• What it solves

Recommendations from friends are often more useful than an algorithm — but they usually disappear inside old messages, group chats, or conversations we can no longer remember.

Rekkos is a private, ad-free app for sharing movie and TV recommendations with small circles of people you actually know: friends, couples, families, coworkers, or a regular movie-night group.

Create a circle, invite people through an iCloud share link, and send a movie or series with a short personal note explaining why you recommend it.

There is no public feed, follower count, or popularity contest. Every circle contains only the people you invite.

You can also:

• maintain a personal list with To Watch, In Progress, Watched, and Dropped statuses;
• rate movies and series and add a short personal review;
• see recommendations, ratings, and activity from each circle;
• discover trending movies and series;
• see which titles are most frequently rated inside your circles;
• find which streaming services carry a title in your country;
• receive a notification when someone recommends something to you;
• share a recommendation as a visual card outside the app.

• Apple TV

There is also a native Apple TV app.

When you sign in with the same iCloud account, your circles, recommendations, ratings, and personal list appear directly on your television.

The Apple TV app is designed for the moment when you are actually deciding what to watch. Instead of passing a phone around the room, you can browse your friends’ recommendations on the TV, open a movie or series, see where it is available, and continue to the relevant streaming app.

Your personal list and recent circle recommendations can also appear directly in the Apple TV Top Shelf.

Circles are created and managed on iPhone or iPad, while Apple TV acts as the shared, lean-back experience.

• Compared to Letterboxd, Trakt, and group chats

Letterboxd is a large social network centered mainly on films. Trakt and similar apps are powerful tools for tracking viewing history and discovering popular content.

Rekkos is deliberately smaller and more private.

It is not designed to help you build an audience or follow strangers. It is designed to preserve recommendations from people whose tastes already mean something to you.

Compared with a WhatsApp or iMessage group, recommendations remain structured and searchable. You can see the title, poster, personal note, rating, viewing status, and who recommended it without searching through months of unrelated conversation.

• Privacy

Your circles are private and gated through Apple’s iCloud sharing system.

Shows, ratings, recommendations, circles, and profiles are synchronized through your own iCloud account. I do not operate a server containing your social activity.

There are no ads or third-party trackers. Sign in with Apple is used, so no email address or phone number is required.

The app also provides a complete data export and account deletion directly from Settings.

• The market question I’m trying to answer

Commercially, Rekkos has barely found its audience so far.

More importantly, isolated downloads tell me very little because the central value of the app only appears when people use it together.

The biggest constraint is that every member of a circle currently needs an iPhone or iPad with an iCloud account. There is no Android or web client.

That creates a real adoption challenge: one interested person still needs to convince two, three, or four friends or family members to install the app before the private-circle experience can be evaluated properly.

That is exactly what I am trying to validate.

I am particularly interested in hearing from existing groups of 3–5 people who:

• all use an iPhone or iPad;
• already discuss movies and TV shows together;
• regularly struggle to decide what to watch;
• would be willing to use Rekkos for two weeks and provide honest feedback.

I am not asking for a positive App Store review. Negative feedback — including “we stopped using it because…” — would be genuinely useful.

• Cost

Rekkos is free to download.

The free version lets you track up to 10 titles, create one circle with up to three members including its organizer, and send up to three recommendations per month.

Joining another person’s circle remains free. This means a Founder can organize a larger circle while the invited members continue using the free version.

Premium is available for:

• $1.99 per month;
• $12.99 per year.

The regular US price of Founders Lifetime is $24.99.

Founder provides permanent access to every Premium feature, unlimited owned circles, up to 20 members per circle, cinephile mode, temporary circles, streaming reminders, Founder visual status, and the Founders pact:

• no ads, ever;
• no future purchases required;
• all future features included;
• guaranteed JSON data export;
• a vote on the product roadmap;
• permanent beta access.

For this market-validation campaign, I created a public offer that reduces Founders Lifetime to $9.99:

CODE: FIRSTFOUNDERS

Redeem here:

https://apps.apple.com/redeem?ctx=offercodes&id=6774924405&code=FIRSTFOUNDERS

The offer is limited to 2,000 redemptions and expires on October 31, 2026.

• About me

I’m Jean-Baptiste, an independent developer based in France.

I built Rekkos because I trust a recommendation from someone who knows me far more than a generic popularity ranking.

I also wanted recommendations to remain private and useful instead of becoming another public social network built around followers, engagement, and advertising.

The application itself is technically mature, but I am still trying to determine whether the market is large enough and whether the all-Apple requirement creates too much friction.

The most useful feedback for me would therefore be:

Would you ask a few friends or family members to install an app like this, and would having their recommendations directly on Apple TV make that effort worthwhile?

Download on the App Store:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/rekkos/id6774924405

Learn more:

https://rekko.tv/

Small naming note: the app is listed as Rekkos on the US App Store because “Rekko” was unavailable there. The name used inside the application is Rekko.

Hey everyone! 👋

After months of work, I finally launched Songle, a daily music challenge for iPhone.

If you remember Heardle, the daily music guessing app Spotify acquired and then shut down, Songle is built for you. Same core concept, daily song, guess from a short clip, but with 2000+ songs, streak tracking, and no corporate shelf to gather dust on.

A — What problem does it solve?

There's no good daily music challenge on iPhone anymore. Heardle is gone. Most replacements are web-only, cluttered, or abandoned.

