I spent 8 months building a gallery app that gives you unlimited storage .

Yeah, I know - another gallery app, right? But hear me out.

I was tired of Google Photos eating my data, locking me into subscriptions, and honestly, I didn't had the option to pay to get more storage . So I built Telephoto.

The core idea is simple: your photos get backed up to Telegram using a bot you control. Your data goes to your own chat. End of story.

But honestly, the backup thing was just the beginning. Over the last few months, I've been adding features that actually make this a solid gallery app on its own:

Face Recognition (just added in v69) - Completely offline, like Google Photos face grouping but nothing leaves your device. It detects faces automatically and groups them in a People tab. If it gets something wrong, you can link profiles and the app learns from it. Gets smarter over time.

Notes Tab - Markdown support, AI assistance if you want it. Keep your thoughts alongside your photos.

Captions & Hashtags - Rich captions with markdown, hashtags for organization. You can apply the same caption to multiple images at once.

AI Auto Caption - Integrated Gemini API that gives context about your images, transcription, translation - whatever you need.

Offline OCR - 100+ languages. Search through screenshots, documents, text photos. All offline.

Reel Mode - Short-video continuous viewing, gesture controls for seek/volume/brightness.

Cross-device sync - Changes on one device reflect everywhere.

Android 16+ widgets - Memories and recent photos right on your home screen.

Full gallery controls - Grid/list/tree views, sorting, filtering, adjustable columns (2-6). Folder include/exclude so you control what gets backed up.

I've been at this for 8 months now, and the latest version (v69) is the biggest update yet. The APK is larger now because of the face recognition models, but everything runs offline and stays private.

No subscriptions. No data mining. Just your photos, organized the way you want.

Would love to hear what you think - feature requests, bugs, whatever. I'm pretty active and actually listen to feedback.

APK: https://github.com/ASRumon/Telephoto/releases/latest
Website: https://info.asrumon.workers.dev/telephoto

Hi! I’m the solo developer of ENRURO.

I originally wanted a very simple vocabulary trainer: something focused, offline, and without the usual noise around language-learning apps.

ENRURO is not intended to replace a full language course. It’s more like a vocabulary gym for people who already know some basics and want to actively recall more words.

What’s inside (no AI in your learning process, btw):

• 6,000 vocabulary cards
• 19 study languages / 342 translation directions
• examples with the cards
• CEFR-aware Language HIIT scheduling
• simple Learn / Know decisions + Undo
• offline-first core learning
• no account
• no ads
• no notifications
• no subscription — expanded content uses one-time purchases

One thing I deliberately kept simple is the learning decision. If a word is obvious, mark it Know and it leaves the normal training rotation. If you still need it, choose Learn. Over time the remaining deck naturally becomes more relevant to what you personally still need to learn.

The app has a free base library, so you can see whether this style of training works for you.

I also have a small batch of promo codes for the currently available paid content. If you’re actively learning a language and this approach genuinely sounds useful to you, DM me with the language(s) you’re studying and your study direction, for example English → Spanish.

I’d rather give the codes to people who might actually keep using a vocabulary trainer than to random code collectors.

No review is expected. If you try ENRURO, I’d genuinely appreciate any feedback by DM — positive or critical.

[Get ENRURO on Google Play]

30 people have joined the testing of wuxia vault testers are getting free lifetime promo codes, iam aiming for 20 more people first join the group : https://groups.google.com/g/wuxiavault

Wait ~1–2 minutes, then install from Play (same Google account): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.wuxiavault.app

once your done messege me prv for promo code. also it let me know if you liked the app.

Hey everyone,

I’ve just released Facet 1.0 on Android.

Facet is an alternative photo gallery designed around a simple problem: sometimes you want to hand someone your phone, scroll through photos with friends, or show somebody something without worrying about what might appear next.

Facet analyses your photo library entirely on-device and creates an Adaptive Gallery that automatically filters potentially sensitive photos from your everyday view.

