Hey everyone 👋

A — What problem does the app solve? 
I’ve been working on a fresh update for Tempo — a daily task planner and event countdown app created to solve the clutter and complexity of traditional productivity apps.

Most task managers either feel overly complicated with endless menus or lack the visual motivation to keep you coming back every day. Tempo balances fast, frictionless task management with visual event tracking so you can focus on today while looking forward to important dates.

B — Why is it better? 
Instead of forcing you into rigid management structures, Tempo is designed to adapt to your daily routine:

• Instant voice & text capture anywhere via Telegram integration
• AI-assisted task creation and subtask generation
• Beautiful visual countdowns for your most important events
• Visual streaks & analytics to build consistent daily momentum

Key features in Tempo:

• Telegram Task Bot Dictate voice notes or type quick tasks into Telegram on the go — Tempo instantly syncs them into your daily plan.
• AI Task Assistant Type or speak naturally, and let AI automatically organize, break down, and schedule your tasks for the day.
• Designer Countdown Cards Track important life events with unique visual styles (Polaroid, Ticket, Retro Vinyl, Cartoon, and Glass card designs).
• Productivity Heatmap Visualize your daily progress, completion streaks, and productivity trends over time.
• Shared Spaces & Collaboration Create shared spaces to collaborate and assign tasks with family, friends, or work partners.
• Custom Themes Personalize your experience with vibrant themes (including Dark, Midnight Blue, Royal Purple, and Light mode).
• Clean "Today" Focus View A distraction-free view built around what actually needs to be done today.

C — Cost / Pricing 
The core app features are completely free to use (up to 15 active tasks with essential features).

There is an optional Tempo Premium subscription (€1/month or local equivalent) that unlocks:

• Unlimited tasks and advanced scheduling
• Telegram Task Bot sync & AI generation limits
• Full Productivity Heatmap & streak insights
• All exclusive themes and designer countdown card styles

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/ee/app/tempo-plan-your-day/id6790413097

Would genuinely love to hear your feedback, thoughts, or suggestions for what features to build next! 🙌
Thank youuuuuuu !!

I'm taking the next step with my app and finally starting to promote it.

I spent a lot of time looking for tools to create a promo video. It seems like most AI video generation tools are overhyped. I couldn't find one that produced good results. Many don't even offer a free trial and ask you to pay before generating anything, which was pretty frustrating. In the end, I decided to create the video myself using video editing tools.

Immio tracks automatically the days you spend across countries and states, helping you stay on top of visa limits, tax residency rules, and other travel-related thresholds.

I originally built it for myself to track my UK ILR (Settlement) and Citizenship eligibility. Over time, I expanded it with many built-in trackers, including the UK Statutory Residence Test (SRT), US Substantial Presence Test (SPT), the 183-day tax residency rule, the Schengen 90/180 rule, and many more.

I'd love to hear your honest feedback on the video. What works, what doesn't, and what would make you want to try the app?

As a thank you to this community, and to celebrate launching my promo campaign, I'm offering:

• 70% off lifetime access - $26.99 instead of $89.99

App Store link: https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/country-days-tracker-immio/id6747927306

To claim the offer, use this code REDDIT70 or link:

70% off lifetime: https://apps.apple.com/redeem/?ctx=offercodes&id=6747927306&code=REDDIT70

Any feedback is welcome, and if you like the app, an App Store review would mean a lot!

Thanks for the support!

The Lifetime Pro in-app purchase is $4.99 instead of $9.99 through 31 July. Normal App Store IAP - no promo codes, no account, no external checkout. Buy once, keep it.

How to claim it
1. Install Run Stats (free).
2. Open Pro and choose Lifetime.
3. Check that Apple's purchase sheet shows $4.99 before you confirm.

https://apps.apple.com/app/id6746675839

A. What it does

Indie dev here, I got obsessed with why every "riso filter" looks wrong, and it's always the same reason: they tint a photo. A real risograph never tints. It prints one spot ink at a time, through a screen, onto paper.

So Pressed does that instead. It separates your photo into spot inks (routed by hue, not just brightness), screens each ink as its own halftone at its own angle, overprints them in linear light so two inks actually mix into a believable third color, and lets the paper stock show through. Then the imperfections that make a print read as a print: registration drift, ink bleed, dot gain, and a density ceiling so solids keep some life. Everything runs on-device, no account, photos never leave the phone.

B. Why it's different from the other print apps

Most "risograph / halftone" apps lay a flat duotone or a dot texture over your photo. Pressed builds the print the way a press does, one ink at a time, so if you zoom in the halftone dots are really there at the right angle, and a two-ink press gives you that impossible riso violet you can't fake by tinting. And for anyone who actually prints: Plus exports per-ink separations as a PDF with registration marks, so a phone photo can go to a real Risograph or screen press.

