About ChabuLab and Châu Bùi
ChabuLab is the small studio of Châu Bùi, who makes Ribbon, a window manager for the Mac, and free browser-only tools for creators, and writes this blog.
Who is Châu Bùi?
Châu Bùi is the person behind ChabuLab. Châu designs and builds its products and writes every post on this blog.
What is ChabuLab?
ChabuLab is Châu Bùi's small studio for software. It makes a few focused products rather than many, and explains them openly on this blog.
What does ChabuLab make?
- Ribbon, a window manager for macOS that places windows side by side on a horizontal strip you move along with a three-finger swipe. It needs macOS 14 or later and runs on Apple silicon and Intel Macs. It is in development.
- ChabuLab Tools, free tools for creators that run entirely in the browser, without uploading anything. Long Mix Builder (long audio mixes with transitions, ambience and loudness matching) and Quick Mosaic (stained-glass and mosaic photo effects) are built; more are planned.
Which principles guide the work?
A few, visible in the products themselves:
- Your files stay with you. ChabuLab Tools do their work in your browser and upload nothing.
- A clean way out. Quit Ribbon and every window is put back on screen.
- Facts you can check. Ribbon's facts page and changelog say exactly what it does and when that changed.