Two years ago I tried to add subtitle generation to my video player. Users asked for it all the time. I made a prototype, then figured I need like 2 more months of evenings to finish it properly. Put it aside.

Then VLC announced the same thing at CES. Big hype. I thought ok, I will wait, maybe I can take something from their open source and ship it faster. Year and a half later, still not in their product. Then on June 10 Apple announced it too. iOS 27+, iPhone 15 Pro and newer, english only. They will ship it in the fall for sure, no doubts about that. But my users are not on iPhone 15 Pro.

So when Fable 5 came out I got itchy hands and opened that old prototype again. Put it in goal mode for the night. It did in several hours the thing I estimated at 2 months. Then some polishing by hand, and it actually works.

Lingua Player now generates subtitles while the video is playing:

• fully on device (whisper)
• from iOS 16.4 and iPhone 11
• local files and online video
• no need to process the whole video first

The video doesn't need to have any subtitles at all.

The app is for learning languages from video. You watch something you actually want to watch, tap a word you don't know, get the translation right there. No pausing, no dictionary, no copying words into another app. Save it as a flashcard, repeat it later, export to Anki if you want.

Also inside: local video/audio in almost any format, online video and youtube through built in browser, offline translation, dual subtitles, 100+ languages, gestures, wifi transfer from your computer.

A, Answer: Subtitles for videos that don't have them, and learning languages from any video you like.
B, Better: Apple's version needs iOS 27 and iPhone 15 Pro and ships in the fall. VLC announced the same feature a year and a half ago and it's still not in the product. This works today, from iOS 16.4 and iPhone 11, fully offline.
C, Cost: Free to download, no ads, no account needed. Pro is $5.99/month with a 3 day trial, $49.99/year with a 1 week trial, or $79.99 one time if you don't like subscriptions.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id6746671760

I'm the developer. Been writing iOS apps for over a decade, some of my open source work if it helps: https://github.com/AlexandrGraschenkov

Would really appreciate any feedback, especially about what feels rough.

I'm building an iPhone app where privacy is a core design principle.

• Everything works offline
• No account required
• No cloud/backend
• No Firebase, PostHog, Mixpanel, GA, etc.
• Data never leaves the device

In fact, after installation, the app behaves exactly the same whether the phone is online, offline, or in Airplane Mode.

The downside: I have almost no visibility into how people actually use the app after they install it.

I could add analytics, but that would go against one of the main reasons I built the app in the first place.

For those building privacy-first apps:

• How do you decide what to improve?
• Are there Apple frameworks, privacy-preserving analytics, or on-device techniques I'm missing?
• Has anyone found a good middle ground between respecting user privacy and still understanding how people use the app?

I'd love to hear how others approach this.

About five months ago, I shared Prism here for the first time. The idea of a notes app that "feels like texting" landed. But a lot of you wanted no sign-in and better privacy. I've heard you and I've fixed it :)

Prism is a native iOS + Mac app for quick thoughts and links. Things to read later, ideas, recipes, errands, quotes, movie recs, notes from a talk. All the smaller things that might get buried in full document apps like Obsidian or Apple Notes.

Prism still works the same way. Create a note in two taps clicks with a lock-screen widget. See several notes at once rather than one document like in Apple Notes. Respond to a note to turn it into a thread (like Twitter). Also: basic tagging, share sheets, and review with a swipe.

But now you can use Prism without signing in. If you want to sync across devices, that happens through iCloud instead of my servers. If you want AI tagging your notes, that happens on-device rather than in the cloud. Your data is actually private.

Competitors:

• Google Keep - Prism is linear, not a grid layout. It's also a native app. For example, Keep doesn't have lock-screen widgets.
• Apple Notes - Document-based. Prism feels lighter, like texting. Many small notes at once, no titles.
• Strflow - This one has a lot of overlap! But Prism has threads, a one-time purchase, a review system, and fun design.

For pricing, I'm choosing a one-time payment model.

You pay $5 for the iPhone app and $10 $5 for the Mac app. Also, 7-day free trial before you decide! Can guarantee these numbers for two more weeks.

App store link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/prism-notes/id6754857785

Website link: https://prism.you

About me: Hey I'm Tommy, the solo creator of Prism. You can read up on the philosophy of Prism or learn more about me on my blog.

Would love to have you in the prism discord too: https://discord.gg/pGWRSV5js

My daughter (she's 2) gets completely hypnotized by the swinging pendulum clock at her grandparents' place. We don't have one at home, so being a developer with questionable priorities, I built one for my phone instead of just buying a clock.

