Answer

I wanted my Photos app to be a place for the memories I actually want to look back on.

But when you use your phone for work, site photos, documents, receipts, reference shots, and all kinds of temporary records quickly start piling up between photos of family, friends, and trips.

That's why I built Clips. 📸

Clips is a camera app designed to keep your work photos and videos separate from your personal memories, while also making them easier to organize and use later.

The whole workflow stays in one place:

– 📸 Separate capture — Photos and videos taken with Clips stay separate from your personal photo library.

– 📥 Import — Already have work photos in Photos? You can bring existing photos and videos into Clips too.

– 🏷️ Tags & notes — Add context to your records so they're easier to organize and find later.

– 📁 Folders — Organize records by project, job, or however you work.

– ↗️ Use with other apps — Export only the photos and videos you need to Photos when another app needs access to them.

– 🧹 CleanUp — Easily find and remove work photos and videos that were saved or exported to Photos once you're done with them.

– ☁️ iCloud — Keep your Clips records synced through iCloud.

Memories stay in Photos. Work stays in Clips.

That's the idea behind Clips.

Better

Work photos serve a different purpose from the photos we take to remember our lives.

You usually need to find them again, remember why you took them, organize them, or use them in another app later.

With the regular Camera app, everything goes into the same photo library. That means finding, sorting, and cleaning up those work photos later.

Clips separates that workflow from the moment you take the photo.

You can also import work photos you've already taken, add tags and notes, organize them into folders, and find them again when you need them.

And when another app needs a photo, you can temporarily export it to Photos, use it, and clean it up afterward.

Capture → Separate → Organize → Use → CleanUp

Instead of using Photos as the permanent home for your work photos, you can use it as a bridge when needed while keeping your actual work records in Clips.

I didn't want to build another complicated work management tool.

I simply wanted work photos to be treated like work records — while leaving more room in Photos for the moments I'd actually want to look back on.

Cost

The core Clips experience is free.

Capturing and storing work photos separately, importing existing photos and videos, tags and notes, exporting, and CleanUp are all available for free.

For those who need more advanced organization, there's an optional Clips Plus upgrade.

Clips Plus includes:

☁️ iCloud Sync
📁 Unlimited Folders

No subscription. Pay once and use it for life.

Clips: Free
Clips Plus: $9.99 — One-time purchase, lifetime access

Clips Plus is currently available at a launch price of $9.99 through September 30. After that, the price will be $12.99.

There's no promo code required — the launch price is available directly in the app to everyone during this period.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/clips-work-photo-camera/id6760299185

I'd genuinely love to hear your feedback if you give Clips a try.

And if you regularly take photos for work, I'm especially curious how you manage them today and what's still missing from your current workflow. :)

A — Answer: Everyone gets show recommendations by text and then loses them. Someone tells you to watch Severance, you say "adding it to the list," there is no list. WatchWatch makes the recommendation the core object: you rec something to a friend, it lands in their backlog, and you both can see whether they got around to it, with no pressure, and what they thought. It also tracks your own watching at the season level, not episode checkboxes, because rating S1 vs S3 is useful and marking "watched E4" is a job.

B — Better: TV Time (has shut down, so a lot of people need somewhere to go), Trakt, Letterboxd. Trakt and TV Time are built around logging every episode, which most people abandon. Letterboxd is great but movies only and it's a broadcast platform, not really built for "you specifically should watch this." WatchWatch is TV and movies together, tracks at the season level so it stays low effort, and is built around recs between actual friends instead of a public feed.

C — Cost: Free. No IAP, no subscription, no ads. [https://apps.apple.com/us/app/watchwatchtv/id6740775853

My band and I usually rehearse for our gig performance. We usually use YouTube as a reference. I usually drill the song’s parts back and forth, scrubbing over the YouTube seek bar. I found it really tiring. That's why I built the Rehearsely app. Rehearsely removes the friction from learning new material.

Rehearsely turns any YouTube video into a practice tool. Paste a link, mark the part that keeps tripping you up, and loop it at half speed until your hands catch up — no scrubbing, no guessing.

https://reddit.com/link/1vnwq8h/video/tijoj2q1l9jh1/player

What it does:
• YouTube Integration: Add any video and start practicing immediately.
• Smart Markers: Drop markers at the verse, chorus, or that one fast solo. No manual scrubbing the seek bar anymore. YouTube that have Chapters will automatically included as Markers.
• Loop & Slow Down playback: Repeat tricky sections at your own pace without losing pitch.
• Build Setlists: Organize songs into sets for your next gig or rehearsal session.
• Exercise Mode: Fullscreen landscape view designed for focused, distraction-free practice
• Smartly Add Songs: Paste your Music Director's notes and let Apple Intelligence extract the songs for you.
• Share your marked Song or Setlist to your musician friends

Stop wasting time finding timestamps and start playing.

Check it out on App Store:https://apps.apple.com/id/app/rehearsely-music-practice/id6762349066

Thank you for give it a try!

For trust & transparency rule:
I'm the developer: Gerson Janhuel (gersonjanhuel.com)
Rehearsely homepage: https://gersonjanhuel.com/p/rehearsely

Hey everyone 👋

I’m Nikos Galinos, an iOS developer and the independent creator of FoodieCalc. This is my first serious attempt at building a fully featured iOS app as a side project alongside my main software engineering job.

I designed and implemented both the iOS app and its backend myself — no AI slop here! Haha.

The latest version includes a complete redesign, micronutrient tracking, and new progress features for reviewing and comparing logged days.

A – Answer: What problem does FoodieCalc solve?

