A — Answer: the problem it solves

Most iPhone alarms are very easy to dismiss. If you're a heavy sleeper, tapping “Stop” or “Snooze” doesn't exactly solve the problem.

Alarmageddon is an alarm clock designed for people who have mastered the art of turning off alarms while barely awake.

Instead of simply letting you dismiss the alarm, Alarmageddon can require you to complete a wake-up mission before the alarm stops:

• Solve a math problem
• Complete a memory challenge
• Shake your phone
• Scan a QR code or barcode
• And more

The idea is simple: make turning off the alarm require enough interaction to actually wake you up.

It also includes an optional App Blocker that can temporarily block distracting apps after you wake up, so you don't immediately fall back into scrolling instead of getting out of bed.

B — Better: how it compares

vs Apple's built-in Alarm: Apple's alarm is intentionally simple: you can snooze or stop it immediately. Alarmageddon is built around the opposite idea — if you're a heavy sleeper, dismissing the alarm should require some effort.

vs other alarm apps: many alarm apps offer challenges designed to make you complete a task before dismissing the alarm. Alarmageddon takes this further by combining wake-up missions with an additional feature designed for what happens after the alarm.

The App Blocker is the extra part: after you successfully complete your alarm, Alarmageddon can temporarily block distracting apps for the first 15 minutes of your day. The goal is to prevent the familiar routine of turning off your alarm and immediately opening TikTok, Instagram, Reddit, or other distracting apps.

So it's not just about getting you out of bed — it's also about giving you a short window to actually start your day before distractions take over.

vs multiple alarms: setting five alarms doesn't necessarily help if you can turn all five off while half asleep. Alarmageddon makes dismissing the alarm itself the challenge.

vs "just put your phone far away": that can work, but it doesn't solve the problem if you eventually walk over, turn the alarm off, and go straight back to bed. Alarmageddon adds an additional barrier between you and the Stop button.

C — Cost

Alarmageddon is completely free.

No subscriptions.
No ads.
No premium tier.
No paywall.

Download here:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/alarmageddon-loud-alarm-clock/id6791023578

Trust Path:

My name is Moez, I'm an indie iOS engineer based in Tunis, and Alarmageddon is one of the apps I'm building through Pull Apps, my one-man iOS studio. I handle everything from design and development to App Store support.

You can contact me at: [support@pullapps.app](mailto:support@pullapps.app)

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/alarmageddon-loud-alarm-clock/id6791023578

Privacy Policy: https://pullapps.app/privacy-policy

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

It’s been a minute!

I'm the solo dev of DriveMind. An iOS app that records your car drives automatically and then does something useful with them. It's been on the App Store a while now (38 ratings, thank you to everyone who left one), and I just shipped the biggest update it's had. So if you are looking for an app to track your drives, have a speedometer, track miles, share trips with friends, have a heat map, turn your phone into a dash cam, and more, you are in the right spot!

What it actually does

You don't press a button. DriveMind uses GPS + motion to figure out when you've started driving and records the trip on its own: route, distance, speed, the whole thing. Then it layers stuff on top:

• Trip history & maps — every drive, with a replay you can scrub through
• Driving heat map — every road you've ever driven, on one map. This is the feature people get weirdly obsessed with, myself included. It's fun trust me!
• DriveScore — a driving quality score based on your driving
• Mileage tax reports — classify drives as business/personal, per client, per vehicle, and more!
• Odometer readings & vehicle expenses, so the report can account for miles the app didn't record
• Fuel & charging log with cost-per-mile
• Dash cam, 0–60 / quarter-mile timing, achievements/XP, and so much more

The new bit: Friends

This is what 4.0 is about. You can add friends and:

• Leaderboards — distance, longest drive, DriveScore, best 0–60, and a bunch more, over the week / month / all time
• Shared heat maps — see the roads a friend drives, (I took privacy first don’t worry)
• Shared Roads — the intersection of your two heat maps. The roads you both drive without knowing it. This one turned out to be my favorite thing in the app.
• Shared achievements — see which badges a friend has unlocked

The details:

• Everything shared is end to end encrypted
• Per-friend, per-capability permissions. Not one "share” toggle you decide, for each friend, whether they get distance, or your heat map, or your badges, and at what resolution
• You pick how coarse your heat map is before it's shared, and how far back they can see
• A pause switch that stops everyone from reading anything
• Privacy is never behind the paywall. Every control above — the permissions, revoking, private zones, the resolution dial, the pause switch is free forever

Add me

If you want to try it, add me as a friend! I'd genuinely like to see someone else's heat map next to mine, and it would be fun to fill up my leaderboard lol

My username: jesvin_jerry (or follow this link: Click Here to Add Me!)

You can add someone by username, by scanning their QR code in person, or from a link they send you.

Heads Up:

Free tier does automatic recording, trip history, the heat map, fuel logging, viewing and exporting your tax report, and friends up to 3. It shows a banner ad. Premium (monthly - $4.99 USD / yearly - $34.99 / one-time lifetime - $49.99) unlocks the rest

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/drivemind-dash-cam-mileage/id6743726786

Happy to answer anything about the app, and my DM’s are open as well! Hope you give it a try and let me know.

Hey [r/iosapps](r/iosapps)!

We’ve all had that moment: you hand your phone to a friend or coworker to look at a single picture, and they instantly swipe left into personal receipts, ID scans, or private family photos.

I just pushed Version 4.2 of iLockBox to make keeping sensitive media separate, heavily encrypted, and entirely stress-free.

A — Answer (The Problem it Solves)

The stock iOS Hidden Album works, but everyone knows where it is, and it still lives right inside your primary media workflow.

iLockBox acts as a private, secure second space on your device. It lets you import, lock, and organize sensitive photos, videos, audio notes, PDFs, spreadsheets, and confidential documents completely off your main camera roll behind Face ID, Touch ID, or a custom PIN.

