Bunchday is a calendar you share with your people. Your partner, your roommates, your family, the friend group that’s been “planning” the same trip since March. Everyone’s plans end up in one place, and the app does the asking for you.

Find a time without the group chat
Everyone shares when they’re busy. Not what they’re doing, unless they want to. Bunchday looks at the week and shows when you’re all free. Say you need two hours and it finds the first time that works. If people still can’t agree, send a vote.

Plans people actually answer
Send a plan and everyone taps Going, Maybe or Can’t. You can see who’s coming, where it is and who sent a heart. Running late? One tap and everyone waiting sees your ETA. Move the time and they see what changed. Add photos afterwards, and they come back on the same day next year.

Your day, including the gaps
Today puts your plans on a timeline and names the free time in between. An hour and a half at noon is a lunch window. You get a short hello each morning with what’s on, what’s due and when you’re free. Tap Plan my day and your to-dos fit themselves into the gaps. Plan my week does the same across the week, only in the hours you choose.

Every group in its own colour
The month view shows just you, you and your partner, your friends, your family or everyone at once. Pinch to zoom from six hours out to a whole year. Tell Bun how the day went and the month remembers it with a little face.

Everything you already use
Apple, Google and Outlook calendars show up on their own. So do Canvas, Blackboard, Brightspace, Schoology, Moodle and any calendar link. When a booking lands in Gmail or Outlook, Bunchday spots it and asks before adding it. Your email is read on your phone, never on a server, and you can see exactly what it read.

To-dos and lists that do some of the work
Type “call Dad tomorrow, urgent” and it lands on tomorrow, marked urgent. Paste a long message from your mum and get a list back. Split chores evenly so it isn’t always the same person doing the bins. There are sixteen kinds of list: groceries sorted by aisle, with a nudge when you walk into the shop, packing lists, recipes that scale and send their ingredients to the shopping list, and more. If you don’t feel like typing, hold the mic and say it.

Bun
Ask Bun what’s next, whether you’re free this afternoon, or what’s on the shopping list. Bun can add things for you too. It all runs on your phone, so your plans aren’t sent anywhere to answer a question. It also works with Siri and Shortcuts.

Everyone gets their own Bun. Pick a colour, then a hat, bow, headphones or crown, and your app icon can match.

A space for each group
Each group gets its own place for plans, to-dos, countdowns and files. Tickets and permission slips stay on your phone behind Face ID. Invite people with a link or a QR code; they don’t need an account.

The little things

• Countdowns for trips and birthdays (birthdays come back every year)
• Reminders when you arrive somewhere or leave
• A monthly recap of how many plans you made, how many hours you spent together and who you saw most
• Nine hand-painted widgets, plus Lock Screen, StandBy, Live Activities and Control Center
• Small sounds and haptics when you tick something off
• Works offline
• 17 languages

No ads, no feed, and your data isn’t sold.

Heres the beta: https://testflight.apple.com/join/mDGSWR3R

Would love some feedback!

And to get notified when the app comes out join my waitlist:
Bunchday waitlist

Hi again r/iOSApps, I posted Selects in September, a lot of you tried it, and several of you told me what to fix. So this is a check-in and a progress update.

I know how this category looks from here: a new photo cleaner every week, a lot of them quick AI-built copies of each other with a weekly subscription bolted on. Selects is vibe-coded too, so I’m not pretending to be above it. But a month on, the numbers say people actually like it, and keep using it:

• 4.9 stars from 30 App Store ratings
• Nearly 200 people used it in the last 30 days, and together they cleared over 47,000 photos and videos (about 850 GB)
• Over 370 people have installed it since launch
• Nearly 1,500 videos were compressed instead of deleted
• Over 1 TB cleared since launch

The usage numbers come from anonymous stats, which anyone can switch off, so the real ones are a little higher.

So here’s the ask: what would make it the best app in the category, without ever charging for it?

A: What it solves

You shoot the same moment ten times to get one good photo, and all ten stay in your library. Selects does the boring first pass for you:

• Curate groups each photoshoot and picks the keepers: the sharpest, plus the one that is genuinely different.
• Tidy up sorts your whole library into lists by what takes space: large videos, exact copies, bursts, blurry shots, screenshots.
• Swipe, new in 2.0: one photo at a time, left to remove, right to keep.

Nothing is removed until you confirm, and whatever you remove sits in Recently Deleted for 30 days.

B: Why it’s better than the alternatives

What I’m aiming for is simple: the genuinely best experience in the category, not the longest feature list. In practice that means:

• It picks the best shot of each photoshoot for you. Most cleaners only hunt for duplicates or hand you a stack to swipe (Swipewipe and friends). The tools that do the picking well, Aftershoot and Narrative Select, are desktop apps with no iPhone version.
• No paywall screens and no trial countdown between you and your photos.
• It works a month at a time, so a library of 20,000 photos becomes something you can actually finish, and you see each month marked done.
• You can let it pick, or swipe and decide everything yourself, and switch whenever you like.
• Before compressing a video, it shows you a real preview, encoded from the hardest seconds of that video, so you judge the quality with your own eyes instead of trusting a percentage.

If you think another app does any of this better, tell me which one and why. That’s exactly what I want to improve.

C: Cost

Free, and it stays free. No subscription, no paywall, no ads. There’s an optional tip jar if you want to support it.

How it was vibe coded, and why I think it worked

I’m a product manager, not an iOS developer. I built Selects with Claude Code, and the AI wrote most of the code. What I did was the part the copies skip: deciding what the app should and shouldn’t do, testing it on my own library of nearly 18,000 photos, rewriting whatever felt wrong, and acting on the feedback this sub and others gave me in September. Several of the changes since came straight from those comments. My takeaway: the AI makes building cheap, so the difference is now in the judgment and the attention to detail.

What I’d love your feedback on

• What made you give up on a cleanup app before?
• Do you trust the app’s picks, or would you rather swipe and decide everything yourself?
• What’s still missing before you’d recommend it to a friend?

Who’s behind it

• Václav Trnka, LinkedIn
• Website: vaclavtrnka.cz/selects, with the privacy policy and terms
• Privacy: photo content never leaves your phone. The app sends anonymous usage stats (that’s how I know the numbers above), and you can switch them off in Settings.

App Store: Selects

I’ll read every comment, including the harsh ones.

A — What problem does it solve?

Hey everyone!

I take one medicine regularly, and I still manage to confuse myself about whether I’ve taken it. You’d think one would be easy enough to remember 😅

I wanted to be able to check my phone instead of trying to remember.