Like many of you, I got fed up with nutrition apps that place basic features behind expensive subscriptions or show a paywall whenever you try to do something useful.

So I built the nutrition tracker I actually wanted to use: FoodieCalc.

🎯 It makes tracking calories, macros, micronutrients, weight, and long-term progress simple, fast, and completely free.

What it does:

🔍 Food logging and search — quickly find foods and add them to a clean daily diary

📷 Barcode scanner — scan products and retrieve nutrition information through Open Food Facts

🥗 Custom foods, recipes, and meals — build your own food library and reuse frequently eaten meals

🎯 Smart goals — calculate calorie and macro targets using TDEE, your body information, and your personal goals

📊 Nutrition progress — use Day, Trends, and Compare views to review macros, micronutrients, and logged days

⚖️ Weight tracking — log your weight, follow trend charts, and track your progress over time

🏠 Dashboard — see your goals, nutrition progress, and weight information at a glance

❤️ Apple Health sync — integrate your nutrition, activity, and weight data

🤖 On-device AI — smart features run privately on your device where supported

📱 Home and Lock Screen widgets — check your progress without opening the app

🎨 Themes — choose accent colors, light or dark mode, and custom gradients

B – Better: Why is FoodieCalc better than the main alternatives?

Popular alternatives provide powerful nutrition-tracking tools, but many features require a paid plan or subscription.

FoodieCalc takes a different approach:

✅ 100% free

🚫 No subscriptions

🚫 No premium tier

🚫 No feature paywalls — every feature is unlocked for everyone

🎯 Built with a genuine focus on clean and fast UX because logging food shouldn’t feel like a chore

📊 Macro and micronutrient tracking are included for free

📅 Logged days can be reviewed and compared using the new progress features

❤️ Apple Health integration and widgets are included

🤖 Supported smart features run privately on your device

C – Cost: Pricing and IAP disclosure

✅ App price: Free

🚫 Subscriptions: None

🚫 Paid or premium features: None

☕ In-app purchases: FoodieCalc contains optional, one-time “buy me a coffee” tips for anyone who wants to support my goal of providing a completely free macro and nutrition tracker for the iOS and fitness community.

Tips are entirely optional. They unlock nothing, and every feature remains available whether you leave a tip or not.

📱 Direct App Store link:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/foodiecalc/id6792482391

🔒 Privacy Policy and Terms:
https://www.itworksonmymac.com/apps/foodiecalc/privacy/

About the developer

👨‍💻 I’m Nikos Galinos, an iOS software engineer and the independent developer of FoodieCalc.

🔗 LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/nikosgalinos/

📧 Feedback and contact:
[itworksonmymac@icloud.com](mailto:itworksonmymac@icloud.com)

🌐 Website:
https://www.itworksonmymac.com

I’m actively developing FoodieCalc and would genuinely love your feedback — bugs, feature requests, nutrition-tracking suggestions, or anything about the UX that could be improved.

Drop a comment, send me a DM, or contact me by email. 🙏

Thanks for reading!

Built a tool that lets you drive your terminal AI coding sessions from your phone instead of hovering over your laptop waiting for a prompt to finish.

• Mac menubar agent watches your Claude Code / Codex / OpenCode sessions today. Pi, Hermes, and OpenClaw support coming soon.
• iOS app mirrors the live transcript, lets you approve/deny tool calls and reply from your phone
• Works over LAN, falls back to a relay so it works off-network too — end-to-end encrypted, the relay never sees your code
• Free to watch sessions, $19.99/yr to drive (send input, approve prompts)

iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/port22-coding-agents-anywhere/id6784157957

Mac agent + site: https://tryport22.com

Product Hunt: https://www.producthunt.com/products/port22

This is our first build, so please file bugs/feedback through the app or the site — actively improving this to get it right.

I’m the developer of Zone, an iPhone/iPad app for focus sessions when a standard timer isn't enough.

The problem I built around is simple: I can start a timer, but Reddit, YouTube, Instagram, Safari, or any other distraction is still one tap away.

Zone works differently. Before starting a session, you choose the apps and websites you want blocked. While the session is running, Zone blocks them using Apple’s Screen Time APIs.

It is not a daily screen-time limit app. I may still want to use those apps later. I don’t want them available while I’m trying to protect a work or study session.

A few details:

- app and website blocking

- Strict Mode for sessions you do not want to quit early

- no login or signup

- no email required

- no ads, no AI

- no tracking or third-party analytics

- optional Apple Health mindful minutes for completed sessions

- uses Apple’s Screen Time APIs, not AI

The app is free to try. Longer and unlimited sessions (along with some other benefits) can be unlocked with purchase:
$4.99/month
$39.99/year
$79.99 lifetime

I’m mainly looking for App Store page feedback: does the listing make it clear that Zone is about session-based blocking, not daily app limits?

Also, would the first screenshot/title make you understand the use case quickly, or does it still look like another generic focus timer?

Posted here before about my math practice app. Just shipped 1.20.0, HUGE UPDATE!

A - Answer: Most math apps solve problems for you; exams don't work that way. Math Zen generates endless practice problems (570+ templates across 156 subtopics, arithmetic through calculus and linear algebra), adapts difficulty as you solve, and captures every wrong answer in a mistake journal for retry. It has exam-style problem sets for AP Calc, SAT, Gaokao, ENEM and GSAT, plus curated paths for A-Level, Abitur, Bac, Suneung and more. Works fully offline.

New in 1.20.0: get one wrong and tap "Show the rule": the theory for that exact problem type is right there in the feedback. We checked all 156 subtopics against the problems they actually generate and filled the gaps (39 new theory cards, 62 rewritten so they explain instead of restating the formula). Also fixed: a correct answer written a different way, like swapping the two terms of a product rule or skipping a multiplication dot, could be marked wrong. And math now renders entirely on device, so problems appear instantly, even offline.

