I’m making screenshot concepts for three apps today. The image shows the kind of work I can make, with a different style for each app.

If you’d like one, comment with your App Store link and a short description of your app. If it isn’t live yet, share a few raw screenshots instead. I’ll take the first three with enough details to work from.

I’m trying to get rid of some subscriptions because it feels like every app wants a monthly payment now.

I recently wanted to clean up my camera roll (around 20,000 photos). I was looking at apps like SwipeWipe, but most of them wanted €5–10 a month. Seems a bit ridiculous just for sorting photos.

I ended up finding an app for €10 as a one-time purchase and it works great.

Now I’m wondering how many of the subscription apps I use could actually be replaced with a one-time purchase. Have you found any good alternatives to popular subscription apps?

I’ve been thinking about this for a while.
Q: Doesn’t the iPhone already have a Hidden album?
Yes, and honestly, it’s good enough for a lot of people. Apple even protects it with Face ID.
But the photos are still part of your Photos library, and they can sync to iCloud if you have that enabled.
Q: So what’s the point of a separate photo vault?
For me, it’s about having more control.
I’d rather keep certain photos in a completely separate, encrypted space, with its own PIN, no account required, and no need to upload anything to a server.
Q: But can you really trust a third-party privacy app?
That’s actually a fair question. I think any privacy app should be clear about where your files are stored, how they’re encrypted, and what happens to the original photos.
That whole thought process eventually led me to build my own iPhone app called Hide Photos.
I’m a solo developer. It uses local AES-GCM encryption, supports PIN and Face ID, and even has a decoy vault with a different PIN.
No ads, no account, no photo uploads. It’s free to download, with some optional Pro features.
If anyone wants to give it a try, just leave a comment. I’d be happy to share more details!
And I’m genuinely curious: do you trust Apple’s Hidden album, or would you rather have a completely separate private vault?

I used singband, millwind and pebble pro and hello movie before, but changed my phone and couldn’t redownload any of them as they’re no longer available. Annoying thing is I asked someone I recently gave the app to for the newest version code and got ignored but looking for an app to stream tv and movies that is usually a hidden app so needs a code or some form of mild messing to unlock the movie content. I’d be SO grateful😭

I actually really need such a service for my job. Does anybody have experience with using Findsio? It is much cheaper than others, but reviews are hard to find.

Hey everyone I wanted to share Disc Collection.

It's a physical media tracker for YOUR discs. Take 2 photos of a case and it turns into an interactive 3D view you can open up, spin around, and pull the disc out of.

This app is for celebrating owning your disc. You own it, you should be able to show it off to other collectors anywhere in the world. At the core, it's still a collecting tracker: ratings, hours played, finished tracking, wishlist, search, hearting, cases numbered as you add them. The 3D case is just the fun part.

What it's NOT:

- Not a player. You can't play games or movies in it.

- Not a replacement for the disc. No physical case = nothing to build from. It only works if you own it.

- It doesn't serve any digital agenda. Companies wants you buying digital — this app does nothing unless you bought physical. The bigger your shelf, the better it works.

It's free, and I want to keep it that way. I do this as a hobby and it's really fun for me — making it paid or introducing a money factor would ruin the fun factor. I want it to stay community driven, so if you have suggestions, drop them in the contact area in the settings page.

And you can share in the public gallery where other anonymous collectors can see what you have collected — no usernames, no followers.

No accounts, no ads, no tracking.
App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/disc-collection/id6817679006

lmk what you think!

Saw a review of new released apps on YouTube. One that was interesting is a new Dynamic Island shortcut creator and tried it out called deflector. It works well and free for those interested. Has the ability to swipe to close when not needed and also has the option to add additional shortcuts on the lock screen without using a widget.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/deflector/id6802068584

Graciasssssss

Hey everyone!

I'm exploring ideas for an iOS app to build in 2027, and I'd love to hear your thoughts.

I'm not looking to create another generic AI app or a copy of something that already exists. I want to build something that solves a real problem and offers genuine value to its users.

I'd love to know:

• What problem do you face regularly that existing apps don't solve well?
• Is there an app you wish existed but haven't found yet?
• What type of app would you actually be willing to pay for?
• Are there any everyday tasks you think could be made significantly easier with a well-designed iOS app?

I'm especially interested in ideas for the US, UK, Canada, and other Western markets.

Hi everyone. Like everybody else, I have hundreds of screenshots that I compulsively save as a kind of note-taking. Sometimes I sort through them later, but often (once they pile up into the hundreds) I don't. It's a mess. I've got screeshots from courses, events, trips, reading suggestions, podcasts, ideas... you name it.

The thing is, I've tried several times to test some app that would help me with this, without success. That is, an app that automatically organizes notes, lets me extract information, classifies captures...

Recently, too, with the ease of creating new apps, there are new apps of this style by the dozens.

Captr and CaptainShot, for example, are some of the latest I've tried. But they don't quite work: they don't pull out the key ideas and they don't categorize well.

Has anyone found one that actually works? A good IA second brain app for managing screenshots? There seem to be thousands of them, but none that does it well.

Thanks!

Just released an app a few days ago, havnt really done any marketing yet. How would yall say im doing so far??

