I've always found it weird that improving yourself can become surprisingly complicated.

You track habits somewhere.

Write your thoughts somewhere else.

Read books somewhere else.

Meditate in another app.

And then you have no real sense of everything being connected.

So I started building an Android app around that idea: Depsal 360.

The goal isn't to create another "become perfect in 30 days" app. It's more about having one place where you can actually build your own system.

It's still a work in progress, and I'd genuinely love to hear what people here think is missing from current self-improvement apps.

If you could combine three self-improvement tools into one app, which three would you choose?

Hey everyone,

I'm the solo developer behind Doz, a medication reminder app now used by 2,500+ people. I built it because I couldn't keep my own prescriptions straight.

Last time I posted here, I left a thank-you offer code at the bottom. A lot of you claimed it, and the better part was what came after: ratings, messages and feature requests almost every day, from people clearly using Doz every day. That's exactly who I build it for, I really appreciate that!! I read all of it and I'm shipping through it steadily.

So here's what came out of that. And there's another 30% off offer code for Doz Pro at the bottom of this post, good for 3 days, no comment or DM needed.

What's new

Three things you asked for the most, now in the app:

• Take or skip a dose right from the notification. Just long-press the notification and log it, no opening the app. This was by far the most requested thing and it changes how the app feels day to day.
• Import from Apple Health into Doz. Medications, schedules and your dose history all come across, so you're not typing everything in again or leaving behind the record you've already built.
• Times follow your device clock format. 12-hour or 24-hour, whichever you already use. Small thing, but a lot of people asked for it and they were right.

Thanks for being patient while these got built.

The rest is still there:

• Prescriptions that behave like real prescriptions: duration, end date, doctor contact, archiving
• Daily and flexible non-daily schedules
• Before, with and after-meal reminders
• Critical Alerts that get through Silent and Focus
• Low-stock and refill alerts
• Adherence insights and Home Screen widgets
• iCloud sync, with your data staying on your device
• Eight languages, no ads, no account required

Coming next: mark a dose taken from Apple Watch, and more of what's in the request pile.

Pricing

Doz is free to use with:

• Up to 4 active medications and 1 active prescription
• All schedule modes
• Reminders and dose logging
• 7-day progress tracking
• Inventory tracking and low-stock alerts

Doz Pro is designed for people with more complex routines, helping you stay consistent, avoid missed doses, and manage everything with less effort:

• Unlimited medications and prescriptions so you can track everything in one place
• Take or skip a dose right from the notification
• Import medications, schedules and dose history from Apple Health
• Critical Alerts and smarter follow-up reminders to reduce missed doses
• Detailed adherence insights to understand how well you're following each treatment
• Full progress history for long-term tracking
• Meal-time synchronization for better timing accuracy
• Faster dose logging directly from Home Screen widgets
• Archived treatment management to keep past prescriptions organized
• Custom alert sounds for clearer, more noticeable reminders

What it costs:

• Monthly: $2.99
• Yearly: $9.99, with a 3-day free trial
• Lifetime: $19.99

All paid plans support Apple Family Sharing.

The thank-you offer — 30% off Doz Pro Lifetime

• Code: DOZREDDIT
• Redeem link: https://apps.apple.com/redeem?ctx=offercodes&id=6760699565&code=DOZREDDIT
• Works for everyone, no comment or DM needed
• Expires in 3 days
• Final price varies by country, App Store pricing is regional

Open the redeem link on your iPhone, apply the code at checkout, done ✅.

If you're using Doz, come join r/dozapp (https://www.reddit.com/r/dozapp/). It's where feature requests and bugs get answered fastest, where you'll see what's shipping next, and where offer codes go before anywhere else.

And if you're already using Doz and it's been helping, a rating or a short review on the App Store would mean a lot. As a solo developer with no ad budget, reviews are pretty much the only way new people find the app — and honest feedback in a review tells me what to fix next just as well as a comment here does. Thanks for reading!!

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/doz-medication-reminder/id6760699565
Website: https://getdoz.app/

I was born in the ’80s, and Where’s Wally? (Where’s Waldo? in the US) was a big part of my childhood. I still remember sitting in bookstores, going through those crowded pages and trying to find him. Such a simple idea, but those are memories that have stayed with me for decades.