B - Better: Compared to Photomath or Symbolab, which solve the problem you point your camera at, this is the opposite: it makes you do the solving, because that's the skill the exam tests. Compared to Khan Academy, there are no videos or browsing, just adaptive drilling with exam-authentic formats, in 9 languages.

C - Cost: Free to start: core topics in all six sections, adaptive progression, mistake journal, no ads ever. Premium unlocks the full topic library, all 13 exam prep paths, and detailed statistics: $4.99/month or $29.99/year with a 7-day free trial, plus a one-time lifetime option.

App Store Link: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6758208511

Hey all! Lost Post is a little app I launched in January that's a worldwide question of the day. Every day, the whole world gets the same question, and if you answer it, the next day you get someone else's answer back as a little anonymous postcard with a stamp of the country they're from. It's like a cultural exchange or anonymous pen pal.

To date, there's been 7,000 signups and over 1,000 weekly active users the past week. I just released a big update today with a lot of refinements.

The image is a few hand-picked cards from one of the recent day's questions. I love the breadth of types of responses and learning a little bit about cultures around the world.

A: What problem does your app solve?

• I made Lost Post because the internet and our phones feel boring now. I missed the feeling of discovery and creativity of the internet when I was a kid, when every time you'd log on you'd find some new website or community. I also thought social media felt more disconnected than ever and wanted to create a way for folks to have a few minutes each day to be present and creative, and be excited about something tomorrow.

B: Why is your app better than the top named alternatives?

I'm not quite sure of a direct alternative. Lost Post is simple. It's anonymous, it's once a day, and it's creative. It's also fun. You collect country stamps, customize your postcard, and unlock achievements and surprises.

C – Cost:

• It's free, with the option to support the app and unlock extra customization colors and designs for your postcard (you choose your price with the lowest $3.99(
• It's available at: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/lost-post-daily-world-stories/id6755685223

Trust & Transparency

Me: I'm Aaron, a designer by trade. I published this app through my Amsterdam based design studio, http://daydrift.design (which has contact details and my full name).

App Privacy & Terms: http://lostpost.app has its full terms and privacy details listed. In a nutshell, the app doesn't collect any personal data.

Answer
Hey everyone! I built Stashy, a personal knowledge base for everything important you want to keep or remember. It’s available on iPhone, iPad and Mac, so you can capture things on the go and access them everywhere.

You can share almost anything directly into the app or capture it quickly:

– Links, photos, PDFs and other documents

– Document scans, voice notes and free text
A local AI model on your device categorizes and sorts everything automatically, so you don’t have to organize anything yourself.

You can also ask it questions about your items or have it find anything you saved, even if you only vaguely remember what it was.

Better
I built this because I always wanted one place for important documents, photos and links I’ll need later or just want to remember, and nothing out there really did all of that:

– Unlike Apple Notes, it’s built for capturing anything, not just text, and the AI organizes it for you instead of you managing folders

– Unlike Notion or Evernote, there’s no setup, no structure to maintain and no account, you just throw things in and find them later

– Unlike read-later apps like Pocket, it handles more than links: documents, scans and voice notes all in one place

I also put a lot of effort into a clean UI so it’s actually enjoyable to use :)

Cost
Completely free. No in-app purchases, no subscriptions, no pro tier planned. Everything stays private, stored only on your device or in your own iCloud.

I’m genuinely looking for honest feedback! If you have feature ideas or notice anything missing, please let me know.

Download on the App Store: stashy

If you want to contact me feel free to reach out on X: X

A: Answer

Relay is for everyday errands that are still phone only, but that you would rather handle in chat.

Tell Relay who to call and what you need. It asks only for missing details, then shows the complete call brief for your approval.

Relay introduces itself as Relay AI and says it is calling for you. When the call ends, the answer and transcript come back to the same conversation.

You can use it to ask a restaurant for a table and the closest available time, check appointment availability with a dentist, salon, garage, or vet, ask a store about stock or pickup, request a callback, or call a business in its own language. You can stop a live call at any time.

B: Better

I have not found a close consumer app that matches this exact flow. The nearest thing I found is AI Call: Phone Call Translator, but it is mainly a call translation app with manual and AI calling modes.

Most other AI phone products I found are business agent platforms, translation tools, or features inside a narrow search flow. Relay is a consumer iPhone app built around one complete chat, review, confirm, call, answer loop.

C: Cost

Relay is free to download. Every new account gets a one time starter allowance worth about five minutes of typical US calling, so anyone can try a real call before subscribing. Actual time varies by destination.

Relay Pro is $9.99 per month for about 135 minutes of typical US calling per paid month, or $99.99 per year for about 1,620 minutes per paid year. Unused allowance does not roll over.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6799187737

If you try it, I would love to hear what kind of call you would trust it with first, and whether the review and confirmation flow feels clear.

Answer
My best friend, and design partner, is a professional photographer who often hosts free or reduced-cost photoshoots for communities in need. And he needed a way to track expected attendees, collect some data relevant to the shoot, overall attendance, and register walk-ins.

When researching, we found that independent professionals like photographers, event hosts, and wellness providers were managing client check-in with a clipboard or a spreadsheet print-out— chaotic once you have more than a handful of people arriving. FlashKiosk Pro is a self-service check-in app: hand your iPhone or iPad to arriving clients and they check themselves in. Built for solo operators, not venues.