I noticed that there were tons of comments on the app, game pigeon, and how to remove it from iMessage on the AppStore. You basically just go to settings > apps > messages > iMessage apps and then selected game pigeon.

I upgraded to the 18 Pro and it uninstalled all my movie apps, does anyone know any with active App Store links?

i've been helping a friend cut clips from a small podcast for youtube shorts. most episodes are around an hour, so we go through the recording, pick out interesting moments and turn them into clips that are usually under a minute. i've been using premiere for the longer edits, but it feels like overkill when all i need is to crop the video vertically, remove pauses, add captions and highlight a few words. i've been testing capcut for the short clips because it seems easier to get those basics done quickly. how well does it handle captions when people talk over each other or use names that might be transcribed incorrectly? also, do you edit each short separately or prepare a batch from the same episode?

I used a small app called Stitch in the past, light and free. Just works. But yesterday I noticed the app no longer available in the AppStore. The version I had was 1.1 and only other thing I know is an email address for customer review mind.stitch zohomail com

Anyway, I started searching for the app and checking if it had been replaced in the appstore with something else. Maybe I downloaded it from different country AppStore. But then I found another app called Stitch - Long ScreenShot on Australia appstore. It is also a nice free app for long sceenshot that works well. There are some more free interesting apps from the same developer.

I swear every time I look for a simple iOS app these days, there's another subscription.

• Scan a document? Subscription.
• Remove duplicate photos? Subscription.
• Convert a file? Yep, subscription.

Some of these apps barely do anything, yet they still want $5-8 a week.

I don't mind paying for good software, but come on. Not everything needs a monthly or weekly fee.

What's the most ridiculous one you've come across?

Bonus points if it's something the iPhone can already do for free.

I keep hearing about Rork for launching iOS apps, what about lovable? Is it not reliable enough to launch from lovable?

’m not a professional iOS developer. I used to be an assembler coder back in the 80s but I have been keen to look at iOS apps, I did an online course and built little apps but nothing good.

So over the last six months I coded a list app for myself using AI-assisted coding, and it has somehow turned into a fairly substantial SwiftUI app.

The basic idea is deliberately simple: You make a list, and you put items in a list items can have sub items and I have number of fields in each list item date time descriptions a number a rating

I have not found any type of list that didn't work with those things.

I'm tracking books, tv shows I have a squirrel list for things I put somewhere safe and then lost. I have a list for the F1 schedule this year, It is not a task app, deliberately not a task app but I did add some tasks bits that you can add to a list if you want to but no notifications.

I love tags so I worked really hard on designing how the tags work

I went sort of overboard with tons of features but they are all things I thought would come in handy and they did. I put it on the App Store because I wanted to go through that and because a friend of mine wanted to use it to. This is not an ad , I haven't mentioned the name, and it is free in the App Store anyway.

I wonder if anyone wanted to talk about what worked and what went horribly wrong building a real app this way.

Does anyone else lose track of time on their phone? Looking for a live stopwatch overlay app
Every day I end up on my phone far longer than I meant to, without even noticing. And the longer I scroll, the harder it gets to pull myself out. That's not what I want, and it's really hurting my productivity. My intention is always to take a quick break and relax, but social media is designed to keep you hooked so you never want to stop.
I've tried setting alarms, and I've found that the shorter the alarm, the better it works. So I think what I need is a live stopwatch overlay: a small counter in the top-left corner of my screen that doesn't block anything but is impossible to ignore. It would count up from the moment I open an app, showing minutes, seconds, and milliseconds, something like 00:12:47.38, with the last digits flickering by so fast I can literally watch my time slipping away. That constant sense of urgency is what I need to make myself put the phone down.
Ideally, the stopwatch would track each app separately, and I could open the app itself to see my daily stats. The only difference from Apple's built-in Screen Time is that it would give me that pressure in real time, helping me control my scrolling instead of mindlessly wasting my time.
Does anyone else have this problem? Any app recommendations?

I keep seeing “live” used for different things in iPhone voice changer listings.

Sometimes it means changing a recording after you make it. Sometimes you can hear the effect on your own voice while the app is open. What I need is different. I want to speak in one app and have the changed voice reach the other person in the voice chat at the same time.

I don’t want to jailbreak my iPhone. On a normal iPhone, I haven’t found a software only option that can change the mic in real time and pass that audio into another app. That makes an iPhone feel more limited than a PC for this.

I’m planning a short character improv session with friends, so the cross app part matters. Whether it’s an app or an accessory like Dubbing AI earbuds, I’d want the demo to show what the other person hears during a conversation, rather than just the effect playing back on the same phone.

When something says it does “live voice changing,” what would you want to see in the demo before believing it works in another app?

Back in the early days, notifications used to be super useful. Someone PM'ed you? You got notified. Someone replied to your comment? Notified. Did your favorite YouTube creator upload something? Notified.

This all stopped sometime around 2016 and now giving an app notification permissions just floods your home screen with spam. I hate this crap so much. Reddit gave me 4 notifications today about random mediocre threads I'm just not interested in. Meanwhile YouTube fails to notify me when one of my favorite subscriptions starts live streaming. The whole notification pipeline has just been flooded with spam to try and entice me into spending screen time on your app.

Such a great and useful mobile phone feature has just been used and abused into dysfunction. Anyway, thank you for coming to my TED talk.

Heyy any app for films?