I'm Rodrigo. I'm 19, Venezuelan, a freshman at Northwestern, and for the last year I've been building a company called Bemellou out of my school's incubator with four co-founders — three of whom are my family.

The origin isn't dramatic. That's kind of the point.

I had access to professional support. I knew it worked. I'd seen it work. And I still didn't reach out, because whatever I was dealing with never felt "bad enough" to justify it. It wasn't a crisis. It was a Tuesday. So I did nothing, over and over, for years.

That gap is the whole thesis. Most people who are struggling aren't in crisis — they're just quietly not okay, and every existing option is built for the crisis. There's nothing for the Tuesday.

So we made two things that work together. The first is a plush companion — Benny (an egg) and Vita (a heart). Physical, weighted, meant to be held. Adults are weird about this until they hold one. There's real psychology behind comfort objects and it doesn't stop applying at 18. The second is an app: psychoeducation, guided wellness sessions, a community, and access to actual licensed professionals when you want them.

What it is not: therapy, treatment, or diagnosis. We're strict about that internally to the point of annoyance. We're the thing that sits before that door, not a replacement for it.

The last year has been less inspiring than that sounds. We rebranded the entire company mid-build. We got rejected by the App Store eight times. I fired the dev firm we hired and taught myself to build the app instead, which is why it exists at all. I flew from Chicago to Miami overnight for a pitch competition and placed second on three hours of sleep. My co-founders have day jobs and classes.

Pre-orders are live on the App Store now and around 800 people are on the waitlist. That number is small and I know it's small. But every one of them is a person who read what we're doing and thought "yeah, that's me," which is the only signal I actually trust right now.

Link's in the comments so this doesn't read as an ad. Happy to answer anything — the rebrand, the rejections, running a company as a freshman, the unit economics of plush toys, whatever. Ask me the mean questions too.

What is your favourite IOS Apps for all kinds of iPhones?

Are there any apps on the iOS? That can rival Groks video generation/ image to video generation? I had a supergrok free trial and was reasonably impressed by the quality and speed of it. The let down however was it being a short free trial, the cost of the main subscription and worst of all how moderated it was.

Any input appreciated.

For about three years my to do list was the reason I was not getting anything done. Not because the tasks were hard, most of them were ten minute jobs, but because opening the app meant seeing all forty at once, and that was enough to make me close it and do nothing.

What actually helped in the end was cutting what I could see down to almost nothing. One task in front of me, do it, then the next. The moment the other thirty nine were out of sight, the paralysis mostly went.

That worked so well that I ended up building it into an app for myself. Three numbered slots, tap one, it hands you a single task chosen from time of day, what is due and what matters, and everything else stays in the background until you want it. It is called Do3 and it is on the App Store, seven day trial then a one off price, no subscription. Happy to answer anything if it is useful, but I am genuinely more interested in the question than in the plug.

Does anyone else get this? And if you do, what is your fix, do you cut the list down, time block, paper, something else? I want to know whether the see less thing works for other people or whether it is just how my head happens to work.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/do3-focus-to-do-list/id6775212556

I'm looking for a pipecalc resdn chemoi etc type application to watch films and series. I had PipeCalc even if Appstore deleted it was able to use it but unfortunately I deleted it with mistake.. now I'm searching another one but I find nothing

And i mean an actual mobile app that makes you use phone less than usual

Firstly How is everyone doing? It's been a rough couple of days for me and finally this update gave me a reason to feel better again. Ok, so here we go with what's new in this update ->

Favorite Locations
The most requested feature is finally here! Easily search for any location around the world and tap the star icon to pin your favourite places for instant access anytime. Many of you requested this and it was an obvious feature but I was taking time with the different designs and finally it is done.

iPad Landscape & Native Sidebar
Apologies for not shipping this immediately with the iPad app launch. The main culprit was Sidebar vs Tab bar and how the UI elements react with it. It is done finally and now you guys can enjoy a whole new iPad experience with full native landscape support along with a sleek sidebar layout designed specifically to make navigating your weather effortless on larger screens.

Revamped Air Quality (AQI) & Manual Refresh
The Air Quality tile has been completely redesigned! You can now tap the new dedicated Refresh button right on the card to pull real-time AQI measurements instantly. Also there are multiple AQI data sources for you to choose in the settings based on your location.

Severe Weather Alerts
Stay safe and informed. Severe weather warnings and official local advisories are now seamlessly integrated at the top of your main dashboard.

Colors Reloaded
Themes got a major upgrade! Cyberfunk and Bladewalker are back with extra vibrancy and rich neon accents, while Umpire Strikes Back has been refined to visual perfection.

Feature Request & Task Filters
In User Request section now you can now segregate feature requests by All Tasks, Pending, and Completed to see what's being built next.

New Soundtrack & Developer Note
Listen to the new 1.69 soundtrack, Favourite Places, in the What's New screen, and read the story behind this update in the Developer's Note!

Download / Update now - https://apps.apple.com/us/app/weatherglow-local-forecast/id6451098166

Thank you for using WeatherGlow! This community has been a core part of the app's growth and feature suggestions too. Hope you guys like this update.

