Kelly Technology

What Kelly Technology does

Kelly Technology Inc. is a privately held, founder-owned mobile application studio headquartered at 7901 4th Street N. STE 300, St. Petersburg, Florida. The company was founded in 2010 and formally incorporated in 2012, and operates without institutional venture, private equity or strategic backing. It develops native iOS and Android applications — a current portfolio of roughly 17 to 18 distinct apps — distributed exclusively through Apple App Store, Google Play Store and Amazon App Store, serving individual consumer end users across weather, earth observation, science and health news, central-bank news, productivity, inventory management, fitness tracking and casual gaming categories. Headcount is reported in the 11-50 range.

The product surface is built as platform-native code rather than cross-platform wrappers, integrating directly with Apple Game Center, iCloud, Dropbox, email clients and social sharing surfaces. Content-driven apps pull from third-party data providers including NOAA (satellite imagery and severe weather), NASA via LANCE (earth imagery), NIH (health research), NIST (scientific breakthroughs), OpenWeatherMap (forecasts), and major central banks (Fed, ECB, Bank of England, Bank of Japan, Bank of Canada). Productivity tools such as TechDraw and MathTech combine geometric shape libraries, equation editors, cloud backup and collaborative editing; Hit Log Pro adds workout timers, iCloud backup and energy expenditure calculations; InStock Now delivers barcode-driven inventory management with a pre-populated catalog of more than 3,000 items. The portfolio is localized across at least 13 languages including English, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Japanese, Chinese, Arabic, Hebrew, Hindi and Bengali.

Monetization runs through three concurrent streams: a free ad-supported tier monetized via Google (AdMob), Meta, Smaato, AppLovin, OpenX, Media.net, LiftOff and PubMatic; one-time paid app purchases for Pro or Min variants (non-refundable per the company's policy); and auto-renewing monthly subscriptions that unlock premium features, remove advertising and enable offline use. Acquisition is entirely product-led via app store listings, with no documented paid marketing, sales motion or enterprise channel. The business is therefore best characterized as a small, bootstrapped, horizontal consumer-app studio operating in highly competitive categories with stable but undeclared economics.

Name

Kelly Technology

Legal name

Kelly Technology Inc.

Website

https://kellytechnology.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2012

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Kelly Technology Inc. is a bootstrapped, founder-owned St. Petersburg, Florida mobile-app studio that develops and distributes native iOS, Android and Amazon consumer applications spanning weather, earth observation, science and health news, finance, productivity, fitness and casual gaming.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Consumer Mobile Applications

NAICS

Software Publishers (5132)

akta.pro primary industry

Topic/Interest-Based Content Discovery Apps (MPACAKAB)

Keywords

• Mobile applications
• Weather apps
• Productivity tools
• Consumer mobile software
• Puzzle games

Headquarters

HQ city

St. Petersburg

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. App Store Subscriptions: Auto-renewing subscription access to premium features and ad removal within apps. Subscriptions are charged to app store accounts at confirmation and prior to each renewal period within 24 hours before period end.
2. Direct App Purchases: One-time purchase of apps from app stores. Policy states all app sales and non-subscription in-app purchases are final with no refunds.
3. In-App Advertising: Targeted advertising served through advertising partners (Google, Meta, Smaato, AppLovin, OpenX, Media.net, LiftOff, PubMatic) using device advertising IDs when users consent. Ad-free options available as in-app purchases.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Kelly Technology develops and publishes native consumer mobile applications for the iOS and Android platforms, offering a portfolio of 17-18 apps across weather, earth observation, science news, health, productivity, fitness, and puzzle game categories. The apps are monetized via freemium (free ad-supported), subscription, and one-time purchase models, and integrate with third-party data providers such as NASA, NOAA, and the National Institutes of Health.

Product overview

Kelly Technology develops native mobile applications for iOS and Android platforms. The company was founded in 2010 and incorporated in 2012. Their product portfolio consists of 18 distinct consumer-facing applications spanning multiple categories: weather and earth observation apps (global storms, Forecast Now, GlobalCast, Earth++, World Now, Oceans Now, WeatherMatch); science and health news aggregators (Science Now, Health Now); productivity tools (MathTech, TechDraw, InStock Now, Hit Log Pro); and entertainment/games (PolyFill, Sequetur, Interval, Primal Feed, Central Banks). The apps integrate with Apple Game Center and iCloud for gaming and backup functionality, support cloud document management via Dropbox, and enable social media sharing. Several apps offer subscription-based premium features with ad-free options.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• global storms

