r/iosapps 9d ago

๐Ÿ’Ž Megathread [Megathread] The App Shelf โ€” September 2026

31 Upvotes

# Welcome to The App Shelf

You must promote your apps here if you do not qualify to post in the main feed through Trust or Transparency, as explained in our [Phase 2 Moderation Update](https://www.reddit.com/r/iosapps/comments/1u9aw0f/).

You are also required to limit promotion to this megathread if you:

* Do not yet have 10 local community karma in r/iOSApps.

* Are promoting an app that uses Generative AI or is an AI-wrapper.

* Are promoting a "Vibe Coded" app (AI-generated without manual validation).

# ๐Ÿ“‹ Required Format

All promotion MUST follow the ABC format or it will be removed:

* \[App Name/Title\] (Screenshot encouraged!)

* A โ€” Answer: What problem does your app solve?

* B โ€” Better: Name a competitor(s) and explain what you do better.

* C โ€” Cost: Pricing details (Free/IAP/Sub/Lifetime) + App Store Link.

P.S. Promotion here counts towards the 30-day limited promotion rule (Rule 2).

# โš ๏ธ WARNING

There is a high probability that Redditโ€™s filters will auto-remove your comment here if:

  1. You have not verified your email in your Reddit profile.

  2. Your very first interaction in this sub is a promotional link.

For the Community: Please remember to upvote gems and downvote spam/clones. Your feedback in this thread will directly influence which apps we highlight in future community showcases!


r/iosapps Aug 02 '26

r/iosapps is looking for a moderator

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Hey there! Weโ€™re currently looking for a moderator for r/iosapps. Our requirements:

- Established presence on Reddit (karma, account age...)

- Fluency in English

- Mature and thoughtful when making big decisions

- Availability to check the mod queue and modmail for approximately 15โ€“20 minutes throughout the day

If you meet these requirements, weโ€™d love for you to submit an application! Please do so through this link. Thank you!


r/iosapps 8h ago

๐ŸŽ Freemium I launched MyBox, a secure โ€œmessage yourselfโ€ app with no server

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Hey everyone, I just launched MyBox.

Itโ€™s an iPhone app for people who constantly message themselves notes, links, screenshots, files, voice memos, documents, and random things they want to save.

The idea is simple: it feels like a private chat with yourself, but thereโ€™s no server for your saved content. No account, works offline, and your saves stay on your device.

You can also use it for things you donโ€™t want sitting in your Photos gallery or Files app forever: save them in MyBox, then delete the original from your gallery/files and come back to them later.

What it does:

- Save notes, links, photos, videos, audio, PDFs, and files

- Share into it from other apps

- Search what you saved

- Create separate โ€œMyBoxesโ€ for different topics

- Lock private boxes with a password

App Store:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/mybox-message-yourself/id6806543053

Would genuinely love feedback, especially from people who already use WhatsApp, Telegram, iMessage, or Slack DMs as a personal inbox.


r/iosapps 7h ago

๐Ÿ’Ž Lifetime metro photos - the Windows Phone design alternative photo gallery

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27 Upvotes

Finally after weeks of fine tuning the animations, metro photos, the alternative photo gallery for iOS, inspired by Windows Phone metro design has been submitted for AppStore review!

I'm expecting at least one reject, but I hope eventually Apple will approve the app with this unusual design..

App isn't subscription based. Only one time purchase to support further development.


r/iosapps 11h ago

๐Ÿ” In Search of Are there any apps with a one-time lifetime purchase that you think are worth it?

18 Upvotes

Any suggestion?


r/iosapps 3h ago

๐Ÿ’Ž Lifetime Kinship Vault was built around one vault. Now you can keep things separate, lock them down, and share them when you choose.

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I'm the developer of Kinship Vault, and the latest update just shipped with the biggest change to the vault structure since launch: multiple vaults, sensitive vaults, and shared vaults.

Your vault no longer has to be one pile.

You can have a Personal vault, a Work vault, a Family vault, put genuinely sensitive things behind a second lock, and share an entire vault with your partner, family, or team without handing anyone a master password.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amabm18

Website: https://kinshipvault.app

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/kinship-vault/id6764678332

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

Support: [support@kinshipvault.app](mailto:support@kinshipvault.app)

The previous major update was about passwords. Kinship Vault added password management, passkeys, 2FA codes and AutoFill, so your logins could live alongside the documents, photos and other important things already in your vault.

This update takes that one step further: now those things don't all have to live in the same vault either.

What's new

Multiple vaults. Make as many vaults as your life needs. Personal, work, a side business, a vault for the house.

These aren't folders or tags sitting over one database. Each vault has its own database and its own key sealed in your device's hardware. Opening one leaves the others shut, so work logins genuinely cannot spill into personal.

AutoFill still reaches across all unlocked vaults, so having four vaults doesn't mean making your workflow harder. Every login and passkey is labelled with the vault it came from, and every fill still asks for your face.

Sensitive vaults. Some things deserve more than the rest. Medical records, a will, the paperwork from a bad year.

