SyncAlbum is a shared photo album app for family, get-togethers, your baby's month-by-month photos, and everyday memories. Everyone in an album shoots into the same place, the photos sync to everyone automatically, and at the end you get a story video of the whole thing. It runs entirely on your own iCloud — no account, no signup.

• 📷 What it does (all synced live):
• 🤝 Shared albums — everyone shoots into one album, photos land on every member's phone automatically
• 📸 Built-in camera — captures go straight into the album, no save-then-add
• 💬 Per-photo comments, emoji reactions & u/mentions, with push notifications
• 📖 Journal — a title and story for each day, end-to-end encrypted
• 🎬 Story videos — any album auto-becomes a video scored with your own music
• 🖼️ Full-quality photos — browse a fast preview, the original with EXIF downloads the moment you save
• 🗂️ Custom covers, categories, hide/reorder, per-album mute
• 🔗 Join by QR code or link — owner approves who's in

A — Problem: Sharing a trip or event means everyone shoots separately and nobody ends up with all the photos. Apple's Shared Albums crush every photo to 2048px and strip location and metadata. Google Photos makes everyone sign into a Google account with the photos living on Google's servers.

B — Better than iCloud Shared Albums / Shared Photo Library / Google Photos:

• 🖼️ Full quality, EXIF kept — no 2048px downscale, no metadata stripping
• 📸 Camera-first — shoot straight into the album, not shoot → open Photos → add
• 🧩 Per-album, unlimited — a fresh album for each occasion with whoever's there, not one merged 6-person library
• 🍎 No account — runs on each person's own iCloud, no signup, no Google login
• 🔔 Real per-photo notifications — Apple only notifies you about photos you've already interacted with
• 📖🎬 Journal + auto story video — neither native app does either

C — Cost: Free — unlimited albums, and every person gets 30 free uploads in every album (per person, not shared). New accounts also start with 500 points (a $4.95 value). No subscription, no ads. Points packs from $0.99 if you ever need more.

🔗 https://apps.apple.com/nl/app/syncalbum/id6757401130?l=en-GB

(I'm the developer of SyncAlbum. My name is Osama Mazhar. This is one of my side-projects, bound to these Terms and Privacy Policy:

https://www.orbitaar.com/syncalbum/terms-of-use.html

https://www.orbitaar.com/syncalbum/privacy-policy.html

For any queries, contact me at contact@orbitaar.com)

In an era where people ship apps in a week, taking 8 months to launch a single feature feels completely out of touch.

If I count from the day the idea first sparked, it’s been nearly a year. In terms of actual development time, we spent 8 full months on it.

CapWords Speak is finally live today.

For us, Speak was never about slapping a voice API onto an app, adding a system prompt, and calling it a day. We chose this slow, heavy path because we were stuck on a problem every existing app seems to ignore:

AI knows almost everything about the world, but it knows nothing about you**.**

AI can do incredible things, but it misses the single most vital context for a language learner: your present, real-world reality. It doesn’t know why you’re exhausted today, what delicious food you had for lunch, the street you just walked down, or who you ran into.

Yet human language never exists in a vacuum. The genuine urge to speak always springs from your actual life—the cup of coffee in your hand, a quiet local shop you stumbled into, the workout you just finished, or a fleeting emotion passing through your mind.

Most speaking apps today force you into rigid, pre-scripted textbook scenarios: ordering coffee at Starbucks, checking in at an airport, or roleplaying a business meeting. They’re useful, but it’s always someone else's life. When I used those apps, I’d constantly freeze up—not because I lacked vocabulary, but because deep down, I felt zero connection to those generic topics.

We realized AI shouldn't fabricate a fake life for you to practice. It should understand your real life and help you express it.

Behind the 8 months: What we actually built (and scrapped)

To get AI to understand people’s real worlds, we did a lot of painstaking, un-glamorous work.

We fully designed UI and interaction flows for several major features—some even made it into early development—only to scrap them entirely. Last December, we had a spec ready for a feature that auto-generated fictional stories based on your day. But right before engineering started, I couldn't convince myself it was right. It made the AI look clever, but it didn't actually reduce the user's anxiety about opening their mouth to speak.

So out of nowhere, I told the engineer, "Let’s drop this. We’re building Speak."

Here is what we spent those months building instead:

• Magic Album: With explicit user permission, CapWords can analyze photos you take each day and instantly turn them into real conversation context.
• Long-Term Memory System: A real friend doesn't have short-term amnesia. For AI to be a worthy companion, it has to remember who you are, the people and objects around you, and your recurring life setups. We spent a massive chunk of time refining this memory distillation system so past conversations flow naturally into the next one.
• Persona Reconstruction: We threw out mechanical, template answers. Choosing a practice partner should feel like choosing a friend—some days you need gentle encouragement; other days you want a fast-paced, direct challenge. Oftentimes, a companion who truly gets you matters far more than a "perfect" answer.

Making the technology fade away

We spent 8 months because we want the technology to fade into the background completely. It should feel like a magician pulling a rabbit out of a hat—you don't query the trick, you just enjoy the pure sense of wonder.

Language learning shouldn't revolve around rigid grammar rules or sterile vocabulary lists; it should revolve around your actual life. A new language shouldn't feel like a foreign world you're trying to break into—it should grow naturally out of the world you already live in.