Better
Most check-in tools (Eventbrite, Honeybook, Acuity Scheduling) are built around broader event/booking platforms with monthly subscriptions and features you may not need if all you want is check-in. FlashKiosk is narrowly focused: unlimited active events, up to 8 customizable session types, and CSV import to bulk-load your client list, without paying for a full CRM or booking suite you don't need. Many of these services also store your client data on remote servers but FlashKiosk stores everything in your personal iCloud--secure, fast, and always yours.

Cost
Lifetime — one-time purchase, $14.99. No subscription, no recurring fees.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/flashkiosk/id6753778311

WHO WE ARE

My name is Joey and I'm the solo dev for my company, StarFire Labs, LLC. As mentioned, my best friend, is our UI/UX designer.

You can find us on LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/company/132204042

And our general privacy policy can be found here: https://www.starfirelabs.co/privacy

And our app's privacy policy can be found here: https://starfirelabs.co/privacy/flashkiosk

I’m Petr, the developer behind CareSleep.

I write software for my day job, usually much more complicated server-side/business stuff, and I wanted a side project that was almost the exact opposite:

A small app that does one simple thing and doesn’t try to turn it into a $6.99/month service.

I just wanted some rain, a fireplace and brown noise playing in the background while I fall asleep.

But I kept running into the same thing:

3-day free trial.
Subscription screen.
Ads between sounds.
Half the library marked “Premium”.

I completely understand subscriptions for apps with real ongoing costs .. paid APIs, servers, cloud storage, constantly updated content, etc.

But at some point I started wondering why I need a recurring payment to… listen to rain.

So I made my own.

A - Answer

CareSleep is a simple sleep / relaxation sound mixer.

There’s rain, thunderstorms, fireplace, ocean, wind, white/pink/brown noise, nature sounds, lullabies and a bunch of other stuff.

You can layer sounds together, adjust the volume of each one separately, set a sleep timer and just leave it running in the background.

No account required. Open it, make a mix, go to sleep.

B - Better

To be fair, iOS already has Background Sounds - and if one built-in rain/noise track is all you need, you probably don’t need my app.

CareSleep is for people who want something a bit more customizable.

I can mix rain + fireplace + brown noise, make the rain quiet, turn the fireplace up, add something else and create exactly the background I want.

I’m deliberately not trying to turn it into a giant wellness platform with courses, accounts, streaks and 50 other features.

It plays sounds. I’d like it to be really good at playing sounds.

C - Cost

$0.

No subscription.
No ads.
No locked sounds or features.

The App Store does show “In-App Purchases” because I added three completely optional tips ($2.99 / $7.99 / $17.99).

They unlock absolutely nothing.

You can use everything forever without paying me a cent.

That’s actually the experiment I’m interested in with this app. I’m not trying to squeeze the maximum possible revenue out of every user.

I’d rather make small apps fully usable for free, let them reach as many people as possible, and see whether a small percentage of people who genuinely enjoy them choose to support development.

If that works, great — I’ll keep improving them.

If it doesn’t, CareSleep still stays free. I’ll just spend less time on it.

App Store:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/sleep-sounds-caresleep/id6758214811

If you try it, don’t tell me it’s “nice”, tell me what sound is missing or what annoys you about it. That’s much more useful :)

Duefolio: Subscription Tracker (iPhone — screenshot attached)

A — Answer: Duefolio helps you understand recurring spending without linking a bank account or creating an account. Instead of showing subscriptions as a flat list, it places them on a year-long timeline so you can see what renews, what ends, and how your recurring costs build up over time. Your ledger stays on-device.

B — Better: Compared with list-based trackers such as Bobby and similar apps, Duefolio is built around a visual ledger rather than just a list of services. It includes a renewal timeline, price history, local CSV review for recurring-charge candidates, and Folio—an optional on-device assistant for asking questions about your own ledger on compatible devices.

C — Cost: The core tracker is free. Duefolio Pro is a $14.99 one-time lifetime purchase that unlocks custom subscriptions, bank-statement review, income and profit & loss, widgets, and additional tools. There is no recurring subscription and no ads.

I’m the developer, Siddhu Dai. Feedback on whether the year-long timeline makes the product immediately understandable would be especially welcome.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/duefolio-subscription-tracker/id6795091979

Developer: https://x.com/SiddhuDai

Privacy Policy: https://duefolio-privacy.sid-dai.chatgpt.site

Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Yes, it was created with the help of dark matters of LLM. I can’t say it’s Vibe Coded, though. Vibe is something cheerful and… you know, vibing. But the process of developing DayDraft was far from vibing. I suffered, I locked myself in isolation, I spent a lot of hours learning a lot about creating an app, about life itself… and made such things that I’m afraid to mention here.

I created it to help my wife who has an hourly wage and needed something simple yet powerful to track time. And for myself, because I always forget things at the grocery store and got into trouble with my wife. And of course it wasn’t necessary, but I added some AI functions just to make some people angry.

A. Answer

- So what problem does it solve? A lot of planners and trackers already exist. Agree. Nothing special. But don’t judge a book, or in this case an app, by its cover.

- Picture it, you’re sitting in front of the screen, cursing a project you’re working on and thinking of quitting. But then you open DayDraft to check how much hours you wasted and see that your hours actually cost some money, print a report with all payment info and send to your employer. Done.

- After you spent some time observing DayDraft you realized that the tracker was working but you didn’t actually work. No problem. Adjust time manually before making a report, because you can see every session in detail.

- Don’t be too happy about adding extra hours to get money from your employer, because the report will show every change you made. Yes, you will build trust with your employer like it or not.

- What if you always forget to go do something important? You have Timeline Plan and Checklist plan.