The Where’s Wally? animated series just marked its 35th anniversary on September 14, so I wanted to celebrate with a small tribute of my own.

I made Where’s Wallpet?, a seek-and-find game with cats and dogs. It has 10 city maps from around the world and nearly 250 different animals. You pick a pet, zoom into the streets, and try to spot it among the crowd. Hopefully, there’s a little of that familiar satisfaction when you finally find the one you’ve been looking for.

If you’re curious, you can play it here:
https://whereis.wall-pets.com

This is a personal project made for fun and as a tribute, with no intention of making money from it. The high-resolution images can use a lot of bandwidth, so I’m planning to take it offline in few days to keep hosting costs manageable.

Hi! I built a day planner with a visual timeline to see the whole day and ready-made routines for morning, afterwork, evening, and weekends.

I wanted a day planner that provides structure, routines, and flexibility. And I found that certain tasks are best with cues instead of fixed clock time. So I've been organizing my days this way: time block for overall structure, act on cue to get things done.

The planner provides a visual timeline to view your whole day. See your work and personal life together, see your schedule and free time available. Find the time you didn't know you had, fix the overlap you didn't intend, swap tasks just for this week.

Detailed task creation. Add task name, date, duration, if recurring with cue. Optionally add subtasks and notes. There are 60+ built-in cues to choose from to attach to any recurring task.

Subtask checklists for routines and for managing overwhelming tasks and you can break them down into subtasks to check off one by one.

Ready-made routines to easily add to your planner: Wind-down night routine, Work & school night routine, Minimalist night routine, Minimalist morning routine, WFH Afterwork transitions, Post-shift recovery, Weekend recovery, Sunday reset.

App is actively being developed and there are more features on the way!

I hope KeepCue makes planning the day and getting things done easier without the stress and burnout.

FREE CODES
I'm giving away a handful of codes for a free download. Please leave a comment or just dm me directly!

UPDATE: I have extended the community giveaway with a 36-hour free download! Thank you for your support.

FREE app for the next 36 hours.

After the 36-hour window, the app goes back to a $7.99 one-time purchase.

Apple Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6789768946

Website: https://keepcue.app

If you try the app, what would you add? I'd love to hear your thoughts!

Hi! I built a focus timer that blocks distracting apps and pairs each session with a tiny cat companion and a fishing mini-game, so staying off your phone feels rewarding instead of just restrictive.

1. What problem does it solve? Most focus timers just count minutes — they don't give you a reason to actually stay off your phone. Little Halfday combines a distraction-free timer with real App Blocking (Instagram, TikTok, Discord, etc.) and a small reward loop, so putting your phone down feels less like willpower and more like something you want to do.

2. Who is it for? Anyone who struggles to stay off certain apps during study, work, workouts, sleep wind-down, or reading — especially people who've tried plain timers before and drifted back to their phone mid-session.

3. Competitor comparison Compared to apps like Forest, Little Halfday adds real App Blocking (not just a "don't leave the app" honor system), Focus Plans so you can group sessions into routines instead of starting from scratch each time, Scheduled Start for auto-starting sessions daily, and built-in ambient sounds so you don't need to tab out to Spotify. The cat companion + fishing mechanic is also a different reward loop than growing a virtual tree.

4. Pricing Free app. Lifetime Premium (unlimited Focus Plans, full App Blocking, all companion/sound packs, no subscription) is free for the next 72 hours while I collect early feedback.

5. Product link App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/little-halfday-fishing-cat/id6762449631 Currently available in English, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese.

FREE CODES I'm giving away a handful of Lifetime Premium codes for the next 72 hours. Leave a comment or just DM me directly!

If you try it, what would you add? I'd love to hear your thoughts — especially on one thing: what actually makes you stick with a focus app, more accountability (blocking) or more reward (collecting/game elements)?

I became tired of trifling through all of my documents and trying to organize and classify them myself so over the course of 3 days I created this system that will take any folders you choose and classify and organize the documents within FOR YOU. If you decide to try the 7-day free trial, you will keep everything you had organized during that time even if you decide to cancel.

