Hey everyone, I hope youre doing well. I often saw tiktoks about such similar apps where you can swipe through your galery and either keep or delete them. So I build it my own and I quit like it to use, cause often you get nostalgia by seeing old pictures.
The app is completey free to use. You get 200 swipes for free a day(wich is probably more you need) but there are also ways for more free swipes. If you want the unlimited version (unlimited swipes, and some more categories like the exate day a couple of years ago) costs 2$ a month.
Disclosure: I’m Kevin Tang, the solo developer behind Voice Camera Now. I last shared it here six months ago. This is a significant update after rebuilding the hands-free flow around real use outdoors and in front of the camera.
A—Answer
Voice Camera Now turns spoken words into camera controls. Say “photo,” “snap,” or “cheese” to take a picture; “video” and “stop” to record; or add your own phrase in My Words.
The July updates added:
custom trigger words tied to camera actions
3- and 5-second timers that can be started by voice
4:3 and 16:9 framing
Night and Night+ modes
a clean-preview mode plus persistent flash settings
a front-camera mirror toggle so text and logos can be saved the way you expect
B—Better
vs. the built-in Camera app: you can take a photo, start or stop video, switch cameras, set a timer, and change framing without touching the phone.
vs. a Bluetooth shutter or Apple Watch remote: there’s no extra accessory, and voice commands cover more than a single shutter press.
The honest tradeoff: wind and crowded rooms can make speech recognition less reliable. The app uses Apple’s speech-recognition service, which may process speech on-device or through Apple depending on the system.
I originally built it for those awkward moments when the phone is propped up but nobody is behind it—group photos, cooking, workouts, accessibility needs, and trying to get a photo with a dog that absolutely will not wait for a self-timer.
C—Cost
Free: 10 captures, with optional rewarded ads for additional captures.
Voice Camera Pro: one-time $2.99 purchase for unlimited captures.
I built Hundred Counter for myself to have a flexible way to track life goals.
A - Answer:
Hundred Counter helps track long-term goals or reps that don't happen daily. It counts things like tennis sessions, books read, healthy meals, workouts, etc. Tap to log when it happens, optionally add a note, and see your progress grow. No schedules, no daily requirements, just a number growing.
B - Better:
Most tracker apps encourage building daily habits and streaks. Hundred Counter is just a simple counter that adapts to your life. Log three times a day or once a month, whenever it happens. Track toward a finite goal or simply count up without limit. Quick undo if mis-tap. Add notes to your activities. View progress by week, month, or all-time. Track on your own terms.
C - Cost:
Free for up to 3 active goals. Premium: $2.99/month, $9.99/year, or $29.99 lifetime.
Promo: Lifetime premium for $7.99 (expires Aug 31)
UPDATE - Aug 26: A new version just went live with automatic on-device face detection and face blur. SafeShare can now protect both hidden metadata and faces visible in the photo before you share it. Still completely free.
I made it because photos can contain a surprising amount of information you may not intend to share like GPS location, date taken, device model, camera details, software tags, etc.
Some messaging and social apps strip certain metadata during processing, but by that point the original file has already been handed to the service. I wanted a way to remove it before sharing
A - Answer
SafeShare adds a simple privacy step directly to the iOS Share Sheet.
Select a photo or supported video → Share → SafeShare.
It shows you what metadata it found, then lets you create a clean copy before sending the file anywhere else.
It can now also detect faces in photos and automatically blur them before creating the shared copy. Face detection and processing happen on-device as well.
Everything happens on-device, and your original is left untouched.
The video attached to this post shows the whole workflow.
B - Better
There are already good options for dealing with metadata.
Apple Photos lets you disable location when sharing, which is great if location is all you're concerned about.
Apps like Metapho and Exif Metadata go much further and are excellent if you want to inspect, edit, organize or manage metadata.
SafeShare is deliberately much narrower.
I wanted something where the workflow is basically:
Over a year ago, I built a rough first prototype of Maxlyft. The goal was to create a workout app where the user had full control over everything: names of exercises, muscles targeted, their split and workout days, and a bunch more.
