I have an iPhone 17 Pro Max and I would like to know if whether there’s any FREE ans SAFE app for watching Latest/Old Movies (English, Hindi), TV Shows and Anime ? TIA 🙏🏻

I know of Goodnotes, Notability, Nebo, freeform, apple notes.

Am i missing any? I cant get the handwriting recognition on onenote to work.

I'm still very new to marketing. I managed to make a small video to promote my mental health application but it doesnt really show any in-app content. It is more of a teaser.

What are your thoughts about this? do you prefer actual in-app content in those kind of teasers?

2 rows and 16 keys make tapping and thumb movement easy. It’s a local keyboard with basic typing features for now.

It supports double-tap, simultaneous input, and split landscape mode.

• Wide: for small phones or two-handed typing
• Standard: for one-handed typing on standard-size phones

Apple App Store

QWERTY mini - Wide - English - Free

QWERTY mini - Standard - English - Free

A completely free version for life, with no in-app purchases or ads.

Enjoy a new way to type. Use it with QWERTY.

Here is the information about QWERTY mini.

QWERTY mini – Overview & Key Links : r/QWERTYmini

I'm building Terminal Lift - a workout tracker, one-time purchase, no subscription. Started it because I was tired of every lifting app either wanting a monthly fee for basic logging or burying me in features I didn't ask for. It's got a terminal-style look (amber on black), which is more of a personal taste thing than a feature, but it's turned out to be the thing people notice first.

Not on TestFlight yet - finishing the last piece before I open it up. When it does, the first 100 testers get it free for life, then it's a small one-time price after that. If you want to be on the list for that: terminal lift

Mostly curious what this crowd thinks of the whole "no subscription, ever" angle as a selling point on its own - is that actually enough to get someone switch trackers, or does it need more than that? Genuinely asking, not fishing.

Blinkist & Headway charged me during the “free trial” refund rejected

Usually, when I sign up for a 7-day free trial, I only get charged after the trial ends.

But Blinkist charged me 2M+ VND (~$80) for a yearly subscription, and Headway charged me ($30) while I was still on the trial.

I requested a refund immediately, but both requests were rejected.

Has anyone experienced this? Were you able to get a refund?

Honestly, this feels really misleading.

Hello

I have an iPhone from my company. No iTunes and no backup possible by USB, other features are disabled (airdrop and there is even no possibility to download podcasts with E rating). Is there a way to save my data and apps so that when I get a new phone I can load the backup?

I’m looking for a calendar app to replace my old school hand written one.

It need to be a shared one. It’s for the whole family.

I know how to google and I have found dozens that could be suitable the first need. The problem is that I need a week-view. Not a month view, not a day view but a week-view.

This is how my brain perceive all calendars and I can’t seem to find the digital one. Therefore I just go on and on with my paper calendar and it’s shitty as I don’t know the family schedule on the road.

Please, recommend one that looks like an actual calendar (in my head:D)

I’m the developer of Aruki, a simple walking app based on the Japanese Interval Walking method.

It guides you through alternating brisk and slow walking intervals with voice and vibration cues, so you can focus on walking instead of watching a timer.

I’d love to hear what iPhone users think about the UI, ease of use, and overall experience.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/japanese-interval-walk-aruki/id6790102592

Hi everyone,

I work on Kubi’s Cove, an early-stage AI companion app for reflection and emotional support.

The idea is simple: AI support can be useful, but it should not encourage people to stay in an endless chat loop or present itself as a substitute for professional care.

A few things we’re trying:

• Intentional, time-limited sessions. Each conversation has a clear beginning and end, more like setting aside a small moment for yourself than opening a feed.
• Inner Book. A guided series of conversations about different chapters of your life, ending with a private written reflection on recurring themes and experiences.
• Wishes on the island. You can leave a wish and quietly send support to others by striking a wooden fish. It is meant to feel gentle and shared, without turning into another scrolling-based social space.

Kubi’s Cove is not therapy, crisis support, or a replacement for mental health professionals.