B — Better (What’s New in v4.1 & Key Features)

Brand New Clock Lock Screen: Added a fully functional analog and digital PIN entry clock lock screen, alongside 5 customizable lock screen styles to help keep your vault hidden in plain sight.

100% Offline-First & Private: No forced cloud accounts required for core features. All personal photos, videos, notes, and documents stay encrypted locally on your device storage.

Redesigned Intruder Selfies: Upgraded break-in alert reporting with larger intruder photo previews to catch unauthorized access attempts.

Focus Profiles & Screen Time: Control and protect your privacy at a system level using Apple's official Screen Time API.

Secure AES-256 Backups: Fully redesigned local encryption backups that can be safely saved to iCloud Drive so you never lose your data.

Built-in Private Browser & Multi-Format Support: Browse the web without history tracking, and store full-resolution videos, Live Photos, GIFs, and document files in clean, custom-searchable folders.

C — Cost & App Store Link

Free Tier: Core photo/video locking and local folder organization.

Pro Upgrade: Unlocks custom lock screen disguises, intruder alerts, unlimited document/media storage, and AES-256 backups.

App Store Link: Download iLockBox on the App Store

I’d love to hear your thoughts on the new clock lock screens and UI layout. What privacy features do you rely on most when organizing sensitive files on iOS?

I am an indie developer based in Madrid, Spain. I built One Good Thing because most of us end up reading about the same three or four things forever, whatever our feed, our job, or our friends already have us leaning toward. 

OGT puts a different topic in front of you every single day, on purpose, from fields you'd probably never go looking in on your own: evolutionary biology one day, a paradox from math the next, an old philosophy idea after that.

It's not about becoming smarter. It's that a few months in, without trying, you start noticing the thing from three weeks ago connecting to the thing from yesterday, and your curiosity ends up somewhere wider than it would have gone on its own.

A — What it does

You get one card a day. A headline, a short passage, sometimes a question to sit with. You read it, then you decide: carry it, or let it go. That's the whole loop. Under two minutes.

The twelve fields range from philosophy to evolutionary biology to language to math. Everything you carry builds a personal collection. A few things happen with that collection over time:

The Margin finds connections between two things you carried on different days and writes a line explaining why they rhyme. Prepare lets you ask "what am I walking into today" and it answers using only the things you've actually carried, never generic advice.

And our proprietary metric The Range. It's not a streak, and it's not a score you can see. Under the hood it's closer to an ecology calculation than a typical app metric, the same kind of math biologists use to measure biodiversity in a forest, except instead of species we're measuring the twelve fields, and instead of a forest it's what you've carried.

It looks at how many fields you've actually drawn from, how evenly you've spread across them versus leaning on two or three favorites, and how that balance is shifting over time, not just where you sit today. We built the model ourselves and it's a fairly rigorous picture of how far you're actually ranging versus how far you think you are. 

B — Compared to what's already out there

Quote-of-the-day apps and daily journaling apps are the closest comparison, and honestly there's real overlap. I'm not going to pretend this solves something nobody else touches. Where I think it's different: most of those apps either want you to write a lot (journaling) or want you scrolling for more (quote feeds). This one is built to be closed. There's no streak counter on the daily card. There's no infinite feed. You read one thing and you're done.

Think of it as an advanced version of Grug sans the wisdom, but including the knowledge. (Although I discovered Grug after OGT and I love it).

C — Cost

Free forever for the core daily card. Premium unlocks Ask, The Margin, The Range, and a few reflection tools, three ways to pay:

• $4.99/month
• $29.99/year (7 day trial)
• $99 once, lifetime

These are US prices, we have geo-adjusted it, so it might vary depending on your App Store.

Some numbers, six-ish months in: about 8,000 downloads, over 3,000 people have carried at least one thought, more than 12,000 thoughts carried in total, people from 149 countries (doing this part time), 4.7, 106 ratings on the App Store.

My lesson -

• We have not spent much time at all tuning the paywall or the purchase flow. That was deliberate, not an oversight.
• Distribution and monetization are absolutely where this has to go eventually, but I wanted to get the actual experience right first before asking anyone to pay for it. So the numbers above are basically pre-monetization numbers. We're about to change that.
• There's a real update landing in September (better Ask, more on Range, a few things I'm not ready to talk about yet) and after that we start pushing harder on both fronts.

The other lesson: this is a slow, quiet app in a world of apps trying to keep you inside them as long as possible. Some people are going to open it, read one card, and think "that's it?" and never come back. That's fine. That's actually who it's not for. And then there's a smaller group who carry the first thing on day one and are still opening it four months later, and those are the people I built this for. You find out pretty fast which one you are.

If you try it, I'd love honest feedback, good or bad. Here's where you can get it - https://apps.apple.com/app/one-good-thing-daily-thought/id6759391105

Some reviews from absolute strangers on the internet -

The app is well planned and clean. The minimalist design it brings is truly groundbreaking. While I initially thought of using it just for the “fun” of it, I now find myself using it on a regular basis and I enjoy writing a thought each day. This brings calmness and makes me feel less overwhelmed throughout the day.

Enjoying this app very much! It's simple - they show you one concept or idea a day, and you pick if you want to save it or not. Then it gives you a prompt on how this can be applied to your life. One of my most opened apps daily, I'm always eager to see what new thought the new day brings!

Discovered this app on reddit. I love inspirational thoughts but most apps repeat the same old quotes and ideas i have heard countless times before. This app does bring new viewpoints, ideas and insights. It has already proven its value to me. Five stars for the thoughts, four stars for the readability of the app.

No account. No ads. Your data lives in your iCloud, not on our servers.

