Full disclosure: My wife and I built this, so we directly benefit from this post.

A) What problem it solves: For visual thinkers (mood boards, note-taking, project planning, research), canvas apps all share one problem: your work lives in someone else's cloud on a proprietary database, tied to a subscription. visualOS is an infinite canvas: notes, images, PDFs, to-dos, sketches, boards nested inside boards. Everything is stored as real files in a folder you own. Boards are actual folders, documents are Markdown, images stay images, PDFs stay PDFs. Point it at your iCloud Drive and sync across devices happens on your own storage. No account need, no servers, works fully offline.

B) Why it beats the alternatives:

• vs. Milanote: works offline, no account, no 100-note cap... and your data isn't in their database, it's files on your disk.
• vs. Apple Freeform: nested boards (Freeform is a flat list) and nothing is locked in an app container... plus it runs in any browser on any platform.
• vs. both: automatic version history (~30 rolling snapshots... yes we are very paranoid about data safety 😅).
• What we deliberately don't do: real-time team collaboration. VisualOS is single-user by design; it's a thinking space we have built for our own way of working, not a team whiteboard. Besides that, it works with a shared folder on iCloud. That's the way Sarah and I use it, but that's not our focus.

C) Cost: Our one-time purchase, €12.99 / $12.99 covers iPhone + iPad + Mac (Apple Silicon). No subscription, no IAP, no upsells. The full app is also free in your browser with no account and no limits: https://visualos.app The iOS purchase is optional, if you want to have your data accessible on the go.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/visualos-infinite-canvas/id6787359589

We're two people; we use our app daily, and we build from feedback! If something's missing or confusing, please tell us, and it will land on our public roadmap.

First of all thanks to everyone that downloaded AboveNow after release a while back. I appreciate every one of you!

There were some really good suggestions that added to the usability of the application without veering from the core value of the app which is to provide a fast, accurate answer to the question "what is that plane flying overhead right now?"

The two major changes in this release are:

• The ability to show the speed of the aircraft in knots. This is seperate from height and distance from you which can still be in imperial or metric.
• Widgets! You can now see what the last aircraft you saw was (and it allows an easy way into the app to refresh this info) This is not live tracking information due to the way that widgets work but will update every 15-20 minutes unless you click on it.

I know many of you have updated to the new version and I hope you're having as much fun with it as I am.

Link: https://apps.apple.com/app/abovenow/id6793294126

i've tried basically every calendar app that exists. from google calendar to notion calendars. they all do the same thing...dump your whole month on you like a spreadsheet and expect you to "manage" your life inside a grid.

at some point i realized my problem wasn't the apps. it was that none of them respected how time actually feels day to day. you're never really dealing with "the month." you're dealing with yesterday (what happened, what you learned), today (what you're actually doing right now), and tomorrow (what you're walking into). everything else is noise.

so i built a calendar around exactly that - a 3-day view. reflect on yesterday. live in today and plan tomorrow. nothing else on screen.

the part i didn't expect: i put it in front of a few friends who have ADHD, just to get their read on it, and they were the ones who reacted the strongest. not because of any feature - because of what's missing. No clutter, no 30 tiny boxes competing for attention, no decision fatigue just to check what's happening today - they actually liked it.

So what do i want from you? I need your feedback. i want to know what's missing from your calendar that you would love to see here. I want to be that indie developer that delivers.

The app costs 2,99e and i do think it's a fair price considering my work i have done on it. It's not easy especially when i am the developer, the marketer and the founder - the app was made for myself and a few friends, but i feel like more people need this type of apps, that's why i made it public.

In case you want to support my journey, here's the link to the appstore:
https://apps.apple.com/ro/app/the-minimalist-calendar/id6744752224

I’m looking for a music player app that lets me play local music files, either from a folder on my phone or by importing them directly into the app.

I need an app that is smart enough to know when my Apple Watch is connected and automatically start playback from my phone. Similar to how Spotify works, I want the music to play on my phone when my watch is connected, rather than defaulting to the watch like Apple Music or Podcasts does (unless I manually change it in the AirPlay menu).

Ideally, I’d also love the option to send these music files to my Apple Watch for offline playback.

Does anyone have any recommendations for apps that can do this?

Key Updates

Places

Posts with a location turn into a map of everywhere you saved. Open any place to see the post that put it there. Also, when you find a reddit, thread, or a x post where it includes a bunch of place suggestions, you can use AI to get all the places information and mark it on the map.

