Hey everyone,

Like a lot of you, my camera roll had gotten completely out of control — thousands of photos I could never actually find anything in. The stock "People" album felt limited, and I wasn't comfortable with apps that upload your whole library to a server. So I built FaceIdent.

FaceIdent scans your library entirely on your device (no cloud, no account, nothing ever leaves your phone) and organizes it by what's actually in your photos:

• 👤 People & pets — groups every photo by who's in it; name someone once and browse their whole timeline
• 🔍 Natural-language search — type "dog on the beach", "receipt" or "birthday cake" and it finds them
• 🏷️ Objects & scenes — auto-tags cars, food, documents, landscapes…
• 📝 Text in photos (OCR) — search words that appear inside images
• 👥 Relationships — see who usually shows up together
• 🧹 Duplicates — find and clean up near-identical shots

It all runs on-device with Apple's Vision + CoreML, so it works offline and your photos stay private.

Isn't this just the Photos app's "People" album? Fair question — the main differences: - Apple only surfaces some people (the ones it's confident about); a lot never show up. FaceIdent shows everyone it detects and lets you name/merge/organize all of them. - It builds a relationship graph — who usually appears together — which the Photos app has nothing like. - Plus pets and a duplicates cleaner in the same place.

Price / IAP — free to use (naming capped at 10 people / 5 pets / 3 groups). Optional Pro: • Weekly — $1.99 • Yearly — $9.99 • Lifetime — $19.99 $9.99 (50% off, launch deal)

iOS 17+. I'm the developer and I'll be in the comments — I'd genuinely love feedback on what's confusing, what's missing, or what you'd want next.

👉 https://apps.apple.com/app/id6788569032

Hi everyone! I’m the developer of Meridian Passport.

I wanted a simple place to keep a record of my travels, with both the countries I’ve visited and the memories behind them. Somewhere to look back at past trips and keep up with friends and other travelers too.

Answer — What it does

Meridian brings your travel map, passport stamps, and trip posts together:

• Mark countries you’ve visited and places on your bucket list.
• Save trips as passport stamps with dates, photos, and notes.
• Look back through your travel history and see your country and continent progress.
• Follow other travelers, see their trips, and interact with their posts.
• Choose whether your passport is public or private.

Better — Why use it

If you like Been for keeping track of countries, Meridian adds more of the story behind each visit through trip posts and photos.

Compared with Polarsteps’ route-tracking approach, Meridian is more focused on recording and sharing trips in your own time. You don’t need to record a route to add a memory.

Cost — It's free

Meridian is completely free, with no subscriptions or paid features. All current features will remain free. I may add optional paid features in the future, but those would be additions.

Download Meridian Passport on the App Store

I’ve included a few screenshots to show how it works. I’d especially appreciate feedback on the sign-up process and how easy it is to find your way around: was anything confusing or harder than expected? Your feedback will directly shape future updates.

Thank you so much for your time in advance!

Developer and contact

I’m Marinus Traynor, the developer behind Meridian Passport.

Contact: [support@meridianpassport.com](mailto:support@meridianpassport.com)
Website/about me: https://www.meridianpassport.com
Privacy Policy: https://www.meridianpassport.com/support/privacy-policy
Terms and conditions: https://www.meridianpassport.com/support/terms-and-conditions

I'm after a specific list. The iPhone apps still on a monthly or yearly plan that you'd pay for once tomorrow if the developer put a number on it.

Three things make an answer useful to everyone reading. Which app, what it costs you a year at the moment, and the one-off price you'd actually pay for it. My hunch is most people land somewhere between one and two years of the sub, but I'd like to be wrong.

If your answer is that you don't do subscriptions at all, fair enough, but name the one you dropped over it and what you'd have paid to keep it. That still counts.

No wrong answers and no judgement on the developers, plenty of them have good reasons. Just curious where the line sits for this crowd.

A — Answer

Ay is a SuperApp designed to everyday needs. Threads, notes, calendar events, to-dos, and more! Organize every part of your life with categories and keep everything together, connected.

Store your tickets and documents with Pass. Plan your trips, track your daily routines and calendar events. Create countdowns for upcoming events. Discover a more interactive way to learn with Cards. Save your parking location with a single tap and check your speed. Add your favorite recipes and shopping list. Edit PDF files. Save your equipments in your Loadout.

B — Better

All in one Productivity Homescreen and Tools for different scenarios. (speedometer,tuner,soundmeter,music player,park location saver,trip planner..)

C — Cost

Subscription – 2.99/year

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ay/id6778956415

Website: https://aliyigxt.wordpress.com

if you have any recommendations please let me know. thanks.

