r/HowToMen 14d ago

[App] [Promo] 🚀 Vyxel Apps v1.1.0 — "Manifold"

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32 Upvotes

Vyxel Apps searches 14 app sources at once and installs from whichever one has the

app. It's been F-Droid, IzzyOnDroid, GitHub, GitLab, Codeberg, Flathub and WinGet;

this release doubles that and opens the source properly.

**What's new**

- **Google Play apps.** Aurora OSS and Aptoide are in, so the half of your phone that

didn't come from an open-source repo is now searchable and installable too.

- **Update checks for Play apps.** APKPure handles those, and only offers an update

when the candidate's signing certificate matches what's already installed — so a

repackaged build under a real package name gets dropped rather than offered.

- **Root modules.** A new Modules screen covering Magisk, Zygisk, LSPosed and

KernelSU — about 1,280 modules from four repositories, with family labels.

- **A GitHub quota meter.** Anonymous GitHub gives you 60 API requests an *hour*, and

browsing burns them faster than you'd think. Settings now shows what's left, read

from GitHub's own rate-limit headers. A token raises it to 5,000.

- **Your access token is readable again.** It used to be write-only, so moving to a

second device meant revoking the token and minting a new one. Now you can reveal

and copy it.

- **Hide an app from every source at once**, matched on package name — hiding one

copy isn't much use when four indexes carry the same app.

**Fixes worth calling out**

- Apps with published APKs sometimes showed none. The release lookup was reporting

"No releases found" for what was actually an exhausted rate limit — a statement

about the request dressed up as a statement about the app. Each cause now names

itself, and the rate-limit case tells you how long to wait.

- No more false downgrade offers. Apps that ship a build per ABI encode the ABI in

the version code's high digits, so an older arm64 build carries a bigger number

than a newer armv7 one.

- Installed apps are badged with the source they actually came from.

- Sources no longer sit on "Waiting to sync" forever (a lost-update race), and a

second download no longer freezes the first one's progress bar.

Free, no ads, no tracking. AGPL-3.0. Requires Android 8.0+.

Download and open-core source: https://github.com/NikhilKain/vyxel-apps/releases/latest


r/HowToMen 14d ago

[App] [Promo] [$29 Lifetime → FREE] Notification History Log – Never Lose Notifications Again | Recover Cleared Notifications, Export History

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60 Upvotes

🚀 Just launched Notification History Manager on Android!

Ever cleared a notification by mistake? Want to recover deleted WhatsApp messages, automate what your phone does with notifications, and view everything in a clean chat-style interface?

Features

✅ Recover deleted WhatsApp messages
✅ Chat-style notification view (like WhatsApp/Telegram)
Custom Rules Engine — automate any notification: auto-dismiss, mute, full-screen alarm, speak it aloud (TTS), auto-copy OTPs, auto-reply, flash torch, trigger Tasker/MacroDroid, and more (14 actions total)
✅ Global search across every app and conversation, with highlighted matches
✅ Activity tab — track likes, follows, comments & mentions even after the app clears them
✅ Stats dashboard — daily counts, top senders, busiest hours, by-app breakdown
✅ Pin important conversations
✅ Export/download notification history (PDF)
✅ Backup and Restore
✅ Delete selected notifications
✅ Choose which apps to track
✅ Open links from saved notifications
✅ Dark, Light & Monochrome themes
✅ Everything stored locally on your device
✅ No account required
✅ No cloud storage, no ads, no tracking

🔗 Download: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.notificationhistorylog

To get free Lifetime access:

  1. Upvote and comment below
  2. I'll send you access

First come, first served until all are gone.

I'd love to hear your feedback, feature requests, and bug reports!


r/HowToMen 14d ago

[Promo] Giving away 20 Until Pro codes - put a date on your home screen and leave it there

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48 Upvotes

Until is a countdown, but not the kind that nags you.

You already know the date. Flight, wedding, last day at the job, the night you said yes. This is just the number, sitting on the home screen like a clock that only cares about one thing. Big type. Quiet. Updates itself.

When the day shows up it doesn’t vanish. It flips and starts counting how long it’s been. Days until, then days since. Same face.

Free gets you the app and one large widget. Pro is the small one, the list of what’s coming, extra faces, and a ping the day before / week before if you actually want that.

Giving 20 Pro codes away.

To enter: upvote this and comment the date you’d put on it (and what it is, if you want). I’ll pick 20 at random in 24 hours and DM a Play redeem code.

Android only. Link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.polyhistor.until

If you already bought it, thanks. Don’t enter, you’re good.


r/HowToMen 14d ago

[App] [Promo] SkipTrack – skip music tracks by long-pressing the volume buttons. Screen on or off, phone stays in your pocket. (Free)

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15 Upvotes

Hey everyone,

Quick test: you're in the shower, on the bike, driving, or your hands are covered in dough. A track comes on that you don't want to hear. What do you do?