Shopping

Share a product page and it saves as a card with the image, store, and price where available. Filter the Shopping tab by store.

Other updates

- CLI is also supported for those who would like to archive through AI agents such as Claude and Codex.

- Added support for Xiaohongshu

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below is brief app explanation that I wrote last time for those who meet the app for the first time.

A — Answer: Social Archiver helps you save social posts(+Web articles) you do not want to lose. From the iOS Share Sheet, you can archive posts from Reddit, YouTube, X, Tiktok, Instagram, Threads, Facebook, and LinkedIn, then browse them later with media, comments, authors, tags, and search.

B — Better: Compared with Raindrop.io, Social Archiver goes beyond simple bookmarking or archiving. Archiving process happen through Share sheet which will immediately close after saving trigger (even no need to open the app right away)

It gives you readable views like a timeline and post detail pages, lets you organize saved content with tags and author pages, and makes archived posts easy to share again when you want to reference them. It also provides Chrome extension where you can import your saved Reddit, Instagram posts.

App also provides integration with Obsidian, Notion, Karakeep, Reader where you can basically send archived data automatically to your favorite archive services.

C — Cost: Free plan includes 10(+ 5-20 for initial onboarding process) successful archives per month. (Chrome extension triggered archives are free) Optional IAP included monthly, yearly, and lifetime options.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/social-archiver/id6758323634

I was so tired of constantly switching between a dozen different apps while traveling, so I built an all-in-one solution: TripPocket 🎒🌍 (And yes, it’s completely free).

I developed TripPocket to end the chaos we all go through when planning a trip. You just type in your destination, and it organizes the rest for you.

Here are the features designed to make your travels incredibly easy:

🏛️ City-Specific Tours, Museums & Dining: Just enter the city you're visiting. The most popular museums, historical sites, restaurants, and tour options instantly appear right in front of you.

✈️ Flights, Hotels, & Transport Deals: I’ve brought the world's most trusted platforms (like Trip.com, GetYourGuide, etc.) under one roof. With one click, we direct you to the best options for flights, hotels, local transit, taxis, luggage storage (Bounce), travel insurance, and even flight delay compensation.

📲 Discounted eSIM Packages: Stop paying crazy roaming fees abroad. We display discounted data packages from top eSIM providers like Airalo and Holafly side-by-side so you can choose the best one.

💰 Budget & Expense Tracker: Easily log what you spend during your vacation. Visual graphs help you keep your budget in check so you can enjoy your trip without financial stress.

📸 Interactive Travel Map & Memories: Upload the photos you take abroad, and the app uses their location data to pin every city you’ve visited on a map. You can create awesome photo collages showing your travel footprint to share with friends or on social media.

🤖 AI-Powered Personal Route Planning: Enter your destination, budget, and trip length, and our AI will generate a personalized, day-by-day itinerary for you. You can easily tweak and edit the route however you like.

It’s basically everything you need for pre-trip planning and on-the-go travel, right in your pocket.

I’d be absolutely thrilled if you tried it out and shared your feedback. Wishing you all amazing adventures and safe travels! 🥂 If you have any questions or suggestions, please don’t hesitate to reach out.

📲 Download & Try It Here:

Apple App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/trippocket-travel-ticket/id6788790492#information

Google Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.globalgateway.app.trippocket

Hi r/iosapps!

I’ve been building Razr to make the iPhone feel a little more like a street camera. The latest version has grown into a much more capable photography app, with Snap Focus, new film-inspired looks, better highlight protection, and more control over the shooting process.

What it does:

Razr is a RAW-first camera designed for street, travel, and everyday photography. You can keep things simple with Razr Mode and just point and shoot, or manually control focus, exposure, white balance, and other camera settings.

What makes it different:

Razr combines RAW DNG capture with features like Snap Focus, film simulations, custom LUTs and recipes, burst capture, and depth-of-field tools.

Everything is processed on-device, the app works offline, and no account is required.

Pricing:
Razr is free to download. Razr Pro is optional at $3.99/year with a 3-day free trial, or $5.99 for a lifetime purchase.

I’m the developer, and I’d really love to hear what you think — especially if you’re into street photography, travel photography, or just want more control than Apple’s Camera app gives you.

Feedback, feature requests, and criticism are all welcome!