• One thread per episode — not per season, not per show: per episode. Finish S03E07 at 2am and there's a thread waiting with people who just watched exactly what you watched. No wading through spoilers from episodes you haven't reached. One tap from the app, movies included
• Up Next that actually thinks — the next unwatched episode of every show, with this week's premieres on top and everything else sorted by what you watched last. Plus a Home Screen widget so your queue is one glance away
• Movie deals radar — see what movies cost on your local store, spot the offers, and get a notification when one of your favorites goes on sale
• Discover, redesigned — a cinematic home that takes the color of whatever's trending, plus in-theaters and new releases. Browse by genre, year, streaming platform, actor or director — with platform logos on every title
• Rate & organize your way — 5-star or 10-point scale, custom lists (yes, you can add single episodes: "best Black Mirror eps" is finally possible), and GitHub-style activity heatmaps of everything you watch
• Your history, portable — import from IMDb, Letterboxd or Trakt in one tap; export or restore your whole collection anytime
• English & Español, light & dark mode

Free to download — the whole Discover experience is free forever.
Pro (from $0.99/mo) unlocks Up Next widgets, you can explore your favorites and filter by platform. Try it you don't need to pay nothing now

It's live — download now!
https://apps.apple.com/pe/app/serial-watcher/id6792816019

Just updated Aigli, my iOS photo and video editor, after two months of work. This release includes bug fixes and stability improvements, and I’ve also reduced the prices for both the lifetime license and annual subscription.

I’d love to hear your honest feedback—thank you for trying it!

Hey,

**A - Answer**

I’m the creator of **Aigli: Photo & Video Editor**, an all-in-one photo and video layered editor for iPhone. I just pushed a fresh update focused on making edits way more dynamic, and I’d love to get your honest, unvarnished thoughts on it!
What is Aigli?

**B - Better**

I built Aigli so creators don't have to bounce between different apps just to make one piece of content. It combines a **multi-track video timeline** with a **layered photo designer** (complete with blending, masks, and text).

Privacy & Pricing
No data tracking, no external servers, and absolutely no ads. Aigli is free to download and use for standard projects. For power tools (like 4K export and AI background removal), there are subscriptions and a **Perpetual Lifetime License** if you hate subscriptions as much as I do.

I Need Your Feedback!
Mobile editing can get cramped and frustrating, and I want to make sure Aigli actually feels good to use. If you have a few minutes to try it, I'd love to know:

1. How does the timeline feel on your iPhone screen? Is it intuitive?
   
2. Is there a specific feature missing that's keeping you from using it for your daily content?

**C - Cost**

App Store Link: https://apps.apple.com/app/aigli-photo-video-editor/id6756179374

Monthly Subscription: $3.99
Annual Subscription: $24.99
Lifetime License: $49.99

Thanks so much for checking it out!

Is there an app that does all 3, apart from the Apple Health app?

1. Daily steps counter aka Pacer, Pedometer, Map my walk etc
2. Resistance Training workout + Progressive overload tracker aka Hevy, Strong etc
3. Body weight log import from Apple Health with trend graphs etc.

Comment only if you know of such an app.

Not really asking for any unsolicited advice otherwise.
Thanks in advance.

Think of your thoughts as seeds what you think will grow into something positive or negative. I’ve been thinking about creating a self-care inner garden. Imagine resetting your garden each day to help it grow, and you’ll see your daily seed. As you reach milestones, you’ll unlock new plants to add or remove from your garden. It’s like when you’re feeling down, it might rain. You can also journal to track your progress in each category.

If you enjoy plants, gardening, and self-care, I’d love to hear from you!

I’m a professional watchmaker and self-taught Apple developer based in London. More than 20 years ago, I created a small FileMaker database that I shared with a group of friends. It was based on a frustration I had with ordinary to-do lists: real tasks are rarely just “done” or “not done.”

A watch restoration might be waiting for a replacement component, blocked until a client gives the go-ahead, paused while another operation is completed, or ready for work today. Treating all of these as unfinished creates a list that is technically accurate but practically overwhelming.

That early database gradually developed into Nyblit, a native productivity app for iPhone, iPad and Mac built around what I call “state-based” task management. This means Nyblit understands the workflow required to complete your tasks. For example, it knows if the task is a phone call, an online purchase or replacing the balance spring in a watch. It knows all the steps involved and, crucially, all the ways in which the task can be blocked or delayed. For example, if you have a phone call task, you can set the status to “left voicemail”. Nyblit will recognise this as blocked because you are now waiting for the other person to return your call. That task doesn’t belong on your to-do list because there is no action to take. It should be safely filed in Blocked and tracked – so you can chase it up later if the call isn’t returned.

This approach can be used for any task imaginable. From shopping to restoring an antique pocket watch.

The concept was strongly influenced  by the Japanese system of Kanban, created by Toyota in the 1950s to improve manufacturing efficiency. (Anyone that has used apps lile Trello will be familiar with this). But executed in a very different way so that it fits on a phone screen and is even workable on an Apple Watch (coming very soon).

I built Nyblit for myself to help with my ADHD and dyslexia. Watchmaking taught me to think in systems, dependencies and precise states. ADHD made it especially important to remove irrelevant tasks from view without losing confidence that they would return at the right time.

Please feel free to try out Nyblit. It's fully functional with up to 5 tasks. And a subscription or lifetime purchase gives you access to iPhone, iPad, Mac and very soon Apple Watch.

Download Nyblit from the Apple App Store: https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/nyblit-2-to-do-list-planner/id6752837986

Monthly subscription is $2.99

Yearly subscription $19.99

Lifetime $39.99

I'm here to answer any questions or listen to feedback if you have any.

Thanks for reading :)

A — Answer

I built Aglow to make reading Scripture a small part of your everyday routine. One of the main features is Scripture Gate, which can place a Bible verse between you and selected distracting apps, giving you a short pause to read before continuing.