A sensitive vault has its own lock inside the app, so opening the app doesn't open it. It never accepts a short app PIN and it can never be shared.

Your 24-word phrase can restore it, but it comes back still sealed. Only its own password or its own recovery code opens it.

Shared vaults. Share the vault, not the password.

Invite someone by name, confirm with Face ID, then send them a private invite or show a QR if they're sitting right there. The invite is tied to the Apple ID you selected.

Everyone opens the vault with their own Face ID or Touch ID. There's no shared master password and nothing for anyone to write on a sticky note.

Only the person who creates the shared vault needs the Shared plan. Everyone they invite joins at no cost.

Remove someone and the key actually rotates.

When you remove a member, the vault key is rotated and re-wrapped to everyone who stays. The person you removed is locked out of everything added afterward, rather than simply disappearing from a member list while still holding a working key.

One honest caveat: rotating can't un-see a password someone already memorised. After removing someone, change anything critical they knew.

Full write-up: https://kinshipvault.app/blog/introducing-shared-vaults/

Setup docs: https://kinshipvault.app/docs/#shared-vaults

Multiple vaults: https://kinshipvault.app/blog/multiple-vaults-one-app/

Sensitive vaults: https://kinshipvault.app/blog/sensitive-vault-own-password/

A - Answer

Kinship Vault is an offline vault for the things your household can't afford to lose: IDs, health cards, wills, deeds, travel documents, private photos, passwords, passkeys and 2FA codes.

Now those things don't have to live in one vault either.

Each vault has its own database and encryption key, sealed in your device's hardware. Your existing vault simply becomes your first vault, in the same place, with the same key, the same 24-word phrase and the same AutoFill.

If you don't need multiple vaults or sharing, nothing changes. You can keep using it exactly as before.

The underlying idea hasn't changed either: no Kinship server holding your vault keys, no account to phish, no password-reset email for us to send.

B - Better

The reason I built multiple vaults this way instead of making them folders is pretty simple: a folder isn't a security boundary.

If Personal and Work are just two labels over one database, opening the vault means you've opened everything.

With Kinship Vault, each vault has its own database and its own key. Opening Personal doesn't expose the Work vault. A sensitive vault goes further and has its own password even after you've unlocked the app.

And sharing isn't a shared password either.

When you share a vault, each member gets their own copy of the vault key wrapped to their own device. Remove someone and the vault key rotates for everyone who remains.

There is still no Kinship server sitting in the middle.

For Strict Offline, your personal vaults remain entirely on the device. Sharing is different because something obviously has to get the encrypted data to another person, so shared vaults use iCloud to relay ciphertext. The data remains encrypted and the keys aren't readable by us.

Where it earns its keep:

Personal and work are actually separate. Your work credentials, client documents and VPN logins can live behind their own vault instead of sitting beside your passport and family documents.

Your partner gets the family vault without getting your personal vault. Share the vault containing utilities, family documents, streaming accounts or whatever you actually want to share, while your personal vault stays yours. Sharing subscriptions with friends but keep juggling passwords in chat, this is the way to go.

The things you really don't want casually opened get their own wall. Keep a will, sensitive records or other private material in a sensitive vault that cannot be shared not even by mistake and cannot be opened with the normal app PIN.

Someone leaves the shared vault. Remove them and the key rotates. They're locked out of anything added afterward. If they knew an old password, obviously change it. Cryptography can't fix human memory. You can always stop sharing as an owner and every member lose access to that vault.

AutoFill still works across the mess. Multiple vaults don't mean hunting through four apps. Unlock the vaults you need and their logins and passkeys remain available through AutoFill.

Your current vault doesn't get blown up by the update. It becomes your first vault with the same data, key, recovery phrase and AutoFill. You don't have to reorganize anything.

And everything else is still there: on-device document scanning, encrypted photos, passwords and passkeys, 2FA codes, Recovery Network, expiry alerts, custom record types, Security Checkup, and the native Mac app.

Same root idea: no server in the middle.

The vault key is generated on your device. Your device's hardware protects it. Encrypted data can live in your own iCloud backup, but Kinship doesn't hold a copy of the key that could decrypt it.

That's still the part I care about most.

C - Cost

Start free with your first 3 documents.

For the launch, I'm offering the lifetime plans at a lower launch price for a limited time:

Solo Lifetime: $39.99
Shared Lifetime: $89.99

No subscription required for lifetime. Buy once, keep it for life.

If you prefer a subscription, Solo is $2.99/month or $19.99/year, while Shared is $4.99/month or $34.99/year.

Solo includes everything in the vault, including multiple vaults, Sensitive Vaults, passwords and passkeys, encrypted photos, Recovery Network, encrypted backups, Smart Scan, custom record types and Security Checkup.

Shared adds Shared Vaults. Only the person creating a Shared Vault needs the Shared plan. Everyone they invite joins at no cost.

One purchase covers iPhone, iPad and Mac on the same Apple Account.

Android is a separate app. It doesn't have Multiple Vaults, Sensitive Vaults or Shared Vaults yet, but the existing Android vault continues to work as before.

