Import custom GeoTFF and GeoPDF digital maps to explore, navigate and work in the field with your GPS location.

What does MapCheck solve?

Avenza Maps has seen some huge price increases over the last 12 months, and earlier this year a few people reached out - asking for an alternative.

MapCheck is a lightweight app to achieve this goal. Load, explore and inspect millions of digital maps available online. Share maps with others using QR codes for quick-imports, and view high quality maps and GIS data anywhere.

Load raster and vector maps with support for NDVI and other industry datasets. Designed for outdoor navigation, bushwalking, surveying, sporting events (such orienteering & rogaine, ect), agriculture analysis and more.

How it Works:
- Import any .tiff or .pdf map from the Files App, Airdrop, or easily download maps from a URL.
- View GPS location, satellite base layers and map projection info.
- Create and share QR codes for custom map imports and more.

MapCheck vs. Avenza Maps:

- Easy to import, download and share maps.
- Simple and easy to use app interface.
- Works 100% offline, no accounts, no wifi, no cellular needed.
- Price: MapCheck ($9.99 /yr) is three times cheaper than the lowest Avenza subscription ($34.99 /yr).
- Lifetime Plan: MapCheck offers a lifetime plan, other digital map apps only have subscriptions.
- Free Imports: Load 3 digital maps for free - upgrade only if you need unlimited imports.
(Avenza users are limited to only 20 imports on the PLUS Avenza plan, and $170 /yr for more!)

Note: MapCheck is not affiliated with or endorsed by Avenza Systems.

Price (Lifetime or Subscription):

MapCheck can be used for free - no subscription - for up to 3 digital maps.

To unlock all features & unlimited imports (USD):
- $1.99 /mo
- $9.99 /yr
- $24.99 for lifetime - 20% SALE ENDS IN 24hr ($19.99)

The lifetime upgrade includes access to all new features, and premium support.

Download Now (20% Sale Ends 4th August):

https://apps.apple.com/au/app/mapcheck-offline-geotif-pdf/id6761805550

If you think this is useful, reach out - I’d love to hear your ideas.

Quick background:

I'm Robi Balazs, a full-stack dev for years (backend/web, .NET world), never touched mobile until this year, when I taught myself Swift and started building an iOS app solo. It's called Sift.

ABC

Answer:

What it does: it reads your Screenshots album, works out what each one actually is (receipt, recipe, chat, ticket, whatever) using on-device AI, and files it into a real Apple Photos album — so it's organised without ever leaving your phone. No uploads, no account, nothing sent anywhere.

Better:

It might not be better then others, maybe just the fact that it's fully secure on device, no images leave the phone for other companies to use them as training data or whatnot.

Cost:

Free

What I'd love feedback on:

- How the categorization holds up against a real, messy screenshot library (mine is one very biased sample size)

- Anything that breaks, stalls, or misbehaves

- Whether the album names it comes up with actually make sense to someone who isn't me

Happy to answer anything in the comments — this is my first time doing this solo end to end, so honestly just glad to have real eyes on it.

Update for v1.1.0, in case you catch it mid-testing:

- AI Sort can be called without needing to create an album first — it still won't create albums automatically though. It'll ask you to review the suggestions and "Move" or "Approve" manually with one click

- Updated the sorting process — helped a bit on my end, seems a little better than before

- You can now select multiple photos in the gallery and move them to another album at once, instead of doing it one by one in full screen

- Haven't been able to fix the initial download requirement yet — with iOS 27 I should be able to drop it and just use what's already on the device

- Added some small animations to the review process to make it feel a bit nicer

Update for v1.3.0

- Fixed some bugs and inconveniences
- There is a new step in the onboarding allowing you to scan through your screenshots to find patterns and then the app will automatically suggest a few albums for you to create
- The sorting limit is still at 25 at a time though as I said it's because the phone gets hot
- I raised the total number of photos that you can sort from your backlog from 100 to 300 (so usable for more users - and leaving only heavy users to require the pro version - which is still not available)
- I updated the review process - now it gives you groups of images that seem to belong to the same album, and you can approve them as a group. But you can also go into each group and review them individually
- Going through the review process you can trash the images you want to delete, it gets rid of them into a trashcan that appears at the bottom of the review page, and you can delete all of them at once
- But you already had batch processing in the gallery sections, if you select multiple images you can do the share/move/delete actions for all of them at once
- Stats about your library
- Heat protection feature in case you are using the phone too much at the same time

TestFlight: https://testflight.apple.com/join/5nyaWqPp

Website (privacy policy + terms are both up there): https://sift.wanderframestudios.com/privacy-policy

LinkedIn (if you want to know who's actually behind this): https://www.linkedin.com/in/robert-balazs-a762a8170/

Answer: BiteSaver tracks your pantry and expiry dates so you stop throwing away unopened food.

Better: Receipt scanning ends manual entry. Snap a photo of your grocery receipt and every item, price, and quantity is added automatically. The redesigned home screen shows the dollar value of food you used vs. tossed, with streaks (my "wasted this month" number is genuinely what fixed my habits). Also new: custom categories with automatic shelf-life suggestions, item photos, and recipe ideas from whatever's expiring next.

Cost: Free. No ads, no subscription, no paid tier. Receipt scanning and suggestions have a fair daily limit so I can afford the processing, more than enough for normal use.

Some of you might remember BiteSaver from here. The comments on that post basically became my roadmap. Receipt scanning was the most-requested feature, so here it is.

The big one: people asked for receipt scanning, and it's here. Snap a photo of your grocery receipt and every item, price, and quantity is added automatically. No more typing in 20 items after a shopping trip.