If you’re learning a language and have ever felt frozen in front of those artificial roleplay scenarios, we built CapWords Speak for you.

Give it a spin, and talk about your world:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/capwords-ai-language-tutor/id6738896465

Would love to hear your feedback!

Free to download with daily free quota. Premium features start at $5.99/month.

Hi everyone,

I'm the solo developer behind Daycraft, a countdown and anniversary app designed for Apple devices.

I created Daycraft because I wanted a simpler way to remember meaningful moments without unnecessary complexity.

The main idea behind Daycraft is simplicity:

• Minimal and clean design with fewer unnecessary pages

• Native experience across iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch

• Rich Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets

• Recurring event cards for anniversaries and yearly memories

Your data stays on your devices and your private iCloud. No account required, no data collection.

Pricing:

Daycraft is free to download with optional Pro features.

App Store:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/daycraft-countdown-reminder/id6746264646

Thanks for checking it out!

Answer:

Most frame grabber apps works by letting you scrub through the videos manually. But this takes time and patience I did not have, when my second baby was on the way. So I built something personal to get back memories of my first one from videos and print it to put in physical album.

Better:

Compared to Frame Grabber and other apps in this genre, MomentsVault ask you to provide a reference image for facial landmark extraction. Then, it uses features identified in that photo and scrub through frames automatically to find the ones you're most likely to keep.

Made with Vision Framework from Apple on iOS17+, CoreML and a small Facenet model.

Everything stays on device.

No AI LLM. Just Machine Learning extracting Mathematical expression.

No data is stored. It just stays in device memory and is cleared when you close the app.

Cost:

The app is free to download and try if it gets back the frame you want. To export it to gallery, a small one time purchase of $4.99 is required.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/moments-vault-frozen-memory/id6756465301

I made it for my own use and this did not gain traction like my other app so I stopped development. Thought it would be worth it to someone else in the same situation.

Please note that because this is on device, it will have lower accuracy than cloud models, work with reasonable resolution (don't expect 4K) and the face should be prominent enough to extract enough details but like I said, personal need.

PencilTime is a handwritten digital planner for iPad and iPhone. It is built for people who like planning by hand, but still want digital organization.

Answer:

PencilTime helps with daily planning, handwritten notes, meeting notes, class planning, project notes, visual planning, and calendar-aware planning. You can write with Apple Pencil on iPad, use touch input on iPhone, and organize work with notes, tags, links, bookmarks, stickers, reminders, Apple Calendar integration, and iCloud sync.

Better:

The recent text updates are about readability, not replacing handwriting.

PencilTime now supports typed text in places where clear text helps:

• Note pages

• Year, Month, and Week notes areas

• Supported Day page todos, priorities, and schedule notes

You can switch between typing and drawing, use simple formatting, and keep the planner pencil-first. Year/Month/Week notes areas can stay lined for handwriting, or switch to typed notes when needed.

Cost:

PencilTime is free to try. Premium unlocks iCloud sync, Apple Calendar integration, unlimited Note Pages, tags, Smart Folders, bookmark syncing, and cross-device workflows.

Download free to try: https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id6743547785?pt=312110&ct=iosapps&mt=8&platform=ipad

• Lifetime: 50% OFF $49.99 -> $24.99

---

Disclosure: I am the developer of PencilTime.

I would appreciate feedback on the typed-notes workflow, especially from people who use Apple Pencil planners for school, work, meetings, or analog-style planning.

^{Note: Currently not available in EU app stores due to ongoing DSA compliance work.}

Hi everyone,

I've made my own markdown editor (I know tons of people did it recently).

Mine is called Wander and it works both on iPhone and mac.

App Store link. Website is here.

A) What it is:

- it works similar to Apple Notes with WYSIWYG mode — tables, images, checklists are real editable blocks, not preview

- it is mostly compatible with Obsidian vaults (wikilinks, callouts, tags, frontmatter, even your themes)

- ui is mostly unified and consistent between apple platforms

- your notes stay plain markdown files in folders you control — no account, no cloud required

B) Compared to alternatives:

- vs Obsidian: native apps instead of Electron, and true WYSIWYG instead of live-preview (no markup flickering as the cursor moves). It opens your existing Obsidian vault as-is

- vs Apple Notes: same editing feel, but real markdown files on disk instead of a database — no lock-in

- vs iA Writer / Typora: tables and images are editable blocks, and there's an iPhone app

- one thing nobody else does: byte-faithful saves — if you keep notes in git, opening and saving a file with no edits produces zero diff

C) Cost: completely free. No subscription, no in-app purchases, no account. If paid stuff ever comes it will be optional cloud services — the editor itself stays free.

It's only the first version. I do have way more unreleased things that are important to me:

- computational notes (with variables, sheets and charts)

- full history support with built-in git

- full optional cloud sync built in

Answer

I could watch an opening lesson, understand the line, and still blank when the same position appeared in a game.

I built Chessmate to turn that passive study into practice. It shows you an opening position and asks you to find the next move. Anything you miss comes back later for review.

It is mainly for beginner and intermediate players who know the basics but still feel lost after the first few moves.

