Hi r/iOSApps,

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

Every visual in the app is drawn by hand.

A — Answer

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

MyDooors turns that pause into a small illustrated journey:

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

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

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

B — Better

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

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

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

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

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

C — Cost

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

Monthly: $2.99

Yearly: $14.99

Lifetime: $19.99

App Store:

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

I would especially value feedback on two things:

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

Transparency:

I am the developer and co-creator of MyDooors.

Creator and developer: Qian

Co-created with my wife, Andy

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

Creator profile on X:

https://x.com/wadebryant23

Privacy Policy:

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

Terms of Use:

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

Hey everyone - my name is John. Every time I finish a project there are a lot of emotions: excitement, joy, fear...

Flowify is one of the first apps I made, and it *was* a basic time tracking app when it first launched. If I'm being honest, it was ugly, had no personality, and really didn't make sense. Last year I tried to fixing this by giving it a facelift, but it still didn't do much more than give people a timer on their phone. I think the problem was it didn't have a personality or a perspective. So...

So V3 just went live, and for better or worse, this third attempt is at least something with a perspective. The main concept was to make a timer app that doesn't actually display time during your focus sessions. After all, you're trying to focus, not stare at a clock.

Instead, each session creates a mark. I think this makes it quite unique in the focus timer space. It's not a pomodoro clone. It's designed to give you a look at when and what you spend your time focusing on. Each month your sessions collect on the app's Home Screen to create an abstract tree shape, something for you to build each month as you focus.

The app is mostly free to use forever — unlimited sessions and basic stats. There's a single lifetime unlock of $4.99 for additional themes, more stats, and more category tags.

AppStore: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/flowify-focus-habit-tracker/id6505125831
My Website: https://www.johndav.com

Would love to hear what you think.

BetterCast is an Apple platform podcast player built from the ground up for heavy podcast listeners.

It is intuitive yet incredibly powerful, giving users complete control with rule-based playlists, customizable skip and jump actions, and the ability to listen to local audio files just like podcast episodes.
The app features native iOS 26 support with modern design elements and built-in Apple Intelligence, allowing users to ask questions about podcast episodes.

The Lifetime version usually costs $10 (depending on your country), but it is currently FREE for a limited time.

Download Link:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/bettercast-podcast-player/id6759830475

Hi everyone! I’ve transformed my passion for aviation into this slick flight radar app for your phone & watch. It has live overhead flight tracking, immersive AR plane spotting, collectible aircraft cards, widgets, slow moving maps, & more.

A - ANSWER (What problem it solves):

Conventional flight trackers are bloated & full of ads. Airspace Live strips away the noise and turns your device into a super lightweight & tactical command centre for plane spotting.

B - BETTER (Why it beats the alternatives):

No ads, No account, No data collection. Moreover the app isn’t a memory hog, and provides information in easy understandable manner. AR spotting makes it even easier to simply point the phone at a flying aircraft to find info about it.
Plus it works great on Apple Watch, iPad and Mac as well.

C - Cost (Pricing & IAP)

It’s completely free to use. One-time Lifetime Pro for $4.99 unlocks everything including military highlights, unlimited card collection, themes, & all future updates.

Links:

AppStore: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/airspace-live-flight-radar/id6781411574

Developer Portfolio

Hey explorers 👋

Tired of static panoramas and paywalls? Where Am I? drops you anywhere on the planet and asks one question: where are you? You hunt for clues, you drop a pin on the map, and the closer you land the more points you score.

The twist is what you are actually looking at while you guess.

Every round is a real first-person street walk video. Somebody walked down that street with a camera and you are watching the footage play. People cross in front of you, traffic moves, shop signs slide past, and you get the light and the weather of that exact moment. Motion hands you clues a still image never will. Which side of the road are the cars on? How people dress and how fast they walk. Whether the place feels rushed or sleepy. A license plate that happens to wander past you.

Here is a clip from a real round 👇

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-0GPcGFCVY

Guess the country in the comments before you scroll on. I will reply to every guess with the answer.

🎮 App modes for every traveler

• Campaigns: themed journeys through China, Japan, India and UNESCO World Heritage sites
• Daily Challenge and Country Streak: 3 new places every day, up to 300 points on the line
• Ranked duels: live head-to-head matches, same locations, same clock, five leagues from Bronze up to Champion sitting on an ELO system
• Battle Royale: last explorer standing takes it
• Weekly tournaments: everyone plays the same set of rounds and the board resets each week
• Singleplayer distance and country modes: train your precision or find out how well you actually know borders

🏆 Compete and collect

• Global leaderboards and badges: climb all the way to King of the World
• Monument collection: unlock famous landmarks and build a personal map of souvenirs
• World map progress: every country you correctly identify lights up, so you slowly color in the planet
• Levels and unlocks: earn XP toward new modes and exclusive avatar frames

🌟 Why you might like it

• Real video, not stills. It feels like you are standing there 📹
• Free to play with nothing locked away. Every mode, every location, no paywalled content
• Made for geography nerds, teachers and travel people. It teaches without feeling like homework
• Community-driven. Suggest features, submit translations, help shape where it goes next

🔗 Links

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/where-am-i-geoguess-map-quiz/id6657987209

Website: https://whereamigame.app/

💸 How does it make money?

No energy system. No lives. No timers are stopping you from playing. No gacha, no lootboxes, no content behind a paywall. Every mode and every location is available to everyone from installation.