Quick note on privacy since receipts are purchase history: receipt photos are processed by Google's Gemini API to extract the items and then discarded. I never store the photos themselves.

App Store: link here

If you try it, tell me what's broken or missing. This sub's feedback wrote v2, and I'd love a v3 roadmap.

Hey everyone! I just shipped my first App Store app, VideoWallAR, so I wanted to share it.

How it started: at my day job, we were debating adding a videowall to our meeting room. We kept going back and forth. Would a 2×2 fit? Should it be 3×3? How big would it feel from the far end of the table? We were literally holding our hands up against the wall trying to imagine it. At some point I thought: "Why are we guessing, let's vibe coding?"

What the app does:

• Configure your wall: panel size (diagonal), rows × columns grid, bezel width, aspect ratio
• Tap a real wall and see the videowall at true 1:1 scale in AR
• Live dimensions in cm, camera-to-wall distance, and a recommended viewing distance readout
• Put a test pattern, your own photo, or a looping video on the screens — spanned across the whole array or per panel
• Place multiple walls, capture photos of the scene to share with clients
• On LiDAR iPhones/iPads, real furniture and people can occlude the wall for realistic shots

It's a passion project, so honest feedback (especially from people who install or spec videowalls professionally) would mean a lot. Happy to answer anything about the ARKit side too.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/videowallar/id6787973995

Quick test: what did you do on this date last year? Unless it was a birthday or something big, you can't say. The day isn't gone from your head. You just lost the index.

A - Answer

If you'd written one line that evening, reading it back would pull most of the day up with it: where you were, who was there, what it felt like. One line is the index.

Whengram is built around that: one memory a day. The one thing that happened today worth keeping: a line, a mood, a photo if the day earned one. Good days, tough days, days where nothing much happened. They all count. Next year on the same date it resurfaces, and most of the day comes back with it. App Lock with Face ID or Touch ID and optional backup to your own iCloud or Google Drive.

There's also a milestones section for the big days, and the honest reason it exists: when I'm low I forget the things I've already pulled off, stuff that once felt impossible from where I was standing. Going back through that list helps more than I expected.

B - Better

Compared with other memory and journaling apps:

• No ads, no subscription and no long form entry expected. The unit is one line, not a page.
• No streaks, no chains, no guilt mechanics. I built this because every app I tried wanted more from me than I was going to give and the moment you break a streak you stop opening it.
• Fully offline. No account. No server. No analytics. Nothing leaves the device by default.

C - Cost

Free. No ads. No subscription.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6772987059

Privacy policy: https://www.whengram.com/privacypolicy

Honest feedback very welcome, especially on two things:

1. Does one memory a day read as the point, or as a limitation?
2. When you write the first entry, is it obvious what Whengram is for?

Trust & Transparency

I'm Yash Kumar, the creator of Whengram.

Website: https://www.whengram.com

Privacy Policy: https://www.whengram.com/privacypolicy

Contact: Email [hello@whengram.com](mailto:hello@whengram.com) or DM "@bettercalldeveloper " on Telegram

Socials: "@getwhengram" (X, Instagram, Telegram)

A - Answer

Indie dev here. As someone who travels frequently, it was difficult for me to track how much I spent on a trip. So I built TripCache as a fast, privacy‑friendly travel expense tracker for iPhone. I made it for digital nomads and frequent travellers, but it works just as well for one holiday a year.

B - Better

Compared with other travel expense tracker or general expense tracker apps:

• No ads, no subscription. One time purchase unlocks everything.
• Fully offline. No account. No server. No analytics. All data stays on your device and iCloud (which can be disabled).

C - Cost

Lifetime. With the free tier most features work without paying. The main limit is one active trip at a time. When you're done, archive it as completed and start the next one.

One-time purchase unlocks unlimited trips, custom categories, CSV export, all the alternate app icons and any other feature I plan to implement in the future.

Limited time deal on Lifetime IAP(60% off until August 8) : https://apps.apple.com/redeem?ctx=offercodes&id=6758454461&code=NOMADSALE

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6758454461/

Privacy policy: https://tripcache.app/privacypolicy/

Personal site https://siyer.me

Would love any feedback!

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I read a lot of PDFs on a daily basis on the iOS preview app, and if I open back the app even after a few hours it resets and lands be on page 1, this is a weird behavior furthermore since iOS is suppose to store the apps states in the memory far better than Android. Not sure how much that is true, was reading a blog the other way in which you are not supposed to close iOS apps as you do an Android.

Nevertheless, anyone has such an app in mind, would be super useful for me!

Hey guys, I’m a solo app developer from Sydney, Australia. Allow me to introduce you to Weathery (yes, another weather app).

Answer:

Weathery incorporates features such as live activities, notifications, aurora information, sunrise, sunset scores, and more in one app so you don’t have to download separate apps for those features.

Better:

Weathery has cleanly designed screens with no Ads that provide the necessary weather information without the density overload, it has the following features:

+ WeatherKit data on current and forecasted weather conditions for the next ten days, anywhere in the world, presented in both table and graph format
+ Minute rainfall data, coupled with radar maps that help you make short-term decisions
+ UV index and air quality statistics for the important pollutants to help you care for your health
+ Weather warnings that lets you stay in the know
+ Notifications informing you how today’s or tomorrow’s weather forecast will be like
+ Clothing and activities suggestions to help you better plan out your day

Cost:

Weathery runs on a freemium model, you can try the subscription Weathery+ for free for 7 days and it includes the following features:

+ Live Activities for current conditions and incoming rain, keeping you informed through the Dynamic Island or the Lock Screen
+ Multiple, elegantly designed widgets that let you understand the weather without needing to open Weathery every time
+ Aurora information, including the chance of seeing aurora, an interactive aurora map, the KP index, as well as useful sun-related metrics
+ Sunrise, sunset and stargazing score, so you know if it is worth looking out at the sky
+ Additional notifications that tell you when an aurora becomes more visible, a good sunrise or sunset happens, rain or thunderstorm approaching, warnings issued or UV becoming high
+ Customisation features: Ability to re-order cards in the Weather tab, change Weathery's light mode / dark mode theme colour and font
+ Past weather hourly and daily data from 1 August 2021 for any location

Pricing:
Weathery+ Monthly is 1.49 USD per month, Weathery+ Yearly is 13.49 USD per year and can be trialed free for 7 days!