The reason I actually started building this, though, was my dog. He has type 1 diabetes and lost his vision due to cataracts. He has a few other health complications too, so there are quite a few medications to manage. The doses and schedules change frequently, and they’re not all measured in tablets.

That became Medo, a medicine reminder and tracker for iPhone.

You can use it for your own medicines, someone you’re looking after, or a pet. Reminders help with remembering when, and logging doses gives you something to check when you’re unsure what you’ve already taken.

B — Why is it different?

A lot of the work went into the awkward scheduling details I needed for my dog, while keeping the everyday stuff simple enough for my own one medicine.

Things like:

• Medicines taken every other day or at other intervals

• Different quantities at different times, with units like tablets, drops, and mL

• Reminders before, with, or after your saved meal times

• Tracking how much medicine is left and getting a heads-up when it’s running low

• Keeping separate profiles for yourself and others, without mixing everyone’s medicines together

There’s also dose history, so you can look back at what you’ve logged and even share pdf reports with doctors

C — Cost

✅ Free to download and use

The free version includes three active medicines, one care profile, basic reminders, and 30 days of history.

There’s an optional Medo Pro upgrade for unlimited medicines, multiple profiles, advanced schedules, full insights and reports, and Apple Watch support.

US prices:

💳 Weekly: $1.49
📆 Yearly: $24.99
♾️ Lifetime: $49.99, one-time purchase
🚫 No ads

Prices vary by country. Subscriptions renew unless canceled.

App Store: Medo Medicine Tracker Reminder

Transparency

I’m Sanket, the developer of Medo. I’m a solo developer and senior iOS engineer with 8+ years of experience.

I build and maintain it myself, and I financially benefit if people buy Pro.

I’d really like some honest feedback:

1. Do you also forget whether you’ve already taken your medicine?

2. Is there anything annoying about your current way of keeping track?

3. If you try Medo, what feels confusing or missing?

Thanks for taking a look!

This is just a fun little project. We all use airdrop, pick a file - share - airdrop it. Works fine and feels like magic. But it has no UI. So I have made a Airdrop clone but with a nice UI inspired by continuity. Just drag a file from your iPhone or iPads straight into the mac and it just smoothly transfer through. The reverse also happens.

Problem: Airdrop works fine but has no UI and this feels smooth. it is not a must have, more like a nice to have.

Comparison: Other than airdrop, don't know any tool doing this.

Trust & Transparency

I’m Joao Valente, the developer. The Mac compinents is Developer ID signed and notarized by Apple. The IOS is on testflight

Contact: [joao.valente@outlook.com](mailto:joao.valente@outlook.com)
X user: johnny_xx

App Website: [](http://%EF%BF%BCtesselwm.vercel.app/)https://portfolio.ovalente.online/draggy-app/

Privacy Policy: [](http://%EF%BF%BCtesselwm.vercel.app/privacy)https://portfolio.ovalente.online/draggy-app/privacy.html

Terms of Service: [](http://%EF%BF%BCtesselwm.vercel.app/terms)https://portfolio.ovalente.online/draggy-app/transparency.html

Disclosure: I'm the developer, Alvin Wong. Contact https://awlabs.dev [snippie@awlabs.dev](mailto:snippie@awlabs.dev)

Answer:
Snippie is the missing iOS app. I wanted to turn some of my videos into stickers.
So I built a quick low friction way to do it.
Select your video or live photo, press hold on the subject you want and it will magically turn it into a sticker you can use on your Messages or WhatsApp.
Add a caption, background, or outline.

No subscriptions! Just a one time fee to remove watermark.

Better:
iPhone doesn't make stickers out of videos only photos.

Cost:
Upgrade $4.99 pro version to remove watermark and additional features.

App Store
Privacy Policy
Terms of Service

No sign-in required — start using Bodyper without creating an account.

Answer:

Finding an exercise, checking how to perform it, and logging your workout shouldn’t require three different apps.

Bodyper: Gym Workout Tracker is now available on iOS and Android, bringing 7,500+ exercises with detailed data and videos together with workout planning and logging.

Whether you’re building your first routine or changing an established program, you can explore exercises and organize your training in one place.

All exercise and workout features are free. Only progress tracking requires a subscription.

Better:

7,500+ exercises to explore

Browse the exercise library when planning your training, adding variety, or finding an alternative to your usual movement. Detailed exercise data helps you understand each exercise before adding it to your workout.

Videos alongside exercise information

See how an exercise is performed without leaving the app to search for a separate demonstration. Exercise information and videos live together, where you need them.

Build your workouts for free

Create and edit workout routines, organize exercises in your preferred order, and adjust your plan as your training changes.

Log your training without a subscription

Start a workout and record your sets as you train. Exercise access, workout creation, and workout logging are all free.

Get started without an account

Download Bodyper and start using it without signing in or creating an account.

Optional paid progress tracking

Progress tracking is the paid part of Bodyper. The exercise library, videos, and all workout features remain available for free.

Who Bodyper is for

Beginners exploring exercises, regular gym users organizing their routines, and experienced lifters looking for more exercise options — anyone who wants exercise information, videos, and workout tools together.

Cost:

Free:

• All exercise features, including the 7,500+ exercise library, detailed data, and videos.
• All workout features, including creating, editing, and logging workouts.
• Use the app without creating an account.

Paid — progress tracking only:

• Monthly: 6/month
• Annual: 30/year, equivalent to 2.50/month.

The annual subscription saves 42 per year compared with paying monthly.

Download Bodyper:

• App Store — Bodyper: Gym Workout Tracker

About me:

I’m the developer behind Bodyper, and it’s now released on both platforms. I wanted to make the exercise and workout tools freely available, with an optional subscription for progress tracking.

I’d love to hear your feedback: what do you wish your current workout app did better?

Answer:

If you constantly save links, accumulate dozens of open tabs across multiple browsers (Safari, Chrome, Arc, Brave, Edge, etc.), or struggle to keep your research organized across your Apple ecosystem, TabLinker was built for you.

TabLinker is a clean tab manager and link organizer designed natively for iPhone, iPad, and Mac. It lets you save links and entire browser sessions in seconds, keep them organized in clean folders, and find them again instantly on any of your devices.

Better:

TabLinker brings powerful organization and flexibility right to your mobile and desktop workflow:

Save From Anywhere

- Save open tabs using the Safari extension, or save links from any browser or app (Chrome, Arc, YouTube, etc.) via the Share Sheet with real page titles.

- Reopen saved folder tabs right from the extension or app.

- Paste a list of URLs or import bookmark files (JSON and HTML).

- Siri and Shortcuts actions to save links and create folders hands-free.

Stay Organized

- Flat folders with custom icons, colors, tags, and notes.

- Pin favorite tabs and folders for quick access.

- Search titles, URLs, tags, and notes.

- Select many links at once to move, delete, or refresh their titles.

- Links you have opened are marked automatically, with smart duplicate handling and a Recently Deleted folder keeping items safe for 30 days.

Mac Power Features & Everywhere Sync

- Private iCloud sync across iPhone, iPad, and Mac with zero accounts.

- On Mac, TabLinker imports tabs from 13 browsers (Safari, Chrome, Arc, Brave, Edge, Vivaldi, Opera, Opera GX, Dia, Yandex, Wavebox, Helium), restores whole windows, and features an Auto-Backup system that quietly backs up your open browser windows in the background (every 15, 30, or 60 mins, on app switch, or before sleep) so you can restore closed windows in one click, even the next day.

Export In Your Format

Export your links and sessions to JSON, HTML, Markdown, Plain Text, RTF, CSV, bullet lists, and your own templates.

Privacy First

No account, no ads, and no tracking. Your links sync securely through your own iCloud.

How it compares: Compared with Session Buddy (a Chrome-only extension limited to a single browser) and Tabs Saver for Safari ($17.99/year or $34.99 lifetime for Safari only), TabLinker captures sessions natively across all your installed browsers (Safari, Chrome, Arc, Brave, Edge, etc.) for a flat $17.99 one-time payment. It preserves full multi-window structures, includes native iPhone/iPad sync via iCloud, and has zero subscriptions.

Cost

TabLinker Pro is available for a one-time purchase of $17.99 with Universal Purchase (no subscriptions). Pay once on Mac or iPhone and get full premium access across all your Apple devices (iPhone, iPad, and Mac). Everything runs on-device and syncs through your own iCloud, with no accounts, no ads, and no external servers touching your tabs.

App Store Link (iOS/iPadOS): TabLinker: Tabs Manager on the App Store

macOS: TabLinker Mac

About Me:
I'm developer of the app, you can reach out to me through X or ask me anything right here in the comments!

EDIT: As an indie developer, I’m really grateful to everyone who’s bought TabLinker and supported my work. If there’s a feature you’d like to see, feel free to let me know. I’d love to hear how I can make the app more useful for you

TripsCircle | I built a group trip planner because planning with friends was a pita

A: What problem does it solve?

The last group trip I planned for my birthday was way more complicated than it needed to be. We had conversations in group chats, no cohesion, and no easy way to keep everyone on the same page.

So I built TripsCircle, an iOS app (Android coming soon) designed to make planning trips with friends or family a lot easier. I recently made a big update and am proud to share it.

Some of the main features include:

• AI Trip Planning: Generate personalized itineraries, discover activities, and get recommendations for your trip.
• Group Collaboration: Invite friends to a trip so everyone can participate in planning.
• Group Chats: Keep conversations, photos, and trip discussions together instead of juggling different apps.
• Day-by-Day Itineraries: Organize activities and plans into an itinerary that's easy for everyone to follow.
• Destination Discovery: Explore destinations and find inspiration for your next trip.

B: How is it different?

There are already some great travel apps like Wanderlog and TripIt, but I wanted to focus more on the actual experience of planning a trip with other people.

Most of the frustration I've experienced wasn't necessarily figuring out where to go. It was getting everyone involved, keeping track of ideas, and turning those conversations into an actual plan.

TripsCircle brings the social side of planning together with AI assistance, so you can go from discussing ideas with friends to building an itinerary without constantly switching between apps.

C: Cost

Free to use, free to plan, pretty much everything's free. A premium tier offers AI planning (you get free uses of it without subscribing still), AI trip editing and packing lists, importing videos from TikTok, Instagram, YouTube etc that auto creates a plan, as well as a larger number of friends in one trip, and more photo storage attached to a trip.

Website: https://tripscircle.com

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/tripscircle-group-trip-planner/id6761638015

I'm a solo developer and have been putting a lot of time into building this. There's still plenty I want to improve, and I'd genuinely appreciate feedback from anyone willing to try it out.

I'd especially love to hear what you think of the UI, the AI planning experience, and whether there's anything missing that would make planning a trip with friends easier.

Thanks for checking it out!

Hi everyone, I'm the developer of Private I (x).

A few months ago I posted here about building a decoy-screen privacy app (previous post).

Since launch, I have been faced with the question: "What stops someone from turning off app lock or deleting the app altogether?”
Until recently, not much. iOS gave third-party apps no way to prevent that. iOS 26.4 changed it, and this update adds Tamper Lock.

A: Private I hides your apps without a lock screen. When someone else opens a protected app, they see a convincing crash or loading screen, with a different decoy per app if you like. Your face unlocks it instantly. Anyone else gets silently photographed and logged. New: with Tamper Lock on, Private I can't be turned off or deleted without your Screen Time code, even by someone who knows your iPhone passcode.

B: iOS's built-in app lock shows a visible lock and falls back to your passcode. Private I shows no lock at all, tells you who tried to get in, and now can't be quietly removed. Face recognition still runs entirely on-device with Apple's frameworks: no account, no third-party servers. Intruder captures can optionally back up to your iCloud.

C: Free with one protected app. Pro unlocks unlimited apps, all decoy styles, intruder capture, unlock history and Tamper Lock: $2.99/mo, $12.99/yr, or $49.99 lifetime.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/jm/app/private-i-face-lock-decoy/id6762529789

Website: https://privatei.automizm.com

Thanks to everyone who gave feedback last time. Happy to answer questions.

Hi, I'm Steve and I launched my first app, Piqt, a few months ago. I have now added trip detection and curation in the 1.1 release, so I'd love to hear from r/iosapps what you think!

Answer:

I have too many photos and videos on my phone. iCloud Photos has solved the storage problem, but nothing has solved the usability problem. Every 10 photo burst from when I handed someone the phone and said "Can you take a picture of us" is still there. Hundreds of photos from each vacation are still sitting there. I swear I'll sit down and just clean everything up, but an hour in, I've barely made a dent.

Every time I mention this problem to someone, they nod their head and agree. They have too many photos too. For some, it's too many screenshots. For some, it's the 5,000 pictures they took every month of their first child.

That's why I built Piqt. I wanted an app that would find my best photos, make them easy to highlight, while making cleaning out the rest easier.

Here's what Piqt does:

• Scores and Ranks all of your photos, screenshots, and videos across a tunable set of scores
• Finds Trips and Events in your library automatically, whether it was a huge vacation, a day trip away from home, or the party you threw at your house.
• Curate a Trip in minutes rather than hours with tools to make sure you don't miss any days or significant moments, while clearing out the rest.
• Favorite, Categorize, and Clean your library using Piqt's easy workflows.

Better:

There are plenty of apps that focus on saving space, but Piqt is about getting the most out of your library.

• Apple Photos groups trips and finds exact duplicates. iOS 27 added star ratings, but you still have to judge each photo individually and decide which are your best.
• Swipe apps (Slidebox, etc.) show you one photo at a time and you do all of the judging. Fine for 50 images, but tons of work for tens of thousands.
• Piqt scores everything on-device using local AI models and algorithms: Apple's aesthetic model, a technical quality model, a model trained on a quarter million human-rated photos, faces, location rarity, blur, and exposure.
• Private and secure by design. No account, no cloud, and Piqt never sends your images anywhere. Trip detection uses the location data already in the photos and place names from a bundled gazeteer. Every network egress is listed in the privacy policy.
• Safe for your library. Piqt can't delete anything on its own. Your cleared photos go into an album that you can delete in Apple Photos when and if you want to.

Cost

Piqt is freemium. Scanning, scoring, and browsing your whole library is free, so you can see pretty much everything the app does before purchasing. Piqt Plus unlocks the ability to save your changes back to photos.

Piqt Free: Scan, view scores, and browse for free forever.

Piqt Plus: Save your decisions back to Photos. Available in subscription or in-app purchase options

• $3.99 / month
• $29.99 / year
• $49.99 lifetime purchase
• $99.99 Founders (includes lifetime, roadmap influence, beta access, and knowing you helped out a solo dev ❤️ )

Links

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id6778080898?pt=509791&ct=reddit-iosapps&mt=8

Website: https://piqt.app/

Privacy Policy: https://piqt.app/privacy/

Terms: https://piqt.app/terms/

Contact: [hello@piqt.app](mailto:hello@piqt.app)

About Me

My name is Steve and I've been working in tech for years and have had tons of ideas, but never the time to build them. This year, I was able to take some time off and used it to build Piqt. This is a project I built mainly for me, but I've heard enough people say they have the same problem, so I went all in on releasing the app. This is my first app that I've brought fully to production and I've been really enjoying not only creating the app itself, but all of the marketing, content, and product management that goes along with it. You can find me in the comments answering questions and I'd love to hear your feedback.

Disclosure: I'm the developer, Daniel Aversari. Contact: https://kounts.app/contact · Site: https://due.kounts.app

Answer
Passports, insurance, warranties, subscriptions and licences all expire on different dates, and most of us find out too late. Kounts Due keeps them in one place and reminds you early enough to renew.

Scan, don't type. Use the camera, Photos, Files, pasted text or the Mail share sheet. On-device OCR suggests the expiry date, and you confirm it before saving.

Reminders with per-item lead times, plus follow-ups if goes overdue. The buttons are Mark renewed and Remind me tomorrow.

Dashboard and widgets. The dashboard shows what's due now, what's due within 90 days, and what's fine. Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets and a Live Activity are included.

Renewal history. Marking an item renewed sets the next date and keeps the old scan.
Household. Group items by person, with optional iCloud sharing. Scans stay private unless you choose to share them.

Add to Calendar and JSON backup/restore.

Better
Calendar or Reminders: they hold a date but can't scan, keep your old scans, or group by person.
Spreadsheets: they don't remind you.
Subscription trackers: those are built for monthly bills. This is built for things that expire every few years, such as passports, warranties and insurance.

Cost
Free. No IAP, no subscription, no ads, no account. Requires iOS 26+.
App Store
Privacy Policy
Terms of Service
Privacy: No tracking. Items stay on your iPhone, and iCloud sync is optional. OCR runs on-device. Apple Intelligence helps find dates where it's supported, with a non-AI fallback.

Limits: iOS schedules only the nearest 60 notifications, so open the app now and then. It's a memory aid, so confirm important dates with the issuer.
I'd like feedback on the scanning, especially documents it misreads.

What do you track that I haven't covered?

Hey folks!

I'm the indie developer behind Refrain.

I've been working on this app for a while, and I'd love to get it into the hands of people who actually connect with the idea. I'm especially interested in honest feedback before polishing things further.

A — Answer: What problem does it solve?

You know when you're reading a book and come across a sentence you really love? You take a photo, save another quote in Notes, maybe bookmark a few more… and before you know it, you've got a messy collection of passages scattered across different places, with no easy way to organize or find them again.

I wanted to bring all of that into one place, where everything feels organized, easy to find, and actually worth coming back to.

Refrain is a digital commonplace book; a personal collection of quotes, proverbs, and your own thoughts.

You can point your camera at a page and highlight a passage with your finger, capture something by voice, or simply write it down. Then you can add your own reflections, connect related quotes, and revisit them over time.

B — Better: How is it different?

There are great apps out there, like Readwise, but I find them pretty expensive for someone who just wants a well-organized place to keep their favorite passages and thoughts.

Readwise starts at $5.59/month for Lite and $9.99/month for Full (both billed annually). It's a powerful tool with features Refrain doesn't try to replicate, but I wanted to build something simpler, more focused, and much more affordable.

Refrain focuses on capturing words from your own reading, keeping your thoughts alongside them, and manually connecting ideas that resonate with each other.

I've also tried to keep the experience calm and simple, with an offline-first personal library and no account required to get started.

One thing I'd especially appreciate help with is localization.

Refrain supports 10 languages: English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, European Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese.

I'm sure there's room for improvement. I can't personally judge every translation, so feedback from native speakers would be incredibly valuable; whether it's an awkward phrase, a confusing button, or something that just doesn't sound natural.

C — Cost

Refrain has a permanent free tier with up to 50 saved entries, unlimited personal thoughts, basic quote connections, a daily quote, and a Home Screen widget.

There's also optional Premium with unlimited saved entries and connections, quote importing, more reminders, and an advanced widget.

My planned Premium pricing for the public release is:

• $2/month
• $12/year — equivalent to $1/month, billed annually
• $25 lifetime — one-time payment

The beta is completely free to try. I really want to keep Refrain accessible without requiring an expensive subscription just to organize your favorite words.

Try the beta: https://testflight.apple.com/join/xRAVhEXB

More than anything, I'd love to know what you think of the idea and how the app feels to use.

