Oceanhouse Media, Inc. is a leading publisher of more than 650 mobile and desktop apps for iOS (iPhone®, iPad®, iPod touch®, Apple Watch®), Android™, and Kindle Fire™ devices. Tens of millions of the company’s apps have been downloaded to date. The company’s mantra is “Creativity with Purpose,” developing apps that uplift, educate and inspire.  The company has a large, diverse offering of apps in the Books, Games, Music,  Photography, Health & Fitness, Reference, Productivity, and Finance categories. 

Based in Encinitas, California, Oceanhouse Media was founded in January 2009 by Michel Kripalani, a veteran of the video gaming industry. Kripalani gained acclaim as a founder and the CEO of Presto Studios, creators of The Journeyman Project series and Myst III: Exile graphic adventure games. Oceanhouse Media is Kripalani’s third startup. 

It’s common to find a variety of Oceanhouse Media apps on  Top 100 lists on the App Store. 20+ of the company’s apps have reached the  number one spot within their category on the App Store. And, The Lorax reached the number one spot on the overall iPad Top-100 paid chart in March 2012. Additionally, the  company’s first productivity app, CommitTo3, was among the first apps to support the  Apple Watch in April 2015. 

Oceanhouse Media partners with leading authors and publishers whose work is well known and highly respected. The company has licensing agreements in place with Dr. Seuss Enterprises, HarperCollins, Blue Angel, Zondervan (a division of HarperCollins), Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, Mercer Mayer, Soundprints, Andersen Press, Chronicle Books and others. In many cases, the company works directly with authors to bring their beloved books and card decks to the app market, always staying true to the original content and intent of the books. 

Oceanhouse Media’s Dr. Seuss apps have received critical acclaim and won numerous awards from various organizations, such as Parents’ Choice Awards and Children’s Technology Review. 

Oceanhouse Media was the primary inventor of the format in which many children’s digital book apps are presented today. Their combination of “Read To Me, Read It Myself and Auto Play” features, as well as word highlighting and picture/word association techniques  (first introduced in the Fall of 2009), have been adopted by many children’s digital book app publishers.

In 2018, the company launched the Beauty Everywhere imprint, which is focused on developing products for the metaphysical / self-help space..  

The Oceanhouse Media development team is composed of senior software engineers, most with more than 30 years of experience and many with roots in the video game arena. The team has built a variety of unique app engines from scratch. Each engine is geared to deliver the best possible mobile and desktop experience.