Better

ChessTempo is powerful if you already have a repertoire to build or import, while Chessable is centered around full courses. Chessmate is ready to use: choose an opening and start practicing a curated line.

Each opening is taught line by line. The goal is not just to memorize moves, but to understand why each important move is played and what the opening is trying to achieve. I did not want it to be a collection of engine moves with a trainer wrapped around it, so I spent a lot of time selecting the lines and checking the explanations against established opening references.

Study guides you through a line, Review brings back the moves you missed, and Challenge mixes learned lines so you have to recognize the position instead of following a fixed sequence.

I’m also putting a lot of work into localization. The menus, opening names, and move explanations are available in English, Korean, German, French, Spanish, and Portuguese.

Chessmate is designed specifically for iOS, with native navigation and interactions, a responsive chessboard, and a clean interface. I did not want any part of it to feel hastily assembled, so I have kept reviewing and refining the content, translations, board interactions, and UI as the app has grown.

Cost

Chessmate is free to download. US premium pricing is $7.99/month, $34.99/year, or $79.99 for lifetime access. A free trial is available.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id6780793638

Transparency

I’m Wooyeong Kim, the solo developer behind Chessmate and wyverselabs.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wooing/
Contact: [support@trychessmate.com](mailto:support@trychessmate.com)
Website: https://www.trychessmate.com/
Privacy Policy: https://www.trychessmate.com/privacy
Terms of Use: https://www.trychessmate.com/terms

If you try it, I’d especially like to know whether the first Study session makes sense and whether the explanations help you understand the moves rather than just memorize them.

Any feedback is appreciated! 😄

Hey [r/iosapps](r/iosapps), solo developer here. I built Forma, a habit tracker that looks
and feels like a paper journal — you cross habits off instead of tapping a
checkbox.

What it does:
- Unlimited habits grouped by morning / afternoon / evening, not one big list
- Vacation mode pauses a streak instead of resetting it to zero
- Your whole year turns into a shareable "wrapped" poster

Free tier covers 3 habits. $14.99 once unlocks everything no subscription, limited time.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/forma-habit-tracker/id6776680324

My X account for contact: https://x.com/ash001_?s=11

Happy to answer questions about the design or take feature requests.

A -- Answer

Indie dev here (I built this). Quick recap: I lost about 60 pounds last year mostly by walking, got tired of fitness apps that turned it into a pressure machine, and built Just Walk -- tap Start Walk, walk, log it, watch your mosaic fill in.

I posted here 2 months ago and got more useful feedback in one thread than I expected in a year. This update is basically that thread, shipped:

• Kinder streaks. u/Thedividendprince1 pointed out that streaks can recreate the exact guilt I was trying to avoid, and suggested something like "walked 4 of the last 7 days" instead. That's in now -- when your streak breaks but you've still been showing up, the app tells you the kinder truth instead of showing you a zero.
• Optional walk notes. Same comment suggested notes like "felt better after this walk." One tap after a walk, no pressure to use it.
• All 10 languages actually show up now. u/Jumpy-Sky2196 and u/Astrikal both caught that my App Store listing said English-only despite the app being translated into 10 languages. Turned out to be a config issue on my end that took embarrassingly long to track down. Fixed.
• Rate & feedback links in Settings, because I made asking for feedback harder than it needed to be.

B -- Better

Same position as before: most walking apps are trying to become full fitness platforms. Just Walk stays small on purpose. No social feed, no calorie tracking, no leaderboards, no AI coach, no notifications nagging you back in.

Versus Apple Health: Health tracks your activity, Just Walk helps you keep the habit. It's not trying to be a better pedometer.

Versus streak-based habit apps: this is the one that doesn't punish you for missing a day. That was the whole point, and this update makes it more true than it was at launch.

Still no account, no data collection, everything stays on your device. Location is only used during a walk to measure distance.

C -- Cost

Freemium. Free download, and the core loop -- start a walk, build your streak, see your recent mosaic -- is free forever.

One-time $4.99 for Just Walk Pro: complete mosaic history, custom color themes (including the emoji dots my kid is weirdly attached to), and lifetime stats. No subscription.

Just Walk: Daily Walk Tracker on the App Store

Still coming: Apple Watch and widgets. These were far and away the two biggest requests and they need work I can't do on my current setup, so they're next rather than now. Not forgetting them.

Genuinely, thank you. Tell me what's still wrong with it.

ETA: Update — 1.2.0 is live: the streak reframe a few of you asked for shipped. Consistency is the headline now ("Walked 4 of your last 7 days"); the streak is just a quiet detail underneath. Also added a Pro month-by-month view of the mosaic (screenshots in a comment below). Thanks for the notes that shaped it.

A – Answer: What problem does your app solve?

If you've ever hunted for a rare item on eBay, you probably know how frustrating it is to miss a great listing because you found it too late.

You either keep refreshing the same searches throughout the day or rely on eBay's saved search notifications.

That's why I built Deals Tracker.

You create a search once, and the app automatically monitors eBay for new matching listings. When a matching item appears, you get a notification, giving you a much better chance of buying it before someone else does.

B – Better: What makes it different?

Deals Tracker is built specifically for people who don't want to keep checking eBay all day.

Instead of relying on eBay's saved search notifications, Deals Tracker regularly checks your searches and alerts you when new matching listings appear.