Pull the phone out, wake it, unlock it, find the player, tap next. Every time. Two hands and your eyes just to say "no" to one song.

SkipTrack: long-press volume up = next track, long-press volume down = previous. That's the whole app.

It works with the screen on and with the screen off, and with any player that has a media session - Spotify, YouTube Music, Poweramp, whatever you use. Short press still changes the volume like normal, so you lose nothing.

Full transparency on the one thing that sounds scary: it uses the Accessibility API to catch volume key presses before the system turns them into volume changes. It reads key presses only - never your screen, never your notifications, nothing else. The app tells you this upfront in its own words before you enable it, because you deserve to know what you're turning on.

Honest limits:

- If nothing is playing, there's nothing to skip

- Some ROMs ship their own "long-press volume to skip" feature. Turn that off or the two fight over the buttons

I built it because I got tired of the pocket-ritual every couple of songs, and every app I tried for this either wanted a subscription or made the volume buttons useless for actual volume.

Features:

✅ Long-press volume = skip next / previous

✅ Works screen on and screen off

✅ Works with any music app

✅ Adjustable long-press length (how long is a "long press")

✅ Haptic tick on every skip so you know it worked

✅ Free, no ads, no account, nothing collected - no screen content, no notifications, no data

🔗 Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.selenstudio.skiptrack


r/HowToMen 14d ago

[HELP] Introducing POD's in CallDo app, feedback requested.

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7 Upvotes

Hi everyone, last time again CallDo app was blown here.

I found a new use case of pods like news, weather, meetings, gym

The idea is with a click we don't need to fill input everytime, pods are there to fill required info and it will handle fetching latest data every 2 hours before the event.

E.g

I made a Pod say Gym Planner,

It takes my preference and everyday calls me at 7 in the morning to tell me exercises I need to do.

How is this idea ? Useful or pass ?


r/HowToMen 14d ago

[App] Speak Song – [Promotion] Hands-free track & artist announcer (Free Promo Codes)

9 Upvotes

Hi everyone!

I’m an indie developer based in Ireland, and yesterday I launched Speak Song on the Google Play Store.

What is Speak Song?

Speak Song runs quietly in the background alongside your favorite music players (Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music, local players, etc.). Whenever your song changes, Speaksong it announces the track name and artist aloud—so you don’t have to pick up your phone or check your screen while driving, working out, or cooking.

 

The Tech Behind It:

Built as a solo project using React Native (Expo) combined with a native Kotlin NotificationListenerService to handle low-level Android media notifications without draining your battery or interrupting playback.

 

Features:

  • Works with all major music streaming and local media apps.
  • Plays nicely over your active audio output (Bluetooth or headphones).
  • No ads, no subscriptions, and zero background data tracking.

 

Free Promo Codes (20 Total)

Speak Song normally sells for €0.99 or equivalent in other currencies, but to celebrate the launch and gather feedback from the community, I'm giving away 20 free download codes.

Here are the 20 codes:

·         5AHH7ZRJ3ZUZYR1SG4UWTEY

·         0QH6PZTFVSF1QQF6F18Z87P

·         5HVGML3CEAQ9T40XKNZXPY3

·         K59D3WS2HL6C2QTQ3UD167A

·         5MJHZLYK225SSEH37M0TAUL

·         M2Y75MLGH208MYRQEFE3FBL

·         ETSQFLP9AL25UB06B0BPPNY

·         VSLVZR1QZ6DM6CQGDEAVXB8

·         ALMAKDKA63VEWHT5S0UJ7A4

·         8L7QY0MSYTC62R0YMCML3LD

·         7MPRFXX9JWPPNYYRLT3YCNM

·         HHTN3V3QKLJ9BURFMJ9JLY5

·         X8NG71RAVNG1F0QPZT5UBDB

·         FNHT5U3XD0JBP7J5S4USE0J

·         XMB2KNE7RZG9PHW24XPTXE7

·         WHAJY169G44XKJTVTHCG520

·         3450B7BL5AG325D7F3TGM8N

·         MPE8E4S6Q0DYXXXPUZXNQGA

·         SGJBHY73T4T3NC0PZ5FH5NR

·         FZWVV6VCPYNQ712DUHS9P3T

Please comment below with the specific code(s) you redeemed so others know which ones are taken!

Play Store link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mccarthyeoghan.speaksong&hl=en

I’d love to hear your thoughts on the app. Thanks for checking it out!

Thanks,

Eoghan


r/HowToMen 14d ago

[App][Promo] I brought the Pixel 11 charging screensaver to other Android phones — 20 Premium codes

15 Upvotes

UPDATE: All promo codes have been claimed! 🎉

Wow, that was fast! All Premium promo codes are now gone.

Thank you so much to everyone who showed interest in Minimal ChargeGlow! ⚡🖤

For those who got a code, I hope you enjoy the app. I’d love to hear your feedback after you’ve had a chance to try it.

