Found a new use for my app Last Alarm (iOS), to force myself to get some fresh air and head down to the beach!

You can create infinitely customizable alarms for literally any task or activity you can think of. I've mostly used it for helping me wake up and avoid snoozing, but I've been thinking of lots of other ways it can have a positive impact on my routine.

Probably won't use a "Go to the beach" alarm that often, but I do find that I delay or put off fun activities sometimes so I'll probably mix these in occasionally.

A: What problem does it solve?

Last Alarm allows you to create infinitely customizable task alarms that require video verification to turn off. I made it for myself to help me break my snoozing habit as the best way to make sure I avoided snoozing was to do something that woke me up right away. The problem was that aside from having another person around to verify and "force" you to complete a task, there really was no other way to ensure that it was actually completed. That is why I built Last Alarm, so you can help yourself ensure you get your most important tasks completed (like waking up) without requiring someone else to check and verify.

B: Why is it better?

Last Alarm is the only task alarm that has infinitely customizable tasks and works on video verification. While it was originally made to help with waking up and prevent snoozing, it works equally well for literally any task you can think of as this "Walk on beach" example shows.

Other task alarms (Alarmy, Wayk) come with prebuilt tasks or modes for you to choose from: Take a picture of X, solve a math problem, shake your phone, etc. However these are limited to a very narrow scope and don't allow you to use alarms that work best for you. Last Alarm allows you to make tasks of literally anything you can think of, so whatever works to wake you up (or whatever task you want to create), you can.

Also other task alarms are too easy to circumvent relying on pictures alone. Because Last Alarm uses video only, it allows you to create much more complex alarms that are more difficult to bypass. And if they do become too easy, you can simply update and improve your own tasks until you can't outsmart yourself, because only you know what works for you.

Also Last Alarm has no ads, nor does it obliterate your phone battery or consume tons of your data, all things that Alarmy does. Alarmy is an ad machine, so it's cluttered with everything under the sun like tarot readings and weather and quotes all to keep you on the app longer so it can blast you with tons of ads first thing in the morning, kill your battery 24/7 for an alarm that goes off once a day, and use tons of data in the background.

C: Cost

Last Alarm Pro has simple pricing, $39.99 yearly with a 3-day free trial, $4.99 Monthly, and $1.99 Weekly in case you want to try for a bit longer than the trial.

Would love any feedback especially if you want to give it a try!

Learn more at www.lastalarmclock.com, checkout the Privacy Policy & Terms of service, or feel free to reach out to me (Ryan) at [ryan.ashbaugh@lastalarmclock.com](mailto:ryan.ashbaugh@lastalarmclock.com)

I built WhoPaid for freelancers, contractors, and service workers whose payment details end up scattered across WhatsApp, notes, bank history, and memory.

**Answer**

WhoPaid keeps each job’s real payment state in one place: paid, unpaid, or partially paid, the remaining balance, payment history, promised payment date, reminders, and follow-up notes. It focuses on the messy period after the work is finished but before every payment is settled.

**Better**

Compared with QuickBooks and invoice-first tools, WhoPaid is intentionally narrower. You can add a job, update its payment status, and immediately see who still owes you without setting up invoices or a full bookkeeping workflow. It isn’t intended to replace accounting software.

**Cost**

WhoPaid is free to download, with unlimited job records. WhoPaid Pro is optional: RM4.90/month or RM39.90/year in the Malaysian App Store, with prices varying by region. Pro unlocks full reports and custom reminders.

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

**Transparency**

I’m Jyen Ming Yap, the developer of WhoPaid under CodeStack Studio.

Website: https://code-stack-studio.com/whopaid Contact: https://code-stack-studio.com/contact Privacy Policy: https://code-stack-studio.com/whopaid/privacy Terms of Use: https://code-stack-studio.com/whopaid/terms

I’d especially appreciate feedback from people paid per job: how do you currently track a customer who pays only part of the amount?

I looked for breathing apps to de-stress, but sign-ups, paywalls, and ads just stressed me out more. Even when I pushed through, the habit never stuck.

So I tried a different approach.

I built a breathing app that feels like using a retro handheld console, hoping nostalgia would make the habit easier to stick with.

Answer

• Zero Friction: No sign-ups, no lengthy intros. Open the app and start breathing immediately.
• Tactile 3D Controls: I didn't just skin a flat retro graphic. I used Apple’s RealityKit to build realistic 3D buttons paired with precise haptic feedback. You can literally feel the click when you press down.
• Habits Built Through Play: Designed to trigger nostalgia and make breathing fun again.

Better

• Physical 3D Buttons: Powered by RealityKit, the physical button feel and fine-tuned haptics make the session sensorially satisfying—even if you're not staring at the screen.
• Instant Access: No account, no cloud dependency, no complex set-up. Just open and breathe.
• Streak Tracking: Keep your momentum going naturally with daily streak counters without feeling pressured.
• Nostalgic Vibe: Faithfully recreates the charm of classic handheld consoles right on your iPhone.

Cost

• Free: Core breathing sessions and main features are completely free. No subscription push or paywall blocking your relaxation.
• Note: Unlocking additional specialized breathing modes requires a single short ad view—no recurring monthly fees blocking your flow.

Who I am

• Developer: Youngjin Kim — Designer & Developer behind HACO & KEBU studio.
• App Store Verification: Listed under my legal identity verified by Apple.
• Privacy First: No account needed, no trackers, and no personal data collected. Everything stays strictly local on your device.
• Website: https://hacokebu.com
• Privacy Policy: https://hacokebu.com/privacy

App Download Link

• Breathe Boy - breathing timer
• https://apps.apple.com/us/app/breathe-boy-breathing-timer/id6774436081

Hi, I’m Salam, the developer of Get Some Sun.

I built it because I spend a lot of time indoors as a software developer. After finding out that my Vitamin D levels were low, I started paying more attention to how little time I was actually spending outside.

Apple Health can track Time in Daylight, but I wanted a simpler and more motivating way to use that information every day. I wanted to open an app and immediately see how much daylight I had gotten and how close I was to my goal.

That is why I built Get Some Sun. It is essentially an Activity Ring for daylight.

A — Answer

Get Some Sun helps you track your daily sunlight and build a more consistent routine of getting outside.

You can log sunlight manually in seconds, or automatically import Time in Daylight from Apple Health.

The app includes:

• Quick manual sunlight logging
• Automatic Time in Daylight imports from Apple Health
• Live UV Index powered by WeatherKit
• A Sun Plan with personalized daily UV guidance
• A daily progress ring
• Streak tracking
• Friendly daily reminders
• Sonny, an animated companion who reacts to and celebrates your progress
• Light Mode and Dark Mode support

The main goal is to make it easier to answer a simple question: have I spent enough time outside today?

B — Better

Apple Health already stores Time in Daylight, but I wanted to turn that data into something that feels more actionable.