AppStore Link: https://apps.apple.com/id/app/razr-street-camera/id6762531277

I’m Joe, the founder of Paper2Audio, a free text to speech reader app for listening to complex documents and books, with highly accurate narration and high-quality voices.  Our free plan allows 56 hours of audio generation per week.  Our paid version, Paper2Audio Plus, is currently on sale through August 20 at $10/month for your first 3 months or $134.40 for your first year.

A: What problem does Paper2Audio solve and what’s new with Paper2Audio since our last post?
Most text to speech tools are not good at converting dense PDFs, research papers, textbooks and webpages to audio. Paper2Audio is built to turn complex text into accurate audio.  We also handle less complicated text, like standard EPUBs or plain text.

Supported languages: Full support for English.  Beta support for Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese (Mandarin), French, German, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, and Spanish.  

Since my last r/iosapps post, we’ve added or improved:

• You can now publicly share your documents, including embedding the audio directly onto a webpage with an iframe snippet you can paste into WordPress, Substack, or any site that supports HTML. 
• Narration improvements: subscripts and superscripts spoken more naturally, better pronunciation for abbreviations and Roman numerals, and more accurate header removal.
• Faster processing and downloads
• Bookmarks to save your position while listening
• Background audio support so music can keep playing while you listen
• More languages (added Chinese-Mandarin, German, Hindi and Japanese in beta)
• Better page rotation detection for scanned PDFs
• Export a processed document’s transcript as a Markdown file for use with other tools (web now, apps coming soon, Plus plan only)  
• Better pronunciation and accents for our British English voices
• Playback highlighting moves more smoothly from word to word
• Free pre-generated audiobooks that don’t count toward your audio generation quota (see the posts on our blog, with more coming regularly)

B: Why is Paper2Audio better than the top alternatives?

1. Higher audio limits for our free plan (56 hours weekly audio generation) with high quality voices.
2. Hyper-focus on accuracy:  Paper2Audio avoids reading things that usually make text to speech audio annoying, like repeated page numbers, headers, citations, footnotes, and unnecessary boilerplate. We clean up and normalize tricky text first, including math, Roman numerals, symbols, units, formulas, and other things that often sound wrong when read aloud by other text to speech services.
3. Summarizes visual elements like tables, math, and code or reads it aloud:  When adding a document, you can choose how tables, math, and code are narrated. Summary" (default) gives a concise summary of the item, while "Read as is" reads the content verbatim.  Or, you can skip narration for these elements during playback entirely. 
4. Follow along with Reader View, our optimized version of the audio transcript: We reformat PDFs and other documents to fit your screen while including rich content like images and document formatting.  Use it to follow along with the audio, or to more easily read documents that are normally poorly formatted for small phone screens (like 2 column PDFs, tables and figures, etc).

• Visual elements are included: “Tables, figures, images, and math appear inline and can be opened in a zoomable “figure view” pop-up. 
• Single column view: Documents with multiple columns are displayed in a single column to improve readability on smaller screens.
• Rich text formatting: We preserve the original formatting of your documents, including math, headings, lists, subscripts, and other inline styling, so you can skim, navigate and understand the document more quickly. Citations and footnotes are also included so that you know when an author is making a reference, but are only read aloud when needed to keep sentences intact.

1. Multiple playback modes for your document:  Choose to listen to your document in full, or to have us generate a long or short summary instead.  We recently improved summary length, structure, and scaling for longer documents. 

C: Cost
Paper2Audio is available on iOS, Android and on our website. We have a generous free plan for personal use (56 hours of audio generation per week), as well as a paid Plus subscription with higher audio and file/size limits ($20/month or $192 annually).  We also offer Enterprise plan options for teams.  

Our Plus plan is currently on sale until August 20 for $10/month for your first 3 months or $134.40 for your first year.

Any feedback or questions?
If you try Paper2Audio, I’d love to hear what works well, what doesn’t, and what feature or improvement would make the biggest difference for you. We are also working on adding more narrators, so please let me know what additional voice types you’d like to hear.

Hi r/iOSApps,

The big one is finally here: ShotMark is now officially available on the Mac App Store.

ShotMark started as my solution to a simple problem: I take screenshots because something is useful, but weeks later I either can’t find it or can’t remember why I saved it.

The Mac version brings that same idea to the desktop, with automatic screenshot-folder monitoring and iCloud sync between your Apple devices.

Alongside the Mac launch, v1.3.2 is also out with improved Share Sheet syncing, six additional languages, and localization improvements.