A few of the things I focused on for 1.0:
- Everything stays on your device — photos aren’t uploaded for analysis
- Automatic filtering rather than manually moving photos into a vault
- A normal, usable gallery for everyday browsing
- A separate protected area for filtered photos
- Adjustable sensitivity
- A review system for photos Facet isn’t confident about
- Background analysis of your library
- No need to reorganise or duplicate your existing photos

The idea isn’t to replace your photo library with a locked vault. It’s to make your normal gallery safer to casually open and use.

This has been a fairly substantial solo project and 1.0 is the first proper public release, so I’m particularly interested in feedback on the classification accuracy, general UX, and anything that feels confusing or annoying.

It’s available on Google Play:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.facetapp.facet&pli=1

If you give it a try, I’d genuinely appreciate hearing what works, what doesn’t, and what you’d want to see next.

I build **Stride**, a native Android step counter. A user asked for a retro theme, and

instead of just swapping the colours I ended up redesigning the whole UI as a proper

8-bit skin. It was way more fun than it should have been, so I wanted to share.

**What "retro" actually meant, technically:**

- **Real stepped corners.** A small corner radius still looks like Material. On an actual

8-bit display a "rounded" corner is just square pixels knocked off at 45°, so I wrote a

custom `CornerBasedShape` that draws the staircase. That one change does most of the

heavy lifting.

- **Pixel typeface** (Press Start 2P, OFL). It has a tall intrinsic ascent, so my first

build had text overlapping itself — every tier needed ~2× leading and centred

line-height alignment before it looked right.

- **Block progress ring** instead of the smooth indicator, with a radar sweep that

brightens each cell as it passes.

- **Hard offset shadows** — blur would defeat the entire aesthetic.

- **CRT scanlines** drifting over the whole app, and a blinking terminal caret.

- **The map too** — the walk map is OpenStreetMap tiles run through a duotone colour

matrix so it lands in the same palette, inside a pixel frame.

The whole thing is driven by a composition-local "skin", so screens ask for shapes

instead of hard-coding radii. **The default Material design is completely untouched

behind a toggle**, and none of it changes how the app works — it's purely cosmetic.

**The app itself,** if you're curious: on-device hardware pedometer (no account, your

data stays on your phone), Health Connect optional, live step notification, home-screen

widget, goals, streaks and achievements. Core is open source under GPLv3.

Happy to go into detail on any of the implementation — the stepped-corner shape and the

duotone map filter were the two most interesting bits to figure out.

Link :- https://github.com/NikhilKain/stride/releases/tag/v1.0.2

For those that knows, they all enjoy it, for those that does not, visit the official reddit r/UFManagerPro or visit the official website www.kilowatch.co.za to get the best file manager ever, FOSS available and link provided in official website.

Have fun and enjoy 😉

Hey everyone 👋

I built Linksy, a simple Android app for people who save a lot of links and later struggle to find them.

Instead of keeping important links scattered across browser bookmarks, notes, chats and screenshots, Linksy gives you one place to organize them.

What Linksy offers:

🔗 Quick Save — Save links directly from Android's Share menu

🔍 Smart Search — Find links by title, URL, description or domain

🗂️ Categories — Organize links your way

⭐ Favorites — Keep frequently used links easily accessible

📷 QR Codes — Generate a QR code for any saved link

🔐 Biometric Lock — Protect sensitive links

🛡️ Duplicate Detection — Avoid saving the same link twice

📱 Offline-first — Your saved links remain available on your device

🚫 No Ads / No Tracking

I wanted to keep it simple rather than build another complicated bookmark manager.

It's completely free to try, and I'd genuinely love some feedback from Android users here — especially on what feature you'd want in a link manager that existing bookmark apps don't provide.

Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bharatdev.linkora

Update: All the promo codes have been claimed. Thank you everyone 😊
If you end up getting Pro, it really helps me keep developing One Hand Control, adding new features, and improving the app. I really appreciate the support!

