What Labhouse does

Labhouse is a Barcelona-based mobile product studio founded in 2021 that builds and operates a portfolio of AI-native consumer and SMB productivity applications. The studio operates three core products: Cleaner GO, a privacy-first iOS storage cleanup utility with 28M+ downloads and on-device AI for duplicate detection; Invoice Fly, a cross-platform invoicing application serving 9M+ freelancers and small businesses with Stripe Tap to Pay integration; and Summary AI, an on-device AI note-taker that processes 4M+ summaries per month from meetings, voice notes, and documents. Collectively these products have reached 100M+ downloads across 50 countries with a 4.7-star average app store rating.

The studio's technical architecture emphasizes AI-native UX and on-device processing with zero cloud dependency, positioning privacy as a core brand pillar. Products are built and scaled by small cross-functional squads (1 designer, 2 engineers, 1 growth lead per product) operating out of Pier 01 in Barcelona Tech City. Labhouse runs an active sprint cadence (Sprint #042 at week 6 of 14 at the time of capture) covering Concept, Build, Launch, and Scale phases, with stated velocity of 21-day TestFlight cycles and integrated performance marketing from day one.

The business model is freemium across all three products, with revenue generated through in-app purchases and premium feature upgrades. Distribution is primarily through Apple App Store and Google Play Store with localized listings per market (covering Tier-1 to long-tail Asia including a Japan and Korea launch in January 2026). Customer segments are hybrid: individual mobile consumers (utility/AI knowledge use cases) and SMBs/freelancers (invoicing), with a secondary segment of knowledge workers. The company is privately held with no disclosed external funding, suggesting a bootstrapped or organically grown capital structure, and operates as Labhouse Mobile, S.L. (Tax ID B04968699) under Spanish jurisdiction.

Name

Labhouse

Legal name

LABHOUSE MOBILE, S.L.

Website

https://labhouse.io

Company type

Private

Founded year

2021

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Barcelona-based AI-native mobile product studio (founded 2021) operating three consumer and SMB productivity apps: Cleaner GO (storage cleanup), Invoice Fly (invoicing for freelancers), and Summary AI (AI note-taker), collectively reaching 100M+ downloads across 50 countries via freemium app store distribution.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Barcelona

HQ country

Spain

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Operations, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Consumer Mobile Apps: Free apps with optional premium features. Revenue generated through in-app purchases and upgrades. Supported by performance marketing to drive user acquisition and retention loops.
2. Productivity Suite (Invoice Fly): Invoice creation and management for freelancers and SMBs. Monetization through premium features for business invoicing workflows.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Labhouse is a Barcelona-based mobile product studio that designs, builds, and scales AI-native consumer productivity apps for iOS, Android, and Web. Its portfolio includes Cleaner GO (storage cleanup), Invoice Fly (invoicing for freelancers and SMBs with Stripe Tap to Pay), and Summary AI (voice-to-summary AI note-taker). Apps are distributed via the Apple App Store and Google Play Store, monetized through freemium in-app purchases, and supported by performance marketing.

Product overview

Labhouse is a Barcelona-based AI-native mobile product studio that builds and scales a portfolio of three consumer productivity apps. The core products are: Cleaner GO (storage cleanup utility with AI-powered duplicate detection), Invoice Fly (SMBFintech invoicing platform with Stripe payment integration), and Summary AI (AI note-taker that converts voice to summaries, action items, and insights from meetings and documents). These products share an AI-native design philosophy, performance marketing focus, and cross-platform availability (iOS, Android, Web), collectively achieving 100M+ downloads across 50 countries.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Invoice Fly: Built for freelancers and small businesses to create invoices, send quotes, and get paid faster. SMBFintech Cross-platform product with 9M+ SMBs invoiced.
• Summary AI
• Cleaner GO

Products and services

• Cleaner GO Privacy-first storage cleanup utility for iOS that identifies duplicate photos, organizes contacts, and frees up device storage using AI-driven anomaly detection, all processed on-device with zero cloud dependency. Achieved 28M+ downloads and ranks in the Top 25 Utilities category in the US App Store.
• Invoice Fly Cross-platform mobile invoicing application built for freelancers and small businesses to create invoices, send quotes, and accept payments via Stripe Tap to Pay. Has invoiced 9M+ SMBs and ranks #1 in the Business category on the Spain App Store.
• Summary AI AI-powered note-taking and productivity tool that processes voice notes, meetings, documents, and transcripts to generate instant summaries, action items, and key insights on-device. Processes 4M+ summaries per month with 38% faster transcript generation and 62% Day 30 retention across 14 markets.

Quantifiable outcome

• 62% Day 30 retention across 14 markets (Summary AI)
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers2 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability8 records

Feature3 records

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Bending Spoons: Milan-based mobile app studio that acquires, builds, and scales consumer apps across utilities, photo/video, and productivity — same product-studio model, similar portfolio-plus-distribution play, comparable reliance on App Store/Play Store rankings.
• Otter.ai: AI meeting-notes and transcription app directly competing with Summary AI; comparable B2B/B2C hybrid distribution and freemium model, with cloud-first (rather than on-device) AI architecture.
• MWM (Music World Media): Independent mobile app studio building a portfolio of consumer apps across utilities, music, and photo categories; comparable in studio structure, distribution model, and 50M+ consumer-download scale.
• MacPaw (CleanMyPhone): Developer of CleanMyPhone and related mobile cleanup utilities — directly comparable to Cleaner GO's storage, photo, and contact cleanup use case on iOS, with a similar premium-utility monetization model.
• Fireflies.ai: AI meeting assistant that summarizes meetings and extracts action items — closest functional competitor to Summary AI in the AI note-taker category, targeting similar knowledge-worker personas.
• Wave Accounting: Mobile-first invoicing and accounting platform aimed at freelancers and small businesses, directly overlapping with Invoice Fly's target segment and core use case (quotes, invoices, payments).
• Apalon (by Maple Media): Mobile app studio shipping a portfolio of consumer utility and productivity apps distributed through app stores; very similar product-studio model, scale, and reliance on App Store/Play Store discovery.

Emerging players

• Reflect: AI-native notes app that links ideas and supports AI summarization; an emerging player in the same AI notes/productivity category as Summary AI, focused on individual knowledge workers rather than meeting transcription at scale.

Broad incumbents

• Square (Block): Dominant SMB payments and invoicing suite whose mobile invoicing and Tap to Pay on iPhone offerings overlap with Invoice Fly; broader portfolio (POS, banking, capital) makes it a broad incumbent rather than a direct competitor on a single freelancer app.
• Notion (Notion AI): Productivity suite with integrated Notion AI for summarization, action items, and document Q&A; competes with Summary AI on the knowledge-worker productivity layer and provides a more generalist alternative for the same end user.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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