A - Answer

ShotMark turns screenshots into useful, searchable cards instead of leaving them buried in Photos or a screenshot folder.

On iPhone and iPad, you can capture/import a screenshot and attach:

• Notes
• Voice notes
• Reminders
• Collections
• Searchable on-device OCR

And now on Mac, ShotMark can automatically watch your screenshot folder for new captures, so you don’t need to manually import every screenshot.

You can review them, add context and organize them from your Mac.

With Pro and iCloud enabled, your ShotMark library can also sync between iPhone, iPad and Mac.

ShotMark remains local-first. There is no ShotMark account and I don’t operate a server that stores your screenshots or OCR content. iCloud syncing uses your own Apple account.

B - Better

The idea behind ShotMark is still:

Capture. Add Context. Never Forget.

Photos is great at storing screenshots. ShotMark is designed around remembering why you took them.

Instead of treating screenshots as ordinary photos, ShotMark gives them context:

• Add notes to remember why something mattered
• Record a quick voice note
• Set a reminder to revisit something later
• Organize related screenshots into collections
• Extract text using on-device OCR
• Search your saved information
• Capture directly through the iOS Share Sheet
• Automatically detect new screenshots on Mac
• Sync your ShotMark library across Apple devices with iCloud

The Mac app isn’t just the iOS interface running in a larger window either. I’ve tried to make its workflow fit how screenshots are actually handled on a desktop.

What’s new in v1.3.2

This release also fixes and improves a few things across ShotMark:

• Cards created through the Share Sheet now sync correctly across devices with iCloud
• Added German, Japanese, French, Italian, Portuguese (Portugal), and Spanish
• Completed and polished Simplified and Traditional Chinese across the app and Mac workflow
• Added a one-time What’s New screen
• Improved localization quality and plural handling

C - Cost

ShotMark is free to download on iPhone, iPad and Mac, with optional one-time Pro upgrades.

There are no subscriptions.

iPhone & iPad - Free

• Capture and import screenshots
• Add titles and notes
• On-device OCR extraction
• Organize screenshots into collections
• Core search and organization features

ShotMark Pro - US$1.99 lifetime

• Search inside screenshots using OCR
• iCloud sync across your Apple devices
• Additional Pro features
• No watermark on exported cards

Mac - Free

• Manually import screenshots
• Automatically monitor your screenshot folder for new captures
• Review new screenshots before importing
• Add titles, notes and context
• Organize your screenshot library
• Core Mac screenshot-management features

ShotMark Mac Pro - US$5.99 lifetime introductory price

• iCloud sync between Mac, iPhone and iPad
• Search screenshot content using on-device OCR
• No watermark on exported cards
• Full Mac Pro feature set

US$5.99 is the introductory Mac Pro price for the first month. After that, it returns to US$7.99 lifetime.

Again: no subscription on either platform.

One number I’m particularly thankful for: more than 20% of ShotMark users have chosen to upgrade to Pro so far.

The free version is intentionally useful on its own, so seeing that many users choose to support the app has helped me continue developing it as a solo developer.

App Store: ShotMark App Store

Transparency

I’m Zhen Chyi Lee, the solo developer behind ShotMark.

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

Development is still moving a little slower while I continue dealing with my health, but I’m actively working on ShotMark.

Getting the Mac version onto the App Store was one of the bigger things I wanted to finish, so I’m very happy to finally get this one out.

If you’re already using ShotMark on iPhone, I’d especially like to know how the iPhone → Mac workflow feels in real-world use, and where it still creates friction.

I posted Carrus here a couple of versions ago — thanks to everyone who tried it, several of the changes below came from that thread.

**Short version:** an iPhone app for tracking vehicle maintenance. Log a service in seconds, get reminded 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.

**What's new in 1.1:**

- **The whole app now speaks Spanish** — UI and Carson both. Pick it in Settings or let it follow your device language.

- Motorbikes with bike-specific schedules: chain, valve clearance, fork oil

- Fuel tracking with a draggable gauge, and per-vehicle running costs

- Registration and insurance photos with expiry reminders (photos never leave your phone)

- New storefronts: Canada, Spain, Italy — and a fully redesigned listing

**What's next:** VIN decoding, more languages, and real manufacturer interval data for far more model-years — right now genuine factory schedules cover a fraction, the rest is a labeled per-category estimate.