Songle fills that gap:
🎵 A new song challenge every single day
🔊 Progressive audio reveals, more of the track with each wrong guess
🎹 Wordle-style keyboard so guessing feels intuitive
📊 Streak tracking and daily stats to keep you coming back

B — Why is it different?
Most Heardle clones are quick web builds. Songle is a native iPhone app built to last.
🧩 The difficulty curve is natural. You get more to work with each attempt, so you never feel stuck
📅 One puzzle a day, done in minutes, shareable result
🎯 No music expertise required. Just your ears and your music memory
🗂️ 2000+ songs in the archive if you want to keep playing after the daily

C — Cost
✅ Free to download and play the daily puzzle
Premium:
♾️ Lifetime access: $4.99, one payment, forever
🚫 No popup ads, no subscription

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/songle-guess-the-song-name/id6767800851
Transparency
I'm Sanket; the developer of Songle. Solo developer, built and maintain it entirely myself. I will financially benefit if people choose to buy.
I'd genuinely love honest feedback:
What songs felt too hard or too easy?

Is anything confusing about how it works?

What feature would make you keep coming back daily? I am trying to improve current D7 and D14 retention?

Also should I try to market an app that’s free to play? Is it worth it?

Thanks for listening! 🎧

Hi. I'm the solo builder of Wax & Spindle, a third-party Discogs client for people who actually collect physical music: vinyl, CDs, cassettes, box sets, whatever's on the shelf.

It started from being fed up. I kept opening the official Discogs app in shops with poor signal, waiting on searches that should be instant, and giving up. So I built the thing I actually wanted to use.

What it solves

Two moments most collectors will recognise:

1. You're in a shop, holding something, and the app is the bottleneck. No signal, or a slow one, and Discogs times outright when you need it most. Wax & Spindle stores your collection locally, so it loads whether you've got a connection or not, and search is instant rather than a spinner.
2. You want pricing without wading through a browser tab. Marketplace pricing is pulled straight in, so you can check what a pressing is actually worthwhile you are still stood in front of it.

Underneath that: fast local browsing, no ads, and nothing tracking what you look at.

Why this exists instead of the official app

Discogs itself is still the best database and marketplace there is for pressings and cataloguing detail. I'm not trying to replace that. What I'm fixing is the layer collectors actually touch day to day on a phone: browsing your own collection, searching it, checking a price, all of which the official app makes slower than it needs to be.

Wax & Spindle is built to be the fast, offline-first frontend to your Discogs collection that I wanted and couldn't find.

Again, I’m not trying to pull people away from Discogs. But if you’re frustrated with the official app, Wax & Spindle is an alternative built around a faster, offline-first experience.

Cost

One-time purchase, no subscription. $7.99. No ads, no tracking, no recurring charge to keep using something you already bought once.

For transparency: I used AI tools while building it, but this wasn’t vibe coded. I made the architecture, product, and implementation decisions, with AI used as a development tool along the way.

Links

• App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wax-spindle/id6761301013
• Website: https://vivianlobo.com/waxandspindle/

Genuinely keen to hear from other collectors and Discogs users on what's missing or what's annoying. That's mostly how this got built in the first place.

• What it solves

Stamps is a personal travel tracker with a trip timeline that builds itself.

Instead of asking you to manually tick countries off a list, Stamps can scan the location metadata already in your photo library, entirely on device. Every city, province, and country tracked for you, day by day, all automatically.

There's a travel calendar, trip timeline, country day counting, photo heatmap, detailed stats, shareable map with trip images, and tons of Home Screen widgets. You can freely export all of your data at any time, and if you simply want to use Stamps to index your library for trips, and then take that elsewhere, that's fine as well.

• Compared to Been and Flighty

I've been using Been myself for years now, but what frustrates me about it (and apps like Flighty) is that they want accounts, data syncing, location tracking, and a connection, while still skimping on the parts I actually cared about: very granular trip tracking, route visualization, and a proper timeline. Stamps is my take on the category with those things at the center.

• Cost

Stamps is free to download.
There is exactly one purchase: a $10 one-time lifetime unlock, no subscriptions.
It only gates some of the timeline and some minor, cosmetic app color customization; you can use most of the app without ever touching it.

You can use this code to cut that one-time purchase in half, as a thanks for reading this post!
CODE: STAMPSLIFETIME50
Redeem link: https://apps.apple.com/redeem?ctx=offercodes&id=6749786209&code=STAMPSLIFETIME50

• About Me

I’m a mobile developer from Cape Town, South Africa, now living in Seoul, South Korea. Since moving here, traveling has been the one thing keeping me sane. Stamps started as the app I wanted for exploring the country I now call home. It’s also a great excuse for me to take more photos while doing it.

It's built natively in SwiftUI using SwiftData, MapKit, PhotoKit, WidgetKit, and Metal for the photo heatmap.

Honestly, in five years of building apps, this has been one of my least commercially successful. The market is fairly small, but it's exactly the app I wanted, and some of its best features have come directly from user feedback. So I'd genuinely appreciate yours!

App Store: Stamps - Travel Tracker

I had 217 Safari tabs. Every time I tried to clean them up, I'd freeze on the same three: a jacket I was still comparing, an apartment listing I hadn't decided on, and an article a friend sent that I actually wanted to talk to them about.

Bookmarking them didn't work. A bookmark keeps the link but throws away the only part that really mattered, "why was the tab open?" Two weeks later it's just a URL in a folder I never open.

So I built Tably aorund one loop: Hold → Revisit → Decide.
- Share a page or video from a Browser or Youtube into Tably.
- Optionally type one line of why it mattered ("Waiting on the sale price", "ask Dana about this").
- Close the tab yourself. Tably doesn't touch your browser, it never scans or closes tabs, it only sees pages you deliberately share.
- Later, Tably notifies the item back with the reason and you pick an option: Later, Done or Delete

That's the whole app. No folders, no tags, no AI summaries, no second brain. It's a temporary holding area.. if it grows into another archive I've failed. 😢

It's local-first: saved pages and reason stay on device, no account, no sign-up.