C. Cost

Free tier is six presses and all the tuning controls, so you can judge it without paying anything. One-time $9.99 unlock (Pressed Plus) adds every press, the custom palette editor, die-cut sticker mode, and the print-ready separations. No subscription, no account, no ads.

• App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6782635292
• Website, with privacy policy and terms: https://aduman.github.io/pressed-app
• GitHub: https://github.com/aduman
• I'm the solo developer. Contact: [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected])

I'd genuinely love feedback on where the simulation falls apart, especially from anyone who prints for real.

A: What problem does your app solve?

• My app helps new parents log feeds, medicine, and more and stay in sync so both parents always know how long it's been since the last feed.

B: Why is your app better than the top named alternatives?

1. It's private, with no accounts and no subscriptions.
2. It's designed to be aesthetically pleasing and low-stimulation for overnight feeds, so you can quickly get in and out of the app without waking up even more.
3. It's extremely customizable. Customize colors, what you track, re-arrange buttons and more.

C – Cost:

• It's free for basic tracking with a one-time lifetime $14.99 purchase to unlock everything.
• It's available at: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/baby-feed-tracker-nursing-log/id6758861133

Trust & Transparency

Me: I'm Aaron, a designer by trade. I published this app through my Amsterdam based design studio, http://daydrift.design (which has contact details and my full name).

App Privacy & Terms: The app's website has its full terms and privacy details listed. In a nutshell, the app doesn't collect any personal data.

Hi r/iOSApps,

I’m the developer of App Privacy Report Analyzer. I shared it here about a month ago, and several people asked for better domain grouping, clearer explanations, and a way to distinguish ordinary activity from behavior that may deserve a closer look.

I’ve spent the last few updates working on exactly that.

A - Answer: What problem does it solve?

Apple’s App Privacy Report records when apps access sensitive data and which network domains they contact, but its exported report is difficult to inspect in detail.

App Privacy Report Analyzer imports that export and turns it into searchable, sensor-by-sensor, domain-by-domain, app-by-app and time-based views. Everything is processed locally on your device. Reports are not uploaded, and the app does not collect or track your activity.

Since my previous post, I’ve added:

• Richer network context, including domain owners
• Local-network activity highlighting, which can reveal device-discovery behavior
• Filters for local-network, app-initiated, user-initiated, and tracking activity
• Review signals for local-network access and app activity during nighttime hours
• App Store details such as developer, rating, current version, icon, and direct link
• Complete permission and network-activity lists for each app
• Sorting by app name, event count, or review-signal count
• A detailed timeline for viewing which apps, sensors, and network connections were active during a selected date and time range
• Domain grouping and domain/IP search
• Improved reminders so you don’t forget to import a new report
• Family Sharing for the lifetime unlock

B - Better: How is it different?

Apple’s built-in view is useful for a quick overview. This app is intended for people who want to investigate the exported report more deeply:

• See which apps contacted a particular domain or IP address
• Group related subdomains instead of reviewing them one by one
• Separate connections initiated by an app from those caused by a user action
• Review activity by app or by a specific time window
• Surface patterns that may be worth investigating without suggesting that every network request is suspicious

The app can optionally use Apple’s public App Store API to retrieve information such as app icons, developer names, ratings, and the latest available version. This feature can be disabled, and the report analysis continues to work without it.

C - Cost

Freemium: you can import and analyze three reports for free.

The full version is a one-time $9.99 lifetime unlock. There is no subscription, and the purchase now supports Family Sharing.

App Store:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/app-privacy-report-analyzer/id6759659732

Transparency

Developer: Liamyte OÜ
Website/contact: https://apps.liamyte.com/
Privacy Policy: https://apps.liamyte.com/app-privacy-report-analyzer/privacy.html

I’d especially appreciate feedback on the new review signals. What other patterns would help you decide whether an app’s activity is ordinary or worth investigating?

Developer disclosure: I'm the developer of this app.

A — What problem it solves:

I was the world's best app-blocker cheater — I'd tap "Ignore Limit" at 1am without thinking. Recode locks your chosen apps on a schedule, and there's nothing to tap: the only way back in is physically walking to a QR/barcode you've registered to the app and scanning it. Distance is the friction, not willpower.

B — Why it beats the alternatives:

Brick and Unpluq do physical unlocking but require $59+ hardware — Recode uses any barcode you already own (milk carton, gym locker, a code taped in your car). Opal, ScreenZen, etc. rely on delays and friction screens you can ultimately tap through; Recode has no ignore button at all. Everything runs locally on your device (meaning no data is collected).

C — Cost: Subscription — $4.99/month or $29.99/year, both 7-day free trial. App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/recode-screen-time-control/id6752352978

Transparency: I'm Alex Hartigan, solo developer (name on the App Store listing). Contact: [email protected]. Website: getrecode.app — Privacy Policy: https://www.getrecode.app/privacy • Terms of Service: https://www.getrecode.app/terms

In an era where people ship apps in a week, taking 8 months to launch a single feature feels completely out of touch.

