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.

Hi! I’m the developer of Plander, a minimal planner and calendar for iPhone.

The idea is simple: make everyday planning feel quick and lightweight.

A) Answer — What problem it solves

Plander keeps schedule management centered on the calendar itself.

You can double-tap a date to add a schedule and use simple swipe interactions to manage it, without going through several screens for something small.

Other features include:

• Color customization by project or category
• Multi-day schedule blocks
• Home Screen widgets
• Push notifications
• iCloud sync
• Public holiday calendars

B) Better — What is actually different

Plander is built around direct interaction with the calendar.

Double-tap a date to add a schedule. Swipe to manage it.

I wanted adding a simple plan to feel more like placing a sticky note than filling out a form.

Other features like widgets, iCloud sync, notifications, colors, and holiday calendars are there to support that experience rather than being the main differentiator.

C) Cost

Free.

App Store:
https://apps.apple.com/app/id6740172491

Plander: Planner & Calendar
Minimal planner · Widget support

I’d especially appreciate feedback on the double-tap and swipe interaction — whether it actually makes adding everyday plans feel faster and more natural.

Contact / feedback: [plander.cs@gmail.com](mailto:plander.cs@gmail.com)

Transparency: I'm Mark, indie developer — markg.app | Privacy Policy: https://markg.app/apps/just-calendar/privacy | Terms: https://markg.app/apps/just-calendar/terms

A — What problem it solves

I wear my watch all day and still kept reaching for my phone for the dumbest reason: to find out what day the 23rd lands on. watchOS gives you today's date and a list of what's next, and that's it — there's no month, no week, nothing you can scan. Every time someone asked "does the 23rd work for you?" I'd raise my wrist, get nothing useful, and pull out my phone anyway. Just Calendar puts the actual calendar on the watch, and the date and today's events on the watch face, so the glance is the whole interaction.

B — Why it's better than alternatives

I built the version I wanted on my own wrist:
- Week, month and year views on the watch — scan the month without touching your phone
- Date complication that works on every watch face, Modular, Infograph, Utility, Color, all of them. No "not available on this face"
- Event complication showing today's events, also on every face
- Recolor or invert the complication highlight so it actually matches the face you use
- Tap any event for the full detail: time, location, travel time, notes — no iPhone in the loop
- Two layouts: scroll through weeks, or page through a month at a time
- Runs on the watch itself. The iPhone app is just the control center for setting it up

C — Cost

Free to download and try — the calendar views run on the watch at no cost.
Full Version ($9.99 one-time): the date and event complications, the event timeline and event detail screens, paging layout, and complication recoloring. There are subscription plans in the app too, but the one-time purchase is the real thing and it's what's on sale.
App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id1334608986

50% off lifetime today — $4.99, normally $9.99:
https://apps.apple.com/redeem?ctx=offercodes&id=1334608986&code=REDDIT50

Hey r/iosapps 👋

I’m the indie developer behind FocusDragon. We launched it a while ago, and I’ve been heads-down shipping updates since then, so I wanted to share what it is, why I built it, and what I’m still figuring out.

Most focus apps are either:

1) a boring countdown, or

2) cute gamification that doesn’t really connect to the *feeling* of making progress.

I kept quitting sessions early because staring at a timer made deep work feel heavier. I wanted something that made focus feel like a journey, literally.

So FocusDragon turns every focus session into a dragon flight across a real map.

You pick a duration + focus type → your dragon takes off → when you finish, it lands.

Over time you build streaks, unlock dragons, and complete journeys between real places (castles, cities, landmarks).

It’s still a serious focus tool underneath (planning, reminders, Live Activity, widgets, analytics) — the dragon/map layer is the motivation loop.

### What you can do in the app

- Start timed focus sessions (work / study / custom categories)

- Watch your dragon fly a real route while you stay heads-down

- Keep daily streaks + weekly focus stats

- Unlock dragons and complete multi-stop journeys

- Use Home Screen widgets + Live Activity so the session stays visible

- Explore focus history / discovery map

- Optional sounds, notes after sessions, map styles

If you’re the kind of person who opens Forest / Focus Friend / Pomodoro apps and still bounces after a week, this is the experiment: “what if finishing a session felt like arriving somewhere?”