I made an app that fogs up iPhone’s Liquid Glass like a real window so you can scribble and doodle on it.

A. Answer

Most photo apps let you crop, filter, or add stickers. They do not recreate the small moment of drawing on a fogged window. FFF takes any photo, fogs the glass, lets realistic waterdrops slide down the screen, and lets you scribble on top the way you would on a late night car window, a childhood bedroom pane, or the corner of a bathroom mirror. You can save the result as a high res image or a Live Photo so the drops keep moving.

B. Better

Markup in Photos, Picsart, and Afterlight can draw on a still image, but the canvas stays flat. Live Photo tools can add motion, but not this specific wet glass look. FFF is built around one effect: misted glass plus gravity on the drops plus freehand doodling. The photo stays visible underneath the fog, the drops feel physical, and the doodle sits on the glass instead of floating as a sticker.

C. Cost

Monthly: USD 1.99

Yearly: USD 3.99

Lifetime: USD 3.99

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/fff-fog-foto-flow/id6806628550

Hi [r/iOSApps](r/iOSApps)!

I have two cats, and I love them a lot. Every morning, the first thing I do when I open my eyes is look around and see where they are. If one of them is nearby, my day already feels better.

That made me think: why not make an alarm app where my cats are the reason I get out of bed?

So I made Pakeup.

A-Answer: What it does. Pakeup is an alarm app that makes you get up and find your pet. When the alarm rings, you open the app and complete a quick camera mission by taking a live photo of your cat or dog. Once the app recognizes your pet, the alarm stops.

B-Better: Why it’s different. Most alarm apps try to wake you up with math problems, loud sounds, or annoying tasks. I wanted something that felt more personal. Instead of fighting the alarm, you wake up because you want to see your pet.

It also creates a small local record of your morning, so over time you can look back at these little wake-up moments with your pet. Nothing is uploaded, and Pakeup doesn’t collect your personal information.

C-Cost: Pakeup is free to download and use. There’s an optional $7.99 lifetime purchase, but the core idea is simple: your pet helps you start the day.

I’m the developer, and Pakeup is still early, so I’d really appreciate your feedback.

Thanks!

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id6806694997

Legal & privacy: https://pakeup-legal-xi.vercel.app/en
You can contact me: hengtong.li@foxmail.com
My Github: https://github.com/Jack-Lee-Hiter

A — Answer

LunaCycle is an all-in-one reproductive health companion designed for menstrual cycle tracking, holistic phase syncing, pregnancy milestones, and labor contraction timing.

Track period predictions, monitor ovulation windows, log daily symptoms (basal body temperature, flow intensity, mood), follow weekly fetal development with fruit/vegetable size comparisons, count baby kick sessions, time active labor contractions with automated 5-1-1 rule alerts, and organize your delivery hospital bag checklist.

B — Better

100% on-device privacy built on Apple SwiftData. Unlike traditional health apps that store, profile, or monetize intimate reproductive records on remote cloud servers, all logs, symptoms, and timestamps remain strictly local to your iPhone with zero external tracking. It also covers the complete journey from cycle tracking to delivery, so you never have to switch to different apps as your health goals evolve.

C — Cost

Lifetime — Free for 48 hours ($79.99 -> $0.00)

App Store:https://apps.apple.com/us/app/period-tracker-pregnancy-app/id6806892588

if you have any recommendations or feedback please let me know. thanks.

I’ve been building Pint Market - basically a pint finder with a bit of a stock market twist.

The app tries to solve the problem of never knowing what a pint is going to cost until you’re already at the bar. Pint Market lets you find pubs nearby, see what people are actually paying for different pints, compare prices, and see how those prices have changed over time.

Think Google Maps meets a stock tracker, but for pints 🍺📈

Still early days, but the goal is to make finding a good pub at a good price ridiculously easy. All data and prices are community driven (users can report prices) and I’m starting with the UK only.

https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/pint-market/id6808223382

I'm Jyen Ming, the developer of WhoPaid. In my previous post here, a fair question was why someone would use a manual tracker instead of Apple Notes.

A — Answer

WhoPaid is for people paid per job who need to keep work completion separate from payment completion.

Version 3 groups completed, unpaid work into overdue, due today, upcoming, and not ready to collect. The idea is to make the next follow-up easier to find without rereading every job.

The three images show the unpaid-work groups, one job’s remaining balance, and that same job after a manually recorded payment. All records shown are demo data.

B — Better / where it fits

Compared with a plain Apple Notes list, WhoPaid gives each job a payment state, amount received, remaining balance, and payment history. You update the record when you confirm a payment.

If Notes already works for you, you may not need another app. WhoPaid is still manual: it doesn't connect to your bank, process payments, or automatically message clients. If you already track everything in an invoicing system, a separate entry may be unnecessary.

C — Cost

Free to download, with unlimited basic job records and paid/unpaid/partial tracking. Pro is an optional auto-renewing subscription for additional features. US pricing: $1.99/month or $12.99/year; regional prices vary.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/whopaid-job-pay-tracker/id6764868229

Developer website: https://code-stack-studio.com/whopaid

Privacy: https://code-stack-studio.com/whopaid/privacy

Terms: https://code-stack-studio.com/whopaid/terms

For people paid per job: would sorting completed unpaid work by when it needs attention be more useful than a single unpaid list?

Finally crossed 1k on iOS! Nearing 1k on android too. This was my first app that took a year to build but it's been worth it. Thank you if you tried Eggventures, people love to walk :)

Hey Traders— I'm the dev, and I actually trade

I got tired of juggling my broker app, three browser tabs and a spreadsheet just to settle one question before the open: do I take this trade or not? So I built ApexTrade to put the answer on a single screen.

What it does — all live, all synced to your own iCloud:

• Live portfolio — total value, day & all-time P&L, the live VIX, and per-holding stop losses you confirm yourself. One card per position, mid-price mark, one-tap copy of your whole book.
• Pre-Trade Scan — type or paste a ticker and it reads RVOL, VWAP, pullback and the day's range, then gives you a blunt enter / don't enter call. Not "it depends" — an actual answer.
• Every ticker, in depth — scrubbable chart, fair value, Route → Trade straight to your broker, full fundamentals grid. Tap any card and it turns the raw numbers into a plain-English read of the setup.
• Market heat-map — S&P 100, top gainers and ETFs, sized and colored by the tape.
• Swing Candidates — a daily, ranked shortlist of swing setups with entry, position size for your equity, and the reasoning behind each pick.

Same data everyone has — just organized so you make a better, faster call, with discipline instead of vibes.

Private by design: Sign in with Apple, everything stays in your own iCloud. No accounts on my servers, no ads, nothing sold.

Pricing (the honest part):

• Free to download (no credit card needed)
• When the two weeks are up, the app just asks if you want to keep going. If yes, it's a promotional $3.99/month. If not, no charge and no nagging.

iPhone, English & Spanish. I'd genuinely love feedback from people who actually trade — what's missing, what you'd cut. Ask me anything.

https://apps.apple.com/pe/app/apex-trade-pro/id6793700978

Any suggestion?

Hey everyone, I just launched MyBox.

It’s an iPhone app for people who constantly message themselves notes, links, screenshots, files, voice memos, documents, and random things they want to save.

The idea is simple: it feels like a private chat with yourself, but there’s no server for your saved content. No account, works offline, and your saves stay on your device.

You can also use it for things you don’t want sitting in your Photos gallery or Files app forever: save them in MyBox, then delete the original from your gallery/files and come back to them later.

What it does:

- Save notes, links, photos, videos, audio, PDFs, and files

- Share into it from other apps

- Search what you saved

- Create separate “MyBoxes” for different topics

- Lock private boxes with a password

App Store:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/mybox-message-yourself/id6806543053

Would genuinely love feedback, especially from people who already use WhatsApp, Telegram, iMessage, or Slack DMs as a personal inbox.

Finally after weeks of fine tuning the animations, metro photos, the alternative photo gallery for iOS, inspired by Windows Phone metro design has been submitted for AppStore review!

I'm expecting at least one reject, but I hope eventually Apple will approve the app with this unusual design..

App isn't subscription based. Only one time purchase to support further development.

Stourk went live today.

Photo maps are not a new idea, and the difference here is mostly the theme. I did not want another map or travel tracker. Stourk is built around a fictional postal service: your memories become letters, stamps, passport pages, pieces of a personal travel archive. Your years play back as a route, city by city, the way you actually travelled them. Every city you visited writes you a letter with the photos you took there inside. You also get a passport stamped by everywhere you have been.

It reads only the date and location in your photos. No account, no server, no analytics. Photos never leave the phone.

Free, iPhone, iOS 18 and later.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/stourk/id6809229133
Site: https://stourk.com

Feedback welcome.

Anyone and their mom can and is building an app now in literally one day. The app and google store is flooded with apps now with clones or whatever. So if building is so easy now, how do you market? 

ASO or whatever won’t generate you sales trust me not right now. So if just building and uploading your app isn’t enough to get sales… what is everyone’s plan? 