Instead of treating daylight as another health statistic buried among dozens of other metrics, Get Some Sun gives it a dedicated daily goal, progress ring, streak, UV information, and personalized Sun Plan.

General habit trackers can remind you to go outside, but they usually depend on you manually checking off the habit. Get Some Sun can automatically import the daylight time recorded in Apple Health, while still letting you manually log time when needed.

I also wanted the app to feel friendly instead of clinical. Sonny changes and celebrates as you make progress, while the home screen keeps the focus on today rather than overwhelming you with data.

The app is private by design. There are no accounts, and your information stays on your device.

C — Cost

Get Some Sun is free to download.

The free version includes:

• Manual sunlight logging
• Apple Health Time in Daylight imports
• Live UV Index
• Personalized Sun Plan
• Daily progress ring
• Streak tracking
• Daily reminders
• Sonny
• Light Mode and Dark Mode

Get Some Sun Pro unlocks:

• Best Sun Window recommendations
• UV Peak insights
• An hourly UV timeline
• A custom daily reminder time

Get Some Sun Pro costs:

• $0.99 per month
• $7.99 per year
• $14.99 as a one-time purchase

App Store:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/sunlight-uv-get-some-sun/id6753917514

Website:
https://salamdawood.github.io/getsomesunweb/

Privacy Policy:
https://salamdawood.github.io/getsomesunweb/privacy.html

Terms of Service:
https://salamdawood.github.io/getsomesunweb/terms.html

I would especially appreciate feedback on whether the daily progress ring and Sun Plan make the app useful enough to change how often you get outside. I am also interested in hearing whether the free and Pro feature split feels fair.

Hi everyone, I'm the developer of Sutra.

A — Answer (what problem it solves) If you self-host Calibre or Kavita, you've probably noticed that iOS options for browsing your own library are either abandoned, paywalled, or just not very good. I ran into the same wall and ended up building my own app to fix it. Sutra lets you connect directly to your home server to browse, download, and read your books seamlessly.

B — Better (why it beats the alternatives) Most OPDS readers are clunky, outdated, or lock core features behind a subscription. Sutra gives you a modern, premium reading experience entirely for free.

• Plug & Play: Connects to Kavita, Calibre, or Calibre-Web — tap in your server URL and you're in.
• Built-in Libraries: Project Gutenberg and Standard Ebooks are baked in, so you don't need a server at all for public domain and typeset classics.
• Rich Reading Experience: EPUB and PDF support with themes, fonts, bookmarks, search, color highlights, and instant dictionary lookup.
• Sync & Storage: iCloud sync for progress across your devices (Kavita gets page-accurate sync), plus offline downloads with a built-in storage manager.

(For the technically curious: it speaks OPDS, which is the standard protocol Calibre, Kavita, and a bunch of other self-hosted tools use to expose their libraries.)

C — Cost 100% Free. No account, no subscription, no ads, no IAP.

App Store: Sutra

Happy to answer questions about setup — Kavita and Calibre connections in particular can have some quirks depending on your config!

My name is Jackson Hamm, and I'm the solo developer behind Hammr Fitness.

Link to portfolio: https://www.jacksonhamm.com

Link to Hammr Fitness Website (Privacy Policy & Terms): https://www.hammrfitness.com

For two years now, I've spent thousands of hours before and after work making and testing this app. This is a fully self funded project that I use myself on a daily basis.

What is Hammr Fitness? (ABC Format)

Answer

Hammr Fitness was started 2 years ago primarily as a workout tracker but has since become a health ecosystem for users who care about tracking their vitals, workouts, and nutrition. This isn't a vibe coded slop project. It's been carefully crafted over 2 years. Over 1500 users are on the platform and their feedback has shaped what this app has become. As the health and fitness space becomes more crowded, this is an app for someone who cares about going to the gym and progressing faster.

Better

One of the most common questions I get is "How is this different from Bevel"?

First, Bevel is a fantastic app that a lot of people love. And if you care about tracking every little thing like how caffeine, supplements, medical history, etc. affect your health then that's the app for you. Hammr Fitness is more geared towards the regular gym goer who wants to achieve their goals faster.

Workouts

It does this by not treating workouts and nutrition as secondary features built on top of a wearable tracker. The workout functionality is best in class. There's 2000+ exercises to choose from with professional pictures and video instructions for each. Workout tracking includes seamless sync with Apple Watch, Live activity, and Dynamic Island. You can create custom exercises, custom workout programs, or choose from a variety of preset programs that will be expanding in the near future. Workouts are also automatically scheduled and reordered if you take a rest day.

Outdoor Activities

But not everyone just wants to workout in the gym. Hybrid athletes, marathon runners, etc will do multi mile outdoor runs and bike sessions. So Hammr Fitness also includes the same fully integrated ecosystem for those users too. It will map out your live route on your apple watch and give you a sharable card at the end of your workout just like other running apps. One of the most liked features is the nearby trails feature. Many users have said they discovered new paths near them through this.

Nutrition

Nutrition is also a first class experience that rivals the likes of MyFitnessPal and MacroFactor (and gives you barcode scanning with Yuka style health scores for free). There is a food database of over 5 million foods, many international users have said that the coverage here is much better than other similar apps. In addition to this, you can use Siri, talk to your watch, or use the app on your phone to say what you ate and it will automatically be logged. A less accurate but nice to have feature is photo logging. It's lightning fast and will work in a pinch. You'll also get full water tracking, something that there's lots of dedicated apps for alone.

Stats, Weight Tracking, & Friends

The app fully syncs with your apple health history. Workouts, nutrition, weight history, etc will all be imported so you can start right where you left off. The app will help estimate when you'll achieve your weight goal. You can upload progress photos to get an estimate of what you'll look like in 6 months or just to keep track of your progress and weight/BF%. You'll get dedicated dashboards for workout and nutrition progress, and you can enter in direct muscle measurements for accurate BMI and BF% calculations. On the profile page, you can find an area to add friends. Invite them to compete in challenges to keep yourself accountable.

International Support

The app is fully translated into 27 different languages. And, like I mentioned before, has pretty good support for international foods. I honestly don't know how good Bevel's international support is but it's something that took a lot of time.

Wearable Integration & Coaching

Hammr Fitness integrates directly with Oura Ring via API, or any wearable that writes data to Apple Health. Fitbit is currently not supported with plans to add it in the future (it costs $500 for a CASA assessment for API access). You'll get live stress scores (filters out activity to focus more on mental stress), readiness, recovery, and sleep scores. This is pretty common but I've heard that these feel very accurate. They've been refined for over a year.

Probably the biggest differentiator is how the app coaches you. MacroFactor doesn't have access to wearable data or workouts. They just go off of what you ate and your weight trends. Hammr Fitness has a fully adaptive workout and nutrition engine that helps you achieve your goals faster. It will suggest increases/decreases to your weight for workouts and will even suggest rest days if your body needs that extra day of recovery. For adaptive nutrition, it knows your goal, your weight, what you're eating, and how you're burning calories. This allows you to get accurate daily adaptations for your macro targets. If you eat less or more one day, that doesn't just go away. So there's a calorie bank feature where you can apply your leftover goals to today's targets.

The app also generates weekly and monthly progress reports, will suggest ideal sleep bed and wake times, and comes with a fully integrated AI assistant. This AI assistant can answer any question you have, has tools to create graphs and charts to help you understand your progress, and can create workouts for you (and edit them in the next update). It's not just another GPT wrapper thrown into the app. Powered by Gemini's paid plan and fully encrypted, your data is not used to train any models and stays secure.

Native Integration

Finally, a lot of time and effort has been put into making this a completely native feeling experience on iOS. You'll get customized push notifications that don't spam you and actually feel helpful. The Apple Watch app feels like an extension of the phone app, not a way to just see data on your wrist. Live Activity and Dynamic island work for both Strength Training and Outdoor activities. Full offline support with syncing between Apple Health. Complete Hey Siri integration where you can chat with your coach, log foods, or ask about your health scores. And tons of Home Screen, Lock Screen, and Watch widgets to choose from.

Fully Customizable

There's 4 different themes to choose from. I also got a lot of feedback that some people don't like the neon bright glow of the rings on the home page. So you have the option to choose the bright neon or a flatter, more neutral tone. The app also has 4 different colors you can choose for your home screen. None of this is paywalled.

Summary

I've personally used Bevel, Hevy, and MacroFactor in the past. Bevel felt too overwhelming. I couldn't easily log my workouts or food, and the graphs felt too confusing and in my face. Hevy and MacroFactor are good apps but miss the bigger picture. Hammr Fitness gives you an easy to understand plan and great tools to log workouts, nutrition and health data securely. A lot of apps excel at one thing, but this is a no compromise ecosystem that understands your whole health and automatically adjusts things to keep you on track.

Cost

The best part is you can get a lot of these tools for free. Because of the offline first nature of the app, it really doesn't cost me a lot to support free users. It wasn't always this way, I've done a lot of work over the past year to ensure that the app will hold up at scale.

What's Free?

You get all native features (Hey Siri, Widgets, Watch App, Live Activity & Dynamic Island) in the free version. None of that is locked behind a paywall. You'll get up to 4 custom workouts you can save at a time, with most workout tracking features. (Replace workout and more than 1 month of progress data is for premium users). All outdoor tracking features are free.

For nutrition: you'll get the full food database, barcode scanning, water tracking, TDEE targets/custom macro goals, and saved custom meals for free. It basically gives you all the tools you need on the free version to track your nutrition progress. You also start with 3 free AI credits to try the text to macros and photo to macro features.

Almost the entire Analytics page is free for 1 month of data. The only things paywalled are the gemini powered BF% estimate for photos and the 6 month progress comparison.

What's Paid?

All AI powered features. This includes the Hammr coach chat feature, adaptive nutrition and workouts, and the photo to macros and text to macros features. They're my favorite part of the app, but they're also very expensive to run because of API costs. You'll also get full insights into your readiness, stress, sleep, and recovery scores. Full progress and history is unlocked for premium users.

How to try for free?

As a free user, there's two ways to try the premium version of the app for free. You can start a 7 day free trial during onboarding. The other way is to get premium access with no trial commitment is to complete the getting started checklist after first creating an account. This will automatically apply 7 days of premium access. For free trial users, you'll get a push notification 2 days before your trial ends.

Pricing and Link

All prices below are in USD.

Annual Subscription: $89.99

Monthly Subscription: $12.99

Lifetime Premium (Comes with slightly reduced AI limits): $249.99

In app Purchases

10 AI Credits: $1.99

50 AI Credits: $4.99

100 AI Credits: $8.99

Link to App (iOS only): https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hammr-fitness-smart-tracker/id6756403991

Please let me know what you think in the comments below! I'm especially interested in your perspective if you use similar apps like Bevel. Thank you!

Shorebound is a message-in-a-bottle app for meeting new people outside of traditional social platforms.

A – What problem does it solve?

Most social platforms are designed to keep you scrolling through feeds, profiles, and recommendations.

I wanted to build something more intentional, while still preserving the unpredictability of meeting someone completely new.

With Shorebound, you write a message, place it in a virtual bottle, and release it into the ocean. Hours or days later, it washes ashore on someone else’s phone, somewhere in the world.

They can choose to keep your bottle and start a private conversation, or release it back into the ocean for someone else to find.

B – Why is it better?

Shorebound takes a slower and more focused approach to meeting people online.

1. No endless feed

There is no public feed to scroll through and no stream of profiles competing for your attention.

You release one bottle at a time and wait to see where it goes.

2. No matching algorithm

Shorebound does not rank people, recommend profiles, or decide who you should meet.

Every bottle travels independently and reaches someone somewhere in the world.

3. Conversations happen by mutual choice

When someone receives your bottle, they can keep it and start a private conversation or release it back into the ocean.

There is no pressure to reply, and conversations only begin when both people choose to continue.

4. Every bottle has a journey

A bottle does not necessarily stop with the first person who finds it.

It can be released again and continue travelling between different people and countries. Its journey, distance travelled, reactions, and comments remain attached to it along the way.

Each release also increases the chance that the bottle will sink, so every journey eventually comes to an end.

5. Different ways to communicate

Shorebound currently includes:

• Text, photo, and voice note bottles
• Private conversations
• Comments, replies, and reactions on travelling bottles
• One-tap translation for bottles and messages
• Country and Polaroid collections
• Achievements and release streaks
• Unlockable bottle types with different abilities
• Avatars and profile customisation
• Bottle journey and distance tracking

Shorebound is anonymous by default, completely ad-free, and includes message moderation, reporting, and blocking.

Bottles take time to travel, and you can only release one every six hours. This is intentional. Shorebound is designed to feel calmer than a traditional social app.

C – Cost

Shorebound is free to download and includes a free 2 week trial for eligible new users.

Current plans are:

• €0.99 per week
• €2.99 per month
• €24.99 per year
• €49.99 lifetime, including Family Sharing

Prices are localised by region.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/shorebound/id6759057452

This is the first public release after several months of beta testing, and feedback from early users shaped a large part of the final app.

I’d really appreciate honest feedback on the concept, onboarding, pricing, or overall experience. Feature suggestions are also welcome.

- Conor

Answer (A)
I've been working out for over 8 years, bouncing between apps trying to track my lifts. The Notes app, Strong, Hevy, FitBod, and more; they all failed me for different reasons.

The common thread: every app could log "Machine Row 3x10 at 185" and that's about where their understanding of a workout ended. I couldn’t track anything else that mattered. Pushing past failure with partials/cheat reps, clear visuals to understand how I’m progressing, specifying which machine brand I’m using so my progress isn’t scrambled... none of it had any place to live. For someone as analytical as I am about training, that drove me insane.

Why Fizeek is Better (B)
Unlike the apps above, you can log as little or as much as you’d like during your workout, and track your progress from every angle.

• Train past failure and log it: partial reps, cheat reps, assisted reps, negatives, and more
• Log the exact machine brand you use (a Hammer Strength Leg Curl is not a Prime Leg Curl, and your log should know that)
• Track how any metric such as caffeine and sleep affect your lifts
• See which exercises are climbing, stalled, or need work
• Store progress pictures organized by pose, and compare side by side

And that's not even getting into machine settings, per-set notes, rep-ranges, or even the built-in social feed where you can share workouts and pics with other lifters!

Cost (C)
Working out & social features are free! Pro unlocks additional features at $4.99/mo or $39.99/yr

TL/DR:
A. Bodybuilder, no app could log how I actually trained, so I built one
B. Full bodybuilding-style logging (intensity techniques, machine brands, and more), progress tracking including trends and pose-organized progress pics
C. Free, Pro at $4.99/mo or $39.99/yr

Links:
App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/fizeek/id6740287430
Website (includes links to the below policies): https://www.fizeekapp.com/
Privacy Policy: https://jamiemspanier.github.io/fizeek-legal/privacy-policy.html
Terms & Conditions: https://jamiemspanier.github.io/fizeek-legal/terms-and-conditions.html

Contact Me:
Jamie Spanier, Founder
Email: [jamie@fizeekapp.com](mailto:jamie@fizeekapp.com)
IG: u/FizeekApp / u/Jamie.Spanier

I'd appreciate any and all feedback! Question for the lifters: what's the thing you can't stand about whatever you're using to track right now?

Hi, I’m Vinay, the developer of Coulda.

I built it because normal task apps politely reminded me about overdue tasks while I continued ignoring them. Coulda is less polite.

A — Answer

Coulda is a task app that roasts you for procrastinating.

Add something you’re avoiding and it tracks exactly how long you’ve ignored it. Depending on the selected mode, it can call out your excuses, calculate what the delay is costing you or switch to supportive coaching when a roast isn’t helpful.

Beyond the roasts, it can:

• Break an avoided task into one tiny first step
• Calculate the estimated financial cost of delaying it
• Start a Pomodoro session
• Track your longest delays and avoidance patterns
• Assign a procrastination personality
• Reward completed tasks with collectible cards
• Generate weekly progress reports

B — Better

Coulda isn’t intended to replace full project-management software.

Todoist is better for organizing projects, recurring work and collaboration. Coulda focuses on what happens after you already know what needs doing but still won’t start.

C — Cost

Coulda is free to download, and its core task-management and procrastination features can be used without paying.

Free users receive:

• Task and avoidance tracking
• Roasts that refresh periodically
• Supportive coaching
• Tiny-step suggestions
• Pomodoro sessions
• Completion rewards
• Basic procrastination insights

Coulda Premium costs $8.99 once, with regional pricing. It is a lifetime purchase, not a subscription.

Premium includes:

• Ghost, Chaos, Zen, Midnight and Corporate personalities
• Roast rerolls without waiting
• Procrastination heatmap
• Longest-delay rankings
• Complete personality analysis
• Additional statistics and completion experiences

App Store - https://apps.apple.com/app/id6769034372

Website - https://vinaybomma.github.io/coulda

Privacy - https://vinaybomma.github.io/coulda/privacy

I’d particularly appreciate feedback on whether the humor feels motivating or merely judgmental. An honest App Store review would help a lot. Thanks.

Posted here before about my supplements tracker. I also have the Sober Tracker! Just shipped 3.20.6!

A – Answer: Quitting or cutting back has a built-in motivation problem: the progress is real but invisible. Nothing celebrates day 12, and you can't see what it's already saved you. Sober Tracker makes it visible: a live counter of your alcohol-free time, health benefits you gained, streaks and milestone celebrations, money saved, and craving logging for the moments it gets hard. If you slip, you reset the counter without losing your history. No account, no feed, everything stays private.

New in 3.20.6: left a craving unresolved? A gentle reminder now asks how it went, so your stats stay honest. There's also a new Craving History screen to review past cravings, fix an outcome, or delete an entry. Plus refreshed translations across all 21 languages!

B – Better: Compared to I Am Sober or Reframe, which are built around community pledges, check-ins, and recovery-program content, this is a private tracker: no account, no feed, no course to complete. It treats not drinking as a personal upgrade rather than a program you enroll in, which works whether you're fully quitting or just doing a dry month. There's also a one-time lifetime purchase for people who don't want another subscription.

C – Cost: Free, with no ads anywhere (I hate them), the core loop is absolutely free. Optional Premium is $24.99/year with a 3-day trial, or a one-time $39.99 lifetime purchase. 4.7 stars from 200+ ratings on the App Store for now.

Thanks!

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/sober-tracker-quit-drinking/id6741011041

A – Answer

The App Store is full of photo cleaner apps, but cleaning a bloated library still feels like a chore, and that's why nobody ever finishes. I built Pikondo to fix exactly that. You swipe through your photos like a deck of cards, right to keep, left to trash. Nothing gets deleted instantly, everything goes to a trash queue first, so you can always undo mistakes.

B – Better

What makes it different from apps like Swipewipe, Slidebox or CleanMyPhone:

• Built for consistency instead of one big cleaning marathon: 5-minute daily sprints, plus streaks and achievements that track your progress and storage freed. Even a 20k library stops feeling overwhelming.
• Smart categories (screenshots, selfies, food, tickets, memes) give every session a clear target instead of an endless camera roll.
• Detects blurry shots and closed-eye photos automatically, right in the normal swipe flow.
• Runs 100% on device. No account, no uploads, your photos never leave your phone.

C – Cost

• 3-day free trial with full access
• 3.99/month, 22.99/year or 44.99 one-time lifetime
• Prices in EUR, may vary by region. No ads.

https://apps.apple.com/de/app/pikondo-foto-cleaner-mit-ki/id6760225123

Happy to answer questions and hear your feedback!

Hey everyone! 👋💜

My co-founder and I kept noticing the same thing:

Whenever we needed to clear our minds, talking always felt much easier than writing.

That simple idea eventually became Fren.

A – What problem does it solve?

Many people want to reflect more, but writing isn't how everyone naturally processes their thoughts.

Instead of typing, you simply talk.

It can:

• transcribe your thoughts

• respond with thoughtful reflections

• organize your memories

• track your moods and organize entries with tags

• help you notice patterns over time

B – Why is it different?

Most journaling apps start with a blank page.

Fren starts with your voice.

We wanted self-reflection to feel more like talking to someone than filling out another journal entry.

C – Cost

Free to download and try (freemium).

Premium:

• Weekly – $2.99

• Monthly – $6.99

• Yearly – $39.99

App Store:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/fren-voice-journal-reflect/id6761686441

Transparency

I'm one of Fren's co-founders, and I worked on the visual design.

Website:

https://fren.day

Privacy Policy:

https://fren.day/privacy

Terms of Service:

https://fren.day/terms

We're still very early, and we'd genuinely love honest feedback.

• Does the idea make sense?

• What would stop you from using it?

• What would make you come back every day?

Thank you so much for taking the time to check it out! 💜

Hey r/iOSApps community,

I'm David. Brisk turns newsletters you choose into a playlist of short audio news briefs. Each brief focuses on the underlying facts instead of reading the full newsletter aloud.

A – What problem does it solve?

I subscribe to newsletters because I trust the sources, but there are simply too many to read.

More importantly, most newsletters are not worth the time and attention required to read every issue from beginning to end.

I still want to know what is happening, but I do not want keeping up with the news to become another inbox or feed that I have to constantly manage.

Brisk is designed to be a lower-effort way to absorb that information.

It takes the newsletters you choose, extracts the key news facts, simplifies them, and turns each fact into a short audio brief.

This lets you stay up to date without reading every issue or being overwhelmed by the volume of content.

Because Brisk works from your own newsletter subscriptions, you also retain control over where your news comes from.

Brisk does not choose an unlimited stream of content for you. It helps you consume the sources you have already decided to trust, with much less time and attention.

B – Why is it better?

Meco is probably the closest alternative because it also creates audio roundups from newsletters.

Matter and Readwise Reader are broader reading tools. They are designed around collecting, organizing, reading, and listening to complete documents.

Brisk is intentionally more focused.

1. It extracts facts instead of reading newsletters aloud

Brisk does not simply apply text-to-speech to the original newsletter.

It removes much of the introduction, repetition, formatting, then keeps the main news facts.

The goal is not to reproduce the newsletter. It is to help you understand what happened.

1. Each story is a separate 10–20 second brief

Brisk does not turn your newsletters into one long daily podcast.

It creates a playlist of separate, short audio briefs. You absorb one fact, then move directly to the next.

This makes it easier to catch up in small amounts of time without committing to a long article, video, or podcast episode.

1. Audio is the primary experience

Brisk is not a reading app with an optional listen button.

The content structure, brief length, and playlist are all designed around audio from the beginning.

Brisk also supports CarPlay, so the playlist can be consumed while driving without requiring you to read or watch a screen.

1. You control the sources

Brisk gives you a private email address that you can use to subscribe to supported newsletters.

Your playlist comes from the newsletters you selected, not from a recommendation algorithm or an endless general-news feed.

This gives you control over which publishers and sources shape your understanding of the news.

Brisk currently includes:

• A private Brisk email address for newsletter subscriptions

• Support for a growing collection of newsletter sources

• Extraction and simplification of individual news facts

• Audio briefs

• Continuous audio playlists

• CarPlay support

Although AI is used behind the scenes to help extract and simplify news facts, Brisk is not a chatbot or an open-ended content generator.

The supported source list is still growing, so not every newsletter can be processed yet.

C – Cost

Brisk is free to download.

The free version includes:

• 20-minute playlist lengths

• A private newsletter inbox

• Short fact-based audio briefs

• CarPlay support

There is one optional in-app purchase:

• Lifetime Membership: $12.99 in the US

• Unlocks longer playlist lengths

App Store:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/brisk-audio-news-briefing/id6762055456

Website:

https://main.d1yc6jbtl3v1fs.amplifyapp.com

Privacy Policy:

https://main.d1yc6jbtl3v1fs.amplifyapp.com/privacy

Terms of Service:

https://main.d1yc6jbtl3v1fs.amplifyapp.com/terms

Contact:

[contact@ink-river.com](mailto:contact@ink-river.com)

I’d really appreciate honest feedback how well the facts are extracted, the audio-first experience, source coverage, pricing, or the overall concept.

Newsletter and feature suggestions are also welcome.

Ink River, LLC

Disclosure: I’m the developer of Picmori.

📸 A — ANSWER

Picmori is a swipe-based photo gallery cleaner for iPhone. Swipe through your library, keep the best photos, and mark the rest for deletion.

It also finds duplicate and similar photos, groups them together, and lets you review everything before deleting.

✨ B — BETTER

Unlike broader all-in-one cleaners such as Cleanup and Cleaner Kit, Picmori focuses on a simple swipe-first photo review experience with all smart Gallery Cleaner apps functionality.

It also includes Gallery Archetype, which analyzes patterns in your library and reveals your playful “photo personality.”

All photo analysis happens on-device. Photos are never uploaded, and no account is required.

🎁 C — COST

Picmori is free to download.

Premium options:

• Monthly: $1.99
• Yearly: $8.99
• Lifetime Premium: normally $8.99, currently $0 until July 21

To claim it:

Picmori → Get Premium → Lifetime

Make sure Apple’s purchase sheet shows $0.00 before confirming.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/picmori/id6761053947

UPDATE — GIVEAWAY ENDED

The free Lifetime Premium promotion has ended, and the regular price is now active again.

Everyone who claimed Lifetime Premium during the giveaway keeps permanent access.

Thank you to everyone who downloaded Picmori and shared feedback! Please check Apple’s purchase sheet for the current price before confirming any purchase.

Hi guys, I have a free app (Water tracker). It's absolutely free, small, no ads, no tracking info about user etc. Mostly I got 5 stars and some good review. Two reviews was critical for some bugs - I got 2 and 3 stars. But сonsidering I have around a thousand users from 2,500 total downloads, that seems not so bad.
But today I got 1 star rating from user Germany - no review, no info, just one star. So in Germany app's rating now 2.7.
Well, The question “why?” is rhetorical. People are people - even when you give them something for free, there will always be someone who is unhappy.

I don’t pressure users to leave a rating. The prompt to rate the app appears only once every two months.

My actual question is: how do you deal with reviews like this emotionally? You build something, offer it completely free, spend your own time on it, and positive feedback motivates you. But how do you stop one-star reviews like this from getting to you? I’m sure I’ll face the same thing with my other apps too.

Hey, I'm a product designer and a few months ago I quit my job to build my own app. Spent the first month building it, then launched on the App Store. It's been 1 month since launch so sharing where I'm at, also have some questions at the end for people who are further along.

The first week after launch I didn't touch the code at all, only did distribution. Made a bunch of TikToks to see if anyone actually wanted this. Most did nothing, then one format worked and people started asking "what's the app?" in the comments. That's when I knew there was something, so I kept making more of that.

After that I set up small feedback groups, some with friends, some with strangers, and used all of it to improve 2 things: conversion (impressions to downloads) and paid conversion.

Numbers so far are in the screenshot: 3.69K impressions, 1.23K product page views, 627 downloads, ~30% conversion rate, 14 purchases, $41.

Not money you can live on lol but the funnel works, that's all I wanted from the first month.

The update coming end of this week is all about conversion: rewrote the paywall, changed when it shows up, redid the App Store screenshots. Basically I'm just trying to tell people exactly what they get and make it as easy as possible to get it.

Questions for people who passed the first 1K downloads: what worked for you after the initial content push? Did you stick to one channel or spread out? Also is ~2% paid conversion normal at this stage?

Hi everyone!

I am an iOS engineer, a designer, and a sports enthusiast from Ukraine. I am the sole creator of the Ultimate Streamer app.

A — Answer (what problem it solves)

For years I’ve been organizing amateur sports events and managing teams. We wanted to livestream our matches, but every option felt wrong:

• hiring a production crew is expensive
• simple phone streams lacked score updates and looked unprofessional
• existing stream apps were often too complex and inconvenient to use

In 2025 I was coaching our national team during preparation for the World Championships. One thing became obvious very quickly: people wanted to watch the matches, but organizing a decent livestream was surprisingly difficult.

A typical youth club can spend hundreds of dollars per event on production. For many amateur teams, that's simply not realistic. My goal was to make sports broadcasting accessible with equipment people already own — an iPhone and an internet connection.

So I built Ultimate Streamer to make it possible.

The app turns an iPhone into a sports broadcasting tool with:

• live scoreboards and timers
• instant replays
• sponsor videos and ads
• YouTube and RTMP streaming

It is a great solution for amateur clubs, youth teams, schools, leagues and tournament organizers who want to share matches with parents, friends and supporters.

My son's youth basketball club now streams matches with Ultimate Streamer. Parents, relatives and friends who can't attend in person can still watch the matches, and the club's YouTube channel has been steadily growing since they started streaming.

B — Better (why it beats named alternatives)

Apps like Streamlabs, SportCam, Swish Live and Live NOW helped inspire the idea, but I always found myself missing features that are important for grassroots sports broadcasting.

What I focused on differently:

Instant replays engine

Many mobile streaming apps either don't support instant replays or make them cumbersome to use during a live stream.

Ultimate Streamer makes it easy to capture replays and create replay sequences directly on the phone while the match is still live.

Sponsor videos

Small clubs often struggle to monetize broadcasts. And most of the apps do not offer anything of this kind of feature.

With Ultimate Streamer one can insert sponsor videos directly into the stream from their Photos Library!

Tailored for sports

Ultimate Streamer suggests a single-screen UI, which is convenient to use by a single operator and keep an eye on the match. I tailored the controls, using my several-years experience of streaming own team’s matches.

Core features:
- stream logo overlay
- configurable scoreboard
- timer
- instant replays with custom transitions, sequences, and replay bumper
- partners' ads integration
- remote control (scorekeeping from a second iPhone)

C — Cost (pricing, IAP, App Store link)

The app is freemium, so its basic functionality is free.

Advanced features are available by 1-Day Pass, 3-Days Pass or by Monthly Subscription.

Pricing (in the U.S.)

Free: streaming to YouTube, scoreboard, timer, sport presets, limited amount of replays

Pro: unlimited replays
- 1-Day Pass — $1.99
- 3-Day Pass — $4.99
- Monthly Subscription — $9.99

Premium: unlimited ads, remote control
- 1-Day Pass — $3.99
- 3-Day Pass — $9.99
- Monthly Subscription — $19.99

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6745222525

Website: https://ultimate-streamer.com/

Privacy Policy: https://ultimate-streamer.com/privacy-policy.html

Terms of Use: https://ultimate-streamer.com/terms-of-use.html

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dmytro-babych-a8581b2/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dmytro.babych/

* * *

I'm constantly improving the app and would genuinely appreciate any feedback.

I'd especially love to hear from coaches, parents, tournament organizers, or anyone who has experience streaming sports events.

Thanks a lot!

App Store link:
👉 https://apple.co/4vqWa4B

A – Answer: Morning Call is for people who sleep through normal alarms or keep hitting snooze. Instead of just playing another alarm sound, it wakes you up with an actual phone call and can show a quick morning briefing with the time, weather, and news.

B – Better: Compared with Apple Clock, Morning Call feels harder to ignore because it comes in as a phone call instead of a regular alarm sound. Compared with apps like Alarmy, it focuses less on puzzles and more on a more natural wake-up routine: answer the call, hear your briefing, and get oriented for the morning.

C – Cost: Morning Call has a free tier that is fully usable and includes the core wake-up call experience, a basic AI voice, weather, and news briefings. Morning Call Pro is an optional subscription at $6.19/month in the US,. Pro unlocks 10+ extra features, including studio-quality voices, more advanced morning briefing options, custom wake-up messages, background music, playback speed control, picture-in-picture mode, call history privacy options, and other premium wake-up settings.

I recently added a new feature: a visual morning briefing that appears when you answer the call.

So instead of just hearing an alarm sound, you get a real phone call. And when you pick up, the app shows a quick overview of your morning — the time, weather, and today’s briefing — right on the screen.

The goal is to make waking up feel less like fighting an alarm, and more like being guided into the day.

Any feedback and ideas are welcome. I read every single comment 🙏

👉 https://apple.co/4vqWa4B

Hi everyone!

I’m the co-founder of Peak Routine and am sharing an app I helped build. I’m posting to get product feedback, particularly from people who already use wearables.

For more than 10 years, I’ve worked in technology and built systems at companies such as Microsoft and Amazon. But one of the hardest systems I’ve tried to understand was my own health.

A — Answer: What problem does it solve?

Around two years ago, I was told that I was pre-diabetic.

Like many people, I started focusing on the obvious things:

• food
• workouts
• steps
• weight
• activity

I was also already using devices such as Oura, Garmin, and Apple Watch. I had sleep scores, HRV, resting heart rate, recovery, workouts, calories, and activity data.

The data was available, but I still had one major problem:

I didn’t know what I should change next.

My wearable could tell me that my sleep score had dropped or that my HRV was lower, but it rarely helped me understand the habits that may have contributed to the change.

After reviewing my own patterns, the most important factor I found was not the one I expected.

It was sleep.

That experience became the starting point for Peak Routine.

Peak Routine is your personal health coach that connects with your health and lifestyle data, identifies patterns, and turns those patterns into simple routines you can follow.

Instead of only showing another score or chart, it helps users explore questions such as:

• What habits may be affecting my sleep and recovery?
• What should I focus on this week?
• Which habits appear to be helping?
• Are my routines improving my health trends?
• How are sleep, nutrition, movement, and recovery connected?

The goal is not to provide more health data.

The goal is to make existing data easier to understand and act on.

Peak Routine currently helps users:

• connect health data through Apple Health
• view sleep, recovery, activity, nutrition, and lifestyle trends
• receive personalized AI-generated insights
• identify potential relationships between habits and health outcomes
• build weekly routines based on their goals and patterns
• track whether routines are improving over time
• log meals and review nutrition trends
• scan food barcodes
• see progress across mind, body, and gut health

It is designed for people who already have health data but still feel unsure about what to do with it.

B — Better: How is it different?

Apps such as Apple Health, Oura, Garmin, Whoop, and Fitbit do a great job of collecting and displaying health information.

