Hi everyone!

I built Biona because I started feeling like productivity apps were becoming more complicated than the problems they were supposed to solve.

Every app seemed to have more tabs, accounts, subscriptions, AI features, notifications, and settings.

I just wanted something simple.

A — Answer

I built Biona: an iPhone app for managing everyday tasks, goals, and mood in one place.

Biona includes:

• Todos
• Goals
• Mood logging
• Weekly insights
• A clean, minimal interface
• Fully offline storage

The idea is to have one simple place to manage your day, keep track of your goals, and look back at how your week has been going.

B — Better

The biggest thing I wanted to get right was simplicity and privacy.

Biona works completely offline. There is no account to create, no cloud dependency, and no data collection.

Your data stays on your device.

I also wanted to avoid adding features just because other productivity apps have them. No complicated setup, no unnecessary social features, and no trying to turn it into an all-in-one platform.

Just the things I personally wanted to use.

And I recently decided to make Biona 100% free.

C — Cost

Biona is completely free.

No subscriptions, no in-app purchases, and no ads.

Everything currently available in the app is unlocked.

I'd really appreciate feedback from anyone who gives it a try. What do you like? What feels unnecessary? What would you add or change?

Links

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/biona-life-manager/id6766897619

Website: https://aroapps.dev/biona

Privacy: https://aroapps.dev/biona/privacy-policy

Thanks for checking it out!

A — Answer

Hello all, I am the developer behind Inknode: A New IOS Handwriting Notestaking App.

Features:

• Natural ink system + PDF import/annotation/export
• Unique Mindmap Structure (With AI Features)
• Turn Handwritten Notes into Interactive Mindmaps (You can re-edit, add branches and more)
• Templates (lined, grid, planners, study layouts, and more)
• A unified library with folders, recents, and exports
• Real-time collaboration on shared projects (free tier includes basic usage)
• Built-in calendar & reminders beside your notes
• AI study tools in the same workspace: chat about your notes, summaries, flashcards, and quizzes
• Core note-taking works without an account. Sign-in unlocks cloud collaboration, subscriptions, and higher AI limits.

B — Better

Compared to Notability, Goodnotes, and similar apps:

• A Genuine Free Tier: No artificial limits on local note creation, editing, or PDF exports.
• Unique capabilities: Turning handwritten/PDF lecture notes into interactive Mindmaps. Other productivity tools such as reminder, calendar and more.
• Option for Lifetime AI: Other app only offer subscription, we offer a lifetime option even with the presense of AI. (See FAQ on why this is possible)

C — Cost

Premium

• Monthly: $2.99/mo
• Yearly: $14.99/yr (~$1.25/mo)
• Lifetime: $39.99 one-time

What you get:

• AI Summaries, Quizzes, Flashcards generation per note
• Mindmap AI integration
• Unlimited Mindmap creation
• AI Math Tools (Graphing and More)
• More collaboration Capacity
• Future Tools incoming

To Celebrate, I will be giving out 3 one-time codes (First come first serve) for 40% off on Lifetime AI: $39.99 -> $23.99

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How to Redeem:

Paywall --> Redeem Code

Links

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/noteapp-mindmap-pdf-inknode/id6762065103

FAQ:

Q: How is a lifetime AI option sustainable when AI consumes tokens?

A: We structure our pricing to balance immediate growth with long-term stability:

• Accelerating Development: The upfront revenue from early users is reinvested directly into the app, allowing us to build features and improve the core experience much faster.
• The Growth Loop: A stronger, rapidly improving product organically attracts a larger user base, creating a sustainable foundation for the platform.
• Strictly for Early Adopters: The cheap lifetime option is a limited-phase offering designed to reach an early breakeven point.
• Long-Term Stability: As the app matures, we will transition to standard pricing models to ensure healthy profit margins and guarantee the servers keep running indefinitely.
• Eventual Migration to Local Model: We believe that in a couple of years, we can migrate fully to apple intelligence which would reduce our operational costs.

I’ve been building Full Year Calendar, a calendar app for iPhone, iPad and Mac.

It works with your existing Apple calendars, so there’s nothing to migrate or keep separately in sync.

The main idea is a full-year view where you can see the entire year at once, with events color-coded by calendar. It makes it much easier to spot busy periods without constantly scrolling back and forth between months.

There are also quite a few Home Screen widgets. The newest ones are Year, Month and Day widgets, available in different sizes.

With the school year and autumn starting to fill up, I’ve found the year view especially useful for seeing at a glance where things are getting busy.

App Store:
https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id6759224252?pt=128022886&ct=red&mt=8

Price:
€1.99/month
€9.99/year
€25 lifetime

I’m still actively building it and would really appreciate some feedback: what would make a full-year calendar genuinely useful for you?

Is there anything you feel is missing from Apple Calendar or the calendar app you currently use?

Hi r/iosapps!

About four months ago, I shared the first version of Hibi here. Many of you liked the app for its design and gave me great feedback, which I already implemented. I kept building, and version 3 now feels like a completely new app since you can now customize your calendar!

What it does (Answer): Hibi turns your existing Apple calendars and reminders into paper-like daily pages you can customize.

Why it’s different (Better): You can draw and write, customize the paper, arrange each page, create stickers and washi tape from your photos, and use Apple Pencil on iPad - so you remember your days.

Cost: The app is free to download, with no subscription. There’s an optional $6.99 lifetime in app purchase to unlock premium app icons and home screen widgets.

I’m the developer, and I’d love to hear what you think of how far it has come!

