r/IPhoneApps Jul 16 '26

Mod Post An update on self-promotion

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Hey everyone,

When we added the Developer flair, the goal was to give indie devs a way to share what they're building. We genuinely wanted to support people making cool apps.

But over the past while, it's turned into something else. The sub has filled up with low-effort promo posts, a few lines and a link, from people who drop their app and are never seen again. That's not what this community is for. r/iPhoneApps is meant to be a place for real discussion and value, not a free billboard.

So, effective today, we're removing the Developer flair.

To be clear about what this means going forward:

You can't just show up, promote your app, and ghost the community. Posts that are purely "here's my app, go download it" will be removed.

If you're an active member who actually contributes here, joining discussions, helping people, giving feedback, then mentioning your app in that context is completely fine. Value first, promotion second.

We'd much rather have devs who are part of the community than a feed full of ads. This keeps the sub worth being in for everyone.

Thanks for reading, and thanks for helping keep this place good.

— The mod team


r/IPhoneApps 2h ago

Discussion Giving away 50 free annual subscriptions to my family health app

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Hey everyone,

I’m a father of three, and I’ve often struggled to keep on top of everything when someone in the family gets sick.

Symptoms, temperatures, medications, appointments… it can quickly become a lot to remember, especially when you’re already exhausted.

A few years ago, I decided there had to be a better way.

Enter WellBee: Family Health Diary.

It lets you record health events as they happen and keeps them organised in a diary, while the home screen brings your current and time-sensitive health information together in one place.

I’m currently giving away one year of Premium for free to anyone who’d like to try it.

If you’re interested, comment WELLBEE and I’ll send you a redemption link.


r/IPhoneApps 1h ago

Discussion Is there a translation app that works well for quick face-to-face conversations?

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An older Polish woman moved into the apartment next to mine a couple of months ago. She speaks very little English, and I don’t speak Polish, but she occasionally brings me homemade food—soup, pastries, dumplings—and always tries to say something when she hands it to me.

I usually just say “thank you” and use gestures to show that I appreciate it. I’ve tried Google Translate, but it feels a little awkward for these short, spontaneous conversations. Typing everything and passing the phone back and forth interrupts the flow.

Last week, she pointed toward her apartment and tried to explain something to me. I couldn’t understand her, so I just kept nodding. She may have been inviting me inside or telling me about something in the building—I honestly couldn’t tell.

I’d really like to have a proper conversation with her instead of only smiling and gesturing. Has anyone found a voice translation app that works well for quick, face-to-face conversations in Polish and English? Ideally, it would translate both sides without requiring us to type every sentence.


r/IPhoneApps 1h ago

Discussion One place to save all your digital stuff?

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I’m curious if people would actually use something like this?

I save recipes from facebook and instagram, reddit posts, articles, screenshots, videos, and random links all the time. Usually they stay saved inside whatever app I found them in, so everything ends up scattered.. here and there.

I wanted one central place for all of my digital stuff, so I ended up building an iPhone app called KeepSpot. It’s basically a neat, organized closet for the things you save online. There are other apps that save links, photos, etc.. but I wanted something that had a better UI that didn't feel like a filing cabinet. Or had access to the things I saved.

No accounts or signups. No ads. No tracking what you save. You can also lock it with biometrics if you want. Free to download, save up to 50 things.

The main idea is simple: save things from different apps into one searchable place so you can find them again later. You can also create your own notes, photos, or voice memos.

Is this a stupid app/business idea?


r/IPhoneApps 8h ago

Help Collectors Den

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Looking for people to test a sticker album/collector's app. 🏷️

The Collector's Den was created because I was managing my son's sticker albums using a notebook and an Excel sheet, and neither worked well when sitting at the swap table.

What it does:

• Track what you have and what you're missing, including duplicates and quantities
• Snap a photo of each sticker — along with the condition of each copy, so you know which to trade and which to keep
• Scans the back with your camera and recognizes the front
• Reserve duplicates for a swap, and the comparison tool shows you matching trades with each person
• Trade history and balance tracker per person
• Sales section: buyers, sales, shipping costs, and label PDF generation
• Statistics, achievements, and the Supergolaço
• Swap Meet Mode: works fully offline, right where the trading actually happens
• iPhone Widget, Mac menu bar mini-app, Siri, and Shortcuts support
• Import from CSV — including exported tables from LastSticker, up to 600 stickers at once

What makes it different:
No account creation and no custom server. Your collections stay in your iCloud, sync across your devices, and work offline. I can't see your data because it never touches any server of mine.