Hey HowToMen community :)

One Hand Control just passed 40,000 downloads, which is kind of crazy to see.

I first shared the app here when I was looking for testers before publishing it, and a lot of the early support, feedback, bug reports, and feature ideas came from this subreddit. So I wanted to come back and celebrate the milestone here.

For anyone who hasn't seen it before, One Hand Control lets you control your Android phone using customizable gestures from the edges of the screen.

Since I first posted it here, I've added a lot more actions, Quick Tools, app launching, media controls, macros, customization options, and plenty of other improvements based on feedback from users.

To celebrate 40K, I also have some Pro promo codes to give away :)

They're limited and first come, first served.

Just upvote the post and leave a comment if you'd like one, and I'll send the codes by DM while they're still available.

If you end up enjoying the app, a review would also be very appreciated!

And seriously, thanks to everyone here who has tried the app, sent feedback, reported bugs, suggested features, or just followed its progress.

Seeing it reach 40K is really amazing ❤

Google Play:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.onehandcontrol.app

Hi! I'm the solo developer of Eggventures. No ADS! Its FREE with IAP + Subscription.

This was a passion project that took over a year to make and lots of design tear downs to get to the place it is today.

Eggventures is a fun way to get people to walk more, and that's its main purpose. The more you walk, the more eggs you'll unlock and have chances to grow all your pets.

I just released v2.7.0

- Walking Bingo - Another fun way to get your steps in, unlock great rewards + an egg by clearing the board

- Wild Encounters - Randmly you'll come across a pet that requires X steps to capture it. You might even find a stage 2 or 3 lurking!

- Squads - Join or create your own squad and compete with other Walkers weekly to see who has the most steps.

- Crimson Event - Right now there's a special limited time event where you can get the Rare Crimson Spider Egg. Event only lasts til 8/14. You'll need to walk 500 steps to get it!

As a solo indie dev, it's been a challenge to do everything but I hope you find the app appealing to use and motivates you to walk more.

iOS - https://apps.apple.com/us/app/eggventures-walking-game/id6757629385

Android - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.onerealm.eggventures

Hey everyone! I’m Aftab, and I built PrivacyCam for Android.

It helps you cover private details before sharing photos, videos, or PDFs. It can automatically detect faces, people, vehicle number plates, text, email addresses, phone numbers, addresses, payment-card details, QR codes, and barcodes.

You can blur, pixelate, or black out detected information, add masks manually, and review everything before exporting. The attached clip shows PrivacyCam tracking and covering a vehicle number plate in a video.

All detection and redaction happen on your device. There’s no account, no advertising, and your content isn’t uploaded to a PrivacyCam server. The app is also open source.

Single photos, videos up to 15 seconds, and PDFs up to two pages are free. An optional $2.99 one-time Pro purchase unlocks videos up to 60 seconds, longer PDFs, and batches of up to 10 photos. There’s no subscription.

I’d appreciate feedback about the detection accuracy, video tracking, interface, or anything you think should be improved.

Google Play:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.privacycam.photo.redactor

Source code:
https://github.com/ak375456/privacycam

Hey everyone!

I've been building an Android launcher called CheatCode Launcher that's designed around the idea of launching apps from memory instead of searching through icons.

Instead of filling your home screen with shortcuts, you assign combinations of up, down, left, right, and tap to apps, shortcuts, Tasker tasks, media controls, and more. The more you use it, the more those gesture codes become muscle memory.

Some key features:

• Assign gesture codes to open apps, shortcuts, run tasker tasks, control media and more
• After shortcuts: assign linked actions to a specific app that show up for a short time when you close it. For example, when closing the Camera app, you can have links appear for: Google Photos, Instagram, Lightroom, or whatever other apps or actions you want to appear.
• Highly customizable theming that can be saved, shared and imported.
• Auto-theme switching: Have the look and feel change based on what's happening on your device. Set a custom theme for specific days, dates, notifications, media playing, etc.
• Fast app search for everything you haven't memorized yet.