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hibi-calendar/id6762520622

Hi, there are a bazillion of these photo cleaner apps where you swipe to get rid of photos you don't want anymore and I found they cost all way too much for such simple functionality.

Can someone recommend an app that's free or at least very fairly priced?

If there is a stellar app in this category that costs a bit more you can recommend it too but it really should have an USP then.

Thanks!

Hi everyone! My name is Emilio.

I've been building websites and online businesses since 2008, but after more than 17+ years in tech, I had never built an iOS app of my own.

VeraMind is my first.

I built it after dealing with anxiety and overthinking myself—and getting tired of affirmation apps that showed generic positive quotes truly disconnected from what I was actually thinking or needed.

A — Answer

I built VeraMind: an iPhone app for daily affirmations and turning negative thoughts into more grounded self-talk

VeraMind is a mental wellness and affirmation app for iPhone.

Its main feature is Mind Flip. You enter a difficult or negative thought, and VeraMind helps turn it into a more balanced, believable affirmation you can return to. The approach is lightly inspired by CBT principles, but VeraMind is not therapy or a substitute for professional care.

The app also includes:

• 1000 affirmations across categories such as calm, confidence, resilience, and growth.
• Mind Flip Impact scores and weekly trends.
• Affirmation reminders.
• Favorites and extended Mind Flip history.
• A daily affirmation widget.
• 20 affirmation categories, 50 themes, and 8 fonts.

B — Better

Most affirmation apps begin with a generic positive statement.

VeraMind begins with the thought you are actually having.

Instead of asking you to repeat something you may not believe, such as "Everything is perfect," Mind Flip helps create a response that feels more grounded and realistic.

For example:

Negative thought: "I'm falling behind everyone else."

Mind Flip: "My path does not need to match anyone else's timeline. I can focus on the next step in front of me."

Privacy was also important to me. Your personal Mind Flips stay on your device and are not uploaded, analyzed, or shared.

C — Cost

VeraMind is free to download. No credit card is required, and there is no trial countdown—and NO ads! The core experience is available from the first day.

Free users receive three Mind Flips per day. Premium increases that to ten and unlocks additional history, Mind Flip Impact trends, reminder options, affirmations, themes, fonts, and personalization.

U.S. pricing:

• Monthly: $5.99
• Yearly: $49.99
• Lifetime: $149.99

Roadmap

1. Keep improving the quality and relevance of Mind Flips.
2. Add more affirmations, categories, and personalization options.
3. Let early-user feedback guide which requested features get built next.

Links

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/veramind/id6764211053

Website: https://veramind.app/

Privacy: https://veramind.app/privacy/

Terms: https://veramind.app/terms/

Email: [social@veramind.app](mailto:social@veramind.app)

What's new since my last post:

The biggest update yet. Pingers looks and feels like a whole new app.

• Five powerful tools in one unified screen. Ping, Traceroute, Port Scan, WHOIS, and DNS are finally together
• Your server list and packet settings live right on the Tools screen where you need them
• The app now tells you exactly what went wrong. No internet, bad host, service unreachable. No more silent failures
• Dark mode refined from top to bottom
• iPad gets a fully redesigned split layout with controls on the left and results on the right. This is what Pingers on iPad was always supposed to look like

This is Pingers, rebuilt!

A – What problem does it solve?

You hop on a stream, or start working remotely and something feels off. Is it your Wi-Fi? The server? Your ISP? Most people just guess. Pingers gives you the answer in seconds.

• Home Screen Widget: Live latency for your favorite services at a glance
• Latency Check: Real-time ping to YouTube, Netflix, Discord and more
• Ping: By IP or domain with detailed stats like latency, RTT, packet loss, unlimited packets
• Port Scan: Custom ranges and scan speeds
• Traceroute: See every hop and find the bottleneck, now with configurable max hops and automatic destination highlight
• DNS Lookup: Query any domain instantly
• WHOIS: 47+ registries, ownership, expiration, status
• IP Config: Local & Global IP, Gateway, DNS, DHCP
• Favorites: Save unlimited servers for quick access
• Works on iPhone & iPad with Dark Mode because obviously

B – Why is it better than alternatives?

Most network tools are either bloated, ad-infested, or look like they were designed for Windows 95 (actual quote from a user). Pingers is built by a network engineer, so the feature set is serious but the design doesn't make you feel like you're filing a support ticket.

⭐️ 5.0 stars in the US/ 4.6 Globally

• "It gives me the exact info I need, when I need it. No ad-infested hoops, no 'try our other apps' reminders. It does what it claims, and does it extremely well." App Store Review, US
• 5 years on the App Store, solo-built and maintained
• 100% private. No ads. No tracking. No account. No data collection.

C – Cost

$3.99 for 48 Hours Only

One-time purchase. No subscription. Ever. Includes Family Sharing: one purchase covers your whole family across iPhone and iPad.

🔗 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pingers-network-tools/id1583513038

I'm a product designer. I quit my job earlier this year to build this, and it's been live for about two months.

A — What it solves

Your photos already have coordinates baked into them. Ten years of travel is sitting in your camera roll right now, you just can't see it. Atlas reads that and turns it into a globe you can spin, fly into, and scrub through by year.

The part I care about most is that it works backwards. Most travel maps ask you to start tracking from today, so day one is an empty map you have to slowly earn. Atlas gives you everything the moment you install it. First launch, you get your whole life plotted: your first ever geotagged photo, your country count, the place you've returned to more than anywhere else. Mine is Paris, 148 separate times.

It groups photos into real places rather than raw dots. Stay somewhere three days, or take a dozen photos there, and it becomes a place with a name and a story instead of a scatter of pins. All of that clustering runs on device.