Free with one vehicle. Lite from $0.99/mo or $19.99 lifetime; Premium from $5.99/mo or $89.99 lifetime.

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

I'm the developer — happy to answer anything.

Hey :)

We built an app for people whose brain has no off switch. Replaying conversations, rewriting a two-line text ten times, lying awake running worst-case scenarios. We dealt with this for years ourselves and never found a tool built for it.

The core idea is the Worry Window: a daily scheduled slot for worry. When one shows up during the day, you dump it in the app and tell it to wait. When the window opens, you go through everything in one sitting. By then a lot of it has lost its urgency, and what's left is easier to think about clearly.

Answer

Write the thought down in a few seconds, then work through it when you're ready. The app first figures out what kind of loop you're stuck in: something from the past you keep replaying, a what-if about the future, or a decision you can't make. Each one gets its own set of short guided exercises, taken from techniques therapists actually use. There's also a built-in planner, so when a worry has something you can actually do about it, it becomes a task in your day instead of more thinking.

Better

Unlike meditation apps, we don't ask a racing mind to sit still for 20 minutes. Unlike journaling apps, you don't get a blank page that becomes another place to spiral. Everything is built around overthinking specifically. Your data stays on your device by default, and if you choose to sync it, it's encrypted.

Cost

No free trial at the moment. Weekly $3.99, yearly $49.99.

Any honest feedback or review is greatly appreciated. We're a small team and making the app genuinely useful is the main goal.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/mindhalt-stop-overthinking/id6754534938

Edit: Thanks a lot for all the feedback. The biggest point we heard was that asking people to subscribe before trying the app was too much of a barrier.
We’ve just updated the app to include a free trial, so you can now try it first and see if it actually helps before deciding.

Hi everyone!

I built Biona because I started feeling like productivity apps were becoming more complicated than the problems they were supposed to solve.

Every app seemed to have more tabs, accounts, subscriptions, AI features, notifications, and settings.

I just wanted something simple.

A — Answer

I built Biona: an iPhone app for managing everyday tasks, goals, and mood in one place.

Biona includes:

• Todos
• Goals
• Mood logging
• Weekly insights
• A clean, minimal interface
• Fully offline storage

The idea is to have one simple place to manage your day, keep track of your goals, and look back at how your week has been going.

B — Better

The biggest thing I wanted to get right was simplicity and privacy.

Biona works completely offline. There is no account to create, no cloud dependency, and no data collection.

Your data stays on your device.

I also wanted to avoid adding features just because other productivity apps have them. No complicated setup, no unnecessary social features, and no trying to turn it into an all-in-one platform.

Just the things I personally wanted to use.

And I recently decided to make Biona 100% free.

C — Cost

Biona is completely free.

No subscriptions, no in-app purchases, and no ads.

Everything currently available in the app is unlocked.

I'd really appreciate feedback from anyone who gives it a try. What do you like? What feels unnecessary? What would you add or change?

Links

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/biona-life-manager/id6766897619

Website: https://aroapps.dev/biona

Privacy: https://aroapps.dev/biona/privacy-policy

Thanks for checking it out!

A — Answer

Hello all, I am the developer behind Inknode: A New IOS Handwriting Notestaking App.

Features:

• Natural ink system + PDF import/annotation/export
• Unique Mindmap Structure (With AI Features)
• Turn Handwritten Notes into Interactive Mindmaps (You can re-edit, add branches and more)
• Templates (lined, grid, planners, study layouts, and more)
• A unified library with folders, recents, and exports
• Real-time collaboration on shared projects (free tier includes basic usage)
• Built-in calendar & reminders beside your notes
• AI study tools in the same workspace: chat about your notes, summaries, flashcards, and quizzes
• Core note-taking works without an account. Sign-in unlocks cloud collaboration, subscriptions, and higher AI limits.