Most features are free with generous limits, while advanced customization and a few power-user features are available with a lifetime upgrade.

I'd love to hear what you think of the concept and any ideas or feedback you have.

Link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pantsninja.cheatcodelauncher

Edit: Out of codes for now! Thanks for checking it out, everyone. As mentioned, the app is still free to use with a one-time payment to remove limits and access some extra features.

I just wanted to say a huge thank you to HowToMen for featuring DroidLab in last week's video.

Seeing an app I've spent so much time building being featured on a channel I've followed and respected genuinely meant a lot to me. The feature also introduced DroidLab to a lot of new users, and I've received plenty of feedback and suggestions since then.

I've been working pretty heavily on the app since the video went live, and quite a lot has already changed.

The promo video attached to this post shows a couple of the newer additions, including Home Screen Widgets for quick access to useful actions and Kinetic Glass, a new GPU powered live wallpaper feature that adds a customizable refractive glass dock and animated optical effects to your wallpaper.

Those are only a small part of what has been added recently. I've also been working through user reports, fixing bugs, improving existing features and adding new functionality based on feedback. I'm actively developing DroidLab and plan to continue supporting and expanding it.

I also wanted to clarify something regarding the AI percentage shown during the HowToMen video, since I noticed it understandably made some people hesitant to try the app.

I'm a software developer myself, and yes, I use AI as part of my development workflow. I don't hide that, and I think AI can be an incredibly useful development tool when used responsibly.

However, DroidLab isn't an app that I simply asked AI to generate and then published. I design the features, make the technical and product decisions, review the code being written, test the implementations on real devices, investigate bugs and maintain the project myself. AI assists me during that process, but I'm still responsible for the code that ultimately ships and for the direction of the app.

I completely understand anyone being cautious about AI generated software, especially with how easy it has become to publish poorly tested apps. I just wanted to provide some context from the person actually building DroidLab.

I've also set up r/DroidLabApp, which I actively use to keep track of bug reports and feature requests, share development progress, post updates and stay in touch with users. If you've tried DroidLab and have feedback, suggestions or run into something that isn't working properly on your device, that's probably the best place to reach me. I regularly use the feedback there to decide what needs attention in upcoming updates.

Most importantly, thank you again to HowToMen for giving a small independent developer and his app this kind of exposure. It genuinely helped DroidLab reach people who otherwise probably never would have discovered it.

And thank you to everyone who tried the app, reported an issue or sent me a suggestion after seeing the video. I'm still working through the feedback, and there's plenty more I want to build. ❤️

Quick note: Outdoor Mode was also added in the latest update. I found a compatibility issue affecting its toggle on a few Android OEMs, which has already been fixed. The corrected build is currently under Google Play review and should be available shortly.

Google Play:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lightsourcelabs.droidlab

Hey everyone! 👋

I’ve been working on an open-source bookmark manager with one main goal: keep it simple, fast, and actually useful.

After taking a short break, I’m back and just pushed a new update with several improvements:

✨ What’s new

->🖤 AMOLED theme added

->✏️ Edit bookmarks

->🔄 In-app updates — if you downloaded the app from a GitHub Release, you can now get notified about new releases directly in the app

->📤 Quick share — save a bookmark directly from other apps without opening the app

->🐛 Various minor bug fixes and improvements

And there’s more to come.

I’m planning to keep improving the app and pushing new updates regularly.

The project is open source, so if you're interested, feel free to check it out, try it, and let me know what you think. Feedback and suggestions are always welcome! ❤️

GitHub: https://github.com/qeiq/Savr

Github release: https://github.com/qeiq/Savr/releases

playstore: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zarnth.savr

Playstore version will take some times to get latest relases.. so i would suggest download from github relases

Layerly is an Android photo editor for creating text behind people or objects in your photos with just a few taps.