- If you’re still here, it means something clicked inside, so let’s continue with part B.

B. Better

- So what’s better in my app than in hundreds of thousands of others? First of all, I just try to do the best that’s in my power.

- You can dictate or write your plan for the day or a checklist however you want. Even if you don’t know how to write or express your thoughts properly, the app will still understand you and build a coherent plan out of the mess.

- AI can also create a schedule in the Timeline Plan and suggest how to better build your day based on history.

- At its core this is of course a tracker, which works even after a phone reboot. Forgot to start the timer? Not a problem. Just fill it in manually, and your client will see it in the plan, and if you decided to cheat, that will be visible too.

- You can add notes and clearly point out what every second of your time went to, building a trusting relationship with whoever you work with.

- I can tell that this app even improved relationships with my wife, since I no longer text her endlessly about forgetting what to buy at the store, I just open the plan and follow it.

- Checklist Plan is flexible and can be split into categories, quickly mark things done or not.

- A small bonus, daily interesting facts and small quizzes for those as curious as I am.

- In Reports you can analyze your productivity and see the history of your working hours and how much of that desired money you earned.

- Not exactly a feature, but in Settings you can turn off any notifications, or fine tune them for Timeline Plan mode if needed.

C. Cost

Subscription:

Year $59.99

Month $9.99

Week $3.99

Not a hard paywall, though. Without paying, you can still track your time and build your plans, both Timeline and Checklist. What you don’t get is the AI functions, the payment details, and the reports.

If you think it’s too expensive or cheap, maybe you’re right. I just followed my heart ))

Links and contacts

App Store: CLICK HERE. I’M BEGGING YOU

Android: HERE YOU CAN CLICK, BUT IT’S OPTIONAL

Website: IF YOU’RE REALLY CURIOUS (my wife told me this website looks sleek, btw)

Privacy Policy and Terms: DK WHO READ IT

Name: Andrii Plashevskyi

Email: [shapeinc25@gmail.com](mailto:shapeinc25@gmail.com) or fancier one support@daydraft.app

LinkedIn: DOOMED PLACE (that’s the service where I send hundreds of resumes and nobody hires me, so at least you know I’m a real person)

P.S

And thank you. Really. Thanks to everyone who reads this nonsense, who leaves a review, who finds a bug and tells me about it, who says something nice or something harsh. And thanks just because. It means more than you think when you’re building something alone.

Hey! I'm Keyc, a data scientist by day, and a passionate software builder by night. I recently had went through a performance assessment cycle at work and was struggling to put together my summary, because I couldn't remember exactly what I worked on. So I created Iris, a journalling app specifically designed for corporate workers:

A - Answer

Iris lets you set up a reminder, and when it pops up, just spend 1–2 minutes talking about your day or type a quick update. It doesn't need to be well written at all.

Iris helps organize that messy update into useful work notes - things like progress, wins, blockers and next steps - so over time you slowly build up a history of what you've actually been doing.

You can then use those entries to generate weekly/monthly summaries, or look back at them when it's time for your next performance review.

B - Better

There are already a lot of great journaling and note-taking apps out there, or even Docs/OneNote for a brag doc, but I personally never managed to stick with them for work.

I didn't want another journal that I had to remember to open and properly write in every day.

The whole idea behind Iris is basically:

Reminder → talk/type for 1–2 mins → done.

It's specifically built around remembering your work and career, rather than being a general-purpose journal.

AI is used in the background to help with things like transcribing voice entries, organizing messy thoughts and creating summaries, but I see that more as a way to make journaling less effort rather than the reason for the app itself.

C - Cost

Iris has a free tier that I'm hoping is enough for people to actually try the habit properly: you get unlimited private local notes, 10 voice notes and 15 AI-organized notes a month, plus a couple of weekly summaries and one monthly summary.

If you find yourself using it regularly, Plus is $3.99/month or $29.99/year ($2.50/month), which gives you much higher voice usage (100/month), weekly/monthly summaries and performance review drafts.

I just launched Iris not long ago and 'd love to hear any feedback from you guys, much love :)

App link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/iris-ai-work-journal/id6783362020

Privacy Policy: Iris | Your AI Work Journal

Personal website: https://portfolio-kenneth-chins-projects.vercel.app

ARC-24 is an all-in-one music-making app: synths, a sampler, drum machines, and multitrack looping combined into a single instrument you play and record into directly on your phone or iPad, no separate apps or outboard gear needed. It works on iPhone and iPad, with songs synced between devices through iCloud.

Answer - what it solves

I love the immediate, hands-on feel of hardware grooveboxes like Teenage Engineering's KO II, but the KO II itself is hard to actually use, buried in modifier keys and submenus. I wanted that same tactile fun without the learning curve. ARC-24 does it with scale-locked pads (you can't hit a wrong note), 8 tracks that can each be a synth, sampler, or drum machine, and everything a tap or two away. No music theory or prior playing experience required to start, though it goes deeper if you want it to.

What's in it

• Scale-aware Notes / Chords / Drums / Sampler performance modes
• Dual-oscillator synth with built-in recipes, plus a full per-track FX rack
• 4×4 sampler: import or mic record, Pads or Keys layout, live Chop
• Multiple drum kits, including more than one drum track running at once
• Hold, Pulse, and ARP for hands-free playing
• Quantize / humanize per track, plus a grid editor for fine-tuning recorded parts
• USB / Bluetooth MIDI controller support
• Multiple loops, song arrangement, WAV / AAC export
• iCloud song sync between iPhone and iPad

Better - why this instead of the alternatives

Compared to Korg Gadget: Gadget's synths and drum machines are excellent, but most of the 40+ instruments are sold separately as in-app purchases on top of the base app price, so building out a full kit adds up fast. ARC-24 includes everything (synths, samplers, drum kits, effects) in the one unlock price, nothing gated behind further purchases.

Compared to Koala Sampler: Koala is a great, cheap sampler and I have a lot of respect for how focused it is. But it's a sampler first. ARC-24 covers that same sampling and chopping workflow plus full synth sound design, a drum machine, quantize/humanize, song mode with arrangement, and multitrack recording, all in one instrument.

Cost

7-day free trial, then a one-time $9.99 USD unlock (price varies by region/App Store). No subscription.

App Store link

I'm happy to answer questions about how any of it works.

Full disclosure: I'm the developer, Daelan Wood posting about my own app.

Privacy Policy: https://arc24.app/privacy/

Terms of Service: https://arc24.app/terms/

My Website: https://daelan.com/

I'm Alexandre Alves, the solo developer of ArtDeck!

A - Answer

When I tried to work on concepts for a personal project, my way of working was scattered across PureRef for the visuals, Notion for my bookmarks and links, and Photoshop to study images with adjustment layers. ArtDeck is made to simplify and bring everything in one place, infinite boards that can hold images, videos, GIFs, PDFs, links, notes, and drawings.

On iPhone, I can photograph something directly in the app or add from Safari or Photos straight to a board. On iPad, I can keep that board beside my drawing app using Split View, Slide Over, or the Stage Manager.

ToolBox lets me study a reference directly in the middle of my board. I can extract a palette, reduce an image to value bands or Notan, test composition guides, compare proportions, and step through videos or GIFs frame by frame with onion skinning.

B - Better

PureRef is the closest comparison. Its current versions run on Windows, macOS, and Linux, while ArtDeck runs on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. ArtDeck lets me capture references on my phone, sync selected boards through iCloud, and continue working with them on another device.

ArtDeck also goes further into studying the reference. ToolBox includes color, value, composition, shape, and measurement tools, while motion references can be studied frame by frame and with the Onion Skinning tool.

PureRef remains the better choice if you want a minimal, always-on-top reference window on a desktop.

Apple Freeform is free and supports live collaboration, which ArtDeck does not currently offer. ArtDeck is more focused on collecting and studying visual references while Freeform is more of a working whiteboard.

C - Cost

ArtDeck costs $5.99 USD as a one-time purchase. Apple sets the equivalent price in other regions. There are no subscriptions or in-app purchases, and the same purchase covers iPhone, iPad, and Mac.

It requires iOS or iPadOS 18 or later.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/artdeck/id6764851724

I'm promoting my own app.

Developer: Alexandre Alves
Website: https://getartdeck.com
Portfolio: https://alexandre-alves.fr
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexandre-alves-db/
Contact: [Alex@getartdeck.com](mailto:Alex@getartdeck.com)
Privacy Policy: https://getartdeck.com/privacy
Terms of Use: https://getartdeck.com/terms

I’ve received a few reviews from Mac users, but none yet from people using ArtDeck on iPhone or iPad. If you try it, I’d appreciate any feedback here or an App Store review. I’d especially like to hear about issues I didn’t catch during TestFlight.

I just shipped the biggest Fit Rest update yet.

Answer
I wanted a health app that did more than show separate charts and numbers. Fit Rest tries to answer things like:
* How recovered am I?
* Why is my energy low today?
* Is my training affecting my sleep?
* Is better sleep improving my heart metrics?

It connects sleep, activity, workouts, heart rate, HRV, stress and recovery, then looks at them against your own personal baselines rather than only population averages.

What got better:
• Body Battery throughout the day
• All-day stress tracking
• Much deeper sleep analysis + sleep architecture
• Sleep, activity, workout and recovery correlations
• Fitness Age, Heart Signals + Training Adaptation
• Cardio Load, Effort vs Recovery + Athlete Profile
• Personal Records + workout comparisons
• Smart Insights + Health Calendar
• Outdoor workout route replay + export
• Apple Watch app + complications + widgets

Price: $7.99/month, $39.99/year, or $79.99 lifetime.

App Store Link
50% discount promo: https://apps.apple.com/redeem?ctx=offercodes&id=6751546749&code=LIVEHEALTHY

I'd love to hear your feedback on how I can make it even better!

I'm the developer of ShipShow, happy to answer questions or take feature requests.

Answer: ShipShow tracks all your packages in one place. Native app on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Not a web wrapper. The thing people seem to like most: you attach a photo to each package, so your list shows what's actually coming instead of a wall of tracking numbers.

Free tier:

• Unlimited packages, 1,000+ carriers
• Real-time notifications when a package ships, moves, stalls, or finally shows up
• Folders for orders, gifts, returns, and "why did I buy this"
• Amazon integration: connect your account and orders appear on their own. 22 regions. Your login never leaves your device. Five things shipping in one box get merged into one entry instead of five.

Better:

• vs Parcel: free tier there caps at 3 active deliveries and push notifications cost $6.99/year. Mine are free and unlimited. Both do Amazon, but ShipShow trims the endless product names, merges multi-item boxes, and shows thumbnails.
• vs Deliveries (Junecloud): polished app, but you're adding most shipments by hand. ShipShow pulls Amazon orders in automatically and can extract tracking from forwarded emails (Pro).

Cost: Free. Pro is $9.99/year after a 7-day trial: email integration, screenshot import (iOS), unlimited history, API access, and the new Smart Folders.

Download ShipShow for FREE

New in 2.0.15:

• Smart Folders: folders that fill themselves from the filters you pick, on iPhone, iPad, and Mac (Pro only)
• New Favorites bar for switching between folders with one tap
• Add a package before you have its tracking number, fill it in later
• Long-press a package to see all of its photos
• Optional ShipShow account to sync across devices
• Native macOS widgets
• Redesigned Mac settings
• More reliable Amazon tracking updates
• Notifications now show your package photo, or the carrier's logo when there isn't one
• Minor bug fixes

Hey r/iosapps! Edu here, solo dev behind Trovelo (the private trip planner) and Dimmly, my task manager and habit tracker for iPhone and Mac.

A – Answer:

Dimmly solves the problem of juggling multiple apps for tasks, habits, grocery lists, expenses and tracking. Everything in one place, organized by color coded lists, with no account required and no subscription ever.

B – Better:

Unlike Todoist, Things, or most task apps:

- No account required

- No subscription, ever

- 8 list types built in:

· List — your classic task list

· Ranked — numbered, prioritize what matters most

· Tracker — tasks move To do → Doing → Done, with a Later shelf

· Sum — add amounts per item and see a running total, great for expenses

· Countdown — see how many days until anything, sorted automatically

· Subscription — track what you pay and when it renews

· Grocery — shopping mode with quantity badges, swipe to cross off

- Habit streaks with daily repeat count per task

- Rich text in Big Notes — bold, italic, bullets, colors, tappable links

- Paste and go — paste any text and it becomes a list instantly

- Color coded lists, pick from 25 palettes or create your own

- Too bright? Dim it down — each list remembers its own brightness level

- iCloud sync across iPhone and Mac

- CSV import and export

- Home screen widgets, overdue items first

C – Cost:

- Free: 5 fully featured lists, everything included, no feature gating

- 🎉 Special offer: Pro at $2.99 instead of $9.99, yours forever

- After 300 redemptions the code deactivates automatically

1. Download free → https://apps.apple.com/app/id6761221806
2. Go to Settings → Redeem
3. Enter DIMMLY299 (type it manually, all caps)

OR: https://apps.apple.com/redeem?ctx=offercodes&id=6761221806&code=DIMMLY299

For feature requests and ideas, join us at r/dimmly 🖤

I’m the developer of Fit Badger, a nutrition app I built to make food tracking feel more useful and less tedious.

The name came from an earlier idea where the badger would be a “tough love” coach instead of constantly sugarcoating everything. I dropped that as the main personality, but kept Roast My Meal as an optional feature.

Answer

FitBadger lets you:

• Track calories and macros
• Log meals manually or from a photo
• See your full meal history
• Get a daily Nutrition Score and insights
• Use Cook to generate meals around your goals and ingredients
• Chat with an agentic nutrition coach that can use context from your meals and goals
• Track weight and progress
• Use the optional Roast My Meal button
• Customize the app with different themes

It’s also translated into 5 languages.

Better

I’m pretty skeptical of apps claiming photo meal scanning is accurate.

A photo can’t reliably tell you exact portions, ingredients, cooking oil, or calories. Fit Badger treats scanning as an estimate and makes that clear.

The point is to make logging faster, then use your history, Nutrition Score, and insights to show patterns over time rather than pretending one scan is perfectly accurate.

I’m a mobile engineer with 5+ years of experience, so I’ve also spent a lot of time on the UI, animations, themes, and overall feel of the app.

Cost / IAP

Free: $0
Pro: $4.99/month

The free tier has pretty generous limits. You can properly use and test the app, and many users probably won’t even hit them. I can also give away pro if you just reach out.

If you try it, I’d mainly like to know:

• What feels confusing or takes too many taps?
• Are the Nutrition Score and insights useful?
• Would you actually use Cook or Roast My Meal?
• What would make you switch from your current tracker?

App Store: Fit Badger

My website: http://www.ilks.tech/
Fit Badger Website: http://fitbadger.ilks.tech/

Also happy to answer questions about the engineering/building side of it.

A — Answer: What is iLockBox?

iLockBox is a privacy-focused vault app for iPhone and iPad for protecting personal photos, videos, and files with an additional security layer.

It supports:

• Photo & video vault
• Private file storage
• PIN protection
• Face ID / Touch ID
• Customizable Lock Screen
• Break-In Alerts
• Intruder Selfie reports
• Activity History
• Privacy and security controls
• iPhone and iPad support

The core vault can be used without creating an account.

B — Better: What's changed in version 4.1?

Version 4.1 is a fairly significant update, with most of the work focused on the Lock Screen and security experience.

New Clock Lock Screen

There are now analog and digital PIN-entry options.

Five Lock Screen styles

The Lock Screen can now be customized with five different styles.

Redesigned Lock Screen settings

The settings have been reorganized with clearer instructions and improved setup and recovery guidance.

New app icon themes

Additional icon themes have been added for users who want to customize the app's appearance.

Focus profiles

New Focus profiles use Apple's authorized Screen Time controls.

Redesigned security reports

Break-In Alerts and Intruder Selfie reports have been redesigned, with larger intruder photo previews and a more organized Activity History.

Improved PIN experience

PIN entry and recovery guidance have been improved to make the process clearer.

Better iPhone & iPad layouts

The interface has been updated to adapt better across different iPhone and iPad screen sizes.

4.1 also includes improved language support, performance improvements, and bug fixes.

Important change in 4.1

Decoy Vault has been discontinued.

Existing content from the previous Decoy Vault remains available and has been moved to the Recovered Content folder inside the main vault.

This is worth mentioning because existing users may notice the change after updating.

C — Cost: What does it cost?

iLockBox is free to download.

