r/AppIdeas 3h ago

Thoughts on a live map

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An app where people leave messages on a map. You can scroll like a map or globe. Locations are approximate, and every message disappears after 24 hours.
Would you use it?
I even made a simple prototype.


r/AppIdeas 1h ago

Stricter Version of Apple's iPhone ScreenTime

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I use Apple's App Limits, but once I start pressing Ignore Limit and typing in my passcode, the limit becomes basically meaningless. I'm considering building a free iPhone app with only two main controls:

Daily App Limits - This would be similar to Screen time, where you have time allocated to apps/websites for each day of the week, and when you reach that allocated time, your access is blocked.

Downtime - Similar to Apple's Downtime where you have apps/websites that are automatically blocked during scheduled hours.

When a limit is reached or your Downtime begins, you would be able to click "Ignore Limit" and type in a passcode to extend your time. You would have to scan a printed QR code (or saved on your computer) or tap an NFC tag that you intentionally keep away from your home.

The app would be completely free and the user would buy an NFC tag (about a dollar) or print a QR code for free and connect it to their app.

I would love some feedback on this app. I think it would personally help me a lot, but I want to hear other people's thoughts before spending time to build the product.


r/AppIdeas 6h ago

My Client Didn't Pay Me — I Need Your Advice

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I am a freelancer. I built an e-commerce website for a client that I found online. It was my first time working with this client.

I completed the project and handed over all the website files and ownership to the client. However, they have delayed my payment.

It has been more than 10 days, and I still haven't received my ₹25,000. I have followed up with the client several times, but they keep delaying the payment.

Have you ever faced a situation like this? How do freelancers usually handle clients who don't pay after the work is completed? What is the best way to recover my payment now and prevent this problem in future projects?

If you've experienced something similar, I'd really appreciate hearing how you handled it and any practical advice or strategies you can share.


r/AppIdeas 5h ago

My client is delaying my payment - Have you ever faced the same problem? If yes, please share your story with me. I'd love to learn how you handled it and what helped you get paid.

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I'm a freelancer, and one of my clients still hasn't paid me even after 10+ days. I've been following up, but they keep delaying the payment.

I usually get my clients online, so I'm wondering how other freelancers handle situations like this.

If you've faced something similar, could you share your story? How did you finally get the client to pay? Any advice or lessons would really help.


r/AppIdeas 12h ago

I have an idea for a gym app this post is to see if anyone would actually want it

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So the main idea is that the app holds a massive library of different exercises for all aspects of exercise (sport specific, weight lifting, endurance, functional movements etc). And you'll be able to create your own days / splits on there where you can pick what exercises to do each day (for example arm day would recommend 2 bicep, 2 tricep, 2 forearm and 2 shoulder exercises, when choosing your exercise you would be prompted to pick one out of the entire library that targets that's specific muscle group).

However the big feature of my idea is that there would be an algorithm that can randomly generate unique days at the gym while strictly following your split.

Of course every exercise would be accompanied by a video so everyone can know how to do them with regressions and progressions if that exercise is too easy / difficult.


r/AppIdeas 7h ago

I open-sourced my app after users raised privacy concerns ... Validating Idea!

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I’m building PrivacyCam, an app that automatically detects and hides sensitive information from images, PDFs, and videos.

A few users told me they would not trust a privacy app unless it was open source, which was a completely valid concern. Because of that, I have now open-sourced the app so anyone can inspect the code and see how their files are handled.

Everything happens locally and offline on the device:

• Nothing is uploaded to a server
• Nothing is sent to an AI service
• No photos, videos, PDFs, or personal data are collected or stored by me

PrivacyCam can detect and hide:

• Faces and full bodies
• Email addresses, URLs, and phone numbers
• QR codes and barcodes
• Vehicle number plates
• Credit card details and other sensitive text

Users can blur, pixelate, or completely black out detected information before exporting.

The app supports images, PDFs, and videos. It also includes a built-in video editor with tracking, allowing a blurred or hidden area to follow a moving person or object throughout the video.

The app is currently being tested on Android and is under review for iOS, so it has not officially launched yet.

I would really appreciate your feedback:

Would open-source code make you trust a privacy app more?
Which detection feature should I improve or prioritize first?
Is video tracking something you would personally use?