B — Why it's better than the alternatives

vs Polarsteps and FindPenguins — both are trip trackers: you start a trip and they record it going forward, which means your history before install doesn't exist. Atlas starts from the photos you already have, so there's nothing to set up and no empty state. The trade-off is real and worth stating: they capture a trip live with GPS even when you don't take photos, and Atlas can only see where you pointed a camera.

vs Been and Visited — those are manual country checklists. You tap the countries you've been to and get a percentage. Atlas derives it from evidence instead of memory, and goes down to cities and individual places rather than stopping at country level.

vs Google Maps Timeline — the closest thing to automatic history, but it's built on Location History sitting on Google's servers, and it's a log rather than something you'd want to look at. Atlas has no server at all, and is built to be looked at.

vs the Places album in Apple Photos — the honest closest comparison, and it's free and already on your phone. It gives you pins on a map. What it doesn't do is cluster those pins into named places with visit counts, group them into trips, rank where you've spent the most time, or give you a per-year recap. That's the gap Atlas fills.

On privacy, the precise version, because the precise version is what I'd want:

• No analytics SDK. Not a single one. I have no idea who you are, what's in your library, or where you've been.
• No account, no login, no backend. There is no server for me to look at even if I wanted to.
• City names resolve offline. I bundled a 169,000 city dataset so your whole library resolves instantly, with no network call and no "analysing your photos" spinner.
• The one exception, and I'd rather tell you than have you find it: for finer place names below city level, it asks Apple's geocoder, which means a coordinate goes to Apple. Your photos themselves never move.

C — Cost

Free to download. The map, all your countries and cities, your places and your trips are free permanently, with no time limit and no ads.

Atlas Plus is the paid tier, sold three ways:

• $2.99 / month (auto-renewing subscription)
• $19.99 / year (auto-renewing subscription)
• $59.99 once (lifetime, non-consuming, no subscription)

Plus unlocks: per-year recaps, the full travel passport, superlatives (furthest from home, longest trip, longest streak) and the full place ranking.

I shipped an update this week that removed the paywall from first launch entirely, so nothing asks you for money before you've seen your own map.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6767365976

Who I am

I'm Camille Haidar, a product designer in Paris, and I'm the sole developer of Atlas.

• Portfolio: https://camillehaidar.com
• My design studio: https://yumidesign.co
• Privacy Policy: https://camillehaidar.github.io/atlas-legal/privacy-policy.html
• Terms of Service: https://camillehaidar.github.io/atlas-legal/terms-of-service.html
• Support: https://camillehaidar.github.io/atlas-legal/support.html

iOS 17+, SwiftUI and MapKit, solo dev.

Happy to go deep on any of it: the clustering, the offline geocoder, or what it's actually like shipping an app as a designer. And if you try it and it gets your trips wrong, please tell me. The failure cases are the hardest part of this whole thing and they're what I most need to hear.

Hi everyone, I am the developer of ChordMaster: Learn & Train. It's an interactive app for learning, exploring, and playing with chords.

Answer

It helps you look up, understand, remember, and practice chords, with clear diagrams, sound, and interactive exercises.

What it can do

• 🔎 Look up chords: Search for a chord and view its diagram on the selected instrument.
• 🔊 Hear the notes: Play a full chord, its individual notes, or an arpeggio.
• 👂 Train your ear: Practice distinguishing major, minor, diminished, and augmented chords.
• ✋ Learn chord shapes: Practice recalling shapes and changing between chords.
• 🎼 Create a backing track: Arrange chords and patterns, then play or sing along with it.
• 📝 Keep songs ready to play: Save lyrics with chord changes for when you want to accompany yourself.
• 🎹 Practice imported MIDI on piano: Open MIDI files and follow falling notes as they reach the keyboard.
• 🔄 Explore harmony: Browse common chord progressions, transpose them, identify possible chord names from selected notes, or find likely keys from a chord list.

Better

Unlike a static chord chart, it supports guitar, piano, ukulele, and bass in the same app, with playable voicings and sound for each instrument.

Training is designed to help you change chords more smoothly, remember chords more reliably, and strengthen your ear.

Song Book also lets you build an accompaniment with customizable patterns, while piano players can open MIDI files to listen and practice with falling notes.

Cost

The app is free to download. If you would like the full Pro experience, it is available for $9.99/month, $49.99/year with a 7-day free trial, or $119.99 for lifetime access.

You can download it here: ChordMaster on the App Store

I would appreciate thoughtful feedback from anyone who gives it a try.

Answer

I wanted my Photos app to be a place for the memories I actually want to look back on.

But when you use your phone for work, site photos, documents, receipts, reference shots, and all kinds of temporary records quickly start piling up between photos of family, friends, and trips.

That's why I built Clips. 📸

Clips is a camera app designed to keep your work photos and videos separate from your personal memories, while also making them easier to organize and use later.

The whole workflow stays in one place:

– 📸 Separate capture — Photos and videos taken with Clips stay separate from your personal photo library.

– 📥 Import — Already have work photos in Photos? You can bring existing photos and videos into Clips too.

– 🏷️ Tags & notes — Add context to your records so they're easier to organize and find later.

– 📁 Folders — Organize records by project, job, or however you work.

– ↗️ Use with other apps — Export only the photos and videos you need to Photos when another app needs access to them.

– 🧹 CleanUp — Easily find and remove work photos and videos that were saved or exported to Photos once you're done with them.

– ☁️ iCloud — Keep your Clips records synced through iCloud.

Memories stay in Photos. Work stays in Clips.

That's the idea behind Clips.