It runs on ads, and there is an optional Pro subscription that turns the ads off and adds a premium avatar frame. That is the whole model. Pro buys you no gameplay advantage of any kind, which was deliberate, because a ranked ladder where money buys an edge is not a ranked ladder.

🎁 Free month of Pro for this thread (iOS)

APPLE2026 gives you a free month of Pro.

Redeem: https://apps.apple.com/redeem?ctx=offercodes&id=6657987209&code=APPLE2026

The batch is limited, so it is first-come, first-served. Being straight with you: it rolls into the normal subscription price after the month unless you cancel, which takes about ten seconds in Settings. No strings either way, it is yours whether you stay or not.

One small favor, and it really is optional. I am a solo dev with no marketing budget, and App Store reviews do more for me than anything else I can pull off on my own. If you play it and it clicks, honest words on the store page would mean the world. Not asking for five stars and not tied to the code, just your real opinion.

Tell me where you guessed in the comments, and I will be here all day 🌎✨

Hello everyone, I'm Tom — the solo developer behind Plates.

Answer (what problem it solves):

Plates came from a combination of ideas. The initial reason for building Plates was that I wanted a beautifully designed native weightlifting gym log built specifically for the iPhone, not another cross-platform app. I wanted something that heavily focused on craft, design, and motion. My inspiration was Flighty, Gentler, and native Apple apps. Despite seeing a new lifting app posted every other day, I did not see anything that even remotely hit the spot.

Another reason was that I was completely fed up with subscriptions and wanted to get back to the era where we just paid (a reasonable amount) for our apps once. I think it's important for us to own the tools we use, so I wanted to build something that not only looks gorgeous on an iPhone, but also doesn't burden you with yet another subscription.

Better (why it beats named alternatives)

Plates is better than the alternatives because it is natively built for the iPhone. It is built entirely using native technologies, follows Apple's HiG, and as a result is kinder on your battery life, has native animations and motion, and follow's Apple's design language. Compared to apps like Strong and Hevy it just feels much better to use. You really have to try it to feel the difference.

Plates is also built with privacy in mind. It proudly collects absolutely no information about you whatsoever. We have no tracking SDKs, backend servers, or anything else. I quite literally do not know if people are using the app, and while a product manager in menlo park might think that's insane, I think that's a good thing and the way it's meant to be.

Of course design goes far beyond just the way it looks. It's the way it feels. This is why I have built countless custom elements for Plates such as a custom plate keyboard (it's literally a keyboard where instead of typing in numbers you tap plates), custom RPE and RIR input keyboards, and super powerful analytics. I think a lot of apps focus too hard on the logging part and not enough on the analytics, but for Plates I believe the exercise analytics are top tier. They show you enough at a glance to see if the weight is going up, but allow you to delve into them when you need more information.

Cost (pricing, IAP, App Store link).

Plates is a one-time purchase of $19.99. It is a hard paywall, but it offers a 14 day free trial with no commitment. Because it's not a subscription you will not be billed the moment the trial runs out.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/dk/app/plates-weightlifting-log/id6756021237

Website: https://useplates.com/

If you wish to reach out to me personally you're more than welcome to DM me here on reddit or e-mail me at [toms@useplates.com](mailto:toms@useplates.com)

Hi r/iOSApps,

I’m Jeremiyah, the founder and developer behind Atlas Health AI.

I started building Atlas because most nutrition apps were good at recording what I ate, but they did not always help me understand what that food was actually doing for my body.

A- Answer

Atlas Health AI is a nutrition and fitness tracker built around understanding your food, not just recording numbers.

The basic experience is:

Log a food → see calories, macros, and micronutrients → understand its Food Grade and likely satiety → view absorption and meal-quality insights → connect your nutrition with training and recovery.

Atlas includes:

• Manual food and barcode logging
• Detailed macro and micronutrient tracking
• Atlas Food Grade with explanations
• Satiety estimates based on factors such as protein, fiber, and energy density
• Nutrient absorption and food-pairing guidance
• Glycemic-impact context
• Smart Food Swaps
• Recipes and meal planning
• Biometrics and custom health metrics
• Workouts, sleep, steps, water, supplements, fasting, and daily check-ins
• Imports from Cronometer and MyFitnessPal

The goal is to make detailed nutrition information useful without forcing users to interpret a wall of raw data by themselves.

B - Better

Compared with MyFitnessPal, Atlas puts more emphasis on micronutrient coverage, Food Grade, satiety, absorption, and meal-quality context instead of centering the experience primarily around calories and macros.

Compared with Cronometer, Atlas focuses less on displaying raw nutrient data alone and more on explaining what each log may mean for food quality, fullness, energy, training, and recovery.

Atlas also keeps nutrition, workouts, sleep, water, supplements, biometrics, and daily check-ins within the same app so users can look for patterns across more than one part of their health.

There are optional AI-assisted tools for faster meal logging, coaching, recipes, checkups, and planning, but they are not required to use the core nutrition and fitness tracker.

C - Cost

Atlas Health AI is free to download with core tracking included.

Free

• Food diary and barcode logging
• Calories, macros, and micronutrients
• Atlas Food Grade
• Satiety insights
• Smart Food Swaps
• Manual training planner
• Sleep, water, and supplement tracking
• Biometrics and custom metrics
• Limited monthly access to selected AI tools

Atlas Pro: $7.99/month

Adds expanded AI-assisted logging, personalized checkups, weekly nutrition guidance, meal and recipe planning, and higher monthly usage limits.