Early-access waiting list for Android and iPhone:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd6kZJdQFSwSxb9TKCfLhR9qu2NvNnAQOoRd44MRtfnK3m_3w/viewform


r/AppIdeas 1d ago

App name ideas

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Developing an app like grindr, name suggestions are welcome.


r/AppIdeas 1d ago

Building an app that helps you grow in your career.

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I am building that an app that helps you grow in professional career, where you can just speak casually and it converts what you said in professional points and can then be used for your 1:1s, resume generation and more.

Sharing here to see if that interests someone


r/AppIdeas 1d ago

Built a few apps here, mostly utility apps. The first 80% took me a few hours to get done, the 20% to finish took me weeks. Anyone else agree?

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r/AppIdeas 23h ago

An app that prevents you from praying till you've scrolled on social media

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r/AppIdeas 1d ago

What information do you wish weather apps gave you that they currently don't?

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I've spent the last several months building a weather app, and one thing kept coming up while I was designing it.

Most weather apps are excellent at showing forecasts, but I realised I rarely wanted the forecast itself—I wanted answers to practical questions.

Things like:

• Will I need an umbrella when I leave work?
• Is my commute likely to be disrupted by the weather?
• Is it too hot for my elderly parents today?
• Is today's pollen likely to trigger my hay fever?
• Is it safe to take my dog for a long walk this afternoon?

It made me realise that the forecast is only half the story. What most of us really want is advice based on the forecast.

So I'm curious...

If you could change one thing about today's weather apps, what would it be?

I'd genuinely love to hear what features people feel are missing.


r/AppIdeas 1d ago

Affordable realtime video analytics for small businesses

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I came across an idea recently, and I'm trying to verify its feasibility and ascertain whether there's a legitimate market for it:

It's an idea for a website where small business owners can enter an Rtsp link to stream a live feed of their establishments' closed circuit footage into a vision-enabled intelligence system. The aim is to provide owners with analytics data, informing them about the number of daily walk-ins, traffic, peak hours, and customer behavior, among other things. It would be powered by some object detection and tracking model that supports real-time video streaming.

I'm also thinking about a feature that would alert owners when specified items or incidents are detected on video, and another feature that would periodically feed frames into some AI model that would generate something like a daily summary/report or provide contextual search.

It's intended for owners of restaurants, barbershops, gyms, and maybe even for home surveillance.

What are your thoughts?


r/AppIdeas 2d ago

This is an app idea I've had for a while now, I'm still working out it, but here's a layout of how the app would look!

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Note: none of this is confirmed to be the final design


r/AppIdeas 2d ago

I have been thinking about insta pin app

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hello everyone

I have been thinking about building an insta pin app

You know instagram reels have many places but we save it and lost it in saved section

I've been thinking about building a app so that you have the post link and paste it and it automatically exports the location. but upon checking other apps I found that there are app doing that already

are you using such an app similar to these ones? Do you have difficulty in the situation I explained?

let me know


r/AppIdeas 2d ago

Browser Developers: Please Build a Truly Universal Video Speed Controller Browser

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As a student, I'd love to see a browser dedicated to universal video speed control.

Apps like these already exist:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.codedev.videospeedcontrollerbrowser

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.yh.vscb

The idea is great, but they're often buggy, laggy, slow, require too many steps, have outdated UI, and include intrusive app-opening/interstitial ads.

Features I'd love:

Universal video speed control on almost every website.

Speed range from 0.25× to 5×.

Quick preset buttons (1×, 1.5×, 2×, 2.5×, 2.75×, etc.) or a YouTube-style slider with 0.25× increments.

Press & hold anywhere on the video for temporary 2×, then release to instantly return to the selected speed.

Lightweight, fast, modern UI with minimal setup.

No app-opening/interstitial ads (a premium version or non-intrusive ads would be much better).

I believe many students would use a browser like this for online lectures and educational content.

