Industry Computer software Website Official website Founded 1994 Type of business Corporation | Key people Josh Hoggan Headquarters Kelowna Number of employees 1 | |
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Products AirRadarAlarm Clock ProData GuardianDigital SentryDisplay MaestroLibrarian ProMacCleanseMacPilot Profiles | ||
Koingo Software, established in 1994, is a Canadian corporation that designs and distributes software for both Macintosh and Windows. Presently, the business develops a mix of 8 shareware and freeware applications, most of which are available for the Macintosh and Windows.
Contents
- Early history
- Recent history
- Community involvement
- Reviews
- Applications
- As Koingo Software
- As Koingo Games
- As Pain Games
- References
Except for a few games in the past, the majority of the titles have been geared towards personal time, data, security, and information management such as for home inventory, scheduling, password and data storage, and digital anti-theft monitoring and protection.
Early history
Koingo Software originally branded its productions under both the Koingo Games and Pain Games titles. These products included titles such as Rocket Launch, Sewer Trouble, and Valley of the Vampire which were black and white HyperCard adventure games.
In 1999, the business began also developing products in REALbasic. These new products, such as Alarm Clock Pro (a time management utility), Password Retriever (password database utility), and Contact Keeper (simple address book), not being games, the organization rebranded itself as Koingo Software.
Recent history
Koingo acquired Calgary, Canada-based business Kallaxa Software and added their software products to its line-up in 2015.
In December 2012, founder Josh Hoggan took a leave of absence from the company for five years to pursue other business ventures such as starting his online travel blog on Instagram "adventure.josh" and adventurejosh.com. Upon his return, Koingo gave away a new MacBook to one of the adventure.josh followers on March 1, 2017. With his return, Koingo shortly thereafter released a massive overhaul of their flagship application MacPilot, bringing it to version 9, with promises of doing the same for MacCleanse.
Community involvement
Koingo Software has played an active role in the Macintosh community by regularly donating licenses to Macintosh User Groups, and participating in third-party giveaways and discounts with sites like MacZot and MacHeist.
In 2006 through part of 2007, Koingo Software gave away 10,881 copies of their MacPilot application to all users renewing or signing up for a VersionTracker membership.
The largest joint venture undertaken was the coupling of Koingo Software's Utility Package (the combination of all 12 of their software titles at the time) with MacUpdate's 2008 back-to-school bundle. Then later that year, the businesses offered Koingo Software's MacPilot in the 2008 Christmas Holiday Bundle.
Reviews
Applications
As Koingo Software
The following applications have been discontinued: