Streamside Software

iOS, Meta Quest

Roger

The Transition Has Begun!

Streamside Software began its life creating apps for the Apple ecosystem. Along the way we carved out a niche in the category of paranormal apps.

At our core we are Apple developers. This will never change. Our love for Apple’s design-focused philosophy and technology inspires every product we create.

Today, however, we are announcing a new emphasis on Artificial Intelligence (AI).

I am incredibly excited to introduce you to StreamSide AI!

Rest assured, StreamSide Software will continue to exist. We will still continue to create and support iOS, iPadOS, and macOS apps, however we are shifting our attention to pursuing the promise of everything AI.

In doing so, we are committed to exploring AI ethically and responsibly.

We can’t wait to show you our first app: an AI app for iOS, iPadOS, and macOS (our first release for this platform).

Thank you for taking this journey with us, and please stay tuned!

— Roger

 

Roger Pingleton
President, Co-founder

 

Política de privacidad de Spirit Story Box

Esta política de privacidad rige el uso que usted hace de la aplicación de software Spirit Story Box (“Aplicación”) para dispositivos móviles creada por Streamside Software, LLC. Esta política de privacidad se actualizó por última vez el 12 de febrero de 2019. Nuestra política de privacidad puede cambiar de vez en cuando por cualquier motivo. Si realizamos algún cambio sustancial en nuestras políticas, colocaremos un aviso destacado en nuestro sitio web o aplicación. Si tiene alguna pregunta o inquietud sobre nuestras políticas de privacidad, no dude en comunicarse con nosotros en cualquier momento.

No recopilamos sus datos

Nuestra Aplicación no recopila ni transmite ningún tipo de información personal identificable sobre usted, como su nombre, ubicación, dirección, número de teléfono o dirección de correo electrónico.

Dado que la Aplicación no recopila, transmite ni conserva información personal, no compartimos información personal con nadie.

Recopilamos direcciones de correo electrónico a través de nuestro sitio web utilizando el servicio MailChimp. Siempre que desee enviar su dirección de correo electrónico a MailChimp, solo se enviará cuando usted se lo indique y a través de sus conexiones seguras. Sin intermediarios.

StreamSide Honors the Year of the Dragon

We’ve Got Red On Us!

Having both been born in the Year of the Dragon (YotD), 2024 represents a significant completion cycle for co-founder Roger Pingleton as well as the company itself.

“Many Westerners aren’t familiar with the lore and power behind the namesake’s mythical creature or the good fortune this cycle portends,” explained Pingleton. “StreamSide Software, LLC was itself founded in 2012, the previous Year of the Dragon, so I wanted to lean into it and embrace all it represents.”

We decided to honor this milestone and important year by adding red/fire to our logo.

StreamSide Red Themed Logo

Dragons are actually aquatic creatures, so this also fits with the theme of our logo. (The logo features two S’s in the shape of streams.)

There have been a number of exciting developments leading up to this year both in terms of our personnel and technology.

Co-founder, Jill Beitz, is still very active co-designing apps such as the ER70 EVP Recorder.

“Jill seldom gets the credit she deserves, it seems,” Pingleton said, “even those closest to her don’t always realize how crucial she is to the design process. It is Jill who sees the the potential in each project, identifies the most important features, imagines new features, and provides critical feedback on the User Interfaces.

“In essence she often keeps me from losing the plot when I inevitably go astray during the creation process!”

Stepping in as Vice President is Roger’s son, Benjamin. Ben is a Purdue University graduate who has matured into an incredibly adept IT specialist.

Upcoming YotD Projects

We always keep the specifics of our projects close to our vests, however we can reveal we have been actively pursuing applications centered on Artificial Intelligence through the formation of streamside.ai.

We are also revealing we feel mixed reality (as well as VR, AR, and XR) has reached a tipping point with the releases of Apple’s Vision Pro and Meta’s Quest 3, and we will also be focused on those devices.

“We recognized huge potential when the Oculus Rift was released in the last YotD and began exploring ways it could impact how we interact with the world,” Pingleton goes on to explain. “We just realized the tech wasn’t quite there yet.

“It has since matured, and it’s now time to look at this seriously.”

Introducing the ER70 EVP Recorder

StreamSide is pleased to introduce the ER70 EVP Recorder app to the Apple iOS AppStore.

The ER70 was inspired by anomalous interactions Scott Philbrook and Forrest Burgess, from the Astonishing Legends podcast, had while using a vintage audio recorder at the Sallie House.

“It was clear to me that Scott’s view of the paranormal was changed by that experience, and he asked me my thoughts about it several times,” co-designer Roger Pingleton explains. “During the pandemic I had the chance to examine that device closely, to really do a deep-dive, and I discovered was something up with it.

“My next thought was, ‘Hey! I can model this in software, just like guitar amplifiers have been modeled.’ “

This is started a long research process.

As with our other successful projects, Jill Beitz played a crucial role as co-designer, shaping each design decision. In February of 2023, Beitz and Pingleton spent many hours refining and tweaking the feature-set of the app.

When the underlying technology was ready to be tested, Jill came up with the perfect haunted test location – the Ybor City Florida Ghost Tour.

“I was still skeptical myself,” Pingleton added. “I knew I’d mimicked the signal chain of the original device, but whether it could perform as well as I’d hoped was yet to be seen.”

Needless to say the app did not disappoint. For the full story of the Ybor ghost tour experience, please check out the the story on the ER70 site.

StreamSide Celebrates 10+ Years on the Apple AppStore

Streamside Software is celebrating 10 years since Spirit Story Box was first published on the Apple AppStore.

In Summer of 2013, our fledgling company was just looking to get its feet wet in the Apple ecosystem, when we chose a paranormal app as our first entry.

As paranormal investigators, Jill Beitz and Roger Pingleton, spent hours experimenting with the technology which would eventually provide the underpinnings to Spirit Story Box.

“Jill and I spent a half a year designing the app in our spare time, hoping it would take off, but having no idea what to expect. When the app was ready to be released, I got cold feet, and Jill had to talk me into putting it out into the world,” Pingleton said.

The app has surpassed our wildest expectations. Not only has it appeared in national publications such as CNET, The Huffington Post, and USA Today, but it continues to perform well in the Apple charts, placing in the top 100 entertainment apps on a weekly basis.

Image of Spirit Story Box and the ER70 app appearing near each other in Apple's top 100 entertainment apps
On Thursday, February 8, 2024, the ER70 and Spirit Story Box were in Apple’s Top 100 Entertainment apps, appearing just 5 places apart. (Highlight added to image capture.)

In 2023, StreamSide broke new ground in the paranormal market when we released the ER70, an audio recording app which mimics a famous, discontinued digital recorder, and just last week both apps appeared in Apple’s top 100 entertainment apps with a few places of each other.

“We couldn’t be happier about the success of our newest app. It’s humbling to know Spirit Story Box is so well-loved, but even more humbling to see the ER70 EVP Recorder joining its sister app. Thank you all for supporting us these past 10 years!” Pingleton said.