix, a pseudonym I've carried for years, and two nicknames my wife and I gave each other long before this studio existed.
Focus
Native iOS today, with Android on the roadmap. Every product is designed and engineered in-house, with no outsourced shortcuts and no bloated feature lists.
Approach
We ship fewer apps, but we ship them right. Retro Messenger is the first expression of that: a messenger for people who care how software feels.
01Our Story
If this site feels like it was written by a person and not a template, that's because it was. This is the honest version.
I watched The Matrix as a kid and couldn't let it go, not just the action, but the whole idea of someone ordinary becoming someone who mattered. After that, Neo became my name everywhere: multiplayer lobbies, gaming tags, forums, whatever account I was creating. It wasn't cosplay. It was just the name I picked, and it stuck for decades.
When I got married, my wife and I started calling each other Neo and Trinity. Not for anyone else's benefit, just between us, the way couples develop their own shorthand. She was Trinity; I was still Neo. It felt like those names had been ours longer than we'd realized.
One day it clicked. In the film, Neo is The One. Then there's Trinity, whose name literally means three. One and three. We looked at each other and laughed, because the studio name had been sitting in our living room the whole time.
That's what One and Three is: a small studio run by two people who've been building things under those names for years. We'd rather ship one app we're proud of than ten we'd forget. No invented origin story. Just us.
One and Three.
Neo is The One. Trinity means three. Two nicknames from The Matrix that we'd been calling each other for years, and a studio name that was sitting in our living room the whole time.
02What we stand for
We would rather ship one app we're proud of than ten we'd forget. A feature earns its place or it doesn't ship.
We collect as little as we can, encrypt what we can, and say plainly what we can't. No ads, no trackers, no selling data.
No streaks, no feeds, no dark patterns pulling you back in. Open it, do the thing, put the phone down.
03The people
Founder · Design & Engineering
Puneet brings 12+ years of professional experience across software engineering and product development. He founded One and Three to build native mobile apps with the same care and attention to detail he expects as a user, owning design and engineering end to end.