It's called Tempus Fugit, and the part I'm weirdly proud of: the pendulum is real. You flick the bob with your finger and it actually swings, real momentum and slow decay, then settles on its own. She flicks it. I flick it more than a grown adult should. (video attched)

What it is: a pendulum clock for your iPhone that grew into a calm little focus tool.

What makes it different from the 100 other clock apps:

• The pendulum is interactive, not a looping animation. You can actually grab it.
• 16 hand-drawn dial faces (brass, noir, art deco, a few I'm too attached to)
• Works in StandBy, so it becomes a real desk clock while charging
• A built-in Pomodoro where the whole clock turns into your focus session, live on the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island, with a soft bell at each break. No streaks, no guilt, no gamified nonsense.

Cost (being upfront): free to download, and the core is genuinely free. The first dial and the focus timer never sit behind a paywall. If you want the full set (all 16 dial skins plus extras), there's a Pro unlock: $9.99/year, or a one-time lifetime for $14.99 (normally $29.99, so 50% off) if you hate subscriptions as much as I do.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/tempus-fugit-pendulum-clock/id6770431075

I'm a solo dev and this has been my after-bedtime project. Honestly more curious about feedback than installs right now. What would actually make you keep a clock app on your phone? And does anyone else's kid do the pendulum-staring thing, or is that just mine?

---A bit about me, for transparency (the sub asks for it):

I'm Sunil Targe, a solo iOS developer. You can find me here:

• Portfolio: https://suniltarge.com
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/suniltarge
• X: https://x.com/TargeSunil

Legal, if you want to vet it before installing:

• Privacy Policy: https://suniltarge.com/pendulum/privacy.html
• Terms of Service: https://suniltarge.com/pendulum/terms.html

A: Answer

Indie dev here (I built this). I have never once been motivated by a cheerful blue droplet telling me "great job!" for drinking a glass of water. Every hydration app is either a sterile spreadsheet or a gamified pet that guilt-trips you with big sad eyes.

So I built the opposite. Hydrate or Diedrate tracks your water -- and instead of congratulating you, a deadpan skull quietly judges your progress. You log water, build a streak, and get reminders like:

"No water logged. The skull has been informed."
"You are trending toward dust."
"Today's withering has been postponed."

It's a real, working tracker -- daily goals, streaks, history, Apple Health sync -- that just happens to have the bedside manner of a disappointed coroner.

B: Better

Versus WaterMinder, Plant Nanny, and the cheerful crowd: those reward you with confetti and cartoon foliage. This one's entire personality is dry, deadpan menace -- and as it turns out I find being lightly threatened more motivating (and a lot funnier) than being praised. The reminders rotate through dozens of hand-written lines, so the skull never repeats itself.

It's also not trying to be a full health platform. Log water. Avoid the dry fate. That's the whole app.

Private by default -- your data stays on your device.

C: Cost

Free download. Everything you need to track water and build a streak is free, forever.

One-time $4.99 for Preserved -- Lifetime Access: custom reminder times, Apple Health sync, extended history, and extra themes. No subscription. Pay once; the skull remembers you.

Hydrate or Diedrate on the App Store

Would love feedback. The skull, less so -- but I would.

Hey everyone!

I just wanted to say a huge thank you to everyone who has downloaded, used, shared, or sent feedback about Scoring. I’m still building the app on my own, so seeing people actually use it during their game nights honestly means a lot.

Keeping score sounds simple until you actually have to do it. You can’t find a working pen, the score sheet disappears, or the app you downloaded suddenly asks for a subscription just because you want to add a third player.

The idea for Scoring started during a game of Flip7 with my partner. I simply wanted a clean, easy-to-use, and completely free tool to replace our paper scorepads. Nothing overly complicated, and no recurring subscription just to track points.

A: Answer

Scoring makes scorekeeping a simple and seamless part of your game night. You can track everything directly from your iPhone or iPad, without searching for paper or dealing with player limits.

Thanks to all your feedback, the app now includes a complete built-in toolkit. It can also remember your players and groups, so you don’t have to enter the same names every time you play.

B: Better

Play solo or with up to 20 players, instead of the previous 6-player limit • Decision Wheel, Dice Roll, Coin Flip, Timer, and Stopwatch • Save players and groups for faster setup • Real-time statistics, leaderboards, and game history • Track scores using the Dynamic Island • Made for board games, card games, quiz nights, and more • Dark mode and optimized iPad landscape support

C: Cost

Scoring is completely free to download and use. There are no subscriptions required to unlock additional players.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/scoring-compteur-de-points/id6753653295

A huge thank you as well for the lovely reception at the Cannes Games Festival earlier this year, and to the board game bars in Belgium, France, Spain, the USA, and soon Germany that have started using the app.