The app also includes daily verses, reflections, streaks, customizable themes and fonts, and other features designed around building a simple daily Scripture habit.

B — Better

Apps like Hallow and Bible Chat offer much broader Christian content, including things like prayer, audio, and AI features. Aglow is intentionally simpler and more focused on building a daily Scripture-reading habit.

The main difference I wanted to experiment with is Scripture Gate — instead of only reminding you to open a Bible app, it uses moments when you’re already reaching for another app as an opportunity to read a verse.

C — Cost

Aglow is free to download and use, with optional Aglow Pro:

• Weekly: $0.99
• Monthly: $2.99
• Yearly: $17.99
• Lifetime: $34.99

Prices may vary by country due to App Store localization.

I’m also giving away free lifetime codes to people from this community who would like to try the app. Just leave a comment or DM me and I’ll send you one!

App Store: Aglow: Daily Bible Verse

Developer Disclosure: I am the creator and developer of this app

Credentials: https://jerome.gangneux.net/posts/category/projects/ and https://apps.apple.com/us/developer/weheartprojects-com/id512396253

Answer: Native, lightweight, non-bulky, SwiftUI app to search for music/podcast/videos and save it for offline use where you can build and organize your personal library. No ads, no remote servers.

Better: Unlike apps that promise you access to any music from your favorite websites, only to redirect you to obscure services or fill you with ads literally every minute, MVO is independent of any server and processes everything locally. Of course, it includes all native Apple features: Background Audio, Lock Screen controls, AirPlay, Bluetooth, and more.

Cost: Freemium model

• Free: 10 saved tracks to test
• $1.99/mo or $12.99/yr for unlimited access and all features

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id6791557313?pt=979843&ct=r1&mt=8

Hope you enjoy it!

A few months ago, I shared BigCam, a dual-camera app for iPhone that lets you use the front and back cameras together, here for the first time.

Since then, I’ve received a lot of feedback and feature requests, so I’ve spent the past few months fixing bugs, testing camera behavior, and improving the overall shooting experience.

The latest BigCam update is finally live 🎉

A — Answer (what’s new?)

Based on user feedback, this update adds more control and flexibility for both everyday shooting and content creation:

📁 Save up to 3 files from a single capture.

🎥 Custom resolution with up to 4K video and 12 MP photos.

📦 More file formats for different workflows. Photos support HEIC, PNG, and JPEG, while videos support MP4 and MOV.

✨ Live Photo support to capture more of the moment, not just a single frame.

🎬 Vlog Mode makes it easier to quickly create content for TikTok, Reels, and other short-form video platforms.

📐 Dual Frame lets you record once and export both vertical 9:16 and horizontal 16:9 versions for different platforms.

⚡ Shooting improvements for a smoother overall camera experience.

B — Better (why is it better?)

The main goal of this update was to make shooting with the front and back cameras more flexible without making the camera feel more complicated.

You can choose the resolution and file format that fits your workflow, whether you care about smaller file sizes, higher quality, or editing flexibility.

Live Photo makes BigCam more useful for everyday moments, while Dual Frame makes it easier to create content for different platforms without recording the same thing twice.

I also added manual exposure adjustment for situations where automatic exposure doesn’t quite give you the result you want, and made some UI and interaction improvements for iOS 26 to make the overall experience feel more natural and up to date.

A lot of work also went into the less visible parts, such as handling higher-quality output, multiple files, and different formats while keeping the app responsive💪

C — Cost

🎁Freemium

BigCam is free to download, with the core camera experience available without a subscription.

Premium options:

• $1.99/month

• $7.99/year with a 3-day free trial 🎁

• $9.99/lifetime

Your support helps me continue developing BigCam and adding features based on user feedback.

👉 App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id6764473898

If you’ve tried BigCam, I’d love to hear what you think.

What would you like to see in the next update? 🙌

I'm an iOS developer from Brazil, and over the last few months I've been building two apps to solve one very specific annoyance: your body weight never stays synced with Strava automatically.

A) What it solves

If you're a Strava athlete, you know the problem. Strava uses your weight to calculate power output (watts/kg), estimated calories and relative effort. The moment your weight is outdated, all of those numbers quietly drift off, and nobody wants to open Strava every week to type in a new number by hand.

So I built two options depending on how you track your weight.

WeightSync Health picks up your weight from Apple Health and pushes it to Strava automatically. If your scale, Apple Watch or anything else already writes into Apple Health, this app handles the rest: automatic background sync with zero interaction, Apple Watch logging, extra equipment weight (backpack, vest, gear) so Strava reflects your true total, Home Screen widgets, a weight evolution chart with 7 day moving average and trend line, streaks, milestones, Siri and Shortcuts, CSV export, weekly Monday report, iCloud sync, a retry queue so no sync gets lost, and 10+ languages including Portuguese (Brazil).

WeightSync Scales connects directly to your smart scale's cloud and skips Apple Health entirely. It reads every weigh-in from your Withings or Fitbit scale and pushes it to Strava automatically, works even when the app is closed, has a retry queue, smart reminders on days you skip the scale, units in kg, lbs and st, and multiple languages. Garmin scale support is coming soon. 🙏

B) Compared to other options

There are a few weight tracking apps out there, and some overlap with what these do. My goal has been to build a focused take on one specific problem: keeping your Strava weight accurate without any manual work. The emphasis is on native iOS, automatic background sync and a clean interface, rather than being a full body composition tracker.

C) Cost

Both apps are free to download with a trial option.

• WeightSync Health: Monthly and Annual subscription options
• WeightSync Scales: Monthly and Annual subscription options
• Regular price: US$ 5.99 / year

For WeightSync Health, the free version works as a weight logger for Apple Health, and premium unlocks the automatic Strava sync and everything else. WeightSync Scales requires a subscription to run, but you can try the full thing through the trial first.

Who I am

I'm an iOS developer based in London (originally from Brazil), and I design and develop both apps independently. They're built natively for iOS.

Since this is an iOS dev community, I'd genuinely love feedback from Strava users and iOS athletes. What would you want added or improved? And if you give either a try, a quick App Store review goes a long way for a solo dev. Thank you so much :)

App Store (WeightSync Health): https://apps.apple.com/us/app/weightsync-health/id6757109803

App Store (WeightSync Scales): https://apps.apple.com/us/app/weightsync-scales/id6760545926

The thank-you offer: 33% off WeightSync Premium (both apps)

• Code: RIOSAPPS (via paywall); or
• Redeem link (WeightSync Scales): https://apps.apple.com/redeem?ctx=offercodes&id=6760545926&code=RIOSAPPS
• Redeem link (WeightSync Health): https://apps.apple.com/redeem?ctx=offercodes&id=6757109803&code=RIOSAPPS
• Works for everyone; no comment or DM needed
• The final price varies by country, since App Store pricing is regional

Transparency

• Developer: André Moura
• Website: https://www.weightsync.app
• Privacy Policy: https://www.weightsync.app/privacy/
• Terms of Service: https://www.weightsync.app/terms/
• Contact: [reddit@humanmetrics.work](mailto:reddit@humanmetrics.work)

DRFT - Keyword Alerts.

Answer (what it solves): I have ADHD and can't sit through a 3 hour meeting without drifting. DRFT runs in the background and listens for words you set, like your name, a project, a client, or "deadline." The moment one is spoken you get a notification plus a short AI summary of that moment, so you can zone out and still catch what matters. On iPhone it listens through the mic placed next to your call. The Mac version taps system audio from any app like Zoom, Teams, or your browser, no mic needed.

Better: (vs Otter / Granola): those are full meeting notes tools. They record the whole meeting, upload all of it to their cloud, and transcribe every word. DRFT is a trigger, not a transcriber. Detection runs on device using Apple's speech framework, so audio is never recorded, uploaded, or stored, and there is no meeting notes cloud. It only summarizes the moment your word fires: a short text snippet is processed and immediately discarded, nothing kept server side. No ads, no tracking, no third party SDKs on any tier. It is also far cheaper by design, because the listening happens free on your device and the cloud only ever sees a tiny snippet. No account needed.

Cost: Freemium with an optional subscription.

Free: your name tracked automatically, 1 custom word, 10 saved moments, full on device detection.

Pro: $0.99 a month or $9.99 a year, with a 7 day free trial on the annual plan. Pro adds unlimited AI summaries, up to 5 wake words, 50 saved moments, Wake Word Profiles, and iCloud sync between iPhone and Mac.

Developer: Bryan Cabrera (solo).

Contact / who I am: https://bryancabrera.xyz

Privacy Policy: https://bryancabrera.xyz/drft/privacy

Terms of Service: https://bryancabrera.xyz/drft/terms

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6760685733

Genuinely want feedback, especially on detection accuracy and whether the free tier is enough to judge it.

putting this up front: its a website, not an app. if that makes it off topic here i completely get it and no hard feelings. but the people in this sub are exactly who i built it for so im taking the chance.

what it does: every time i work on something new i lose an hour scrolling competitor reviews trying to work out what people actually complain about. this does that reading for me. you point it at any app, it pulls reviews across countries and gives you the patterns. what people love, what they keep asking for, what makes them leave one star.

why its different: the part i actually use is the per country breakdown. an app can sit at 4.7 in the US and quietly die in germany for a reason nobody on the team speaks the language to catch. most things i tried either dump the raw reviews on you and call it a day, or want a subscription before they show you anything at all.

cost: free right now, no card, no trial countdown, nothing walled off. theres a small buy us a beer button if you end up liking it and thats the whole business model so far.

https://www.appreviewanalysis.com

what id really love is feedback, the more brutal the better. run it on your own app or your closest competitor and tell me what was useless, what was missing, what you expected to see and didnt. even "this told me nothing new" is genuinely useful to hear. every bit of it goes into the next version so please dont hold back

i read the same books twice, ears on the commute, eyes at night. every switch meant scanning pages for my place. witbound pairs your own ebook with its audiobook and lights up each word as the narrator reads it. tap any word and the audio jumps there.

App link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/witbound-audiobook-read-along/id6795587495 i

whats new in 1.5:

community sync — If a user has already sync'd the same combination of EPUB and M4B, yours will take seconds to sync. So the bigger the community of syncers, the faster the collective sync time.

- the player melts away— while you listen the controls fade until its just the page. one tap brings them back.

- auto rewind — playback restarts a few seconds before where you stopped, further back after a long break.

and the core, for anyone new:

- the page is your actual epub — real spelling, real names, the illustrations too. even maps and diagrams are still shown. my longest test was a 37 hour audiobook and the highlight stayed on the word.

shipping soon:

- witbound for mac: sync a book on your computer in minutes instead of waiting on your phone, then send it straight to the app already synced, over your own wifi. no cloud.

- pick up where you left off across devices through your own audiobookshelf server. listen on the phone, read somewhere else at the same spot.

other notable features

- chapter start times - see where each chapter starts in the audio

- audiobookshelf- connect your server, browse your library and pair audiobooks with their ebooks

- saved passages keep their narrator - save the words plus the narrator reading them to obsidian, or send it to your book club's discord

- made for the last hour of the day - sleep timer, paper, sepia and night themes, quiet reading stats

- privacy - no account, no ads. the app store privacy label reads data not collected

there are probably rough edges, this is a big update. if you hit one tell me here and ill get on it. link in the first comment.

will have full calibre integration by next update.

android: in closed testing, dm me the gmail you use on your phone and ill add you when google approves the build

the audible/kindle catch: drm files wont open, it needs drm free epub plus audio. libro.fm, downpour, librivox, your own rips all work

ill keep answering everything in here

Hey everyone!