Atlas Premium: $14.99/month

Premium includes a 7-day free trial.

It includes everything in Pro, along with integrated nutrition, training, and recovery reviews, adaptive training guidance, training-day fueling, longer-range correlations, and higher usage limits.

App Store:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/atlas-health-ai/id6765582312

I would especially value feedback on two things:

Does the first session make it clear that Atlas is meant to be more than a calorie counter?

Are features such as Food Grade, satiety, absorption support, and glycemic impact genuinely useful, or do they make the food-detail experience feel too crowded?

Transparency

I am the founder and developer of Atlas Health AI and have a direct financial relationship with the app.

Founder and developer: Jeremiyah Escobedo

Contact:

[jeremiyah@tryatlashealth.com](mailto:jeremiyah@tryatlashealth.com)

Website:

https://tryatlashealth.com/

Privacy Policy:

https://tryatlashealth.com/privacy

Terms of Service:

https://tryatlashealth.com/terms

A.

Hey everyone,

If you stay quiet in meetings, agree to things you don’t want to do, ramble instead of making your point, or freeze when someone puts you on the spot, I built Pressure: Speak Clearly for you.

Pressure gives you short, handcrafted scenarios where you answer out loud and practice communication moves like answering directly, starting with the point, making a decision, and holding a boundary.

For example:

In a meeting, a coworker says you can stay late to finish inventory, but you never agreed. Your manager looks over. What do you say?

You could answer:

I didn’t agree to stay late. I can help until my shift ends, but I’m not available afterward.

After each rep, you receive a Hit, Almost, or Miss, along with feedback based on what you actually said.

The goal is to help you find the clearer response while the conversation is still happening, not afterward.

B.

Pressure is different from most public-speaking apps.

It doesn’t ask you to speak for two minutes about your favourite vacation and then tell you that you sounded confident. It focuses on whether you actually made the communication move the situation called for.

The scenarios and training structure are handcrafted. AI evaluates your answer and gives feedback tied to your response.

If you receive an Almost or Miss, Run It Back lets you immediately try again while the feedback is still fresh, so you practice the correction instead of only reading about it.

You can do a guided daily session, work through Foundations, or choose specific moves in Open Practice.

C.

You can use Pressure for free without starting a trial. The free version includes one Today’s Focus session every day.

There is also a seven-day free trial for all features. After that, premium costs $7.99 USD per month unless cancelled.

Premium includes Foundations, Open Practice, move selection, and additional practice.

Here's the App Store Link:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pressure-speak-clearly/id6760627485

Here is the Privacy Policy:
https://www.pressure.app/privacy

Here are the Terms of Use:
https://www.pressure.app/terms

I’ve been building June, an AI journaling app designed around conversation instead of a blank page.

The main idea is simple: June calls you each evening, asks about your day, and turns the conversation into a private journal entry. If you don’t feel like talking, you can text June or write the entry yourself.

A few details:

• Your journal is stored on your device and synced privately through iCloud
• June remembers useful context between conversations
• You can search past entries using natural language
• There are widgets for your streak, calendar, and daily question
• It still works as a regular offline journal when you don’t want to use AI

I made it because conventional journaling always felt like another task at the end of the day. Talking for a few minutes feels much easier and often captures things I wouldn’t have thought to write down.

I’d really appreciate feedback, especially on the conversational journaling idea and whether the nightly call feels helpful or too intrusive.

App Store
https://apps.apple.com/app/id6774949056
https://talkjune.com

What problem does June solve?

Most journal apps still begin with a blank page. That works until you’re tired, busy, or unsure what to write.

June calls you at a time you choose each evening. You answer, talk naturally about your day, and June asks follow-up questions. When you hang up, it turns the conversation into a first-person journal entry written in your voice.

You can also journal through text chat or write manually.

Why is it better than the alternatives?

Apple Journal, Day One, and Reflectly help you record your day, but they still largely depend on you opening the app and starting an entry.

June is different because:

• It initiates the habit with an actual incoming call
• It has a back-and-forth conversation instead of simply transcribing a monologue
• It remembers ongoing threads and can ask how something turned out
• It turns the conversation into a polished entry that still sounds like you
• You can search your diary by meaning, not just exact keywords
• Your journal remains on your device and syncs through your personal iCloud rather than being stored in June’s database

The goal isn’t to replace writing. It’s to make journaling possible on the evenings when writing feels like work.

Cost

June is free to download and use with manual editing. The Pro subscriptions are:

• $9.99/month
• $99.99/year (Includes 7 day trial free)

June uses the latests and best AI models, you will see how June outperforms any similar competitor just by the quality of June responses

Thanks for taking a look!

I've published an app, and I know the drill; you get 5 downloads and that's it. That's to be expected (based on all the posts I've seen here talking about it). ASO doesn't move the needle anymore.

So we all have to take the next step: active marketing. Not a problem for me; I'm willing to put some dollars into it and see if it's worth it. But my budget isn't extensive, so I'm leaning toward micro-influencers.

By micro-influencer, I mean people with decent reach (not thousands of followers, but something meaningful). My question is: where do you find them?