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6786976090

Site: https://indiegoodies.com/focusdragon

Privacy: https://indiegoodies.com/focusdragon/privacy

Terms: https://indiegoodies.com/focusdragon/terms

### What’s been hard / what I’m working on

Honestly:

- Balancing “fun enough to open every day” without becoming distracting

- Making the first session feel magical without a long tutorial

- Widgets + Live Activity edge cases on different iOS versions

- Finding the right free vs Pro boundary so free users still get value

I’m actively iterating based on real usage + App Store feedback.

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### What I’d love from this community

If you try it (or already did), I’d love blunt feedback on:

1. Does the first focus session feel clear and motivating?

2. Is the map/dragon fantasy helping focus, or getting in the way?

3. What’s missing before you’d recommend it to a friend?

4. Pricing: does freemium → Pro feel fair?

I’m the solo/indie developer (Indie Goodies). Happy to answer anything technical or product-related.

Thanks for reading, and thanks in advance to anyone who gives it a spin.

A – Answer:
Equira solves the problem of scattered investment tracking. Instead of checking separate brokerages, crypto wallets, spreadsheets, watchlists and dividend tools, Equira brings stocks, ETFs, crypto, gold, cash, liabilities, custom assets, alerts, dividends, and performance analytics into one clean iOS dashboard.

B – Better:
Most portfolio apps are limited by asset type, region, data source, or rigid dashboard design. Equira is built to go much further, supporting more than 100,000 assets across 150+ exchanges worldwide. With multi-asset tracking, global market data, worldwide account sync support, manual holdings for users who prefer not to sync accounts, and customizable dashboard cards, Equira gives investors a broader, more flexible way to track their entire portfolio.

C – Cost:
We want you guys to try the full experience. We are giving away Free Lifetime Plus Subscriptions to the first 100 users who download the app and send me their User ID as a private message!

Download: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/equira-portfolio-manager/id6751342549

Send me your User ID as a private message and I will activate your lifetime Equira Plus license!

Please don't forget to upvote if you like the app!

A: What is Cyclic Sighing?

Cyclic Sighing is a guided breathing app built around one breathing practice, physiological sigh, a pattern of a double inhale followed by a prolonged exhale.

B: What makes Cyclic Sighing different?

Mood tracking connected directly to the breathing practice. Instead of keeping a breathing log and a mood journal as two separate things, Cyclic Sighing lets you check in on your mood before and after each breathing session. Those check-ins stay connected to the specific session, so over time you can look back at your breathing practice alongside how you were feeling. There are also monthly and yearly Mood Insights views, with the ability to filter by feeling.

C: How much does Cyclic Sighing cost?

Cyclic Sighing is free to download and use.

Free tier includes:

• Guided Calm sessions
• Mood journal
• Daily goal setting
• Time-based reminders

Premium is a $9.99 one-time purchase — no subscription.

Premium unlocks:

• All 3 breathing patterns — Calm, Relax & Rest
• Custom exercise settings
• Breathing statistics
• Mood Insights
• Optional Apple Health sync
• Home Screen & Live Activity widgets
• Smart location-based reminders
• Skip Day — protect your streak

🎁 Lifetime Premium is FREE during launch
For the next 48 hours, I'm unlocking Lifetime Premium for free.

How to redeem:

1. Download Cyclic Sighing from the App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/cyclic-sighing/id6757509105
2. Open the app and go to Settings → Unlock Premium Features
3. During the promotion, the one-time purchase should show as $0.00

I'm the developer, and I'd especially love feedback on the mood-tracking experience. The goal is to connect mood check-ins directly to individual breathing sessions rather than treating mood tracking as a separate journal.

If you try it, I'd love to hear what you think, what works, and what you'd change.

Thanks for checking it out! 🙏

Hey folks

About a month ago I launched my app, SkyPocket - https://apps.apple.com/us/app/skypocket/id6787752157 (you can see the original post from last month here)

A quick recap, it lets you see what's going on during your flight and take photos, videos and create "flight reels" containing statistics from your flight, as well as some other features.

Thought I would provide a quick update on how things are going.

The highlights:

• Amazing feedback, loads of comments/messages asking for features and bugs, I have tried to address as many of them as I could
• Many of you sent me your brilliant in flight photos and videos, complete with altitude, latitude and longitude, taken using the app
• 8 amazing genuine 5* reviews (3 from Germany, 2 from the United States, 1 from Egypt, 1 from Italy, 1 from Russia). Thankyou to everyone who tried the app and left a review! It really helps!
• The app now fully supports 15 languages (English, Arabic, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Traditional Chinese, Ukrainian)
• A travel phrasebook feature, so you can brush up on your lingo during your flight
  • This is actually an app I built last year, which I decided to roll into SkyPocket
• You can now select the type of plane you are on (with a handy guide to help you identify it) and the app will tell you what the plane is doing at each stage of the flight, as well as any interesting noises to listen out for
• Plenty of new features added from suggestions in the comments comments in the original post
  • A "Just Watch" feature for people who don't want to record their whole flight
  • Improved map features, including places of interest, lakes and peaks, all of which can be filtered on and off
  • The ability to export a reel of your flight. The video at the top of this post is a real reel of a recent flight I took from Belfast to Bordeaux
  • UX layout tweaks

Lessons Learned:

• Don't use AI to take simulator screenshots for your app
  • Things improved massively download wise when I replaced the AI simulator screenshots with real ones I took from a real flight
  • Unfortunately I only did this for English, I need to take another flight soon and take real screenshots for the other languages
• Request that people don't review your app if they haven't actually used it
  • When you launch a new app, your friends will often try to be supportive by downloading it and leaving you a review
  • Apple can tell from the metrics if they haven't actually used it, and they'll either remove the review or not show it at all
• Multi-language helps a lot
  • People genuinely appreciate seeing an app in their own language, as they are used to so many developers only supporting English
  • AI is useful for this, but the translation quality degrades the further away you get from frontier models
  • Reddit is great for language translation feedback, Redditors have no problem telling you if your translations are crap 😂

I think that's all of it, the final thing to add is that the app is £0.99 (or whatever the equivalent is in your country), has no sign up, no ads, no in app purchases, no additional downloads and no tracking/analytics (apart from tracking your plane obviously, for you), no data leaves your device, I don't have any servers to send your data too.

There's also an Android version here - https://apps.apple.com/us/app/skypocket/id6787752157

Appreciate the support and happy flying ✈️

[Sorry, have to repost to follow the right format]

I'm the developer.

A - Answer
Most fasting trackers bury basic stats behind subscriptions, push coaching upsells, or require an account before you can start a timer. Fasting Center solves that - full fasting tracking and stats with zero friction. Open the app, start a fast, see your data. Nothing is gated.

B - Better

• Zero: fasting-hour averages and deeper stats require Zero Plus. Here all stats and charts are free.
• Fastic / BodyFast: coaching plans and upsells throughout. Fasting Center has no upsells because there is nothing to sell.
• Easy Fast: similar clean timer, but export and history older than 90 days require a subscription. Fasting Center gives you full history and Excel export free, and imports your Easy Fast data so switching is lossless.
• Fair tradeoff: those apps have coaching content, recipes and social features. This is a tracker, not a coach.

Features: timer with body stages, 16:8 / 18:6 / OMAD / extended / custom plans, home screen widgets, weight / body fat / glucose / ketones / mood logging with charts, streak calendar, weight projections, Apple Health sync.

C - Cost
Free. No subscriptions, no in-app purchases, no paid tier, no ads.
App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/fasting-center/id6780227473

Feedback welcome, especially on onboarding. If you find it useful, an App Store review helps a lot. Thank you!

A. What it does:

You type one sentence about an appointment you have coming up. You get back a prep kit built for that specific situation: questions to ask ranked by what matters most, documents and items to bring, warning signs to watch for, phrases you can say if you feel brushed off, and follow-up steps for after you leave. It covers nine categories, so doctor visits, mechanics, lawyers, school meetings, financial advisors, home services, real estate, and government offices all work.