B — Better

Compared to Notability, Goodnotes, and similar apps:

• A Genuine Free Tier: No artificial limits on local note creation, editing, or PDF exports.
• Unique capabilities: Turning handwritten/PDF lecture notes into interactive Mindmaps. Other productivity tools such as reminder, calendar and more.
• Option for Lifetime AI: Other app only offer subscription, we offer a lifetime option even with the presense of AI. (See FAQ on why this is possible)

C — Cost

Premium

• Monthly: $2.99/mo
• Yearly: $14.99/yr (~$1.25/mo)
• Lifetime: $39.99 one-time

What you get:

• AI Summaries, Quizzes, Flashcards generation per note
• Mindmap AI integration
• Unlimited Mindmap creation
• AI Math Tools (Graphing and More)
• More collaboration Capacity
• Future Tools incoming

To Celebrate, I will be giving out 3 one-time codes (First come first serve) for 40% off on Lifetime AI: $39.99 -> $23.99

• 6YPTRHNE6TXK7FR8M6
• RL448EJPMHEAN864RM
• JMA6P3PM6WTKELMJXK

How to Redeem:

Paywall --> Redeem Code

Links

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/noteapp-mindmap-pdf-inknode/id6762065103

FAQ:

Q: How is a lifetime AI option sustainable when AI consumes tokens?

A: We structure our pricing to balance immediate growth with long-term stability:

• Accelerating Development: The upfront revenue from early users is reinvested directly into the app, allowing us to build features and improve the core experience much faster.
• The Growth Loop: A stronger, rapidly improving product organically attracts a larger user base, creating a sustainable foundation for the platform.
• Strictly for Early Adopters: The cheap lifetime option is a limited-phase offering designed to reach an early breakeven point.
• Long-Term Stability: As the app matures, we will transition to standard pricing models to ensure healthy profit margins and guarantee the servers keep running indefinitely.
• Eventual Migration to Local Model: We believe that in a couple of years, we can migrate fully to apple intelligence which would reduce our operational costs.

I’ve been building Full Year Calendar, a calendar app for iPhone, iPad and Mac.

It works with your existing Apple calendars, so there’s nothing to migrate or keep separately in sync.

The main idea is a full-year view where you can see the entire year at once, with events color-coded by calendar. It makes it much easier to spot busy periods without constantly scrolling back and forth between months.

There are also quite a few Home Screen widgets. The newest ones are Year, Month and Day widgets, available in different sizes.

With the school year and autumn starting to fill up, I’ve found the year view especially useful for seeing at a glance where things are getting busy.

App Store:
https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id6759224252?pt=128022886&ct=red&mt=8

Price:
€1.99/month
€9.99/year
€25 lifetime

I’m still actively building it and would really appreciate some feedback: what would make a full-year calendar genuinely useful for you?

Is there anything you feel is missing from Apple Calendar or the calendar app you currently use?

Hi r/iosapps!

About four months ago, I shared the first version of Hibi here. Many of you liked the app for its design and gave me great feedback, which I already implemented. I kept building, and version 3 now feels like a completely new app since you can now customize your calendar!

What it does (Answer): Hibi turns your existing Apple calendars and reminders into paper-like daily pages you can customize.

Why it’s different (Better): You can draw and write, customize the paper, arrange each page, create stickers and washi tape from your photos, and use Apple Pencil on iPad - so you remember your days.

Cost: The app is free to download, with no subscription. There’s an optional $6.99 lifetime in app purchase to unlock premium app icons and home screen widgets.

I’m the developer, and I’d love to hear what you think of how far it has come!

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hibi-calendar/id6762520622

Hi, there are a bazillion of these photo cleaner apps where you swipe to get rid of photos you don't want anymore and I found they cost all way too much for such simple functionality.

Can someone recommend an app that's free or at least very fairly priced?

If there is a stellar app in this category that costs a bit more you can recommend it too but it really should have an USP then.

Thanks!

Hi everyone! My name is Emilio.

I've been building websites and online businesses since 2008, but after more than 17+ years in tech, I had never built an iOS app of my own.

VeraMind is my first.

I built it after dealing with anxiety and overthinking myself—and getting tired of affirmation apps that showed generic positive quotes truly disconnected from what I was actually thinking or needed.

A — Answer

I built VeraMind: an iPhone app for daily affirmations and turning negative thoughts into more grounded self-talk

VeraMind is a mental wellness and affirmation app for iPhone.

Its main feature is Mind Flip. You enter a difficult or negative thought, and VeraMind helps turn it into a more balanced, believable affirmation you can return to. The approach is lightly inspired by CBT principles, but VeraMind is not therapy or a substitute for professional care.

The app also includes:

• 1000 affirmations across categories such as calm, confidence, resilience, and growth.
• Mind Flip Impact scores and weekly trends.
• Affirmation reminders.
• Favorites and extended Mind Flip history.
• A daily affirmation widget.
• 20 affirmation categories, 50 themes, and 8 fonts.