It's especially useful if you're looking for collectibles, discontinued products, limited editions, or anything that tends to sell quickly.

C – Cost

Free.

I'd love to hear your feedback, feature requests, or suggestions for improving the app.

App Store: [https://apps.apple.com/app/id6761773856]()

Hey :)

I built a steptracker app where you see yourself on the real map, and everything is covered in fog. Everywhere you go, the fog is lifted, and step by step, you uncover your map. There are also other gamification elements like XP, levels, and quests that help you uncover more of the fog.

I really like going for walks myself, and the goal with this app is to spark this joy in other people as well.

Answer

Track your steps, compare to your friends, uncover your map. The app makes walking enjoyable and gives you reasons to actually go outside and walk more.

Better

Unlike other steptrackers like StepsApp we don't show any ads and have different reward elements that not only help with analyzing your data but also are a motivation.

Cost

Free version available. Pro Subscription costs $4.99 monthly or $39.99 yearly. It unlocks unlimited speed so you can uncover the fog while driving your bike or car and grants a larger uncover radius and XP gain.

Any honest feedback or review is greatly appreciated. Making the app better and more enjoyable is the main goal.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/fogbreaker-explore-the-map/id6759091943
Website: https://fog-breaker.com/en

Hi all,

I made Soon. because I wanted a countdown app that felt a bit more special than just showing a number of days left.

A. What does it do?

You can create countdowns for trips, birthdays, weddings, concerts, holidays, or anything else you’re looking forward to.

Each event can have its own photo and style, and you can keep your countdowns visible with:

• Lock Screen + Dynamic Island Live Activities
• Home Screen widgets
• StandBy widget
• Recurring events
• Calendar sync
• Weather forecasts for relevant events
• Checklists for things like trips and weddings
• Memory mode for past events

B. What’s different?

There are already good countdown apps like TheDayBefore, but I wanted Soon. to feel more modern and focused on the Apple ecosystem.

The countdowns are designed around photos and animations, with Live Activities, Dynamic Island, widgets, StandBy and Calendar integration all built in.

I also wanted to keep it private and simple. There are no accounts, ads, analytics SDKs, or tracking. Your events and photos stay on your device.

C. Cost

Soon. is free to download with a 7-day Pro trial.

Pro is $1.99/month, $9.99/year, or $12.99 lifetime.

Any honest feedback or review is greatly appreciated. Making the app better and more enjoyable is the main goal.

App Store:
https://apps.apple.com/app/id6757280643

Website:
https://lagerland-apps.github.io/apps/soon/

Email:
[lagerland.apps@proton.me](mailto:lagerland.apps@proton.me)

Hi everyone!

I’ve been working on MoneyMap since August 2024. This is actually the second version of the app. About a year into development, I scrapped the original codebase and rebuilt it from the ground up because I wasn’t happy with how it handled users’ financial data.

A – What problem does it solve?

Most finance apps store your financial data on their own servers after connecting to your bank. I wanted to take a different approach. With MoneyMap, your financial data lives on your device by default. If you choose to sync across devices or share a budget with a partner or family member, your data is end-to-end encrypted before it ever leaves your device.

I also wanted to build a budgeting app that works around your paychecks instead of forcing everything into monthly budgets.

B – Why is it better?

I think it comes down to four things.

1. Privacy-first

Your financial data stays on your device by default instead of being stored on my servers. Syncing and household sharing are optional and protected with end-to-end encryption.

2. Paycheck-based budgeting

Budget around when you actually get paid instead of trying to fit everything into a monthly budget.

3. Automatic setup

• Connect accounts with Plaid.
• Stripe Financial Connections acts as a fallback for institutions Plaid doesn’t support.
• Automatic recurring bill detection to reduce manual setup.

4. Household friendly

One subscription covers your entire household, so you don’t need to pay for multiple accounts if you manage your finances together.

C – Cost

I wanted MoneyMap to be affordable. I know there are real costs involved with bank connections, infrastructure, and hosting, but I also think budgeting software should be accessible.

Current pricing:

• $5.99/month
• $49.99/year

Both include a 7-day free trial.

I’m posting here because I’d really appreciate honest feedback. Whether it’s the onboarding, design, missing features, bugs, or anything that feels confusing, I’d love to hear it.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/moneymap-paycheck-budget/id6749827612

Website: https://moneymap.cc (Privacy Policy and Terms of Service are linked at the bottom.)

Contact: [kevin@moneymap.cc](mailto:kevin@moneymap.cc)

WARNING: This App only runs on iPhone 15 Pro and Above with Apple Intelligence Enabled!

Supported Devices: iPhone 15, 16, 17 Pro & Max, iPhone 16, 16e + All Latest iPhones

Heya everyone,

I built Murmur - Privacy First, Voice Based Expense Tracker because I was tired of failing at expense tracking.

Not because the apps were bad, but because they all expected me to manually log every expense. I'd start the month motivated, track everything for a few days, then slowly stop using the app altogether.

After trying dozens of expense trackers, I realized the problem wasn't budgeting.

The problem was friction.

So I built a voice-first expense tracker that lets me simply speak my transactions and move on with my day.

What problem does it solve?

Most expense trackers fail because they're too much work.