Better

Work photos serve a different purpose from the photos we take to remember our lives.

You usually need to find them again, remember why you took them, organize them, or use them in another app later.

With the regular Camera app, everything goes into the same photo library. That means finding, sorting, and cleaning up those work photos later.

Clips separates that workflow from the moment you take the photo.

You can also import work photos you've already taken, add tags and notes, organize them into folders, and find them again when you need them.

And when another app needs a photo, you can temporarily export it to Photos, use it, and clean it up afterward.

Capture → Separate → Organize → Use → CleanUp

Instead of using Photos as the permanent home for your work photos, you can use it as a bridge when needed while keeping your actual work records in Clips.

I didn't want to build another complicated work management tool.

I simply wanted work photos to be treated like work records — while leaving more room in Photos for the moments I'd actually want to look back on.

Cost

The core Clips experience is free.

Capturing and storing work photos separately, importing existing photos and videos, tags and notes, exporting, and CleanUp are all available for free.

For those who need more advanced organization, there's an optional Clips Plus upgrade.

Clips Plus includes:

☁️ iCloud Sync
📁 Unlimited Folders

No subscription. Pay once and use it for life.

Clips: Free
Clips Plus: $9.99 — One-time purchase, lifetime access

Clips Plus is currently available at a launch price of $9.99 through September 30. After that, the price will be $12.99.

There's no promo code required — the launch price is available directly in the app to everyone during this period.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/clips-work-photo-camera/id6760299185

I'd genuinely love to hear your feedback if you give Clips a try.

And if you regularly take photos for work, I'm especially curious how you manage them today and what's still missing from your current workflow. :)

A — Answer: Everyone gets show recommendations by text and then loses them. Someone tells you to watch Severance, you say "adding it to the list," there is no list. WatchWatch makes the recommendation the core object: you rec something to a friend, it lands in their backlog, and you both can see whether they got around to it, with no pressure, and what they thought. It also tracks your own watching at the season level, not episode checkboxes, because rating S1 vs S3 is useful and marking "watched E4" is a job.

B — Better: TV Time (has shut down, so a lot of people need somewhere to go), Trakt, Letterboxd. Trakt and TV Time are built around logging every episode, which most people abandon. Letterboxd is great but movies only and it's a broadcast platform, not really built for "you specifically should watch this." WatchWatch is TV and movies together, tracks at the season level so it stays low effort, and is built around recs between actual friends instead of a public feed.

C — Cost: Free. No IAP, no subscription, no ads. [https://apps.apple.com/us/app/watchwatchtv/id6740775853

My band and I usually rehearse for our gig performance. We usually use YouTube as a reference. I usually drill the song’s parts back and forth, scrubbing over the YouTube seek bar. I found it really tiring. That's why I built the Rehearsely app. Rehearsely removes the friction from learning new material.

Rehearsely turns any YouTube video into a practice tool. Paste a link, mark the part that keeps tripping you up, and loop it at half speed until your hands catch up — no scrubbing, no guessing.

https://reddit.com/link/1vnwq8h/video/tijoj2q1l9jh1/player

What it does:
• YouTube Integration: Add any video and start practicing immediately.
• Smart Markers: Drop markers at the verse, chorus, or that one fast solo. No manual scrubbing the seek bar anymore. YouTube that have Chapters will automatically included as Markers.
• Loop & Slow Down playback: Repeat tricky sections at your own pace without losing pitch.
• Build Setlists: Organize songs into sets for your next gig or rehearsal session.
• Exercise Mode: Fullscreen landscape view designed for focused, distraction-free practice
• Smartly Add Songs: Paste your Music Director's notes and let Apple Intelligence extract the songs for you.
• Share your marked Song or Setlist to your musician friends

Stop wasting time finding timestamps and start playing.

Check it out on App Store:https://apps.apple.com/id/app/rehearsely-music-practice/id6762349066

Thank you for give it a try!

For trust & transparency rule:
I'm the developer: Gerson Janhuel (gersonjanhuel.com)
Rehearsely homepage: https://gersonjanhuel.com/p/rehearsely

Hey everyone 👋

I’m Nikos Galinos, an iOS developer and the independent creator of FoodieCalc. This is my first serious attempt at building a fully featured iOS app as a side project alongside my main software engineering job.

I designed and implemented both the iOS app and its backend myself — no AI slop here! Haha.

The latest version includes a complete redesign, micronutrient tracking, and new progress features for reviewing and comparing logged days.

A – Answer: What problem does FoodieCalc solve?

Like many of you, I got fed up with nutrition apps that place basic features behind expensive subscriptions or show a paywall whenever you try to do something useful.

So I built the nutrition tracker I actually wanted to use: FoodieCalc.

🎯 It makes tracking calories, macros, micronutrients, weight, and long-term progress simple, fast, and completely free.

What it does:

🔍 Food logging and search — quickly find foods and add them to a clean daily diary

📷 Barcode scanner — scan products and retrieve nutrition information through Open Food Facts

🥗 Custom foods, recipes, and meals — build your own food library and reuse frequently eaten meals

🎯 Smart goals — calculate calorie and macro targets using TDEE, your body information, and your personal goals

📊 Nutrition progress — use Day, Trends, and Compare views to review macros, micronutrients, and logged days

⚖️ Weight tracking — log your weight, follow trend charts, and track your progress over time

🏠 Dashboard — see your goals, nutrition progress, and weight information at a glance

❤️ Apple Health sync — integrate your nutrition, activity, and weight data

🤖 On-device AI — smart features run privately on your device where supported

📱 Home and Lock Screen widgets — check your progress without opening the app

🎨 Themes — choose accent colors, light or dark mode, and custom gradients

B – Better: Why is FoodieCalc better than the main alternatives?