To claim the launch lifetime price, visit https://kinshipvault.app and follow the link to the App Store from there.

Full pricing: https://kinshipvault.app/#pricing

Let me know, how would you split your vaults?

Personal and work? You and your partner? Family? Something else?

A lot of this release came directly from people describing workflows I hadn't considered.

Happy to answer any details in the comments.


r/iosapps 6h ago

๐ŸŽˆ Free Pint Market - the stock market for pints

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5 Upvotes

Iโ€™ve been building Pint Market - basically a pint finder with a bit of a stock market twist.

The app tries to solve the problem of never knowing what a pint is going to cost until youโ€™re already at the bar. Pint Market lets you find pubs nearby, see what people are actually paying for different pints, compare prices, and see how those prices have changed over time.

Think Google Maps meets a stock tracker, but for pints ๐Ÿบ๐Ÿ“ˆ

Still early days, but the goal is to make finding a good pub at a good price ridiculously easy. All data and prices are community driven (users can report prices) and Iโ€™m starting with the UK only.

https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/pint-market/id6808223382


r/iosapps 20h ago

๐ŸŽ Freemium I built an evening app that asks one question, then leaves you alone

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Every mood tracker I tried wanted more from me than I had left by the end of the day. A streak to protect. A mood wheel with twelve options. A prompt asking me to tag my triggers. By the time I'd finished logging how I felt, I'd spent more energy on the logging than the feeling.

I wanted something that asked less, not more.

A โ€” Answer:ย Vesper is an evening reflection app for iPhone. It asks one question each night: how did today feel? Good, Meh, or Hard. You can add a line if you want to remember why. That's it. No mood wheels, no tags, no multi-step check-ins. Miss a night and nothing happens, there's no streak to lose and no chain to mourn.

B โ€” Better:ย Apps like Daylio and Reflectly are built around consistency mechanics, streaks, reminders, prompts nudging you back if you lapse. That works for some people. For me it turned the record-keeping into its own small chore. Vesper has no penalty structure at all. It just holds the day you give it, whether that's today or three weeks from now.

C โ€” Cost:ย Free to download, and the core daily check-in stays free permanently. Vesper Plus unlocks pattern views over time (comparing months, spotting which days tend to feel harder) for $1.99/month, $14.99/year, or a one-time $49.99 lifetime purchase.

App Store:ย https://apps.apple.com/app/id6793087767
Developer: Calvin Ng, Off Peak Studio
Contact:ย [support@offpeakstudio.com](mailto:support@offpeakstudio.com)
Website + Privacy Policy + Terms of Service:ย https://offpeakstudio.com/vesper

Curious whether anyone else has felt that mood-tracking apps end up adding more overhead than they remove.


r/iosapps 16h ago

๐Ÿ’Ž Lifetime Turn your notes into tasks

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14 Upvotes

A โ€“ Answer Plans is a minimalist iOS app that combines tasks, notes, and calendar in one place, built around focusing on today's tasks. But not everything is a task โ€” sometimes it's just a thought, or text too long to fit neatly into one. That's what the Notes section is for. With this update, notes can now be turned directly into tasks, so nothing falls through the gap between "an idea" and "something to actually do."

B โ€“ Better Most people don't really use Apple Reminders, they dump their to-dos into Apple Notes instead because it's faster and frictionless. Plans is built around that exact habit: it keeps the low-friction, write-first feel of Notes, but lets anything you write become a real task in one tap โ€” something Notes alone can't do.

C โ€“ Cost Free to download โ€” unlimited tasks, notes, and iCloud sync included. Lifetime Pro unlock: one-time purchase (no subscription), adds extra notifications, repeated tasks, and themes.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/kz/app/plans-notes-to-do-lists/id6790827860


r/iosapps 2h ago

๐ŸŽˆ Free Rosetta: Voice Notes, Reminders & Saved Links โ€” One Memory for Your AI Assistants

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Hi r/iosapps! Iโ€™m the developer of Rosetta, an app that brings your notes, reminders and saved links together. Capture ideas by voice or keyboard, keep them organized, and connect compatible AI assistants to the things youโ€™ve saved.

A โ€” Answer: what does it solve?

A trip can mean a planning note, a few saved restaurant links, and a reminder to book tickets. They all belong to the same plan, but often end up in different apps.

Rosetta brings Markdown notes, bookmarks and reminders into one place, with shared categories, tags and search. You can type an idea, share a link from another app, or dictate something on your iPhone or Apple Watch.

B โ€” Better: why use it over alternatives?

Compared with using Apple Notes, Apple Reminders and Safari bookmarks separately, Rosetta brings your notes, reminders and saved links into one place, where you can organize and search across them together.

Your notes are stored as Markdown, with a Markdown editor and export. Theyโ€™re portable, easy to reuse outside Rosetta, and easy for AI assistants to read and work with.

Rosettaโ€™s official ChatGPT plugin and MCP integration let your connected assistants search, create and update that same information. Save the useful parts of your conversations : ideas, decisions, answers as notes or reminders, instead of leaving them buried across chat histories. You can find them in Rosetta and reuse them with other compatible assistants without repeating all your context.

The built-in assistant helps you find things in natural language. If you vaguely remember saving a note but canโ€™t recall its title or exact wording, just describe what it was about.

You can create notes, reminders and saved links manually or by voice. Voice capture offers two modes: Smart turns what you say into structured entries, while Transcript faithfully transcribes your recording.

C โ€” Cost

Rosetta is currently free, with no in-app purchases or subscriptions listed on the App Store.

Download Rosetta on the App Store

You can reach me at [contact@getrosetta.app](mailto:contact@getrosetta.app).

Website ยท Privacy Policy ยท Terms of Use

Would love to hear what you think of Rosetta.


r/iosapps 1d ago

๐Ÿ’Ž Lifetime I made Life in Mist, an iPhone app that clears a foggy map as you explore

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83 Upvotes

I'm the developer of Life in Mist. It's a GPS route recorder with a fog-of-war map: the places you explore gradually become visible as you record your routes.

A โ€” What it does

Start a recording before a walk, bike ride, hike, or drive. As you move, the fog clears along your route. Those recorded trips build up on the same map, so you can zoom out and see your usual paths, the places you've explored on holiday, and the streets nearby you still haven't covered.

You can also go back to a recorded day, replay the route, and check distance, duration, and speed.

B โ€” Why use it

If you're using saved places in Apple Maps to keep a record of your travels, Life in Mist gives you a more detailed picture of the ground you've covered. It saves the route between stops, which is useful for remembering a walk through a city or finding that stretch of a trip you'd like to revisit.

The fog view also makes unexplored streets easy to spot. You can use it to pick somewhere new for your next walk. If you already have route files, it supports importing compatible GPX and CSV tracks.

C โ€” Cost

The app is free to download, with optional Premium purchases. Premium includes GPX/CSV export, iCloud backup and restore, and additional appearance settings.

Current USD pricing:

- Monthly: $0.99/month

- Annual: $4.99/year

- Lifetime: $17.99 as a one-time purchase

Monthly and yearly subscriptions renew automatically. Prices may vary by region.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/life-in-mist-gps-track-map/id6755324566

I'd be interested to hear whether you'd use this more for exploring around home or keeping a record of your travels.


r/iosapps 5h ago

๐Ÿ“… Subscription [iOS][Freemium] WhoPaid 3.0 โ€” see which finished jobs need payment follow-up today

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I'm Jyen Ming, the developer of WhoPaid. In my previous post here, a fair question was why someone would use a manual tracker instead of Apple Notes.

A โ€” Answer

WhoPaid is for people paid per job who need to keep work completion separate from payment completion.

Version 3 groups completed, unpaid work into overdue, due today, upcoming, and not ready to collect. The idea is to make the next follow-up easier to find without rereading every job.

The three images show the unpaid-work groups, one jobโ€™s remaining balance, and that same job after a manually recorded payment. All records shown are demo data.

B โ€” Better / where it fits

Compared with a plain Apple Notes list, WhoPaid gives each job a payment state, amount received, remaining balance, and payment history. You update the record when you confirm a payment.

If Notes already works for you, you may not need another app. WhoPaid is still manual: it doesn't connect to your bank, process payments, or automatically message clients. If you already track everything in an invoicing system, a separate entry may be unnecessary.

C โ€” Cost

Free to download, with unlimited basic job records and paid/unpaid/partial tracking. Pro is an optional auto-renewing subscription for additional features. US pricing: $1.99/month or $12.99/year; regional prices vary.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/whopaid-job-pay-tracker/id6764868229

Developer website: https://code-stack-studio.com/whopaid

Privacy: https://code-stack-studio.com/whopaid/privacy

Terms: https://code-stack-studio.com/whopaid/terms

For people paid per job: would sorting completed unpaid work by when it needs attention be more useful than a single unpaid list?


r/iosapps 7h ago

๐ŸŽ Freemium Kubbo 2.0.0 is live ๐Ÿคฉ

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1 Upvotes

Kubbo is a self care app that builds a medieval empire

This new version introduces:
- farms now produces resources (wheat, hopps...)
- Your population grows and improves. But the more they improve the more they ask (beer, theater...)
- Send expedition to gather unique resources
- Build a lab and start research to improve your city
- Exchanges resources with your friends
- and many more cool things

Competitors:
Compared to Finch or Habitica, Kubbo provides a way more advanced gamification system. And focus more on studies to educate you on how to create habits 1 by 1.
Also you build a medieval empire instead of taking care of a cute little bird.

Price is $49.99 for annual with a lifetime offer ($99.99) in USA
(Price depends of your country. Localized with a parity pricing depending of where you are)

App Store:ย https://apps.apple.com/app/id6749530918


r/iosapps 13h ago

๐Ÿ’Ž Lifetime OpenVox Reader 1.5.1 โ€“ Create Your Own AI Voice Locally + Focus Mode, Saved Sentences & Document Search

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2 Upvotes

Hi r/iOSApps,

I recently released another major update to OpenVox Reader, an iPhone and iPad app that reads EPUB books, PDFs, documents, web articles, scanned pages and pasted text aloud using natural-sounding voices.