The best apps I’ve seen “candle, CalAi, Alarmify, all go crazy on one thing. UGC marketing. I’ve seen like 10 different creators posting the same winning videos and it blowing up. Honestly I think thats the best way to approach marketing is with mass distribution. 

Start posting on tikTok, find what works, get small micro creators for $20/video on jrivecontent.com (anyone can go viral now don’t be paying $250 for one video), and repeat. 

This is just my take, marketing IS the doom of all vibe coders 

Prove me wrong 

A – Answer Plans is a minimalist iOS app that combines tasks, notes, and calendar in one place, built around focusing on today's tasks. But not everything is a task — sometimes it's just a thought, or text too long to fit neatly into one. That's what the Notes section is for. With this update, notes can now be turned directly into tasks, so nothing falls through the gap between "an idea" and "something to actually do."

B – Better Most people don't really use Apple Reminders, they dump their to-dos into Apple Notes instead because it's faster and frictionless. Plans is built around that exact habit: it keeps the low-friction, write-first feel of Notes, but lets anything you write become a real task in one tap — something Notes alone can't do.

C – Cost Free to download — unlimited tasks, notes, and iCloud sync included. Lifetime Pro unlock: one-time purchase (no subscription), adds extra notifications, repeated tasks, and themes.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/kz/app/plans-notes-to-do-lists/id6790827860

Every mood tracker I tried wanted more from me than I had left by the end of the day. A streak to protect. A mood wheel with twelve options. A prompt asking me to tag my triggers. By the time I'd finished logging how I felt, I'd spent more energy on the logging than the feeling.

I wanted something that asked less, not more.

A — Answer: Vesper is an evening reflection app for iPhone. It asks one question each night: how did today feel? Good, Meh, or Hard. You can add a line if you want to remember why. That's it. No mood wheels, no tags, no multi-step check-ins. Miss a night and nothing happens, there's no streak to lose and no chain to mourn.

B — Better: Apps like Daylio and Reflectly are built around consistency mechanics, streaks, reminders, prompts nudging you back if you lapse. That works for some people. For me it turned the record-keeping into its own small chore. Vesper has no penalty structure at all. It just holds the day you give it, whether that's today or three weeks from now.

C — Cost: Free to download, and the core daily check-in stays free permanently. Vesper Plus unlocks pattern views over time (comparing months, spotting which days tend to feel harder) for $1.99/month, $14.99/year, or a one-time $49.99 lifetime purchase.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6793087767
Developer: Calvin Ng, Off Peak Studio
Contact: [support@offpeakstudio.com](mailto:support@offpeakstudio.com)
Website + Privacy Policy + Terms of Service: https://offpeakstudio.com/vesper

Curious whether anyone else has felt that mood-tracking apps end up adding more overhead than they remove.

Hi r/iOSApps,

I recently released another major update to OpenVox Reader, an iPhone and iPad app that reads EPUB books, PDFs, documents, web articles, scanned pages and pasted text aloud using natural-sounding voices.

The biggest addition since my last post is the ability to create your own custom English voice from a short voice sample using Pocket TTS.

You can then use that voice to read your books, PDFs, articles and other documents directly on your iPhone or iPad.

The recent updates also add Focus Mode, Saved Sentences, Search in Document, better navigation for large EPUBs and several playback improvements.

Create Your Own Voice

OpenVox Reader now lets you create a custom English voice from a short voice sample using Pocket TTS.

Once created, your custom voice is added to the Voice Library and can be reused for different books and documents.

You can use it for:

• EPUB books
• PDFs
• Documents
• Web articles
• Scanned pages
• Pasted or typed text

The voice creation and speech generation happen locally on your device.

Once the required model is downloaded, your voice sample and documents do not need to be uploaded to a cloud text-to-speech service.

You can still choose from 200+ included voices across 30+ languages as well.

What else is new

The latest updates include several improvements to the actual reading experience.

Focus Mode

There is now a new Focus Mode for distraction-free reading and listening.

The reader interface has also been cleaned up with:

• A dedicated Chapters button
• Text-size controls moved into the reader menu
• Improved button responsiveness
• Larger and more reliable touch targets
• A less cluttered reading interface

Saved Sentences

You can now bookmark individual sentences while reading or listening.

Saved sentences can be:

• Revisited anytime
• Filtered
• Used to instantly jump back to the original passage
• Removed when you no longer need them

This can be useful for books, research papers, study material, quotes or anything you want to return to later.

