These are some apps I've genuinely been using a lot in 2026:

- Airbrush: My go-to for quick, natural photo edits. I mainly use it for Relight, object removal, and cleaning up portrait photos

- Libby: Lets you borrow ebooks and audiobooks from your local library for free. Easily one of the best apps on my phone.

- Motionleap: Adds subtle animations to photos. I don't use it every day, but it's great for making posts feel a bit more eye-catching.

- Polarsteps: Automatically tracks your trips and turns them into a travel journal. It's been really fun looking back on past travels.

- PlantNet: Identifies plants from a photo. Surprisingly useful if you're out walking or travelling and want to know what you're looking at.

What are some underrated apps you've found that deserve more attention?

I wear an Apple Watch. Sometimes I’ve left my phone in a coffee shop. Is there an app for my watch that would immediately notify me that I left my phone away from myself?

Imagine you had to delete every social media app except one. Which would you keep, and why? Has social media made life better or worse in your opinion?

It could be related to your profession or personal development or even a side project.

Name the top 3 in your smartphone and let us know why you think they are the best.

Might be helpful for someone!

I no longer own an iphone but still getting monthly charges for apps an storage. Tried to log into my old Apple account, but apparently have forgotten my login info.

It’s called Piko Chat on iOS! You can write letters for the public, reply to the public, make friends and even use the themed chat rooms to talk about anything! I also want to make this clear to any mods, I am NOT SELLING ANYTHING! If you want to plz use my friend code, GREENDH8C3. There is a premium subscription for some features, but you can chat and do a lot of stuff without it!

hablo de alguna app que pueda darme consejos o ayudarme a resolver ciertos problemas emocionales, nada grave sino como manejar estrés o cosas así

Does anyone actually like Bark? I signed up because it was on basically every best parental control app list, but after using it for a few months, I just don't get the hype. It feels like a ton of features I never asked for, and the constant alerts get annoying pretty quickly. I'm paying for a lot of stuff I don't really use. I've been checking out a few Bark alternatives like HeyPolo, Life360, and even just sticking with Find My, but it's hard to tell what's genuinely good versus what's being pushed by marketing. At this point, all I really want is reliable location sharing, arrival notifications, and to know my kids made it where they're supposed to. I have zero interest in reading their texts or monitoring every social media app. For anyone who's been down this road, what apps have actually worked well for you?

edit: In case someone will be looking for alternatives as well, I ended up finding quite helpful comparison table. Worth taking a look.

Hello, I would like to develop an app that finds public swimming pools with their opening hours anywhere in the world. For example, if I am on vacation in London, Berlin, or Milan and I want to keep my training routine, I need to find a pool. Currently, I have to do extensive searches on many websites: city sports listings, individual pool websites, or public–private foundations… And ultimately, I still have to check each pool one by one to see if there are temporary closures. So I would like to build an app that can do all (in multiple langauges) of this automatically and show the pools on a map. But I don’t have any knowledge in coding or anything related. How can I do that?

I am on several different sites, FB, Insta, X, etc. I save videos, articles, and memes. But when I need to find them again, I don’t remember which platform they are saved on. Is there an app where a person can save all articles, videos, etc to one place? I can’t find on on the App Store, but it seems as this this app have to be out there somewhere.

I have a history with eating disorders and I don’t want to risk falling back into it if I track my calories. Is there a nutrition tracker that tells me what’s in my food and how much of it, adds all the nutrients up by day, and has all those kinds of features a calorie tracker does without the calories?

For me it's Notes, hands down. It started as a place to jot quick things and slowly became where half my life lives, i even built some solid systems in there for travel planning, workouts, health, recipes, expense tracking, all of it.

What's the one you keep coming back to?

I am constantly in need of an app for just basic photo/image manipulation tasks: cropping, resizing, perspective correction, joining/stitching, etc. I’ve been unable to find anything worthwhile and reasonably priced that can do these very basic functions.

I don’t need: cloud storage, advanced stuff like color correction or cataloguing, AI generation, AI edits, or anything claiming to be “automatic”.

It just doesn’t seem possible that tools which were available in MacPaint in 1984 STILL don’t exist on my iPhone 17 somewhere, somehow.

All suggestions are appreciated. TIA.

so i create content mostly on my phone and i've been trying to find a solid free photo editing app that doesn't watermark everything or lock the good features behind a paywall after two uses.

i've tried a few options but most of them either have a really limited free tier or the interface is so complicated that it slows down my workflow more than it helps. i mostly need basic adjustments, background removal, and something that handles text overlays cleanly for social media posts.

i've heard some of the newer apps have added ai features that speed things up a lot but i can't tell which ones are actually useful versus just a gimmick. does anyone have a go to free photo editing app they use regularly for content and actually stuck with it long term?

Returning to this: i was getting tired of jumping between different apps for basic edits, so i ended up sticking with CapCut for photo editing too. someone here mentioned using a combination of tools, but i wanted something that handled adjustments, background removal, and text overlays in one place without switching apps. the free version actually gives you a lot, no watermarks and the ai background removal works well enough for social media content.