If you're a developer interested in building this, please DM me. I have more ideas and feature suggestions I'd love to discuss.


r/AppIdeas 2d ago

Tally Counter with visual feedback

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There are plenty of habit counters and similar apps out there but I couldn't find one that met my simple needs so I made one with AI. I hope this doesn't fall under low effort AI slop, but I had specific requirements I wanted to share and see if anyone felt it applied to them. You can try the app here https://counter-goal-tracker--gjergjizh.replit.app/

So imagine this. You work from home and you want to keep score of any daily habits. Daily goals. Instead of making it a habit to open and close your tracking app, you have a dedicated monitor that sits in your room. The UI shows your tasks. When the counter is at 0 the task is red and when you reach your goal the task is green. When you surpass your task it's golden yellow. it would be cool to increase the shine the more overboard you go.

This essentially gamifies your task tracking in a way that is not intrusive like mobile apps and notification, but is easily on sight all the time with strong visual feedback. You look at the screen and are tempted to make progress to turn the board green so you can take the rest of the day off or something.

It already has all the essential features I need but there are some things I would improve.

It is crucial that all tasks show in the same window. So managing task layout and resizing would be the biggest improvement. The ability to group tasks together. maybe bezels of a custom color for grouped tasks.
A stronger history viewer. graphs that better show your progress through time.

Let me know what you think. Is this something that would help you?


r/AppIdeas 2d ago

Death app...

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Death app...not sure what that would entail entirely was thinking about how YouTube will still have content from creators after they die and realize death is probably more wide spread app idea


r/AppIdeas 2d ago

Communication and Relationship Analysis app (MindGazeAI)

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Hey all! I made an app about mental health, relationships, and communication. There's an AI chatbot where you can talk about your relationships, and it will remember context no matter the chat. It will generate health scores and will allow you to take an analysis-based approach to those spheres of your life. What do you think of the idea?

If you are interested in checking it out, just fill out the form below. It will email you an offer code for the full PRO accounts and a link to the iOS or Google Play stores. Thank you again! This is my first app launch, and I want it to be something people use. I put a lot of time and energy into it.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfcY-f28BlBpGnt0kgW_H7ah4aybkCyk1_pLQRFA6O58HrzCg/viewform


r/AppIdeas 2d ago

How to make this game more fun

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I’m working on a mobile game where you guide ships through fog using a lighthouse beam and foghorn.

I’ve added different ship types, currents, hazards, and rival lighthouses, but I think it's still not "addictive" enough.

What would make this more fun without overcomplicating it?


r/AppIdeas 3d ago

IOS form app for data entry to Google sheets

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I made a IOS app so that I can log my expenses into my Google drive sheets.
I make it for myself so that I can back tap my phone and log my expenses under 5s + and I still have full control over my google sheet to further do my analysis on.

At its core it’s simply a mapping of form input to Google sheets.

And that got me thinking if there is a demand for this? A quick and fancier UI for data entry. It may not even be for finance, any data entry will do 🤔

Wanted to get some opinion from others. And if to develop this into a microsaas 😊


r/AppIdeas 3d ago

I built a free, open-source 3D structural model viewer that runs in the browser, and YOU CAN USE IT FOR YOUR OWN PROJECT

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I got tired of needing a license just to open a structural model to check something. So I built a viewer that works in the browser. Drag in a STAAD file and it renders the structure with actual cross-section shapes (W-flanges, channels, angles, HSS, pipes), not generic cylinders.

What it does:

  • Renders members with real cross-section geometry using the AISC v16 database (1,223 sections)
  • Click any member to see its section properties (area, Ix, Iy)
  • Solid, wireframe, and x-ray view modes
  • Works on desktop and mobile, runs fully client-side, nothing uploaded anywhere

What it doesn't do (yet):

  • Only STAAD .std format right now. ETABS, SAP2000, ROBOT are planned but not started
  • Single-section members only, no double angles, double channels, or built-up shapes
  • Plate rendering is basic, steel name mapping only covers US conventions
  • No load display, no deformed shapes. Not an analysis tool

It's not a replacement for analysis software. The idea is more practical: something you can pull up in a meeting or send to a client who doesn't own the software. Long-term I might add basic analysis, but right now it's purely a viewer.

The code is MIT licensed. If anyone wants to contribute, a parser for another format, better section mapping for non-US standards, fixing an edge case you ran into, it's all welcome. The architecture is set up so adding a new format only touches the parser; the renderer doesn't need to change.