If I count from the day the idea first sparked, it’s been nearly a year. In terms of actual development time, we spent 8 full months on it.

CapWords Speak is finally live today.

For us, Speak was never about slapping a voice API onto an app, adding a system prompt, and calling it a day. We chose this slow, heavy path because we were stuck on a problem every existing app seems to ignore:

AI knows almost everything about the world, but it knows nothing about you**.**

AI can do incredible things, but it misses the single most vital context for a language learner: your present, real-world reality. It doesn’t know why you’re exhausted today, what delicious food you had for lunch, the street you just walked down, or who you ran into.

Yet human language never exists in a vacuum. The genuine urge to speak always springs from your actual life—the cup of coffee in your hand, a quiet local shop you stumbled into, the workout you just finished, or a fleeting emotion passing through your mind.

Most speaking apps today force you into rigid, pre-scripted textbook scenarios: ordering coffee at Starbucks, checking in at an airport, or roleplaying a business meeting. They’re useful, but it’s always someone else's life. When I used those apps, I’d constantly freeze up—not because I lacked vocabulary, but because deep down, I felt zero connection to those generic topics.

We realized AI shouldn't fabricate a fake life for you to practice. It should understand your real life and help you express it.

Behind the 8 months: What we actually built (and scrapped)

To get AI to understand people’s real worlds, we did a lot of painstaking, un-glamorous work.

We fully designed UI and interaction flows for several major features—some even made it into early development—only to scrap them entirely. Last December, we had a spec ready for a feature that auto-generated fictional stories based on your day. But right before engineering started, I couldn't convince myself it was right. It made the AI look clever, but it didn't actually reduce the user's anxiety about opening their mouth to speak.

So out of nowhere, I told the engineer, "Let’s drop this. We’re building Speak."

Here is what we spent those months building instead:

• Magic Album: With explicit user permission, CapWords can analyze photos you take each day and instantly turn them into real conversation context.
• Long-Term Memory System: A real friend doesn't have short-term amnesia. For AI to be a worthy companion, it has to remember who you are, the people and objects around you, and your recurring life setups. We spent a massive chunk of time refining this memory distillation system so past conversations flow naturally into the next one.
• Persona Reconstruction: We threw out mechanical, template answers. Choosing a practice partner should feel like choosing a friend—some days you need gentle encouragement; other days you want a fast-paced, direct challenge. Oftentimes, a companion who truly gets you matters far more than a "perfect" answer.

Making the technology fade away

We spent 8 months because we want the technology to fade into the background completely. It should feel like a magician pulling a rabbit out of a hat—you don't query the trick, you just enjoy the pure sense of wonder.

Language learning shouldn't revolve around rigid grammar rules or sterile vocabulary lists; it should revolve around your actual life. A new language shouldn't feel like a foreign world you're trying to break into—it should grow naturally out of the world you already live in.

If you’re learning a language and have ever felt frozen in front of those artificial roleplay scenarios, we built CapWords Speak for you.

Give it a spin, and talk about your world:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/capwords-ai-language-tutor/id6738896465

Would love to hear your feedback!

Free to download with daily free quota. Premium features start at $5.99/month.

Answer:

Most frame grabber apps works by letting you scrub through the videos manually. But this takes time and patience I did not have, when my second baby was on the way. So I built something personal to get back memories of my first one from videos and print it to put in physical album.

Better:

Compared to Frame Grabber and other apps in this genre, MomentsVault ask you to provide a reference image for facial landmark extraction. Then, it uses features identified in that photo and scrub through frames automatically to find the ones you're most likely to keep.

Made with Vision Framework from Apple on iOS17+, CoreML and a small Facenet model.

Everything stays on device.

No AI LLM. Just Machine Learning extracting Mathematical expression.

No data is stored. It just stays in device memory and is cleared when you close the app.

Cost:

The app is free to download and try if it gets back the frame you want. To export it to gallery, a small one time purchase of $4.99 is required.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/moments-vault-frozen-memory/id6756465301

I made it for my own use and this did not gain traction like my other app so I stopped development. Thought it would be worth it to someone else in the same situation.

Please note that because this is on device, it will have lower accuracy than cloud models, work with reasonable resolution (don't expect 4K) and the face should be prominent enough to extract enough details but like I said, personal need.

PencilTime is a handwritten digital planner for iPad and iPhone. It is built for people who like planning by hand, but still want digital organization.

Answer:

PencilTime helps with daily planning, handwritten notes, meeting notes, class planning, project notes, visual planning, and calendar-aware planning. You can write with Apple Pencil on iPad, use touch input on iPhone, and organize work with notes, tags, links, bookmarks, stickers, reminders, Apple Calendar integration, and iCloud sync.