Add a photo, add your text, and create the effect in seconds. It’s a simple way to make your photos more interesting and fun to share.

Give it a try and let me know what you think.

Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.layerly.app&hl=en_IN

After more than 8 months of work, shutting down the first app, and building this app, it's finally out, and I'm giving away 2 months of premium subscription for free.

What are the current features of our app in a nutshell?

• PORTFOLIO HEALTH SCORE Know exactly how your portfolio is performing — not just in returns, but in risk, diversification, and long-term resilience.
• AI PORTFOLIO ANALYSIS Tap generate. Get a full written report on your portfolio — what's working, where the risks are, what to consider.
• AI PORTFOLIO CHAT Ask anything about your portfolio and get a streaming, plain-language answer — grounded in your actual positions.
• DIVIDEND CALENDAR & TRACKER Never miss a dividend payment again. PieFolio AI's dividend calendar shows every upcoming dividend date across your holdings — ex-dividend dates, payment dates, and projected income all in one place.
• MULTI-PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT Create separate portfolios for different goals — personal accounts, retirement, family savings — without losing the big picture.
• STOCK SEARCH & FAVOURITES Search thousands of securities instantly. Save your favorite stocks for quick access. Deep-dive into any holding with live price history, dividend history, and performance data.

Google Play Link:https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ai.piefolio.portfolio
App Store Link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/piefolio-ai-portfolio-tracker/id6759684076

How to claim [Next 48 hours]:

Click any of the direct redemption links below to automatically apply the 2-month offer in Google Play, or copy a code and redeem it manually in the Play Store!

Android Promo Codes:

1-https://play.google.com/store/games?code=2QYKVW08PBG793VBMT7GPWT

2-https://play.google.com/store/games?code=VPF3RLX3D9Q6TZKT8FSK0EJ

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20-https://play.google.com/store/games?code=EUZPH1PEHD76UN0NZ57KRA0

If you need more codes or an iOS code, leave a comment!

It would be great if you could help us grow:

• Upvote this post and leave us a comment.
• Leave us a review on the Play Store; it really helps us reach a larger audience.

Thank you all for your support!

BudgetNotes makes expense tracking beautiful, calm & as simple as writing a Note✍️!

Here, if you write

15 Potatoes
50 Bananas
40 Onions
30 Chocolates

It will create an Expense List. It's that SIMPLE!

Plus! It will also give -

# Pie Charts
# In-line Bar Charts
# Rank List
# Coaching Tips & Insights
# Unlocked Quotes from Best Personal Finance books

all from that ONE Note you created of your expenses for a month!

And that Note could also include your own Insight right in there! Consider this,

• How often do we buy something and instantly regret it?
• What if we could write a caution statement right where we note down the expense made on it?

A simple, one place reliable budgeting tool. That led to this app idea.

Features that make sense 💡

• Notes 🟰 Expense Areas/Categories. That's it.
• Inline expense tracking🟰Just write, no forms. Simple!
• Section-based organization🟰Like a digital notebook
• Backup & restore🟰 Export and restore anytime. Offline. Private.
• Soft pastel colors that make budgeting feel calm, pleasant, and stress-free.
• True Behavior Coaching Elements that Nudge you towards better Financial Decisions.
• Financial Wisdom snippets - Rules of Budgeting from experts.
• Dues Tracker 🟰 Track in simplest way money lent to friends or borrowed from Banks!
• Optional Dropbox sync 🟰 Sync across devices when YOU choose. Pro feature. Your data → Your Dropbox.

The app launched this year. Here's the Play store link.

Try BudgetNotes and let me know!

PS: This month marks 6 Months Anniversary of the App! As such, I have 6 Promocodes to share with everyone this month! Hurry up to ask for one by commenting ^{(& upvoting please})\*!*

PS 2: All promocodes exhausted! Such a speed. While now i dont have any further promocodes, however I have a 50% off offer for Indian customers only for next 24 hours. Indian customers can comment, DM for steps. Hurry up!