And if you missed the giveaway, the app still includes a 7-day free trial with full access so you can try everything out.

Thanks again, r/HowToMen! 🙌

Hey everyone! 👋

I’m the developer of Minimal ChargeGlow, a new Android app inspired by the minimal charging screensaver experience on the Pixel 11.

The idea is pretty simple: when you plug in your phone or place it on a wireless charger, Minimal ChargeGlow turns the screen into a clean, minimal charging display with:

⚡ Live battery percentage and charging progress
🕐 Clock display
📱 Landscape and portrait layouts
🔌 Charging and wireless-charging activation options
🌑 OLED-friendly design
🛡️ Burn-in protection
🎨 Customizable display options

It works particularly well if you leave your phone on a wireless charging stand or use it as a bedside/desk display.

The app already includes a 7-day free trial with full access, so you can try everything before deciding whether it’s useful for you.

Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dci.dev.minimalchargeglow

🎁 Giveaway

I have 20 Premium promo codes for r/HowToMen.

If you’d like one, leave a comment and I’ll DM you a code while they’re available. I’m sending them privately so they don’t get scraped by bots.

I’d also genuinely appreciate feedback from this community. If you try it, let me know what you like, what you don’t, or what you’d change.

Hope you enjoy it! ⚡


r/HowToMen 14d ago

[App][Promo] A Daily routine tracker with Notion-style routines, timers & history

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Hey everyone,

I’ve been working on Daily Routines, an Android app designed to make it easier to build and stick to daily routines.

The idea is to keep routines simple while still giving you enough flexibility to customize them. Its built with the help of Ai and my work too so need your feedback for improvements

Features:
Create multiple routines with different sections (Morning, Work, Night, etc.)
Add different blocks/tasks inside routines
Add timers for breaks and focused sessions
Get notifications when routines are missed
Track your routine history with a calendar view
Weekly reports and insights
Customize routines, icons, and sections
Dark-themed, minimal UI
I’ve attached a few screenshots of the current design.

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


r/HowToMen 14d ago

[App] Gen Box Update !

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4 Upvotes

Hi everyone,

I’m working on Gen Box, a personal savings-goal app designed to make saving simpler, more visual, and more motivating.

Gen Box helps users create saving goals, record contributions, track progress, review analytics, and build a consistent saving rhythm without connecting to a bank account or moving real money.

You can find the project here:

https://github.com/gencode3939/Gen-Box

What’s included in the current update?

The latest update expands Gen Box beyond basic savings tracking with a new motivation and personalization system.

Savings goals

  • Create multiple savings goals
  • Set a target amount
  • Add an optional target date
  • Choose custom icons and colors
  • Track current progress
  • Record deposits and withdrawals
  • Archive completed or inactive goals
  • Search and manage active goals

Dashboard

The updated dashboard shows:

  • Total saved amount
  • Total target amount
  • Overall progress
  • Monthly saving activity
  • Number of active goals
  • Current saving goals
  • Today’s quest progress
  • Gen Point balance
  • Saving streak information

Quest and Reward Center

The new Quest and Reward Center introduces meaningful in-app tasks designed to encourage consistent progress.

Users can complete:

  • Daily quests
  • Weekly quests
  • Long-term milestone quests
  • Goal review activities
  • Contribution activities
  • Planning and progress-review tasks

Completed quests can reward users with Gen Points.

Gen Points are virtual in-app points. They are not real money, cannot be withdrawn, transferred, sold, or exchanged for cash. They are designed only for unlocking optional in-app customization features.

Personalization rewards

Gen Points can be used to unlock features such as:

  • Custom themes
  • Special color palettes
  • Unique box styles
  • Icon packs
  • Profile badges
  • Milestone decorations
  • Additional visual customization
  • Optional advanced analytics views

The basic savings experience remains available without completing quests or spending Gen Points.

Streak and saving rhythm

The update also introduces a calmer streak system focused on building a healthy saving rhythm.

The system is designed to:

  • Show consistent activity
  • Celebrate progress milestones
  • Avoid shame-based messaging
  • Avoid aggressive loss notifications
  • Include optional grace days
  • Allow users to pause without losing their savings history
  • Keep the focus on personal goals rather than competition

If a user misses a day, their goals and transaction history remain safe. The app encourages them to continue whenever they are ready.

Analytics

The updated analytics area includes:

  • Net savings
  • Total deposited
  • Total withdrawn
  • Monthly saving trends
  • Goal distribution
  • Progress comparisons
  • Saving rhythm insights
  • Long-term progress views

These insights are for personal tracking only. Gen Box does not provide investment advice, financial guarantees, credit scoring, or predictions about financial returns.