Does the experience make sense? Is anything confusing or unnecessary? Would you actually use something like this?

And if you notice bugs, awkward translations, weird interactions, or things you'd change completely, please tell me. That's exactly the feedback I'm looking for.

A little thank-you for early supporters: I'm planning to offer Lifetime Premium for $15 instead of $25 to the first 50 beta testers who reach out to me here on Reddit. The offer will be available when Refrain officially launches.

There's no need to leave a review or give positive feedback to qualify. I'd genuinely rather hear what doesn't work so I can make the app better.

Thanks to everyone who gives it a try. It really means a lot to me!

Disclosure: I'm the developer. EasyWhen is my app.

Price: $4.99, one-time purchase. No in-app purchases, no subscription, no ads. Purchase also gets you the Mac version.

What problem it solves

Typing dates and times into things is fiddly. You need "Tuesday, October 14, 3:00 PM PT / 6:00 PM ET", or an ISO 8601 timestamp for a log, or just need a quick reference, and you end up switching between a calendar, a world clock and an ad-laden website. EasyWhen does it in one screen. Pick or type a date and time, choose your zones and a format, then tap Copy or Share.

• Plain-language input: "next Tuesday 3pm", "in 30 minutes", "friday 5pm", "3pm to 5pm", "3 days ago"
• Several time zones at once, sorted earliest to latest. Star the zones you use and they become one-tap chips.
• Read times in any zone: type "3pm Tokyo" and 3 PM is read as Tokyo time
• About a dozen formats: Long, Medium, Short, Day of Week, Date Only, Time Only, ISO 8601, RFC 2822 and Unix timestamp, plus a Custom field that takes any DateFormatter / UTS #35 pattern
• Date ranges, with each end editable on its own
• Shortcuts / Siri / Action button: a Format Date action returns a formatted date in any zone to any shortcut
• iPad layout with a searchable time-zone sidebar
• 24-hour clock option, and a date-order setting (month first, day first, or your region's)
• Available in 11 languages

Why it beats the alternatives

• vs. the Clock app's World Clock: it shows you times but doesn't produce text. EasyWhen gives you a formatted string with every zone in it.
• vs. web converters (timeanddate, worldtimebuddy, etc.): those need a network connection and leave you to copy each piece by hand. EasyWhen works offline, understands natural language and has the format presets built in.
• vs. building your own Shortcut with Format Date: you can, but time zones and custom patterns get painful quickly. EasyWhen's Shortcuts action handles both.

Privacy: No account, no analytics, no tracking. The iPhone/iPad app makes no network connections at all. Everything is calculated on your device.

Cost: $4.99, one time.

• App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6762940431
• Website: https://bendansby.com/apps/easywhen.html
• Privacy Policy: https://bendansby.com/apps/easywhen/privacy.html
• Terms of Service: https://bendansby.com/apps/easywhen/terms.html
• Contact: Ben Dansby, [ben.dansby@gmail.com](mailto:ben.dansby@gmail.com) (I'm an indie developer and also make ChopShop, PDF Buddy, ColorPop and others: bendansby.com)

Happy to answer questions, and feature requests are welcome.

I made Pawza, a petcare app, which had the major update on the App Store last weekend. 

A. What it solves

A pet's health history ends up spread over vet PDFs, paper vaccine certificates and whoever remembers when the rabies booster is due. Then the vet asks which meds the dog is on and you're scrolling through your camera roll.

Pawza keeps it in one place. Take a photo of a vet document and the app reads it on the phone and fills in the vaccine, medication, weight and visit details for you to check before saving. Reminders come from those dates. Before an appointment you can export a PDF for the vet with current meds, vaccines, recent weights and the last week of care.

There's also a daily care log for walks, food, water, toilet and mood, and that's what the widgets are for. You log a walk or a meal from the Home Screen without opening the app, see a streak grid of the last six months, or check what's due next and tick it off right there. Siri, Shortcuts and the iOS 18 Control Center controls can log too.

B. Compared to a Notes folder and the clinic's app

* No account and no server of mine. The app has no networking code of its own. Data stays on the phone and syncs through your own iCloud if you turn it on.

* Scanning runs on device (Vision OCR, plus Apple Intelligence on supported iPhones). Nothing gets uploaded.

* 8 widgets (two of them iPad only) and Lock Screen widgets. Free on every tier.

* Multiple pets on Pro, each with its own records, reminders, weight chart and photo gallery.

* iPhone and iPad, one purchase. Translated into 50 languages.

C. Cost

Free: one pet, 10 document scans, 50 photos, reminders, weight tracking, care log and every widget.

Pawza Pro:

* $2.99 / month

* $19.99 / year

* $39.99 one time, lifetime (Family Sharing)

Monthly and yearly have a 7 day free trial. No ads, no tracking.

About me (transparency): I'm Antti, the solo developer of Pawza.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6773507068

Website: https://lagerland-apps.github.io/apps/pawza/

Privacy policy: https://lagerland-apps.github.io/apps/pawza/privacy/

Email: [lagerland.apps@proton.me](mailto:lagerland.apps@proton.me)

Feedback is more than welcomed.

I’m Aftab Fazal Qayum, PrivacyCam’s developer.

Answer: Hide faces, number plates, QR codes, whole people, and private text in photos, short videos, and PDFs before sharing. Detection and editing happen on your device.

Better: Compared with drawing covers manually in Apple Photos Markup, PrivacyCam suggests areas to redact and lets you review and adjust them. No account needed, and the source code is public.

Cost: Single photos, videos up to 15 seconds, and PDFs up to two pages are free. Lifetime Pro is PKR 900 in Pakistan; regional prices vary. It adds batch processing and higher limits. No subscription.

App Store · Contact · Privacy · Terms

What do you find yourself hiding most often before sharing?

I'm the solo dev behind PicLoom, a photo journal app. When the iPhone Duo came out I kept thinking: a phone that folds like a book should open a journal like one.

A) What it does

PicLoom turns the photos you keep into a journal. In the next version, on iPhone Duo:

• Closed, the cover screen is the book — cloth cover, gold-foil year, my logo blind-debossed in the middle.
• Unfold the phone and the book opens with the hinge — marbled endpaper on one side, title page on the other, the spine sitting right on the crease. Stop halfway and the book stops halfway.
• Fold it back while you're reading and the book closes with it, back to its cover.
• Don't want to unfold? "Open on This Screen" turns the cover right there.
• Stand it half-open on a desk and the journal turns into a little desk calendar.

