Koingo Software
Koingo Software, established in 1994, is a Canadian corporation that designs and distributes software for both Macintosh and Windows. Presently, the business develops a mix of 8 shareware and freeware applications, most of which are available for the Macintosh and Windows.

Except for a few games in the past, the majority of the titles have been geared towards personal time, data, security, and information management such as for home inventory, scheduling, password and data storage, and digital anti-theft monitoring and protection.

Early history
Koingo Software originally branded its productions under both the Koingo Games and Pain Games titles. These products included titles such as Rocket Launch, Sewer Trouble, and Valley of the Vampire which were black and white HyperCard adventure games.

In 1999, the business began also developing products in REALbasic. These new products, such as Alarm Clock Pro (a time management utility), Password Retriever (password database utility), and Contact Keeper (simple address book), not being games, the organization rebranded itself as Koingo Software.

Recent history
In December 2012, Koingo's founder took a leave of absence from the company for five years to pursue other business ventures such as starting his online travel blog on Instagram "adventurejosh.ca" and adventurejosh.com. Upon his return, Koingo gave away a new MacBook to one of the adventurejosh.ca followers on March 1, 2017.  With his return, Koingo shortly thereafter released a massive overhaul of their flagship application MacPilot, bringing it to version 9,  with promises of doing the same for MacCleanse.

Community involvement
Koingo Software has played an active role in the Macintosh community by regularly donating licenses to Macintosh User Groups, and participating in third-party giveaways and discounts with sites like MacZot and MacHeist.

In 2006 through part of 2007, Koingo Software gave away 10,881 copies of their MacPilot application to all users renewing or signing up for a VersionTracker membership.

The largest joint venture undertaken was the coupling of Koingo Software's Utility Package (the combination of all 12 of their software titles at the time) with MacUpdate's 2008 back-to-school bundle. Then later that year, the businesses offered Koingo Software's MacPilot in the 2008 Christmas Holiday Bundle.

Reviews
 MacWorld's Editor's Choice: Alarm Clock Pro
 MacWorld Editor's Review: MacPilot
 MacWorld Editor's Review: AirRadar
 MacAddict Magazine Feature for Alarm Clock Pro, April 2004 Issue
 C|Net: Alarm Clock Pro Editor's Review
 C|Net: MacPilot Editor's Review
 The Spinning Beachball: MacPilot Review

Current software

Applications
 AirRadar
Scan for wireless networks, and provides detailed information such as encryption type, signal, noise, ad-hoc status, pbcc flag, channel, MAC address, and beacon interval.
 Alarm Clock Pro
Schedule tasks such as playing multimedia files (including via iTunes), running system scripts, composing and sending e-mails, pinging web URLs, sending text messages and taking web cam and screenshots on a schedule or by timer.
 Data Guardian
The successor to Password Retriever. Allows the secure storage of data into a 448-bit blowfish encrypted database.
 Display Maestro
Access all display resolutions and bit depths
 Librarian Pro
Interacting with Amazon, automatically downloads product details based on UPC or ISBN to create a home inventory. Items can be marked out as "borrowed by" entered users.
 MacCleanse
Erases caches, logs, recent file histories, and browser histories.
 MacPilot
Presents a graphical front-end for many advanced UNIX commands; additionally, provides the same interface for tweaking hundreds of hidden preferences available in Mac OS X.

Discontinued software

As Koingo Software
The following applications have been discontinued:
 Alarm Clock
 Blaze
 Contact Keeper
 Digital Sentry
 E-Mail Commander
 File Sheriff
 Font Pilot
 Gallery Designer
 MacPilot Lite
 Magick 8 Ball
 Mystery Island
 Password Retriever
 PTE
 Robo Postman
 Swift Share
 Slideshow Magic

As Koingo Games
 Murder Mystery
 Rocket Launch
 Rocket Launch II
 Sewer Trouble

As Pain Games
 Captain Comic
 Character Creator
 Crime City
 Movie 2000
 New York Blast Out
 Slime House
 Super Dice
 Valley of the Vampire

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Software companies of Canada
Companies based in British Columbia
1994 establishments in British Columbia
Canadian companies established in 1994
Software companies established in 1994
Free software companies
Macintosh software companies