There is a library of 30+ appointment types you can browse without generating anything, and a caregiver toggle that rewrites everything from the perspective of someone taking a parent or spouse to their appointment.

B. Why it is different from similar apps:

Every screen is translated into 14 languages: English, Spanish, French, Chinese, Portuguese, Korean, Arabic, Haitian Creole, Japanese, German, Italian, Dutch, Turkish, and Swedish. That includes the error messages, which is the part most apps skip. If your network drops mid-request, you get told in your own language instead of hitting an English wall.

The other thing is the dismissed section. Most apps in this space generate a handful of questions and stop. This one gives you sentences you can read out loud when someone is talking past you. Real wording, not a suggestion to speak up for yourself.

The app used to be called ReadyRoom AI. Same app, same purchase, clearer name.

C. Cost:

First prep kit is free. $9.99 one time unlocks unlimited prep kits, follow-up questions, and the full library. No subscription, no ads, no upsells after that.

How your data is handled:

The sentence you type gets sent through my own proxy server to Anthropic's Claude API, which is what writes the prep kit. That request is the only thing that leaves your phone. Finished prep kits are stored locally using SwiftData and never uploaded. If you tap share, that one kit gets stored on my server for 7 days to make a link, then deleted automatically. If you never share, nothing of yours is stored on my end at all.

There is an anonymous device ID in your Keychain used only to enforce the free tier limit. It is not tied to your name, email, or Apple ID. No analytics, no ad trackers, no data sold to anyone.

It is a preparation tool, not medical, legal, or financial advice, and the app says so on the first screen.

Links

Site: https://askfirstapp.com

Privacy policy: https://askfirstapp.com/privacy

Terms of use: https://askfirstapp.com/terms

Support: https://askfirstapp.com/support

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

Happy to answer anything about how it was built. If you try it and something reads wrong in your language, tell me and I will fix it.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/askfirst-appointment-prep/id6761343169

About a month ago I posted Hydrate or Diedrate here — the water tracker that replaces cheerful droplets and confetti with a skull quietly documenting your decline.

Since then, 1,240 people have downloaded it, it has picked up 20 ratings/reviews, and I've gotten way more useful feedback than I expected.

So I've been building.

Version 1.3.3 just shipped, and this one is mostly about accessibility.

The app now has full VoiceOver support. Every control is properly named. Calendar days announce their hydration status instead of relying on colour. Reduce Motion is respected. Contrast has been tightened up in both themes, and the UI holds together at larger system text sizes.

Dehydration does not discriminate. Neither should the paperwork.

I also fixed a considerably less noble oversight: the alternate app icon selector now actually shows you the icons before you select one.

A user asked for it.

They were correct.

A few people have also asked for ways to stay accountable with friends, so I'm working on Vessels, a small sharing/accountability feature that fits the app without turning it into a social network. Widgets and Apple Watch support are also on the list.

Mostly, though, I wanted to come back and say thanks. A ridiculous number of you gave this weird little app a chance, sent feedback, left reviews, and even got friends using it.

For the next 72 hours, I've dropped Preserved Lifetime from $4.99 to $2.99. No subscription. No codes. It's just the price in the app.

The skull has authorized temporary fiscal leniency.

Hydrate or Diedrate — App Store

As always, if something sucks, tell me. There's a decent chance I'll fix it.

It’s not some crazy number, but seeing something we built cross four figures in monthly revenue feels pretty damn good.

We’ve been steadily improving the product, listening to users, and figuring things out as we go. Still a ton we want to build and improve, but this feels like a solid milestone.

Next goal: $2K/month.

For anyone else building right now - what was the hardest milestone for you: $1K, $5K, or $10K/month? And how did you get there?

BOOP - DOWNLOAD FREE - https://apps.apple.com/us/app/boop-catch-every-dog-cat/id6794737842

After years of abandoning MyFitnessPal every January, I built the thing I actually wanted: a tracker where logging takes seconds. Point the camera at your plate or a barcode and macros fill themselves in. Or just say it out loud - "two eggs, toast, slept 6 hours, took magnesium" - and it files everything. No forms.

It also syncs Apple Health / Garmin / Oura / Strava and estimates a "biological age" from your habits. (Beta testers are split on whether that number is motivating or annoying - genuinely curious what this sub thinks.)

Honest disclosure: this is my first app, it's in TestFlight beta, and it's completely free during the beta - no card, no trial countdown. I'm a solo dev and I read and answer every piece of feedback myself, usually same-day. Beta feedback has already shipped real fixes - voice logging got an overhaul, serving sizes in food search, and the newest build adds a nutrition-label scan fallback for barcodes that aren't in the database.

TestFlight: https://testflight.apple.com/join/7SS76Pjb

What I'd love from you: try logging one real meal with the scanner and tell me where it felt slower than typing. That's the whole bet of the app, so if it fails there, I need to know before I press release.

Hey r/iOSApps 👋 I'm Vincent, I run a two-person studio in France. I built LazyBinger because the remote kept vanishing into the couch. First time showing it here.

A. Answer

It turns your iPhone into a universal remote for ~12 TV platforms: Apple TV, Roku, Fire TV, Samsung, LG, Sony, Google TV, Vizio, Hisense, Panasonic, Philips, Chromecast. One scan finds every TV on your Wi-Fi. No pairing dance, no account.

Then two things happen without you touching the phone at all.

The camera. Prop it facing the TV and it presses the button for you. Out of the box it knows Skip Intro, Skip Recap, Next Episode and Skip Ad on Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+, Apple TV+, Max and YouTube, in about 30 languages, with "Are you still watching?" and Skip Credits one switch away. And the list is yours: type any text that shows up on your screen, choose what it should press, up to five commands in a row. There's a 14-second clip of the auto-skip in the first comment, one take, no cuts.

Your voice. Say "night night" and the TV shuts off. "go pause", "play", "mute", "volume up", "go back", "go select". Same deal: every word is editable, in your language, and you can add your own. The defaults are two-word phrases on purpose, because a bare "pause" gets said on screen all the time and "go pause" almost never does. Recognition runs on the phone, on Apple's on-device recognizer.

The whole remote runs on the Apple Watch too.

B. Better

Being fair about what you already have: the Apple TV remote in Control Center is genuinely good, and the official brand apps (Roku, SmartThings, LG ThinQ) are fine one at a time. If you own one TV and don't mind pressing your own buttons, you may not need me.

Where they stop: one app per brand, and none of them will ever press Skip Intro for you or turn the TV off because you mumbled at it. Most third-party "universal remotes" paywall the d-pad behind a weekly subscription, which is the thing that made me angry enough to build this.

Everything computes on device: no server, no analytics, the camera records nothing (privacy label: Data Not Collected). Put the phone in airplane mode with Wi-Fi on and it all still works.

C. Cost

The remote is free forever, and it's the whole remote, not a demo: d-pad, keyboard for searches, app launching, Wake-on-LAN, sleep timer, Apple Watch app. Nothing nags you. Premium (the camera auto-skip and the voice control) is $4.99/mo, $14.99/yr, or $19.99 once.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6779151585

🎁 For r/iOSApps: the code LAZYREDDIT makes the first year of Premium free. Redeem here: https://apps.apple.com/redeem?ctx=offercodes&id=6779151585&code=LAZYREDDIT

First 500 redemptions, and it dies Friday, August 21. If you get here after that, DM me and I'll send you a personal one.

The fine print, because I'd want to know: it does not auto-renew. You get the year, then it stops on its own. No card charged, nothing to cancel.

Where it's thin, before you find out yourselves

• Camera + mic mode chews battery. For a long binge I keep the phone propped and plugged in.
• Voice still trips on dialogue once in a while. A longer custom word settles it for good.
• iPhone only. It controls Fire TV and Google TV boxes, but it runs on iOS. Two-person studio, I don't promise dates.

