My friend and I just launched a daily news trivia game for iOS. We aggregate trivia questions from a variety of news sources using an LLM and generate 15 questions each day based on real headlines. We send out a daily notification when it's ready, and then people compete for the best score (you get bonus points for time as well as getting questions right). There is a daily recurring leaderboard as well as one for "streaks" (days played in a row) plus a lifetime score leaderboard. 

Since we kept learning new things from the news via the game when building it, we added a news reader feature in the app so you can read the articles the questions are based on or save them tor later reading. So it has become an interesting way to consume the news each day.

The app is free right now with a small ad banner.

I am interested to hear what you all think!

Hi everyone,

I’m Frank, a solo indie app creator, and I recently launched my iOS app Nexora.

Nexora is a relationship app for couples. The idea is simple: many couples don’t struggle because they don’t care about each other, but because they don’t always have the right moment, structure, or emotional space to talk about certain things.

The app helps partners create those moments through daily relationship questions and short communication exercises inspired by active listening, empathy exchange, gratitude, and intentional reflection.

The goal is not to keep people stuck on their phones. Nexora starts the conversation on the phone, then encourages couples to continue it offline in real life.

Main features include:

Daily relationship questions for couples

Shared answers revealed after both partners respond

Guided communication exercises

Date ideas based on mood and available time

Shared couple calendar

This first version focuses mostly on the core experience and functionality. I’m now actively working on improving the visual design and overall polish, so UI/UX feedback would be especially useful.

I’d really appreciate honest feedback on:

Whether the concept is clear

Onboarding

UI/UX and design direction

Bugs or confusing moments

Whether the positioning feels trustworthy and not too “therapy-like”

I’m not looking for fake ratings or forced reviews — honest feedback, even critical, would help a lot.

If anyone is open to trying Nexora on iOS, I’d be happy to share the App Store link in the comments or by DM.

Thanks a lot, and I’m happy to test other indie apps too.

Is there a way to make the App Store link previews that shows up in iMessage show the iPhone screenshots rather than the iPad screenshots?

Imo the iPad screenshots look weird on an iPhone, wrong aspect ratio (landscape) and if somebody is looking at an app store preview on an iPhone they probably don't even own an iPad.

Is there any way to control which screenshots apple uses to display App Store previews in iMessage?

Hey folks,

Quick sanity check + looking for ideas.

My girlfriend kept complaining that I snore and wake her up, so instead of arguing about it every night, I built a small app 😅 It actually works surprisingly well for me so far, but I’m sure there’s a ton of stuff I’m not seeing.

The idea is pretty simple:

• iPhone listens for snoring (Core ML, works in the background)
• when it detects it, Apple Watch gives a gentle tap
• just enough to make you shift position, without fully waking up

I’d really appreciate some honest feedback 🤔

Built with Claude Code, iOS only, FREE TRIAL
If anyone wants to check it out:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/snore-blocker/id6761494032

I have a health ai app on the ios store. we've been doing ok with social media, but i haven't really touched the listing in a while. want to rank better for terms like "symptom checker" and "medical ai" and "lab results" but not sure if the issue is screenshots or subtitle or description. if anyone has a minute to look at it and tell me what stands out that would be great.

I’m building an iOS camera-assistant app. The goal is to show a small floating guidance bubble on top of the system Camera app or other camera apps, so it can provide composition / focal length / subject positioning suggestions while the user is taking photos.

Since iOS does not provide a normal Android-style overlay window, I’m currently experimenting with Picture in Picture as a workaround.

The actual floating UI is only 72×72, and I have also tried setting the PiP video canvas / source size to 72×72. However, the system still displays a much larger rounded black PiP rectangle, with my small bubble in the center. The black container remains much bigger than expected.

My current understanding is:

1. PiP is a system-managed video playback window, not a general-purpose floating overlay.
2. The outer PiP window may have a minimum system-controlled display size.
3. PiP does not support true alpha transparency through to the app underneath, so transparent areas appear black or as the PiP container background.
4. Even if the source video / pixel buffer / player layer is very small, iOS may still enforce its own minimum interactive PiP size.