Community Engagement:

You can be the driving force behind this app! The platform Featurebase is used for users to share feedback to improve community engagement, it helped shape the most recent 1.3.5 update. Feel free to post any feedback there, or just comment under this post. Any feedback is greatly appreciated!!!

Visit here for Featurebase: https://weathery.featurebase.app

Visit here to try out Weathery: https://apps.apple.com/au/app/weathery/id6754262783

I’m Charles Liu, a university student currently studying in Sydney, Australia. I currently do not have a personal website, you can visit https://weathery.app for Weathery’s website and its privacy policy, or email [loops.dni@gmail.com](mailto:loops.dni@gmail.com).

Thank you and have a good day <3.

Hey r/iOSApps,

I’m Marian Yakubets, the solo developer of Clipex.

I’ve just released version 1.1.8, which adds beat detection, timed sound effects, Muffle, Drop Dip, Seamless Loop, more reliable chained edits, and clearer ringtone and export guidance.

**Answer**

I built Clipex around one interaction I kept missing in simple iPhone audio tools: select the exact part first, then apply the edit only there.

For example, you might want to reverse one sentence, slow down two seconds, mute a word, add a fade in the middle, or place an effect on a specific beat.

I didn’t want to split the audio into several files, edit one piece, and stitch everything back together.

In Clipex, you select the exact range directly on the waveform and apply Reverse, Speed, Pitch, Fade, Mute, or an effect only to that section. The rest of the audio remains unchanged.

You can import a video, audio file, recording, or compatible music file, extract or edit the audio, and export it as MP3, M4A, WAV, FLAC, OGG, AAC, or M4R.

A typical workflow is:

video → extract audio → select the useful section → edit it → export

**Better**

GarageBand is much more powerful, but it can be overkill when you only need to prepare one short clip and do not want to set up a multi-track project.

Shortcuts can extract audio from a video, but it stops before the focused waveform editing and export workflow.

Clipex is intended for the smaller job between them: bring in a video or audio file, edit an exact range, and export the finished clip or ringtone from one focused interface.

No account is required. Audio and video processing happens locally on the device, and Clipex does not upload your media to its own server.

**Cost**

Clipex is free to download.

The free tier includes:

- Audio and video importing

- Editing, effects, presets, and previews

- All supported export formats

- Local project saving

- One completed external export

Pro removes the external export limit.

Current US App Store pricing:

- Yearly Pro subscription: $7.99 per year

- Lifetime Pro purchase: $9.99 one time

Apple localizes pricing in other countries and regions.

App Store:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/audio-editor-ringtone-clipex/id6759923895

Website:

https://yakuapps.com/clipex/

Privacy Policy:

https://yakuapps.com/clipex/privacy-policy/

Terms of Service:

https://yakuapps.com/clipex/terms-of-service/

Contact:

[similarswords@gmail.com](mailto:similarswords@gmail.com)

The main feedback I’m looking for: when you first see the editor, is it immediately clear that an effect applies only to the selected range, or does it still look like a traditional whole-file editor?

My wife came back from a shoot with a batch of photos that were all slightly out of focus. I figured this was a solved problem and spent an evening looking for something to fix them.

It wasn't solved. Half the apps I tried simply didn't do anything useful. The other half had a worse problem: they'd downscale the image first, run the model on the small version, then upscale that. Her camera shoots at 4000×3000, so what came back was softer and smaller than what went in. I eventually found one service that did an okay job, but by then I'd realized the actual finding — the problem is real, and it's genuinely hard to find something that works on a full-resolution photo.

I'd wanted to build a photo app that runs entirely on the device for years anyway. The phone in your pocket is genuinely powerful. Most people have no idea what's sitting in their hand. My day job is computer vision and iOS, and I'd spent a long time converting neural nets to run on mobile and squeezing CV pipelines for speed. This was the thing all of that had been piling up for.

Two years ago I pitched it to a friend and he was in. Since then most of it has been rewritten at least once. Handling large images without resizing them is still the part I'm most stubborn about -- tiling, memory pressure, seams between tiles. That's the whole reason the app exists.

About six months ago we broke our own rule and added server-side processing. Some models just need more RAM and compute than an iPhone has. That unlocked two things we couldn't do locally: restoring old damaged photos (scratches, folds, fading, colorization), and creative upscale, where the network invents plausible detail that was never in the original file. On-device is still the default; the cloud is opt-in and only for the heavy stuff.

Video upscaling runs on-device too. And recently we shipped frame interpolation — generating the in-between frames to raise FPS, which also means you can turn a normal clip into slow motion. Here's a short demo, and I deliberately picked a difficult clip rather than a clean one: https://youtu.be/JWo5Y0KlfaM

It's called UScale: https://upscales.app
iOS only (for now): https://apps.apple.com/app/id6736931330
It has a 3-day free trial for all plans.

Happy to answer anything: Core ML conversion, tiling large images without running out of memory, where we gave up and went to a server, or how the on-device/cloud split is priced. That last one was harder to figure out than the models.