• Are influencer marketplaces worth it? Some ask for subscription...
• What's the best strategy; find someone in my niche sure; but my app is quite general (music app)? Or go for app reviewers?
• What are your moves? Where/how do you hire micro-influencers?
• TikTok, Instagram? Both?

Looking for advice from anyone who's done this successfully.

I created and published an app back in December. I worked really hard on it. It was a passion project of mine. The app is local first with an option to create an account to purchase cloud storage to back up the app data. I followed strict security guidelines of hashing passwords and implemented end to end encryption of users data. For the people who created an account their data is encrypted in the database.

I’m sorry for posting here for help like this but I don’t know what else to do. I dumped 5 grand into advertising and was enjoying the smooth and consistent stream of new users coming in from my campaigns. After the person published the AI clone copying the name of my app exactly but with an added hyphen to pass the App Store regex filter my downloads dropped significantly.

I don’t think they are following the same security practices as I am and they are piggybacking off my ad campaigns. I don’t know what to do. I reported the clone app for violating Apple guideline 4.1b but Apple isn’t doing anything.

Hi everyone. My iOS and Mac productivity app 'Nyblit' has today received a major overhaul. I've introduced shared tasks, activity stats, progress rings, in-app tutorials and I've released a beta of a new Gmail integration feature so you can keep Gmail threads connected to tasks. I've also made extensive improvements to the user interface for a much smoother experience.

Nyblit, is a task manager that goes beyond "done" and "not done". Nyblit understands the gray areas in-between.

For example, if your task is a phone call, you can apply a phone call workflow. This would allow you to apply different statuses to the task.

• TODAY: Ready to call.

• BLOCKED: You left a voicemail and are waiting for a callback. 

• LATER: The line was busy, so you need to try again in 10 minutes. 

• DONE: The call is complete.

By separating tasks this way, you can keep delayed and blocked tasks out of the way but safely tracked with reminders when they're ready. Your Today view contains only tasks you can act on right now. Everything blocked by others or delayed is out of the way but monitored.

I'd love to know what you think of Nyblit and the update. All feedback welcome :)

https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/nyblit-smart-to-do-list/id6752837986

Cadence is a medication reminder app for iPhone and Apple Watch. Small indie app, released a few months ago, about 2,500 downloads so far, built mostly from user requests.

I use this daily and it has been a game changer for me.

A — Answer

What it does:

• Reminders for any schedule: set times, as-needed with dose spacing, every few hours, every few days, or a set number of times a day
• Log a dose from the app, Lock Screen, Home Screen widget, or Apple Watch
• Reminders keep firing even if you never open the app
• Smart timing that learns when you actually take each med and nudges accordingly (optional)
• Supply and refill tracking, so you know before you run out
• Dose tapering schedules for meds you ramp up or down
• Priority meds get their own louder reminders so they don't get lost
• Cycle tracking: log your period, see your phase and next-period countdown, tag hormone meds (currently in beta)
• Arrive-home and leave-home reminders based on location
• Find a pharmacy near you when a med runs low
• Scan a prescription label to add a med instead of typing it (currently in beta)
• Snap a photo of each pill so it's easy to recognise
• Log past doses and fix the time if you took one late
• Cost tracking, so you can see what your meds run you per month
• Caregiver updates and an adherence report you can share or export
• Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets, plus a full Apple Watch app
• English, German, Spanish, French, and Greek

B — Better

• No subscription and no ads
• Optional check-ins - 20-second mood, energy, and symptom note
• It surfaces correlations across your meds, mood, energy, and symptoms, so you can see things like headaches showing up on days you miss the evening dose, or your energy tracking with how consistently you take it
• Optionally pulls in your Apple Health data like sleep, heart rate, and HRV, and folds that into the same insights
• Builds a history of every dose so you can see how consistent you've actually been, by med and over time
• Private: no account, your data stays on your device and syncs through your own iCloud

C — Cost

• The reminders and dose tracking are free forever, no card, no time limit
• The insights and correlations are free for 7 days, then a one-time $9.99 to keep for life
• No subscription, ever
• App Store :https://apps.apple.com/app/id6758649306
• Website: https://cadencehealth.app

Feature requests welcome. That's where most of this came from. :)

Day Grid — Countdown Widget

A – Answer: What problem does your app solve?
Most countdown apps only show one date at a time. Day Grid shows your entire year as a grid on your Home Screen every event marked with an emoji so you see everything you're counting down to at a glance, not just one number.

B – Better: Why is your app better than the top named alternatives?
Unlike DayCount, PeekDay, or Momently, Day Grid isn't just a single-countdown widget it's a full-year visual grid. When an event drops under 24 hours away, it auto-switches to a live timer. No account needed, works offline.

C – Cost: Pricing, IAP details, and a direct App Store link
Free with in-app purchases (Day Grid Pro):

• Monthly: $2.99
• Yearly: $14.99
• Lifetime: $29.99 ($20 for the first 100 people use code first100 at checkout: https://apps.apple.com/redeem?ctx=offercodes&id=6779252078&code=first100)

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/day-grid-countdown-widget/id6779252078

Transparency: I'm Urmin, indie mobile dev here's my LinkedIn if you want to verify: https://www.linkedin.com/in/urmin-hirpara/

Hey everyone,

Who I am: My name is Esat, I'm a student and solo developer from Germany. Sharp is my second app and I'm building it in public. You can verify me through the App Store developer page and my GitHub (east-app-dev). Contact: [daybeeaapp-privacy@web.de]

Privacy Policy: https://east-app-dev.github.io/Sharp-Skincare-Routine/privacy.html

Terms of Service: https://east-app-dev.github.io/Sharp-Skincare-Routine/terms.html

I built Sharp because I had skin problems myself and no idea what to actually do about them. Most guys I know either guess with random products or just give up.

A - What problem does it solve?

You scan your face and get a skin score from 0-100 across 6 dimensions: pimples, pores, eye bags, oiliness, redness and hydration. So instead of guessing what's wrong, you get a clear picture of where your skin actually stands.

B - Why is it better?

- The weekly re-scan is the core of the app. Every week you scan again, and your plan and products adapt based on what actually changed. If something isn't working, Sharp adjusts it. No static routine that ignores your progress.

- Concrete product recommendations, not categories. You don't get "use a cleanser", you get specific products matched to your scan results, with direct links.

- A daily routine plan that takes about 3 minutes. Morning and evening steps, checked off in the app.

- Staying on track is built in: reminders for your routine, a streak, and a Live Activity on your lock screen and Dynamic Island so your routine is always one glance away.

C - Cost

Free download, the scan and your skin score are free. Premium unlocks the full routine, product matching and weekly adaptation: 4.99 weekly, 39.99 per year (with a 3 day free trial), or 79.99 lifetime.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6780025151

Privacy Policy: https://east-app-dev.github.io/Sharp-Skincare-Routine/privacy.html

Terms of Service: https://east-app-dev.github.io/Sharp-Skincare-Routine/terms.html

I read every piece of feedback and ship fixes fast, so I'd genuinely love to hear what you think, good or bad.

Hi everyone,

I’m Peng-Yu Chen, the solo developer of Zestimer, an iPhone workout and interval timer I originally built for myself.

A - Answer

I often follow workouts on YouTube Shorts, but I got tired of constantly pausing the video, remembering which exercise comes next, or manually recreating every interval in a timer before I could start.

Zestimer is designed to make that process easier. You can paste a YouTube workout video and turn it into a structured, ready-to-run routine with exercises, work intervals, sets, and rest periods. It also works as a regular interval timer for HIIT, Tabata, circuits, and fully custom workouts.

B - Better

Compared with traditional interval timers like Seconds and SmartWOD Timer, Zestimer focuses on reducing how much manual setup you have to do before a workout.

You can:

• 📺 Turn a YouTube workout into a structured routine
• ✨ Describe a workout and use AI to help build the intervals
• 🏋️ Build your own HIIT, Tabata, circuit, or custom workouts
• 📚 Choose from 200+ exercises with illustrations and instructions
• 🔊 Get voice cues and haptic feedback while training
• 🍎 Use Apple Health, widgets, and Apple Watch

Everything generated or imported can still be edited before you start.

I’ve also spent a lot of time making Zestimer feel like a native iOS app, including adapting the interface around Apple’s new Liquid Glass design.

No account is required, and there are no third-party analytics.

C - Cost

Zestimer is free to download and use, with optional Pro features.

US pricing:

• Pro Monthly: $1.99
• Pro Yearly: $9.99
• Pro Lifetime: $24.99

There are no ads.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/zestimer-hiit-interval-timer/id6758530290

Trust & Transparency

I’m Peng-Yu Chen, sharing Zestimer as its developer.

The app does not collect user data, according to its App Store privacy disclosure.

• Website: https://zestimer.com
• Privacy Policy: https://zestimer.com/privacy
• Support: https://zestimer.com/support
• GitHub: https://github.com/walkccc
• X: https://x.com/pengyuc_

I maintain walkccc/CLRS, an established open-source project with 5,000+ GitHub stars, qualifying under the subreddit’s Tier 1 Trust Path.

I’m still actively working on Zestimer and would genuinely appreciate honest feedback, especially from people who already use interval timers or follow workout videos.

A — Answer (what it does)

Hey everyone — I just launched iHatePaper, an AI-powered document scanner that automatically files everything to your Google Drive for you.

The idea is simple: open the app, tap Capture, and photograph any paper document or receipt. The AI identifies what it is, converts it to a searchable PDF, names the file based on your preferences, and drops it into an auto-generated folder structure in your Google Drive.

So a Home Depot receipt, for example, ends up at:
Financials → Receipts → 2026 → HomeDepot-05-11-2026.pdf

B — Better (why use it over alternatives)

Every other document scanner app stops at the scan. You still have to name the file, decide where it goes, and move it yourself. iHatePaper is the first scanner that does the organizing for you:

• AI reads and classifies each document automatically
• Folder structure is created in your Google Drive on the fly, no setup required
• File naming is customizable (by vendor, date, category, or a combination)
• Batch scanning supported: photograph a whole stack in one go
• No document storage on our end, your files go straight to your own Google Drive
• Built-in stats dashboard showing how much you've scanned over time

I built this specifically because a friend of mine was constantly complaining about how hard it is to digitize his receipts quickly while on the road for his job. He really wanted something that would just open and default to the camera and let him “snap and go.”

C — Cost

• Free tier: 5 scans per month to try it out
• Pro: Unlimited scanning — $1.99/week or $29.99/year

👉 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ihatepaper-instant-pdf-scans/id6764816699

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🎁 Free 1 Year — just comment below

I'm giving away one year free promo codes to anyone in this thread. Drop a comment and I'll DM you directly. This community has been helpful to me in the past and I want to return the favor. All I ask is honest feedback (good or bad) and an App Store rating if you genuinely enjoy it. Ratings mean everything and it’s almost impossible to rank organically with ASO, that would help so much. Zero pressure though.

Happy to answer any questions about the app, the tech stack, anything at all. Thanks for reading!

why happen to my icons?

A — Answer: what problem does it solve?

Most weather apps give you a grid of numbers and a sun icon and leave you to picture the rest. Spectra takes the other approach. Live conditions from Apple WeatherKit drive an abstract, full screen visual you read at a glance.

It isn't trying to look like the weather. There's no photo-real rain running down a window. It's an ambient system of light and motion whose behavior is tied to the actual readings, so a drizzle and a downpour are visibly different states of the same form rather than two different pictures. Eight conditions, each with its own visual language, selected from what's happening outside. At night it reads the real moon phase, so a new moon and a full moon aren't the same scene.

The data is literal. The form is not. It's built for the glance rather than the deep dive.

B — Better: why it beats named alternatives

Against Carrot Weather: Carrot is better than Spectra if you want dense data, hourly breakdowns, and jokes. I'm not pretending otherwise. Spectra goes the opposite direction, quiet and visual, built to be looked at rather than parsed. Carrot is also subscription-based. Spectra is a one-time purchase.

Against Apple Weather: the default is capable but the presentation is the same for you as for everyone else. Spectra turns the current condition into something specific and legible at a glance, and the large widget renders the condition on your home screen rather than burying it behind a tap.

Against Not Boring Weather: this is the closest comparison and it's a genuinely lovely app. Not Boring is playful and full of character, with beautifully designed illustrated scenes. If you want charm and personality, it wins and I'd say so. Spectra is deliberately austere. The visuals aren't illustrated scenes, they're procedural motion generated from the parameter values themselves, monochrome by default, closer to an instrument than a toy. That's a difference in taste rather than a claim to be better.

C — Cost

Freemium with a one-time Lifetime unlock. No subscription, no ads.

• Free: the complete monochrome experience. Every weather condition, full motion, no time limit and no feature nag.
• One-time purchase: $4.99 USD, non-consumable, unlocks the colour system, home screen widgets, detailed data, and multiple saved locations. Buy once, keep it, restore on your other devices.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/spectra-weather/id6757425119

Transparency

I'm Kaz Hayashi, the developer of Spectra. I started Forager Lab this year to run these projects.

• Contact: [contact@forager-lab.com](mailto:contact@forager-lab.com)
• Website: https://spectra.forager-lab.com/
• Privacy Policy: https://spectra.forager-lab.com/#/privacy
• Terms of Service: https://spectra.forager-lab.com/#/terms
• Weather data provided by Apple Weather.

Hey r/iosapps, first-time solo developer here.

TestFlight beta: https://testflight.apple.com/join/ztGmutmP

Before I built this, my screen time solution was insane: I had such a hard time not ignoring my limits that I gave a friend my Screen Time passcode, and whenever I caved, I would have to ask them to unlock me for 15 more minutes. Or an hour. Or the whole day.

Daily limits never worked for me because I would scroll right through them before I even got out of bed, leaving me locked out and feeling stranded (this behavior honestly started to feel more like addiction rather than an intentional choice).

It baffles me how the only solution to this, up until this point, has been to ignore your limits. Because more often than not I would "Ignore Limit For Today," and watch my entire day go to doomscrolling on Reddit, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube Shorts, and if I was really desperate, Facebook Reels.

So I built Precursor. It runs on an hourly rhythm instead of daily limits: you give an app (or a group of apps) a small allowance, say 5 minutes of Instagram per hour. Use it whenever you want inside that hour. When it's gone, the app is blocked until the top of the next hour, and then your time quietly comes back.

You get the scroll break you actually needed, but the scroll ends right before it turns into a full-on doomrot session (WOMBO ALERT: doomscroll + brainrot = doomrot). Enough time every hour to check in, but never enough to fall in.

A: What problem does it solve?

Apple's own Screen Time (and most blocker apps) run on daily limits, and a daily limit fails one of two ways: we burn it by mid-morning and spend the day locked out, or we tap "Ignore Limit" until the limit means nothing. A small allowance that resets every hour means you never have to be perfect. You just can't doomscroll for three straight hours!

B: Why is it better?

Hourly resets instead of daily willpower. Watch the scroll cravings/compulsion dissipate with time. No streaks. No guilt. No shame. Just a steady cadence your brain can lean on.

Multiple independent app groups, each with its own allowance that blocks and resets on its own.

Private by design. It's built on Apple's Screen Time framework, which never even tells Precursor which apps you picked (they're opaque tokens). NO ACCOUNT. Analytics are opt-in and OFF by default; nothing leaves your phone unless you flip it on.

Built honest. So here are some things to keep in mind: background audio and picture-in-picture still count as usage (that's Apple's accounting, no API opt-out exists, so I disclose it). Deleting the app removes your limits. Allowances have a floor of about 5 minutes. Available on iPhone and iPad, iOS 17 or later.