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration13 records

Feature5 records

Partnerships

13 partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Google (AdMob/Advertising)coreTechnology or IntegrationGoogle provides advertising services through AdMob and Google Ads networks, serving targeted advertisements to Kelly Technology's free app users. Apps include Google analytics software and advertising sourced by Google. This partnership is fundamental to monetizing the free app versions.
• Meta (Facebook Ads)coreTechnology or IntegrationMeta provides targeted advertising through Facebook Ads network for Kelly Technology's mobile applications. Part of the ad monetization strategy for free app versions.
• OpenWeatherMapcoreTechnology or IntegrationOpenWeatherMap provides weather forecast data for the GlobalCast app, including current weather, 3-hourly and daily forecasts, and air quality data from the World Air Quality Index project.
• NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)coreTechnology or IntegrationNOAA provides satellite imagery for GlobalCast, WeatherMatch, global storms, and Oceans Now applications. Data is sourced from government open data systems.
• NASAcoreTechnology or IntegrationNASA provides satellite imagery and scientific data through the LANCE system for World Now, Earth++, Science Now, and Forecast Now applications. All imagery courtesy of NASA.
• NIH (National Institutes of Health)coreTechnology or IntegrationNIH provides health and medical research news and latest findings for the Health Now application.
• US Federal ReservecoreTechnology or IntegrationFederal Reserve provides monetary policy updates and news for the Central Banks application.
• European Central BankcoreTechnology or IntegrationECB provides European monetary policy updates for the Central Banks application.
• Bank of EnglandcoreTechnology or IntegrationBank of England provides UK monetary policy updates for the Central Banks application.
• Bank of JapancoreTechnology or IntegrationBank of Japan provides Japanese monetary policy updates for the Central Banks application.
• Bank of CanadacoreTechnology or IntegrationBank of Canada provides Canadian monetary policy updates for the Central Banks application.
• NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology)coreTechnology or IntegrationNIST provides technical and scientific breakthrough information for the Science Now application.
• NOAA Space WeathercoreTechnology or IntegrationNOAA provides space weather information for the Science Now application.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Feedly: Feed-reading and content-aggregation platform that organizes articles from web sources into topic channels. Comparable to Kelly Technology's news-content apps that aggregate feeds from NIH, NASA, NOAA, central banks, and paleo publishers into curated topic apps.
• Weather Underground: Consumer weather app powered by a dense network of personal weather stations with hyperlocal forecasts, interactive radar, and severe-weather alerts. Directly competes with Kelly Technology's multi-app weather portfolio on iOS and Android in the same store-driven distribution model.
• Inoreader: Content and RSS aggregator with topic-based feeds and cross-device sync — directly comparable to Kelly Technology's content-aggregation apps that organize curated feeds from external publishers (NIH, NASA, central banks) into topic-focused mobile experiences.
• Strong Workout Tracker: Subscription-based strength and HIT workout tracker for iOS and Android with rest timers, exercise libraries, and Apple Health integration — directly comparable to Kelly Technology's Hit Log Pro, which targets the same high-intensity-training user with similar timed-workout, cross-platform, and iCloud-sync capabilities.
• Flipboard: News and topic-based content aggregation app that pulls curated feeds from publishers into themed magazines — directly comparable to Kelly Technology's Central Banks, Science Now, Health Now, and Primal Feed aggregators that curate feeds from authoritative sources into topic-focused mobile apps.
• JEFIT Workout Planner: Mobile workout tracker and training-planning app focused on strength training with exercise logs, progress charts, and routines on iOS and Android. Comparable to Hit Log Pro in the niche of structured, repetition-and-weight tracking on a subscription model for consumer fitness users.
• AccuWeather: Consumer weather forecasting app with hourly forecasts, radar, severe weather alerts, and location-based services — directly comparable to Kelly Technology's weather portfolio including Forecast Now, GlobalCast, global storms, WeatherMatch, Oceans Now, Earth++, and World Now.
• GoodNotes: Note-taking and drawing iOS/Android app with cloud backup, cross-device sync, and subscription pricing — comparable to Kelly Technology's TechDraw and MathTech apps that combine drawing, equation editing, cloud storage, collaboration, and subscription monetization on the same platforms.

Emerging players

• News360: AI-driven personalized news aggregator that pulls from thousands of sources and groups stories by topic — comparable to Kelly Technology's Science Now, Health Now, and Central Banks apps in pulling from many niche authoritative feeds and presenting them in topic-focused mobile interfaces.

Broad incumbents

• The Weather Channel: Broad incumbent consumer-weather brand with a flagship iOS/Android app delivering forecasts, radar, severe weather, and video. Larger and well-funded but operates in the same store-distributed weather-app category where Kelly Technology's Forecast Now and GlobalCast compete.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/kellytechnology
• Facebookfacebook.com/profile.php
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/kelly-technology

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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