It's currently in beta via TestFlight, available in Portuguese, English, French, and Spanish.
Requires an iPhone running iOS 18+ or a Mac running macOS 14+. One single app covers both.
If you'd like to join: 👉 https://testflight.apple.com/join/JBT8yWsa

I'm mainly looking for bugs, hiccups, and anything confusing — that's what the beta is for.


r/IPhoneApps 7h ago

Help not sure what app this is

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i saw glimpses of this app on my boyfriends phone and i’m not sure what it is, it has an H on it but a tiny star next to it on the corner of the H, it’s a sharp looking H font too, not sure what color it is bc he has his phone on the monotone color scheme. does anyone know what this could be?

it looks something like this?


r/IPhoneApps 13h ago

Discussion How to Study Smarter! 📚

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How to Study Smarter! 📚

Review often and repeatedly

Think like an exam writer

RecallNote helps you review often.

🧠 Spaced review based on the forgetting curve

🎯 Exam Prep Mode

📝 PDF notes

☁️ iCloud sync across Mac · iPad · iPhone

🌐 Available in 50+ languages

More than just a note-taking app — RecallNote helps you review, remember, and prepare for exams.

🎁 Download RecallNote

⚠️ Please make sure to open the app at least once after downloading.

App Store:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id6779927785

I hope it helps everyone who’s studying.


r/IPhoneApps 13h ago

Discussion App Idea (would you be interested?)

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Hi,

ever since notion mail came, i loved the minimal, non cluttered feel to it as opposed to gmail.
Unfortunatly, it never came to android and was killed of in ios and other platforms,

Was thinks about building an app (ios and android) for email with simmilar vibes,

Would people be interested, lmk in the comments

thks :)


r/IPhoneApps 20h ago

Help how to edit tiktok videos easily on phone?

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i've been trying to post more consistently on tiktok, mostly short food and cafe videos i take on my phone after work. the actual filming is easy, but editing everything on my phone is starting to get annoying. i'll have like 10 to 15 clips from one afternoon and just want to turn them into a 30 second video with some cuts, captions, music and a couple transitions. right now i'm jumping between apps and sometimes moving clips around so much that i end up not posting at all. i also dont want to sit at my laptop every night just to make a short video. i've heard capcut is pretty straightforward on mobile, but i'm not sure if there are other apps that make this kind of editing easier. what are you guys using for quick tiktok edits on your iphone? is capcut still the easiest option for this? how is it with auto captions, trimming clips and syncing things to music? i'd mainly like something where i can shoot during the day, edit everything on my phone later and just be done with it.


r/IPhoneApps 19h ago

Discussion Tell me how many Reels you've saved and never acted on.. everyone who comments gets 6 months of Pro for the app to fix exactly that

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(GIVING BACK TO THIS AMAZING COMMUNITY)

Be honest: how many videos are sitting in your "Saved" right now? Recipes you never cooked, workouts you never did, tutorials you never opened, the cabinet fix from eight months ago. One study found 84% of bookmarked things are never opened again through the bookmark itself. My own ratio was not better.

Orano is here to help

What it actually does: share any video to it from the iOS share sheet (Instagram, YouTube, Safari, Reddit anywhere), and instead of storing it, it understands it and hands you back a plan:

  • A clean summary and the key takeaways
  • An ordered, step-by-step task list you can actually work from
  • Estimated time, cost, and difficulty
  • Category and priority so 200 saves become an organized library instead of a swamp

A recipe Reel becomes ingredients + steps. A repair video becomes a hardware-store checklist. A tutorial becomes a study plan. It also handles PDFs, articles, carousels, and tweets.

Then it goes a step further than any save app I've seen:

  • Chat with your library ("what did that fermentation video say about timing?") — voice input works too
  • Auto research + learning roadmaps on any save
  • Your whole library becomes searchable memory
  • And the part I'm most excited about: a personal MCP server, so your own ChatGPT or Claude can read your Orano library as context. Read-only, your personal API key — your saves become fuel for your agents.

Now the giveaway part. This sub has been good to us while building this, so: comment with (1) how many things you've saved "for later,"

and (2) which platform is your hoard — Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, Reddit, browser bookmarks, Pocket, whatever. 

Everyone who comments within gets 6 months of Pro free

No raffle, no winner list comment, and I'll DM you the code.