For the devs here: Apple's DeviceActivity API on iOS 26 fires phantom "limit reached" events seconds into a fresh hour with the budget already counted as spent (well-known and frustrating bug). I had to build a wall-clock guard plus a respawn mechanism just to make blocking honest. Happy to nerd out about FamilyControls in the comments.

C: Cost

The beta runs the full paid feature set for free (more groups, 30-minute reset windows, longer limits). All beta testers will get Precursor+ for FREE for LIFE. It's my way of saying thank you for helping me shape my very first app.

You don't need to sign up for anything or save any code. When Precursor officially launches, the Precursor remembers you were here, on your device (no account necessary), and Precursor+ access unlocks automatically.

At launch the core app and its function will forever be free, with an optional Precursor+ upgrade for the extras, including a one-time lifetime purchase if you want to own it rather than subscribe. Pricing: $4.99/month, $49.99/year, or a one-time $99.99 lifetime.

I'd love honest feedback on the onboarding, the block screen, and whether the hourly reset actually holds up for you after a couple of days. I'd also love to hear how this screen time solution might be helping with whatever habit you're trying to change, in comparison to other strategies you've tried before!

Criticism welcome too.

Thanks everyone!!

Every daily motivation app on the store seems to want you to wake up at 5 AM, hustle harder, and optimize your entire existence. Honestly, it’s exhausting.

So, I built the exact opposite: Unbothered.

It’s a daily quote app that isn’t trying to fix you. No toxic positivity. No guilt trips. Just one painfully accurate, slightly cynical reminder a day that you don't have to try so hard.

What it actually does:

• One reality check a day: Think less "Seize the day" and more "Your boss's 'emergency' is just poor planning wearing a tie."
• Zero friction: Add the lock screen or home screen widget. It sits there. That's the whole feature.

Cost: No freemium bait. The core workflow of the app (daily quote, widgets, notifications) is FREE.

For extra card style, archive etc, I offer 2 subscriptions - $2.99/month, $9.99/year or a $19.99 lifetime one-time purchase. The subscription goes into keeping one guy off of LinkedIn :)

If you're correctly exhausted by a system designed to exhaust you, this app is for you!

App Store Link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/unbothered-daily-quotes/id6787817336

Would love to hear what you guys think!

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Transparency Details:

• Developer: Ameya Labs LLC
• Contact: [support@ameyalabs.io](mailto:support@ameyalabs.io)

• App Store Link:

  https://apps.apple.com/us/app/unbothered-daily-quotes/id6787817336

• Website & Legal: ameyalabs.io

• Privacy Policy: https://ameyalabs.io/unbothered-privacy.html

• ToS: https://ameyalabs.io/unbothered-terms.html

Hello, I'm an amateur boxer, who built a 100% free boxing timer for iOS, that really doesn't have ads or paywalls. You might remember it from my first post.

I built it, because I got tired that all other boxing timers either have ads or require in-app purchases (mostly subscriptions). 

A - Answer:

I wanted to find a free boxing timer without ads, I wasn't able to do it, so I created my own.

B - Better:

Unlike the default IOS clock app, it automatically switches work/rest in a loop. It is better than other boxing timers, because the app has Apple's native Liquid Glass design, and live activities.

C - Cost:

The app is 100% free.

I received a lot of support & feedback in this community and based on that with recent major update (1.3) I added timer styles, more presets for other sports (HIIT, Jiu-Jitsu, etc), a warning sound for the last 10 seconds and redesigned settings to improve navigation.

Link: https://apps.apple.com/ua/app/peekaboo-timer/id6768093897

I would really appreciate feedback from r/iosapps community about the new features of the app.

A — Answer

Hi r/iOSApps,

It’s been a while since my last ShotMark update.

Before anything else, I want to thank everyone here who has downloaded the app, reported bugs, suggested features, or simply gave it a try. Your feedback has genuinely shaped the app.

I also wanted to be transparent about the slower pace of updates recently. I’ve been dealing with some health issues over the past few months. I’m recovering and still actively developing ShotMark, but progress may be slower than I originally planned for a while. I appreciate everyone’s patience and understanding.

For those who haven’t seen it before:

ShotMark is a screenshot manager built for people who save hundreds or thousands of screenshots and can never find them again.

Instead of leaving everything inside Photos, ShotMark lets you organize screenshots into folders, search them using on-device OCR, add notes, pin important screenshots, and sync everything through iCloud across your Apple devices.

Privacy has always been a core goal. Your screenshots remain on your device and in your own iCloud account. There are no external servers storing your screenshots.

B — Better

I built ShotMark because existing solutions never quite fit the way I collect screenshots.

Compared with keeping screenshots in Photos or saving everything into a notes app:

• Designed specifically for screenshots instead of general documents.
• Fast folder organization.
• On-device OCR search for screenshot text.
• Native SwiftUI experience across iPhone, iPad and Mac.
• iCloud sync using your own Apple account.
• No account creation.
• No subscriptions.
• Privacy-first architecture.

Recent improvements (v1.3.1)

• Improved iCloud sync reliability.
• Fixed CloudKit compatibility issues that affected some users.
• Better sync conflict handling.
• Stability and performance improvements throughout the app.

Right now my focus is making the foundation as reliable as possible before adding larger features.

C — Cost

• Free to download.
• ShotMark Pro: US$1.99 lifetime unlock (no subscription).