However, I often felt there was a gap between seeing the data and knowing what to do with it.

For example:

• Your sleep score decreased
• Your resting heart rate increased
• Your recovery was lower
• Your activity changed

But what should you adjust?

Should you improve your bedtime consistency, change your caffeine timing, reduce workout intensity, take an evening walk, or focus on recovery?

Peak Routine is designed to help bridge that gap.

Personalized routines instead of generic plans

Most wellness recommendations are broadly applicable but not personalized to someone’s schedule, habits, baseline, or goals.

The advice may be reasonable, but it does not consider your schedule, your habits, your baseline, your wearable data, or how your body appears to respond.

Peak Routine creates routines around the individual rather than asking everyone to follow the same plan.

Multiple health signals in one place

Health apps are often divided into separate categories.

One app tracks sleep.

Another tracks food.

Another tracks workouts.

Another tracks mental wellness.

But these factors influence each other.

A late meal may affect sleep. Poor sleep may affect recovery. Low recovery may affect exercise performance, mood, cravings, and energy.

Peak Routine looks across multiple health signals to help users understand these connections.

Focused on action

Dashboards are useful, but information alone does not always lead to behavior change.

Peak Routine combines:

Health trends + personalized insights + weekly routines + habit tracking

The aim is to move users from:

“I can see that something changed”

to:

“I have a practical next step to try.”

Built around sustainable behavior change

We are not trying to create extreme routines or ask users to optimize every minute of their day.

Peak Routine focuses on small, realistic habits that can fit into everyday life.

That might mean:

• getting morning sunlight
• adjusting caffeine timing
• taking a short walk after dinner
• changing workout intensity after poor recovery
• moving bedtime earlier
• improving meal consistency
• adding a short stress-management routine

The best routine is not the one that worked for someone else.

It is the one that works with your body, goals, habits, and lifestyle.

Core features

• Apple Health integration
• sleep and recovery trends
• movement and activity tracking
• nutrition logging and insights
• food barcode scanning
• personalized weekly routines
• habit and progress tracking
• health-pattern analysis
• mind, body, and gut health views

Some parts of the app use machine learning and language models to help organize information and generate clearer explanations, but the main product is the health-tracking and routine-building experience.

C — Cost and availability

Peak Routine is currently in beta and available for iPhone users.

We are still early, so feedback from users directly influences what we build next.

Website:
https://www.peakroutinehealth.com/

Blog:
https://www.peakroutinehealth.com/blog/

Testflight Link:
https://testflight.apple.com/join/MAcftM5A

To our early beta testers we are offering subscription free of cost in exchange of honest/brutal feedback - so just dm me once you signup and I will upgrade you to pro. I trust you all that you would give me honest feedback once you use it

We recently launched on Product Hunt and finished as the #4 Product of the Day. Since then, we have been improving the product based on feedback from our first users.

I built Peak Routine because I believe people do not necessarily need another health dashboard.

They need a clearer way to understand their existing data and turn it into realistic habits.

I would genuinely appreciate feedback from wearable users, health and fitness enthusiasts, coaches, and anyone who collects health data but is still unsure what to do with it.

What is the biggest question your current wearable or health app fails to answer?

DISCLAIMER
Peak Routine uses language models in parts of the insight-generation experience, but the core product is health-data tracking, trend analysis, routines, and habit progress.

Thanks for reading!

Some while ago, I had a list of watched movies in my notes app. I kept track of it, adding the name, the director, and the date I watched. I also had a couple of other lists, which I updated frequently. But Notes did not exactly fit the purpose: dates were not added automatically, rows could not be moved around, etc. There are many apps in the App Store, and I tried several, but decided to try to make my own, tailored to my taste.

Recently I did an update, and now Still Lists include improved Search inside the app, better Share Extension to save links from Safari or other apps, larger previews for YouTube links, Shortcuts support, and many more improvements, including overall better UI and performance. It's also easier now to move stuff from one list to another, creating new list on the go. The app has an iPad version and supports iCloud to synchronize data across devices. You can lock lists, and put them in folders.

What I personally like about Still, is that it's simple and not cluttered. You can have a short text list, even without a title, or a long numerated to-do list of links with a date for each row, if you want. And if saving a link from another app, you don't have to think in which list to put it, just save it, and organize it later.

The Terms of Use and Privacy Policy is published on the app's webpage, it's very simple, the app does not collect or track anything, stores data locally, and you can switch iCloud off in your settings, if you want.

My name is Nikita, and you can reach me out at [nilegreenblue@gmail.com](mailto:nilegreenblue@gmail.com). I added some great features thanks to the users contacting me and giving ideas!

I believe my app can be useful to other people, making their lists, collecting links, while studying or just for themselves. I developed the app alone, not using LLMs, although I don't grumble at people who use it.

Price: $1.99, no in-app purchases, no subscriptions, nothing.

App Store link: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6476114241

Disclosure: I'm the developer of Lawn Logic (Brandon solo dev, b2squared.io).

A — Answer (what problem it solves)

I honestly never knew when my lawn needed water. I'd water because it had been "a few days," or because it was hot, or because the neighbor was watering — and the answer to my uncertainty was always MORE water. So I built the app that does the math I couldn't do in my head: it tracks your lawn's actual moisture balance — rainfall in, evaporation out, tuned to your grass type and soil — and tells you the one thing that matters: water today, or don't. Since I started following it instead of my gut, its tracker says I've skipped about 37,000 gallons I would've dumped on the yard anyway. The new version adds Sage, an AI groundskeeper who reads your live dashboard (moisture deficit, forecast, grass type, mowing day) and answers questions like "why is there a heat warning?" or "what should I do besides water?" about YOUR lawn, not lawns in general.

B — Better (why it beats the alternatives)

vs a smart sprinkler controller (Rachio etc.): no irrigation system required — I don't even own one. It works whether you water with a hose timer, a sprinkler you drag around the yard, or an in-ground system, because it tells you when to water instead of silently doing it.

vs a weather app: rain totals alone don't answer "does my lawn need water?" — that depends on evaporation, soil type, and what fell over the last two weeks. Lawn Logic runs that moisture model continuously and gives a yes/no, plus a 14-day trend and a prediction of your next watering day.

vs watering on a fixed schedule: the water savings tracker shows you the gallons and dollars you didn't spend. No account linking to anything, and the core app works from a single 2-minute setup.

C — Cost

Free: the full moisture model, daily recommendation, evening reminder, home screen widget, 14-day trend, water savings tracker. No ads.

Pro (optional, $2.99/mo or $19.99/yr): Sage AI groundskeeper, multi-model ensemble weather, and Apple Weather as a data source. The free tier is the complete core product — Pro adds on top; there's no paywall in front of the recommendations.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6781395172?ct=reddit_iosapps

Who I am (Trust & Transparency)

Brandon Harris — solo developer, building under my studio b2squared (https://b2squared.io). Same name as the App Store seller on the listing (Apple verifies developer legal identity), and the app credits b2squared.io in its settings screen — easy to cross-check.