Better:

The recent text updates are about readability, not replacing handwriting.

PencilTime now supports typed text in places where clear text helps:

• Note pages

• Year, Month, and Week notes areas

• Supported Day page todos, priorities, and schedule notes

You can switch between typing and drawing, use simple formatting, and keep the planner pencil-first. Year/Month/Week notes areas can stay lined for handwriting, or switch to typed notes when needed.

Cost:

PencilTime is free to try. Premium unlocks iCloud sync, Apple Calendar integration, unlimited Note Pages, tags, Smart Folders, bookmark syncing, and cross-device workflows.

Download free to try: https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id6743547785?pt=312110&ct=iosapps&mt=8&platform=ipad

• Lifetime: 50% OFF $49.99 -> $24.99

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Disclosure: I am the developer of PencilTime.

I would appreciate feedback on the typed-notes workflow, especially from people who use Apple Pencil planners for school, work, meetings, or analog-style planning.

^{Note: Currently not available in EU app stores due to ongoing DSA compliance work.}

SyncAlbum is a shared photo album app for family, get-togethers, your baby's month-by-month photos, and everyday memories. Everyone in an album shoots into the same place, the photos sync to everyone automatically, and at the end you get a story video of the whole thing. It runs entirely on your own iCloud — no account, no signup.

• 📷 What it does (all synced live):
• 🤝 Shared albums — everyone shoots into one album, photos land on every member's phone automatically
• 📸 Built-in camera — captures go straight into the album, no save-then-add
• 💬 Per-photo comments, emoji reactions & u/mentions, with push notifications
• 📖 Journal — a title and story for each day, end-to-end encrypted
• 🎬 Story videos — any album auto-becomes a video scored with your own music
• 🖼️ Full-quality photos — browse a fast preview, the original with EXIF downloads the moment you save
• 🗂️ Custom covers, categories, hide/reorder, per-album mute
• 🔗 Join by QR code or link — owner approves who's in

A — Problem: Sharing a trip or event means everyone shoots separately and nobody ends up with all the photos. Apple's Shared Albums crush every photo to 2048px and strip location and metadata. Google Photos makes everyone sign into a Google account with the photos living on Google's servers.

B — Better than iCloud Shared Albums / Shared Photo Library / Google Photos:

• 🖼️ Full quality, EXIF kept — no 2048px downscale, no metadata stripping
• 📸 Camera-first — shoot straight into the album, not shoot → open Photos → add
• 🧩 Per-album, unlimited — a fresh album for each occasion with whoever's there, not one merged 6-person library
• 🍎 No account — runs on each person's own iCloud, no signup, no Google login
• 🔔 Real per-photo notifications — Apple only notifies you about photos you've already interacted with
• 📖🎬 Journal + auto story video — neither native app does either

C — Cost: Free — unlimited albums, and every person gets 30 free uploads in every album (per person, not shared). New accounts also start with 500 points (a $4.95 value). No subscription, no ads. Points packs from $0.99 if you ever need more.

🔗 https://apps.apple.com/nl/app/syncalbum/id6757401130?l=en-GB

(I'm the developer of SyncAlbum. My name is Osama Mazhar. This is one of my side-projects, bound to these Terms and Privacy Policy:

https://www.orbitaar.com/syncalbum/terms-of-use.html

https://www.orbitaar.com/syncalbum/privacy-policy.html

For any queries, contact me at [email protected])

Hi everyone,

I'm the solo developer behind Daycraft, a countdown and anniversary app designed for Apple devices.

I created Daycraft because I wanted a simpler way to remember meaningful moments without unnecessary complexity.

The main idea behind Daycraft is simplicity:

• Minimal and clean design with fewer unnecessary pages

• Native experience across iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch

• Rich Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets

• Recurring event cards for anniversaries and yearly memories

Your data stays on your devices and your private iCloud. No account required, no data collection.

Pricing:

Daycraft is free to download with optional Pro features.

App Store:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/daycraft-countdown-reminder/id6746264646

Thanks for checking it out!

Answer

I could watch an opening lesson, understand the line, and still blank when the same position appeared in a game.

I built Chessmate to turn that passive study into practice. It shows you an opening position and asks you to find the next move. Anything you miss comes back later for review.

It is mainly for beginner and intermediate players who know the basics but still feel lost after the first few moves.

Better

ChessTempo is powerful if you already have a repertoire to build or import, while Chessable is centered around full courses. Chessmate is ready to use: choose an opening and start practicing a curated line.

Each opening is taught line by line. The goal is not just to memorize moves, but to understand why each important move is played and what the opening is trying to achieve. I did not want it to be a collection of engine moves with a trainer wrapped around it, so I spent a lot of time selecting the lines and checking the explanations against established opening references.

Study guides you through a line, Review brings back the moves you missed, and Challenge mixes learned lines so you have to recognize the position instead of following a fixed sequence.