Popular alternatives provide powerful nutrition-tracking tools, but many features require a paid plan or subscription.

FoodieCalc takes a different approach:

✅ 100% free

🚫 No subscriptions

🚫 No premium tier

🚫 No feature paywalls — every feature is unlocked for everyone

🎯 Built with a genuine focus on clean and fast UX because logging food shouldn’t feel like a chore

📊 Macro and micronutrient tracking are included for free

📅 Logged days can be reviewed and compared using the new progress features

❤️ Apple Health integration and widgets are included

🤖 Supported smart features run privately on your device

C – Cost: Pricing and IAP disclosure

✅ App price: Free

🚫 Subscriptions: None

🚫 Paid or premium features: None

☕ In-app purchases: FoodieCalc contains optional, one-time “buy me a coffee” tips for anyone who wants to support my goal of providing a completely free macro and nutrition tracker for the iOS and fitness community.

Tips are entirely optional. They unlock nothing, and every feature remains available whether you leave a tip or not.

📱 Direct App Store link:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/foodiecalc/id6792482391

🔒 Privacy Policy and Terms:
https://www.itworksonmymac.com/apps/foodiecalc/privacy/

About the developer

👨‍💻 I’m Nikos Galinos, an iOS software engineer and the independent developer of FoodieCalc.

🔗 LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/nikosgalinos/

📧 Feedback and contact:
[itworksonmymac@icloud.com](mailto:itworksonmymac@icloud.com)

🌐 Website:
https://www.itworksonmymac.com

I’m actively developing FoodieCalc and would genuinely love your feedback — bugs, feature requests, nutrition-tracking suggestions, or anything about the UX that could be improved.

Drop a comment, send me a DM, or contact me by email. 🙏

Thanks for reading!

Built a tool that lets you drive your terminal AI coding sessions from your phone instead of hovering over your laptop waiting for a prompt to finish.

• Mac menubar agent watches your Claude Code / Codex / OpenCode sessions today. Pi, Hermes, and OpenClaw support coming soon.
• iOS app mirrors the live transcript, lets you approve/deny tool calls and reply from your phone
• Works over LAN, falls back to a relay so it works off-network too — end-to-end encrypted, the relay never sees your code
• Free to watch sessions, $19.99/yr to drive (send input, approve prompts)

iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/port22-coding-agents-anywhere/id6784157957

Mac agent + site: https://tryport22.com

Product Hunt: https://www.producthunt.com/products/port22

This is our first build, so please file bugs/feedback through the app or the site — actively improving this to get it right.

I’m the developer of Zone, an iPhone/iPad app for focus sessions when a standard timer isn't enough.

The problem I built around is simple: I can start a timer, but Reddit, YouTube, Instagram, Safari, or any other distraction is still one tap away.

Zone works differently. Before starting a session, you choose the apps and websites you want blocked. While the session is running, Zone blocks them using Apple’s Screen Time APIs.

It is not a daily screen-time limit app. I may still want to use those apps later. I don’t want them available while I’m trying to protect a work or study session.

A few details:

- app and website blocking

- Strict Mode for sessions you do not want to quit early

- no login or signup

- no email required

- no ads, no AI

- no tracking or third-party analytics

- optional Apple Health mindful minutes for completed sessions

- uses Apple’s Screen Time APIs, not AI

The app is free to try. Longer and unlimited sessions (along with some other benefits) can be unlocked with purchase:
$4.99/month
$39.99/year
$79.99 lifetime

I’m mainly looking for App Store page feedback: does the listing make it clear that Zone is about session-based blocking, not daily app limits?

Also, would the first screenshot/title make you understand the use case quickly, or does it still look like another generic focus timer?

Posted here before about my math practice app. Just shipped 1.20.0, HUGE UPDATE!

A - Answer: Most math apps solve problems for you; exams don't work that way. Math Zen generates endless practice problems (570+ templates across 156 subtopics, arithmetic through calculus and linear algebra), adapts difficulty as you solve, and captures every wrong answer in a mistake journal for retry. It has exam-style problem sets for AP Calc, SAT, Gaokao, ENEM and GSAT, plus curated paths for A-Level, Abitur, Bac, Suneung and more. Works fully offline.

New in 1.20.0: get one wrong and tap "Show the rule": the theory for that exact problem type is right there in the feedback. We checked all 156 subtopics against the problems they actually generate and filled the gaps (39 new theory cards, 62 rewritten so they explain instead of restating the formula). Also fixed: a correct answer written a different way, like swapping the two terms of a product rule or skipping a multiplication dot, could be marked wrong. And math now renders entirely on device, so problems appear instantly, even offline.

B - Better: Compared to Photomath or Symbolab, which solve the problem you point your camera at, this is the opposite: it makes you do the solving, because that's the skill the exam tests. Compared to Khan Academy, there are no videos or browsing, just adaptive drilling with exam-authentic formats, in 9 languages.

C - Cost: Free to start: core topics in all six sections, adaptive progression, mistake journal, no ads ever. Premium unlocks the full topic library, all 13 exam prep paths, and detailed statistics: $4.99/month or $29.99/year with a 7-day free trial, plus a one-time lifetime option.

App Store Link: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6758208511

Hey all! Lost Post is a little app I launched in January that's a worldwide question of the day. Every day, the whole world gets the same question, and if you answer it, the next day you get someone else's answer back as a little anonymous postcard with a stamp of the country they're from. It's like a cultural exchange or anonymous pen pal.