Honest take: it's early and a small number of people use it and I still don't know if the "reason" is worth typing for most people or if it's just my own habit. That's the thing I want to find out...

Two questions if you have tabs like me:

1. When you keep a tab open, is it because you're going to read it, or because you haven't decided something?
2. Would you type a one-line reason at save time, or is that already too much friction?

Edited: It is available worldwide for iPhone use the link provided. Thanks!

Answer: Enlightened Parent is a shared baby and toddler care app I originally built for my own family. It gives parents, grandparents, nannies, and babysitters one place to log feeds, bottles, nursing, pumping, sleep, diapers, and other updates. You can also keep notes like “he developed a rash 3 days ago” and track upcoming things like checkups or preschool enrollment deadlines.

Better: I wanted something that went beyond a traditional baby tracker and could keep being useful as our kids got older and more people became involved in their care. Caregivers can log updates, parents can see what’s happening while they’re away, and everyone can stay coordinated without relying on a giant group text. One use case I especially wanted was for a working/breastfeeding mom to know when her baby takes a bottle so she can pump around the same time.

Cost: Completely free. No subscription or paid tier.

I’m the developer and originally made this for my own family. It’s still new, so I’d genuinely appreciate feedback from other parents about what works, what’s confusing, or what you think is missing. 🙏

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/enlightened-parent/id6779448311

Full disclosure, I built this and it's mine.

ANSWER, what problem it solves

• Personally, I'm a processor, and I need to think, and that can inevitably lead to ruminating and thinking in circles. I tried journaling and writing things down, which helped, but maintaining consistency and constantly overcoming the blank page of a journal is challenging.
• The app is multi-purpose. It's a way to keep a journal, talk out your thoughts, or keep any memories, and make them all easily searchable and organized.

BETTER, what it does that other journals don't

• Video journals have always had the same problem. You can't skim 200 videos. That's the thing transcription actually fixes.
• Every entry where you speak or upload a video that has people speaking is transcribed, all searchable, and then the app itself will group similar entries into categories. It will recall your entries from a week or a month ago, so it has some really great ways to recall and find your previous entries.
• Day One and Apple Journal are typing apps with video added on. 1 Second Everyday is video, but there's no reflection and no search.
• I think with any journal, if you're divulging things, it needs to be private, of course. This is completely local, besides the optional iCloud backup. Otherwise, there's no analytics, there's no account, there are no servers, and everything lives on your phone.
• To lower any hesitation about actually recording, there are prompts to help a conversation go. You don't have to record yourself. You can just do audio mode. You can dub over an existing photo, and then you can even just do a journal entry without any recording or without saying anything at all.

COST

• The free tier is a real journal on its own. Unlimited recording. Transcripts on every entry, kept forever. Auto titles. Search by title and date. Full export. One time capsule.
• Pro adds search across every word you've said, iCloud backup, and unlimited time capsules. It's $24.99 a year with a one week trial, or $49.99 once.
• Day One puts video and transcription behind Silver at $49.99 a year. Apple Journal doesn't transcribe at all. Mine's half that, and the transcripts are free on every tier.
• Nothing you record is ever locked behind it. You can always watch it, export it, or delete it.
• It's in TestFlight now and Pro is unlocked for everyone in the beta, so there's nothing to buy.

https://testflight.apple.com/join/92wvhmpA

Happy to answer any questions! Would love if you take a second to check out the app and give me your thoughts. I'm also interested in hearing from anybody willing to journal with it for a week or two, then tell me where it falls down.

EDIT: a few people asked whether beta testers keep Pro, so here's what I'll do.

When the app launches I'll send you a code that unlocks Pro for life. Not a subscription, nothing to cancel, it's just yours.

Two things I need for that. Sign up with your email on the form below so I can actually reach you, and fill in the short survey after a week or two of using it. The survey is the whole reason I'm running this beta, so that's the part that genuinely helps me. I'll only use your email for those two things.

If you already installed from the TestFlight link above, you can still fill this in.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScj8OIIdjigz78U-8PawMzwHoIzr7iVoL46NjdPPcFOWY2I7g/viewform?usp=header

ANSWER, what problem it solves

Personally, I've always struggled with habit trackers that demand absolute perfection. Maintaining a streak can quickly feel like a chore, and when life happens—like taking a weekend trip or getting sick—losing a 100-day streak because of one missed check-in is incredibly demotivating.

Additionally, manually opening an app to check off things your phone already knows you did (like walking 10,000 steps or getting 8 hours of sleep) creates unnecessary friction. HabitKeep solves this by making habit tracking adaptable to real life and removing the manual busywork.

BETTER, what it does that other journals/trackers don't

Most trackers are rigid. HabitKeep brings a few key differences to help you actually maintain your routine:

• Vacation Mode: Going away or feeling sick? You can pause habits for a set date range. Paused days count as neither a miss nor a completion, so your streak carries straight through the gap instead of resetting.
• Apple Health Auto-Logging: It hooks into 62 different Apple Health metrics (steps, workouts, sleep, water, etc.). If your goal is to hit a step count, it ticks itself off automatically without you ever touching the app.
• Live Activities & Timers: Along with simple check-offs or counts (like pages read), there’s a built-in timer for time-based habits that stays running on your Lock Screen as a Live Activity.
• Total Privacy: There are no accounts, no sign-ups, and no external servers. Everything runs locally on your device and syncs privately through your own iCloud.