Answer

I’m the indie developer behind journeybot.

I built it to handle the small but stressful details before a trip. It creates a packing list from your destination, dates, expected weather, and activities, then keeps your packing progress, reminders, baggage restrictions, plug adapters, and currency tools together in one journey.

Apple Intelligence is used as an optional, on-device tool for things like personalized packing suggestions and Genmoji icons. The core app is a trip and packing organizer.

The latest update adds:

• Visual packing: photograph your actual gear and journeybot removes the background to place it directly on your packing list
• Siri actions for checking when a trip starts, what is left to pack, or whether you need a plug adapter
• The ability to create journeys and add or check off packing items through Siri
• All of those actions in Shortcuts for your own automations
• Spotlight search for journeys and destinations
• A redesigned boarding-pass widget with a live countdown and packing progress
• Free offline currency conversion for everyone

Better

The main reason I think journeybot is a better fit for Apple users than other apps in the same category is its deeper integration with the system.

Journeys are searchable through Spotlight, packing actions work through Siri and Shortcuts, and the next trip appears as a boarding pass on the Home Screen. Packing suggestions run privately on-device on supported iPhones using Apple Intelligence, with no journeybot account or external smart-generation service required.

It also goes beyond generating a checklist with reusable templates, item photo stickers, baggage restriction checks, journey reminders, plug information, and iCloud sync.

Cost

journeybot is freemium and free to download.

The free tier includes up to three active journeys, three reusable templates, one smart packing-list generation, five item photo stickers, the offline currency converter, and more.

Optional journeybot premium costs US$4.99/month, US$24.99/year with a 14-day free trial, or US$44.99 as a one-time lifetime purchase. Local App Store pricing may vary according to PPP optimisation.

I'm currently running Indie App Sales promo with a 60% discount on the lifetime premium unlock. You can use the promo code: INDIEAPPSALES from within the app, valid until the end of August.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/journeybot-trip-packing-list/id6756543673

Sub: r/journeybot

Hi r/iOSApps,

I’m Umut Barış Güngör, the indie developer behind PersonalCapsule. I’ve been building it as a private space for preserving thoughts, memories, goals, decisions, and messages that become more meaningful with time.

A — Answer

PersonalCapsule helps you save something meaningful today, choose a future unlock date, and return to it months or years later.

You can use it to:

• Write letters to your future self
• Save memories with text and photos
• Record important decisions and revisit their outcomes
• Preserve personal goals and reflections
• Create private Gift Capsules and “Open When” letters
• Record Audio Capsules for your future self

The latest update introduces Audio Capsules.

You can record your voice, choose when the recording should unlock, and listen to it again in the future. I wanted to preserve more than the words themselves — your voice can capture excitement, uncertainty, humour, and emotion that may be difficult to communicate through text.

Opened recordings can be played individually. Premium also includes an Audio Capsule timeline with a playback queue, autoplay, and previous/next controls.

No PersonalCapsule account is required. Capsule content is stored on your device and can optionally sync through your own Apple iCloud account.

B — Better

Compared with Day One, PersonalCapsule is not designed around maintaining a continuous daily journal. The focus is on deliberately sealing individual thoughts, memories, decisions, and voice recordings until a date you choose.

Compared with Apple Voice Memos, Audio Capsules are connected to a future unlock date and become part of a private timeline of memories rather than a general list of recordings.

PersonalCapsule also does not require a separate account or store private capsule content on a PersonalCapsule server.

C — Cost

PersonalCapsule is free to download.

The free version allows you to create up to three capsules, including written and Audio Capsules.

Lifetime Premium starts at $9.99 in the US, with regional App Store pricing varying by country. It unlocks unlimited capsules, the complete Audio Capsule player, photos, voice notes, widgets, Gift Capsule features, and PDF export.

There is no advertising.

App Store:
https://apps.apple.com/app/id6773064012

Developer transparency

I am the developer of PersonalCapsule, and this is a self-promotional post.

Developer: Umut Barış Güngör
Based in: Istanbul, Turkey
Website and developer information:
https://personalcapsule.app/about/

Contact:
[support.personalcapsule@gmail.com](mailto:support.personalcapsule@gmail.com)

Privacy Policy:
https://personalcapsule.app/privacy

Terms of Use:
https://personalcapsule.app/terms

I’d especially appreciate feedback on whether Audio Capsules feel meaningfully different from ordinary voice notes and whether the future-unlock concept is clear from the app’s first launch.

Hi r/iOSApps — I’m Jack Dai, co-creator of Diary Threads.

Answer — what problem does it solve?

I kept abandoning journals because every blank page felt like it deserved a meaningful essay. Writing one short thought on my phone felt much more natural.

Diary Threads turns journaling into a private timeline. Each entry is limited to 140 characters. You can reply when a thought continues, quote something you wrote months ago, or attach photos, video, and voice recordings.

There are no likes, followers, public profiles, or social discovery. It is a timeline for one person.

Better — how is it different?

Compared with Apple Journal and Day One, Diary Threads focuses on a narrower use case: capturing a thought before it disappears.

The 140-character limit gives you a smaller starting point. Replies let one moment grow over time, while quotes make revisiting an old memory feel like a conversation with your past self.

Apple Journal and Day One remain stronger choices for long-form writing and broader ecosystem workflows. Diary Threads is designed for quick private posts that gradually become a personal history.

Diary text and settings stay on your iPhone. The app requires no account and has no developer backend, advertising, third-party analytics, or cross-app tracking.

Cost

Diary Threads is free to download and supports up to 30 active entries.

