Aotearoa Labs · Independent software from New Zealand
Useful software,
made in Aotearoa.
Thoughtful apps for learning, play, and practical work—made by a small studio that starts with real problems and builds clear solutions. We also build custom software, apps and websites for small businesses.
Our software
Made with a clear purpose.
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AOTEAURORA
One clear score, the best hour tonight, and a plain-English southern-lights forecast for your location.
AddVenture
A playful maths journey where practice becomes progress, built for learners aged 8–11.
AddVenture Intermediate
A strategy-led maths adventure for intermediate learners, built around the New Zealand Curriculum.
AddVenture Secondary
Explore secondary-school maths through worked strategies and a story-led journey.
AddVenture Senior
A senior maths strategy adventure with NCEA-relevant practice for high-school learners.
Aurora Game Booster
A focused Windows 11 toolkit that makes preparing your PC for play simpler and faster.
Gandalf Modbus Wizard
A practical companion for inspecting, testing, and troubleshooting Modbus systems.
SolidPilot for SOLIDWORKS
An open-source MCP bridge for inspecting, building, editing, and verifying real SOLIDWORKS models with AI.
Ultron Onshape MCP
A performance-focused MCP toolkit for creating, inspecting, rendering, and refining parametric Onshape models with AI.
Visual STEM Lab
STEM means Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics—explored through biology, chemistry, physics, and computer science by doing.
Studio work
Software that reaches into the real world.
Aotearoa Labs also builds websites for other small businesses, and documents the businesses and practical systems we build for ourselves — from a first idea through to a working digital and physical experience.
Quality3Ds
Design it, prototype it, print it—and build the software around it.
A New Plymouth 3D-printing and prototyping studio combining CAD, materials science, functional parts, an automatic quoting website, and an automated industry news pulse created with agentic development tools.
Explore the case study
LA Hair Studio
A salon site built to take the booking, not just show the hair.
A one-person salon whose work lived only on Instagram. Aotearoa Labs built a calm, phone-first site around three signature services, a results gallery and one clear path to booking — with hours and directions where people expect them. Built and looked after by Aotearoa Labs.
Open lahairstudio.org
Aotearoa Labs Websites
A proper website for your business. Nothing to pay until it’s live.
A custom-built site — designed, written, hosted and looked after — for one flat monthly fee from $249 NZD. No lump sum, no contract, and a free mockup of your site within two working days. Bookings, ordering and instant quoting available.
See what it costs
ABOUT / 01
Why Aotearoa Labs
Personal problems.
Practical software.
Aotearoa Labs is an independent New Zealand software and technology studio. Our work spans children's learning, gaming utilities, industrial tools, AI-assisted CAD, and hands-on prototyping, but every project follows the same idea: make something genuinely useful. Based in New Plymouth, Taranaki, we also take on client work, from custom software development and Android, iOS and Microsoft Store apps to small-business websites and AI-assisted CAD.
We also designed and built AOTEAURORA for AOTEAURORA Limited, turning complex space weather and local viewing conditions into a clear forecast for New Zealand. The AddVenture maths series now covers Years 4–13 across four apps on the Microsoft Store, and the first is also on Google Play.