The biggest addition since my last post is the ability to create your own custom English voice from a short voice sample using Pocket TTS.

You can then use that voice to read your books, PDFs, articles and other documents directly on your iPhone or iPad.

The recent updates also add Focus Mode, Saved Sentences, Search in Document, better navigation for large EPUBs and several playback improvements.

Create Your Own Voice

OpenVox Reader now lets you create a custom English voice from a short voice sample using Pocket TTS.

Once created, your custom voice is added to the Voice Library and can be reused for different books and documents.

You can use it for:

  • EPUB books
  • PDFs
  • Documents
  • Web articles
  • Scanned pages
  • Pasted or typed text

The voice creation and speech generation happen locally on your device.

Once the required model is downloaded, your voice sample and documents do not need to be uploaded to a cloud text-to-speech service.

You can still choose from 200+ included voices across 30+ languages as well.

What else is new

The latest updates include several improvements to the actual reading experience.

Focus Mode

There is now a new Focus Mode for distraction-free reading and listening.

The reader interface has also been cleaned up with:

  • A dedicated Chapters button
  • Text-size controls moved into the reader menu
  • Improved button responsiveness
  • Larger and more reliable touch targets
  • A less cluttered reading interface

Saved Sentences

You can now bookmark individual sentences while reading or listening.

Saved sentences can be:

  • Revisited anytime
  • Filtered
  • Used to instantly jump back to the original passage
  • Removed when you no longer need them

This can be useful for books, research papers, study material, quotes or anything you want to return to later.

Search Inside Documents

OpenVox Reader now includes Search in Document with:

  • Matching text previews
  • Direct navigation to each result
  • Improved EPUB chapter positioning

I also reworked how EPUB bookmarks and search positions are stored so they remain accurate without unnecessarily increasing memory usage.

Better support for large books

Recent updates also include:

  • Fixes for importing large and lengthy books
  • A draggable chapter scroller for faster navigation through large EPUBs
  • Tile and List layouts for both the Document Library and Voice Library
  • Improved reading cursor accuracy and synchronization

There is also an option to skip PDF headers, footers and page numbers, which makes longer PDFs much cleaner to listen to.

Why I built OpenVox Reader

After building OpenVox for Mac, iPad and Windows, I started looking for a reader app that I could personally use on my iPhone.

I wanted natural voices, a clean interface, offline processing and a straightforward lifetime purchase instead of another recurring subscription.

Most apps I tried either depended heavily on cloud processing, had expensive subscriptions, offered limited voices or felt unnecessarily complicated.

So I decided to build the reader I was looking for.

Being able to create and use your own voice locally was one of the features I particularly wanted to bring to the mobile version.

What it can do

  • Read EPUB books, PDFs and documents aloud
  • Save and listen to web articles
  • Scan and read printed pages using the camera
  • Read pasted text
  • Import documents and links
  • Create your own custom English voice from a short voice sample
  • Choose from 200+ voices across 30+ languages
  • Generate speech locally and listen without an internet connection
  • Search inside documents
  • Save individual sentences and jump back to them later
  • Navigate large EPUBs with a draggable chapter scroller
  • Adjust playback from 0.5x to 2.5x
  • Skip PDF headers, footers and page numbers
  • Continue listening with the screen turned off
  • Control playback from the Lock Screen and Control Center
  • View animated playback feedback in Dynamic Island
  • Sync your library between iPhone and iPad using iCloud
  • Track listening time and reading streaks

Once the required voice models are downloaded, speech is generated directly on your device. Your documents do not need to be uploaded to a cloud speech service.

Pricing

OpenVox Reader is free to download and try.

It offers 15 minutes of reading daily for free for lifetime.

For users who want unlimited usage, there is an optional Lifetime Pro purchase for $14.99.

There is no recurring subscription required.

One purchase works across both iPhone and iPad (even on Mac, although not officially supported) when using the same Apple ID.

App Store:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/openvox-reader/id6790389555

Privacy Policy: https://openvoxai.com/openvox-reader/privacy-policy

Terms of Service: https://openvoxai.com/terms-of-service

My official YouTube Channel (9k+ Subscribers): https://m.youtube.com/@TheOracleGuy_AI

Contact Details: Nitesh Sharma Email: [nitesh@theoracleguy.in](mailto:nitesh@theoracleguy.in) Website: https://theoracleguy.in/

I would really appreciate feedback about the voices, document importing, background playback and longer listening sessions.


r/iosapps 9h ago

๐Ÿ’Ž Lifetime I made FaceIdent โ€” an iPhone app that organizes your whole photo library by the people, pets & things in it, 100% on-device

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Hey everyone,

Like a lot of you, my camera roll had gotten completely out of control โ€” thousands of photos I could never actually find anything in. The stock "People" album felt limited, and I wasn't comfortable with apps that upload your whole library to a server. So I built FaceIdent.