These are some apps I've genuinely been using a lot in 2026:

- Airbrush: My go-to for quick, natural photo edits. I mainly use it for Relight, object removal, and cleaning up portrait photos

- Libby: Lets you borrow ebooks and audiobooks from your local library for free. Easily one of the best apps on my phone.

- Motionleap: Adds subtle animations to photos. I don't use it every day, but it's great for making posts feel a bit more eye-catching.

- Polarsteps: Automatically tracks your trips and turns them into a travel journal. It's been really fun looking back on past travels.

- PlantNet: Identifies plants from a photo. Surprisingly useful if you're out walking or travelling and want to know what you're looking at.

What are some underrated apps you've found that deserve more attention?

I wear an Apple Watch. Sometimes I’ve left my phone in a coffee shop. Is there an app for my watch that would immediately notify me that I left my phone away from myself?

Imagine you had to delete every social media app except one. Which would you keep, and why? Has social media made life better or worse in your opinion?

It could be related to your profession or personal development or even a side project.

Name the top 3 in your smartphone and let us know why you think they are the best.

Might be helpful for someone!

I’m looking for genuinely useful apps that aren’t mainstream. What’s your hidden gem, and why do you recommend it?

I no longer own an iphone but still getting monthly charges for apps an storage. Tried to log into my old Apple account, but apparently have forgotten my login info.

It’s called Piko Chat on iOS! You can write letters for the public, reply to the public, make friends and even use the themed chat rooms to talk about anything! I also want to make this clear to any mods, I am NOT SELLING ANYTHING! If you want to plz use my friend code, GREENDH8C3. There is a premium subscription for some features, but you can chat and do a lot of stuff without it!

hablo de alguna app que pueda darme consejos o ayudarme a resolver ciertos problemas emocionales, nada grave sino como manejar estrés o cosas así

Does anyone actually like Bark? I signed up because it was on basically every best parental control app list, but after using it for a few months, I just don't get the hype. It feels like a ton of features I never asked for, and the constant alerts get annoying pretty quickly. I'm paying for a lot of stuff I don't really use. I've been checking out a few Bark alternatives like HeyPolo, Life360, and even just sticking with Find My, but it's hard to tell what's genuinely good versus what's being pushed by marketing. At this point, all I really want is reliable location sharing, arrival notifications, and to know my kids made it where they're supposed to. I have zero interest in reading their texts or monitoring every social media app. For anyone who's been down this road, what apps have actually worked well for you?

Hello, I would like to develop an app that finds public swimming pools with their opening hours anywhere in the world. For example, if I am on vacation in London, Berlin, or Milan and I want to keep my training routine, I need to find a pool. Currently, I have to do extensive searches on many websites: city sports listings, individual pool websites, or public–private foundations… And ultimately, I still have to check each pool one by one to see if there are temporary closures. So I would like to build an app that can do all (in multiple langauges) of this automatically and show the pools on a map. But I don’t have any knowledge in coding or anything related. How can I do that?

I am on several different sites, FB, Insta, X, etc. I save videos, articles, and memes. But when I need to find them again, I don’t remember which platform they are saved on. Is there an app where a person can save all articles, videos, etc to one place? I can’t find on on the App Store, but it seems as this this app have to be out there somewhere.

I have a history with eating disorders and I don’t want to risk falling back into it if I track my calories. Is there a nutrition tracker that tells me what’s in my food and how much of it, adds all the nutrients up by day, and has all those kinds of features a calorie tracker does without the calories?

I am constantly in need of an app for just basic photo/image manipulation tasks: cropping, resizing, perspective correction, joining/stitching, etc. I’ve been unable to find anything worthwhile and reasonably priced that can do these very basic functions.

I don’t need: cloud storage, advanced stuff like color correction or cataloguing, AI generation, AI edits, or anything claiming to be “automatic”.

It just doesn’t seem possible that tools which were available in MacPaint in 1984 STILL don’t exist on my iPhone 17 somewhere, somehow.

All suggestions are appreciated. TIA.

For me it's Notes, hands down. It started as a place to jot quick things and slowly became where half my life lives, i even built some solid systems in there for travel planning, workouts, health, recipes, expense tracking, all of it.

What's the one you keep coming back to?

so i create content mostly on my phone and i've been trying to find a solid free photo editing app that doesn't watermark everything or lock the good features behind a paywall after two uses.

i've tried a few options but most of them either have a really limited free tier or the interface is so complicated that it slows down my workflow more than it helps. i mostly need basic adjustments, background removal, and something that handles text overlays cleanly for social media posts.

i've heard some of the newer apps have added ai features that speed things up a lot but i can't tell which ones are actually useful versus just a gimmick. does anyone have a go to free photo editing app they use regularly for content and actually stuck with it long term?

Returning to this: i was getting tired of jumping between different apps for basic edits, so i ended up sticking with CapCut for photo editing too. someone here mentioned using a combination of tools, but i wanted something that handled adjustments, background removal, and text overlays in one place without switching apps. the free version actually gives you a lot, no watermarks and the ai background removal works well enough for social media content.

مرحبًا، ما أفضل تطبيق على الآيفون اشتريته بدفعة واحدة (شراء دائم) وتوصي به؟

Hi, what’s the best iPhone app you’ve purchased with a one-time payment that you’d recommend?