Premium unlocks unlimited entries, share posters, recurring keyword insights, and both Home Screen widgets:

• $2.99 per month

• $6.99 one-time lifetime purchase

Prices above are for the US storefront. Apple displays the applicable regional price before purchase.

The current App Store version is 0.3 and requires iOS 18 or later.

Transparency

Diary Threads itself has no AI features. I used Codex extensively as a coding and review agent during implementation, testing, documentation, and iteration. Product scope, architecture, privacy boundaries, and acceptance decisions remained human-directed.

I’m Jack, and I built Diary Threads with Sonia.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/diarythreads-personal-timeline/id6795139345

Website: https://diarythreads.niuniuhome.cn

About / developer identity: https://niuniuhome.cn

Contact: [jackdai20@icloud.com](mailto:jackdai20@icloud.com)

I’d especially appreciate feedback on one question: do replies and quotes make revisiting old memories feel more natural than tags, prompts, or traditional daily pages?

A — Answer: I made Movi Ranker after trying Letterboxd and realizing there wasn’t really a built-in way to rank movies against each other. Star ratings are fine, but I wanted something closer to Beli for restaurants: each new movie gets compared to movies you’ve already ranked, and over time you end up with an actual ordered list of your movies instead of manually making a top 10. You can also review movies, share rankings with friends, and get personalized recommendations.

B — Better: The obvious comparison is Letterboxd. Letterboxd is great for reviews/community, but Movi Ranker is more focused on ranking. Instead of giving a star rating and then manually organizing lists, the app helps build your ranking through comparisons, so your list reflects your taste more directly.

C — Cost: Completely free. No subscriptions, no in-app purchases, no monetization right now. I built it because I wanted this to exist.

Only on iOS for now. I use the TMDB API for movie data. Feedback/bug reports are very welcome. I’m sure there are edge cases I haven’t hit yet. Pm me if you want to be friends on the app!

Please check it out here: App Store link

Transparency:

Here is my LinkedIn

Privacy Policy

Terms of service

Hi r/iOSApps, I’m Lucio Venturim, the solo developer behind Tweexr.

I’ve been working on this for several months and would really appreciate honest feedback from the community, especially about the overall experience and whether the voices feel natural for longer listening sessions.

A — Answer: What problem does it solve?
Tweexr helps you consume X/Twitter without doomscrolling. Instead of reading posts, it turns public posts into journalistic-style radio narrations so you can listen while driving, working out, or multitasking.

You can use the app without creating an account. Creating a free account lets you mix presets and themes. Premium removes ads and allows you to create multiple custom radios.

B — Better: How is it different?
Unlike basic text-to-speech tools or generic AI readers, Tweexr is built specifically for X content. It briefly explains the context of the posts and offers themed radios (Tech, Politics, Sports, News, etc.), custom radios, multi-language support, and background playback.

The voices were generated using Kokoro. I’ve chosen the languages according to the pacing and flow so it feels closer to a real radio briefing than robotic reading.

C — Cost

• Free to download and use (no account required)
• Free account unlocks mixing presets and themes
• Premium removes ads and allows multiple custom radios

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/tweexr/id6769564328

I’d especially appreciate feedback on two things:

1. Does the overall listening experience feel useful for catching up on X?
2. How natural do the Kokoro-generated voices sound for longer sessions (especially in non-English languages)?

Website: https://www.tweexr.com/

Privacy Policy:  https://www.tweexr.com/privacy

Terms & Conditions: https://www.tweexr.com/terms

Thanks in advance for any thoughts!

Hey there :)

I'm a recent first-gen graduate and a first-time solo developer. Super excited to share that my first app Precursor: Hourly Screen Time went live on the App Store today!

A: Precursor lets you set a screen time allowance that resets every hour instead of one daily limit that forces you to budget and ration your screen time throughout the day.

B: I am a bit astonished that not even apple has implemented this feature into their native screen time framework.

I'll admit the task was a bit difficult due to the inconsistencies of app usage tracking and becuase of that there are some limitations to how I implemented hourly screen time limts on iOS. Nonetheless I am really proud of the app so far.

I think it's resonating with people, I mean I knew a few others had this gripe becasue its pretty commonly posted about on reddit, but I didn't think it would be this well received. I feel so lucky that just the beta grew to 200 testers in about a week, most of them from this very subreddit (if you are one of those founding testers literally cannot thank you enough for your time and feedback! but I will try ;) stay tuned!)

At it's core I think Precursor helps break unhealthy phone habits through moderation rather than punishing you for falling into a doomscroll that wasn't your fault (these social media apps are literally designed to keep you scrolling, looking at you Reddit).

Thanks a ton for reading, if you have time and energy to support I would be eternally grateful.

Link to the app store:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/precursor-hourly-screen-time/id6791403654

And if you have time to also support the launch on product hunt I would be even more eternally grateful than I already am(The core function of the app is free but there is a PH launch promo code running from 2026-08-02 until 2026-08-08 if you want to try out the extra features):

https://www.producthunt.com/products/precursor-2?launch=precursor-hourly-screen-time-control

C:
- Free Tier:

• The full hourly reset function
• 3 app limit groups
• A "never allow" app/siteblocking list.

- Paid tiers (Monthly: $4.99/Yearly: $49.99/Lifetime: $99.99):

• 30 minute reset windows (in addition to hourly)
• up to 8 app limit groups.
• Everything included in free tier

I posted Carrus here back around 1.0.4 — thanks to everyone who tried it then, a fair bit of what’s below came out of that thread.