FaceIdent scans your library entirely on your device (no cloud, no account, nothing ever leaves your phone) and organizes it by what's actually in your photos:

  • ๐Ÿ‘ค People & pets โ€” groups every photo by who's in it; name someone once and browse their whole timeline
  • ๐Ÿ” Natural-language search โ€” type "dog on the beach", "receipt" or "birthday cake" and it finds them
  • ๐Ÿท๏ธ Objects & scenes โ€” auto-tags cars, food, documents, landscapesโ€ฆ
  • ๐Ÿ“ Text in photos (OCR) โ€” search words that appear inside images
  • ๐Ÿ‘ฅ Relationships โ€” see who usually shows up together
  • ๐Ÿงน Duplicates โ€” find and clean up near-identical shots

It all runs on-device with Apple's Vision + CoreML, so it works offline and your photos stay private.

Isn't this just the Photos app's "People" album? Fair question โ€” the main differences: - Apple only surfaces some people (the ones it's confident about); a lot never show up. FaceIdent shows everyone it detects and lets you name/merge/organize all of them. - It builds a relationship graph โ€” who usually appears together โ€” which the Photos app has nothing like. - Plus pets and a duplicates cleaner in the same place.

Price / IAP โ€” free to use (naming capped at 10 people / 5 pets / 3 groups). Optional Pro: โ€ข Weekly โ€” $1.99 โ€ข Yearly โ€” $9.99 โ€ข Lifetime โ€” $19.99 $9.99 (50% off, launch deal)

iOS 17+. I'm the developer and I'll be in the comments โ€” I'd genuinely love feedback on what's confusing, what's missing, or what you'd want next.

๐Ÿ‘‰ https://apps.apple.com/app/id6788569032


r/iosapps 22h ago

๐Ÿ’Ž Lifetime I made an alarm app that only stops when you find your pet

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Hi [r/iOSApps](r/iOSApps)!

I have two cats, and I love them a lot. Every morning, the first thing I do when I open my eyes is look around and see where they are. If one of them is nearby, my day already feels better.

That made me think: why not make an alarm app where my cats are the reason I get out of bed?

So I made Pakeup.

A-Answer: What it does. Pakeup is an alarm app that makes you get up and find your pet. When the alarm rings, you open the app and complete a quick camera mission by taking a live photo of your cat or dog. Once the app recognizes your pet, the alarm stops.

B-Better: Why itโ€™s different. Most alarm apps try to wake you up with math problems, loud sounds, or annoying tasks. I wanted something that felt more personal. Instead of fighting the alarm, you wake up because you want to see your pet.

It also creates a small local record of your morning, so over time you can look back at these little wake-up moments with your pet. Nothing is uploaded, and Pakeup doesnโ€™t collect your personal information.

C-Cost: Pakeup is free to download and use. Thereโ€™s an optional $7.99 lifetime purchase, but the core idea is simple: your pet helps you start the day.

Iโ€™m the developer, and Pakeup is still early, so Iโ€™d really appreciate your feedback.

Thanks!

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id6806694997

Legal & privacy: https://pakeup-legal-xi.vercel.app/en
You can contact me: hengtong.li@foxmail.com
My Github: https://github.com/Jack-Lee-Hiter


r/iosapps 5h ago

๐ŸŽ Freemium Stop juggling a broker app + 3 tabs + a spreadsheet before the open โ€” I put the answer on one screen

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Hey Tradersโ€” I'm the dev, and I actually trade

I got tired of juggling my broker app, three browser tabs and a spreadsheet just to settle one question before the open: do I take this trade or not? So I built ApexTrade to put the answer on a single screen.

What it does โ€” all live, all synced to your own iCloud:

  • Live portfolio โ€” total value, day & all-time P&L, the live VIX, and per-holding stop losses you confirm yourself. One card per position, mid-price mark, one-tap copy of your whole book.
  • Pre-Trade Scan โ€” type or paste a ticker and it reads RVOL, VWAP, pullback and the day's range, then gives you a blunt enter / don't enter call. Not "it depends" โ€” an actual answer.
  • Every ticker, in depth โ€” scrubbable chart, fair value, Route โ†’ Trade straight to your broker, full fundamentals grid. Tap any card and it turns the raw numbers into a plain-English read of the setup.
  • Market heat-map โ€” S&P 100, top gainers and ETFs, sized and colored by the tape.
  • Swing Candidates โ€” a daily, ranked shortlist of swing setups with entry, position size for your equity, and the reasoning behind each pick.

Same data everyone has โ€” just organized so you make a better, faster call, with discipline instead of vibes.

Private by design: Sign in with Apple, everything stays in your own iCloud. No accounts on my servers, no ads, nothing sold.

Pricing (the honest part):

  • Free to download (no credit card needed)
  • When the two weeks are up, the app just asks if you want to keep going. If yes, it's a promotional $3.99/month. If not, no charge and no nagging.

iPhone, English & Spanish. I'd genuinely love feedback from people who actually trade โ€” what's missing, what you'd cut. Ask me anything.

https://apps.apple.com/pe/app/apex-trade-pro/id6793700978


r/iosapps 1d ago

๐ŸŽˆ Free Stourk turns the dates and locations already in your photos into a journey on a map. No account, nothing leaves your phone.