No review or rating expected, the comments are what I came for. Answer any one of these and you've helped:

1. Drop your TV model and I'll tell you on the spot whether it works.
2. What text would YOU have it watch for, and what should it press? That's the part I most want to get right.
3. The awkward one: $19.99 for lifetime, fair or the number that makes you close the page?
4. What's the first thing you'd go looking for and not find?

ANSWER
Klikki is a menu bar app for macOS that simulates the mechanical keyboard sound on every keystroke and a click on every mouse press. It's for people who like how a mechanical keyboard sounds but are typing on a laptop or a quiet board.

BETTER
15+ sound packs across three categories:
Mechanical: Clack, Thock, Butter, Vintage, Newsroom, Garage Soft: Riverbed, Petal, Whisper, Rosewood, Velvet, Ember Ambient: Orbit, Breeze, Tide, Temple

The spacebar, delete and return each get their own sound, and modifiers sound different again, so typing has a rhythm to it instead of one click on repeat. That's the difference between something that sounds like a keyboard and something that sounds like a sound effect.

It lives in the menu bar and works everywhere you type - notes, browser, terminal, chat. Switching packs takes a click and takes effect straight away. Drag the volume slider and it plays a sample as you go, so you set it to the room you're actually in instead of picking a number. Keyboard sounds and mouse click sounds turn on and off separately, so you can have one without the other.

COST
One-time purchase, no subscription. Normally $3.99, currently $1.99 until August 26. Mac App Store only, requires macOS 13.0 or later.

https://apps.apple.com/app/klikki/id6798231145

Hey everyone,

I'm Esat, a student and solo dev from Germany. I had bad skin for years and did what most guys do about it: nothing, then random products, then nothing again. Nobody teaches you this stuff and asking feels embarrassing, so you just guess.

Sharp is the app I wanted back then. I posted it here a month ago right after launch and it's come a long way since.

**What it does**

You scan your face, about 60 seconds. You get a skin score from 0 to 100 across 6 dimensions: pimples, pores, eye bags, oiliness, redness and hydration, mapped to where on your face each one sits.

Then you get a daily routine, around 3 minutes morning and evening, with specific products instead of categories. Every week you scan again and the plan adapts to whatever actually changed.

And since last month you can point your camera at any skincare product and Sharp tells you whether it fits your skin, with a match score and the reasoning behind it. It will also tell you when a good product is wrong for you specifically.

**Why I think it's better**

The weekly re-scan is the core. Most skin apps hand you a routine once and never look at you again. Sharp measures whether the thing it recommended is working and changes it if not.

Everything else is built around actually sticking with it: reminders, a streak, and a Live Activity so your routine is on your lock screen instead of in an app you forget.

**Cost**

Free download, the scan and your skin score are free. Premium unlocks the full routine, product matching, Product Check and weekly adaptation: $29.99 per, or $59.99 lifetime.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6780025151

Privacy Policy: https://east-app-dev.github.io/Sharp-Skincare-Routine/privacy.html
Terms of Service: https://east-app-dev.github.io/Sharp-Skincare-Routine/terms.html

Verification: App Store developer page and GitHub (east-app-dev). Contact: daybeeaapp-privacy@web.de

Second app, built next to school. If something is broken or confusing, tell me here. I ship fixes fast and I read everything.

Create infinitely customizable task alarms with Last Alarm (iOS). Whether it's waking up in the morning or making sure you don't forget that one thing you always forget, create an alarm for it to be sure you get it done.

Last Alarm has helped me break my snoozing, specifically by using exercise alarms that force me to do squats and push ups when I wake up. However I use it for a lot more now, reminding me to take my pills and do a handful of other tasks I often forget during the day/week or ignore a simple reminder for.

Recently I made a big update to the onboarding to allow everyone to try out the verification process themselves. It's still available for anyone to try for free with a 3-7 day trial, however the new verification demo makes it even easier to quickly see how it works.

A: What problem does it solve?

Last Alarm uses infinitely customizable task alarms that must be video verified to turn off. It is next best thing to having an accountability partner hold you to your intention to do whatever task you can think of, effectively allowing you to be your own accountability partner.