I’m also putting a lot of work into localization. The menus, opening names, and move explanations are available in English, Korean, German, French, Spanish, and Portuguese.

Chessmate is designed specifically for iOS, with native navigation and interactions, a responsive chessboard, and a clean interface. I did not want any part of it to feel hastily assembled, so I have kept reviewing and refining the content, translations, board interactions, and UI as the app has grown.

Cost

Chessmate is free to download. US premium pricing is $7.99/month, $34.99/year, or $79.99 for lifetime access. A free trial is available.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id6780793638

Transparency

I’m Wooyeong Kim, the solo developer behind Chessmate and wyverselabs.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wooing/
Contact: [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected])
Website: https://www.trychessmate.com/
Privacy Policy: https://www.trychessmate.com/privacy
Terms of Use: https://www.trychessmate.com/terms

If you try it, I’d especially like to know whether the first Study session makes sense and whether the explanations help you understand the moves rather than just memorize them.

Any feedback is appreciated! 😄

Hello everybody,

I built Mira, a free migraine tracker for iPhone (and iPad).

My goal was to build something where you can log in quickly, keep it private, and actually bring it to a doctor later.

I designed and built the whole thing myself: UI, flows, and the small details.

Highlights:

• Log only what matters: severity, symptoms, triggers, medications, what helped, notes, etc. You can customise the flow. The app also remembers your most used options, so it's faster to log the next time
• Visual pain map: tap exactly where it hurts
• Insights over time (frequency, severity, triggers, reliefs)
• MIDAS disability score
• Calendar history + CSV export for appointments
• Apple ecosystem: Apple Health, widgets, Siri/Control Centre shortcuts

Data stays on your device and your private iCloud. No account, no data collection.

I kept the app free to help it reach as many people with migraine as possible. If you want to support the independent development, there’s an option in the app, but it's completely voluntary.

App: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/migraine-tracker-diary-mira/id6785985958

Email: [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected])

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/preetmishra/

If you have any feedback, I'd love to hear it.

Hey [r/iosapps](r/iosapps), solo developer here. I built Forma, a habit tracker that looks
and feels like a paper journal — you cross habits off instead of tapping a
checkbox.

What it does:
- Unlimited habits grouped by morning / afternoon / evening, not one big list
- Vacation mode pauses a streak instead of resetting it to zero
- Your whole year turns into a shareable "wrapped" poster

Free tier covers 3 habits. $14.99 once unlocks everything no subscription, ever.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/forma-habit-tracker/id6776680324

My X account for contact: https://x.com/ash001_?s=11

Happy to answer questions about the design or take feature requests.

A – Answer: What problem does your app solve?

If you've ever hunted for a rare item on eBay, you probably know how frustrating it is to miss a great listing because you found it too late.

You either keep refreshing the same searches throughout the day or rely on eBay's saved search notifications.

That's why I built Deals Tracker.

You create a search once, and the app automatically monitors eBay for new matching listings. When a matching item appears, you get a notification, giving you a much better chance of buying it before someone else does.

B – Better: What makes it different?

Deals Tracker is built specifically for people who don't want to keep checking eBay all day.

Instead of relying on eBay's saved search notifications, Deals Tracker regularly checks your searches and alerts you when new matching listings appear.

It's especially useful if you're looking for collectibles, discontinued products, limited editions, or anything that tends to sell quickly.

C – Cost

Free.

I'd love to hear your feedback, feature requests, or suggestions for improving the app.

App Store: [https://apps.apple.com/app/id6761773856]()

A — Answer

I built TypeFlow ES for a small but annoying iPhone problem: when I want to reply in Spanish, I often start with an English thought, switch to a translator app, copy the result, paste it back into WhatsApp, Messages, Instagram, or email, then edit it because it sounds too polished or too literal.

TypeFlow ES puts that translation step inside the iOS keyboard, so you can turn an English thought into a Spanish reply without leaving the conversation.

It is useful for short everyday messages: friends, hosts, coworkers, customers, travel situations, or casual chats where you want the Spanish to sound more natural before sending.

B — Better

Compared with using Google Translate or DeepL in a separate app, TypeFlow ES is built around the chat-writing flow itself:

✅ no switching away from the conversation
✅ no copy/paste loop
✅ focused on English → Spanish replies
✅ works from the keyboard in apps where you already type
✅ designed for quick messages, not long documents

One small design choice behind TypeFlow ES: I did not want it to simply return the prettiest Spanish sentence possible. For the Spanish version, I designed a 4-step translation flow that tries to preserve the English speaker’s original logic, tone, and intention while rewriting it into Spanish. Even if the result is not perfect, I want the message to still feel like your own thought in that moment.

C — Cost

TypeFlow ES is free to download. Without unlocking, only 50 characters can be entered in the system (the TypeFlow App itself is not limited). Lifetime access is normally $9.99.