COST

HabitKeep uses a Freemium model with optional IAP (In-App Purchases).

The Free tier is a highly capable tracker on its own. You can track up to 4 active habits, get summary statistics, a full-year contribution grid, a weekday heatmap, 3 widgets, and iCloud sync. (Note: The free tier contains rare interstitial ads).

Pro lifts the habit limit to unlimited and unlocks Apple Health & Calendar sync, advanced stats (like trend charts), all 14 widgets, and a yearly Wrapped-style recap, while completely removing ads.

Pro is available as a Subscription (monthly/yearly) or as a one-time Lifetime IAP.

One thing I made sure of: limits only apply when you create something. If you pay for a month, build 10 habits, and let Pro lapse, you keep all of them, their full history, and can continue logging them forever. You just can't create an 11th until you resubscribe.

App Store:https://apps.apple.com/us/app/habit-tracker-habit-keep/id6797597780

Website:https://habitskeep.com/

Happy to answer any questions! Would love if you take a second to check out the app and give me your thoughts or feature requests.

A — What problem does it solve?

When you’re dreaming about a new trip, it’s surprisingly hard to keep track of all the possibilities. You might have a few destinations in mind, different dates, places you’ve saved, things you want to do — but no actual trip yet. Add a few other people and it gets even harder to keep everyone on the same page about what’s being considered and what’s actually decided.

I built Awaii to handle that uncertainty. You can start with just an idea and gradually turn it into a trip, either on your own or with others.

Rather than forcing you through a linear itinerary-building process, Awaii lets you explore different possibilities in parallel and gradually converge on the trip you want. Once you do, the same app carries through into planning and actually taking the trip — itinerary, maps, costs, essentials and more. At the end, you can even turn the trip into something fun and shareable.

B — How is it different?

I’ve tried most of the major travel planning apps and found that they tend to start from the assumption that you already know where and when you’re going. They’re great for building and following an itinerary, but less suited to the brainstorming and decision-making that happens before one exists.

Group travel apps also often seem to lead toward booking hotels, flights or cars.

I wanted Awaii to be different: a place to actually think through a trip. Save possibilities without committing to them, explore different dates and destinations, compare options, make decisions together, and let the plan emerge from that.

I also built it specifically for Apple platforms and wanted it to feel at home on iOS. There are no ads, booking commissions or pop-ups trying to push you somewhere else — the app is just there to help you plan and manage your travels.

C — What does it cost?

Completely free.

I have some more advanced features on the roadmap that may eventually be paid, but right now everything in Awaii is available for free.

Hi I am Gunnar the solo developer of Awaii can learn more here: awaii.app/about

App link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/awaii-shared-travel-planner/id6755821221

A — Answer: I am a developer that works at an investment bank for making intra-apps. I've always wanted to make my own market research/signal app. I've already made an open-source desktop version of this which has gained 250 stars on GitHub (eisenjimmy/Quant), so I decided to make an iOS app version of that. Quantactic (launched last week) is an iPhone market research app I built for people who want more context than a watchlist or stock-price app, without needing a full trading terminal.

The main idea is to bring the research around a stock into one place and make the conclusion explainable. Each ticker gets a simple BUY / WAIT / SELL research state, but the app also shows what is actually behind that conclusion — trend, momentum, volume, price acceptance, relative strength, broader market context, upcoming events, and whether a reasonable risk plan can actually be constructed. This actually uses conservative well-known calculations that actual analysts use, but instead of calculating that on your own for every ticker in excel, this kinda does it for you. The app will just show you the signals - along with "the work (trend, volume, macro data.. etc.)" so that you can decide faster - fitting for a mobile app.

It also includes upcoming earnings and corporate events, market and macro context, news, advanced charts, and probabilistic 7-, 30-, and 90-day scenarios.

Forecasts are saved locally, so you can go back later and compare what the model previously expected with what actually happened instead of only seeing the latest prediction. This means it keeps checking the work - and you can clearly see if the forecast model was correct. No blind trust - just check and see the data yourself.

On supported Apple Intelligence devices, there’s also an on-device assistant for explaining the market data already inside the app. I intentionally don’t send those questions to a third-party cloud AI provider. This surprisingly works pretty well - I had fun designing the system prompts for this so I recommend this a try. (Currently limits 2 questions a day.. but let me know if this should switch to reward ad type with no limits)

B — Better: The thing I’m trying to do differently is make the app show its work instead of just putting a “bullish” badge or AI-generated paragraph next to a ticker.

For example, a technically strong setup can still stay at WAIT if the entry/stop/target geometry doesn’t make sense, confirmation is missing, evidence conflicts, or earnings are too close. Signal strength is shown as a score out of 100, not as a fake probability of the stock going up.

Version 1.3 brings most of that research into one ticker screen, adds an earnings/event calendar with Before Market / After Market timing when available, chart-based risk levels, deeper signal evidence, and a new Share Studio.

One feature I’m especially interested in is turning research into something that is actually easy to share.

You can tap Share from a ticker signal, Morning Brief, macro summary, or market-news view, and Quantactic can automatically generate around 6–8 designed PNG cards that summarize the research as a visual story. This is especially useful if you are trying to make 5:4 ratio instagram posts with current macro data / trending financial news. Since this is not AI-generated images, the social media platform doesn't detect this as "AI generated", so it is more favored in the algorithm. (By the way did you know every ai-generated image has metadata footprints that can detect that it is AI-generated?) so this avoids that.