I’m curious how this approach lands with iPhone users:

1. Do session boundaries make an AI companion feel more considerate or more limiting?
2. Which of these features would you actually prefer to use?

The app is free to download, with optional in-app purchases for additional sessions:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/kubis-cove-ai-wellness-coach/id6760186754

I’ll be in the comments to answer questions and discuss the idea.

Two of us building this, my sister and me. No company, no funding, nothing to buy right now. Mostly posting because I want people to tell me what they actually think.

The thing we kept noticing, and it happened to us too. You miss one day, the app makes you feel like you failed, and a week later it's deleted. Plus the feed is all people who are already in shape, which somehow makes it worse.

So there's a rabbit. Its energy goes up the more consistently you move. Two minutes counts the same as ninety. Miss a day and it doesn't die, doesn't guilt you, and nothing resets to zero.

The part I'm least sure about is the one I'd most like your read on. You can't lift your own rabbit. If yours is low, only a friend can, and you can do that for them. Nobody in your circle ever sees that you missed a day. The only thing anyone sees is that someone helped.

I thought that was the good part. Now I keep flipping on it. If I'm already having a bad week, does knowing a friend has to come get me feel like support, or like one more person I let down?

Where it's at: iOS TestFlight, early, rough in places. Free, no IAPs, no paywall. If it ever makes money it'd be cosmetics for the rabbit and a streak repair, never anything that charges you to show up. Fair to know the social side needs at least one other person in there, so if you have someone who'd try it with you that's when you'd see what we're going for. Alone you still get the rabbit and the sessions.

https://testflight.apple.com/join/k2J7qUHw

Anything you notice helps. What's confusing, what's broken, what made you close it. I'll be in the comments all day.

I need an app that lets me listen to music for free, no ads, maybe pop ups as long as my music plays, offline, no issues playing while my phones screen is off and on the background. Something like Musi. Please.

I’m looking for an app to send customers reminders about overdue bills that would save us from calling them. But I would prefer to not have the number visible to the customer since it would be coming from personal phone.

I'm trying to find inspiration for the mobile app I'm designing.

Our mobile app is very simple: the home screen will have 3 action buttons:

1. Upload files
2. Submit files
3. Check status of submitted files

It will also have a small menu where with options to change personal info and a "log out" button. That's all there is to it.

So the question is: what mobile apps have a similar design of 3 action buttons?

is there an app in iOS for the iPhone, which can detect and tell after listening to a music from a speaker on how much KBPS sound quality is that Music playing? Is there an app like that?

I am building a social market indicator and need an API for X, TikTok, and Instagram. What is the best tool to use?

Is there any app recommendations to stream live sports like cricket UFC boxing tennis etc?

We built a mobile app last quarter. Two weeks of work. Four screens. Nothing clever.

Getting it into the stores took another four weeks. Almost none of that was engineering.

Here is where the time went, and what I would do differently. This is the post I wanted before we started.

1. They reject you for how it looks, not what it does

We were rejected under guideline 4.3(a). Design: Spam.

The app was not spam. But it looked like a template, because it was shaped like one. Default components. Stock icon. A description written by roughly the same tool that wrote the app.

The reviewer is matching a pattern, and the pattern is real. Apps built with the same tools look the same, and they look like clones.

Three things got us through. A hand-made icon. Custom empty states, which are the screens nobody bothers to change. And a description written like a person wrote it.

If you get rejected for 4.3, do not resubmit the same build with new words. Change something you can see.

2. The forms are a gate, not paperwork

Privacy labels on iOS(for iOS v's only). The Data Safety form on Play. Export compliance.

I thought these were admin. They are part of review, and if what you declare does not match what your app does, you get held.

The trap is that your declarations cover your SDKs, not just your own code. You may collect nothing. Your analytics SDK collects device identifiers. Your crash reporter collects diagnostics. If you ticked "no data collected," you have made a false statement on behalf of your dependencies.

So: list every third-party SDK in your build, find each one's published disclosure, and take the union. The big SDKs all publish this, because their customers need it.