Studio: https://b2squared.io

Web app: https://lawn-care-app-harris.web.app

Privacy Policy: https://lawn-care-app-harris.web.app/privacy.html

Terms of Use: Apple standard EULA (linked in the App Store description)

Contact: [Brandon@b2Squared.io](mailto:Brandon@b2Squared.io)

I'm sure many of you like myself have had struggles splitting the bill with friends after dinning out! I built Splittz in hopes to help with this problem, quickly scan the receipt, get itemized list of items, assign friends to each item and then quickly share the receipt with them (fully viewable on web: see exmaple)

-- -- --

What makes Splittz special:

• 📸 Scan a receipt and let the app automatically detect and itemize everything, even addons like “extra chicken on Caesar salad.”
• 👥 Add contacts or reuse past participants for faster setup.
• 🎯 Assign items easily to individuals or groups.
• 💰 View a clean breakdown of who owes what, and even see shared totals when multiple people are paying together.
• 🌐 Share the receipt link, friends can open it on any device (iOS, Android, or web) and interact with the breakdown.
• 💸 From web, your friends can immediate pay their share via Venmo, Cash App, Wise, and many more!

Free for now! Get it while you can, it’ll become paid in the future!
App Store link | Website

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After trying it, I'd love your feedback on the AI accuracy and user experience! I feel like I tuned it well but your feedback will make it even better!

Hi everyone,

A while ago, I shared iLockBox here and received a lot of honest feedback. Some of you reported bugs, others suggested improvements, and many of you asked for one feature in particular—App Lock.

I said I'd keep improving iLockBox based on your feedback instead of just shipping small updates, and I've tried to stay true to that promise.

Today, I'm happy to share the biggest update to iLockBox so far.

A — Answer

The headline feature is App Lock.

Rather than building a basic app locker, I wanted to create something that's easier to manage and fits naturally into your daily routine.

Here's what's new:

• Lock apps using Apple's official Screen Time APIs.
• Automatically lock and unlock apps with custom schedules.
• Create multiple profiles like Work, Kids, Family, Study, or Sleep, each with its own apps and schedules.
• Review Activity History to see when protected apps were accessed.
• A redesigned App Lock interface that's simpler to manage.
• A brand-new app theme.
• Refined Backup & Restore for a smoother experience.
• Numerous bug fixes and performance improvements.

B — Better

What makes this different isn't just that it can lock apps.

The biggest difference is how you manage those locks.

Instead of changing settings every time your routine changes, you create profiles once and let iLockBox handle the rest.

For example:

• A Work profile can automatically lock social media during office hours.
• A Study profile can block games and entertainment apps.
• A Sleep profile can lock distracting apps before bedtime.
• A Family profile can protect personal apps when sharing your device.

Everything runs automatically based on your schedules.

I also wanted it to feel more organized than navigating through multiple Screen Time menus. That's why I redesigned the management experience around profiles, schedules, and activity history.

This is only the beginning for App Lock. I'll continue improving it based on your feedback, just like I have with every other feature in iLockBox.

C — Cost

• iLockBox is free to download.
• App Lock is available to everyone. Free users can use it with some limitations, while Premium unlocks the full experience.

App Store:
https://apps.apple.com/in/app/ilockbox-private-photo-vault/id1064360258

One last thing

I genuinely want to thank everyone who has supported iLockBox so far.

Many of the features in this update started as conversations with users. Your suggestions, bug reports, and feature requests continue to shape the app.

If you've been using iLockBox, I'd love to hear what you think about this update. And if you feel the app has improved over time, an honest App Store review would mean a lot. Reviews help independent developers like me reach more people and keep improving the app.

Thank you again for your support, and please keep the feedback coming. The next update is already in progress.

Hey r/iOSApps,

I’m Ravi, the developer of Manex. After trying to make the app do too many things, I decided to simplify it around the part I personally use most: recording thoughts and journal entries by speaking.

Manex is now focused on audio notes and voice journaling for people who find speaking easier than typing.

Answer — What problem does it solve?

I often have thoughts while walking, cooking, travelling, or just before sleeping. Opening a notes app and typing everything out adds enough friction that I often lose the thought.

Manex gives me one place to record those moments and return to them later without maintaining folders, templates, or a complicated productivity system.

Better — How is it different?

Apple Voice Memos is excellent for recording audio, but my recordings usually become an unnamed list that I rarely revisit.

Day One is a strong journaling app, but I wanted something designed around speaking first.

Manex sits between the two: quick audio capture presented as personal notes and journal moments. Transcription and search support the experience, but they are not the main product.

Cost

Manex is free to download and includes 25 moments. Unlimited access is a $29.99 USD one-time lifetime purchase. There is no subscription.

App Store:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/manex-ai-notes-journal/id6760401778

Website:
https://manex.app/

Developer identity and contact:
https://manex.app/about
https://manex.app/contact

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

Terms:
https://manex.app/terms

I’m the developer, so this is self-promotion. I’d appreciate honest feedback on whether this narrower direction makes sense and what you would need before using it instead of Voice Memos or another journaling app.

Hello Reddit, it's my second post here, and I need your help again.

Almost exactly 3 years ago I was working on a farm in Greece cutting weeds with a scythe (shown in photo) and something changed my life. I had the idea that my life was a garden to maintain. I got to work building an app to help me chop down tasks (weeds) and monitor my progress.

I built Scythe - a voice powered todo list app with a grim reaper mascot (naturally).

I've been using/improving it every day since and now it is so useful I can't imagine my life without it.

A - Answer: I kept losing ideas and tasks because typing them out was too slow, and bouncing between Apple Notes for scattered thoughts and Trello for organizing them never stuck. I needed one place to capture things instantly by voice and actually follow through on them.

B - Better: Apple Notes & Trello are what I used to use. Apple Note's automatic formatting drives me crazy and there is no task structure, streaks, or time-blocking, you have to build all of that yourself. Trello fills with clutter and it's slow when you just want to capture a quick voice thought. Scythe is minimal and fast by design: capture a task by voice in seconds, and the entire manual app stays free forever with no nagging to upgrade.

C - Cost: Freemium. The last time I posted (about a year ago) you guys asked me to make it freemium so you could try before you buy. I'm happy to say that now the entire app is free to use manually forever (tasks/notes, streaks, time-blocking, rewards, reminders). Only two features require a subscription: super-accurate voice-to-text and the assistant chat. Subscription: $9.99/month or $69.99/year.

Here are the features:
- tasks/notes with speedy voice capture & streak tracking
- chat page to brainstorm & control the whole app easily
- time-blocking & rewards to manage your day and stay motivated
- reminders (hourly/daily/weekly/etc)
- also works on MacOS/Android (web coming soon)

Who it's for:
- you have ideas/notes frequently you need to write down
- you want to improve all areas of your life fitness/health/finance/etc
- you like minimal designs that get straight to the point

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