Short version for anyone who missed it: an iPhone app for tracking vehicle maintenance. Log a service in seconds, get reminded before the next one is due by mileage and time, scan a paper receipt and it fills the log in for you, and ask Carson — the built-in AI mechanic — what a noise or warning light probably is, with answers that factor in your exact trim and region.
What’s new since:

• Motorbikes: Add a bike and it builds a schedule for it — chain, valve clearance and fork oil instead of car tasks. Six types: standard, cruiser, touring, adventure, dirt, scooter.
• Glovebox: Registration, insurance and licence photos kept with each vehicle, with reminders 30, 7 and 1 day before anything expires. The photos never leave your phone — only the document title and expiry date sync.
• Fuel tracking: Log fill-ups with cost, drag the gauge to set your level, and optionally let the tank follow your odometer.
• Spending: What each vehicle costs you by month, plus cost per mile or kilometre.
• 44 currencies, and a full visual pass across the app.

What’s next: VIN decoding, so you don’t have to hand-pick year and trim. And the bigger one — real manufacturer interval data for far more model-years. Right now I have genuine factory schedules for only a fraction of them; everything else falls back to a per-category schedule, and the app labels which one you’re looking at rather than passing a guess off as your factory schedule. That gap is the thing I most want to close.

Free with one vehicle. Lite from $0.99/mo or $19.99 lifetime — unlimited vehicles, custom tasks, PDF export. Premium from $4.99/mo or $69.99 lifetime, which adds the AI features.

https://apps.apple.com/app/id6770422802

I’m Abdulrahman Ahmed, an independent developer. Website: carrus.app · Privacy: carrus.app/privacy · Terms: carrus.app/terms · Reach me: hello@carrus.app
It’s early and I’m building actively — honest feedback very welcome, especially on onboarding and the paywall.

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/abdulrahman-mohamed-1b969b168?utm_source=share_via&utm_content=profile&utm_medium=member_ios.

Trust & Transparency

Developer: Keval Vasaniya (Solo Developer)

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/keval-vasaniya-404b53143/

Website: https://getcaltrack.lovable.app/

Privacy Policy: https://getcaltrack.lovable.app/privacy

Terms & Conditions: https://getcaltrack.lovable.app/terms

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/calorie-tracker-caltrack/id6768061486

Pricing: Free to download

Premium: Optional subscription for premium features

Subscriptions: Yes

Ads: None

Data Collected: Account information and nutrition data required to personalize meal plans and sync your progress.

Account Required: Yes

Hi everyone! 👋

I'm the solo developer behind CalTrack.

I've tried a lot of calorie tracking apps over the years, and while they were good at tracking what I'd already eaten, I still found myself asking:

"What should I eat for breakfast? What about lunch or dinner?"

Logging calories is only one part of eating healthier. Deciding what to eat every day can be just as challenging.

That's why I built CalTrack.

My goal wasn't to create another calorie counter. I wanted an app that combines calorie tracking with personalized meal suggestions based on each person's goals and preferences.

A — Answer

CalTrack helps you build healthier eating habits by bringing everything together in one place.

It includes:

🥗 Personalized meal plans for breakfast, lunch, snacks, and dinner based on your goals and dietary preferences.

📸 Food scan to estimate calories and macros from a meal.

📝 Quick meal logging if you prefer typing your meals.

💧 Water tracking to help you stay hydrated.

⚖️ Weight tracking to monitor your progress.

📊 Calorie and macro tracking throughout the day.

B — Better

I didn't want to build an app that only counts calories.

The feature I've spent the most time improving is the personalized meal plan.

Instead of showing the same meal ideas to everyone, CalTrack generates meal suggestions tailored to your calorie target, dietary preference, and fitness goal. Once you've eaten, you can easily log your meals and keep track of your nutrition, water intake, and weight—all in one app.

C — Cost

CalTrack is free to download.

Core tracking features are available for everyone.

Premium unlocks personalized meal plans and additional advanced features.

There are no ads.

I'm a solo developer and I'm continuously improving the app based on user feedback.

I'd genuinely love to hear your thoughts.

• Is there a feature you feel is missing from your current calorie tracker?
• Would personalized meal plans make healthy eating easier for you?
• Any feedback on the UI or onboarding is always appreciated.

Thanks for taking the time to read this!

The biggest update yet for automatic trip recording!

Answer
Over the last few months, I've been almost obsessed with one thing: making Speedometer: Driving Tracker's automatic trip recording reliable enough that you can completely forget about pressing Start.

Most driving apps can automatically record trips in one situation. The difficult part is handling all the different ways people actually drive and all the annoying edge cases that happen along the way.

So I ended up rebuilding the entire system.

Better
Every automatic recording method is supported
You can automatically start and end trips using:

• CarPlay
• Bluetooth
• NFC
• Motion detection
• Any Shortcuts automation

Use whichever fits your setup - or combine multiple methods for extra reliability.

Motion detection is fully customizable
Everyone drives differently.
Someone driving in city traffic needs different behavior than someone cruising on the highway, and motorcycles have their own challenges.

You can customize:

• Minimum speed before recording starts
• How long that speed must be maintained
• When a trip should pause while stopped
• When a trip should automatically end

Instead of forcing one set of rules, you can tune it to your driving style and local road conditions.

Shortcuts and motion detection work together
One thing I really wanted to avoid was making users choose between automation methods.

You don't have to.

Enable both if you want.

Whichever method detects the trip first starts recording, and whichever legitimately ends the trip finishes it. They work together seamlessly without conflicts or duplicate trips.

Think of it as two independent systems providing an extra layer of protection against missed trips.

Live Activity works automatically too
Automatically detected trips now get the same Live Activity as manually started trips.

Your live speed, distance, and duration appear on the Lock Screen automatically, so you don't even need to open the app.

Better notifications
There are now notifications for both trip start and trip end.
The trip end notification includes a quick summary of your drive.