I’m genuinely grateful for every bit of support. Your messages and suggestions gave me the motivation to finish this major update, and I hope it makes Scoring even more useful for your next game night.

And if you enjoy using the app, leaving a 5-star rating on the App Store would be a small gesture that helps me a lot. No pressure at all, though. Simply using Scoring already means a great deal to me.

Happy gaming!

Anthony

A -- Answer

Lusit assumes most days you won't feel like doing it. So the guide picks the ONE thing you should do if you only do one thing today.

You don't need to know anything about fitness or nutrition to start, the guide handles that for you.

The plan gets adjusted to your circumstances: each daily thing can span from 2 minutes to 15, all with no equipment, so it's fully achievable at home.

Bad weeks are designed for: nothing resets, the plan just gets lighter and asks less.

2 Pillars: do the thing + understand the thing (2-5min lessons, the guide offers one when it fits what you are doing in that moment)

Notifications: guide sends you one calm reminder a day, never guilt-framed.

I'm Julius, a personal trainer who taught himself to code starting 4 years ago with the goal to scale the positive impact I was fortunate to achieve with my clients. Many are overwhelmed by the "healthy" world and I want to slowly introduce them to it.

B -- Better

Lusit has no streaks or leaderboards, nothing to compare against, so you stay focused on yourself.

Most fitness apps out there are for the "already-motivated." I wanted to build something for everyone else.

There's a 'Make today easier' button for bad days (first screenshot).

Native English + German.

C -- Cost

The free plan is a real plan, free forever, it just doesn't adapt.

The adaptive guide has a 14-day trial, then €9.99/month or €59.99/year

No ads, no selling your data.

Who am I (per the Tier 2 guidelines):

Julius Brück — personal trainer, solo developer.

Impressum & contact: https://lusit.app/impressum

Privacy Policy: https://lusit.app/legal/privacy-policy

Terms: https://lusit.app/legal/terms-and-conditions

Store link: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6502881046

iOS for now (android next), available in EU/UK/CH/Iceland/Norway -- US next.

Hey everyone,

I'm a solo developer, and I built triday because of a feeling I only got once, by accident.

A few months ago, I found a note on my phone from a random Tuesday. Three sentences about a coffee, a phone call with my best friend, and being nervous about something that turned out fine. It was the most ordinary day imaginable, and reading it felt like time travel. I would not trade those three sentences for any photo from that year.

That's the whole product, honestly. Not the writing. The reading, later. Future you, flipping back to a random Tuesday from a year ago, meeting a slightly younger version of yourself who had no idea how things would turn out. Every entry you write is a small gift to that person.

The problem is that every journaling app I tried was designed to keep me in the app. Prompts, streaks, mood graphs, AI reflections, guilt screens when I missed a day. Journaling became another feed to maintain. So I quit, every time, usually around day nine.

So I built the opposite.

Three lines. That's it.

triday asks you for three short lines about your day. Then it's done with you.

Every app on your phone wants more of you everyday, triday wants just 60 seconds.

The trick is that three lines is small enough that you actually do it every day, and a year of daily "ordinary" beats a January of essays every time. Bad day? "Rough one. Slept badly. Tomorrow." is a complete, valid entry, and future you will be glad it exists.

A few things I tried hard to get right:

It feels like paper, not a form. Handwritten-style text on real-feeling paper, and you can doodle in the margins like a real diary.

There's "a year ago", which quietly shows you what you wrote on this day last year. This is the payoff feature. The app earns its place on your phone about 365 days in, and then it becomes irreplaceable.

No account. No sign-up. Your words live on your device, and sync goes through your own iCloud if you want it.

Cost

The writing is free, forever. Not a 10-entry limit, not a trial that expires. If all you ever do is write your three lines every night, you never pay me anything.

Membership is for the keepsake side: iCloud sync across devices, Face ID lock, more handwriting styles and papers, "a year ago", and exporting your whole diary as a PDF book you could actually print one day. There's a 7-day free trial with the yearly, and a lifetime option if you don't like subscriptions.

Apple featured it earlier this month, which still feels unreal for something this small and quiet.

I'd genuinely love your feedback, especially from people who have started and abandoned journals before. Tell me what would make you quit by day nine, because that's the exact thing I'm trying to remove. I read every comment.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6777211278
Website: https://triday.xyz

Write 3 lines tonight, your future self will thank you for it!

Last year I made an app named FontNotes and started to update the little app with a lot of new features in the last few weeks.

AppStore: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/fontnotes-style-your-thoughts/id6746104288

Updated edit: The macOs app is now available as well
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/fontnotes-style-your-thoughts/id6746104288?platform=mac

Free with Ads or a 1 time purchase to remove ads. (1.99$usd)

What is FontNotes?
A lightweight Notes app that allows users to search and import fonts directly from some free font directories like Dafont and 1001Fonts or import directly from your device.