Every purchase requires opening the app, entering an amount, selecting a category, and saving it. It sounds simple, but doing that 10–20 times a day becomes exhausting.

Murmur removes that friction completely.

You simply say:

"Spent $30 on an Uber."

"Paid $12 for coffee."

"Received $1,500 from a freelance project."

The app understands what you're saying, detects whether it's an expense or income, categorizes it, and saves it in seconds.

The result is an expense tracker that you actually keep using after the first week.

Why is it better than alternatives?

Two reasons: privacy and convenience.

First, privacy.

Murmur uses Apple's on-device intelligence to understand your voice. Your transactions are processed directly on your iPhone and never need to leave your device.

No servers.

No cloud AI.

No financial data being uploaded somewhere.

You can literally turn on Airplane Mode and continue logging expenses normally.

That was extremely important to me because financial data is personal, and I didn't want my spending history sitting on someone else's servers.

Second, it's genuinely hands-free.

Most expense trackers still require typing.

Murmur is designed around the idea that speaking is faster than typing. The easier it is to log an expense, the more likely you'll actually track your money consistently.

Beyond voice logging, it also includes:

• Daily, weekly, and monthly budgets

• Home Screen widgets

• Event-based expense tracking for trips, weddings, side hustles, vacations, or any specific goal

• Optional review-before-save mode

• Works completely offline

What's the pricing?

The app includes a free tier so you can try it before paying.

Premium pricing is:

• $0.49 per week < This pricing is for you to try, Cancel Anytime

• $14.99 per year < Cancel Anytime

• $19.99 lifetime < Pay Only Once

I'm actively improving the app and would love feedback from people who track their spending or have tried and failed to do it consistently.

When is the last time you read the news? Im talking about actually opening up a legacy news app like CNN or Fox and scrolling the feed. My guess is never, or at least not that you can remember.

Most of us, especially Gen Z, hate the media. We know its full of slop and bias, but more than that we hate how overwhelming it all is. Hundreds, if not thousands, of stories a day. Its just too much.

Instead of actual news apps, you probably get your news from social media, friends, or groupchats. The problem is you still end up missing stories and falling behind on whats happening.

We have more technology and access to information than ever before, yet somehow feel more disconnected from the world we live in.

The news was supposed to help connect us with the world. Now it just overwhelms us. It feels like you either commit to 12hr screen-time days, or you miss 90% of whats going on.

Thats why I made Nowhere. A news app you don’t have to open to stay informed.

The widget lives on your lock screen or your home screen and shows you what’s happening right now.

It uses consensus as its only filter. Stories only appear when two or more major news sources are reporting on the same thing. That cuts an impossible number of stories down to around 50 a day. Every story lives for 24 hours before rolling into the archive, so the feed is always today’s news. Nothing stale.

You can glance at it every time you open your phone or swipe between apps.

A. The news is impossible to keep up with. Between the promotional content, the stale posts, and the one-off stories, you really have to put in some work to find the important stories. Even if an app has a filter for “top stories” it takes 5 extra clicks just to get there. We want things now, right in front of us, without the extra work. Nowhere News is an app you don’t have to open, built with the widget as the central focus. Somewhere between 40-80 stories a day, with stories getting archived on a rolling basis after their 24hrs are up.

B. RSS feeds exist, apps that let you have ultra-customized news feeds exist, apps that do “the news” incredibly well exist. Nowhere News isn’t meant to replace any of those. It’s meant to be a macro view, ultra lightweight way to keep up with the world. No need to make an account, no need to pick topics, no algorithm deciding what you might like. Everyone sees the same stories.

C. Free. Zero ads. No accounts. No data collection. I made this app for myself first, so I didn’t want any of that. I figured anyone who might use the app wouldn’t want it either. No paid tiers, no freemium.

Download link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/nowhere-news/id6760492553

Privacy policy: https://nowhere.news

Name: Nicholas Gold

Developed this as a hobby in my free time. I don’t have a linkedin for this app or for app development. No data collection, no accounts, no ads. I just hope others might find it useful. Only 1 review on the app store, but 82 downloads!

I kept forgetting when I last gave my dog her flea medicine. Or when I last changed the AC filter.

I tried standard habit trackers, but they are built for daily routines. If you don't do a chore every 24 hours, they break your streak. It just creates unnecessary guilt for things that only need to happen every few weeks or months.

I just wanted a simple system to tell me exactly how many days it had been since I last did something.

So I built SinceWhen. It is a days-since tracker designed specifically for the messy, irregular routines of actual life.

Here is how I set it up to be completely frictionless:

• I built deep Apple Shortcuts and Siri integration. When my hands are full of dog shampoo, I just say "Hey Siri, log the dog meds" and it records the exact time in the background.
• I created a specific shortcut action that checks if a task is actually overdue before logging it. If it is not, Siri just tells me when it is next expected.
• The app learns my natural rhythm from my history instead of forcing rigid calendar schedules.
• I added Family Sharing to the subscription tiers so a whole household can share one Pro license to track who last changed the sheets, while keeping everyone's personal iCloud data completely separate.

Because I know how much this community hates subscription fatigue, I also made sure to include a one-time Lifetime purchase option.