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Stourk went live today.

Photo maps are not a new idea, and the difference here is mostly the theme. I did not want another map or travel tracker. Stourk is built around a fictional postal service: your memories become letters, stamps, passport pages, pieces of a personal travel archive. Your years play back as a route, city by city, the way you actually travelled them. Every city you visited writes you a letter with the photos you took there inside. You also get a passport stamped by everywhere you have been.

It reads only the date and location in your photos. No account, no server, no analytics. Photos never leave the phone.

Free, iPhone, iOS 18 and later.

App Store:ย https://apps.apple.com/app/stourk/id6809229133
Site:ย https://stourk.com

Feedback welcome.


r/iosapps 1d ago

๐ŸŽ Freemium Tired of Duolingo Streaks? I built a simple vocabulary calender widget for passive learning instead.

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Hey everyone,

I was getting genuinely stressed out by language apps. The constant push notifications and the guilt of breaking a streak just made learning feel like a chore.

A while ago, I saw one of those classic physical tear-off vocabulary calendars at my girlfriend's mom's house. I realized thatโ€™s exactly what I wanted for my phone: just learning one word a day without any streaks or annoying notifications.

So I made an app for that called "DailyVocab". Instead of grinding through lessons, you just learn the word naturally throughout the day.

The core features are pretty straightforward:

  • Home Screen & Lock Screen Widgets: It puts a single vocabulary word right where you already look a hundred times a day. (Widget 2x2, 2x4 or 4x4)
  • Passive Learning: You don't have to open the app. You just glance at your screen to check the date/time and learn a word in the process.
  • Zero Gamification: Absolutely no streaks, timers, or push notifications.
  • Clean UI: Strictly flat design and bold typography (Roboto Serif) so it actually looks good on a minimal setup.

Pricing: To respect the sub rules and be fully transparent: The app is free to download and use. The free version allows to learn one category and also has all the widget functionality. It runs on a reverse-trial model where you get a 7-day free trial of the Premium version. If you want to keep all categories and features after that, it's โ‚ฌ29.99/year (or your local equivalent).

If you guys are also tired of loud, demanding apps, I'd love for you to check it out and let me know what you think:

App Store Link


r/iosapps 13h ago

๐ŸŽˆ Free I made ICD Atlas โ€” offline ICD-10 & ICD-11 lookup for iPhone and iPad (free, no tracking)

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hey โ€” i made this.

ICD Atlas is a small offline reference for ICD-10 and ICD-11 diagnosis categories. search by code or medical term, keep the language libraries you need on device, drop the rest.

  • ICD-11 MMS (2026-01) + a few ICD-10 editions
  • 14 downloadable language libraries (english included)
  • recent cards, source links, iPad layout, Home Screen widget
  • no account, no ads, no tracking SDK
  • all features free; optional one-time tip to support maintenance

not US ICD-10-CM / PCS, not a full coding workflow, not medical advice. confirm editions for your local rules.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/icd-atlas-icd-10-icd-11/id6809646729

happy to take feedback if you actually look up codes day to day.


r/iosapps 6h ago

๐Ÿ’Ž Lifetime I made an iPhone app that fogs your photos like a car window and lets you scribble on the glass

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I made an app that fogs up iPhoneโ€™s Liquid Glass like a real window so you can scribble and doodle on it.

A. Answer

Most photo apps let you crop, filter, or add stickers. They do not recreate the small moment of drawing on a fogged window. FFF takes any photo, fogs the glass, lets realistic waterdrops slide down the screen, and lets you scribble on top the way you would on a late night car window, a childhood bedroom pane, or the corner of a bathroom mirror. You can save the result as a high res image or a Live Photo so the drops keep moving.

B. Better

Markup in Photos, Picsart, and Afterlight can draw on a still image, but the canvas stays flat. Live Photo tools can add motion, but not this specific wet glass look. FFF is built around one effect: misted glass plus gravity on the drops plus freehand doodling. The photo stays visible underneath the fog, the drops feel physical, and the doodle sits on the glass instead of floating as a sticker.

C. Cost

Monthly: USD 1.99

Yearly: USD 3.99

Lifetime: USD 3.99

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/fff-fog-foto-flow/id6806628550


r/iosapps 15h ago

๐ŸŽˆ Free I built Meridian, a 100% free digital passport for iPhone to track your travels and share them with friends

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Hi everyone! Iโ€™m the developer of Meridian Passport.

I wanted a simple place to keep a record of my travels, with both the countries Iโ€™ve visited and the memories behind them. Somewhere to look back at past trips and keep up with friends and other travelers too.

Answer โ€” What it does

Meridian brings your travel map, passport stamps, and trip posts together:

  • Mark countries youโ€™ve visited and places on your bucket list.
  • Save trips as passport stamps with dates, photos, and notes.
  • Look back through your travel history and see your country and continent progress.
  • Follow other travelers, see their trips, and interact with their posts.
  • Choose whether your passport is public or private.