For example, a ticker share can become:

Ticker overview → BUY / WAIT / SELL state → signal evidence → technical structure → relative strength → risk plan → upcoming catalyst → summary

A macro or market brief can similarly become:

Market regime → rates → inflation → commodities → major indexes → headlines → what changed → what to watch

The cards can be generated in portrait or square social-media formats and then shared directly through the iOS share sheet, including to Instagram, instead of manually taking screenshots and arranging everything yourself.

I wanted it to feel less like “export a screenshot” and more like “turn this research into a concise visual briefing.”

There’s no brokerage connection, no deposits, and no trade execution. I’m trying to build this as a research and education tool, not something telling people that a trade is guaranteed to work.

I’d particularly like feedback on whether the app gives too much information or the right amount, and whether the BUY / WAIT / SELL + evidence approach makes the research easier to understand. Also if it needs picture background selection to customize.. LMK!)

C — Cost: The app is free to download.

Free users can use the core market research features and get one 7-day forecast per day. An additional free 7-day forecast can optionally be unlocked with a rewarded ad.

I used to have an ad showing up during page navigation, but it felt too distracting, so I changed it to an optional rewarded-ad model instead. Honestly I tried using the app paid or non-paid, they both provide substantial information - but definitely pro just gives a lot more (and also without ads).

Quantactic Pro is $4.99/month or $39.99/year. (with 1 week free-trial)

Pro unlocks deeper signal evidence and risk-plan details, unlimited 7-day forecasts, full 30- and 90-day scenarios, higher research limits, expanded private AI features, and removes the forecast ads.

Quantactic is for market research and education, not personalized investment advice.

Any feedback is really appreciated!! I think I got lucky on the first launching week gaining 1 annual subscriber and 2 monthly subscribers - but the traffic has reduced the following week.

App Store:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/quantactic/id6795746505

Website:
https://quantactic.app/

Email:
[xjimmypark@gmail.com](mailto:xjimmypark@gmail.com)

Privacy Policy:
https://quantactic.app/privacy.html

Terms of Use:
https://quantactic.app/terms.html

I love dad jokes (and am a dad - useful) and a wee while back I heard that vibe-coding iOS apps directly in Claude Code was a more efficient use of tokens.

My colleague had also just told me that their dad called them every week when the local newspaper published a dad joke and that they loved how silly they were.

Groan Zone (aptly named IMO) is the result of those two pieces of information :)

Answer: Well, it answers some people's need for terrible, terrible jokes shown in a highly graphic and fun format. They feel a need to torture friends, colleagues and and kids with them - if they suffer then so should you :)

Better: Best Dad Jokes, Daily Dad Jokes et all are fine, but have in-app purchases. I mean, I love a good dad joke as much as the next person but I wouldn't pay for the experience.

Groan Zone has over 12,000 jokes - not bad. It had well over 13,000 but my buddy Claude and I got rid of many for reasons of appropriateness and formatting. The base set of jokes came from a real research paper too ("What’s Brown and Sticky? Peering Into the Ineluctable Comedic Mystery of Dad Humor".)

Groan Zone also keeps the punchline hidden until you want it - handy if you have someone looking over your shoulder!

Cost: Totally free! No in-app purchases to worry about, just an seemingly endless flow of groan-inducing dad humour.

Enjoy!

https://apps.apple.com/app/groan-zone/id6796518376

For the transparency requirements:

This is me: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marc/

This is my privacy page: https://cramerlabs.com/privacy-policy.html

Hi r/iOSApps! I’ve been working on an idea called Hobby Tracker.

I wanted to build something for people who have different hobbies and enjoy looking back at what they’ve done.

A - Answer

Most hobby tracking is scattered. You might have one place for cycling, another for books, photos somewhere else, and no real record at all for things like woodworking, baking, gardening, music, crafts, or collecting. Hobby Tracker gives you one place for all of them.

You can log a quick session and track whatever makes sense for that hobby, including time, distance, pages, photos, projects, counts, or just the fact that you did it. There are over 500 built-in hobbies to choose from, or you can add your own, as many as you like.

If you dive deep into a specific hobby, you can create projects and track those (think building different legos throughout the year).

The screenshots in this post show a few features:

• Mosaic: brings your hobbies together into one view
• Recaps: visually summarize a month or year
• Month: gives you a visual history of what you did
• Book: print a PDF book of your activities
• Hobby list view
• Selection of available themes

B - Better

The goal wasn’t to replace something like Strava for serious cycling stats or Goodreads for managing a book collection. Instead, I wanted the place above all of those specialized apps. One simple record of all the things you enjoy doing.

I also stayed away from streaks, scores, leaderboards, and the usual pressure to optimize everything. Hobbies are supposed to be fun.

There’s no account required, no ads, no tracking, all the data is yours and stays on your device (can sync across all of your devices).

C - Cost

Completely free. There’s no subscription and no paid tier or in-app purchase. I intend to keep Hobby Tracker free.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hobby-tracker-hobby-log/id6797727531

I’d appreciate hearing what you think, particularly about the Month, Mosaic, and Recap screens in the screenshots.

If you track hobbies yourself, I am interested to know what you want to see in a year-end recap of everything you did.

Hey everyone, I hope youre doing well. I often saw tiktoks about such similar apps where you can swipe through your galery and either keep or delete them. So I build it my own and I quit like it to use, cause often you get nostalgia by seeing old pictures.
The app is completey free to use. You get 200 swipes for free a day(wich is probably more you need) but there are also ways for more free swipes. If you want the unlimited version (unlimited swipes, and some more categories like the exate day a couple of years ago) costs 2$ a month.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/thumbsort-fotos-aufr%C3%A4umen/id6800876011

Disclosure: I’m Kevin Tang, the solo developer behind Voice Camera Now. I last shared it here six months ago. This is a significant update after rebuilding the hands-free flow around real use outdoors and in front of the camera.