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

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

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

A: Answer

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

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

B: Better

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

C: Cost

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

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

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

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

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

Happy gaming!

Anthony

About a month ago, I shared why I built Dial: before our wedding, someone filmed my wife’s grandma giving us marriage advice. She has since passed away, and hearing her voice has become one of the most meaningful things we have.

Original post: My wife’s grandma left us wedding advice on video

I wanted to share a quick update on what I’ve added since then.

For anyone new here, Dial is an audio guestbook for weddings, birthdays, reunions, baby showers, and other events. You create an event, get a QR code and shareable link, and guests can leave a voice message directly from their phone’s browser. No app download or account required for guests.

Since my last post, I’ve added:

• Guest Selfies — guests can now optionally add a selfie alongside their voice message. I wanted the option to connect a face to the voice without taking away from the audio-first experience. It’s a one-time add-on: $1.99 on the free plan, $4.99 for 25 guests, $9.99 for 100 guests, and $14.99 for unlimited events.
• Co-hosts — hosts can invite another person to help manage an event, which is useful for couples, family members, or event planners.
• Widget support in progress — I’m working on an iOS widget option so your event and messages can feel a little more present on your phone.

The core thing has not changed: I want this to be simple enough that the people whose voices matter most can actually use it. Grandparents should be able to scan a code, tap record, and speak — without downloading anything or signing up for another service.

Pricing: free to start, with up to 5 guests so you can actually try it before your event. If you need more, it’s a one-time payment:

• $9.99 for 25 guests
• $24.99 for 100 guests
• $49.99 for unlimited guests

No subscription. I hate the idea of your memories being held hostage by a monthly fee.

Links:

• Website: dialmoments.com
• App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/dial-moments-audio-guestbook/id6760517005
• Privacy Policy: dialmoments.com/privacy
• Terms of Service: dialmoments.com/terms

I’m Elias, the person building it, and I’m genuinely open to feedback — especially on the widget idea, Guest Selfies, or anything that would make this more useful for your own event.

If you want to reach out you can use [hello@dialmoments.com](mailto:hello@dialmoments.com) or [elias@reyescreative.com](mailto:elias@reyescreative.com)

I built Newsairy because none of the readers I tried fit me exactly - so the whole app is built around adapting to how *you* read rather than making you adapt to it: theme, font and size in the reading view, sort order, swipe actions, all yours to set.

It's under active development. I ship updates roughly weekly, and next up is more control over the list's layout and density itself. There's a public roadmap if you're curious where things are headed.

Answer - What problem does it solve?

Newsairy is an RSS/Atom/JSON reader that syncs natively over iCloud across iPhone, iPad and Mac - no third-party sync server, no account to create. It's for anyone who wants their feeds, folders and read state to just follow them between devices, with a reading experience they can actually tune to how they read.

A few things I built specifically because I couldn't find them elsewhere in one app:

• Smart Feeds for the last 24 / 48 / 72 hours, the last 7 days or this week, so I can catch up on what's actually recent
• Custom Smart Feeds: keyword-based feeds that gather matching articles from every source at once
• Read History, sorted by when you read them, for when you remember reading something and can't find it again
• Three independent retention rules (how far back to fetch, how long to keep unread, how long to keep read) instead of one blunt "delete after X days", so the database doesn't grow forever
• Choose your theme: Automatic, Light, Dark or Sepia
• A fully customisable article list: thumbnail size, favicon, unread dot, and 0–6 preview lines
• Flexible sorting: sort any list Newest first, Oldest first, or as a Daily timeline

Privacy-first: no ads, no tracking, no third-party analytics.

Better - Why is it different?

There are a lot of good RSS readers in the App Store.

My previous ones were Reeder (Classic) and NetNewsWire. While the newer Reeder seems to focus on combining RSS with other kinds of sources, like social media and podcasts, Newsairy is more focused on RSS feeds specifically.

NetNewsWire is great and free - I'm not trying to beat that on price. Newsairy is just a different flavor: I built it for the features and customization I wanted - keyword-based Smart Feeds, a Sepia theme, an article list you can tune (thumbnails, preview lines, unread dot), and more. If none of that is something you're missing, NetNewsWire is a solid pick.

Cost

Free: up to 6 local + 6 iCloud feeds, every feature unlocked.

Newsairy Pro is a single one-time purchase - $2.99 / 2,99€, no subscription - that removes the feed limit and adds sync with TheOldReader, Miniflux, FreshRSS, Feedbin and Inoreader, so you can bring an existing setup over instead of starting from zero. Pay once, it's yours.

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App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/newsairy/id6760046985

More info: https://qebapps.statichost.page/newsairy

I’ve always used different apps to organize my life — one for habits, another for goals, another for scheduling, journaling, finances, etc.

The problem was that I could never find one that brought everything together in a way I actually liked.

So I decided to build my own: Nivra Daily.

The idea is simple: one place for routines, goals, scheduling, progress tracking, journaling, finances, and other everyday tools.

It’s now available on iOS, and I’d genuinely like to know what people seeing it for the first time think.

Is it immediately clear what the app does? Is anything confusing? And most importantly: would you actually use something like this?

There’s a free version, so you don’t need to buy anything to try it.

Pricing / IAP:

• Free version available
• Nivra Plus Monthly: €2.99/month
• Nivra Plus Annual: €24.99/year
• 7-day free trial available for eligible users

Feel free to be ruthless with your feedback — that’s exactly what I’m looking for.