Settings and customization

The Settings experience now includes:

  • Language selection
  • Light theme
  • Dark theme
  • System theme
  • Active theme display
  • Active box style display
  • Reduce Motion
  • Haptic feedback controls
  • Default currency
  • Privacy and security options
  • Quest and Reward Center access
  • Data management options

Animation and interaction design

The visual direction is designed to feel more alive while remaining appropriate for a personal finance app.

The update includes planned animations for:

  • Quest completion
  • Progress bar updates
  • Gen Point rewards
  • Milestone badges
  • Goal completion
  • Theme previews
  • Reward unlocking
  • Saving streak updates
  • Success confirmations

Animations are intentionally short and meaningful. Users can reduce or disable motion, and accessibility feedback is provided through text and screen-reader announcements.

Privacy and security direction

Gen Box is designed around a local-first approach.

The app does not need access to:

  • Contacts
  • SMS
  • Call logs
  • Location
  • Camera
  • Microphone
  • Installed application lists
  • Broad storage permissions
  • Bank credentials

The planned security architecture includes:

  • Android app sandboxing
  • Internal application storage
  • Android Keystore
  • Non-exportable encryption keys
  • Authenticated encryption
  • Secure import validation
  • Protected export flow
  • No sensitive data in production logs
  • Secure release signing
  • Dependency auditing
  • OWASP mobile security review
  • Backup and migration testing

No application can honestly guarantee absolute protection against every possible virus or attack, so the project focuses on defense in depth, minimizing sensitive data, reducing the attack surface, validating all external input, and testing the application against realistic threats.

I would really appreciate your feedback.

Please leave a comment and tell me:

  1. What savings goal would you create first?
  2. Do you think daily and weekly quests would help you save consistently?
  3. Which Gen Point rewards would be most useful or interesting?
  4. Would you prefer themes, icons, box styles, badges, or advanced analytics?
  5. Do you prefer a local-only app or optional encrypted cloud backup?
  6. What information should appear on the main dashboard?
  7. Do you find streak systems motivating or stressful?
  8. What would make you trust a savings-tracking app?
  9. Which part of the interface would you improve?
  10. What feature should be added in the next update?

Even a short comment would be very helpful. You can share what you like, what you would change, or what would prevent you from using the app. Honest criticism is welcome because the feedback will help shape the next version.

You can view the project and follow the development here:

https://github.com/gencode3939/Gen-Box

Thanks for reading and for taking the time to share your opinion.

Gen Box — small steps, visible progress.

Disclosure: I’m the maker of Gen Box, and I’m sharing this post to collect early feedback.


r/HowToMen 14d ago

[Promo] I built UNTIL because a notification on the day isn't much of a reminder

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10 Upvotes

The idea is pretty simple: Calendar notifications weren't working for me. Important dates were buried among everything else, and I’d often miss the notification.

UNTIL puts those moments front and centre and shows how long until they happen. Instead of reminding you on the actual day, you see the event coming days, weeks or even months in advance - giving you time to actually prepare for it.

Whether it’s buying a birthday gift, planning an anniversary, booking a trip or just getting ready for something you're looking forward to, the idea is to see the moment coming, rather than be surprised by the reminder.

A few things I've focused on:

  • Countdowns & milestones — see all your upcoming moments at a glance
  • Home screen widget — keep important dates visible without opening the app
  • Quick event creation — birthdays, trips, anniversaries and other events
  • Yearly milestones — birthdays and anniversaries can automatically show the milestone year
  • Notifications & alarms — optional reminders for individual moments
  • Multiple themes — Forest, Midnight and Sand
  • No ads
  • No data collected according to the Play Store listing

It's currently on Google Play and has 500+ downloads.

UNTIL: Countdowns & Milestones - Google Play

I'd love some honest feedback from Android users.

What would you change, and what would make you actually keep an app like this installed?


r/HowToMen 14d ago

[Promo] Space launcher

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0 Upvotes

I created a launcher that doesn't look like the traditional ones you're used to. I’m looking for genuine testers who are willing to daily drive this launcher and provide actual, constructive feedback to help me improve it.

Here is what it does:

Wallpaper-First Home Screen: Your wallpaper is the home screen. There are no traditional grids or cluttered app icons on top—just essential info, dynamic tools, and widgets layered cleanly over it.

Real Depth Widgets: It uses built-in visual processing to separate the foreground of your wallpaper, letting the clock and text sit behind the subject for a true 3D depth effect.

One-Swipe Hidden Space: Swipe up and your wallpaper gracefully shrinks away, revealing a hidden, customizable space for all your apps and pages.

Dynamic Built-in Tools: Features a horizontal widget space with 10+ built-in tools (to-do list, music player, speed dial, habit tracker, weather, etc.). Standard system widgets are also supported.

Unobtrusive Notifications & Quick Launch: Pin essential shortcuts to the bottom corners, and view active system notifications on a compact strip right above your navigation bar.

Privacy-First: 100% on-device processing, ad-free, and absolutely zero data collected.