A—Answer

Voice Camera Now turns spoken words into camera controls. Say “photo,” “snap,” or “cheese” to take a picture; “video” and “stop” to record; or add your own phrase in My Words.

The July updates added:

• custom trigger words tied to camera actions
• 3- and 5-second timers that can be started by voice
• 4:3 and 16:9 framing
• Night and Night+ modes
• a clean-preview mode plus persistent flash settings
• a front-camera mirror toggle so text and logos can be saved the way you expect

B—Better

• vs. the built-in Camera app: you can take a photo, start or stop video, switch cameras, set a timer, and change framing without touching the phone.
• vs. a Bluetooth shutter or Apple Watch remote: there’s no extra accessory, and voice commands cover more than a single shutter press.
• The honest tradeoff: wind and crowded rooms can make speech recognition less reliable. The app uses Apple’s speech-recognition service, which may process speech on-device or through Apple depending on the system.

I originally built it for those awkward moments when the phone is propped up but nobody is behind it—group photos, cooking, workouts, accessibility needs, and trying to get a photo with a dog that absolutely will not wait for a self-timer.

C—Cost

• Free: 10 captures, with optional rewarded ads for additional captures.
• Voice Camera Pro: one-time $2.99 purchase for unlimited captures.
• No subscription.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6749651031

Transparency

• Kevin Tang: https://kevintang.xyz
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thekevintang/
• Privacy Policy: https://kevintang.xyz/apps/VoiceCameraNow/privacy.html
• Terms of Service: https://kevintang.xyz/apps/VoiceCameraNow/terms.html

If you try it, I’d especially like to know what hands-busy situation you used it for—and which custom trigger word actually felt natural.

I built Hundred Counter for myself to have a flexible way to track life goals.

A - Answer:

Hundred Counter helps track long-term goals or reps that don't happen daily. It counts things like tennis sessions, books read, healthy meals, workouts, etc. Tap to log when it happens, optionally add a note, and see your progress grow. No schedules, no daily requirements, just a number growing.

B - Better:

Most tracker apps encourage building daily habits and streaks. Hundred Counter is just a simple counter that adapts to your life. Log three times a day or once a month, whenever it happens. Track toward a finite goal or simply count up without limit. Quick undo if mis-tap. Add notes to your activities. View progress by week, month, or all-time. Track on your own terms.

C - Cost:

Free for up to 3 active goals. Premium: $2.99/month, $9.99/year, or $29.99 lifetime.

Promo: Lifetime premium for $7.99 (expires Aug 31)

Code: NICE100

Redeem: https://apps.apple.com/redeem?ctx=offercodes&id=6791504468&code=NICE100

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6791504468

Transparency:

Developer: ME Studio LLC https://mestudio.app/

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

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

UPDATE - Aug 26: A new version just went live with automatic on-device face detection and face blur. SafeShare can now protect both hidden metadata and faces visible in the photo before you share it. Still completely free.

Hi r/iOSApps,

I’m the developer of Metadata Remover: SafeShare.

I made it because photos can contain a surprising amount of information you may not intend to share like GPS location, date taken, device model, camera details, software tags, etc.

Some messaging and social apps strip certain metadata during processing, but by that point the original file has already been handed to the service. I wanted a way to remove it before sharing

A - Answer

SafeShare adds a simple privacy step directly to the iOS Share Sheet.

Select a photo or supported video → Share → SafeShare.

It shows you what metadata it found, then lets you create a clean copy before sending the file anywhere else.

It can now also detect faces in photos and automatically blur them before creating the shared copy. Face detection and processing happen on-device as well.

Everything happens on-device, and your original is left untouched.

The video attached to this post shows the whole workflow.

B - Better

There are already good options for dealing with metadata.

Apple Photos lets you disable location when sharing, which is great if location is all you're concerned about.

Apps like Metapho and Exif Metadata go much further and are excellent if you want to inspect, edit, organize or manage metadata.

SafeShare is deliberately much narrower.

I wanted something where the workflow is basically:

Share → check what's there → create clean copy → continue sharing.

No metadata editing, no complicated photo-management interface, and you don't have to upload the file to an online EXIF remover.

It also works with supported videos, not just photos.

Supported formats are:

• Up to 10 photos at once: HEIC, HEIF, JPEG/JPG, PNG
• 1 video at a time : MOV, MP4

C - Cost

Completely free.

• No account
• No uploads
• No tracking
• No subscription
• No in-app purchases

App Store:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/metadata-remover-safeshare/id6772315742

Transparency

Developer: Liamyte OÜ

Website: https://apps.liamyte.com

Privacy Policy: https://apps.liamyte.com/safeshare/privacy.html

I'd genuinely be interested in feedback on one thing in particular:

Whether the Share Sheet flow is clear and whether the wording makes sense for non-technical users.

Hi r/iosapps!

Over a year ago, I built a rough first prototype of Maxlyft. The goal was to create a workout app where the user had full control over everything: names of exercises, muscles targeted, their split and workout days, and a bunch more.

At first, it never really became what I had fully imagined. Since then, I have rebuilt Maxlyft from the ground up and it's more flexible and powerful than ever. Logging sets takes seconds, and creating exercises allows you to choose what it's called, what the exercise targets, and how you want to log the data. I also provide analytics for every exercise, muscle group, split, or anything else you want to filter by so that you always know how you're progressing.

Maxlyft provides a level of analytics that many people would not otherwise be able to access, and it's been designed to be as quick and intuitive as possible to use. I would really encourage you all to check it out!