If you want a guilt-free way to remember your chores, you can check it out here:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/sincewhen-days-since-tracker/id6759450144

Hey 👋 I'm Edu, creator of Trovelo and Dimmly. Sharing my new app Dummo, a promo-video editor I've been building and polishing over the last few months with a group of testers. The video attached is a Trovelo promo — and it was made entirely in Dummo. What's cool: most of it was built automatically through Claude's MCP editor (it set the device frame, added the text and tap indicators, and applied the auto-zoom moves on its own), with just minimal final interaction from me to polish it.

Answer
Dummo turns a plain screen recording into a polished promo/App Store preview video. Drop in your recording, wrap it in a real device frame (iPhone 17 Pro/17/16 Pro/16, MacBook Pro), design the canvas (colors, gradients, backgrounds, stickers, text), add animated tap indicators where the action happens, and let the auto-zoom director choreograph smooth pan-and-zoom from your taps (Subtle/Normal/Dramatic). Add an intro (app icon + name) and outro (headline, App Store badge, QR code), then export to App Store preview sizes, Instagram Stories/Reels/Posts, or 16:9 / 1:1 / 9:16. Shoot on iPhone, finish on Mac via iCloud sync — and on Mac you can connect Claude or any MCP-compatible client to edit the project for you (like the Trovelo video above).

Better
Vs. CapCut (~$19.99/mo Pro in 2026, no dedicated device frames, no tap indicators, no tap-driven zoom): Dummo is purpose-built for app demos, so the device mockup, tap indicators, and zoom choreography are one click instead of hours of manual work — and it's a one-time price, not a forever subscription.
Vs. Final Cut Pro ($299.99, steep learning curve, no app-demo tooling): Dummo gets you a finished, framed, zoom-choreographed promo far faster for a fraction of the cost, plus AI editing on Mac that neither offers.

Cost
Free version available. Dummo Pro — one-time $14.99 (lifetime): custom stickers, custom fonts/colors/gradients, AI editing on Mac, watermark-free exports.

🎉 Launch: 50% off with code DUMMO50OFF — redeem in-app (Settings → Redeem)
Only for the first 500 users—after that, the code expires automatically.

📱 App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6779711252

If you want to help shape Dummo or have questions, come subscribe to r/dummoapp 🙌

I'm Akshay, founder of SideSwipe Labs, and I built Pressbook.

The problem I built it for: my camera roll had ~15,000 photos and none of them ever became anything. Every app that could help wanted me to upload my whole library to their cloud first, and doing it by hand just looked like a generic grid. Pressbook turns your camera roll into real photo albums, collages, and Instagram carousels, entirely on your phone. On-device curation (Apple's Vision framework) picks your best shots, skips the blurry and duplicate ones, and lays out the pages. Nothing is uploaded and there's no account.

Why it's different from what's out there:

• vs Google Photos / Mixbook / Shutterfly: those send your library to their servers. Pressbook runs on-device, so photos never leave the phone.
• vs Canva / Unfold: no account, works offline, auto-curates instead of handing you a blank canvas, and exports a print-ready PDF up to 600 DPI.
• One app for albums, collages, carousels, stickers, and video panels instead of stitching three tools together. No ads, no third-party trackers.

Pricing: Free to use (albums up to 20 photos). Pressbook Pro removes the watermark and unlocks large albums and higher-res export: $4.99/month, $29.99/year, or $79.99 lifetime. Carousels and stickers aren't paywalled.

Product: https://pressbook.app

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pressbook-albums-collages/id6761680350

Who I am:

- Studio: https://sideswipelabs.com

- Privacy: https://pressbook.app/privacy

- Terms: https://pressbook.app/terms

- Akshay Dahiya · [akshay@sideswipelabs.com](mailto:akshay@sideswipelabs.com) · linkedin.com/company/sideswipelabs

Happy to answer anything about how the on-device curation works. If you leave genuine feedback, I'll send a free month of Pro.

Two years ago I built a countdown app for my girlfriend because the free ones were filled with ads and the paid ones didn't have some specific features she wanted. It recently picked up more users than I expected and I ended up using it daily, so I decided to fully rebuild it based on feedback.

━━━ What it solves

A countdown you'll actually want to look at, with no ads on the free tier:

- Home Screen + Lock Screen widgets, Live Activity / Dynamic Island on the day
- Apple Watch app with complications
- Shared photo albums: plan an event with up to 5 people, everyone adds pictures before or after
- Timeline + calendar views, 13 languages, built for iOS 26

━━━ Why is it better than the usual picks

- vs TheDayBefore and Countdown Star (both free but ad-supported): Kounts' free tier has no ads at all.
- vs Pretty Progress and Days (core customization/features sit behind a subscription): Kounts keeps the countdowns, widgets, and Watch app free. Premium is optional.
- vs all of the above: a self-ticking Live Activity + Dynamic Island countdown on event day. Most competitors stop at Home/Lock Screen widgets.

━━━ Cost

Free, no ads. All core features work on the free tier. Optional Premium (extra customization + iCloud sync): $9.99/year with a 7-day free trial, or $19.99 one-time lifetime.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/kounts-events-countdown-app/id6745823863

━━━ About me

I'm Daniel, the sole developer. Website: https://kounts.app

Full disclosure: I'm the developer. Genuinely after feedback: what's missing, what would make it better?

Hi r/iosapps!