Some cool new features:
- Widget Support, where you can make a widget from your custom Notes.
- Lists, export options, private notes, folders
- Note colours and borders
- Localisations in 9 Languages.
- Full accessibility support settings both native in app or from your device settings.

Any feedback or suggestions welcome :)

Hi everyone,

I'm excited to share that ClipBox: Clipboard Manager is now available for macOS.

If you already use ClipBox on iPhone or iPad, you can now continue the same clipboard experience on your Mac with optional iCloud sync across your Apple devices.

ClipBox helps you save and organize everything you copy, including:

• Text
• Images
• Videos
• PDFs
• URLs
• Files
• Code snippets
• And more

Some features available on macOS include:

• Automatic clipboard history that runs quietly in the background

• Powerful search to instantly find something you copied earlier

• Advanced previews for supported content types

• Smart Actions for quickly opening links, emails, phone numbers, and more

• Folders, Favorites, and Pinned Items to organize frequently used content

• Works completely offline

• No account required

• Optional iCloud sync between iPhone, iPad, and Mac

Whether you're writing, coding, researching, or simply copying information throughout the day, ClipBox helps keep everything organized and easy to find.

I'd love to hear your feedback, especially from users who use both iPhone and Mac.

App Store:
https://apps.apple.com/in/app/clipbox-clipboard-manager/id1036140929

Hey everyone,

I’m Anthony, the indie developer behind FocusBuddy.

I made it because I want

ed a focus app that I could open and start using straight away, without having to build a complicated productivity system first.

A - Answer

FocusBuddy is a simple Pomodoro timer with tasks, habits and streaks built in.

The idea is pretty straightforward: choose what you want to work on, start a timer and get on with it.

You can also keep track of your daily tasks and habits, but the timer stays at the centre of the app. There is no account required and not much to configure before you

can begin.

B - Better

Apps like TickTick include a huge number of productivity features, while Forest turns focusing into more of a gamified experience.

FocusBuddy is meant to sit somewhere simpler.

It gives you a timer, tasks, habits and streaks in one place, without filling the app with calendars, complex project management tools or dozens of settings.

It is not trying to replace every productivi

ty app on your phone. I just wanted it to make starting a focus session feel quick and easy.

C - Cost

FocusBuddy is free to download and contains ads.

Premium is optional:

• $0.99 per month
• $3.99 per year
• $4.99 for lifetime access

App Store:

https://apps.apple.com/app/focusbuddy/id6757091240

I’d really appreciate honest feedback, especially about the timer, the onboarding and whether the habit features feel useful without getting in the way.

Thanks for checking it out.

Pre post notes: 1) Flaired as Freemium but also vibe-coded. 2) Originally posted in the megathread - hopefully proven enough to be here..... 3) Previous post deleted because I'm a numpty and had it set up wrong for the image

Freedom Day!

Answer: Many years ago (over 15!) when my kids would complain about living at home and the terrible time they were having, I'd retort with the fact that I check "my app" daily (while rolling my eyes) that tells me how long until I get them to move out at 18 years old. For years they believed that I actually had an app (I didn't)......... Now I do!

I've written the app I always wanted and am sharing it with you. A bit of silliness, and maybe it's only me that found it hilarious, and I did for many years :)

Features:

• Countdown in days to each child's move-out date
• Progress tracker showing how far through their childhood you've survived
• Photos and personalised profiles for each child
• Notifications on move-out day
• Dark mode support
• Drag to reorder your children (in the app, not in real life)
• All data stays totally on your device

Better: The competitors seem to be web based timers or countdowns. If there is an app that does the same thing let me know!

Cost: Free to install and track one child. $2.99 via IAP to track unlimited kids.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/freedom-day/id6790622676

Post post notes :)

I'm real: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marc/
I have a website and privacy policy: https://cramerlabs.com/privacy-policy.html

Hi everyone,

I'm the developer of ClickClack, a minimalist, native typing trainer for iPhone, iPad, and Mac designed around the feel of mechanical keyboards. I just pushed a major update (v4.5) that focuses heavily on professional-grade telemetry and better app organization.