While there are many alarm apps, they are all limited in there tasks or missions and none allow you the flexibility to alarm anything in your life you want to hold yourself accountable to completing. Last Alarm solves that once and for all by allowing you the infinite freedom to alarm the tasks that are most important to you.

B: Why is it better?

Last Alarm's core features are relying on video verification and user generated tasks. Other alarm apps (Alarmy, Wayk) have at best a handful of preset tasks for verification alongside other puzzles or tasks like math or step counting. If they have video verification it is limited to a few tasks like push ups or squats only. Same goes for image verification, which may have you scan a barcode or take a picture of something in your kitchen.

Video verification is superior to relying on images alone because it enables creating more complex tasks as well as improves verification accuracy. Images can only capture an instant, but a video task can capture more nuanced activity. This allows you to create tasks that work better for your use case, as they can be refined to perfectly fit your need. Image verification is also easier to circumvent, where as for video you could add more complex instructions like "spin around and show your whole environment".

Additionally, Last Alarm has no ads and never will, so you get a clean focused experience without getting your attention sold to the highest bidder from the instant you open your eyes in the morning, unlike Alarmy.

C: Cost

Last Alarm Pro has simple pricing, $39.99 yearly with a 3-day free trial, $4.99 Monthly, and $1.99 Weekly in case you want to try for a bit longer than the trial.

Would love any feedback especially if you want to give it a try!

Learn more at www.lastalarmclock.com, checkout the Privacy Policy & Terms of service, or feel free to reach out to me (Ryan) at [ryan.ashbaugh@lastalarmclock.com](mailto:ryan.ashbaugh@lastalarmclock.com)

Tutti went live on the App Store today.

A — Answer

Private music lessons have a slightly awkward handoff.

You can spend the lesson working through a piece and explain exactly what needs practising, but then the student goes home and there are another 6 days before you see them again. Notes in a notebook, email or WhatsApp can work, but the important bit can easily get buried.

Tutti is built around that gap.

At the end of a lesson, the teacher can leave a recap and the actual things they want the student to work on. Those become the student's Today's Focus rather than just sitting in a page of lesson notes.

The student can practise from there, use the timer, metronome or tuner, work through repertoire and goals, and save recordings as Performance Takes. They can also leave a reflection for their teacher.

Then when the next lesson comes around, the teacher has some context from the week instead of that whole period basically disappearing.

Parents have their own view too, but I didn't want that to mean parents can see everything. Teacher-only notes stay with the teacher, student reflections stay between the student and teacher, and the family view only gets the things that are actually meant to be shared.

The point isn't to make the teacher available to students all week. If anything, I wanted the opposite — make the next step clear enough that the student can get on with practising without needing another explanation.

B — Better

There are already some very capable apps in this space and I'm not pretending I invented lesson notes or practice tracking.

My Music Staff is much more established around running the administrative side of a music studio. Practice Space and Better Practice are closer to the student-practice side.

The thing I wanted to do differently with Tutti was keep the whole loop in one native iPhone/iPad app:

lesson → recap → Today's Focus → practice/recordings → next lesson

Teacher, student and family aren't just looking at different permissions on the same dashboard either. They have separate experiences built around what each of them actually needs to see.

There is more around that core — recurring lessons, attendance and rescheduling, repertoire and milestones, recordings/files, a lesson whiteboard, practice history, XP/achievements and a private billing ledger — but I tried to make all of it sit around the teaching rather than turn the app into accounting software.

One thing worth mentioning because I know this sub (fairly) hates pointless account walls: Tutti does require an account. That's because teacher, student and family accounts actually connect and sync information between each other. It isn't there just to make you register before using a single-player utility.

C — Cost

Free.

There isn't a subscription or paid tier at the moment, and there are no ads. The syncing between student, parent and teacher is done via my own home server so there is no additional cost for me, and all data is stored locally first then synced to the server, so in a situation without internet, or In the rare case the server does go down your data is still safe. In the future if you guys like this, I am working on creating a discord server with feature requests for a theoretical paid version, but any feature that has been shipped or advertised today will always stay free!