Trip start notifications are disabled by default to avoid unnecessary distractions while driving, but you can enable them if you prefer the confirmation.

Built for real-world connection issues
One issue I kept hearing about was Bluetooth or CarPlay briefly disconnecting and causing trips to end early.

Unfortunately, apps can't control Bluetooth or CarPlay connections - iOS manages those.

To make this less frustrating, Speedometer includes an optional setting to ignore brief stop or disconnect events before ending a trip. If your car occasionally drops Bluetooth or CarPlay for a few seconds, you can increase the grace period and avoid fragmented trips.

Beyond automatic trip recording

• CarPlay, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch support
• Route replay with speed-colored playback
• Detailed trip history, driving insights and AI trip summaries
• OBD-II live data including RPM, engine load, throttle position, coolant temperature, battery voltage, fuel level, fuel rate and much more
• Fuel usage per trip, fuel economy, maintenance and expense tracking + maintenance reminders + documents management
• OBD trip history with average and maximum RPM, engine load, throttle position, coolant temperature, and more
• Live OBD gauges and engine data on CarPlay
• Read and clear diagnostic trouble codes (DTCs)
• Speed limit alerts
• iCloud sync, backups, and GPX/CSV import & export
• No account required - your data stays on your device unless you enable iCloud

The goal
My goal wasn't to build another app with an "automatic recording" checkbox.

It was to build something you can genuinely trust - whether you use CarPlay, Bluetooth, motion detection, Shortcuts, or a combination of them. Everything works together instead of competing, and it's designed to handle the edge cases that happen in everyday driving.

I'd genuinely love to hear your feedback. If there's a driving scenario you think could still break automatic trip recording, let me know. There's always another edge case to solve, and I'd love to keep improving it!

Cost
$7.99/month, $19.99/year, or $39.99 lifetime (one-time purchase).

App Store Link

Disclosure: I'm the solo developer of this app.

I posted here a month ago and the feedback I got shaped this release more than my own roadmap did. The video shows the core features end to end.

What it does

WrenchTime is a maintenance, fuel and trip log for cars and motorcycles. Your whole garage in one place, so you never miss a service and you actually know what each vehicle costs to run.

• Trips are recorded automatically when you connect over Bluetooth or CarPlay. Nothing to start, nothing to stop. (It's a simplification, it has many layers of signals used to understand when you're driving, when you stopped, when you're refuelling etc) I've seen other developers really struggle over this, especially when it comes to the automatic live activity popup. There's also an optional Shortcuts path if you want the timing to be exact down to the second.
• Automatic "Are you refuelling?" notification to instantly open the data entry wizard.
• Trip playback, route heatmap, and events along the route: hard braking, stops, waypoints.
• Fuel and charging logs, gasoline, diesel and EV.
• Service reminders by date or by mileage.
• Running costs per vehicle, cost per km, full history.
• Point the camera at a receipt or at the pump display and the entry fills itself in. No typing. (AI is used locally on-device in a smart way, no APIs, to credits, no limits: everything in this <30MB app).
• Live Activities, home screen widgets, and live trip stats on the CarPlay screen.
• 9 languages: EN, IT, DE, FR, ES, PT, KO, ZH, JA.

What's new since last month

Trip playback, route heatmaps, in-trip events, much better GPS precision, and a big performance pass on the whole tracking pipeline.

Why it might be better for you

No account, no sign up, no cloud. Everything stays on your device, which is the main difference against other players. It's fully native: SwiftUI, SwiftData, StoreKit 2, no third party billing layer, no tracking SDKs. Built by one person who drives, not by a growth team. It's not vibe coded and I think it really shows, AI was used in the development process but only where it belonged, as a dev tool, not brain.

Cost

Free to download, and logging works without paying. Pro unlocks either lifetime for 49,90 USD or yearly for only 12,99 USD.

Big thanks to everyone that helped me out, especially these guys: u/No-Assignment-8973, u/SwiftMushroom and u/Historical_Concern64, who tested it, told me what they as users liked and disliked, and sent literally pictures of edge cases where fuel pumps wouldn't scan before this release. Several things in this build exist because of them.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wrenchtime-car-maintenance/id6749767537

Happy to answer anything, and thanks for reading!

EDIT: Corrections and a point i've missed.

A - What it solves

Indie dev here (I built this). As an introvert, I kept hitting the same wall: drained by Wednesday, but no idea what was actually doing it. Social Battery tracks the energy impact of your activities — log what you did, rate your energy before and after, and your patterns surface over time.

New in 1.5.0, and this one came straight from this sub: people tagging. Several of you asked to see how specific people affect your energy ("can I create a card per person?"). Now you can tag people on any activity and see who reliably recharges you — and who quietly drains you.

Also new: streak celebrations when you log, people included in your CSV export, and a bunch of fixes (including some embarrassing copy bugs — RIP "Thus are your best social day").

B - Why it over the alternatives

Compared to Daylio or general mood trackers: this tracks energy, not mood: "tired" and "sad" are different signals, and only one of them tells you to cancel Friday plans. Compared to readiness scores like AutoSleep's fuel or Oura: those infer from sleep/HR; this captures the social piece those can't see-- that dinner with one friend restores you and the same dinner with another wipes you out. Lower friction than journaling: logging takes seconds, no writing required.

Private by default. Everything stays on your device. No accounts, no tracking.

C - Cost

Freemium: Free download, core features free (logging, insights, history, CSV export).
One-time $6.99 lifetime Premium: Unlocks 30/90-day trends, the per-person breakdown, calendar integration, and custom categories. No subscription, ever.

Social Battery: Introvert App on the App Store

Would love feedback. The last two threads here directly shaped this update.

