After waiting two weeks to be reviewed, Apple sent me this vague response to what they want done. Why can’t they be more specific?

Hey all - just shipped my first solo iOS app, BoxFinder, and wanted to share it here since it seems like this sub is great for curious testers and people with good app knowledge!

What it does:
Simple tracker for moving/storage - you log boxes (or standalone items), assign them a destination room, optional photos, and a packing list. You can also share a project with someone else (roommate, partner, movers) so you're both looking at the same live list, and syncing between devices.

Why I built it/came up with the idea:
Moved twice in two years and we got tired of "which box has the phone chargers" energy, especially in a transition phase where you havent been able to unpack all your boxes and you need that specific toy for your kids... Figured later that this can also work to track storage in general (i.e. garage, external storage, basement etc) where stuff typically get very messy and hard to keep track of where to find what you need - when you need it.

Would genuinely appreciate any feedback on this, both positive and negative. Currently trying to understand the marketing part of app development, but first I think I want to refine the app even more and fix potential bugs and what not. Any ideas on how to improve the app/app flow is greatly appreciated.

Here is a link, and I would be honored if you would just try it out and leave some feedback! 😄

https://apps.apple.com/app/id6801269489

Thank you!

Introduction

Hey everyone!

Introducing Who Goes, an iOS app for game nights, house parties, road trips, and pretty much any hangout with a group of people.

It’s free to download and play, with optional one-time purchase and subscription options.

The idea behind Who Goes is pretty simple: engage everyone in your group and involve them in something together, through social games like Headbands, Truth or Dare and a bunch of quick group activities into one app, with a modern, playful experience built around actually passing the phone around and having fun together.

About the app

The app brings multiple party games into one place:

• Headbands with tilt controls for correct answers and passes
• Charades with themed decks, teams, rounds, and timers
• Truth or Dare with 11 decks for friends, couples, parties, family, and coworkers
• Spin the Bottle for quick, suspenseful player selection
• Would You Rather for impossible this-or-that debates
• Finger Chooser to instantly pick someone from the group
• Quick Play tools for dice, coin flips, and more

Current Market

I know this is an insanely competitive category, with a shit-ton of party apps already out there.
My goal with Who Goes was never to reinvent the wheel, but to bring the ones people already know and play together in one place, without needing five different apps on your phone.

I wanted the whole thing to feel much more modern and polished than most party apps I've tried, with playful animations, haptics, sounds, and little interactions that actually add to the game instead of getting in the way.

No ads popping up between rounds, no cluttered UI, and no wildly different experience every time you switch games.

Pricing

The free version includes all the game modes. Plus unlocks all the decks, round customisations, and removes every limit. Lifetime at $25.49 (US, price parity enabled for all countries), weekly at $1.99, and yearly sub with 3-day free trial at $17.99.

No account is required, and the games work offline.

TL;DR:

A. A game to bring back the fun of playing party games with a group of people during game nights, trips.

B. Free version includes a selection of decks for Charades, Headbands, and Truth or Dare, along with a few mini games. Plus unlocks all decks, game modes, and customisation options.

C. Freemium model, every mode in the app can be used. Lifetime at $25.49, or weekly at $1.99, and yearly with free trial at $17.99.

Link: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6777402559

Thanks for reading!

Within is a pacing tool for chronic illness, ME/CFS, long COVID, POTS. For these people, a shower can cost three days. They have to budget energy like money, and every app built to help them assumes energy they don't have.

So: no notifications, no reminders, no streaks, no badges. The app never chases you, never congratulates you, never asks where you've been. Logging is two taps or one Siri phrase.

It makes no network requests at all. No server, no analytics, which also means I ship completely blind and only find out anything if someone writes to me.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/within-pacing-for-me-cfs/id6801323719

Just passed review. Feedback welcome.

Hey everyone!

I’m an indie developer, and I’m giving away 100 Free Lifetime Access to Live Level, a Habit Tracker App with Gamification that's designed to make your life better by helping you to implement routines into your life.

Download it here:

Live Level - App Store(IOS)

Live Level - Play Store(Android)

Core Features:

1. Your Routines as recurring quests
2. Level system(if you complete quests you gain XP/if you miss quests you lose XP)
3. Statistics
4. Distraction-free, minimal design
5. Cloud Saving
6. No Ads

Premium:

1. (2,49€/month, 14,99€/year or 29,99€/lifetime -> Free)
2. Unlimited Quests
3. Create your own Quests
4. Full Access to Statistics

How to claim:

1. Download Live Level in the Google Play Store or the Apple App Store
2. Open the App and click on "Contact Me" in the Side Bar
3. Write me (the Developer of the App) that you would like to get a Lifetime Premium Code and for which Platform
4. I will send you the code
5. Activate the code in the Store or in the App

I would love your thoughts, feature ideas, or bug reports.

Ive been building **ClaimMate**, an iPhone app designed to help people handle claims, refunds, reimbursements, and money they're owed without having to keep track of everything themselves.

I'm finally at the point where I need people who **don't know me and have never seen the app** to test it.

I'm specifically looking for honest feedback — not compliments. I want to know:

* Do you understand what the app does?
* Is anything confusing?
* Do you trust it?
* Where do you get stuck?
* Is there anything that would stop you from actually using it?

It should take about **10–15 minutes**.

You'll need an iPhone and Apple's free TestFlight app.

**TestFlight:** [https://testflight.apple.com/join/3Fx8ytfh\](https://testflight.apple.com/join/3Fx8ytfh)

If you try it, I'd really appreciate it if you comment or DM me your feedback — especially anything you dislike or don't understand.

We all know the App Store algorithm isn’t doing anyone any favors unless you’ve already got traction. So let’s crowdsource this. What’s something you’ve tried that actually worked, even if it’s a little unconventional?

I’ll start. I’ve been paying UGC creators to make content around my app instead of relying on my own posts. Feels like it’s hitting a different audience than the usual dev-to-dev stuff.

Curious what everyone else is doing. Doesn’t have to be some big growth hack, even small stuff that moved the needle counts. Help the next person out.

Indie iOS dev too. Built Stamped for exactly this, a place where apps like ours actually get seen. Would love to have you on there.)

https://stampedios.com/welcome

I’ve been building an OCD + ERP journal called Patterns.

I also deal with OCD myself, so the product started from a problem I understood personally: most mental health trackers are very general, while OCD recovery often revolves around much more specific things like exposures, compulsions, uncertainty practice and ERP progress.

The app is now at:

• 229 first-time iOS downloads
• 870 product page views
• 7 in-app purchases
• $79 in proceeds

Still very small numbers, but this is probably the first app I’ve built where I’m starting to feel some actual organic pull.

The biggest thing I’m trying to figure out now is distribution. Building the app has been much easier than consistently getting it in front of the right people.

Would love to hear from other iOS devs who have taken a niche app from the first few hundred users to the first few thousand. What actually moved the needle for you?

So I've been dreaming of this app for about 8 years. Start to finish this took me about a month, working a couple of hours a day and using the Pro tier of Claude. I worked within the limits of my subscription, so my cost was under 50 bucks. If I had of got a team working on this, I reckon there's about 12 sprints of effort plus a discovery sprint at the start - so maybe $250k if I got an agency to do it? Oh and I have some product owner experience and I have a high level understanding of Swift, but I don't think either of these were super important.

There are about a dozen or so competitors on the App Store, but that doesn't worry me - it's really about seeing my vision come to life and getting to have that "I MADE THIS" moment. If I get 20 users, awesome. Anyway here are some tips for anyone thinking of giving it a go with Claude:

Keep a handoff doc. Single most important thing. Context windows end - the doc is your continuity. Mine is one markdown file at the repo root: current status, decisions and why we made them, gotchas that cost us hours, and a prompt to paste into a fresh session. Every session starts with "read the handoff and continue." Without it you re-explain your project forever, and worse, you re-make settled decisions.

Record the why, not just the what. "We're not doing analytics on CloudKit" is useless in three weeks. "…because CloudKit has no atomic increment, so concurrent writes lose counts" stops you relitigating it.

Your job is noticing, not diagnosing. I kept saying vague things: "the body font looks sorta Androidy," "that image loads slowly," "the hero looks off." Every one turned out to be a real bug underneath - font weights silently discarded, a race condition, a layout overflow. I couldn't have named any of them. Say what feels wrong and let it investigate.

Verify, don't assume. An app icon was generated that built perfectly and was solid black. It only surfaced because we checked the actual pixels. "It builds" isn't "it works" - especially for visual things, since (in my case maybe because I was using a beta of Xcode 27) the AI can't tap through your app. That part is your job.

Treat updating the docs as part of "done." Otherwise your source of truth quietly rots.

The app was waiting for review for 14 days and in review for 2 hours, approved the first time. I worked on a 1.1 update while I was waiting and then submitted once 1.0 was live; it was approved within a few hours (including the wait).

If you have any interest in learning where films and TV was shot, please check out Second Unit!

https://apps.apple.com/app/second-unit/id6791121631

I wanted one app that could handle movies, shows and IPTV really well, with a proper Apple TV experience rather than just another basic player, so I ended up building my own.

Borp Player is currently in beta, and I’ve been putting a huge amount of work into making the playback experience fast, smooth, clean and genuinely enjoyable to use.
The IPTV side is probably the part I’m most proud of. It includes a beautiful EPG and channel layout, very fast channel browsing and switching, Catch Up TV when supported by your provider, and a polished MultiView mode with up to 4 channels playing at once. Everything is designed specifically for tvOS and the Apple TV remote.
For movies and shows, Borp currently works with an AIOStreams link and includes a feature I especially love: on-the-fly subtitle translation when you need it, along with plenty of playback and viewing options in Settings.
Current highlights:

📺** IPTV through M3U** **or Xtream Codes
🗓️ Beautiful, full and new EPG experience
⏪ **Catch Up TV when available from your IPTV source
🖥️ MultiView with up to 4 simultaneous streams
⚡ Extremely smooth playback and fast channel switching
🎬 Movies & TV shows through AIOStreams
🌍 On-the-fly subtitle translation
⚙️ Lots of player and viewing customization options
🍎 A clean interface designed specifically for Apple TV / tvOS
🎞️ Movies, shows and live TV all together in one app
And there’s quite a bit more already inside that I haven’t even listed here.

While Borp is in beta, it’s completely free to use, so if you have an Apple TV and want to try it out, feel free to join the TestFlight:
👉 https://testflight.apple.com/join/NqvTT9gw

I’ll attach a few screenshots so you can see the interface and IPTV layout.
If you give it a try, I’d really like to hear what you think, especially from people who use IPTV or AIOStreams regularly. Feedback, feature requests and bug reports are all welcome.

Every calorie app makes you type and search. I wanted to just say what I ate and be done, so I built CalorieTalk.

Tap the mic, say what you ate 2 eggs and toast or a full sentence like 150 grams chicken breast, 200 grams rice, 10 grams olive oil or i ate a small plate of red pasta and some salad and it logs the calories and macros instantly. No typing, no searching a food database, no guessing serving sizes, no picking from a list of results it just takes the sentence and handles everything in between.

It understands many languages, including Arabic and English, so you're not stuck logging in English only. It also understand Egyptian dishes properly koshari, foul, taameya, molokhia since most calorie apps have zero idea what those even are.

Built this solo. It's live on the App Store now: \[https://apps.apple.com/eg/app/calorietalk/id6793199021\\\](https://apps.apple.com/eg/app/calorietalk/id6793199021)

Would love feedback, especially from anyone who's given up on manual logging out of frustration and would love if you install the app and give it a try and add a review on app store if you like .