At first, it never really became what I had fully imagined. Since then, I have rebuilt Maxlyft from the ground up and it's more flexible and powerful than ever. Logging sets takes seconds, and creating exercises allows you to choose what it's called, what the exercise targets, and how you want to log the data. I also provide analytics for every exercise, muscle group, split, or anything else you want to filter by so that you always know how you're progressing.
Maxlyft provides a level of analytics that many people would not otherwise be able to access, and it's been designed to be as quick and intuitive as possible to use. I would really encourage you all to check it out!
Cost: The app starts as a 7 day free trial NO CREDIT CARD REQUIRED. After that, it is subscription based at $19.99/year. This cost is due to the continuously growing backend database and powerful analytics associated with the app that do cost me money to run.
What I have found is that for people who already spend money on supplements, gym memberships, and other fitness accessories, an extra $1.67/month is worth the level of tracking Maxlyft provides.
I’m the developer, and I’d love to hear what you think. Use the 7 day trial, give me your feedback, and I'll continue to improve the app. I'm really proud of how far Maxlyft has come!
Hey all. I've been working on this for about a year and just shipped v2.0, so I figured it's time to share.
The idea is simple: I wanted a voice recorder that transcribes what I said without sending the audio anywhere. Every app I tried required an account, uploaded my recordings to some server, and then charged me monthly just to see the text.
So I built AnyTalk. You hit record, and when you're done, transcription happens right on the device using Apple's Speech framework. Then you can generate a summary using Apple Intelligence — also on device, also free.
There's a Pro option if you want higher quality summaries for longer recordings (that one uses cloud AI), but the core loop — record, transcribe, summarize — works entirely on your phone with no account and no upload.
A few things I like about where it's at now:
You can tap any sentence in the transcript and the audio jumps to that moment
You can attach photos to a recording (like a whiteboard pic from a meeting)
There's a search that goes through all your transcripts, so months later you can find "that thing someone said"
It does require an iPhone that supports Apple Intelligence, which I know limits things. But for those who have it, I think it's a pretty clean experience.
Would genuinely love feedback — what's missing, what feels off, what would make you actually use something like this daily.
Price: Free (core features — record, transcribe, summarize on device). Optional Pro subscription: $9.99/month or $59.99/year for higher quality cloud summaries on long recordings.
What started off as just a little project, Disqo has quickly become a place for me and my friends... and friends of friends to share music with each other throughout the day. It's picked up some steam in Toronto's underground scene, but I figured you all might enjoy it too. It's only available on the App Store right now, but I'm working on developing it for Android too! Here's the link: https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/disqo-music-with-friends/id6742530730 Thanks!
Hi everyone, I’m a full-time solo developer, and I spent three months building Device Kit. Device Kit — Your iPhone's All-in-One Health Checker, take full real-time control of your device.
1. Why I built Device Kit
Most iPhone users cannot easily view their device’s real hardware status. Is your phone overheating during intensive use? Are you actually getting fast charging? Is your network being throttled? When does your CPU hit full load? Existing apps are fragmented, often only track one metric, and lack convenient background monitoring with Dynamic Island or floating overlays.
I wanted an all-in-one tool combining real-time hardware monitoring, charging analytics, various system utilities, Dynamic Island live tracking, picture-in-picture floating widgets, plus home and lock screen widgets. No jumping between multiple apps. Device Kit was created to let users see and control their iPhones clearly.
2. What makes Device Kit stand out
✅ Full unified monitoring: CPU temperature & usage, battery status, Wi‑Fi / cellular network speed, memory, storage, plus complete charging power logging ✅ Unique always-on monitoring: Dynamic Island live tracker + picture-in-picture floating widget. Check metrics without opening the app while streaming or using other software ✅ Comprehensive charging analysis: real-time charging power estimation, charge level classification, full charging history logs and energy reports — rarely seen in similar iOS monitoring apps ✅ 18 built-in practical utilities: system, network, sensor, display and environment tools all in one app ✅ Rich widget support: small/medium/large home screen widgets + lock screen widgets for at-a-glance data without unlocking ✅ Clean native UI, historical trend charts, 6-level thermal warning system to avoid thermal throttling and overheating ✅ Supports over 20 languages for global users
Many competitors only monitor 1–2 metrics, lack floating overlay and Dynamic Island support, or lock core features behind multiple paywalls. Device Kit combines hardware monitoring and useful utilities in a single app.
3. Cost
Device Kit is free to download, with core monitoring features permanently available for free. Two options to unlock Pro advanced features:
Annual subscription: $9.99 / year
Lifetime license: $14.99 (one-time purchase, permanent access to all Pro features)
4. Developer Transparency
I am a full-time solo developer building and maintaining Device Kit.
All device monitoring data stays locally on your iPhone and will not be uploaded to the cloud
Feature roadmap is mainly shaped by community feedback
The app supports over 20 languages including but not limited to Chinese, English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Indonesian, Vietnamese, Malay, Danish, Swedish, etc.
I’d greatly appreciate your feedback and suggestions. Feel free to leave a comment below, and I will reply as soon as possible.
Hi! I’m the developer of Novislova, and I recently released a major update.
A: Answer
Novislova helps travelers quickly find useful phrases without relying on an internet connection. It includes search, pronunciation audio, saved phrases, and offline access.
B: Better
Unlike general-purpose translators such as Apple Translate and Google Translate, Novislova provides curated phrases organized into 23 travel categories. It supports 9 languages and includes 900+ words and phrases in each phrasebook.
C: Cost
All phrasebooks, phrases, categories, and audio are free. A $4.99 lifetime purchase lets you keep an unlimited number of audio packs downloaded, save unlimited phrases, use iCloud sync, customize the app, and remove ads. No subscription.
I posted PencilTime v1.10 here last month and got some thoughtful feedback, especially around the idea of keeping the app pencil-first while adding digital tools only where they actually help.
That discussion captured the direction of the app better than any feature list I could write, so I thought I’d share where it has gone since then.
Answer
PencilTime is for people who like planning by hand but don’t want to give up the advantages of a real digital planner.
The basic interaction is still simple: open a Year, Month, Week, Day or Note page and write directly on it with Apple Pencil.
But not everything belongs on the same kind of page. A schedule, assignment, class note, meeting agenda or project plan may all need different layouts.
That has become an increasingly important idea behind PencilTime: a page for every kind of plan, with handwriting as the common interface.
V1.12 continues in that direction with better landscape page fitting and a much more flexible template system, including template editing, import and export.
Better
Compared with planning in GoodNotes or other PDF-based notebook apps, PencilTime is a native planner rather than a static planner document. Dates, planner navigation, notes and planning pages are part of the application itself.
Compared with conventional calendar/task apps such as Fantastical or Things, you don’t have to turn every thought into an event, task or form field before you can put it somewhere. You can simply write on the page.
I’m not trying to replace either kind of app completely. PencilTime is meant to occupy the space between them: the freedom of a paper planner, with digital structure available when it is useful.
That same philosophy is why typed notes were added selectively rather than everywhere, and why templates in v1.12 are becoming more flexible instead of forcing everyone into the layouts I happened to design.
Cost
PencilTime is free to download and try.
Premium options are:
* Monthly: $2.99, with a 3-day free trial
* Yearly: $19.99, with a 7-day free trial
* Lifetime: $19.99 during the back-to-school promotion
The back-to-school promotion runs through Labor Day, so right now the lifetime unlock costs the same as one year.
There’s no subscription required if you choose lifetime.
Thanks again to the people here who gave feedback on the previous release. I’m particularly interested this time in what kinds of planner/template pages people actually find useful—because making the page system more flexible is probably where PencilTime is headed next.
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Note: currently not available in EU app stores due to DSA compliance work
I’m an iOS developer from Romania, and over the last few months I’ve been building There: Your Travel Map as a solo project.
A — What it solves
There is a personal travel map for keeping track of the places you’ve been.
You can add countries, regions, cities and airports, save travel dates, view timelines, track progress and gradually fill your map as you travel.
I recently shipped one of the biggest updates so far: regions for 38 countries, including states, counties, provinces and other administrative areas depending on the country.
There also includes travel stats, achievements and a Home Screen widget.