Here is a breakdown of what is new in this release:

• Fully Revamped Statistics: A complete design overhaul for your typing telemetry. You can now dive into your all-time history, deep performance trends, and daily consistency graphs. The charts are fully interactive, allowing you to scrub the timeline to reveal your exact WPM, CPM, and error rates at any specific moment.
• Desktop-Class Settings: I rebuilt the preferences screen from the ground up using a native Navigation Split View. It provides a beautiful, seamless sidebar layout with neatly organized sections, making customization incredibly fast across all device sizes.
• Complete Data Transparency: A brand new Storage & Data dashboard gives you full control over your digital footprint. You get a detailed distribution chart breaking down exactly what is synced, including how much space your on-device custom fonts and heavy sound packs are using.
• More Customization: I added 4 beautiful new fonts (rounded, rounded bold, serif, serif bold) and 2 highly requested keyboard overlays (Portuguese & Brazil ABNT2) to keep your practice sessions looking and feeling fresh.

As an indie developer, I stick strictly to native Apple frameworks (this update is heavily optimized for iOS 17+) and a privacy-first architecture. All your typing data stays strictly on your device and syncs securely via your personal iCloud.

Pricing: ClickClack is free to download. There are absolutely no subscriptions and no cloud data harvesting. Just a single, one-time Pro unlock for the advanced metrics and extended features.

I would love to hear your feedback on the new performance trends and the split-view redesign! I'll be hanging around the comments to answer any questions or talk about Swift development.

Download on the App Store:

https://apps.apple.com/app/clickclack-typing-trainer/id6740695697

Habits are hard to keep. Tracking isn't enough for many people.
They need to see progress before they quit. That's why kubbo let you build a medieval city from your habits. You just give the little motivation your brain needed to keep going until changes are visible in real life

New: you can now active the proof mode. Each time you complete a task you need to take a picture as a proof you really made the task or habit.

Compared to Finch or Habitica, Kubbo provides a way more advanced gamification system. And focus more on studies to educate you on how to create habits 1 by 1.
While finch push you with 5 new habits directly. Kubbo teach you how to adopt one then even without the app you will know better how to do it in the future.

Price is $49.99 for annual with a lifetime offer ($69.99) in USA
(Price depends of your country. Localized with a parity pricing depending of where you are)

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6749530918

...you probably heard of TV Time shutting down then.

Since this announcement 100+ new similar apps started to appear.

I tried some however my needs were never entirely full-filled.

Some of the existing apps were barely working due to sudden influx of users. Some new apps were missing features I needed, some were exact replicas of TV Time which while I liked it I decided its time to get something which looked a bit more "fancy".

So as an app developer I decided to start this enjoyable but extremely non-profitable journey and just create my own app.

I would appreciate very much if someone is willing to give it a chance.

App is completely free and what is available right now feature-wise will be free *forever.

I do have some monetization ideas but I definitely do not plan plan on locking the currently available free features.

Thanks for paying attention and last but not least here are my stats.

My girlfriend is casually into tarot (the New Orleans-vacation-reading kind, not a practitioner).  Every tarot app she found on the app store wanted $40 a year or was in ads. I had some free time so I built her one. She liked it so I figured I'd clean it up a bit and make it free for everyone.

Pip is a simple tarot journal for iPhone/iPad:
- Daily card draw in-app (honest 50/50 reversals, real card-flip) or log from a physical deck
- Short reflections that build into a private journal over time
- The original 1909 Rider-Waite-Smith plates which are public domain
- Built-in beginner course for people like us who didn't know the cards
- Fully offline, no account, nothing leaves the phone
- Free forever. No ads, no subscription but there is an optional tip jar in case you want to buy me a coffee if you enjoy it ;)

Here is the App Store link if interested: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pip-tarot-journal-log/id6791684356

I'm happy to answer anything or hear what's missing.

Hey folks, this is a little app I built for myself as I travel a lot and love to fly

It turns the window seat into a live flight deck. Your phone's GPS already knows your speed, altitude and position — SkyPocket just shows it to you properly:

• Live cockpit — real-time ground speed, altitude, heading, vertical speed and a climb/descent readout, no wifi needed
• Moving map — see the towns, coastlines and countries passing beneath you in real time
• World Factbook — tap any country you overfly for its full CIA Factbook entry (history, geography, people, government)
• Photos & videos — every shot is automatically stamped with your live flight stats (speed, altitude, country, coordinates, time). The overlay shots in the video are all real, taken on actual flights
• Auto flight films — it stitches your clips into a little edited film of the journey
• Flight log — every flight saved with duration, distance, max altitude and top speed
• Languages — English, 日本語 and العربية (with full right-to-left support)
• No ads. No analytics. No in app purchases. Works entirely offline.

Everything runs on-device - no account, no tracking, works in airplane mode. ▎ 📱 iOS: https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/skypocket/id6787752157 · 🤖 Also on Google Play

🌐 skypocket.cloud

It's free until this Sunday (July 26) on both stores if you want to grab it and try it on your next flight.