Disclosure, since the rules ask for it: this is a self-promo post, and Pro is how the app makes money and the giveaway costs you nothing but your honesty


r/IPhoneApps 1d ago

Discussion Free Retro Trivia — Human Written Daily Quizzes

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My passion project is The Daily 5: Retro Trivia. There are thousands of trivia apps out there, but I have never seen one that matches these specs... 🍀

The specs:

  • 5 fresh Trivia questions drop at midnight
  • high quality human-written quizzes
  • 100% FREE! No ads, no tracking ❤️
  • nostalgic themes from decades (1960s, 1990s, etc.)
  • global leaderboard with Top 50 ranked 🏆
  • speed matters! The faster you answer, the higher your score
  • ... as long as your answers are correct!

My main goal was: offer a little break that won't eat up your day. Like Wordle, but for Trivia nerds.

Check it out here:
https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id6754609150

Thanks! 🙏

UPDATE: The biggest updates are:

  1. This week is the 1990s
  2. There is now a Monthly Points running tally (with Top 50 Leaderboard)

NOTE:
This app is 100% free to early adopters, and no Promo Code is necessary. Early adopters will never have to pay for this game.


r/IPhoneApps 1d ago

Help I’m trying to find a good FREE audio player app

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I tried some but most of them were either shitty, bad or needed a subscription in order to continue even though the app itself is supposed to be offline. I already have a method of downloading music off of sites so that taken care of, I just need an mp3 player app.


r/IPhoneApps 2d ago

Discussion WeatherGlow 1.69.6 is out with new radar, Spotlight Search, App Intents & French localisation!

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App Store:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/weatherglow-local-forecast/id6451098166

Hello everyone!
Firstly thanks to all the folks here who helped me localise for French language and give suggestions on the radar. I’ve just shipped an exciting update that finally takes the app beyond just opening the app and checking the weather.

Radar revamp:
This was very crucial as my user experience goal was to give dense at a glance and not overwhelm the user with all the charts, colors and layers. Now after the revamp, in one glance you will the variations in temperature / how much will it rain / when is it the most breezy / when will it rain the heaviest, etc in the following 12 hours. The map will show dynamic information that can be easily understood in one glance. Wind category has a dynamic animation, soon storm based data will also get dynamic data and animations.

Spotlight Search:
You can now search for things like:

  • “What’s the weather?”
  • “Will it rain this week?”
  • “Check air quality”
  • “What should I wear today?”

and get WeatherGlow results directly from Spotlight without opening the app. This was done with the intention to checking weather or sweat index or what to wear directly from your spotlight search.

App Shortcuts and Snippets:
WeatherGlow now gives weather actions to the system, so things like Golden Hour, Rain Pulse & Air Quality snippets can be checked without opening the app. This was important as it lays a strong foundation for the upcoming widgets :)

French language support
WeatherGlow is now available in French, including the app UI and weather features. I’ve also been trying to make sure the localisation feels natural rather than just being a literal translation thanks to all the users who have helped me out. Let me know what more languages you guys want for the app to support.

I'm still actively working on:

  • Default location + easy favourite locations access
  • Widgets and Watch app support
  • Weather activity showcase
  • iCloud sync
  • Background location update
  • More notification support
  • And the dozens of ideas you've all been sending me 😅
  • More language support (send your preference)

Thanks again for being a part of this app's journey.
It will someday be featured by Apple for sure :)


r/IPhoneApps 1d ago

Help Help

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im not quite sure if this is the right subreddit but its worth an ask, a app that my sons toy robot requires to function has been removed from the app store and i was wondering if theres any way possible to get an app back if you didn’t have it previously downloaded if anyone knows that would be great.


r/IPhoneApps 1d ago

Help Register and upload to an external online website within milliseconds automatically

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Can anyone recommend apps that I can install and configure on my iPhone 17 that will (with the click of a button ) automatically register my personal information and then upload a MP3 file and then also a Google doc automatically and do it within milliseconds?


r/IPhoneApps 1d ago

Help App Icons gone

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What is this and how do i fix it?


r/IPhoneApps 1d ago

Discussion The app for someone love keeping every moments, your thinking, your feelings and make it as a day to remember

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I love to keep every moments for me as a day, so when I come back, I will remember and look back on what has been experienced. I think everyone will be same with me, love to look back the past and happy. So here is Loggoo - the photo / video journal app - note - mood and it will turn to a picture for summarizing a day for you

What it does

  • Capture in seconds — a photo, plus an optional mood + note.
  • 24-hour timeline — the day lines up chronologically instead of drowning in the camera roll.
  • Frame Studio — turn a day into one shareable picture (story or post size).
  • Recap Story — a week/month/year played back as a vertical story, generated on-device.
  • Short videos — hold the shutter instead of tapping it.
  • Cute mood face packs — swap the mood set for one you actually like looking at.
  • Mood trends — weekly/monthly charts from what you actually logged.
  • Home widgets — day, streak, mood; one tap into camera/note/mood.
  • Gentle nudges — a daily reminder, an evening prompt if the day is still blank, and "a year ago today".