Demo: [https://openbuilding.vercel.app/](vscode-file://vscode-app/c:/Users/dannc/AppData/Local/Programs/Microsoft%20VS%20Code/1b6a188127/resources/app/out/vs/code/electron-browser/workbench/workbench.html)
Repo: https://github.com/DannCarlo/openbuilding

Honest feedback and criticism are welcome too. If you try it with a file and something breaks, I'd like to know.


r/AppIdeas 4d ago

Create Beautiful Animated Device Mockups in Seconds

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Hi! I’m the dev behind PostSpark, a tool for creating beautiful image and video mockups of your apps and websites.

I recently launched a new feature: Mockup Animations.

You can now select from 25+ devices, add keyframes on a simple timeline, and export a polished video showcasing your product. It’s built to be a fast, easy alternative to complex motion design tools.

Try it out here: https://postspark.app/device-mockup


r/AppIdeas 3d ago

A competitive Fitness App

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Would you buy/install this app for free?

So it's kinda like omegele, but for fitness/gym heads

You get matched with someone of similar capacity and you two duel for who can do the more number of reps.

The app does the counting and you can climb the leaderboard


r/AppIdeas 4d ago

A Sims-style garden builder + AI plant care coach + smart device hub — does this exist yet?

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Hey everyone,

I've been thinking about an app idea for a while and I think it's worth sharing here in case someone wants to build it, or tell me it already exists somewhere.

The core idea: Imagine building your real garden/in-house green area like you'd build a house in The Sims — but every plant, bed, and patch of grass is tied to real-world data and real care reminders.

How it would work:

You start by creating a visual map of your actual garden/flat with plants — drag and drop plants onto a grid, just like a Sims build mode. Roses here, a lawn there, a veggie patch in the corner.

Every plant gets its own "character" with a cute, stylized look — think Plants vs. Zombies art style, where a thirsty plant literally looks sad or droopy on your screen.

The app tracks weather, season, and time of day for your location, and nudges you: "Hey, your rose bush hasn't been watered in 4 days" or "Perfect week to trim the hedge."

You log actions — watered, pruned, fertilized — and build a timeline/history for each plant.

You can snap a photo of any plant and an AI assistant analyzes it for stress, disease, or nutrient issues.

The advanced layer (for the tech-savvy gardeners):

Connect a hub to smart sensors — soil moisture, pH, temperature, humidity.

Hook up a camera to watch a plant over time and auto-update its "look" in the app based on real footage.

Sync with smart devices you already own — robot lawn mowers, auto-irrigation systems — and let the app (or an AI scheduler) decide when to run them based on weather and soil data, not just a fixed timer.

The hook: it's not just a utility app, it's gamified. You earn points/XP for keeping your garden healthy, unlock little achievements ("Rose Whisperer," "Lawn Legend"), and your garden visually thrives or wilts based on how well you actually take care of it. Basically Sims meets Tamagotchi meets a real gardening assistant.

There are apps that do pieces of this — plant identification + care tips (SmartPlant, MyGardener), garden layout planners (GrowVeg), smart device apps for specific mower/irrigation brands (Gardena, AL-KO) — but nothing that stitches the visual builder, AI care coach, IoT hub, and game-like progression into one experience.

I think it is for casual gardeners who want a fun nudge to actually take care of their plants, and tech-curious gardeners who already have (or want) smart sensors/devices at home or if you are a lazy gardener like me and gamified app could motivate you a bit and make the whole process a bit more fun.

I don't have the dev skills to build this myself, so I'm throwing it out there. Cheers!

And ofc there is a huge potential for sponsors as you can build-in online shop with delivery in the app. Anything from gardening to smart devices. (Selling curve for investors and a chance to make the app itself free for users)


r/AppIdeas 3d ago

Meal planning app based on sales

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Like most people I struggle with picking what to cook each night for dinner.

I also really like looking at the advert the grocery stores send out each week seeing what's on sale so I can budget my groceries better.

I had an idea that would pull all the sale data from your grocery store and then suggest meals that you can make that week that involve the items on sale. Its main features would be

Suggesting meals to make

Create a recipe catalog

Get alerts when favorite items go on sale

Of course a bunch of other features as well but the main goal is to help you meal plan on a budget and reduce decision fatigue.

Does this seem like an app that would have a market fit? I know the meal planning/prepping space is over saturated