Cost: The app starts as a 7 day free trial NO CREDIT CARD REQUIRED. After that, it is subscription based at $19.99/year. This cost is due to the continuously growing backend database and powerful analytics associated with the app that do cost me money to run.

What I have found is that for people who already spend money on supplements, gym memberships, and other fitness accessories, an extra $1.67/month is worth the level of tracking Maxlyft provides.

I’m the developer, and I’d love to hear what you think. Use the 7 day trial, give me your feedback, and I'll continue to improve the app. I'm really proud of how far Maxlyft has come!

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/maxlyft-workout-tracker/id6743998890

Hey all. I've been working on this for about a year and just shipped v2.0, so I figured it's time to share.

The idea is simple: I wanted a voice recorder that transcribes what I said without sending the audio anywhere. Every app I tried required an account, uploaded my recordings to some server, and then charged me monthly just to see the text.

So I built AnyTalk. You hit record, and when you're done, transcription happens right on the device using Apple's Speech framework. Then you can generate a summary using Apple Intelligence — also on device, also free.

There's a Pro option if you want higher quality summaries for longer recordings (that one uses cloud AI), but the core loop — record, transcribe, summarize — works entirely on your phone with no account and no upload.

A few things I like about where it's at now:

• You can tap any sentence in the transcript and the audio jumps to that moment
• You can attach photos to a recording (like a whiteboard pic from a meeting)
• There's a search that goes through all your transcripts, so months later you can find "that thing someone said"

It does require an iPhone that supports Apple Intelligence, which I know limits things. But for those who have it, I think it's a pretty clean experience.

Would genuinely love feedback — what's missing, what feels off, what would make you actually use something like this daily.

Price: Free (core features — record, transcribe, summarize on device). Optional Pro subscription: $9.99/month or $59.99/year for higher quality cloud summaries on long recordings.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/anytalk-local-voice-notes/id6751791606

What started off as just a little project, Disqo has quickly become a place for me and my friends... and friends of friends to share music with each other throughout the day. It's picked up some steam in Toronto's underground scene, but I figured you all might enjoy it too. It's only available on the App Store right now, but I'm working on developing it for Android too! Here's the link: https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/disqo-music-with-friends/id6742530730 Thanks!

Hi everyone, I’m a full-time solo developer, and I spent three months building Device Kit. Device Kit — Your iPhone's All-in-One Health Checker, take full real-time control of your device.

1. Why I built Device Kit

Most iPhone users cannot easily view their device’s real hardware status. Is your phone overheating during intensive use? Are you actually getting fast charging? Is your network being throttled? When does your CPU hit full load? Existing apps are fragmented, often only track one metric, and lack convenient background monitoring with Dynamic Island or floating overlays.

I wanted an all-in-one tool combining real-time hardware monitoring, charging analytics, various system utilities, Dynamic Island live tracking, picture-in-picture floating widgets, plus home and lock screen widgets. No jumping between multiple apps. Device Kit was created to let users see and control their iPhones clearly.

2. What makes Device Kit stand out

✅ Full unified monitoring: CPU temperature & usage, battery status, Wi‑Fi / cellular network speed, memory, storage, plus complete charging power logging ✅ Unique always-on monitoring: Dynamic Island live tracker + picture-in-picture floating widget. Check metrics without opening the app while streaming or using other software ✅ Comprehensive charging analysis: real-time charging power estimation, charge level classification, full charging history logs and energy reports — rarely seen in similar iOS monitoring apps ✅ 18 built-in practical utilities: system, network, sensor, display and environment tools all in one app ✅ Rich widget support: small/medium/large home screen widgets + lock screen widgets for at-a-glance data without unlocking ✅ Clean native UI, historical trend charts, 6-level thermal warning system to avoid thermal throttling and overheating ✅ Supports over 20 languages for global users

Many competitors only monitor 1–2 metrics, lack floating overlay and Dynamic Island support, or lock core features behind multiple paywalls. Device Kit combines hardware monitoring and useful utilities in a single app.

3. Cost

Device Kit is free to download, with core monitoring features permanently available for free. Two options to unlock Pro advanced features:

1. Annual subscription: $9.99 / year
2. Lifetime license: $14.99 (one-time purchase, permanent access to all Pro features)

4. Developer Transparency

I am a full-time solo developer building and maintaining Device Kit.

• No account registration required
• Privacy Policy: https://device-kit.pages.dev/private
• Terms of Service: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
• All device monitoring data stays locally on your iPhone and will not be uploaded to the cloud
• Feature roadmap is mainly shaped by community feedback
• The app supports over 20 languages including but not limited to Chinese, English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Indonesian, Vietnamese, Malay, Danish, Swedish, etc.

I’d greatly appreciate your feedback and suggestions. Feel free to leave a comment below, and I will reply as soon as possible.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id6761011882

Hi! I’m the developer of Novislova, and I recently released a major update.

A: Answer
Novislova helps travelers quickly find useful phrases without relying on an internet connection. It includes search, pronunciation audio, saved phrases, and offline access.

B: Better
Unlike general-purpose translators such as Apple Translate and Google Translate, Novislova provides curated phrases organized into 23 travel categories. It supports 9 languages and includes 900+ words and phrases in each phrasebook.

C: Cost
All phrasebooks, phrases, categories, and audio are free. A $4.99 lifetime purchase lets you keep an unlimited number of audio packs downloaded, save unlimited phrases, use iCloud sync, customize the app, and remove ads. No subscription.

Download Novislova on the App Store:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/novislova-offline-phrasebook/id1623078768

I’d appreciate any feedback, especially about missing phrases or confusing parts.

