210,000+ users in our appsBuilding since 2018 · Frechen, GermanyCurrently: 2 slots open for Q3 2026info@thecodecave.de+49 152 04943138Frechen · NRW · DE210,000+ users in our appsBuilding since 2018 · Frechen, GermanyCurrently: 2 slots open for Q3 2026info@thecodecave.de+49 152 04943138Frechen · NRW · DE

More
revenue
through custom software

Off-the-shelf software doesn't fit, a process eats hours, or your app idea never ships? You get the custom solution that fits — hours saved, faster operations, your app finally live. We build it ourselves and hand it over cleanly: in the end it's yours.

Total users210,000+
Apps live20+ in stores
In business since2018
Based inFrechen, NRW
// in production at
// AI in real workflows

AI you don't notice. That saves you hours.

Four workflows we shipped into real apps in 2026. No chatbot. No magic. Just fewer clicks and faster answers — quietly, in the background.

Scroll through all four
  1. 01 tax accounting
  2. 02 driving schools
  3. 03 real estate
  4. 04 publishing
01 Photo of a receipt
Train ticket · €47.80
02 Reads & assigns
Travel · Client 1042
03 Booked in DATEV
Account 4670 · attached
01 — Tax accounting TaxCastle

Read every receipt without typing.

TaxCastle reads every receipt in under three seconds — date, amount, VAT, vendor. Booked straight into DATEV. Firms save 4–6 hours every week.

BeforeType out every receipt by hand, then post it.

in use at tax firms

Time saved
8 min
per receipt
< 3 secper receipt
4–6 hrsper week
01 — Tax accounting TaxCastle

Read every receipt without typing.

Time saved
8 min
per receipt
< 3 secper receipt
4–6 hrsper week

TaxCastle reads every receipt in under three seconds — date, amount, VAT, vendor. Booked straight into DATEV. Firms save 4–6 hours every week.

BeforeType out every receipt by hand, then post it.

in use at tax firms

01 Photo of a receipt
Train ticket · €47.80
02 Reads & assigns
Travel · Client 1042
03 Booked in DATEV
Account 4670 · attached
02 — Driving schools RoadReview

Capture mistakes instead of remembering them.

Time saved
20 min
per lesson
2 tapsper mistake
GPS-exactspot & speed

RoadReview documents every drive via GPS. The instructor tags mistakes in two taps — location, speed and the voice note attach automatically, and the app transcribes it. Next lesson's briefing is ready before stepping out of the car.

BeforeReconstruct mistakes from memory after the lesson.

live · iOS + Android

01 GPS + voice note
Lesson 14 · 38 min
02 Transcribes
voice note → text
03 Student briefing
route + tagged mistakes
03 — Real estate Maklerportal

Listings that write themselves.

Time saved
2 hrs
per property
1 mindictated
8 pagesfinished PDF

Maklerportal merges viewing photos, a voice memo and the data sheet into a finished listing. The agent talks for a minute, gets eight pages back.

BeforeAssemble the listing photo by photo yourself.

GDPR-compliant · live

01 Photos + voice memo
32 images · 1 min memo
02 Sorts & writes
Location · features · price
03 Finished listing
PDF · 8 pages · GDPR
04 — Publishing Wissensvorsprung

Print becomes searchable knowledge.

Time saved
5 hrs
per issue
36 issuessearchable
< 1 secper answer

Wissensvorsprung scans every issue before it goes to print. A reader asks a question, gets the right page — from three years of back issues. The editorial indexing job disappears.

BeforeTag every issue by hand.

3 years archive · live

01 Magazine PDF
84 pages · Q3 issue
02 Indexes & tags
12 topics · 47 terms
03 Searchable archive
3 years · every issue
// Flagship · since 2024

<RoadReview/>

Your digital co-pilot for every driving lesson.

After every driving lesson you can review at home what happened: every tagged mistake with its location, speed and your instructor's explanation. Available on iOS and Android.

  • Review at homeFull route with every tagged point
  • Mistakes in placeStreet view instead of just a word
  • Voice memo + transcriptReplay & read your instructor's notes
  • Invite parentsVia code to the „RoadReview Family“ parent app
Live
in the stores
iOS + Android
Platforms
2 taps
per mistake
// Productised solutions

Prefer a finished offer?

Seven solutions with a fixed scope and clear price — from websites to app and AI development, custom software and AI consulting. Live fast, no open-ended project.

New Website Manufaktur page: fast, mobile and built to convert. After
Website Manufaktur — this leap, live in 7 days.
// 2026 — new focus

Apps can think now. We build them.

AI that does real work inside apps — reading receipts, categorizing driving mistakes, summarizing magazine articles. Not a hype layer, but a feature that quietly saves hours. That's what we build in 2026 — on top of the mobile apps and platforms we've shipped since 2018.
01

Discovery

One week with you. Find the use-case, look at the data, formulate the hypothesis.

5 days · fixed price
02

Prototype

Four weeks. Working software with an eval set built from your real data.

4 weeks
03

Production

Shipped, monitored, handed over to your team. We stay within reach.

8–12 weeks
5days
Discovery, fixed price
4weeks
to prototype
8–12weeks
to production
// What clients say
Very professional and extremely flexible — a fast dev team that really knows their craft. Changes were sometimes implemented live during the video call.
Portrait photo of Ivan Veselcic, DGIS AG
Ivan VeselcicDGIS AG · property damage service
The team does phenomenal work. More professional, faster and more results-oriented than most big agencies.
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Nils PfannkuchenDFS Swiss AG i.G.
Aleks and Til just think along. As soon as a problem appears, they don't rest until it's solved.
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Dennis SchmidtDSMV GmbH
Creativity, thinking along, and a focus on solutions. They're now my go-to developers for everything app-related.
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Manuel Vosslomofy Ltd.
// The CodeCave

Two founders. Hand, heart, head.

Aleksandar & Tilman founded the company in 2018. Today we ship apps with a tight core team — for Mittelstand, startups and niche industries, from driving schools to a water-damage restoration academy.

Portrait photo of Aleksandar Jovanovic, Managing Director of The CodeCave

Aleksandar Jovanovic

Managing Director & Client Lead
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Tilman Kieselbach

Project Lead & Management
Bold & ambitious
We take on problems bigger than us.
Modern & dynamic
We build apps that understand Mac, iPad and Vision Pro.
Responsible
Clean code, written by hand — no boilerplate generation.
Experienced
Shipping since 2018, 20+ apps in stores.