Trimly started with a simple observation: the tools available to salon and spa owners in East Africa were either too expensive, too complex, or simply didn't account for the reality of running a business here — unreliable internet, mobile money payments, multi-staff scheduling, and the need to just keep working no matter what.
Running a salon or spa in East Africa is genuinely hard. You're managing staff, chasing appointments, tracking inventory, handling cash and mobile money, and trying to understand which services are actually making you money — often all at once, with an unreliable internet connection.
Trimly exists to make that simpler. Not by reimporting Western software with a currency conversion, but by building something from the ground up for how businesses here actually work.
Offline-first isn't a feature for us — it's the foundation. Mobile money isn't an afterthought — it's a first-class payment method. And pricing in UGX isn't a nice-to-have — it's how we show respect for our market.
The idea for Trimly came from watching salon owners manage their businesses on paper — appointment books that got wet in the rain, cash reconciliation done at midnight, staff arguments over commission calculations that nobody could verify. The problem wasn't ambition or effort. It was tools.
Existing software was either cloud-only (useless when the internet drops), priced in dollars (out of reach for most), or designed for Western markets with features nobody here needed and missing features everyone did. There was a clear gap.
Trimly was designed to close that gap. We spent months in salons, barbershops, and spas in Kampala, learning how transactions actually flow, how staff actually work, and what owners actually need to see at the end of the day. Every feature in Trimly exists because a real business owner needed it.
The result is a platform that works when the power is out, accepts mobile money natively, runs on an Android tablet you already own, and gives owners a real-time view of their business without a degree in accounting.
Trimly is developed and maintained by Truthy Systems, a software studio building digital products for East African businesses and beyond. We're a small, focused team that believes good software should be thoughtfully designed, reliably built, and priced honestly.
Truthy Systems was founded with the conviction that the best software comes from understanding the real context people work in — not from adapting tools designed elsewhere. Trimly is our most direct expression of that belief.
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Building products people rely on.
Power and internet are unreliable. We build for the reality of East Africa, not the ideal of a data centre. The POS never stops working.
Priced in UGX, designed for businesses that are growing — not for enterprises with IT budgets. No hidden fees. No surprise charges.
Every feature comes from talking to real salon and spa owners. We don't port Western software. We build for how businesses here actually work.
Your business data belongs to you. We use industry-standard encryption, clear data practices, and we never sell your information.
No lengthy onboarding, no IT consultants, no weeks of training. Trimly should be running in your business the same day you sign up.
We build software to last. We support the businesses that depend on us with responsive help, regular updates, and a product that keeps improving.
Start your free 14-day trial today. No credit card required. No complicated setup. Just a better way to run your salon or spa.