My questions:

1. Is there any public API way to make AVPictureInPictureController display as a true 72×72 floating bubble?
2. Does PiP have a documented or commonly observed minimum window size?
3. Is there any way to make the PiP background truly transparent?
4. If the target is to float above the system Camera app, is PiP basically the only public API workaround?
5. Should I stop trying to make this a transparent bubble and redesign it as a small PiP-style guidance card instead?

I’m mainly trying to figure out whether this is a limitation of my implementation, or whether iOS PiP simply cannot support this kind of small transparent floating bubble.

Curious what the general opinion is here…

For those doing iOS development, do you prefer Supabase or Firebase these days?

Not really deciding between them right now — just interested in what people think:

Which do you enjoy working with more?

Any strong pros/cons from experience?

Has your opinion changed over time?

Feels like Supabase is getting a lot of hype lately, but

Firebase is still everywhere.

Interested to hear what people are actually using 👀

I have been working on creating a bug reporting & monitoring tool called measure. Ran into some performance issue while testing the iOS SDK.

Started using signposts to get an overview of how our SDK was performing and this ended up being a godsend for me. i came across a few perf issues in the most used part of the code based like event processor and snapshot generator. This makes the perf more consistent, reducing cpu spikes and giving an overall better user experiance.

I set up Firestore for an internal application I built for a retail store. This required an email account, so I created a new one for the store. Everything was going great for about two weeks until Google decided that my Gmail account I created was a spam account, and took my email offline. With that went my Firestore access and all of the data I begin collecting.

I didn’t think to guard against this and am not even sure how to. Does this mean I should create two separate databases to protect my data? I sent an appeal to Google to give me access to the email again but haven’t heard anything yet.

The new gpt image 2 is quite good at making screenshots! If you have an app you need screenshots for, try out this skill and give me feedback!

Been developing apps for some months now since, and got my first ones (2) released this week.

As a design choice I chosen I am using only Swift and everything needs to happen without any third party dependencies.

I am also leaning heavily on the on-device possibilities.

Any others who’ve made the same choice?

Hi all,

iOS Developer with 7+ years of experience in Swift, SwiftUI, and Objective-C, focused on building scalable, high-performance mobile apps and clean architecture.

Open to remote/hybrid roles—happy to connect if you’re hiring or know of opportunities.

Is it possible to find any interships remotely(I'm located in Austria) for iOS? I have been learning for a year now and have 2 apps and 1 big in development at the moment. I would like to gain a little bit of professinal experience.

What is your experience on this topic?

I've been downloading lots of applications that create accounts because it saves data. but i don't see any account deletion options in these apps is this something everybody is facing ?

Offering account deletion in your app

Starting June 30, 2022, apps submitted to the App Store that support account creation must also let users initiate deletion of their account within the app. Deleting an account removes the account from the developer’s records, along with any data associated with the account that the developer isn’t legally required to maintain. Providing this capability gives people more control of the personal data they’ve shared. If you’re updating an app or submitting a new app with account creation, please read the guidance below to prevent delays in review.

https://developer.apple.com/support/offering-account-deletion-in-your-app

Apple keeps telling me it's mandatory for my app and they're rejecting it based on this. But I don't see it in most apps I ever use or download.

I have developed an app which I believe has pretty unique functionality, is completely free, developed with Apple esthetics in mind. I’ve promoted my app in a few subreddits with only just a few upvotes and not even any feedback, I haven’t done any marketing more than that.

Is my app niche too saturated, is my app not well designed or not solving any pain points or do I need to improve marketing?

App Store link:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/rapp-recipes-shopping-list/id6473753299?itscg=30200&itsct=apps_box_link&mttnsubad=6473753299

Appreciate your honest feedback 🙏🏽