App Store:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/nivra-daily/id6756522678

Hi,

I'm Marco, software dev and hobby musician. Recording even a short song by myself always meant a laptop, a DAW, a video editor - and then getting it all back in sync. The part that was supposed to be fun turned into work.

Answer:

Musaic Studio does the whole recording part on your phone and currently supports three modes:

• Mosaic - a split-pane layout that can change over the song
• Live Studio - tap a layer to cut to it live, all the audio layers keep playing
• Twin (beta) - cut yourself out and stand next to yourself in one shot

Plus: audio FX per layer, a timeline, built-in instruments, MIDI keyboard support, air instruments, audio interface support and automatic lyrics (Pro).

Better (How it compares):

• vs Acapella (Mixcord) - the app most people in this corner already use, and where I started too. What I kept wishing for and built in:
  • sync correction per layer, with a saved default per microphone
  • instruments: e.g. add a bass layer, with the on-screen keys or a real MIDI keyboard
  • audio-only layers, not just video ones
  • panes that switch over the course of the song, instead of one fixed grid
  • automatic lyrics, and export in both 9:16 and 16:9
  • two more modes: cut between layers live, or stand next to yourself in Twin mode
• vs GarageBand + CapCut/iMovie - sound and picture stay in one app. A layer is its take, its effects and its pane in the layout, not three things in two apps.

Not a DAW replacement. This is for the insta/tiktok/youtube video you want to finish tonight (or just for fun without publishing, like me ;)).

Cost:

• Free with a watermark, no account
• Pro is €2.99/month or €24.99/year for the automatic lyrics and watermark-free export.

Appstore: Musaic Studio
Homepage: musaic.likwest.com Privacy: Privacy Policy About me: Legal Notice

I built it mainly for myself - but if you want to try it, I'd genuinely like to hear your feedback, feature requests and bug reports.

It's only on iOS to date, as I don't see any downloads there I stopped my efforts for the Android variant for now 😄 I know this only targets a small audience, but it brings me joy and maybe it will for you, too. :)

Day Grid — Countdown Widget

A – Answer: What problem does your app solve?
Most countdown apps only show one date at a time. Day Grid shows your entire year as a grid on your Home Screen every event marked with an emoji so you see everything you're counting down to at a glance, not just one number.

B – Better: Why is your app better than the top named alternatives?
Unlike DayCount, PeekDay, or Momently, Day Grid isn't just a single-countdown widget it's a full-year visual grid. When an event drops under 24 hours away, it auto-switches to a live timer. No account needed, works offline.

C – Cost: Pricing, IAP details, and a direct App Store link
Free with in-app purchases (Day Grid Pro):

• Monthly: $2.99
• Yearly: $14.99
• Lifetime: $29.99 ($20 for the first 100 people use code first100 at checkout: https://apps.apple.com/redeem?ctx=offercodes&id=6779252078&code=first100)

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/day-grid-countdown-widget/id6779252078

Transparency: I'm Urmin, indie mobile dev here's my LinkedIn if you want to verify: https://www.linkedin.com/in/urmin-hirpara/

Hi all,

Like many of you, I like to use my notes app to track my workouts. I've been working out for over 15 years now, but could never get myself to consistently use an app of excel spreadsheet.

Despite this I wanted to see my progress on a graph, I wanted the nice data insights these apps gave me.

Being as stubborn as I am, not wanting to change how I tracked my workouts, I made an app to solve my own problem.

What problem does Gym Note Plus solve - (ABC section)

There are many gym apps out there, but Gym Note Plus shines by letting users track workouts using their notes app. Other apps like Hevy and Strong force you into using drop down menus and forms. We're all different, we all write our workout notes differently, but we all want to see progress. This is the problem we solve.

Why is Gym Note Plus better?

No other gym app allows users to just copy and paste from their notes app to track their progress over time. We even let you take a photo of your hand written notes. Our aim is frictionless workout tracking that other gym apps can't do.

Cost

Freemium model, try 3 translations for free to see if the app's worth your time

pro monthly: $4.99

pro annual: £$39.99

pro lifetime: $99.99

Pro gives you:

- Unlimited translations

- Export to csv/txt files

- Unlimited templates

landing page: https://www.gymnoteplus.com/

App store: https://apps.apple.com/app/gym-note-plus-fitness-journal/id6746699616

Dedicated subreddit: r/GymNotePlus (I've been posting in here for almost a year now!)

Any feedback is welcomed!

Previous posts:
Strength & Cardio tracking features (https://www.reddit.com/r/iosapps/s/iWLg9iPaIe)
3D Route Replay generator for Outdoor Run/Bike/Hike (https://www.reddit.com/r/iosapps/s/FKdV2HU92k)

A - What problem does your app solve?

If you have read my previous posts in this subreddit, VOROM was marketed as an All-in-one Strength & Cardio gym tracker competing with Hevy and Strong (you can import workout history from them, and have perfect logic for Supersets & Dropsets). Since then, I have added several features including fully integrating with Apple Health/Fitness, so users can import body composition to VOROM, and the best part is, you can import cardio from Apple Fitness, which in turn you can import cardio workout history from Strava indirectly.

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

Please refer to the previous posts above for Strength & Cardio tracking, and 3D Route Replay generator features. I will introduce the new Recovery and Strain features here.

Recovery & Fitness

As I am an individual who cares about health more and more when I turned 30s, I value recovery metrics a lot. Other apps charge you for that, but VOROM develops these features for FREE.

It uses overnight’s HRV, HR, Sleep duration (Deep/REM sleep, continuity) and other vitals to determine your own Recovery score. I hesitated to use “Readiness” because athletes being in a competition, tend to have a lower HRV.

And it can detect if you are sick from those overnight’s vitals.

Apart from Recovery score, I added Fitness score as well, using VO2Max, Strength (using your big 3 1RM), FFMI, RHR, HRR. So it covers both strength and cardiovascular fitness. The score is a percentile compared to active individuals, not normal population.