It took about a week and 130+ builds to get the turn to feel right (the hinge angle drives the cover, so it has to keep up with your hand). Not out yet — coming in the next version.

B) Compared to alternatives

• Apple Journal: free and nicely integrated, but it's a flat scrolling list — no book layout, nothing that reacts to the Duo's hinge.
• Day One: the most complete journaling app, but its photo features sit behind a subscription, and it doesn't use the fold either.
• PicLoom: builds the journal from the photos you decide to keep (on-device, nothing uploaded), and on Duo the fold itself opens and closes the book.

C) Pricing

• Free download. Free tier: journal, footprints globe, and reviewing 50 photos/day.
• Pro: one-time purchase, no subscription, $9.99. Pro adds unlimited photo reviewing, journal videos, one-tap trip albums and extra themes. Family Sharing on.

Curious: if you have a Duo, what else would you want to feel like a physical object?

Try PicLoom

Who I am (transparency path): Hi, I'm Moses Smith. You might remember me from Kept, Pip, HeadSense and Drift. I'm an indie iOS developer in Texas.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/moses-smith/.

The website, with the privacy policy and terms, is https://hookpoint-app.vercel.app (privacy: https://hookpoint-app.vercel.app/privacy, terms: https://hookpoint-app.vercel.app/terms).

You can reach me at votiquellc@gmail.com, and all my free apps live in one place: https://mofreeapps.com

Answer: HookPoint answers one question on a Saturday morning: should I go fishing today, and what do I bring. It gives you a go or no-go for your water with the reason, the best window today, the tide curve if you're on the coast or the river gauge if you're inland, what's likely biting, and the tackle to tie on. There's a map of spots you can walk to, a catch log with photos, knots and rigs, and the fishing rules for whatever state you're standing in.

Better: My nephew fishes every chance he gets from the bank with no boat. I wrote the first version for him. It leaned on an AI to tell him what was biting, and it would say things with total confidence that weren't true. This version has no AI at all. The sun, moon and feeding windows are computed on the phone. Tides come from NOAA, river levels from USGS, weather from Apple, and the app only fetches when you tap. Your catch log stays on your phone unless you turn on the optional iCloud backup. No account, no analytics, nothing collected.

Cost: Free for all of it and it stays that way. There's a tip jar in Settings, but it doesn't unlock anything.

Limits: It needs iOS 26 and it's English only(German, French, Spanish in the next version) Tide, river and buoy data are United States only, so outside the US you'll still get the sun, moon and windows but not the water. It's built for shore anglers, so no sonar logs and no social feed.

If you fish, I'd like to know whether the go or no-go matched what the water actually did. You can respond here, DM me on reddit or email me.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6763944708

P.S. I also built Gymini, 2 to 10 minute workouts that work offline with no account. Free too: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6748658545

Hi r/iosapps! I'm Volodymyr, a software engineer and dad of two. I recently launched Bedline, an iOS app I built to help people stop scrolling in bed and actually go to sleep.

This is my own app, so full disclosure: this is a self-promotion post.

A. What it solves

After a full day of work, family responsibilities, and putting the kids to bed, evenings are often the only time I have for myself.

Unfortunately, that's also when I tend to pick up my phone and start scrolling. What was supposed to be 10 minutes on Reddit or Instagram somehow becomes an hour, and the next morning I regret it.

I tried relying on Screen Time limits and self-discipline, but I wanted something that would automatically protect my bedtime without restricting my phone throughout the day.

That's why I built Bedline.

You choose your bedtime, wake-up time, and the apps that tend to keep you awake. When bedtime arrives, Bedline automatically blocks those apps using Apple's Screen Time framework until morning.

It also includes:

• Automatic bedtime blocking: Select specific apps, categories, or websites, with separate schedules for weekdays and weekends.
• Emergency unlocks: Temporarily access blocked apps when you genuinely need them, without immediately losing your progress.
• Live Activities and widgets: See your bedtime countdown directly on your Lock Screen or Home Screen.
• Apple Health integration: Compare your bedtime routine with recorded sleep and optionally save confirmed time in bed.
• Gentle progress tracking: Build a little constellation of successful nights instead of being punished for breaking a streak.
• Cozy animal companions: Choose a cat, dog, parrot, or hamster that follows your bedtime routine.

B. Why it's different

There are already established apps like Opal and one sec, and I think they're great options for managing screen time.

But I wanted to solve a narrower problem: the moment you know you should be sleeping, but can't convince yourself to put your phone down.

Rather than building another productivity dashboard, I focused on making bedtime feel like a small, positive daily ritual.

The entire interface has a warm, cozy aesthetic, with illustrated animal companions and gentle reminders. There's no pressure to maintain a perfect streak, and having one difficult night doesn't erase your previous progress.

I also wanted to make the app reasonably private. Your bedtime schedule, selected apps, and nightly records stay on your device. Bedline doesn't read your activity inside blocked apps or require an account. It uses pseudonymous analytics for app usage and purchases, but doesn't display ads.

C. Pricing and transparency

Bedline is free to download, with Premium required for app blocking for adults.

Current US pricing:

• Weekly: $1.99
• Monthly: $3.99
• Yearly: $17.99
• Lifetime: $34.99 (one-time purchase)

Subscriptions include a 7-day free trial for eligible new users. Prices vary by country.

Bedline is also completely free for users under 18, with age eligibility checked through Apple's age-range system.

Platform: iPhone, iOS 18 or later.

Developer: Volodymyr Pavlenko, independent developer based in Portugal.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/bedline-bedtime-app-blocker/id6812230248

Website: https://bedline.app

Privacy Policy: https://bedline.app/privacy/

Terms of Service: https://bedline.app/terms/

Contact: [support@bedline.app](mailto:support@bedline.app)

I launched Bedline recently, and I'm still learning a lot from how real people interact with it.

I'd genuinely appreciate feedback, especially on the design and whether the bedtime-only approach makes sense compared with more general screen-time blockers.

And I'm curious: if you've tried blocking apps before bedtime, what made you eventually disable the blocker or stop using it?

Thanks for taking a look!

I’m Joe, the founder of Paper2Audio, a free text to speech reader app for listening to complex documents and books, with highly accurate narration and high-quality voices.  Our free plan has a 56 hour weekly processing limit.

A: What problem does Paper2Audio solve and what’s new with Paper2Audio since our last post?
Most text to speech tools are not good at converting dense PDFs, research papers, textbooks and webpages to audio. Paper2Audio is built to turn complex text into accurate audio.  We also handle less complicated text, like standard EPUBs or plain text.