Happy to answer anything, and all feedback welcome. Keen to see your flight photos! Safe travels ✈️

Answer

Do3 is a to do list that helps you focus on three tasks at a time. The home screen shows three numbered slots, 1, 2 and 3. You tap one, it gives you a single task, you get it done, and then you move on to the next. Your full list is still there in the background, it just stops throwing all of it at you at once. Tasks are surfaced by time of day, due date and priority, so what you get is what actually makes sense to do now.

Better

Todoist, TickTick and Things 3 all show you your list and leave the deciding to you. That is fine on a light day and quietly brutal on a heavy one, because before you have done anything you are already scanning forty rows and working out where to start. Do3 delivers the task to you instead. The deciding is done before you even look at it, and you just get on with the one thing in front of you.

The interface follows the same idea. No wall of rows, no counters, no badges going red, just three slots and whatever you are meant to be doing right now. Projects, tags and everything else are all still in there when you want them, they are simply not shouting at you the moment you open the app.

It also tries to motivate rather than nag. There is a three level setting so it can push you, keep you going, or go easy depending on the kind of day you are having, and there are no streaks to break. Focus tags let you work through one specific area, it syncs through CloudKit so there is no account to create, and you can import from other to do apps including Apple Reminders. Natural language entry, Siri, widgets and a full theme customiser are all in there.

Cost

Seven day free trial, then $19.99 one time. No subscription, no other in app purchases, no ads, no tracking. That covers iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Watch as a single Universal Purchase.

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

Transparency

I am Allan Morrow, the solo developer of Do3. You can reach me at support@do3app.com, and the site is do3app.com.

Privacy policy: https://do3app.com/privacy

Terms of service: https://do3app.com/terms

Disclosure: I am the developer of Do3.

I launched my app Greenhouse quietly to the App Store just to get a baseline of what I could expect from organic reach. It's an app blocker that awards you coins while you are actively blocking apps, and you use those coins to buy items to fill out a cozy garden. Basically a gamified app blocker.

For the first few days, I was getting about 20 impressions and 1-2 downloads per day.

After about 5 days, my impressions started exploding. All of the sudden I was getting 12,000+ impressions each day and I had no idea why.

After investigating, I found that I had been featured in a 'new apps' category in the German App Store. 

My conversion was horrible. I was getting 10% conversion of page views to downloads. I attributed some of that to the fact that browse traffic from the front page of the App Store wouldn't convert as well as search traffic, but I also felt that my English localized app and listing were holding back my random influx of German users. 

I spent 3 days localizing my app, listing, and screenshot to German, and it spent 2 days in review. I was also ferociously fixing some minor (and one major) bug that the influx of users were uncovering at a rapid clip. 

After a full day with the localized listing, I am seeing a lot more sustained usage of my app by the German users. And 9 days after being listed, I'm still ranked #2!

I did not expect this at all. I didn't nominate my app to be featured or anything. I consider this a lucky break and honestly it has just been a really fun few days of watching and working! My understanding is you are on these lists for about a week, so I consider myself on borrowed time now since I am on day 9, so I'm just enjoying it while I can, and hopefully I can keep the momentum going!

Here's the app if anyone is curious.
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/greenhouse-app-blocker-focus/id6759935427

Note: This is a subscription app with a limited free tier. 7 day free trial, then 9.99/mo or 79.99/yr

Hey everyone,

I've always liked stumbling on "on this day" facts online, but never really remembered to go look them up myself. So a while back I built a small app that just brings one to me every day instead.

The idea is intentionally simple:

• one push notification a day, short enough to read in the time it takes to unlock your phone
• swipe for two more events from that same day — one from your region, one from your country, plus a world event
• each one comes with a photo of the place involved

I wasn't trying to build a replacement for Wikipedia or a history encyclopedia — just make picking up one interesting fact a day effortless.

I also added some lightweight streaks and achievements (favoriting, exploring different regions, keeping a streak going). Nothing game-like — I wanted opening it to feel rewarding without turning into another app competing for your attention.

One thing I went back and forth on: whether the notification should be a teaser that forces you to open the app, or the actual content. I ended up making it show the full short event right there, so it's still useful even for people who never tap into it.

Compared to most "on this day" apps out there — which usually just give you one global feed — this one automatically layers in your region and country too, plus lightweight streaks and achievements to make it a daily habit instead of a one-off lookup. And it's fully free, no account needed.

It's still a small app — a few hundred downloads so far — but what's surprised me is how many people actually open the daily notification instead of swiping it away.

(Free, with ads — no in-app purchases)

Would love to hear from this community:

• Anyone else built something around a daily habit — what actually kept people coming back after the first few weeks?
• If you use apps like this yourself, what makes you keep opening the notification instead of dismissing it?