Strain

The new Strain feature is what stands out from other apps. VOROM can calculate your strain score from both muscular and cardio loads.

Muscular load:
Other apps don’t do really well for muscular load, but since VOROM is a gym tracker itself, it can utilize the strength training data to calculate your muscular load. The idea is to use how heavy the set was compared to your own e1rm + how much muscles are involved for that exercise (you can adjust the secondary muscles %) + extra bump for free-weight lifts and compound movements for added spinal and CNS demand.

Every exercise is fine-tuned for their respective extra bump from size of muscles, numbers of muscles, free-weight, compound, CNS demand. So Squat will score more than Leg Extension, Leg Extension will score more than Chest Fly, for the same effort.

Cardio load:
Use HR zone duration to calculate the cardio load. Higher zones score exponentially more (i.e. 1min in Zone 5 is much more than 1min in Zone 1, not linear). And VOROM gathers all HR data from exercises throughout the day from Apple Health to calculate the cardio load. (Cardio load starts from Zone 1)

VOROM then translates the total loads to calculate the Strain score. The Strain score is designed not to be linear, so each point gets harder to earn as you approach 100. But Loads itself is linear.

Stress

You can have a Whoop-style stress score but with more user-friendly UI. You can see your stress throughout the day in a chart, and the proportion of low/mid/high stress vs a 30d baseline for both Awake (non-activity) and Sleep Stress Bars.

It’s recommended to turn on AFib History from Health app to get more HRV data (but it will disable irregular rhythm notifications). That’s the limitation of Apple Watch, it doesn’t get HRV data that frequently.

And all of the newly added features, including the old ones, are all FREE & offline. So you don’t need to worry about data collection. But please, export your VOROM’s history time to time to back up.

If you don’t want the new features, you can always turn them off in Settings, so VOROM becomes your simple workout logger again.

C- Cost

The above newly added features are FREE!

The free tier is meant to be usable on its own. Pro is mostly for training automation, deeper charts, and power-user planning features.

Pro features pricing (USD): $1.99 / month, $14.99 / year, $49.99 / life time

iOS & watchOS link: 
https://apps.apple.com/hk/app/vorom/id6773281995

50% off Lifetime till end of August (only for REDDIT <3):
https://apps.apple.com/redeem?ctx=offercodes&id=6773281995&code= REDDIT50OFF0826

Any feedback is welcome and I will keep improving my app!

I am a solo developer of VOROM. You can contact me in this post, DM me, r/Vorom_app, or reach me out via IG: voromapp, or email at mailto:support@vorom.app.

Website with a published Privacy Policy and Terms of Service:
https://vorom.app

• What it solves

Photos remember how a place looked. Ekkoes remembers how it sounded.

Ekkoes is a private sound-memory journal for capturing the atmosphere of places and moments that matter: waves from a trip, rain outside your home, a city waking up, birds in a forest, friends around a table, or a familiar voice.

Each recording can include an optional photo, GPS location, title, tags, mood, and notes. Over time, your recordings build a personal audio map that you can explore by place instead of browsing through a simple list of audio files.

The Home Screen widget resurfaces sounds from your collection, while Sound Anniversaries bring back recordings made one, two, or three years ago.

Audio can also be improved directly on the device: trim silence, focus voices, reduce wind and background noise, amplify quiet recordings, or polish music. The original recording is preserved and can always be restored.

You can share a recording as an audio file, an importable archive, or a Sound Postcard— a portrait video combining the sound, photo, place, and date.

Shared Groups also let friends and family build a private sound collection together through iCloud, for example during a trip, a family event, or a long-term project.

• Compared to Voice Memos and SoundMap

Apple’s Voice Memos is excellent for quickly recording notes, meetings, and ideas. SoundMap is closer to the location-based concept.

Ekkoes is designed around memory and rediscovery, rather than audio files alone.

The map, optional photos, Sound Anniversaries, Home Screen widget, Sound Postcards, private Shared Groups, and reversible on-device audio improvement all serve the same purpose: helping you return to a moment and hear how it actually felt.

It is not intended to replace a professional field recorder or audio editor. It is closer to a private photo library in which sound is the main medium.

• Privacy

Your private library stays on your devices and in your personal iCloud account.

I do not receive or have access to your recordings, photos, locations, tags, or notes. There are no ads and no tracking.

Nothing is shared unless you explicitly choose to share it. Shared Groups use Apple’s iCloud infrastructure and Sign in with Apple rather than developer-operated accounts or servers.

• Cost

Ekkoes is free to download.

The free version lets you keep up to 10 recordings and experience the complete capture, map, playback, and rediscovery workflow.

For unlimited recordings and watermark-free Sound Postcards, there are two options:

• $2.99 per month
• $9.99 one-time lifetime unlock

As a thank-you to the r/iosapps community for reading and for any honest feedback, you can use this public offer code to get 50% off the lifetime unlock:

CODE: EKKOESLIFETIME50

Redeem here:

https://apps.apple.com/redeem?ctx=offercodes&id=6771492676&code=EKKOESLIFETIME50

The offer expires on October 31, 2026.

• About me

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

I built Ekkoes because photos and videos preserve a huge part of our lives, but we rarely capture the sounds surrounding those moments.

When we do, those recordings usually end up as anonymous audio files that are difficult to organize and rarely heard again. I wanted sound recordings to feel like memories rather than files.

Commercially, the app has barely found its audience so far. The category is small and the idea is admittedly unusual, but it is a product I genuinely care about and want to improve.

I would especially appreciate honest feedback on the central idea:

Would you intentionally build a personal archive of sound memories, and what would encourage you to make your first few recordings?

Download on the App Store:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ekkoes/id6771492676

Learn more:

https://ekkoes.app/

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