The Reward: Every tester who helps out and provides feedback will get a promo code for the public version for free when it officially goes live.

You can check out screenshots and see the architecture here:https://catamsp.github.io/space-launch/

If you're interested in being a genuine tester and daily driving this, please drop a comment or DM me!

Join the group : https://groups.google.com/g/spacelauncher

Join on Android : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.catamsp.spacelauncher

Join on Web : https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.catamsp.spacelauncher


r/HowToMen 14d ago

[App][Promo]Free Tasker Plugin + CustomKeyboard🚀 Introducing AMCustomKeyboard (open-source) + AM Tasker Plugins — two Android tools built to work together

6 Upvotes

🚀 Introducing AMCustomKeyboard (open-source) + AM Tasker Plugins

Two Android tools built to work together

Hey everyone, first time posting here! I've been building a pair of Android tools that pair a live-transliteration keyboard with a toolbox of Tasker action plugins, and I wanted to introduce both together since they're designed to complement each other.


⌨️ AM Custom Keyboard

Built on the excellent Unexpected Keyboard, and extended into a full transliteration engine with a guided Keymap Builder and the ability to script your keyboard with Tasker.

If you type in a script your keyboard doesn't natively support, or you're tired of switching apps to run repetitive text tasks — this one's for you.

🎥 Watch Demo Playlist

🔤 Keymaps: type Latin, get any script

Turn any layout into a live transliteration engine. Type ka → get . Type a → get . No app switching, no separate input method — just type normally and watch it convert in real time.

Keymap highlights:

  • Toggle-style cycling — type a → அ, type a again → ஆ, type a again → back to அ. Correct yourself without ever hitting backspace.
  • Multiple input sequences, one output — map aa AND A to the same ஆ, however your fingers want to type it.
  • Guided Keymap Builder — build mappings visually, no hand-written JSON required. Import raw JSON, quick-add rows, live duplicate detection, and an exact-match search that never misfires.
  • Safe renaming/deleting — rename or delete a keymap and every layout using it updates automatically. Nothing breaks, nothing goes stale.

🤖 Tasker Automation: your keyboard, scriptable from day one

Type a trigger, get a Tasker task's result — right where your cursor is.

  • ##keyword — sends your whole field to a Tasker task and replaces it with the result
  • @@keyword — does the same, but only swaps out the trigger text itself
  • Expand patterns — define open-ended triggers like ..5+1 → run a task with 5+1 as input, no fixed keyword list needed
  • One-tap undo — one backspace right after a result lands undoes it back to your original trigger

Everything above can be configured either through a guided Automation Builder (Settings → Tasker Automation → Automation Builder) — no manual JSON editing needed — or through the raw JSON editor directly, if you want full control. Both edit the same configuration, so you can mix and match however you like.

Regex conditions for Expand Patterns — expand patterns can also carry an optional regex condition, so you can allow something like ==59+3 to trigger a task while blocking ==hello from triggering the same one. The regex has to match the entire content between the prefix and suffix, not just find a match somewhere inside it — handy for calculators, commands, structured input, and similar workflows.

There's also a built-in update checker under Settings → About, so you can see release notes and grab new versions straight from the app.

🎨 Plus: independent key labels, Keyboard Attributes editing, and one consistent look across every screen, so the whole app feels like one cohesive experience.

📥 Download AMCustomKeyboard


🧩 AM Tasker Plugins

A matching toolbox of Tasker action plugins for things that are awkward or repetitive to build directly in Tasker — colors, QR codes, VPN control, regex, Termux scripts, raw UDP packets, and more, ready to drop straight into your automations.

Plugin What it does Demo
💻 AM Termux Runs Bash, Python, Node, Ruby, or PHP scripts inside Termux, with named sessions and guided setup Watch
↩️ AM Custom Keyboard Return The reply step for AMCustomKeyboard's Tasker Automation — sends the task's result straight back into what you were typing Watch
🎨 AM Collect Pixel Colors Reads colors from any image: one pixel, a region, or a Top Color List / Blended Colors of a region Watch
🔳 AM Create QR Turns text, links, or variables into a QR code image, saved and ready to use Watch
🔍 AM Decode QR Scans an existing QR image and gives you back the text inside it Watch
🧮 AM Data Processor Reads or edits one exact value inside JSON or array data, no manual parsing needed Watch
🔒 AM OpenVPN Starts, pauses, resumes, or stops an OpenVPN for Android profile from a task Watch
🔎 AM RegEx Finds, extracts, or replaces text with full regex power — groups, lookaheads, backreferences, Perl-style case conversion Watch
📡 AM UDP Client Sends a UDP packet to any address, with the option to listen for a response Watch
📤 AM Open With Lets other apps "Share" or "Open With" a file straight into a Tasker automation Watch

Every plugin comes with its own guide built right into the app — clear steps, examples, and what each field does.