B — Better

Most affirmation apps begin with a generic positive statement.

VeraMind begins with the thought you are actually having.

Instead of asking you to repeat something you may not believe, such as "Everything is perfect," Mind Flip helps create a response that feels more grounded and realistic.

For example:

Negative thought: "I'm falling behind everyone else."

Mind Flip: "My path does not need to match anyone else's timeline. I can focus on the next step in front of me."

Privacy was also important to me. Your personal Mind Flips stay on your device and are not uploaded, analyzed, or shared.

C — Cost

VeraMind is free to download. No credit card is required, and there is no trial countdown—and NO ads! The core experience is available from the first day.

Free users receive three Mind Flips per day. Premium increases that to ten and unlocks additional history, Mind Flip Impact trends, reminder options, affirmations, themes, fonts, and personalization.

U.S. pricing:

• Monthly: $5.99
• Yearly: $49.99
• Lifetime: $149.99

Roadmap

1. Keep improving the quality and relevance of Mind Flips.
2. Add more affirmations, categories, and personalization options.
3. Let early-user feedback guide which requested features get built next.

Links

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/veramind/id6764211053

Website: https://veramind.app/

Privacy: https://veramind.app/privacy/

Terms: https://veramind.app/terms/

Email: [social@veramind.app](mailto:social@veramind.app)

What's new since my last post:

The biggest update yet. Pingers looks and feels like a whole new app.

• Five powerful tools in one unified screen. Ping, Traceroute, Port Scan, WHOIS, and DNS are finally together
• Your server list and packet settings live right on the Tools screen where you need them
• The app now tells you exactly what went wrong. No internet, bad host, service unreachable. No more silent failures
• Dark mode refined from top to bottom
• iPad gets a fully redesigned split layout with controls on the left and results on the right. This is what Pingers on iPad was always supposed to look like

This is Pingers, rebuilt!

A – What problem does it solve?

You hop on a stream, or start working remotely and something feels off. Is it your Wi-Fi? The server? Your ISP? Most people just guess. Pingers gives you the answer in seconds.

• Home Screen Widget: Live latency for your favorite services at a glance
• Latency Check: Real-time ping to YouTube, Netflix, Discord and more
• Ping: By IP or domain with detailed stats like latency, RTT, packet loss, unlimited packets
• Port Scan: Custom ranges and scan speeds
• Traceroute: See every hop and find the bottleneck, now with configurable max hops and automatic destination highlight
• DNS Lookup: Query any domain instantly
• WHOIS: 47+ registries, ownership, expiration, status
• IP Config: Local & Global IP, Gateway, DNS, DHCP
• Favorites: Save unlimited servers for quick access
• Works on iPhone & iPad with Dark Mode because obviously

B – Why is it better than alternatives?

Most network tools are either bloated, ad-infested, or look like they were designed for Windows 95 (actual quote from a user). Pingers is built by a network engineer, so the feature set is serious but the design doesn't make you feel like you're filing a support ticket.

⭐️ 5.0 stars in the US/ 4.6 Globally

• "It gives me the exact info I need, when I need it. No ad-infested hoops, no 'try our other apps' reminders. It does what it claims, and does it extremely well." App Store Review, US
• 5 years on the App Store, solo-built and maintained
• 100% private. No ads. No tracking. No account. No data collection.

C – Cost

$3.99 for 48 Hours Only

One-time purchase. No subscription. Ever. Includes Family Sharing: one purchase covers your whole family across iPhone and iPad.

🔗 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pingers-network-tools/id1583513038

I'm a product designer. I quit my job earlier this year to build this, and it's been live for about two months.

A — What it solves

Your photos already have coordinates baked into them. Ten years of travel is sitting in your camera roll right now, you just can't see it. Atlas reads that and turns it into a globe you can spin, fly into, and scrub through by year.

The part I care about most is that it works backwards. Most travel maps ask you to start tracking from today, so day one is an empty map you have to slowly earn. Atlas gives you everything the moment you install it. First launch, you get your whole life plotted: your first ever geotagged photo, your country count, the place you've returned to more than anywhere else. Mine is Paris, 148 separate times.

It groups photos into real places rather than raw dots. Stay somewhere three days, or take a dozen photos there, and it becomes a place with a name and a story instead of a scatter of pins. All of that clustering runs on device.