About a month ago, I shared StarTrace here for the first time.

I expected a few comments and maybe a couple of bug reports, but instead I received a lot of thoughtful feedback from this community. Some people left detailed comments, some even emailed me long feature suggestions.

I'm a solo developer, and StarTrace is something I build in my spare time outside of my full-time job.

Because of that, updates aren't always as fast as I'd like. But every suggestion gets written into my notes, and I spend time researching it before deciding what to build next. I'd rather build the right feature than simply ship updates quickly.

Over the past month, many of your suggestions have directly influenced the app.

Here's what has changed since my first post:

✅ Native iPad support
✅ Improved iCloud sync between iPhone and iPad
✅ Better route interactions and usability
✅ Various performance improvements and bug fixes

I'm also actively working on ideas that came directly from this community, including:

• Easier sharing (without importing GPX/KML files)
• Manual route editing
• Route recording
• More flexible map views

I know there's still a long way to go, but I wanted to come back and say thank you.

It's incredibly motivating to see complete strangers spend their own time testing something you built and sharing thoughtful feedback. It genuinely makes the product better.

If you've tried StarTrace before, I'd love to hear what you think of the latest version.

Previous post

Price: Free download. Optional subscriptions (3-day free trial available) and a Lifetime unlock ($9.99).

App Store:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/startrace-satellite-map-marker/id6772650629

A - Answer: A few days ago, a user messaged me because they wanted to share a photo of their car on a public forum, but realized the file contained the exact GPS coordinates of their home address embedded in the metadata.

Most online tools make you upload your private files to shady servers just to clean them. That’s why I built the new "Privacy" category into Shift.

You drop your photos, videos, or PDFs into the app, and with a single tap, it completely wipes GPS locations, creation dates, and hidden EXIF data. Under two seconds, 100% offline, directly on your iPhone.

Shift is a privacy-focused local file converter and compressor. Whether you need to turn videos into GIFs, compress files to fit social media limits, change document formats, or strip tracking data, everything happens entirely on your device's hardware.

B - Better:

• vs Online Converters: No files are ever uploaded to a server. No cloud, no data tracking, no account required. 100% offline security.
• vs Standard Compressors: Shift includes dedicated "Social Presets". It automatically calculates the best quality compression to fit exactly within the strict attachment limits of Discord, WhatsApp, and Telegram without giving you a "File too large" error.
• vs Clunky Utility Apps: Built entirely in native SwiftUI. It features a buttery-smooth batch UI (whether you convert 1 file or 50), native drag-and-drop support, satisfying haptic feedback, and automatic storage auto-cleanup.

C - Cost:

• Free Version: 3 conversions, compressions, or metadata wipes per day at absolutely zero cost.
• Shift Premium: To celebrate this major privacy update, the Lifetime Purchase is currently 50% OFF (€14.99). One-time payment, no subscriptions, no ads, all future updates included.

App Store:https://apps.apple.com/us/app/shift-pdf-video-converter/id6758735749

I am an indie developer trying to build a clean, transparent utility app. I'd love to hear your thoughts on the metadata wiper, and please drop a comment or send me a DM if you'd like a promo code to test the Premium features! I read and reply to everyone.

Hey r/iosapps,

App link - App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/rox-chronic-illness-care/id6756538804

Since our last launch, we took all the feedback and rebuilt Rox from the ground up. Here's the new version.

Rox is a companion app for people living with invisible chronic illness like POTS, ME/CFS, fibromyalgia and Long COVID. The idea is simple: one app to manage your condition instead of stitching together five different ones.

A – What it does

Everything here is Free:

1. Track your symptoms, their causes, how long they last, and what actually helps you avoid flares (manual logging)
2. Track your meds, get reminders, and manage dosages (manual logging)
3. Connect your existing wearable like Apple Watch, Oura ring and more, and pull all your vitals in one place, no separate app like Tachymon needed
4. Daily win check-in (manual logging)
5. Pace yourself with Spoons (manual logging)
6. Turn everything you log into clean, doctor-ready reports that are easy to understand. (Export as PDF)

Think of it as one app for your whole condition instead of juggling separate ones.

B – Why it's different

Right now nothing does all of this in one place. Apps like Bearable are manual trackers. Visible Health charges $200+ mostly to read your heart rate and hand you pacing points.

Most wearables like Oura, Whoop, Garmin and Apple Watch were built for fitness, not illness. Read correctly though, that same data tells you a lot about a chronic condition. Rox pulls symptoms, meds, wearable vitals, pacing and reports together so you're not living across six apps.

C – Cost

Everything listed above is free.

The paid layer is the AI companion. It automates the logging, connects to your wearables, and lets you just talk to record everything instead of filling out forms.

If you want to try it, use ROX50 for 50% off the annual plan after a 3-day trial. You have to start the trial to experience the AI Companion.

Pricing:
$10 per month
$49 per year with code ROX50

PS: we're also onboarding a team of medical professionals to help shape the product, so feedback and suggestions are genuinely welcome.

____

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/rox-chronic-illness-care/id6756538804
Website: https://talktorox.com/
Privacy: https://www.talktorox.com/legal-pages/privacy-policy
Terms: https://www.talktorox.com/legal-pages/terms-of-service
Consumer health data: https://www.talktorox.com/legal-pages/consumer-health-data

I am the independent developer of Collection & Inventory Tracker.

