Brand and mobile banking for freelancers, from first sketch to public launch.
Ostra is a bank for freelancers: illustrators, developers, photographers, people who invoice. Its founders had a banking licence, a team of engineers and nothing yet that a customer could see.
Most banks for freelancers look like accounting software. Ostra wanted the opposite: an account that feels like it belongs to someone who makes things, and that still does the taxes properly.
A deep green and a mint card, a name in lower case, and a voice that explains money without jargon.
Accounts, invoices and a tax pot that sets money aside from every payment, designed and tested over eleven months.
Account opening in two minutes, with the identity check moved to after you have seen the app.
A component library shared with Ostra's team, who have shipped forty releases on it since.
A breathing app that slows you down