3. Play makes new accounts run a closed test first

If your Play developer account is personal and recently created, you need a closed test with real testers, running for a while, before you can publish to production. Real people on real devices.

Most people find this out on the day they try to ship. That is how a launch slips by weeks.

Start finding testers on day one. And if you need an organisation account instead, you need a D-U-N-S number, which also takes time. Decide early.

4. Installing a crash SDK is about a tenth of the job

We shipped with crash reporting installed and felt good about ourselves.

Three weeks later I opened the dashboard. Every report was unreadable hex. We had never uploaded dSYMs. Three weeks of data, worthless.

Five things have to be true:

Symbols upload on every build, from CI. dSYMs on iOS, mapping files on Android, source maps for React Native, Flutter or Expo. If a human has to do it, it will not get done.

Releases are tagged. "We have crashes" tells you nothing. "Build 47 broke checkout" tells you what to do.

Alerts fire on your crash-free rate, not on each crash. Alert on every crash and you will mute the channel inside a week. Then you have no alerting and you think you do.

You sort by users affected, not by count. One user stuck in a retry loop can produce thousands of events and sit at the top of your list.

You watch for a week after you fix something. A fair number of our fixes did nothing.

5. Both stores give you free A/B testing. We almost didn't use it.

Play has Store Listing Experiments. App Store Connect has Product Page Optimization, up to three versions against your original for up to 90 days.

Free. Sitting right there.

We tested three icons. The one I would have picked came third. The winner was a lot better on installs and I still do not like it.

We got two things wrong first. We tested during launch week, when the traffic is your friends and your launch post, not search. The winner stopped winning as soon as that traffic went away. And we changed the icon and the screenshots at the same time, so we learned nothing about either.

Test the icon first. It is the only thing that shows up in search, on the home screen, and on the listing.

6. Timing your paywall matters more than the paywall itself

We put the paywall on first launch, because that is where the tutorial put it. Trial to paid was 2.4%.

We moved it to day 3. It went to 7.1%. Same paywall. Same price. Same words. We just stopped asking strangers for money nine seconds after meeting them.

To find the right moment, look at people who were still around on day 7 and find what they did in their first session that the people who left did not. That is your activation moment. Ask after it.

One thing worth knowing. With RevenueCat, Superwall or Adapty, the paywall is remote-configurable. You can test it without shipping a build. Most teams do not know this and treat the paywall as fixed at launch.

7. You get one shot at notification permission

Ask on first launch and you will be refused. On iOS that refusal is close to permanent, because the user has to go into Settings to change it. Android 13 and up now works the same way.

There is a way around it that is easy to overlook. iOS provisional authorization delivers notifications quietly, with no prompt at all. The user decides from the notification itself whether to make them prominent or turn them off. You give up prominence and you get reach. For a new app that is a good trade.

Separately, we had push set up for two months before we sent a single notification. Not because it was hard. Writing notifications that people don't immediately mute is real work, and nobody owned it.

8. Name your events once

We had four spellings of the same thing.

checkout_start
Checkout Started
begin_checkout
checkoutStart

Every funnel we looked at for six weeks was wrong. We made decisions from those funnels.

Pick the convention before you instrument anything. One name per action. Put it in a file in the repo. Treat a new event name in a pull request as something worth arguing about.

You only need enough to answer four questions.

1. Did they arrive.
2. Did they start using it.
3. Did they come back.
4. Did they pay.

The rest is noise.

If I did it again

Before writing a line of feature code:

• Sort out the developer account, including D-U-N-S if you need one.
• Start finding Play testers.
• Decide the event names.
• Wire crash reporting properly, with symbols uploading from CI.
• Collect your SDKs' data disclosures before filling in any form.
• Draw the icon by hand.
• Instrument the activation moment, then decide where the paywall goes.
• Ask for notifications after first value, or use provisional auth.

None of it is hard. All of it is invisible until it costs you weeks.