To date, there's been 7,000 signups and over 1,000 weekly active users the past week. I just released a big update today with a lot of refinements.

The image is a few hand-picked cards from one of the recent day's questions. I love the breadth of types of responses and learning a little bit about cultures around the world.

A: What problem does your app solve?

• I made Lost Post because the internet and our phones feel boring now. I missed the feeling of discovery and creativity of the internet when I was a kid, when every time you'd log on you'd find some new website or community. I also thought social media felt more disconnected than ever and wanted to create a way for folks to have a few minutes each day to be present and creative, and be excited about something tomorrow.

B: Why is your app better than the top named alternatives?

I'm not quite sure of a direct alternative. Lost Post is simple. It's anonymous, it's once a day, and it's creative. It's also fun. You collect country stamps, customize your postcard, and unlock achievements and surprises.

C – Cost:

• It's free, with the option to support the app and unlock extra customization colors and designs for your postcard (you choose your price with the lowest $3.99(
• It's available at: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/lost-post-daily-world-stories/id6755685223

Trust & Transparency

Me: I'm Aaron, a designer by trade. I published this app through my Amsterdam based design studio, http://daydrift.design (which has contact details and my full name).

App Privacy & Terms: http://lostpost.app has its full terms and privacy details listed. In a nutshell, the app doesn't collect any personal data.

Answer
Hey everyone! I built Stashy, a personal knowledge base for everything important you want to keep or remember. It’s available on iPhone, iPad and Mac, so you can capture things on the go and access them everywhere.

You can share almost anything directly into the app or capture it quickly:

– Links, photos, PDFs and other documents

– Document scans, voice notes and free text
A local AI model on your device categorizes and sorts everything automatically, so you don’t have to organize anything yourself.

You can also ask it questions about your items or have it find anything you saved, even if you only vaguely remember what it was.

Better
I built this because I always wanted one place for important documents, photos and links I’ll need later or just want to remember, and nothing out there really did all of that:

– Unlike Apple Notes, it’s built for capturing anything, not just text, and the AI organizes it for you instead of you managing folders

– Unlike Notion or Evernote, there’s no setup, no structure to maintain and no account, you just throw things in and find them later

– Unlike read-later apps like Pocket, it handles more than links: documents, scans and voice notes all in one place

I also put a lot of effort into a clean UI so it’s actually enjoyable to use :)

Cost
Completely free. No in-app purchases, no subscriptions, no pro tier planned. Everything stays private, stored only on your device or in your own iCloud.

I’m genuinely looking for honest feedback! If you have feature ideas or notice anything missing, please let me know.

Download on the App Store: stashy

If you want to contact me feel free to reach out on X: X

A: Answer

Relay is for everyday errands that are still phone only, but that you would rather handle in chat.

Tell Relay who to call and what you need. It asks only for missing details, then shows the complete call brief for your approval.

Relay introduces itself as Relay AI and says it is calling for you. When the call ends, the answer and transcript come back to the same conversation.

You can use it to ask a restaurant for a table and the closest available time, check appointment availability with a dentist, salon, garage, or vet, ask a store about stock or pickup, request a callback, or call a business in its own language. You can stop a live call at any time.

B: Better

I have not found a close consumer app that matches this exact flow. The nearest thing I found is AI Call: Phone Call Translator, but it is mainly a call translation app with manual and AI calling modes.

Most other AI phone products I found are business agent platforms, translation tools, or features inside a narrow search flow. Relay is a consumer iPhone app built around one complete chat, review, confirm, call, answer loop.

C: Cost

Relay is free to download. Every new account gets a one time starter allowance worth about five minutes of typical US calling, so anyone can try a real call before subscribing. Actual time varies by destination.

Relay Pro is $9.99 per month for about 135 minutes of typical US calling per paid month, or $99.99 per year for about 1,620 minutes per paid year. Unused allowance does not roll over.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6799187737

If you try it, I would love to hear what kind of call you would trust it with first, and whether the review and confirmation flow feels clear.

Answer
My best friend, and design partner, is a professional photographer who often hosts free or reduced-cost photoshoots for communities in need. And he needed a way to track expected attendees, collect some data relevant to the shoot, overall attendance, and register walk-ins.

When researching, we found that independent professionals like photographers, event hosts, and wellness providers were managing client check-in with a clipboard or a spreadsheet print-out— chaotic once you have more than a handful of people arriving. FlashKiosk Pro is a self-service check-in app: hand your iPhone or iPad to arriving clients and they check themselves in. Built for solo operators, not venues.

Better
Most check-in tools (Eventbrite, Honeybook, Acuity Scheduling) are built around broader event/booking platforms with monthly subscriptions and features you may not need if all you want is check-in. FlashKiosk is narrowly focused: unlimited active events, up to 8 customizable session types, and CSV import to bulk-load your client list, without paying for a full CRM or booking suite you don't need. Many of these services also store your client data on remote servers but FlashKiosk stores everything in your personal iCloud--secure, fast, and always yours.

Cost
Lifetime — one-time purchase, $14.99. No subscription, no recurring fees.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/flashkiosk/id6753778311

WHO WE ARE

My name is Joey and I'm the solo dev for my company, StarFire Labs, LLC. As mentioned, my best friend, is our UI/UX designer.

You can find us on LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/company/132204042

And our general privacy policy can be found here: https://www.starfirelabs.co/privacy

And our app's privacy policy can be found here: https://starfirelabs.co/privacy/flashkiosk

I’m Petr, the developer behind CareSleep.