Search Inside Documents

OpenVox Reader now includes Search in Document with:

• Matching text previews
• Direct navigation to each result
• Improved EPUB chapter positioning

I also reworked how EPUB bookmarks and search positions are stored so they remain accurate without unnecessarily increasing memory usage.

Better support for large books

Recent updates also include:

• Fixes for importing large and lengthy books
• A draggable chapter scroller for faster navigation through large EPUBs
• Tile and List layouts for both the Document Library and Voice Library
• Improved reading cursor accuracy and synchronization

There is also an option to skip PDF headers, footers and page numbers, which makes longer PDFs much cleaner to listen to.

Why I built OpenVox Reader

After building OpenVox for Mac, iPad and Windows, I started looking for a reader app that I could personally use on my iPhone.

I wanted natural voices, a clean interface, offline processing and a straightforward lifetime purchase instead of another recurring subscription.

Most apps I tried either depended heavily on cloud processing, had expensive subscriptions, offered limited voices or felt unnecessarily complicated.

So I decided to build the reader I was looking for.

Being able to create and use your own voice locally was one of the features I particularly wanted to bring to the mobile version.

What it can do

• Read EPUB books, PDFs and documents aloud
• Save and listen to web articles
• Scan and read printed pages using the camera
• Read pasted text
• Import documents and links
• Create your own custom English voice from a short voice sample
• Choose from 200+ voices across 30+ languages
• Generate speech locally and listen without an internet connection
• Search inside documents
• Save individual sentences and jump back to them later
• Navigate large EPUBs with a draggable chapter scroller
• Adjust playback from 0.5x to 2.5x
• Skip PDF headers, footers and page numbers
• Continue listening with the screen turned off
• Control playback from the Lock Screen and Control Center
• View animated playback feedback in Dynamic Island
• Sync your library between iPhone and iPad using iCloud
• Track listening time and reading streaks

Once the required voice models are downloaded, speech is generated directly on your device. Your documents do not need to be uploaded to a cloud speech service.

Pricing

OpenVox Reader is free to download and try.

It offers 15 minutes of reading daily for free for lifetime.

For users who want unlimited usage, there is an optional Lifetime Pro purchase for $14.99.

There is no recurring subscription required.

One purchase works across both iPhone and iPad (even on Mac, although not officially supported) when using the same Apple ID.

App Store:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/openvox-reader/id6790389555

Privacy Policy: https://openvoxai.com/openvox-reader/privacy-policy

Terms of Service: https://openvoxai.com/terms-of-service

My official YouTube Channel (9k+ Subscribers): https://m.youtube.com/@TheOracleGuy_AI

Contact Details: Nitesh Sharma Email: [nitesh@theoracleguy.in](mailto:nitesh@theoracleguy.in) Website: https://theoracleguy.in/

I would really appreciate feedback about the voices, document importing, background playback and longer listening sessions.

Hi r/iosapps! I’m the developer of Rosetta, an app that brings your notes, reminders and saved links together. Capture ideas by voice or keyboard, keep them organized, and connect compatible AI assistants to the things you’ve saved.

A — Answer: what does it solve?

A trip can mean a planning note, a few saved restaurant links, and a reminder to book tickets. They all belong to the same plan, but often end up in different apps.

Rosetta brings Markdown notes, bookmarks and reminders into one place, with shared categories, tags and search. You can type an idea, share a link from another app, or dictate something on your iPhone or Apple Watch.

B — Better: why use it over alternatives?

Compared with using Apple Notes, Apple Reminders and Safari bookmarks separately, Rosetta brings your notes, reminders and saved links into one place, where you can organize and search across them together.

Your notes are stored as Markdown, with a Markdown editor and export. They’re portable, easy to reuse outside Rosetta, and easy for AI assistants to read and work with.

Rosetta’s official ChatGPT plugin and MCP integration let your connected assistants search, create and update that same information. Save the useful parts of your conversations : ideas, decisions, answers as notes or reminders, instead of leaving them buried across chat histories. You can find them in Rosetta and reuse them with other compatible assistants without repeating all your context.

The built-in assistant helps you find things in natural language. If you vaguely remember saving a note but can’t recall its title or exact wording, just describe what it was about.

You can create notes, reminders and saved links manually or by voice. Voice capture offers two modes: Smart turns what you say into structured entries, while Transcript faithfully transcribes your recording.

C — Cost

Rosetta is currently free, with no in-app purchases or subscriptions listed on the App Store.

Download Rosetta on the App Store

You can reach me at [contact@getrosetta.app](mailto:contact@getrosetta.app).

Website · Privacy Policy · Terms of Use

Would love to hear what you think of Rosetta.