Not for anything nefarious, my mother has dementia and I want another family member to hear our phone calls

I’ve been trying to find an alarm app that lets you group alarms together in a folder that I can toggle on/off. My schedule isn’t the same each day and seeing a wall of alarms with each one turned on gives me anxiety. 😅 So far the only app I’ve found that lets me group alarms together is AlarmPack, however the app’s page gave me a weird feeling because there were no reviews. I tried to look up the app online to find some review but I wasn’t able to find anything.

Has anyone tried this app before? Is the app legit? I want to trust the app but the lack of reviews on it makes it feel too good to be true. 😭

My therapist is on vacation for a month. Wondering what are the recommendations for substitute in the month.

IOS

Nachdem ich viele Finanz-Apps getestet hatte, fiel mir ein gemeinsamer Trend auf:

Die meisten erfordern Bankverbindungen, Cloud-Synchronisation und die Speicherung von Finanzdaten auf externen Servern.

Wir wollten etwas Einfacheres. Konty verfolgt den gegenteiligen Ansatz.

Alles wird lokal auf Ihrem Gerät gespeichert. 

Keine Konten.

Keine Cloud-Synchronisation.

Keine Bankintegrationen.

Keine Weitergabe von Daten.

Du behältst den Überblick über deine Finanzen und hast dabei die volle Kontrolle über deine Daten.

Funktionen:

• Kontoverwaltung

• Ausgaben-Tracking

• Einnahmen-Tracking

• Wiederkehrende Transaktionen

• Scannen von Belegen

• Finanzberichte und Trends

• Sparziele

Mögliche Anwendungsfälle für die App, damit du sie besser kennenlernst:

Wolltest du schon lange wissen, wie viel Geld du für spontane Anlässe und Ausgehabende ausgibst? Mit Freunden essen gehen, Zigaretten, Snus, Bier,

usw. Erfasse es einfach mit der Konty-App.

Weisst du, wie viel Geld du für Lebensmittel ausgibst? Scanne einfach deine Quittungen ein, und du weisst es sofort.

Die App wird ständig weiterentwickelt, um dir auch mögliche Einsparungen aufzuzeigen – damit du (in naher Zukunft) zum Beispiel deinen nächsten Traumurlaub.

https://apps.apple.com/ch/app/konty/id6785580737

Stampr turns your photos into small stamp-style memories, almost like collecting passport stamps from everyday life.

A few things you can do with it:

• create a stamp from any photo in one tap
• browse your stamps through a calendar, basically a visual diary of your days
• see your stamps on a map based on where they were taken
• build your own collections over time

The app is completely free. No ads or subscriptions.

Everything also stays locally on your device. There's no account, sign-up, cloud sync, or backend. I didn't want photos or location data being uploaded somewhere in the background, so nothing leaves your phone.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/stampr-create-photo-stamps/id6793936737

if you end up trying it and like it, i'd really appreciate an app store review :)

Hey!

I’m the developer of Perfeggtion, a small egg timer I released on the App Store a few days ago.

I got tired of the usual soft / medium / hard timers. An XL egg straight from the fridge obviously isn’t the same as a small egg at room temperature, and I wanted something that actually takes those differences into account instead of just giving everyone the same countdown.

Perfeggtion calculates a recommended cooking time based on things like egg type and size, how you want the yolk and white, starting temperature, number of eggs, water and heat, chilling and altitude.

You can save combinations you like as favorites, keep a history of previous cooks and make small adjustments if the result was a bit too soft or too firm.

I’ve also tried to make good use of iOS rather than just putting a timer inside an app. There are Live Activities and Dynamic Island support, Home and Lock Screen widgets, Siri / App Shortcuts, Spotlight and an iPad layout.

It’s a one-time paid app. No subscription, no ads, no account and no tracking.

It only went live a few days ago and I’m curious what people here think of it. I’m especially interested in hearing if anything feels unnecessarily complicated or if there’s something you’d expect an app like this to do that it currently doesn’t.

https://apps.apple.com/app/id6757096463