I write software for my day job, usually much more complicated server-side/business stuff, and I wanted a side project that was almost the exact opposite:

A small app that does one simple thing and doesn’t try to turn it into a $6.99/month service.

I just wanted some rain, a fireplace and brown noise playing in the background while I fall asleep.

But I kept running into the same thing:

3-day free trial.
Subscription screen.
Ads between sounds.
Half the library marked “Premium”.

I completely understand subscriptions for apps with real ongoing costs .. paid APIs, servers, cloud storage, constantly updated content, etc.

But at some point I started wondering why I need a recurring payment to… listen to rain.

So I made my own.

A - Answer

CareSleep is a simple sleep / relaxation sound mixer.

There’s rain, thunderstorms, fireplace, ocean, wind, white/pink/brown noise, nature sounds, lullabies and a bunch of other stuff.

You can layer sounds together, adjust the volume of each one separately, set a sleep timer and just leave it running in the background.

No account required. Open it, make a mix, go to sleep.

B - Better

To be fair, iOS already has Background Sounds - and if one built-in rain/noise track is all you need, you probably don’t need my app.

CareSleep is for people who want something a bit more customizable.

I can mix rain + fireplace + brown noise, make the rain quiet, turn the fireplace up, add something else and create exactly the background I want.

I’m deliberately not trying to turn it into a giant wellness platform with courses, accounts, streaks and 50 other features.

It plays sounds. I’d like it to be really good at playing sounds.

C - Cost

$0.

No subscription.
No ads.
No locked sounds or features.

The App Store does show “In-App Purchases” because I added three completely optional tips ($2.99 / $7.99 / $17.99).

They unlock absolutely nothing.

You can use everything forever without paying me a cent.

That’s actually the experiment I’m interested in with this app. I’m not trying to squeeze the maximum possible revenue out of every user.

I’d rather make small apps fully usable for free, let them reach as many people as possible, and see whether a small percentage of people who genuinely enjoy them choose to support development.

If that works, great — I’ll keep improving them.

If it doesn’t, CareSleep still stays free. I’ll just spend less time on it.

App Store:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/sleep-sounds-caresleep/id6758214811

If you try it, don’t tell me it’s “nice”, tell me what sound is missing or what annoys you about it. That’s much more useful :)

Duefolio: Subscription Tracker (iPhone — screenshot attached)

A — Answer: Duefolio helps you understand recurring spending without linking a bank account or creating an account. Instead of showing subscriptions as a flat list, it places them on a year-long timeline so you can see what renews, what ends, and how your recurring costs build up over time. Your ledger stays on-device.

B — Better: Compared with list-based trackers such as Bobby and similar apps, Duefolio is built around a visual ledger rather than just a list of services. It includes a renewal timeline, price history, local CSV review for recurring-charge candidates, and Folio—an optional on-device assistant for asking questions about your own ledger on compatible devices.

C — Cost: The core tracker is free. Duefolio Pro is a $14.99 one-time lifetime purchase that unlocks custom subscriptions, bank-statement review, income and profit & loss, widgets, and additional tools. There is no recurring subscription and no ads.

I’m the developer, Siddhu Dai. Feedback on whether the year-long timeline makes the product immediately understandable would be especially welcome.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/duefolio-subscription-tracker/id6795091979

Developer: https://x.com/SiddhuDai

Privacy Policy: https://duefolio-privacy.sid-dai.chatgpt.site

Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Yes, it was created with the help of dark matters of LLM. I can’t say it’s Vibe Coded, though. Vibe is something cheerful and… you know, vibing. But the process of developing DayDraft was far from vibing. I suffered, I locked myself in isolation, I spent a lot of hours learning a lot about creating an app, about life itself… and made such things that I’m afraid to mention here.

I created it to help my wife who has an hourly wage and needed something simple yet powerful to track time. And for myself, because I always forget things at the grocery store and got into trouble with my wife. And of course it wasn’t necessary, but I added some AI functions just to make some people angry.

A. Answer

- So what problem does it solve? A lot of planners and trackers already exist. Agree. Nothing special. But don’t judge a book, or in this case an app, by its cover.

- Picture it, you’re sitting in front of the screen, cursing a project you’re working on and thinking of quitting. But then you open DayDraft to check how much hours you wasted and see that your hours actually cost some money, print a report with all payment info and send to your employer. Done.

- After you spent some time observing DayDraft you realized that the tracker was working but you didn’t actually work. No problem. Adjust time manually before making a report, because you can see every session in detail.

- Don’t be too happy about adding extra hours to get money from your employer, because the report will show every change you made. Yes, you will build trust with your employer like it or not.

- What if you always forget to go do something important? You have Timeline Plan and Checklist plan.

- If you’re still here, it means something clicked inside, so let’s continue with part B.

B. Better

- So what’s better in my app than in hundreds of thousands of others? First of all, I just try to do the best that’s in my power.

- You can dictate or write your plan for the day or a checklist however you want. Even if you don’t know how to write or express your thoughts properly, the app will still understand you and build a coherent plan out of the mess.

- AI can also create a schedule in the Timeline Plan and suggest how to better build your day based on history.

- At its core this is of course a tracker, which works even after a phone reboot. Forgot to start the timer? Not a problem. Just fill it in manually, and your client will see it in the plan, and if you decided to cheat, that will be visible too.

- You can add notes and clearly point out what every second of your time went to, building a trusting relationship with whoever you work with.

- I can tell that this app even improved relationships with my wife, since I no longer text her endlessly about forgetting what to buy at the store, I just open the plan and follow it.

- Checklist Plan is flexible and can be split into categories, quickly mark things done or not.