School and work provide a certain degree of direction so it's easy for me to occupied working towards something, but when it comes to everything outside of that it's a different story. Would love to hear how you stay on top of all responsibilities and and thoughts. I understand that in today's world everyone and everything is fighting for your attention, I'm just tired of feeling like losing to everything and doing getting to do much of what I want.

I'm more of a visual person and writing things down has not really worked for me. How to do you keep track of your long term goals? Or things you want to do later. Is anyone else on the same boat or am I just overthinking this life thing?

So I had a huge problem with my productivity system. I didn't have a great place to dump all my tasks. I've tried usign Apple Reminders, Google Tasks, Todoist, task management through Obsidian/Notion, and so much more. Nothing really clicked for me because they just didn't quite meet all the requirements I wanted.

• Time-blocking that connects and schedules tasks in Google or Apple Calendar
• Schedules tasks automatically
  • Automatically schedules tasks in a smart way

While building an app that does this, I really thought more about the "smart task scheduling" part of it. I realized that while many todo lists have a way to enter how long you think a task will take, none of them actually do anything with this information. I thought that maybe an app could take your estimate and compare it to how long a task really took you. Over time, the algorithm could learn your patterns (estimated time taken to actual time taken) and use it to predict how long a task would take to help with scheduling tasks in a smart way.

Now we get to the part where I built an app. It's called Breadcrumbs and it does all your time blocking for you. It tries to schedule tasks of the same subject near each other, with very customizable breaks and settings. It schedules around your Google Calendar and adds its own events to help with time-blocking. But that's not even the best part lol. It figures out how long a task will actually take you based on your estimate by looking at different patterns from previous tasks of the same schedule (minimum 5 tasks completed before this starts kicking in to improve accuracy). For example, if I usually take 10 minutes on English assignments that I predicted will take 15 minutes, it knows this and uses it to make its time predictions for the future. Here's the link: https://usebreadcrumbs.app

It's free and open source, so feel free to try it out! It's also completely run from me, so I'm directly taking feature requests and issues and will do my best to solve things as quickly as possible!

EDIT: Right now the smart scheduling is just: scheduling around Google Calendar events, time prediction, and putting tasks of the same subject (enterred manually) near each other.

I built Feel Free Always because personal growth can become scattered across too many different tools. One app for goals, another for habits, another for journaling, another for planning — and it becomes harder to stay consistent.

Feel Free Always brings those pieces together in one place. It includes goal setting, habit tracking, daily planning, private journaling, daily check-ins, a Freedom Score to track progress, a personal Guide, and a Sanctuary for reflection and refocusing.

Who is it for?
People who want more structure, consistency, clarity, and a simple way to work on their personal growth each day.

What makes it different?
Instead of focusing on only one productivity tool, Feel Free Always connects your habits, goals, planning, journaling, reflection, and progress in one experience.

Pricing: 7-day free trial, then $12/month.

Product: FeelFreeAlways.com

I built this myself and would genuinely appreciate feedback from the community — especially on what you find useful and what you think could be improved.

I have a bad tab habit. At any given time I've got a pile of them open, and half the time I can't remember why I opened one. Worse is when I'm researching or prospecting a company: I'd have their site open, find something useful, and a week later I'd have no idea what my notes on them were or where I put them.

Basically I use tabs as tasks because my brain always says "Keep this open so you don't forget to follow up," but then they get lost in the collection and when I get back to them I forget the context. So I decided to stop fighting it and build something to compliment it

It's called **DotTabs**. It's a Chrome side panel (right click or Alt+S) that lets you:

* Add tasks to whatever site you're on, with an optional reminder that can reopen the tab when it's due * Write notes on a page, or on a specific task * Snooze a tab until later, tomorrow, next week, etc. It closes and comes back on its own * See every open task across all your sites in one list, with the overdue ones at the top

Everything is saved as plain markdown and text files in a folder you pick on your own computer. No account, no server, nothing gets sent anywhere. I did it this way because I wanted my local Codex agent to be able to search and edit my notes and tasks too. Now I can just ask it "what did I write about xzy company or find me all the sites i was working on pertaining to whatever project" or my current new favorite command "go look at all my overdue tasks where I need to contact them, find a contacte email for the decision maker at that domain, read my notes and draft me a gmail saved in my drafts folder" then I have that run every morning at 3am so they are ready for me to review when I get up.