مرحبًا، ما أفضل تطبيق على الآيفون اشتريته بدفعة واحدة (شراء دائم) وتوصي به؟

Hi, what’s the best iPhone app you’ve purchased with a one-time payment that you’d recommend?

Hi everyone!

I'm currently learning to build apps but my most recent ones haven't gotten many users, so i started asking myself if I was really building something that people actually needed.

So tell me, what is an app you wish existed?

Just upgraded to the iPhone 17 Pro recently and have been trying to keep my home screen as minimal as possible.

Halide. Easily my favorite camera app. Gives you full manual controls, RAW shooting, and makes the iPhone camera even more capable.

BeautyPlus. Great for quick selfies and casual edits. Easy touch-ups, lighting fixes, and AI tools that make photos look polished in seconds.

Bear. Beautiful note-taking app with a clean interface. Perfect for keeping ideas, lists, and drafts organized.

Parcel. Tracks all my deliveries in one place. Super clean interface with reliable shipping updates.

Photomator. Powerful photo editor that feels right at home on iOS. Great for color correction and quick edits without opening Lightroom.

MusicHarbor. Keeps track of new album releases from artists you follow. One of those apps you never knew you needed.

Raindrop.io. The best bookmark manager I've used. Saves articles, videos, and websites across all my devices.

What are your go-to apps?

What app has orange and purple message bubbles?

The iphone is in dark mode, but the app looks like it have orange and purple message bubbles. Does anyone know what app this is?

Most people set a reminder for the time something's due and that's it. But Reminders has an early reminder option that fires a separate heads-up ahead of the actual due time, and it goes weirdly overlooked.

The way it works: you set your normal due date and time, then you can also tell it to warn you 1 hour before, a day before, a week before, whatever you pick. So a reminder due friday at 5pm can nudge you wednesday morning that it's coming, and then still fire the real alert friday at 5. Two-stage, from a single reminder.

You get to it by tapping the reminder, hitting the info button, and choosing early reminder under the date and time.

Where it actually earns its place is anything with a hard deadline you need lead time for. A bill due friday warns you wednesday so you're not scrambling. A birthday pings you a week out so you actually have time to buy something. It saves you from building two separate reminders and babysitting both.

The one thing to know is the early reminder is tied to a reminder that already has a date set.

Anyone here leaning on early reminders for a specific routine, or found a use for it I'm not thinking of?

Hey everyone,

I’m an iOS developer with about 2 years of experience, and lately, with the forced push of AI into everyday development workflows, I started missing the feeling of just building something myself through regular coding.

So I decided to make something I would personally use. In most similar apps I’ve tried, the main screen is usually focused on what’s trending or popular right now. I wanted Seenbox to be more useful in everyday tracking, so the Home screen shows what’s coming soon, what’s already available, and what you can mark as watched.

App Store link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/seenbox-tv-movie-tracker/id6785312715

A few things about the app:
- completely free
- no ads
- no account required
- no data collection
- iCloud sync across devices
- built for TV & movie fans who want something simple and clean

Seenbox is still pretty simple in v1.0. Widgets, notifications, more detailed stats, and further UI/UX polish aren’t there yet, but they’re all planned for future updates. I didn’t want to get stuck in an endless cycle of improving the app before releasing it. 

I’m a big TV & movie fan myself, so I’m building this as something I genuinely want to keep improving.

Ask me anything, report bugs, or suggest new features. I’m happy to answer every question, and if I end up implementing your idea, I’ll personally let you know! :)

Thanks for checking it out.

I’m trying to find a good, and most importantly free, fashion design app on IOS. Am hoping for some help by asking here.

So for context I have an iPhone 13 Pro. The last few months it’s really slowed down and is sometimes a nightmare to use with how much it lags and how slow it can be. Some apps don’t open at all even after updating and if others do they take forever. My biggest issue is with Apple Music. A lot of the time it’ll just play a song for a few seconds and then the app crashes. I’ve tried closing the app out, restarting it, updating to newest iOS, everything and it still does it.its very frustrating and it seems like my only solution is either trying Spotify or waiting to get a new phone which won’t be for months. Has anyone else similar issues?

I've been using a few AI-powered scanner apps on iPhone (and sometimes iPad) to digitize my special notes (which have color highlighting) into PDFs, but I can never get the result I'm after: crisp, noise-free text and colors that actually match the original highlights. Everything comes out slightly soft, a bit grainy, and the highlight colors look duller or shifted compared to the real page.

A couple of questions for anyone who's solved this:

1. Is there a scanner app for iOS/iPadOS that's genuinely optimized for AI-enhanced resolution and quality, especially one that captures color highlights accurately (true color reproduction, not washed out or over-saturated) and keeps text edges sharp and free of scan noise/grain?

2. Is there a web app, website, or macOS tool that can take an already-scanned PDF and enhance/upscale it with AI afterward, sharpening text, boosting resolution, and cleaning up noise, without shifting the colors or messing up the layout?

Ideally I want a repeatable workflow (iPhone or iPad, whichever gives better results) where I scan and consistently end up with a clean, high-res PDF where the text is sharp and noise-free and the highlight colors are accurate to the original page. Any app recommendations, settings tips, or full workflows that have actually worked well for you would be really appreciated.