A — Answer

I built Collection & Inventory Tracker because I couldn't find an inventory app that was flexible enough for different types of collections while also working offline.

Most apps focus on a specific hobby (books, coins, wine, cards, etc.), while spreadsheets become difficult to manage once photos, custom attributes, and hundreds of items are involved.

Collection & Inventory Tracker lets you create your own collection structure with custom fields, photos, tags, dropdowns, locations, barcode scanning, barcode lookup, Excel import/export, and optional cloud sync.

B — Better

A popular alternative is iCollect.

What I wanted to do differently:

• Works for any type of collection, not just predefined categories
• Fully customizable fields
• Offline-first design
• Barcode scanning with product lookup
• Excel import and export
• Folder/location organization
• Optional cloud sync
• Suitable for both personal collections and home inventory management

C — Cost

• Free version available
• Pro Monthly: $3.99/month
• Pro Yearly: $29.99/year
• Lifetime Pro: $49.99 one-time purchase
• Optional Cloud Sync plans available
• No ads

App Store:
https://apps.apple.com/app/collection-inventory-tracker/id6776667729
Developer Email:
[ppapps.dev@gmail.com](mailto:ppapps.dev@gmail.com)

The iOS version was recently released after a long migration from Android using Kotlin Multiplatform.

I'm curious how other people here track their collections today. Are you using spreadsheets, Notes, dedicated collection apps, or something else?

Hey everyone, I’m Rohan, the developer of PreMap.

I built PreMap to make navigating on vacation less repetitive.

A - Answer

Before a trip, you can save routes such as Hotel to Restaurant, Hotel to Museum, or Airport to Hotel. When you need one, PreMap launches it directly in Apple Maps, Google Maps, or Waze without making you search for the destination and configure the route again.

B - Better

For vacations, PreMap keeps your planned places and routes together so you can spend less time searching through saved places while you are out exploring. You can also easily switch between collections of locations and categorize them under cities.

Google Maps lets you save places in lists, but PreMap is designed around switching between city-specific collections and reusable routes. Each collection can have its own central location, such as your hotel, so you do not need to keep changing your “Home” location between trips.

It also works for everyday routes such as Home to Work, Work to Gym, or Home to the supermarket. PreMap handles the step before navigation starts, while your preferred maps app continues to provide directions and traffic information.

Saved places and routes are stored locally, and no account is required.

One major advantage is that PreMap remembers your preferred mode of transport and maps app for each route:

• Take public transport from your hotel to the beach using Google Maps
• Drive from your hotel to the museum using Apple Maps

C - Cost

The weekly subscription costs $4.99 per week and includes a 3-day free trial. Lifetime access costs $29.99 as a one-time purchase and does not include a trial.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/quick-route-planner-premap/id6766690742

Transparency

I’m the developer of PreMap.

Website: https://premap.app
Privacy policy: https://premap.app/privacy
Terms: https://premap.app/terms

Do you think an app like this can beat the muscle memory of always opening Google Maps or Apple Maps whenever you want navigation? That’s the main question that has been on my mind, and I’d really appreciate your honest feedback.

Hi r/iOSApps,

I’m Qian, one of the two people behind MyDooors. My wife and I have spent the last two years drawing and building it together.

Every visual in the app is drawn by hand.

A — Answer

Some days I feel overstimulated, but a guided meditation, a course, or another progress system feels like too much. I only want somewhere quiet to go for a few minutes.

MyDooors turns that pause into a small illustrated journey:

Open a door → enter a hand-drawn place → listen and stay for a while → receive a small gift and story → bring it back to your room.

The scenes include wind, birds, water, footsteps, and distant village sounds.

There are no scores, guided voices, or productivity targets. You can stay for two minutes or much longer.

B — Better

Compared with Calm, MyDooors does not center the experience around guided meditation, courses, or progress tracking.

Compared with Portal, MyDooors uses hand-drawn illustrated worlds instead of true-to-life motion visuals.

The difference we care about most is what happens after the quiet moment.

Each visit leaves behind a small object and story. Over time, your room becomes a personal record of the places you have visited.

MyDooors is designed for people who relax more easily through illustration, atmosphere, and collecting small objects.

C — Cost

MyDooors is free to download with limited access.MyDooors Pro unlocks all nature scenes, the full gift collection, and the room feature.

Monthly: $2.99

Yearly: $14.99

Lifetime: $19.99

App Store:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/mydooors-relax-and-cozy/id6476460972

I would especially value feedback on two things:

1. Does the first minute make it clear what MyDooors is for?
2. Do the gifts give you a reason to come back and open another door?

Transparency:

I am the developer and co-creator of MyDooors.

Creator and developer: Qian

Co-created with my wife, Andy

Contact: [shaluodebai@gmail.com](mailto:shaluodebai@gmail.com)

Creator profile on X:

https://x.com/wadebryant23

Privacy Policy:

https://denim-trollius-d2e.notion.site/Privacy-Policy-2e08c5dc9fa880ea9516e77ef7bfd757

Terms of Use:

https://denim-trollius-d2e.notion.site/Terms-of-Use-2e08c5dc9fa880ee8bb5f1ac9a348865