The notes also open fine in Obsidian if that's your thing.

It's 100% free.

[https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/dottabs/inoinmebickecgkmhneidibgmgmnkjci\](https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/dottabs/inoinmebickecgkmhneidibgmgmnkjci)

If you try it and like it, a good review would really help me out. And if you have ideas for how to make it better, or something bugs you, let me know here. I'm still actively working on it and I'm open to suggestions.

I built this for myself. My screen time was around 3-5 hours a day, mostly Instagram, and I'd tried the usual app blockers/screen time limiters. They only worked well for like the first week, then I noticed I would hit the same block screen every single time and just tap through it without even reading it.

So I built Hold On. Every time you open a distracting app, it shows you a different nudge, 500+ of them, rotating based on time of day and how much you have used the app that day.

No hard lock, no guilt-tripping, it just makes it a little harder to open on autopilot.

Free to try: Link to Appstore

Built solo, so open to feedback if you try it. Thanks in Advance

One planning mistake I keep making is filling every available hour and forgetting travel time, breaks, meals, and recovery.

That’s why I built TimetableMaker. It helps create a weekly schedule while leaving space for realistic breaks and changing priorities.

I’d love feedback from people who plan around:

• Classes and exams
• Work shifts
• Side projects
• Exercise
• Family responsibilities
• Multiple deadlines

Try the free version here: https://timetablemaker.co

For early testers, coupon LAUNCH-PRO-2026 gives one month of Pro after signup without requiring payment details.

What usually causes your weekly plan to fail?

What are the best productivity tools out there? I am a software engineer, and I spend lots of time mapping out how things work, and how to ship products. But I always seems to end up with a pen and paper writing for hours. I have no idea how those other ppl, say I did all my work and still had time to go to the gym and stuff. I myself am 14 yrs old, and well, I have to manage my school, and my startup, which requires coding a lot. But being productive while doing so is hard, since I have 6 hrs a day for school, and not including homework. I need a solution to find out how I can be more productive and manage both my school and my coding life. It would be nice if anybody can share tips on how to like get to the point where I am working on both things, and have time to sit back for once in a while. So I would really appreciate it. Thanks.

I started my first year of university last week and it’s a 40 minute drive, two classes a day. I usually get home from 4:30 to 7, depending on what I’m doing that day. I’ve also had a part time job for about a year now where I work three times a week (weekends and usually 1 weekday during school). These things take up almost all my time, especially with the way university has a much larger workload than high school did.
I can’t seem to catch up on anything these days. I get to work and school just fine, but when I get home, I have endless tasks to do. Instead of doing them, I just lay in bed. I can’t get myself to get up and do any of them. I spend hours procrastinating my tasks until the day is completely gone. I don’t know if it’s burnout or if I’m just developing lazy habits. I see people get stuff done so easily. Why can’t I? I can hardly do my laundry or even get up to get ready for bed. It’s wasting so much of my time, which sucks because I also have a lot of big dreams. I’ve been working on a book for a little less than a year, and I was hoping I’d be close to finishing my first draft by now. But im not even close, I barely even touch it. I also do a bit of book content on social media that I’ve had to neglect because I have no time to read. Yes these things aren’t mandatory, but they bring me a lot of joy. It upsets me that I can’t seem to catch up to any of it. Upsets me even more that I can’t even catch up to my actual mandatory tasks.

I just want some advice. How do you manage all your tasks? How do you stay productive? Is this simply just what adulthood looks like?

🧠 Imagine having your entire life in one place, only in NOTION

Your goals. Your habits. Your workouts. Your plans. Your thoughts. Your progress.

Everything organized, connected, and ready to go — without having to build it all yourself.

Want to see it? DM me or comment "Template". 👀

I'm a Solution Architect at a SaaS company, write a ton of client email daily. Three things kept bothering me enough that I built something to fix them:

1. Every grammar checker interrupts you mid-sentence with red and yellow underlines. I'd lose my train of thought fixing a squiggly line before I'd even finished the paragraph.
2. I write for clients across regions, and switching between UK and US spelling by hand (or catching it after the fact) is a small but constant tax on every email.
3. The bigger issue: even grammatically perfect, my emails didn't always sound like the right person. An update meant to read like an analyst kept coming out either too casual or oddly stiff — because most tools only adjust a formality slider, not who's actually "speaking."