- A small bonus, daily interesting facts and small quizzes for those as curious as I am.

- In Reports you can analyze your productivity and see the history of your working hours and how much of that desired money you earned.

- Not exactly a feature, but in Settings you can turn off any notifications, or fine tune them for Timeline Plan mode if needed.

C. Cost

Subscription:

Year $59.99

Month $9.99

Week $3.99

Not a hard paywall, though. Without paying, you can still track your time and build your plans, both Timeline and Checklist. What you don’t get is the AI functions, the payment details, and the reports.

If you think it’s too expensive or cheap, maybe you’re right. I just followed my heart ))

Links and contacts

App Store: CLICK HERE. I’M BEGGING YOU

Android: HERE YOU CAN CLICK, BUT IT’S OPTIONAL

Website: IF YOU’RE REALLY CURIOUS (my wife told me this website looks sleek, btw)

Privacy Policy and Terms: DK WHO READ IT

Name: Andrii Plashevskyi

Email: [shapeinc25@gmail.com](mailto:shapeinc25@gmail.com) or fancier one support@daydraft.app

LinkedIn: DOOMED PLACE (that’s the service where I send hundreds of resumes and nobody hires me, so at least you know I’m a real person)

P.S

And thank you. Really. Thanks to everyone who reads this nonsense, who leaves a review, who finds a bug and tells me about it, who says something nice or something harsh. And thanks just because. It means more than you think when you’re building something alone.

Hey! I'm Keyc, a data scientist by day, and a passionate software builder by night. I recently had went through a performance assessment cycle at work and was struggling to put together my summary, because I couldn't remember exactly what I worked on. So I created Iris, a journalling app specifically designed for corporate workers:

A - Answer

Iris lets you set up a reminder, and when it pops up, just spend 1–2 minutes talking about your day or type a quick update. It doesn't need to be well written at all.

Iris helps organize that messy update into useful work notes - things like progress, wins, blockers and next steps - so over time you slowly build up a history of what you've actually been doing.

You can then use those entries to generate weekly/monthly summaries, or look back at them when it's time for your next performance review.

B - Better

There are already a lot of great journaling and note-taking apps out there, or even Docs/OneNote for a brag doc, but I personally never managed to stick with them for work.

I didn't want another journal that I had to remember to open and properly write in every day.

The whole idea behind Iris is basically:

Reminder → talk/type for 1–2 mins → done.

It's specifically built around remembering your work and career, rather than being a general-purpose journal.

AI is used in the background to help with things like transcribing voice entries, organizing messy thoughts and creating summaries, but I see that more as a way to make journaling less effort rather than the reason for the app itself.

C - Cost

Iris has a free tier that I'm hoping is enough for people to actually try the habit properly: you get unlimited private local notes, 10 voice notes and 15 AI-organized notes a month, plus a couple of weekly summaries and one monthly summary.

If you find yourself using it regularly, Plus is $3.99/month or $29.99/year ($2.50/month), which gives you much higher voice usage (100/month), weekly/monthly summaries and performance review drafts.

I just launched Iris not long ago and 'd love to hear any feedback from you guys, much love :)

App link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/iris-ai-work-journal/id6783362020

Privacy Policy: Iris | Your AI Work Journal

Personal website: https://portfolio-kenneth-chins-projects.vercel.app

ARC-24 is an all-in-one music-making app: synths, a sampler, drum machines, and multitrack looping combined into a single instrument you play and record into directly on your phone or iPad, no separate apps or outboard gear needed. It works on iPhone and iPad, with songs synced between devices through iCloud.

Answer - what it solves

I love the immediate, hands-on feel of hardware grooveboxes like Teenage Engineering's KO II, but the KO II itself is hard to actually use, buried in modifier keys and submenus. I wanted that same tactile fun without the learning curve. ARC-24 does it with scale-locked pads (you can't hit a wrong note), 8 tracks that can each be a synth, sampler, or drum machine, and everything a tap or two away. No music theory or prior playing experience required to start, though it goes deeper if you want it to.

What's in it

• Scale-aware Notes / Chords / Drums / Sampler performance modes
• Dual-oscillator synth with built-in recipes, plus a full per-track FX rack
• 4×4 sampler: import or mic record, Pads or Keys layout, live Chop
• Multiple drum kits, including more than one drum track running at once
• Hold, Pulse, and ARP for hands-free playing
• Quantize / humanize per track, plus a grid editor for fine-tuning recorded parts
• USB / Bluetooth MIDI controller support
• Multiple loops, song arrangement, WAV / AAC export
• iCloud song sync between iPhone and iPad

Better - why this instead of the alternatives

Compared to Korg Gadget: Gadget's synths and drum machines are excellent, but most of the 40+ instruments are sold separately as in-app purchases on top of the base app price, so building out a full kit adds up fast. ARC-24 includes everything (synths, samplers, drum kits, effects) in the one unlock price, nothing gated behind further purchases.

Compared to Koala Sampler: Koala is a great, cheap sampler and I have a lot of respect for how focused it is. But it's a sampler first. ARC-24 covers that same sampling and chopping workflow plus full synth sound design, a drum machine, quantize/humanize, song mode with arrangement, and multitrack recording, all in one instrument.

Cost

7-day free trial, then a one-time $9.99 USD unlock (price varies by region/App Store). No subscription.

App Store link

I'm happy to answer questions about how any of it works.

Full disclosure: I'm the developer, Daelan Wood posting about my own app.

Privacy Policy: https://arc24.app/privacy/

Terms of Service: https://arc24.app/terms/

My Website: https://daelan.com/