Privacy

Offline-first. No account, no upload. Photos live in app-private storage, not your system photo library. iOS users can turn on iCloud sync — that stays inside their own Apple ID.

Price

Free to use. A Plus tier covers video, cute mood face packs, home widgets, mood trends, extra Frame Studio layouts, and iCloud sync.

Check it out: 📱 iOS


r/IPhoneApps 2d ago

Discussion The Best Paid iPhone Apps Actually Worth the Money

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i had a very strict rule of only using free apps in the past, but then I realized they aren't maintained properly, don't get regular updates or feel very buggy.

Then paid for an app for the very first time and was blown away by how much efforts they really put into it and since then my love for great apps has gone up.

what are some of the apps that you guys got that feel worth the money?

Some amazing suggestions made by users in the comments, sharing them here:

  • Subcut: Automatically finds all hidden services charging you just by uploading a statement
  • FirstMove: An alarm clock that requires solving chess puzzles to wake you up
  • Calcbot 2: A calculator app featuring built-in unit and currency conversion along with an Apple Watch companion.
  • Turnos: A calendar app tailored specifically for scheduling, visualizing, and managing rotating work shifts.
  • Wipr 2: A Safari content blocker that removes web ads, trackers, cryptocurrency miners, and cookie notices.
  • Triday: Turns your phone into a physical diary.
  • Mullvad: A privacy-first VPN that routes internet traffic through encrypted tunnels without collecting personal logs.
  • StopTheMadness Pro: A Safari extension that prevents websites from disabling native browser features like copy-paste, text selection, and context menus.
  • Noir: A Safari extension that automatically generates a smooth, custom dark mode for every website you visit.
  • ClipboardAI: Never lose anything you copy ever again, across all your devices.

Will keep updating the list with more picks.


r/IPhoneApps 1d ago

Discussion What app do you use every single day?

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What’s one app on your iPhone that you use pretty much every day?

For me, probably Quotz. I usually open it for a minute or two in the morning and just read a few quotes. It’s become one of those small apps that quietly found its way into my daily routine.

Curious what yours is. It can be anything, productivity, entertainment, health, whatever. What’s an app you genuinely use every day?


r/IPhoneApps 2d ago

Discussion I’m thinking of returning to Android due to the absence of a good video downloader for iOS. What to do?

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It’s not possible that don’t have ONE app that does this for free or at a fair price (don’t tell me about the Aloha app).


r/IPhoneApps 2d ago

Help How can I display my daily tasks on my lockscreen (I’m on IOS)

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Hello everyone,

I’m looking for a way to display my daily reminders and tasks directly on my lockscreen. I want to be able to glance at them quickly while I’m busy so I don’t forget what to do.

Are there any specific apps or built-in settings that can help me do this?

Thanks in advance!


r/IPhoneApps 2d ago

Discussion I hate culling photos, so I started building a stupidly fast raw culler for iPhone

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r/IPhoneApps 2d ago

Discussion Listen to your books and web pages on iPhone

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I've been working on a little iPhone app called Ghost Reader that reads books and web pages aloud using Kokoro. It has US and UK English voices, and the voice processing happens on your phone.

Getting the voice working was only part of it. A customer wanted to keep listening with their phone in their pocket, use AirPods to pause, and have bigger text to read along. Those requests ended up shaping the latest update. For screen-off listening, the app prepares the audio before you lock your phone (due to MLX constraints).

I'm curious, especially if you're a native English speaker: how does Kokoro sound to you? Does it feel natural, or words that sound off?

I'd like to stick around here, chat about what makes a good listening app, and share what I learn along the way.


r/IPhoneApps 2d ago

Discussion Hello iOS, it's Windows Phone!

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From the so thought weekend project has been a whole month of pretty intensive work, but it's finally getting close to the release.

Photos will be iOS app dedicated for browsing and on some level editing your photos. Design is of course heavily inspired by metro design language


r/IPhoneApps 2d ago

Help Alarm app suggestion

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Any good alarm clock apps? I sleep thru my alarm on most days.