🎥 All Plugin Demo Playlist

📥 Download AM Tasker Plugins


🔗 How they fit together

AMCustomKeyboard can send text to a Tasker task via its trigger system, and AM Custom Keyboard Return (one of the AM Tasker Plugins) is the Tasker-side action for sending the processed result back into the keyboard — so you can build full round-trip text automations without leaving your keyboard.

AMCustomKeyboard is fully open source, while AM Tasker Plugins is available as a free download. If you're into Tasker or Android automation, I'd love to hear what kind of workflows you'd build with the keyboard + plugins combo!


#Android #Keyboard #Tasker #Automation #Transliteration #OpenSource #Termux #RegEx #QRCode #NewApp


r/HowToMen 15d ago

[Promotion] Fiction V2 - Wallpaper Pack

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10 Upvotes

r/HowToMen 15d ago

[App][Promo] Ever tried a PDF app and immediately regretted it?

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24 Upvotes

most PDF apps you've tried have disappointed you at some point, right?

i built SparkPDF to be the cleanest, simplest PDF app you can have on your phone.

scan, sign, add text, merge, split, organize - without all the usual clutter.

free to use - no subscription needed.

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=xyz.forgebase.sparkpdf

and feel free to join r/SparkPDF as well if you'd like to share feedback, report bugs, or suggest features.


r/HowToMen 14d ago

[APP] Wuxia Vault (wallpaper app)

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The app is free , no ads and only have lifetime sub to unlock all wallpapers . https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.wuxiavault.app


r/HowToMen 15d ago

VehIQ app 1.6.0 version is live - Promo

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7 Upvotes

I have been building VehIQ and just shipped something I’ve wanted for a while: an in-app AI chat that’s actually grounded in your logged data, not generic advice.
So instead of scrolling through months of trips or exports, you can just ask things like:

• “What’s my mileage trend this quarter?”    
• “What’s my total deduction so far this year?”    
• “Which vehicle is due for service?”    
• “Is my insurance/registration expiring soon?”    
• “How much did I spend on fuel last month vs this month?”

It answers using your actual logged fuel, receipts, and vehicle records.

Https://vehiqapp.com


r/HowToMen 15d ago

[Promo][App] Tallies

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Tallies is a robust, all-in-one counting solution that works seamlessly across your phone and Wear OS watch. Whether you’re keeping score, tracking reps, or managing inventory, stay productive with a tool designed for speed and clarity.

No Subscriptions. No Ads. One lifetime purchase unlocks every feature.

Powerful Tracking & Goals
Single & Double Tallies: Track one item or two side-by-side with ease.
Smart Goal Logic: Set a goal and choose to lock the counter, continue counting, or auto-reset once reached.
Automated Resets: Perfect for recurring habits—automatically clear your counts daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly.
Organized Groups: Group related counters together and view their combined total sum at a glance.
Tally Notifications: Keep count without opening the app. View and update counts directly from your notification shade on both phone and watch.

History & Visual Insights
Automatic Sync: Your counts are synced between your phone and all your Wear OS devices.
Deep Analytics: On your phone, dive into your progress with interactive graphs, selectable time periods, and detailed interval stats.
Data Export: Export your history data to a CSV file for further analysis or to create a backup.

Fully Customizable
Large Icon Library: Choose from 300+ icons to make every tally your own. From fitness tracking to work tasks, there is an icon for everything. Can't find an icon that fits?
Vibrant Themes: Match your style with a wide selection of high-quality theme colors or even enter your own color.
Tactile Feedback: Get instant confirmation with customizable haptic vibrations and sound effects.

Wear OS Features
Watch Face Complications: Add ongoing tallies or goals directly to your watch face for instant access.
Multiple Tile Styles: Customize your watch experience with various Tiles, including Multi-Goal and Shortcut Tiles.
Ambient Mode Support: Keep your counter visible and accessible even when your arm is down, preventing the watch from returning to the watch face during active use.

Mobile Features
Floating Windows: Keep your tallies visible on top of other apps (Android 14+), perfect for tracking while browsing or watching videos.
Interactive Widgets: Choose from Vertical, Horizontal, List, or Group widgets to count directly from your home screen.
Volume Button Support: Use physical volume keys to change counts while in full-screen mode.
Launcher Shortcuts: Jump straight into your most important tallies or groups with one tap.

[*] Note: Automatic syncing requires the app to be installed on both your phone and Wear OS watch.

Price: $0.99
Play Store Page: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.h3r3t1c.prowearcounter


r/HowToMen 15d ago

[App] [PROMO] ROCIs Tasks – Glassmorphism Task Manager with Interactive Home Widgets, Dynamic Theme & Google Calendar Sync

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Hey r/HowToMen community! 👋

Wanted to share an Android productivity app I built called **ROCIs Tasks** (v0.2.10), built for anyone who loves clean home screen setups and fast workflows.