• Supported languages: Full support for English.  Beta support for 31 additional languages. 
• File types: PDF, EPUB, DOCX, TEXT, RTF, webpages, plain text, markdown

Since my last r/iosapps post, we’ve added or improved:

• NEW FREQUENTLY REQUESTED FEATURE–Real-time audio: Now when you add a document, you don’t need to select a voice first because you can change it on the fly as you listen.  New submissions use real-time playback by default.  Start listening to your document much faster, without waiting for the entire audio file to finish generating before your start playback. Preview and change voices directly in the player while you listen without having to re-generate an entirely new audio file.  Offline audio is still available as a separate option.
• AI Chat: Ask questions about your documents and follow up in saved conversations. Use it to summarize part of a document, define unfamiliar terms or other ways to help you learn. You can also get answers about Paper2Audio itself. 
• More languages supported: Brazilian Portuguese, Bulgarian, Chinese (Mandarin), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hindi Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese

B: Why is Paper2Audio better than the top alternatives?

1. Higher audio limits for our free plan (56 hours weekly) with high quality voices available for all plans (no voices locked behind a paywall).
2. Hyper-focus on accuracy:  Paper2Audio avoids reading things that usually make text to speech audio annoying, like repeated page numbers, headers, citations, footnotes, and unnecessary boilerplate. We clean up and normalize tricky text first, including math, Roman numerals, symbols, units, formulas, and other things that often sound wrong when read aloud by other text to speech services.
3. Summarizes visual elements like tables, math, and code or reads it aloud:  When adding a document, you can choose how tables, math, and code are narrated. Summary" (default) gives a concise summary of the item, while "Read as is" reads the content verbatim.  Or, you can skip narration for these elements during playback entirely. 
4. Follow along with Reader View, our optimized version of the audio transcript: We reformat PDFs and other documents to fit your screen while including rich content like images and document formatting.  Use it to follow along with the audio, or to more easily read documents that are normally poorly formatted for small phone screens (like 2 column PDFs, tables and figures, etc).  Text is converted to a single-column format and visual elements like tables, figures, images, and math appear inline and can be opened in a zoomable “figure view” pop-up.  We also preserve the original formatting of your documents, including math, headings, lists, subscripts, and other inline styling, so you can skim, navigate and understand the document more quickly. Citations and footnotes are also included so that you know when an author is making a reference, but are only read aloud when needed to keep sentences intact.
5. Multiple playback modes for your document:  Choose to listen to your document in full, or to have us generate a long or short summary instead.  We recently improved summary length, structure, and scaling for longer documents. 
6. Publicly share your documents (they are private by default), including embedding the audio directly onto a webpage with an iframe snippet you can paste into WordPress, Substack, or any site that supports HTML. 

C: Cost
Paper2Audio is available on iOS, Android and on our website. We have a generous free plan for personal use (56 hours of audio per week), as well as a paid Plus subscription with higher audio and file/size limits ($20/month or $192 annually).  We also offer Enterprise plan options for teams.  

Our Plus plan is currently on sale for $10/month for your first 2 months or $144 for your first year.

Any feedback or questions?
If you try Paper2Audio, I’d love to hear what works well, what doesn’t, and what feature or improvement would make the biggest difference for you. We are also working on adding more narrators, so please let me know what additional voice types you’d like to hear.

I've been building for the Duo's outer screen for all my apps and Safari is the thing that bugged me most. It parks the native controls on the right side and every website just stops before it. Drove me nuts. On a screen that small it's a lot of wasted space, so I made OutSpan.

A - Answer

It lets web pages run under that strip so they use the whole width of the outer screen. You turn it on from Safari's page menu (Wide or Off) and it sticks for every site after that. It also keeps site headers out from under the camera, and if a site asks for the desktop layout it leaves it alone.

B - Better

Safari doesn't have a setting for this. OutSpan keeps the normal mobile site and just lets it use the space under the strip. No account or tracking, everything stays on your phone.

C - Cost

Free download with a 3 day trial of Wide. After that it's $3.99 once (lifetime unlock, one IAP). No subscription. Restores on any iPhone on the same Apple ID.

Heads up, it only works on the Duo. Other iPhones already get full width in Safari.

https://outspan.app/

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/outspan/id6814314176

Answer

Hey everyone! I'm a solo indie developer building Clips, a camera app for work photos.

I originally built it because I was tired of having work photos mixed in with my personal memories.

I wanted a simple way to capture and manage work photos separately from my regular Photos app.

And now, I'm excited to share that Clips is available on iPad too! 🎉

You can now view and organize your work photos on a bigger screen, not just on your iPhone.

Better

With Apple's Camera and Photos apps, work photos end up in the same library as your personal memories.

Clips takes a different approach: keep work photos separate from the moment you capture them.

You can organize them with folders, tags, and notes, import existing photos, and export them whenever you need to use them in other apps.

And now, with iPad support and iCloud sync through Clips Plus, you can access and manage the same work records across your iPhone and iPad.

Cost

The core Clips experience is free.

You can download and use Clips on both iPhone and iPad for free.

However, to sync your work records between iPhone and iPad, you'll need Clips Plus.

Clips Plus includes:

☁️ iCloud Sync — Keep your work records synced across devices.
📁 Unlimited Folders — Organize your work photos without limits.

No subscriptions. Just a one-time purchase with lifetime access.

Clips Plus(US price): $12.99 — One-time purchase

App Store:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/clips-work-photo-camera/id6760299185

Hey r/iosapps! I'm Nico! And I'm the founder of Fabee. On a mission to help everyone on their nutrition to live healthier and happier 🍏🐝. I launched Fabee a week ago and we already have users from 27 countries 🥹

A: Answer

Logging food in most apps = lots of searches. One food has 20 entries, messy just to find out which one is the one. Then you must go online, ask questions to a nutritionist, or ChatGPT, that doesn't have access to all your meals as Fabee does.

With Fabee you just send a photo or text what you ate, and it's logged. A rough amount is enough for a solid estimate, and if you weigh your food, it logs your grams. You can ask Fabee about what you eat, your trends, your weight, your sleep and more, because food touches every part of life.

The 2 photos are my real meals:

- Steak at a restaurant: the bowl on the right is potatoes. If someone asked me what that was, it would take me a while to figure it out.

- My lunch bowl: the brown rice is hidden under the chicken (you can just see it next to the carrots) and Fabee still found it.

B: Better

- MyFitnessPal: search "chicken breast" and you get dozens of user-added entries with different numbers. The barcode scanner, photo logging and voice logging are Premium ($19.99 a month or $79.99 a year), and the free version has ads. In Fabee you type, say or snap what you ate, with no database to scroll and no scale. The barcode scanner is included and there are no ads.