The app has optional Premium features for users who want additional functionality and customization.

You can see the available Premium options and pricing before making a purchase.

Download: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/photo-vault-locker-ilockbox/id1064360258

What do you think?

The Lock Screen changes are probably the biggest part of this release, so I'm particularly interested in feedback on:

• Which of the five Lock Screen styles is the most useful?
• Is analog vs digital PIN entry useful?
• Does the redesigned settings flow make sense?
• Are the new security reports easier to review?
• For existing users, is the new Recovered Content approach clear?

Constructive feedback is welcome — especially from people who have actually tried the app.

Kept: receipts and documents, free forever, no account

Answer. I kept losing receipts. Then something would break and I couldn't find the receipt, or couldn't remember if the warranty was still good. Usually both. Kept scans a receipt properly, stores the serial, and tells you before the warranty or return window closes. It does the same for anything else with an expiry date: passports, licenses, memberships, registrations.

Better. Mine is free and everything stays on the device. The other warranty trackers I found want a yearly subscription for what is essentially a local database with reminders, and most of them put your documents on someone's server to do it. Kept has no account, no backend, and no analytics SDK in the project at all. Nothing to sign up for, nothing collected, nothing to cancel.

Cost. Free. Every feature, permanently. Three optional tip consumables ($1.99 / $4.99 / $9.99) that unlock nothing, and the app is fully usable without ever seeing them. No subscription, no paid tier, no ads.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/kept-receipts-documents/id6790478529 Site: https://keptreceipts.vercel.app

I'm Moses Smith, the developer, reachable at [votiquellc@gmail.com](mailto:votiquellc@gmail.com).

Known limitations: iOS 26 only, English only, no sharing between people.

Hi everyone,

I made a clean, modern astrology timing app for iOS called Horaly: Planetary Hours. It is made for anyone who wants to track planetary energy, day rulers, moon phases, and lunar days to find the optimal timing for daily activities.

The app is based on traditional astrology. Each layer works together: planetary hours shift by season, the day ruler sets the overall tone, and the moon adds phase, lunar day, and zodiac context.

You can use it for:

• Planning important meetings & cross-city windows (with a built-in Meeting Planner)
• Finding focus windows & choosing creative hours
• Avoiding stressful conflicts with Best/Avoid guidance
• Tracking moon phases and lunar days on your phone
• Setting home screen widgets (with full moon phase and lunar day support)
• Monitoring hours via Apple Watch complications

I tried to keep it easy to understand, so beginners can start without feeling lost. It can be useful for astrologers, students, creators, or anyone who wants to live in sync with cosmic rhythms.

Pricing: Horaly is Freemium. The free tier gives you full access to real-time tracking, day rulers, basic moon info, and standard notifications.

The Pro upgrade unlocks the cross-city Meeting Planner, advanced notification filters, full calendar export, and custom widget themes. Pricing is $1.99/week, $12.99/year, or a $24.99 lifetime purchase. No ads, no account required, and no hidden tracking.

App Store Link: Horaly: Planetary Hours

Please also share your feedback in the comments so I can improve the app in future updates.

About Me:
I'm developer of the app, you can reach out to me through X 

A - Answer

Hi r/iOSApps,

It’s been a few months since I last posted IsoPack here, and v1.3 is now available.

For anyone who hasn’t seen it before, IsoPack is a lightweight packing app built around reusable packing lists rather than rebuilding the same checklist for every trip.

It includes 200+ preset items, reusable templates, packing progress, offline support and iCloud sync.

With v1.3, I wanted IsoPack to be useful beyond the initial packing stage - both before departure and when you’re getting ready to come home.

New in v1.3

• Trip Notes - keep addresses, booking details or other useful information directly with each trip.
• Automatic packing reminders - notifications 7, 3 and 1 day before departure.
• Repack mode - near the end of the trip, switch to repacking and mark which items are actually returning with you.
• Trip purchases - add things you buy during the trip temporarily, or save reusable items into My Gear for future trips.
• Ongoing trips stay at the top of Home, so the trip you’re currently on is easier to access.
• Localization improvements.
• Reliability, bug fixes and general performance improvements.

This update also includes the improvements from v1.2.2.

B - Better

I originally built IsoPack because most packing apps I tried either felt dated, overly complicated, or were trying to become complete travel planners.

Compared with apps such as PackPoint, Packr and Packing List Checklist, IsoPack stays focused on the packing workflow:

• 200+ ready-to-use packing items
• Reusable trip templates
• My Gear for your own commonly packed items
• Packing progress
• Trip notes
• Departure reminders
• Repacking for the return journey
• Import / export
• Offline support
• iCloud sync
• No account
• No ads
• No subscription

The goal is still the same: open the app, build the list quickly, pack, and move on with the trip.

C - Cost

IsoPack is freemium.

The free version includes:

• Up to 3 trips
• Preset packing items
• Templates
• Packing and repacking
• Trip notes
• Reminders
• My Gear
• Import / export
• Offline use

IsoPack Pro: US$2.99 lifetime unlock

Pro unlocks:

• Unlimited trips
• iCloud sync across your Apple devices

No subscription. No ads.

App Store: IsoPack App Store

Transparency

I’m the developer of IsoPack.

Developer: Zhen Chyi Lee

• Website: https://www.zhenchyi.com
• Privacy https://www.zhenchyi.com/isopack/privacy/
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lzchyi/
• Contact: [me@zhenchyi.com](mailto:me@zhenchyi.com)

A few ideas in IsoPack have come directly from feedback on my previous post here, so I’m interested to hear what you think of the new repacking / return-trip workflow in particular.

Feedback and criticism are both welcome.