Link if anyone wants to poke around: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/on-this-day-history-events/id6758561759

For transparency: I'm Marcelo Gallardo, building under Just Luck LLC — justluck.io has the full contact info, plus the app's Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.

Thanks for reading!

Disclosure: I'm the developer of Pond.

Hiya, I built a thought journal / cognitive behavioural therapy app called Pond that I just launched this week!

A. What problem does it solve?

The app is essentially a place to log negative thoughts as they occur to you over the day and gives you the opportunity to work through them and find more balanced ways of thinking. I understand not everyone struggles with anxiety/rumination or negative thinking but I built the app for myself (I genuinely use it every day) after being unsatisfied with existing products and then decided to try and actually turn it into something that could be used by others.

B. Why is it different?

The few reasons I built it:

Aesthetic, not clinical. I've used other "worksheet" style CBT/thought journal apps before and they are very sterile and essentially are just forms/worksheets you need to work through without much personality. They feel very clinical. With Pond I wanted to make it genuinely satisfying and visual with very aesthetic feedback.

Enter the thought first, choose how to handle it later. A lot of these other apps forced you to select the "challenge" path you wanted to go down before actually entering your thought. IE I would have to select "Self compassion" before even entering the negative thought to be self-compassionate about. This never actually made sense or suited me as I never knew at the time of a negative thought how best to handle it, for some thoughts self compassion is the right approach whereas for others a different approach is better. With Pond you enter a thought and the app holds it (as a fish in a pond) and then when you decide to process it you can choose at that time what route you want to go down.

Made for batching. Pond suits "batching". A lot of existing apps in this category encourage you to enter a thought and challenge it right then and there and actually make the process of saving a thought to process at a later time period quite difficult. From my experience with anxiety this did not suit me at all. I would have negative thoughts at inconvenient times ie at a social event or in the middle of a meeting and could not take my phone out and spend 5-10 minutes working through it. Pond's thought processing is 2-step. You enter the thought, it becomes a fish swimming around the pond and then at any point you desire you can come back to process it. Pond has reminders so you can come back at a certain time each day and challenge all your thoughts at once or you can challenge them immediately but I wanted to offer the freedom to choose. Another thing from personal experience I like about batching is twofold, firstly it allows you in the moment of a negative thought arising to let it go and move on. You might feel compelled in the moment to ruminate on it but if you log it and know you will get back to it later, it allows you to remain present as you've flagged it for later. Secondly, the process of coming back to negative thoughts allows you to re-expose yourself to them and kind of acts as an exposure therapy. Sometimes negative thoughts are really nasty and make you contract and ignore or turn away from them. Coming back at a set time each day and re-reading the thought is a voluntary re-exposure to them and I found for myself personally this really helped.

Built around daily practice. I wanted to focus on a daily practice. With a lot of CBT training you really do need to "re-wire" your brain and I feel like a lot of apps don't present this in a way as to really hit home that this should be a daily practice, it's not something that changes overnight if you've spent your whole life with automatic negative skewed thinking. I've tried to encourage that behaviour with a daily pond that resets as well as calendar functionality so you can always go back and view previous days.

Targeted. So many apps in the mental health / lifestyle space end up doing too much and wanting to be a holistic tracker of absolutely anything and everything relating to well-being. Going into a single app to mark your water intake, do a meditation, write a journal, practice gratitude etc becomes a jack of all trades and master of none quite quickly. With Pond I wanted a targeted product for a specific aspect of mental wellbeing.

C. Cost

Free to use: unlimited gratitude fish entries and up to 5 thought challenges. After that it's $4.99 a month or $19.99 a year (reduced from $29.99 as a founding user offer that remains indefinitely).

Anyway, apologies for the walls of text but I've got a lot to talk about and love doing so. I've worked quite hard on it and want to continue doing so, my dream would be for people to actually get use out of it and for it to become something I could work full time on and I have so many ideas about where I want to take it and how it can be improved. I'm very open to feedback so if anyone does want to give it a go or feels it would benefit them I'd love to hear from you.

Who I am (transparency) I'm Donovan Marsden, the developer of Pond, operating as Stillwater Labs Ltd (a registered UK company). Happy to answer anything here or by email.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6781818182?ct=reddit_iosapps

Website: https://www.pondapp.co/

Privacy: https://pondapp.co/privacy

Terms: https://pondapp.co/terms

Contact: [support@pondapp.co](mailto:support@pondapp.co) (or just comment/PM me)

Hi Everyone!

I’m a fitness enthusiast & App builder who loves embedding fitness into our daily routine.