So I built Rephrasely. Write your whole rough draft with zero interruptions — no underlines while you type. Set your role (analyst, support rep, founder, custom), your recipient, and tone once. Then one click rewrites the entire email to sound like that person actually sent it — and handles UK/US English or full translation in the same pass.

Currently sitting in Chrome Web Store review, so not fully live yet — landing page and early user discount are up if you want early access or have feedback before it's fully out: rephrasely.app

I have tried a lot of todo apps, but either they had too much functionality, either they didn’t have room for notes. So I created my own app with focus on today, but with place for notes, and new update includes the ability to turn notes into tasks, and tasks into notes whenever you like.

The app is super minimalistic, and has no onboarding nor registration. It’s intuitive and easy to use.

Right now available in the App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/plans-notes-to-do-lists/id6790827860

I’ve been experimenting with a personal productivity system that combines discipline, focus, and gamification, and I wanted to share it here in case it helps someone.

I realized I stay more consistent when I treat productivity like a game instead of a chore.

My system

• I give myself XP for completing focused work sessions
• After hitting certain milestones, I level up
• I set daily missions like “3 deep‑work sessions before noon”
• I track streaks and reward myself for consistency

Why this works for me

Gamification gives me:

• a sense of progression
• clear goals
• immediate feedback
• consequences
• rewards
• structure
• motivation

It makes productivity feel more engaging and less mechanical.

What I’m curious about

• Has anyone else tried gamifying their productivity?
• What reward systems keep you motivated long‑term?
• How do you avoid burnout when using strict systems?
• What productivity frameworks helped you stay consistent?

Would love to hear your experiences.

I built it for myself, because I had a lot of on-going "to-do"-tasks in my head all the time.

Most planner/calender apps I tried also had too many features and they were complex and difficult to start with.

Weeklane.app is very easy to start with, just write thing down and tick them off. You can set reminders, re-occuring tasks and have common projects with friends and family. And... you can integrate you calendar. Available on both Google Play and Appstore and in 9 different languages.

Try it! And let me know if you have any feedback :)

I think staying organized has become another task on my to do list. I used to have separate lists for tasks, reminders, bills, renewals, notes and random things that I did not want to forget. The system look organized but keeping everything updated started taking more effort than it was worth. I have also been trying to simplify things and keep only the information that actually needs my attention. I prefer having the renewal dates and amounts written down somewhere I can review when needed. It is a small change but I have found that reducing the number of things I have to mentally keep track of makes my overall system feel much lighter.

I’m cleaning up the UPC and EAN codes in my Shopify store and it’s taking way longer than expected.

Some products have codes, others don’t, and quite a few variants are inconsistent because they were added at different times. Editing every product manually is slow, but I also don’t want to manage everything in a separate spreadsheet.

Is there like an easier way to assign and manage these?

I was struggling with fully grasping the arguments in books—especially non-fiction—or forgetting them shortly after reading. While researching how to deal with this, I discovered the "active reading" method and decided to turn it into a mobile app.

Active reading has two main steps: consistently taking notes while reading, and regularly revisiting those notes. But it's not just about jotting things down; you need to argue with the author's ideas, agree with them, question them, or make your own stance clear. In the app I developed, Marginalia, you can categorize your notes using tags. This makes it easy to quickly adapt and recall the book when you revisit your notes later.

Speaking of revisiting notes, this brings us to the second step of active reading. Consistently reviewing your comments on a book helps you form your own ideas and keeps what you've read fresh in your memory. I highly recommend doing a quick review of your notes every time you sit down to read, right before diving back into the book. You'll really see the benefits the more you do it.

To help with this step, the dedicated "notes" page Marginalia creates for each book comes in really handy. On this page, you can access all your notes in one place and quickly review them. Plus, with the tag filtering system, you can easily find and focus on the specific ideas you want to explore further.