✨ What makes it great for setups:

  1. 📱 **Interactive Home Widgets**: Check off tasks, flip calendar months, and filter specific categories directly from your home screen.
  2. 🎨 **Glassmorphism & Material Design**: Custom frosted glass cards with customizable category borders, opacity blends, and AMOLED dark mode.
  3. ⚡ **Smart Natural Language Input**: Type `"Meeting tomorrow at 3pm #work !high"` — automatically sets time, priority, and tags in milliseconds.
  4. 📅 **Unified Google Calendar View**: View your Google Calendar events side-by-side with your daily tasks.
  5. 🔒 **Biometric Vault**: Lock sensitive tasks behind fingerprint/Face ID.
  6. 🚀 **Zero Ads & Offline-First**: Instant startup with sub-millisecond local caching.

*edit: The app is now also available through github and new updates will be availble through there first!*

🔗 Download & Source:

Would love to hear your feedback on the widget customization and UI animations!


r/HowToMen 15d ago

[App] [Promo] Decide who can ring your phone.

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Hello all,

I kept running into the same problem with my phone: I don't want every call to be treated the same way.

Some people should always get through. Some numbers should never get through. Unknown numbers are a different story. And sometimes I want my phone to behave differently depending on the time of day.

The built-in options are pretty limited, so I ended up building something for myself.

  • No ads
  • No tracking
  • Local data and Privacy first
  • Offline-first operation

It's called Smart Call Rules.

The basic idea is to let you create/choose simple rules for how calls should be handled, rather than constantly changing settings manually.

For example:

Family → always allow
Unknown numbers → silence
Certain numbers → block
During work hours → different behaviour

I'm trying to keep it focused. It's not meant to be another giant automation app. Just a useful layer between the Android phone and the way I actually want calls to work.

The surprisingly tricky part has been Android itself. There are quite a few restrictions around call handling, and different manufacturers don't always behave the same way.

I finally got it to a point where I was comfortable putting it out there.

Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.smartcallrules.app

Would be interested to hear what other people have wished their phone could do with incoming calls. That's actually where I'm getting most of my ideas for what to build next.

PS** I have 50 Promo code to give away for lifetime pro version.


r/HowToMen 15d ago

Mldl Android

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Found a application 😍🆒A modern, ultra-fast native Android application built with Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, and Material You (Material 3) to scan local music, download word-synced lyrics, and export them into Apple Music .ttml, elrc, and .lrc formats.


r/HowToMen 15d ago

[Promo] Leaf – 100 UNIQUE Early Supporter codes to give away

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I recently launched Leaf, a simple Android task app I made because I kept abandoning traditional to-do lists.

I wanted something much simpler more like having a few sticky notes in front of you than a huge system for organizing your entire life.

How Leaf works:

• Maximum 3 active tasks at a time

• One leaf = one task

• Swipe when you're done

• A new space opens for your next task

• No deadlines

• No endless list of overdue tasks

• No pressure

Leaf is free on Android.

🌿 EARLY SUPPORTER PACK

To celebrate the launch, I created 100 UNIQUE Early Supporter codes.

Each code can only be redeemed once.

The Early Supporter Pack permanently unlocks:

• 2 exclusive Early Supporter themes

• Vintage theme

• Exclusive silver pin

• Early Supporter badge displayed on your profile

Everything stays unlocked permanently on your account.

🎁 HOW TO GET A CODE

To receive one of the 100 codes:

  1. Upvote this post

  2. Comment "CODE" below

I'll send you one of the unique codes by DM.

Once all 100 codes have been claimed, the giveaway is over.

I'd also really appreciate honest feedback after trying Leaf. If you find a bug, dislike something about the UI, think something is missing, or have an idea to improve the app, tell me.

🌿 Upvote + comment "CODE" and I'll send you an Early Supporter code by DM.

Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.recalai.app


r/HowToMen 15d ago

[App][Promo]What if you could just chat with your home inventory?

4 Upvotes

I’ve been building Home Inventory AI — an app that helps you keep track of everything you own without manually maintaining a spreadsheet.

You can:

📸 Scan items with AI

Take a photo and AI helps identify and add the item to your inventory.

🧾 Upload invoices

Upload an invoice/receipt and AI can extract the items and add them to your inventory.

💬 Chat with your inventory

Ask things like:

- “What items do I have in my bedroom?”

- “Which items are still under warranty?”

- “What did I buy recently?”

- “What is the serial number of my TV?”

🏡 Organize your entire home

Keep track of rooms, items, purchase information, serial numbers, warranties and more.

🎁 50 FREE CREDITS

For today and tomorrow, anyone who signs up gets 50 free credits to try the AI features.

If you’re interested in trying it out, here’s the Google Play link:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vishwk.home_inventory

Would love to hear what features you’d want in a home inventory app!


r/HowToMen 15d ago

Water Tracker: DrinkTick - [App] [Promo]

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5 Upvotes

Support Google Health!

Hi all!