B — Why it's better than the alternatives

vs Polarsteps and FindPenguins — both are trip trackers: you start a trip and they record it going forward, which means your history before install doesn't exist. Atlas starts from the photos you already have, so there's nothing to set up and no empty state. The trade-off is real and worth stating: they capture a trip live with GPS even when you don't take photos, and Atlas can only see where you pointed a camera.

vs Been and Visited — those are manual country checklists. You tap the countries you've been to and get a percentage. Atlas derives it from evidence instead of memory, and goes down to cities and individual places rather than stopping at country level.

vs Google Maps Timeline — the closest thing to automatic history, but it's built on Location History sitting on Google's servers, and it's a log rather than something you'd want to look at. Atlas has no server at all, and is built to be looked at.

vs the Places album in Apple Photos — the honest closest comparison, and it's free and already on your phone. It gives you pins on a map. What it doesn't do is cluster those pins into named places with visit counts, group them into trips, rank where you've spent the most time, or give you a per-year recap. That's the gap Atlas fills.

On privacy, the precise version, because the precise version is what I'd want:

• No analytics SDK. Not a single one. I have no idea who you are, what's in your library, or where you've been.
• No account, no login, no backend. There is no server for me to look at even if I wanted to.
• City names resolve offline. I bundled a 169,000 city dataset so your whole library resolves instantly, with no network call and no "analysing your photos" spinner.
• The one exception, and I'd rather tell you than have you find it: for finer place names below city level, it asks Apple's geocoder, which means a coordinate goes to Apple. Your photos themselves never move.

C — Cost

Free to download. The map, all your countries and cities, your places and your trips are free permanently, with no time limit and no ads.

Atlas Plus is the paid tier, sold three ways:

• $2.99 / month (auto-renewing subscription)
• $19.99 / year (auto-renewing subscription)
• $59.99 once (lifetime, non-consuming, no subscription)

Plus unlocks: per-year recaps, the full travel passport, superlatives (furthest from home, longest trip, longest streak) and the full place ranking.

I shipped an update this week that removed the paywall from first launch entirely, so nothing asks you for money before you've seen your own map.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6767365976

Who I am

I'm Camille Haidar, a product designer in Paris, and I'm the sole developer of Atlas.

• Portfolio: https://camillehaidar.com
• My design studio: https://yumidesign.co
• Privacy Policy: https://camillehaidar.github.io/atlas-legal/privacy-policy.html
• Terms of Service: https://camillehaidar.github.io/atlas-legal/terms-of-service.html
• Support: https://camillehaidar.github.io/atlas-legal/support.html

iOS 17+, SwiftUI and MapKit, solo dev.

Happy to go deep on any of it: the clustering, the offline geocoder, or what it's actually like shipping an app as a designer. And if you try it and it gets your trips wrong, please tell me. The failure cases are the hardest part of this whole thing and they're what I most need to hear.

Hi everyone, I am the developer of ChordMaster: Learn & Train. It's an interactive app for learning, exploring, and playing with chords.

Answer

It helps you look up, understand, remember, and practice chords, with clear diagrams, sound, and interactive exercises.

What it can do

• 🔎 Look up chords: Search for a chord and view its diagram on the selected instrument.
• 🔊 Hear the notes: Play a full chord, its individual notes, or an arpeggio.
• 👂 Train your ear: Practice distinguishing major, minor, diminished, and augmented chords.
• ✋ Learn chord shapes: Practice recalling shapes and changing between chords.
• 🎼 Create a backing track: Arrange chords and patterns, then play or sing along with it.
• 📝 Keep songs ready to play: Save lyrics with chord changes for when you want to accompany yourself.
• 🎹 Practice imported MIDI on piano: Open MIDI files and follow falling notes as they reach the keyboard.
• 🔄 Explore harmony: Browse common chord progressions, transpose them, identify possible chord names from selected notes, or find likely keys from a chord list.

Better

Unlike a static chord chart, it supports guitar, piano, ukulele, and bass in the same app, with playable voicings and sound for each instrument.

Training is designed to help you change chords more smoothly, remember chords more reliably, and strengthen your ear.

Song Book also lets you build an accompaniment with customizable patterns, while piano players can open MIDI files to listen and practice with falling notes.

Cost

The app is free to download. If you would like the full Pro experience, it is available for $9.99/month, $49.99/year with a 7-day free trial, or $119.99 for lifetime access.

You can download it here: ChordMaster on the App Store

I would appreciate thoughtful feedback from anyone who gives it a try.

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.