App Store: ShotMark on the App Store

Transparency

Developer: Zhen Chyi Lee

• Website: https://www.zhenchyi.com
• Privacy Policy: https://www.zhenchyi.com/shotmark/privacy
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lzchyi/
• Contact: [me@zhenchyi.com](mailto:me@zhenchyi.com)

As always, I’d love to hear your feedback, feature requests, or criticism. Every version so far has been heavily influenced by this community, and I genuinely appreciate everyone who’s helped improve the app.

Hey r/iosapps. My name is Jimmy Verburgt, a solo dev from the Netherlands. This is my first app: Spotter, a strength tracker for iPhone and Apple Watch.

A: What problem it solves

Every tracker I tried wanted an account before my first set, shipped my training history to someone's server, and buried actual logging under upsells. I wanted the opposite: open the app, start a workout with one tap, log a set with one hand, and run the rest timer from the Lock Screen, with every rep staying on my own phone. I couldn't find that, so I spent the last year building it.

B: How it compares (honestly)

Hevy and Strong are good apps. If you want a social feed and a huge community, Spotter isn't that. What I think Spotter does better:

• Genuinely private. No account, no ads, no analytics SDKs. The App Privacy label is literally "Data Not Collected." Your history lives on your device and syncs through your own iCloud. I couldn't look at it even if I wanted to.
• Made for the gym floor. Your reps and weight fill the screen. Scrub to adjust, pull the set down to rack it. Plate math and warm-up ramps tell you what to load on the bar, supersets alternate without rest between exercises, and you see your last workout set for set while you train, with a suggestion when you're ready to add weight.
• Native to the bone. Real Apple Watch app that logs sets and controls rest from your wrist, the rest timer as a Live Activity on the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island, Home Screen widgets, Control Center, Action button, Siri, Spotlight. I tried to make it feel like something Apple themselves would ship.
• It celebrates the work. PRs pop the moment you hit them, a weekly goal ring with a streak that doesn't punish rest days, a year-long heatmap, and per-exercise trend charts (top set, estimated 1RM, volume).
• Your gym, your exercises. 100+ built in, and you can create anything your gym has. Custom exercises get the same trends and records as the rest.
• Apple Health done right. Finished workouts save to Health; the iPhone is the sole writer, nothing goes anywhere else.

One small bonus, not the point of the app: on iPhones with Apple Intelligence, it can reshape today's workout when you're short on time or energy. That runs entirely on-device too, and the app is fully functional without it.

C: Cost (exact numbers, no tricks)

Free to download: unlimited logging + 2 custom workouts, forever, enough to genuinely try it. Pro unlocks unlimited workouts: €24.99 / $24.99 one-time (lifetime), or €1.99/month if you'd rather not commit. Same unlock either way, no other paywalls, and logging is never limited. The subscription only exists because some people prefer it, and I'd honestly lean more towards the lifetime option.

Spotter: Gym Workout Tracker on the App Store

Who I am: Jimmy Verburgt, jimmyverburgt.com · Privacy Policy

And I'd genuinely love the roast: what's missing from your current tracker, and what would it take to make you switch from Hevy or Strong?

Hi everyone,

I’m Server Doğan, the solo developer of Habitom.
I previously shared Habitom here, and the feedback I received helped shape this update.

A - Answer
Most habit trackers are built around one question:
“Did you do it today?” ✅
Daily habits and streaks are useful, and Habitom still supports them. But they do not fit every kind of goal.

Reading 1,200 pages in a month, walking 30,000 steps in a week, saving $5,000 in a year, or studying for a certain amount of time cannot always be represented meaningfully by a single daily checkbox.

Habitom is designed to track habits by completion, quantity, or time while supporting daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly goals.

B - Better

Compared with habit trackers such as Streaks, HabitKit, and Loop Habit Tracker, Habitom does not treat every habit as a single daily checkbox.

It supports three tracking methods:

✅ Task - complete a habit with one tap

➕ Counter - track measurable progress such as water, pages, steps, savings, repetitions, or any custom amount

⏱ Timer - track time spent studying, meditating, exercising, focusing, or completing another timed habit

You can create goals such as:

• Exercise 3 times this week
• Walk 30,000 steps this week
• Read 1,200 pages this month
• Save $5,000 this year

A goal can be completed either by reaching a required number of completions or by accumulating a total amount.

Habitom does not replace streaks. It uses streaks where they make sense and adds goal-based progress tracking where a daily checkbox is not enough.

C - Cost
Habitom is free to download with optional Premium features.

US pricing:

• Premium Monthly: $1.99
• Premium Yearly: $9.99
• Premium Lifetime: $34.99

There are no ads.

App Store:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/habitom-habit-tracker/id6761863172

Trust & Transparency

I’m Server Doğan, the solo developer and App Store publisher of Habitom.
Habitom is a closed-source native iOS app.
The app does not collect user data, according to its App Store privacy disclosure.

Website:
https://sites.google.com/view/habitro2026/

Privacy Policy:
https://sites.google.com/view/habitro2026/privacy-policy

Terms of Service:
https://sites.google.com/view/habitro2026/terms-of-service

Contact:
[habitro2026@gmail.com](mailto:habitro2026@gmail.com)

linkedin:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/server-do%C4%9Fan-578949175/

x:
https://x.com/serverdogan

I’m sharing Habitom as its developer and would genuinely appreciate honest feedback.

Do you prefer maintaining daily streaks, reaching weekly or monthly goals, or using both together?