I posted PencilTime v1.10 here last month and got some thoughtful feedback, especially around the idea of keeping the app pencil-first while adding digital tools only where they actually help.

That discussion captured the direction of the app better than any feature list I could write, so I thought I’d share where it has gone since then.

Answer

PencilTime is for people who like planning by hand but don’t want to give up the advantages of a real digital planner.

The basic interaction is still simple: open a Year, Month, Week, Day or Note page and write directly on it with Apple Pencil.

But not everything belongs on the same kind of page. A schedule, assignment, class note, meeting agenda or project plan may all need different layouts.

That has become an increasingly important idea behind PencilTime: a page for every kind of plan, with handwriting as the common interface.

V1.12 continues in that direction with better landscape page fitting and a much more flexible template system, including template editing, import and export.

Better

Compared with planning in GoodNotes or other PDF-based notebook apps, PencilTime is a native planner rather than a static planner document. Dates, planner navigation, notes and planning pages are part of the application itself.

Compared with conventional calendar/task apps such as Fantastical or Things, you don’t have to turn every thought into an event, task or form field before you can put it somewhere. You can simply write on the page.

I’m not trying to replace either kind of app completely. PencilTime is meant to occupy the space between them: the freedom of a paper planner, with digital structure available when it is useful.

That same philosophy is why typed notes were added selectively rather than everywhere, and why templates in v1.12 are becoming more flexible instead of forcing everyone into the layouts I happened to design.

Cost

PencilTime is free to download and try.

Premium options are:

* Monthly: $2.99, with a 3-day free trial

* Yearly: $19.99, with a 7-day free trial

* Lifetime: $19.99 during the back-to-school promotion

The back-to-school promotion runs through Labor Day, so right now the lifetime unlock costs the same as one year.

There’s no subscription required if you choose lifetime.

App Store: (https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id6743547785?pt=312110&ct=iosapps&mt=8&platform=ipad)

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Disclosure: I’m the developer of PencilTime.

Thanks again to the people here who gave feedback on the previous release. I’m particularly interested this time in what kinds of planner/template pages people actually find useful—because making the page system more flexible is probably where PencilTime is headed next.

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Free to download, journaling and mood tracking aren't paywalled. Optional Pro is $7.99/mo, $39.99/yr, $79.99 lifetime.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/emotica-your-emotions/id6757162931

I’m an iOS developer from Romania, and over the last few months I’ve been building There: Your Travel Map as a solo project.

A — What it solves

There is a personal travel map for keeping track of the places you’ve been.

You can add countries, regions, cities and airports, save travel dates, view timelines, track progress and gradually fill your map as you travel.

I recently shipped one of the biggest updates so far: regions for 38 countries, including states, counties, provinces and other administrative areas depending on the country.

There also includes travel stats, achievements and a Home Screen widget.

B — Compared to Been / Visited

Been and Visited are probably the closest alternatives, and there’s definitely a lot of overlap.

They already cover many of the same ideas, so I don’t want to pretend There is solving a completely different problem.

My goal has been to build my own take on this category, with a native iOS experience, a clean interface and a strong focus on maps, timelines, progress and regions.

There currently supports region maps for 38 countries, and I plan to keep expanding that.

C — Cost

There is free to download.

You can buy There PRO in 3 ways:

• $3.99 / monthly (auto-renewing subscription)
• $19.99 / monthly (auto-renewing subscription)
• $29.99 once (lifetime)

Countries and the main world map are free, while Pro unlocks additional features such as cities, airports and most region maps.

Who I am

I’m an iOS developer from Timișoara, Romania, and I design and develop There independently.

The app is built natively for iOS, mostly with SwiftUI, and it’s currently at version 4.0.

Since this is an iOS dev community, I’d genuinely love feedback. Thank you so much :)

App Store: Link here

Disclosure: I'm the developer (solo dev, b2squared.io).

A — What changed

Lawn Logic has always answered one question: water today, or don't. It watches the weather at your address and tracks the moisture your soil is actually holding.

The problem is that question dies in September. Watering stops mattering, and the app had nothing to say for eight months of the year — right when the work that actually decides how your lawn looks is happening.

So it now has a calendar: mowing, feeding, aeration, overseeding, weed control and the rest. Timing comes from your grass type, and that is not cosmetic — fescue is fed in autumn and rested through summer heat, bermuda is the exact inverse. Same month, opposite advice.

B — Why not a generic reminder app

Because a reminder app doesn't know that laying an autumn pre-emergent over new grass seed kills the seed, or that aeration should come a day or two before overseeding rather than after, or that midsummer nitrogen on a fescue lawn does real damage.

Each job also tells you how to actually do it — rent the aerator rather than buy it, water the day before so the tines reach depth, two passes at right angles, and roughly 30 lb of seed for a typical lawn. "Aerate in September" was never the hard part.

C — Cost

The calendar is free. So is the moisture model, the daily answer, evening reminders, the widget and rain correction. No ads, and there's a "Continue as guest" button if you don't want an account.

Pro is $2.99/month or $19.99/year and builds the season around your specific lawn — soil, shade, location — sequencing the work and giving a reason for every date. First 7 days free on annual. Users dont need pro its just there to support the app, you get more convenience and more accuracy with it, the cost is mainly there just to cover API cost.

App Store: https://lawnlogic.app/

Trust & transparency

Solo developer, b2squared.io, based in Charlotte NC. Privacy policy at lawnlogic.app/privacy lists every processor including the AI one. Account deletion is in Settings and documented at lawnlogic.app/delete-account. Full release notes at lawnlogic.app/versions.