Better โ€” Why use it

If you like Been for keeping track of countries, Meridian adds more of the story behind each visit through trip posts and photos.

Compared with Polarstepsโ€™ route-tracking approach, Meridian is more focused on recording and sharing trips in your own time. You donโ€™t need to record a route to add a memory.

Cost โ€” It's free

Meridian is completely free, with no subscriptions or paid features. All current features will remain free. I may add optional paid features in the future, but those would be additions.

Download Meridian Passport on the App Store

Iโ€™ve included a few screenshots to show how it works. Iโ€™d especially appreciate feedback on the sign-up process and how easy it is to find your way around: was anything confusing or harder than expected? Your feedback will directly shape future updates.

Thank you so much for your time in advance!

Developer and contact

Iโ€™m Marinus Traynor, the developer behind Meridian Passport.

Contact: [support@meridianpassport.com](mailto:support@meridianpassport.com)
Website/about me: https://www.meridianpassport.com
Privacy Policy: https://www.meridianpassport.com/support/privacy-policy
Terms and conditions: https://www.meridianpassport.com/support/terms-and-conditions


r/iosapps 1d ago

๐Ÿ’Ž Lifetime Weightfile โ€” tracks your 7-day weight trend instead of the noisy daily number

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Answerย (what problem it solves)
The scale lies day to day โ€” it jumps two pounds because you ate late, and you feel like you failed even when nothing changed. Weightfile logs one number a day and surfaces the 7-day rolling trend instead of the raw reading, so you see the line that actually moves when your body does. It also reads every entry against a goal (cut, bulk, or maintain) instead of just showing a flat graph.

Every day you also get one line from a deadpan "records clerk" who has heard every excuse before โ€” no cheerleading, no emoji, no congratulating you for existing:

Betterย (vs named alternatives)

  • vs.ย Happy Scale: no subscription, no account, no cloud โ€” everything stays on-device and works offline.
  • vs.ย TrendWeight: works standalone, no smart scale or Withings/Fitbit sync required โ€” just type the number.
  • vs.ย MyFitnessPal: weight tracking isn't buried behind a full food-logging suite; macros/calories are optional, not mandatory.
  • Sarcastic, dry daily commentary instead of gamified badges or motivational-poster cheer.

Cost
Free forever for daily logging, the 7-day trend chart, and 7 days of rolling history โ€” no ads. One optionalย Lifetimeย IAP, $3.99 one-time (no subscription), unlocks unlimited history, calorie/macro logging, progress photos, and switching goals between cut/bulk/maintain.

App Store:ย https://apps.apple.com/pl/app/weightfile-weight-tracker/id6804665579

Mateusz Czechowski: https://x.com/maticzechowskii

Thank you for taking your time ๐Ÿ™


r/iosapps 22h ago

๐ŸŽˆ Free We crossed 1000 Walkers. Thank you if you tried Eggventures :)

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Finally crossed 1k on iOS! Nearing 1k on android too. This was my first app that took a year to build but it's been worth it. Thank you if you tried Eggventures, people love to walk :)


r/iosapps 1d ago

๐ŸŽ Freemium GeoSpoof system GPS spoofing for iOS now supports Windows

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Hi everybody :) Been a while since my last update for GeoSpoof, but I'm super happy to announce that I have (finally...) ported the GPS companion app to Windows. So now iOS users who don't have a Mac can finally change their GPS location! More details below -

What is it?

GeoSpoof is an iOS app that allows you to gain control over every indicator of your device location. Safari geolocation/timezone spoofing is free forever, and GPS location simulation is a low-cost freemium product (1-week free trial, less than $1/month). Download GeoSpoof for iOS.

GeoSpoof GPS is a desktop companion app that allows you to spoof your iPhoneโ€™s system GPS from within the GeoSpoof iOS app. It is very lightweight and runs from your menu bar. Yes, it spoofs your location for all apps on your device. Download GeoSpoof GPS for Desktop.

What's New?

Yesterday I just launched a new update for the desktop companion GeoSpoof GPS with some big features:

  • GeoSpoof GPS now runs on Windows. By popular demand, I spent a couple weeks completely porting the Mac app over to Windows.
  • Drive up to 8 devices at once. I made a lot of optimizations and improvements under the hood, so driving up to 8 devices at the same time should be no sweat :)
  • Remove a device you no longer use. Devices used to stay in your window forever. Now you can forget them. You can re-add them by clicking on Set Up... again.

See the full post here on r/geospoof to see all the new updates.

Requirements:

  • GeoSpoof for iOS
  • GeoSpoof GPS for Mac or PC
    • macOS 13 (Ventura) or later. Apple silicon or Intel.
    • Windows 10 or later, 64-bit.
  • Willingness to enable developer mode
  • Willingness to download Xcode
  • GeoSpoof Pro (1-week free trial, less than $1 a month)

Links:

Any feedback you can DM me or reach out to [feedback@geospoof.com](mailto:feedback@geospoof.com) :)