🎁 App Store:
https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id6760772142?pt=128591153&ct=iosapp&mt=8

I’m the developer of TypeFlow ES. I’d especially like feedback on one thing: what kind of Spanish message makes you leave the chat and open a translator most often?

🌎 Transparency:

- official website - https://typeflow.uk/ Includes privacy statement

- I worked as a product manager at internet companys for over 10 years, and now I am an independent developer. My INS: https://www.instagram.com/etwangyyds

Hi everyone,

I've made my own markdown editor (I know tons of people did it recently).

Mine is called Wander and it works both on iPhone and mac.

App Store link. Website is here.

A) What it is:

- it works similar to Apple Notes with WYSIWYG mode — tables, images, checklists are real editable blocks, not preview

- it is mostly compatible with Obsidian vaults (wikilinks, callouts, tags, frontmatter, even your themes)

- ui is mostly unified and consistent between apple platforms

- your notes stay plain markdown files in folders you control — no account, no cloud required

B) Compared to alternatives:

- vs Obsidian: native apps instead of Electron, and true WYSIWYG instead of live-preview (no markup flickering as the cursor moves). It opens your existing Obsidian vault as-is

- vs Apple Notes: same editing feel, but real markdown files on disk instead of a database — no lock-in

- vs iA Writer / Typora: tables and images are editable blocks, and there's an iPhone app

- one thing nobody else does: byte-faithful saves — if you keep notes in git, opening and saving a file with no edits produces zero diff

C) Cost: completely free. No subscription, no in-app purchases, no account. If paid stuff ever comes it will be optional cloud services — the editor itself stays free.

It's only the first version. I do have way more unreleased things that are important to me:

- computational notes (with variables, sheets and charts)

- full history support with built-in git

- full optional cloud sync built in

A -- Answer

Indie dev here (I built this). Quick recap: I lost about 60 pounds last year mostly by walking, got tired of fitness apps that turned it into a pressure machine, and built Just Walk -- tap Start Walk, walk, log it, watch your mosaic fill in.

I posted here 2 months ago and got more useful feedback in one thread than I expected in a year. This update is basically that thread, shipped:

• Kinder streaks. u/Thedividendprince1 pointed out that streaks can recreate the exact guilt I was trying to avoid, and suggested something like "walked 4 of the last 7 days" instead. That's in now -- when your streak breaks but you've still been showing up, the app tells you the kinder truth instead of showing you a zero.
• Optional walk notes. Same comment suggested notes like "felt better after this walk." One tap after a walk, no pressure to use it.
• All 10 languages actually show up now. u/Jumpy-Sky2196 and u/Astrikal both caught that my App Store listing said English-only despite the app being translated into 10 languages. Turned out to be a config issue on my end that took embarrassingly long to track down. Fixed.
• Rate & feedback links in Settings, because I made asking for feedback harder than it needed to be.

B -- Better

Same position as before: most walking apps are trying to become full fitness platforms. Just Walk stays small on purpose. No social feed, no calorie tracking, no leaderboards, no AI coach, no notifications nagging you back in.

Versus Apple Health: Health tracks your activity, Just Walk helps you keep the habit. It's not trying to be a better pedometer.

Versus streak-based habit apps: this is the one that doesn't punish you for missing a day. That was the whole point, and this update makes it more true than it was at launch.

Still no account, no data collection, everything stays on your device. Location is only used during a walk to measure distance.

C -- Cost

Freemium. Free download, and the core loop -- start a walk, build your streak, see your recent mosaic -- is free forever.

One-time $4.99 for Just Walk Pro: complete mosaic history, custom color themes (including the emoji dots my kid is weirdly attached to), and lifetime stats. No subscription.

Just Walk: Daily Walk Tracker on the App Store

Still coming: Apple Watch and widgets. These were far and away the two biggest requests and they need work I can't do on my current setup, so they're next rather than now. Not forgetting them.

Genuinely, thank you. Tell me what's still wrong with it.

Hi all,

I made Soon. because I wanted a countdown app that felt a bit more special than just showing a number of days left.

A. What does it do?

You can create countdowns for trips, birthdays, weddings, concerts, holidays, or anything else you’re looking forward to.

Each event can have its own photo and style, and you can keep your countdowns visible with:

• Lock Screen + Dynamic Island Live Activities
• Home Screen widgets
• StandBy widget
• Recurring events
• Calendar sync
• Weather forecasts for relevant events
• Checklists for things like trips and weddings
• Memory mode for past events

B. What’s different?

There are already good countdown apps like TheDayBefore, but I wanted Soon. to feel more modern and focused on the Apple ecosystem.

The countdowns are designed around photos and animations, with Live Activities, Dynamic Island, widgets, StandBy and Calendar integration all built in.

I also wanted to keep it private and simple. There are no accounts, ads, analytics SDKs, or tracking. Your events and photos stay on your device.

