Who We Are

DoodleBytes is a company that is dedicated to bringing great software to Mac users at a price anyone can afford.

The founder of DoodleBytes, Daniel Steward, got his start in the software business developing 3D modeling software and other graphics utilities for Visible Productions, Inc. Moving ahead, Dan was hired as part of a team of developers building Weblogic Workshop at BEA Systems, Inc . In 2003 Dan quit BEA in order to scratch an itch by starting a new company with his fishing buddy, Jan Beaver, called OutdoorSoft.

OutdoorSoft was dedicated to providing quality instructional materials for the outdoorsman. OutdoorSofts flagship product was The Essential Flytier^TM. The Essential Flytier is a unique multimedia flytying instructional CD-ROM. Unlike other flytying instructional materials, which are essentially videos dumped onto CD or DVD, The Essential Flytier is a full-featured, cross-platform, java application built on sound instructional design principles. The Essential Flytier is still being sold even though OutdoorSoft has gone the way of many other startup companies.

After OutdoorSoft was dissolved Dan decided to tackle a new project which has become DoodleCAD^TM. DoodleCAD started as a simple to use, yet powerful, graphics application that could be used to do a variety of illustration and diagraming jobs. A thousand hours of work later it was obvious that DoodleCAD was a product that deserved to be marketed and so DoodleBytes was born.

Create usefull, easy to use, software for our favorite operating system, Mac OS X.

Why write software for just the Macintosh?

It's much more fun to write software for the Mac than for other computer operating systems and we prefer to do fun stuff for a living.

Why reinvent the wheel (so to speak)?

The products we choose to make either don't exist for Mac OS X or they don't have the features we wanted for our own personal use or were too difficult to use or too expensive (we're kinda cheap). Our choice of what to make is driven by our belief that people should be able to buy quality software at an affordable price.

We also like to write software that we think we'll have fun using ourselves. Kind of like buying a power tool for your kids birthday so you can borrow it later.

Why such low prices when similar products are priced much higher?

The founder is a real tightwad Scotsman at heart - you can tell by the kilt. We set prices that even he won't mind paying.

Our Philosophy

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If we have fun writing cool software for our favorite computer, other people are bound to have fun using it.

If other people have fun using software from DoodleBytes and can afford it, they will buy it.

If people buy software from us we can continue to have fun writing cool software for our favorite computer.