heuwels /heu-vuhls/
Build tools that bring you home.
Not to your phone — to your life. Open-source software for households that want less screen time, not more.
heuwels /heu-vuhls/
Not to your phone — to your life. Open-source software for households that want less screen time, not more.
"heuwels" is Afrikaans for "hills". We build self-hosted, privacy-first tools from Australia. Every project shares a conviction: technology should earn its place in your day, then get out of the way.
Afrikaans: "at home"
Household management for families. Chores, meals, shopping, recipes, vehicles, budgeting — all self-hosted with SQLite. No cloud account, no subscription.
Latin: "reader"
Self-hosted language learning through reading. EPUB support, click-to-translate, cloze drills, vocabulary mining, and Anki sync. Currently supporting Afrikaans–English.
hours, logged honestly
AI-native time tracking from the terminal. One command to log structured work entries with a TUI explorer, HTTP API, and concurrent-safe SQLite backend.
compliance as code
Deterministic compliance testing for policy documents. YAML assertions against ISO 27001, SOC 2, and GDPR — no LLMs, just logic. Stress testing, sensitivity analysis, and an interactive explorer.
'n Boer maak 'n plan.
— Afrikaans proverb. A farmer makes a plan.
Technology should be used intentionally. The best household tools are the ones that run quietly in the background while you live your life in the foreground.
Every heuwels project is self-hosted, open source, and built to be set up once and left alone. No accounts to manage, no subscriptions to cancel, no data leaving your network. Your household, your server, your rules.
The best software is that which you run, not that which runs you.
Runs on your hardware. Your data never leaves your network.
Deploy once, use forever. No monthly fees, no feature gates.
Works without an internet connection. The cloud is optional.
Configure it once. It runs until you decide otherwise.