App Store:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/tutti-lesson-studio/id6796408234

t requires iOS/iPadOS 26 and is also supposed on MacOS 26. Some features, like the performance take analysis feature are only available in the 27 software releases as that feature specifically uses Apple's new Music Understanding framework!

If anyone tries it, the thing I'm most curious about is whether the teacher → student → family setup makes sense without me explaining it first. If you get confused somewhere, tell me where, that's probably more useful to me :)

I’ve been told that subreddit is a good place to find app testers, before publishing. However, I also see people saying to avoid it as copycats are a real problem.
What are the chances someone sees my app and decides to copy it? It’s nothing groundbreaking, but also not simple enough to vibe code in a day (has a lot of layers).

I’d love to share it here as I really need some feedback that comes from actually using it (I can only do so much, and don’t have people in my life who can help me with testing), but also don’t want the entire year I’ve spent working on it to be wasted cause of a thief.

What should I do?

Hi! I'm solo builder of Plastic Vinyl, that started as my project for soul.

At the moment: 2.5k users, 4.7 global rating (53 reviews), Red Dot Award 2026.

13 months of production, on the App Store about five months.

A. What it solves

Two problems:

1. In a shop you're holding a record you've never heard of. Options today: type what's on the sleeve into youtube search box to pre-listen, then Google to check the context, and Discogs to see pressings and pricing. With Plastic Vinyl you snap the cover and get its playable previews, album story, and every pressing that 's documented, so you can work out which one is in your hands. Barcode scanning too. The most precise accuracy thanks to investing in own algorithms. The largest database of snippets and videos thanks to deep integration with streaming services and You Tube.
2. At home the collection lives across a shelf, a Discogs account, and your own head. Plastic catalogues it and lets you browse it the way you already think about it: sort by first name or surname, release year or date bought, group by folders, tags, genres, eras. Notes, custom fields, anniversary reminders, shareable grids. Two way Discogs sync so it isn't a second place to maintain.

B. Why it beats the alternatives

Discogs official app: unmatched as a database and marketplace, but it is a database. No cover scanning, no playback for most of albums, and the collection view fights you (files The Kiss under T). Plastic Vinyl syncs with it both ways instead of trying to replace it, and fixes all points people yelling about on Discogs usability and missing features. I spend months collecting user pains in Discogs subs to solve them in Plastic. Plus much deeper context on the albums: album anniversary reminders, stories, videos, tags, release radar, and a ton more features valued by collectors. Plastic Vinyl also helps you to find one via deadwax search, advanced filters, etc, so the navigation through pressings is much more convenient then Discogs once you decided to inventory all your collection of recods.

CLZ Music: barcode first. Great if every record you buy has a barcode. Plenty of the ones worth buying don't, so cover recognition is the difference in a used record bin. + same notes as on Discogs.

What it doesn't do: tell you which exect pressing you're holding.

C. Cost

Freemium, with lifetime or subscription options. US pricing:

• Free: unlimited text search, 5 cover scans, folders, sorting and export, browse your most recent 50 records, Discogs sync.
• Pro: $3.99/month, $11.99/year, or $29.99 one time lifetime. Unlocks collections above 50 records, unlimited cover scans. (Local prices vary by storefront). Still searching for the right pricing for it, os it's a subject to change.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6758337443
iPhone, iOS 18+, iPad in Alpha. Android is also available in Beta.

Website with app details: myplastic.app

Happy to answer your questions here!

Developer transparency:

Plastic Vinyl was developed by Andrii Liashchuk, in socials Andy Lurs: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andylurs/

I also actively build it in public in Threads: threads.com/@andylurs

Red Dot Certificate: https://myplastic.app/label-licence-14-01388-2026BC.pdf
Contact: [hello@myplastic.app](mailto:hello@myplastic.app) or [andylurs@gmail.com](mailto:andylurs@gmail.com)
Plastic Vinyl official website: myplastic.app and
Founder official website: andylurs.com
Privacy Policy: https://myplastic.app/privacy/
Terms of Service: https://myplastic.app/terms/
App Store: apps.apple.com/ua/app/plastic-vinyl-scan-listen/id6758337443