Allume Systems was a software developer, founded in 1988 by David Schargel and Jonathan Kahn in New York City as Aladdin Systems to develop, publish and distribute software for personal computers.

[4][5] In 2005, Allume Systems was acquired by Smith Micro Software from IMSI.

[9] As Aladdin Systems, the company purchased the ShrinkWrap disk image utility from Macintosh shareware developer Chad Magendanz in 1996.

By this time, Allume began to publish or distribute a full line of graphics, imaging, internet security, and utility software.

[citation needed] In response to the success of the popular marine aquarium fishtank simulator, they have also released their own line of fish sims known as Aquazone.