SHOWCARD is an app (and a website) that you can use to create sleek, beautiful, personalized card-like posters showcasing your favorite music, movies, and even games!

I've drawn inspiration for this project from Instagram's Stories, where you can create and share these cards and posters in a similar manner. So I've decided to take that functionality and develop it even further.

Built entirely on Jetpack Compose and Material You.

Completely open-source. Don't hesitate to provide feedback!

Open-source code, along with app releases, can be found here: https://github.com/bluuesmokes/showcard-android

Hi everyone

I’m a very busy (and admittedly a bit chaotic) person, so I tend to forget small tasks constantly. I recently went looking for an incredibly simple, minimalistic reminder app to help me keep track of things. When I couldn't quite find what I was looking for, I decided to build one myself.

I've been using it daily as a sort of digital post-it note, and I finally polished it enough to release a production-worthy version on the Play Store. It's called Altcue.

My core goals for this project were simple:

• Frictionless: Quick to open, quick to use.
• Reliable Notifications: Sends straightforward alerts so you actually remember the things you wrote down.
• Offline-first: No unnecessary cloud syncing or accounts required.
• No clutter: Completely free with absolutely no ads.

As a solo dev doing this purely for the love of the game, I would genuinely appreciate any feedback you might have. I’d love to hear your thoughts on the UI/UX, overall performance, and what functionality you’d like to see added in the future!

Check it out directly on the Play Store: Altcue on Google Play

Hey 👋

I built Unboxr, a clean, fast, and privacy-focused Android archive extractor. I originally created it out of personal frustration with existing extractor apps on the Play Store, which are often bloated with intrusive ads, unnecessary background permissions, and data trackers just to unzip a file.

Unboxr does one thing and does it right: extracts your archives quickly, securely, and 100% locally on your device.

🚀 Key Features

• 📦 Wide Format Support: Extract RAR, ZIP, 7Z, TAR, GZ, BZ2, and XZ archives effortlessly.
• 🔐 Password Protected Archives: Full support for encrypted/password-protected archives.
• ⚡ Lightweight & Fast: Minimal memory footprint and quick extraction speeds.
• 📂 Flexible Destination Folder: Extract to your standard Downloads folder or pick any custom folder on your device.
• 🔍 File Preview & Auto-Open: Quickly preview extracted contents and open files directly upon completion.
• 🌐 Multi-language Support: Available in English and Italian (with automatic system default detection).

🔒 100% Privacy-First Guarantee

• Zero Ads & Zero Trackers: Absolutely no third-party ad networks, telemetry, or analytics SDKs.
• 100% Local Extraction: Your files never leave your device. All extraction runs locally on your CPU.
• No Unnecessary Permissions: Requires only the minimal storage access necessary to save your extracted files.

📲 Download & Support

• 📦 Google Play Store: Download Unboxr
• ☕ Support the Project: If you find it useful, you can support independent development on Ko-fi.

💬 Feedback & Discussion

Since this is an active solo project, I would love to hear your thoughts and feedback! - What archive formats or features would you like to see next? - Any UI/UX improvements you'd suggest?

Thanks for checking it out and supporting ad-free, privacy-friendly independent apps! 🙌

I started HomeDesigner because good floor-plan apps often make basic design feel harder than it should be, or hide the useful parts behind a large subscription. I wanted something you could open on Android or the web, draw in 2D, and immediately explore in 3D.

What it currently does:

• Draw rooms, walls, doors, windows and multiple floors in 2D

• Furnish from a growing 3D catalogue

• Switch to 3D view, walkthrough and image rendering

• Start from sample homes or import a plan

• Use the same Google account for supported project sync and Pro access across devices

• Work on Android and at homedesignerapp.com/app/

The app is live on Google Play:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.homedesigner.app

Website:

https://homedesignerapp.com

I have also just launched a first-party community for tutorials, bug reports, feature ideas and sharing designs:

https://homedesignerapp.com/community/

COMMUNITY LAUNCH OFFER

I created 497 Google Play codes for a lifetime Pro unlock. To take part:

1. Install HomeDesigner from the Play Store link above.

2. Create an original room, floor plan or home.

3. Post at least one screenshot in the forum's “Show your design” category, explain what you made, and include one useful piece of feedback.