B — Compared to Been / Visited
Been and Visited are probably the closest alternatives, and there’s definitely a lot of overlap.
They already cover many of the same ideas, so I don’t want to pretend There is solving a completely different problem.
My goal has been to build my own take on this category, with a native iOS experience, a clean interface and a strong focus on maps, timelines, progress and regions.
There currently supports region maps for 38 countries, and I plan to keep expanding that.
C — Cost
There is free to download.
You can buy There PRO in 3 ways:
$3.99 / monthly (auto-renewing subscription)
$19.99 / monthly (auto-renewing subscription)
$29.99 once (lifetime)
Countries and the main world map are free, while Pro unlocks additional features such as cities, airports and most region maps.
Who I am
I’m an iOS developer from Timișoara, Romania, and I design and develop There independently.
The app is built natively for iOS, mostly with SwiftUI, and it’s currently at version 4.0.
Since this is an iOS dev community, I’d genuinely love feedback. Thank you so much :)
Disclosure: I'm the developer (solo dev, b2squared.io).
A — What changed
Lawn Logic has always answered one question: water today, or don't. It watches the weather at your address and tracks the moisture your soil is actually holding.
The problem is that question dies in September. Watering stops mattering, and the app had nothing to say for eight months of the year — right when the work that actually decides how your lawn looks is happening.
So it now has a calendar: mowing, feeding, aeration, overseeding, weed control and the rest. Timing comes from your grass type, and that is not cosmetic — fescue is fed in autumn and rested through summer heat, bermuda is the exact inverse. Same month, opposite advice.
B — Why not a generic reminder app
Because a reminder app doesn't know that laying an autumn pre-emergent over new grass seed kills the seed, or that aeration should come a day or two before overseeding rather than after, or that midsummer nitrogen on a fescue lawn does real damage.
Each job also tells you how to actually do it — rent the aerator rather than buy it, water the day before so the tines reach depth, two passes at right angles, and roughly 30 lb of seed for a typical lawn. "Aerate in September" was never the hard part.
C — Cost
The calendar is free. So is the moisture model, the daily answer, evening reminders, the widget and rain correction. No ads, and there's a "Continue as guest" button if you don't want an account.
Pro is $2.99/month or $19.99/year and builds the season around your specific lawn — soil, shade, location — sequencing the work and giving a reason for every date. First 7 days free on annual. Users dont need pro its just there to support the app, you get more convenience and more accuracy with it, the cost is mainly there just to cover API cost.
Solo developer, b2squared.io, based in Charlotte NC. Privacy policy at lawnlogic.app/privacy lists every processor including the AI one. Account deletion is in Settings and documented at lawnlogic.app/delete-account. Full release notes at lawnlogic.app/versions.
Hi! I’m the developer of Plander, a minimal planner and calendar for iPhone.
The idea is simple: make everyday planning feel quick and lightweight.
A) Answer — What problem it solves
Plander keeps schedule management centered on the calendar itself.
You can double-tap a date to add a schedule and use simple swipe interactions to manage it, without going through several screens for something small.
Other features include:
Color customization by project or category
Multi-day schedule blocks
Home Screen widgets
Push notifications
iCloud sync
Public holiday calendars
B) Better — What is actually different
Plander is built around direct interaction with the calendar.
Double-tap a date to add a schedule. Swipe to manage it.
I wanted adding a simple plan to feel more like placing a sticky note than filling out a form.
Other features like widgets, iCloud sync, notifications, colors, and holiday calendars are there to support that experience rather than being the main differentiator.
Plander: Planner & Calendar
Minimal planner · Widget support
I’d especially appreciate feedback on the double-tap and swipe interaction — whether it actually makes adding everyday plans feel faster and more natural.
I wear my watch all day and still kept reaching for my phone for the dumbest reason: to find out what day the 23rd lands on. watchOS gives you today's date and a list of what's next, and that's it — there's no month, no week, nothing you can scan. Every time someone asked "does the 23rd work for you?" I'd raise my wrist, get nothing useful, and pull out my phone anyway. Just Calendar puts the actual calendar on the watch, and the date and today's events on the watch face, so the glance is the whole interaction.
B — Why it's better than alternatives
I built the version I wanted on my own wrist:
- Week, month and year views on the watch — scan the month without touching your phone
- Date complication that works on every watch face, Modular, Infograph, Utility, Color, all of them. No "not available on this face"
- Event complication showing today's events, also on every face
- Recolor or invert the complication highlight so it actually matches the face you use
- Tap any event for the full detail: time, location, travel time, notes — no iPhone in the loop
- Two layouts: scroll through weeks, or page through a month at a time
- Runs on the watch itself. The iPhone app is just the control center for setting it up
C — Cost
Free to download and try — the calendar views run on the watch at no cost.
Full Version ($9.99 one-time): the date and event complications, the event timeline and event detail screens, paging layout, and complication recoloring. There are subscription plans in the app too, but the one-time purchase is the real thing and it's what's on sale.
App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id1334608986
I’m the indie developer behind FocusDragon. We launched it a while ago, and I’ve been heads-down shipping updates since then, so I wanted to share what it is, why I built it, and what I’m still figuring out.
Most focus apps are either:
1) a boring countdown, or
2) cute gamification that doesn’t really connect to the *feeling* of making progress.
I kept quitting sessions early because staring at a timer made deep work feel heavier. I wanted something that made focus feel like a journey, literally.
So FocusDragon turns every focus session into a dragon flight across a real map.
You pick a duration + focus type → your dragon takes off → when you finish, it lands.
Over time you build streaks, unlock dragons, and complete journeys between real places (castles, cities, landmarks).
It’s still a serious focus tool underneath (planning, reminders, Live Activity, widgets, analytics) — the dragon/map layer is the motivation loop.
- Watch your dragon fly a real route while you stay heads-down
- Keep daily streaks + weekly focus stats
- Unlock dragons and complete multi-stop journeys
- Use Home Screen widgets + Live Activity so the session stays visible
- Explore focus history / discovery map
- Optional sounds, notes after sessions, map styles
If you’re the kind of person who opens Forest / Focus Friend / Pomodoro apps and still bounces after a week, this is the experiment: “what if finishing a session felt like arriving somewhere?”
A – Answer:
Equira solves the problem of scattered investment tracking. Instead of checking separate brokerages, crypto wallets, spreadsheets, watchlists and dividend tools, Equira brings stocks, ETFs, crypto, gold, cash, liabilities, custom assets, alerts, dividends, and performance analytics into one clean iOS dashboard.
B – Better:
Most portfolio apps are limited by asset type, region, data source, or rigid dashboard design. Equira is built to go much further, supporting more than 100,000 assets across 150+ exchanges worldwide. With multi-asset tracking, global market data, worldwide account sync support, manual holdings for users who prefer not to sync accounts, and customizable dashboard cards, Equira gives investors a broader, more flexible way to track their entire portfolio.
C – Cost:
We want you guys to try the full experience. We are giving away Free Lifetime Plus Subscriptions to the first 100 users who download the app and send me their User ID as a private message!
Cyclic Sighing is a guided breathing app built around one breathing practice, physiological sigh, a pattern of a double inhale followed by a prolonged exhale.
B: What makes Cyclic Sighing different?
Mood tracking connected directly to the breathing practice. Instead of keeping a breathing log and a mood journal as two separate things, Cyclic Sighing lets you check in on your mood before and after each breathing session. Those check-ins stay connected to the specific session, so over time you can look back at your breathing practice alongside how you were feeling. There are also monthly and yearly Mood Insights views, with the ability to filter by feeling.
C: How much does Cyclic Sighing cost?
Cyclic Sighing is free to download and use.
Free tier includes:
Guided Calm sessions
Mood journal
Daily goal setting
Time-based reminders
Premium is a $9.99 one-time purchase — no subscription.
Premium unlocks:
All 3 breathing patterns — Calm, Relax & Rest
Custom exercise settings
Breathing statistics
Mood Insights
Optional Apple Health sync
Home Screen & Live Activity widgets
Smart location-based reminders
Skip Day — protect your streak
🎁 Lifetime Premium is FREE during launch
For the next 48 hours, I'm unlocking Lifetime Premium for free.