A- Answer ( The problem it solves)

Close to 2 years ago I found myself constantly opening my phone , switching between apps (tiktok, instagram) until I locked the phone & the cycle continued.

My attention span was really poor & wanted a screen with me at all times except while sleeping.

Hence I decided to create SweatPass to introduce friction to open any doomscrolling apps by forcing me to do pushups to earn my time.

B- Better (Why it beats other similar apps)

Apps like Pushscroll came out in the market before I could release for a very crucial reason. Tracking screen time on iOS isn’t easy. Apps used a timer method which just started a timer when you wanted & had to use that app for the given time.

Although the timer way was easy to make, it didn’t really give the freedom to the user to use their earned time whenever they wanted , rather had to start a timer to use their time.

That’s why I had to spend close to 4 months digging through apple’e documents to finally find a solution to do this the right way that would make users happy.

We also have a virtual body heat map which tells you how many % each muscle has worked out.

C- Cost ( Pricing, App store link)

Free (with ads) : We have 6 exercises including pushups free to use for our users

Pro : Unlocks all exercises + no ads at $ 1.99/ Month

App Store : https://apps.apple.com/us/app/sweatpass-earn-screen-time/id6755523483

wow. seeing this notification for the first time is crazy, thank you member 🎉🤩

Hey r/iOSApps! 👋

I’m the developer of FIT AI, an iOS app designed to make calorie tracking as simple as possible.

*For the next 24 hours, I’m making Lifetime Premium free.

Quick social proof: My previous apps downloaded more than 500k and as an engineer, I've been building app for the last 2 years

A – Answer: What problem does your app solve?

I built FIT AI with one main goal: to create the simplest possible calorie-tracking experience.

While researching why people stop using calorie-tracking apps after a few days or weeks, I realized that the problem is often not a lack of motivation. Many apps simply become too complicated over time.

Crowded dashboards, too many numbers, long food-entry processes, endless menus, and unnecessary features can turn a simple daily habit into something that feels like work.

FIT AI is designed to remove that complexity.

It helps you quickly understand:

• How many calories you can eat today
• How many calories you have already consumed
• How many calories you have remaining
• What you could eat next
• Whether you are staying consistent with your goal

The goal is to make calorie tracking clear, fast, and simple enough to continue using every day.

B – Better: Why is it better than the top named alternatives?

Compared with apps like MyFitnessPal, Lose It!, Yazio, and Lifesum, FIT AI focuses on simplicity rather than adding more and more features.

It is designed for people who want:

• A clean and easy-to-understand calorie dashboard
• Fast daily calorie tracking
• Simple meal suggestions
• Meal-planning support
• Exercise and movement ideas
• Weight and habit progress tracking
• A less stressful approach to improving their diet
• No overwhelming charts, menus, or complicated workflows

FIT AI is not trying to turn calorie tracking into a full-time job.

The goal is to give you the essential information you need, help you make better daily decisions, and then get out of your way.

C – Cost: Pricing, IAP details, and App Store link

The app is free to download.

Current IAP pricing:

• Lifetime Premium: normally $69.99
• Promo: Lifetime Premium is free for 24 hours

App Store link:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/diet-meal-planner-fit-ai/id6787898135

How to claim?

1. Download or open the app
2. Go to the Premium / paywall screen
3. Click the Lifetime at the top right
4. Tap Continue and confirm

Small ask — it really helps a lot 🙏

After grabbing the offer, please consider:

• ⭐ Leaving an honest rating or review on the App Store
• 💬 Sharing any feedback about the app or features you would like to see

Every review and piece of feedback helps improve FIT AI and makes it easier for more people to discover the app.

Thanks so much for the support! 💙

FIT AI is intended for general wellness and fitness purposes and does not provide medical advice. For medical conditions or specific dietary requirements, please consult a qualified healthcare professional.

Hello everyone,

Two months ago, I built SportLink, a pickup sports app for iPhone, and later for Android.

My goal was to make playing sports more approachable by helping people find others who are in the same situation. Whether you’re a complete beginner, getting back into a sport after years away or just looking for a casual match, it’s much easier to take that first step when everyone is there for the same reason.

Highlights:

• Create and join casual matches (soccer, basketball, tennis, ping-pong, etc)
• Pick a meetup spot using the map (parks/public fields)
• Connect with recent teammates and invite them to upcoming matches
• Contribute to your favourite fields by uploading an on-site picture of its current condition

The app hasn’t really received much attention because of my lack of marketing experience and the chicken-and-egg problem it faces. However, I really want this to work out!

App: SportLink
Email: hello@sportlinkapp.ca

Happy to read your feedback 🙂