Out of the box
Built by a working Yorkshire wedding photographer for people who want to get on with their day, not fight with their tools.
The portfolio
No subscriptions you forget about. No dark patterns. Each one built around a real workflow until it actually worked.
No commission. Ever.
The no-BS booking app that lets independent stylists run their whole salon from their phone — and keep every penny they earn. Flat fee, zero commission, your clients stay yours. Booking, payments, reminders, reviews — the lot.
Every family photo. Nailed.
The family-formals app for wedding photographers. Build the group-shot list once, share a QR code, and let the couple sort the who's-who before the day — so you shoot every combination in half the time, and never miss Auntie Sue again.
Collect Britain's heritage.
A free map of all 380 National Trust places — castles, manor houses, gardens and wild coast. Tap one, mark it visited, and watch your journey grow. No login, no faff; your whole trip saves to a little card you keep.
The game, figured out.
An interactive pitch that teaches kids football. Tap a player, learn their job, beat the quiz, unlock a mini-game. Built for a left-winger named Charlie.
By a photographer, for photographers.
Four tools that cut 30+ hours of post-wedding admin out of your year — fixing mismatched timestamps, syncing galleries, and killing the friction. No subscription, no cloud.
Make them look up.
Hold your phone overhead and a friendly animated character with sound gets every kid — and grown-up — looking straight down the lens. Fully offline. Landing on the Play Store soon.
The studio
Teal in a Box is the independent software studio of Nicholas Teal — a working Yorkshire wedding photographer who kept hitting problems no app would fix properly, so he built the fixes himself.
Every app here started the same way: a genuine problem on a real day, solved overnight, then sharpened until it earned its place. If a screen isn't dead simple, it doesn't ship.
Nothing here came from a roadmap. It came from a wedding, a salon, or a kid who wouldn't look at the camera.
Your clients, your data, your relationships. No middleman renting them back to you, no cut skimmed off the top.
If a working hairdresser or a busy photographer can't use it in seconds, it isn't finished. Simple beats clever.
Get in touch
Want early access, a question about an app, or just to compare notes? Drop a line — it lands straight in the inbox.
Prefer email? info@nicholasteal.com