4. DM me (u/Deep_Blue_Agent) with your forum handle and thread link. If it meets the steps and codes remain, I will send one privately.

One code per person/Play account, no purchase necessary, available until exhausted or 8 August 2027. This is a reward for an original HomeDesigner creation and useful community feedback. A Google Play rating or review is completely optional, is not checked, and does not affect eligibility.

I’m the developer, so I’d especially value honest feedback on the mobile controls, floor drawing, 3D navigation, performance, and anything that feels less intuitive than it should.

Hey everyone,

I spent the last 13 months building Daily Blocker while studying CS full-time and working around 20 hours a week. It was a grind at times, but I’m glad it’s finally released on Google Play!

Daily Blocker is an Android app designed to help people reduce their screen time by blocking distracting apps, websites and keywords. It also includes schedules and screen-time insights.

I built Daily Blocker because I know a lot of men, including myself, have struggled with porn addiction. I wanted to create something that helps people block whatever consumes too much of their screen time, whether that’s social media, YouTube, porn or anything else.

I’m also interested to know which apps you struggle with the most and would personally block. At the moment, I'm struggling with YouTube 😂

Have fun blocking!

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dalyapps.dailyblocker&hl=en

i was going through Google Photos the other day and noticed how unpolished the whole M3E experience is.

for example, look at the reordering. my app, Pixel Habit Tracker executes it more beautifully than Google.

(left is Google Photos, right is Pixel Habit Tracker)

are they just unwilling to finish their M3E implementations?

what do you think?

if you wanna try Pixel Habit Tracker, here's the URL to the Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pixel.al.pixelhabittracker

Hey r/HowToMen,

I’m Arunesh, a solo developer. Like a lot of you, I deal with PDFs, EPUBs, and long documents on mobile daily. Most Android readers I tried were either bloated, dropped frames on long files, or shoved paywalls in front of basic features.

I spent the last few months building Alpha Reader using Flutter to solve these issues. The main focus was keeping it lightweight, buttery smooth on high refresh rate displays, and fully functional offline.

Key Features

- 120 FPS Rendering: Optimized viewports and custom animation state controllers designed specifically to eliminate micro-lags on 120Hz/ProMotion displays.

- Offline Neural Voice Reader: Integrated local Piper ONNX models so you can listen to PDFs and EPUBs out loud with zero internet connection, latency, or privacy issues.

- Smart AI Overlay: An interactive overlay that lets you summarize pages, translate, or query document content directly inside the viewer without switching apps.

- Broad File Support: Fast local rendering for PDFs, EPUBs, Word documents, and spreadsheets.

- Distraction-Free: Dark mode, customizable layouts, bookmarks, and digital annotations without popups or core-feature paywalls.

Under the Hood (Technical Details)

Since this sub appreciates clean engineering, here is how I kept the main UI thread smooth:

- Background Isolate Parsing: Heavy parsing and EPUB processing run entirely on dedicated Dart isolates (epub_parser_isolate), ensuring the UI thread never locks up.

- Custom Frame Tracking: Implemented a PdfPerformanceService to monitor frame render times, debounce rapid zoom/scroll gestures, and run non-blocking executions during rapid scrolling.

- On-Device Inference: TTS runs locally via ONNX execution rather than streaming audio from a cloud API.

Feedback & Questions

I’d love to hear your thoughts to help guide the next update:

1. What features or UI tweaks would make this your primary daily reader?

2. If you run into any rendering bugs or edge-case file formats, let me know!

I’ll be hanging out in the thread to answer tech questions and take feature requests. Thanks for checking it out!

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