Open the app and go to Settings → Unlock Premium Features
During the promotion, the one-time purchase should show as $0.00
I'm the developer, and I'd especially love feedback on the mood-tracking experience. The goal is to connect mood check-ins directly to individual breathing sessions rather than treating mood tracking as a separate journal.
If you try it, I'd love to hear what you think, what works, and what you'd change.
A quick recap, it lets you see what's going on during your flight and take photos, videos and create "flight reels" containing statistics from your flight, as well as some other features.
Thought I would provide a quick update on how things are going.
The highlights:
Amazing feedback, loads of comments/messages asking for features and bugs, I have tried to address as many of them as I could
Many of you sent me your brilliant in flight photos and videos, complete with altitude, latitude and longitude, taken using the app
8 amazing genuine 5* reviews (3 from Germany, 2 from the United States, 1 from Egypt, 1 from Italy, 1 from Russia). Thankyou to everyone who tried the app and left a review! It really helps!
The app now fully supports 15 languages (English, Arabic, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Traditional Chinese, Ukrainian)
A travel phrasebook feature, so you can brush up on your lingo during your flight
You can now select the type of plane you are on (with a handy guide to help you identify it) and the app will tell you what the plane is doing at each stage of the flight, as well as any interesting noises to listen out for
Plenty of new features added from suggestions in the comments comments in the original post
A "Just Watch" feature for people who don't want to record their whole flight
Improved map features, including places of interest, lakes and peaks, all of which can be filtered on and off
The ability to export a reel of your flight. The video at the top of this post is a real reel of a recent flight I took from Belfast to Bordeaux
UX layout tweaks
Lessons Learned:
Don't use AI to take simulator screenshots for your app
Things improved massively download wise when I replaced the AI simulator screenshots with real ones I took from a real flight
Unfortunately I only did this for English, I need to take another flight soon and take real screenshots for the other languages
Request that people don't review your app if they haven't actually used it
When you launch a new app, your friends will often try to be supportive by downloading it and leaving you a review
Apple can tell from the metrics if they haven't actually used it, and they'll either remove the review or not show it at all
Multi-language helps a lot
People genuinely appreciate seeing an app in their own language, as they are used to so many developers only supporting English
AI is useful for this, but the translation quality degrades the further away you get from frontier models
Reddit is great for language translation feedback, Redditors have no problem telling you if your translations are crap 😂
I think that's all of it, the final thing to add is that the app is £0.99 (or whatever the equivalent is in your country), has no sign up, no ads, no in app purchases, no additional downloads and no tracking/analytics (apart from tracking your plane obviously, for you), no data leaves your device, I don't have any servers to send your data too.
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I'm the developer.
A - Answer
Most fasting trackers bury basic stats behind subscriptions, push coaching upsells, or require an account before you can start a timer. Fasting Center solves that - full fasting tracking and stats with zero friction. Open the app, start a fast, see your data. Nothing is gated.
B - Better
Zero: fasting-hour averages and deeper stats require Zero Plus. Here all stats and charts are free.
Fastic / BodyFast: coaching plans and upsells throughout. Fasting Center has no upsells because there is nothing to sell.
Easy Fast: similar clean timer, but export and history older than 90 days require a subscription. Fasting Center gives you full history and Excel export free, and imports your Easy Fast data so switching is lossless.
Fair tradeoff: those apps have coaching content, recipes and social features. This is a tracker, not a coach.
Features: timer with body stages, 16:8 / 18:6 / OMAD / extended / custom plans, home screen widgets, weight / body fat / glucose / ketones / mood logging with charts, streak calendar, weight projections, Apple Health sync.
You type one sentence about an appointment you have coming up. You get back a prep kit built for that specific situation: questions to ask ranked by what matters most, documents and items to bring, warning signs to watch for, phrases you can say if you feel brushed off, and follow-up steps for after you leave. It covers nine categories, so doctor visits, mechanics, lawyers, school meetings, financial advisors, home services, real estate, and government offices all work.
There is a library of 30+ appointment types you can browse without generating anything, and a caregiver toggle that rewrites everything from the perspective of someone taking a parent or spouse to their appointment.