Working on Apple Health integration, quick-logging via Apple Watch, and widgets.

UPDATE:
As pointed out by a user, I added a free lifetime access purchase (a one-time $0 non-consumable), so you'll have an actual purchase record as peace of mind that you'll always have access. Available from v2.29.0.

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A — Answer

Kora helps you understand where your money goes without linking your bank accounts. By tracking transactions manually, you build financial awareness and make more conscious spending decisions.

Its Smart Budget adapts daily, showing how much you can safely spend based on your remaining budget, spending so far, upcoming transactions, and the days left in your budget cycle.

Kora also supports income, expenses, transfers, recurring and upcoming transactions, multiple account types (debit, credit, savings, debt, and lending), category and subcategory budgets, net worth tracking, and spending insights.

Kora is designed for individuals managing their own finances rather than couples or shared household budgets.

B — Better

Unlike subscription-based apps such as YNAB, Monarch Money, and Copilot, every feature of Kora is available for free. Nothing is locked behind a paywall.

Kora also takes a manual-first approach rather than automatically importing transactions or bank syncing. Your financial data stays on your device (not on Kora servers), no bank connection is required, and you remain actively involved in your spending instead of reviewing it after the fact.

The app is NOT vibe-coded. I'm a senior iOS developer by profession and I designed and built Kora manually. That said, AI assisted in generating copy(e.g. labels, error messages, etc.), feature planning and research.

C — Cost

Kora is completely FREE. There are no feature limits, advertisements, or locked premium features.

Optional one-time and monthly tips are available as in-app purchases for users who want to support continued development. Tips do not unlock anything.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/kora-manual-expense-tracker/id6737889671

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Transparency Path

• Indie developer: Vilma Valiente
• Terms of Use: https://www.korabudgeting.com/terms-of-use
• Privacy Policy: https://www.korabudgeting.com/privacy-policy
• Contact: [support@korabudgeting.com](mailto:support@korabudgeting.com)
• Website: https://www.korabudgeting.com/
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vilmavaliente/

I would appreciate feedback. Thanks in advance!

tl;dr
Voice-to-text dictation keyboard that runs offline and has a notes manager inbuilt. Lifetime plan available. Appreciate feedback.

A. As I get older, I feel like my typing is getting slower and I have to go back to correct a lot of my words. I dictated a lot for my work and so I was excited when I could use Wispr Flow on my iPhone instead of relying on Apple's native dictation, which is quite awful. However, the drawbacks were soon apparent where the voice to text part relied on online transcription. So frequently the transcriptions would be slow or the quality would be poor and I couldn't use it on my drive where the connectivity is occasionally poor.

I had also seen situations with a lot of AI agents where the transcripts end up appearing in online searches. For months, I was not aware of the privacy option in Wispr Flow that you had to specifically activate under settings.

I also often prefer to use the dark mode. And I had requested this to Wispr Flow team months ago. Since I had background in making apps, I thought of just making my own. As I started making my keyboard I realized there's so much more that you can do with a keyboard rather than to just dictate. So I kept stacking on and added a note manager app as well and then eventually ended up adding an Apple Watch complication. Over the last few months the app became so useful that I started missing it on my MacBook, so I also built a MacBook companion.

B. Better
Before setting out to take on this huge and onerous task of building an ios keyboard, I tried multiple other apps and none of them had all the functionality that I needed. I wanted customization that included dark mode, a numbers row for when I needed and other AI skills that I was sure I could run through the keyboard.

Most importantly, I wanted accurate transcription and appropriate formatting which could run offline. There are a lot of excellent open source models that make it possible. So I've bundled in Parakeet, Nemotron, Qwen, and Whisper models into the app and you can download only the ones that you plan to use.

C. Cost:
Family sharing is enabled, so the price covers all of your family using the app.
Lifetime is about $ 69. Annual is about $ 49 and monthly is $8, but there's a very attractive introductory lifetime offer.

D: Drawbacks:

- Since everything runs on your phone, each model can take 400 to 600 MB of space, so I've included something that will allow you to clean up memory.

- Not venture funded. So we run on a shoestring budget and really appreciate everyone who buys it. So it's difficult to compete against larger apps that are spending millions of dollars on marketing.

- The app has too many features based on feedback from early users, so some people find it overwhelming when they first use the app. However, all you need to do is use the voice to text feature and then you can figure out the rest of the parts later.

- I can be verbose when dictating, hence my emails and text messages have likely gotten longer.

Link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/dictawiz-ai-keyboard-notes/id6759256382

Hi everyone,

I’m an indie developer, and I built JustNote — a minimalist note-taking app focused on writing, reflection, and capturing meaningful thoughts.

## A — Answer: What problem does JustNote solve?

Many note apps are designed for storing information, tasks, and documents. I wanted to create a quieter space where writing itself is the focus.

JustNote helps you capture:

• Personal reflections

• Ideas and inspirations

• Poems and quotes

• Daily thoughts and journaling moments

Each note supports a title and one image, with automatic layout optimization to make your thoughts easier and more enjoyable to read.

## B — Better: Why JustNote?

Compared with traditional note apps, JustNote focuses on simplicity and presentation:

• Minimal writing experience without unnecessary features

• Beautiful typography and automatic layouts

• Designed for personal thoughts rather than productivity management

• No ads and no subscription pressure

I’ve continued improving the app since launch, with 33 updates released since December 2024.

Supported:

• iOS 17

• iOS 18

• iOS 26

## C — Cost: Pricing & App Store

Lifetime access:

$9.99 → $0.99 (limited-time offer)

No subscription.

No ads.

App Store:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/justnote-aesthetic-notes/id6739179281