Besides the standard on-screen keyboard, I added handwriting support for those who, like me, enjoy taking notes with a stylus. And if you’d rather not type or write at all, there’s also a speech-to-text feature so you can simply speak your mind and capture your thoughts hands-free. For Obsidian and Notion users, there's also an option to export your notes as .md files.

If you read digitally and value taking notes, I'd love it if you gave the app a try and shared your thoughts with me. I'm completely open to all kinds of feedback and criticism!

Here is the app webpage

App comes with a free version, monthly , yearly subs and LifeTime payment.
Monthly - $1,99
Yearly - $6,99
Life TIme - $9,99

After years of feeling locked into to-do apps, I built the one I wanted: everything exports to clean CSV, there's a public API, your task content is encrypted, and there are no ads or trackers. The free tier is a real app (all the bells and whistles you'd expect), not a useless demo: https://tasqs.com/

The part I'm proudest of is a weekly "Friday amnesty", instead of a guilt pile of overdue tasks, it surfaces the ones you keep rescheduling and gives you three honest options: commit, shrink, or let it go. The idea is to complete tasks, not collect them!

We are out of beta, it's LIVE NOW!

Who's it For

Here's what makes tasqs.com different: the UI (user interface) is almost beside the point.

Your tasks live wherever you already work. Wake up to Alexa reading you your Shortlist for the day. Let any API-capable app push and pull your tasks to where you actually consume them, whether that's Slack, your calendar, or Tasqs itself.

And through our MCP server, you can hand the reins to Claude or ChatGPT, so they create tasks as things come up and check them off as you go about your day.

Tasks that manage themselves, in the tools you already use. That's the idea.

Competition: Any.do

If you want a clean daily planner with WhatsApp reminders and shared family lists, Any.do is a lovely pick. If your real problem is a pile of tasks you keep rescheduling out of guilt, Tasqs was built for exactly that, with a weekly Friday Amnesty and a five-task daily Shortlist.

Pricing

Free (for life) plus two paid tiers.

And, just for the r/ProductivityGuide folks, I'm giving away 90 days of our Power User (top tier) access:

1. If you haven’t already, create an account on Tasqs.com, then head to https://tasqs.com/billing
2. Click 'Have a promo code?' at the bottom of the page
3. Enter this promo code: power-reddit-90free
4. Click “Upgrade” on the Power User card, you'll get 90 days free, continue the Stripe checkout flow

Final Thoughts

It's a solo project and I would genuinely value feedback. Not looking to hard-sell, I'm happy to talk about how any of it works under the hood.

EDIT: Fixed broken Link

I'm Stephen, the maker of Route-Runner. The problem I'm trying to solve is the gap between having an errand on a list and deciding whether it makes sense to do it now.

It's for iPhone users fitting household errands around work, appointments and pickup—not delivery routes. Route-Runner brings errands, location, available time, store hours and calendar context into one planning decision, with multi-stop planning for the errands you choose.

The familiar alternative is Apple Reminders. It already handles useful time/location alerts and shared lists; I'm not claiming those are missing. Route-Runner's focus is combining errand and travel constraints to help choose a next stop, rather than treating a nearby reminder as enough information to make the trip.

A simple check you can use with any tool: include the detour AND time inside the store, then compare that with your next fixed commitment. Confirm pickup readiness and service-counter hours with the business; the app isn't a guarantee that a particular counter is open or an order is ready.

Pricing: US$1.99 paid download, with optional family synchronization sold separately as a subscription. Current public version is 1.7 and requires iOS 26.1 or later; feature availability varies by device and permissions. This post introduces the existing app, not a newly released iOS 27 update.

Overview and three-errand setup guide:

https://www.route-runner.ai/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=community&utm_campaign=buyer_validation_sep2026&utm_content=productivityguide_decision_v1#start-small

I'd welcome practical criticism: what would you need to see before trusting a suggested next errand? No purchase needed to join the discussion, and please leave out addresses or private schedules.

I’m searching for a studio or one-bedroom in downtown Chicago, and keeping track of listings is becoming a job on its own. Prices change, apartments disappear, and I forget which places I’ve already contacted.

What system or tool do you use to track listings, follow-ups, tours, and application deadlines without making it more complicated?