C. Cost

Soon. is free to download with a 7-day Pro trial.

Pro is $1.99/month, $9.99/year, or $12.99 lifetime.

Any honest feedback or review is greatly appreciated. Making the app better and more enjoyable is the main goal.

App Store:
https://apps.apple.com/app/id6757280643

Website:
https://lagerland-apps.github.io/apps/soon/

Email:
[[email protected]](mailto:[email protected])

I kept forgetting when I last gave my dog her flea medicine. Or when I last changed the AC filter.

I tried standard habit trackers, but they are built for daily routines. If you don't do a chore every 24 hours, they break your streak. It just creates unnecessary guilt for things that only need to happen every few weeks or months.

I just wanted a simple system to tell me exactly how many days it had been since I last did something.

So I built SinceWhen. It is a days-since tracker designed specifically for the messy, irregular routines of actual life.

Here is how I set it up to be completely frictionless:

• I built deep Apple Shortcuts and Siri integration. When my hands are full of dog shampoo, I just say "Hey Siri, log the dog meds" and it records the exact time in the background.
• I created a specific shortcut action that checks if a task is actually overdue before logging it. If it is not, Siri just tells me when it is next expected.
• The app learns my natural rhythm from my history instead of forcing rigid calendar schedules.
• I added Family Sharing to the subscription tiers so a whole household can share one Pro license to track who last changed the sheets, while keeping everyone's personal iCloud data completely separate.

Because I know how much this community hates subscription fatigue, I also made sure to include a one-time Lifetime purchase option.

If you want a guilt-free way to remember your chores, you can check it out here:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/sincewhen-days-since-tracker/id6759450144

WARNING: This App only runs on iPhone 15 Pro and Above with Apple Intelligence Enabled!

Supported Devices: iPhone 15, 16, 17 Pro & Max, iPhone 16, 16e + All Latest iPhones

Heya everyone,

I built Murmur - Privacy First, Voice Based Expense Tracker because I was tired of failing at expense tracking.

Not because the apps were bad, but because they all expected me to manually log every expense. I'd start the month motivated, track everything for a few days, then slowly stop using the app altogether.

After trying dozens of expense trackers, I realized the problem wasn't budgeting.

The problem was friction.

So I built a voice-first expense tracker that lets me simply speak my transactions and move on with my day.

What problem does it solve?

Most expense trackers fail because they're too much work.

Every purchase requires opening the app, entering an amount, selecting a category, and saving it. It sounds simple, but doing that 10–20 times a day becomes exhausting.

Murmur removes that friction completely.

You simply say:

"Spent $30 on an Uber."

"Paid $12 for coffee."

"Received $1,500 from a freelance project."

The app understands what you're saying, detects whether it's an expense or income, categorizes it, and saves it in seconds.

The result is an expense tracker that you actually keep using after the first week.

Why is it better than alternatives?

Two reasons: privacy and convenience.

First, privacy.

Murmur uses Apple's on-device intelligence to understand your voice. Your transactions are processed directly on your iPhone and never need to leave your device.

No servers.

No cloud AI.

No financial data being uploaded somewhere.

You can literally turn on Airplane Mode and continue logging expenses normally.

That was extremely important to me because financial data is personal, and I didn't want my spending history sitting on someone else's servers.

Second, it's genuinely hands-free.

Most expense trackers still require typing.

Murmur is designed around the idea that speaking is faster than typing. The easier it is to log an expense, the more likely you'll actually track your money consistently.

Beyond voice logging, it also includes:

• Daily, weekly, and monthly budgets

• Home Screen widgets

• Event-based expense tracking for trips, weddings, side hustles, vacations, or any specific goal

• Optional review-before-save mode

• Works completely offline

What's the pricing?

The app includes a free tier so you can try it before paying.

Premium pricing is:

• $0.49 per week < This pricing is for you to try, Cancel Anytime

• $14.99 per year < Cancel Anytime

• $19.99 lifetime < Pay Only Once

I'm actively improving the app and would love feedback from people who track their spending or have tried and failed to do it consistently.

Hi everyone!

I’ve been working on MoneyMap since August 2024. This is actually the second version of the app. About a year into development, I scrapped the original codebase and rebuilt it from the ground up because I wasn’t happy with how it handled users’ financial data.

A – What problem does it solve?

Most finance apps store your financial data on their own servers after connecting to your bank. I wanted to take a different approach. With MoneyMap, your financial data lives on your device by default. If you choose to sync across devices or share a budget with a partner or family member, your data is end-to-end encrypted before it ever leaves your device.

I also wanted to build a budgeting app that works around your paychecks instead of forcing everything into monthly budgets.

B – Why is it better?

I think it comes down to four things.

1. Privacy-first

Your financial data stays on your device by default instead of being stored on my servers. Syncing and household sharing are optional and protected with end-to-end encryption.