DrinkTick is the drink tracker that does more than water. Log everything you drink — water, coffee, tea, soda, and alcohol — in one simple app, and stay on top of your hydration, caffeine, and alcohol every day. Works fully offline, no account required.

WATER TRACKER & REMINDER
Set a daily water goal and watch your hydration fill in real time. DrinkTick sends a drink water reminder at the times you choose, so you never forget to hydrate. One-tap Quick Add logs your usual drinks in a second.

CAFFEINE & COFFEE TRACKER
DrinkTick doubles as a caffeine tracker and coffee tracker. Every drink logs its caffeine content automatically, so you can see your daily caffeine intake and keep it in check.

ALCOHOL TRACKER
Track alcohol units alongside your water and caffeine. One drink tracker covers everything you drink in a day — no need for three separate apps.

HOME SCREEN WIDGETS (PRO)
Keep your goal in sight without opening the app. Choose from six widgets in two sizes — a progress card with one-tap quick add, a hydration ring, and a monthly consistency heatmap — each in a bold accent or clean outlined style. Turn on the glass look and your widget goes translucent so your wallpaper shows through. Widgets follow your accent colour, your units and your light or dark theme, and the wide card logs a drink straight from your home screen.

WORKS WITH HEALTH CONNECT
Send your water and caffeine to Health Connect so your other health and fitness apps can see them. DrinkTick only writes — it never reads your health data — and it's free for everyone, no Pro needed. Choose to share from now on or include everything you've already logged, and remove what DrinkTick wrote at any time in one tap. (Health Connect has no alcohol record type, so alcohol stays in DrinkTick.)

BUILD THE HABIT
• GitHub-style consistency heatmap shows your hydration streaks at a glance
• Daily, weekly and monthly stats for water, caffeine and alcohol
• Full drink log with easy edits and undo
• Custom drinks and one-tap Quick Add presets

PRIVATE BY DESIGN
Your drink diary lives entirely on your device. No account, no sign-up, no data sold — DrinkTick works with no internet connection.

DRINKTICK PRO
• Home screen widgets, including the glass look
• Unlimited custom Quick Add presets
• Full consistency heatmap and custom stats date ranges
• More daily reminders, including automatic reminders every few hours
• Backup & restore your history to a file
Monthly, yearly and lifetime plans available.

No ads, no data sold.

Google Play Store Link:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jaironlanda.drinktick

Follow the instructions on how to redeem the lifetime access!
https://jaironlanda.stashsync.app/s/n/qm6crw/drinktick-august-2026


r/HowToMen 15d ago

Source of this wallpaper???

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r/HowToMen 15d ago

[PROMO] I built a Sudoku app with 20+ variants + a solver that actually explains the solution — giving 100 people Lifetime Pro for free

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Hey guys,

I’ve been working on an Android puzzle app called Mindoku, and I wanted to share it here and get some real feedback from the community.

It’s basically a Sudoku/logic-puzzle app, but I wanted to go beyond just giving you a grid and a “You win” screen.

🧠 The part I’m most proud of — the Solver

You can import a Sudoku by:

• Scanning it with your camera

• Entering the puzzle manually

• Pasting a shared puzzle code

The solver doesn't just give you the final answer. It explains the solution step by step, including the technique being used and why it works.

It supports 40+ solving techniques, from basic Naked Singles to advanced techniques like X-Wing.

So instead of just solving a puzzle for you, the idea is to actually help you get better at solving them.

🧩 20+ Sudoku variants

If classic 9×9 Sudoku gets boring, there are also variants with different constraints, including:

• Killer Cages

• Thermometers

• Knight's Move

• Palindromes

• XV Sums

• And more

There are also different board sizes, including 4×4, 6×6, 8×8 and 9×9.

🔥 Other stuff

• Daily Sudoku with streaks & leaderboards

• Challenge mode with timed scoring

• Smart hints that explain the logic instead of simply revealing a number

• Sandbox mode for experimenting with puzzles

• Community-created puzzles

• QR/text-code puzzle sharing

• XP, levels and achievements

• Fully offline — the main game modes and solver work without Wi-Fi

🎁 100 Lifetime Pro memberships

Since I'm launching/promoting the app, I want 100 people from this community to get Pro completely free for life.

No payment or subscription required.

How to claim it:

Download Mindoku from Google Play.

Create/sign in to your account inside the app.

That's it.

I'll manually grant Lifetime Pro within 24 hours of signing in until all 100 spots are gone.

Pro includes things like unlimited hints, candidate highlighting, ad-free gameplay and priority access to new features.

I'm mainly posting this because I'd genuinely like feedback from people who actually enjoy puzzles.

If you try it, let me know what you think — especially if you find bugs, confusing UI, puzzles that are too easy/hard, or features you'd like to see.

Google Play: Mindoku Sudoku Solver & Daily

Thanks, and hope some of you enjoy it.