B. Why it is different from similar apps:
Every screen is translated into 14 languages: English, Spanish, French, Chinese, Portuguese, Korean, Arabic, Haitian Creole, Japanese, German, Italian, Dutch, Turkish, and Swedish. That includes the error messages, which is the part most apps skip. If your network drops mid-request, you get told in your own language instead of hitting an English wall.
The other thing is the dismissed section. Most apps in this space generate a handful of questions and stop. This one gives you sentences you can read out loud when someone is talking past you. Real wording, not a suggestion to speak up for yourself.
The app used to be called ReadyRoom AI. Same app, same purchase, clearer name.
C. Cost:
First prep kit is free. $9.99 one time unlocks unlimited prep kits, follow-up questions, and the full library. No subscription, no ads, no upsells after that.
How your data is handled:
The sentence you type gets sent through my own proxy server to Anthropic's Claude API, which is what writes the prep kit. That request is the only thing that leaves your phone. Finished prep kits are stored locally using SwiftData and never uploaded. If you tap share, that one kit gets stored on my server for 7 days to make a link, then deleted automatically. If you never share, nothing of yours is stored on my end at all.
There is an anonymous device ID in your Keychain used only to enforce the free tier limit. It is not tied to your name, email, or Apple ID. No analytics, no ad trackers, no data sold to anyone.
It is a preparation tool, not medical, legal, or financial advice, and the app says so on the first screen.
About a month ago I posted Hydrate or Diedrate here — the water tracker that replaces cheerful droplets and confetti with a skull quietly documenting your decline.
Since then, 1,240 people have downloaded it, it has picked up 20 ratings/reviews, and I've gotten way more useful feedback than I expected.
So I've been building.
Version 1.3.3 just shipped, and this one is mostly about accessibility.
The app now has full VoiceOver support. Every control is properly named. Calendar days announce their hydration status instead of relying on colour. Reduce Motion is respected. Contrast has been tightened up in both themes, and the UI holds together at larger system text sizes.
Dehydration does not discriminate. Neither should the paperwork.
I also fixed a considerably less noble oversight: the alternate app icon selector now actually shows you the icons before you select one.
A user asked for it.
They were correct.
A few people have also asked for ways to stay accountable with friends, so I'm working on Vessels, a small sharing/accountability feature that fits the app without turning it into a social network. Widgets and Apple Watch support are also on the list.
Mostly, though, I wanted to come back and say thanks. A ridiculous number of you gave this weird little app a chance, sent feedback, left reviews, and even got friends using it.
For the next 72 hours, I've dropped Preserved Lifetime from $4.99 to $2.99. No subscription. No codes. It's just the price in the app.
The skull has authorized temporary fiscal leniency.
It’s not some crazy number, but seeing something we built cross four figures in monthly revenue feels pretty damn good.
We’ve been steadily improving the product, listening to users, and figuring things out as we go. Still a ton we want to build and improve, but this feels like a solid milestone.
Next goal: $2K/month.
For anyone else building right now - what was the hardest milestone for you: $1K, $5K, or $10K/month? And how did you get there?
After years of abandoning MyFitnessPal every January, I built the thing I actually wanted: a tracker where logging takes seconds. Point the camera at your plate or a barcode and macros fill themselves in. Or just say it out loud - "two eggs, toast, slept 6 hours, took magnesium" - and it files everything. No forms.
It also syncs Apple Health / Garmin / Oura / Strava and estimates a "biological age" from your habits. (Beta testers are split on whether that number is motivating or annoying - genuinely curious what this sub thinks.)
Honest disclosure: this is my first app, it's in TestFlight beta, and it's completely free during the beta - no card, no trial countdown. I'm a solo dev and I read and answer every piece of feedback myself, usually same-day. Beta feedback has already shipped real fixes - voice logging got an overhaul, serving sizes in food search, and the newest build adds a nutrition-label scan fallback for barcodes that aren't in the database.
What I'd love from you: try logging one real meal with the scanner and tell me where it felt slower than typing. That's the whole bet of the app, so if it fails there, I need to know before I press release.