2. Paycheck-based budgeting

Budget around when you actually get paid instead of trying to fit everything into a monthly budget.

3. Automatic setup

• Connect accounts with Plaid.
• Stripe Financial Connections acts as a fallback for institutions Plaid doesn’t support.
• Automatic recurring bill detection to reduce manual setup.

4. Household friendly

One subscription covers your entire household, so you don’t need to pay for multiple accounts if you manage your finances together.

C – Cost

I wanted MoneyMap to be affordable. I know there are real costs involved with bank connections, infrastructure, and hosting, but I also think budgeting software should be accessible.

Current pricing:

• $5.99/month
• $49.99/year

Both include a 7-day free trial.

I’m posting here because I’d really appreciate honest feedback. Whether it’s the onboarding, design, missing features, bugs, or anything that feels confusing, I’d love to hear it.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/moneymap-paycheck-budget/id6749827612

Website: https://moneymap.cc (Privacy Policy and Terms of Service are linked at the bottom.)

Contact: [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected])

I am the independent developer of Collection & Inventory Tracker.

A — Answer

I built Collection & Inventory Tracker because I couldn't find an inventory app that was flexible enough for different types of collections while also working offline.

Most apps focus on a specific hobby (books, coins, wine, cards, etc.), while spreadsheets become difficult to manage once photos, custom attributes, and hundreds of items are involved.

Collection & Inventory Tracker lets you create your own collection structure with custom fields, photos, tags, dropdowns, locations, barcode scanning, barcode lookup, Excel import/export, and optional cloud sync.

B — Better

A popular alternative is iCollect.

What I wanted to do differently:

• Works for any type of collection, not just predefined categories
• Fully customizable fields
• Offline-first design
• Barcode scanning with product lookup
• Excel import and export
• Folder/location organization
• Optional cloud sync
• Suitable for both personal collections and home inventory management

C — Cost

• Free version available
• Pro Monthly: $3.99/month
• Pro Yearly: $29.99/year
• Lifetime Pro: $49.99 one-time purchase
• Optional Cloud Sync plans available
• No ads

App Store:
https://apps.apple.com/app/collection-inventory-tracker/id6776667729
Developer Email:
[[email protected]](mailto:[email protected])

The iOS version was recently released after a long migration from Android using Kotlin Multiplatform.

I'm curious how other people here track their collections today. Are you using spreadsheets, Notes, dedicated collection apps, or something else?

When is the last time you read the news? Im talking about actually opening up a legacy news app like CNN or Fox and scrolling the feed. My guess is never, or at least not that you can remember.

Most of us, especially Gen Z, hate the media. We know its full of slop and bias, but more than that we hate how overwhelming it all is. Hundreds, if not thousands, of stories a day. Its just too much.

Instead of actual news apps, you probably get your news from social media, friends, or groupchats. The problem is you still end up missing stories and falling behind on whats happening.

We have more technology and access to information than ever before, yet somehow feel more disconnected from the world we live in.

The news was supposed to help connect us with the world. Now it just overwhelms us. It feels like you either commit to 12hr screen-time days, or you miss 90% of whats going on.

Thats why I made Nowhere. A news app you don’t have to open to stay informed.

The widget lives on your lock screen or your home screen and shows you what’s happening right now.

It uses consensus as its only filter. Stories only appear when two or more major news sources are reporting on the same thing. That cuts an impossible number of stories down to around 50 a day. Every story lives for 24 hours before rolling into the archive, so the feed is always today’s news. Nothing stale.

You can glance at it every time you open your phone or swipe between apps.

A. The news is impossible to keep up with. Between the promotional content, the stale posts, and the one-off stories, you really have to put in some work to find the important stories. Even if an app has a filter for “top stories” it takes 5 extra clicks just to get there. We want things now, right in front of us, without the extra work. Nowhere News is an app you don’t have to open, built with the widget as the central focus. Somewhere between 40-80 stories a day, with stories getting archived on a rolling basis after their 24hrs are up.

B. RSS feeds exist, apps that let you have ultra-customized news feeds exist, apps that do “the news” incredibly well exist. Nowhere News isn’t meant to replace any of those. It’s meant to be a macro view, ultra lightweight way to keep up with the world. No need to make an account, no need to pick topics, no algorithm deciding what you might like. Everyone sees the same stories.

C. Free. Zero ads. No accounts. No data collection. I made this app for myself first, so I didn’t want any of that. I figured anyone who might use the app wouldn’t want it either. No paid tiers, no freemium.

Download link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/nowhere-news/id6760492553

Privacy policy: https://nowhere.news

Name: Nicholas Gold

Developed this as a hobby in my free time. I don’t have a linkedin for this app or for app development. No data collection, no accounts, no ads. I just hope others might find it useful. Only 1 review on the app store, but 82 downloads!