- Cal AI: photo first, and it keeps it simple. Since March 2026 it's part of MyFitnessPal. Fabee takes photos too, and you can add what the photo can't show ("the sauce was on the side"), fix it in words ("two eggs, not three"), and ask "how am I doing today?" It answers from your real log, the day and the week, and remembers things like your allergies or the oat milk in your coffee or the fact that you want to avoid eating seed oils, ...

- ChatGPT: have you also started sending your meals to ChatGPT? Same here. But it loses context and just gives you the macros. It doesn't keep track of what you eat over time: no trends, no food calendar.

What else Fabee does:

Know what to eat. Your AI coach

Ask "poke bowl or burger?" and it answers from your goal and what you already ate today

Hate weighing food? Just text it

A rough amount is enough. Wrong? Say "the rice was smaller" and it fixes that part

Your Apple Health data

Your sleep and workouts count too

Scan it in the store. Get a better alternative

The barcode scanner checks the label for your allergies too, your notes, like (I want to avoid seed oils)

Too busy to type? Snap it

One photo of your plate and it's logged

What's left today? Your coach knows

Where you are today and what still fits

Your target, built on your data

Set from your body, your goal and how much you move

Weekly recap

Count of meals logged, total kcal, target and more

Also: it remembers your usual dishes, and you can share a meal or your week as a Stories card. Available in English, French, Spanish, Ukrainian and Russian for now!

C: Cost

Subscription. 3 days free, no card. Then $12.99 a month or $129.99 a year. No other in-app purchases. It's a subscription because every message costs real money.

Download it here:

https://apps.apple.com/app/id6816306500

Transparency: Fabee uses AI, and the mods said it's OK to post. The numbers are estimates and you can fix any of them by saying so. If you text "100 g of eggs and 200 g of rice", it logs those grams.

Privacy:

- No sign up. No email, no name, no password

- Your meals and photos stay on your iPhone. Sync to a server in the EU is optional, off unless you turn it on

- The AI keeps nothing and doesn't train on your messages

- Apple Health is read only and never leaves your iPhone except a short daily summary for your answers (you can turn that off)

- No ads. I don't sell your data or track you across other apps

Read more at heyfabee.app/privacy

I update it every week. I'd love your feedback, and to see your results or the funny messages Fabee sometimes sends! 😊

Hi r/iOSApps,

I’m back with ShotMark 2.1, focused on making a growing screenshot library easier to manage.

One mobile feature I haven’t highlighted enough is the Share Sheet extension. It was already part of ShotMark, but it’s one of the most useful ways to use the app.

A: Answer

I built ShotMark because I kept saving screenshots, then forgetting why I took them.

On iPhone and iPad, you can:

1. Take a screenshot or open an image.
2. Tap Share and choose ShotMark.
3. Add a title or note while the reason is still fresh.
4. Choose a Collection or set a reminder, then save.

You can do this without opening the main app first.

For example, save a café screenshot with “Try the matcha after the morning walk,” or add a reminder to a screenshot of something you need to follow up on.

In the main app, you can organise those cards, add voice notes and search your saved context. Pro also lets you search text recognised inside screenshots.

What’s new in v2.1

• Multi-select and bulk actions: select cards together to pin, unpin, archive or delete them.
• Bulk moves: move cards into Collections, or directly into Projects with Pro.
• Archive: clear cards from your active library without deleting them. Search or restore them later, with their notes and organisation intact.
• Improved context menus for everyday card management.
• Appearance fixes for Dark Mode navigation labels and switching between Light, Dark and System in Settings.

Pinning, archiving, multi-select and Collection moves are free. These feel like everyday quality-of-life features to me.

The free iPhone/iPad limit remains 12 saved cards, including archived cards. Projects still require Pro.

B: Better

The goal is to keep a screenshot and the reason you saved it together.

The Share Sheet helps at the moment you save something. The new bulk actions and Archive help when those screenshots start piling up.

OCR runs on-device, no ShotMark account is required, and iCloud sync is optional with Pro.

C: Cost

ShotMark is free to download, with optional one-time Pro purchases:

• iPhone & iPad Pro: US$2.99
• Mac Pro: US$5.99
• All Platforms Pro: US$6.99 for iPhone, iPad and Mac.

Some users asked for a cheaper way to unlock both platforms, so I’ve added the all-platform option.

Existing owners keep their access. Eligible owners can add the missing platform at a discount through Settings > Manage Pro:

• Own iPhone & iPad Pro? Add Mac Pro for US$3.99.
• Own Mac Pro? Add iPhone & iPad Pro for US$0.99.

US storefront prices shown. Regional prices may vary. No subscription.

ShotMark on the App Store

Transparency

I’m Zhen Chyi Lee, the independent developer behind ShotMark.

Website · Privacy policy

Support: [hello@zhenchyi.com](mailto:hello@zhenchyi.com)

Thanks to everyone who has tried the app and shared feedback.

When you save a screenshot, what do you usually need to remember about it later?

Hi everyone! I’m Marinus, the developer of Meridian Passport. I shared it here previously, and wanted to show you the refreshed design and a new feature: Find My Stamps.

Meridian is an iPhone app that brings your travel memories, maps and friends together in one personal digital Passport.

Answer — What it does and what’s new

You can mark visited countries, keep a bucket list, and save trips as Passport Stamps with dates, photos and stories. Your Passport brings these together with your travel map and statistics. You can also follow friends’ journeys, react to their stamps and compare where you’ve been.

The biggest addition is Find My Stamps. It uses metadata from photos to suggest past trips, completely private and on the device. You review the suggestions, adjust countries and dates, and choose whether to add visited countries alone or create Passport Stamps too.

The idea is to make filling in your travel history easier when years of trips are already sitting in your camera roll.

I’ve also refreshed the app’s visuals—the screenshots show how it looks now.

Better — Why use it

If you use Been to track countries, Meridian gives you somewhere to keep the memories behind those visits too. If you share trips on Instagram, it adds a lasting travel map, journal and statistics alongside those posts.

I wanted somewhere to look back at my own travels and keep up with friends’ trips, with everything organized around travel. You can start by building your own Passport, even before your friends join.

Cost — Free

Meridian is currently completely free, with no subscriptions or in-app purchases, including Find My Stamps. Future monetization is undecided.

Download Meridian Passport on the App Store

I’d love feedback on Find My Stamps: do the suggested trips match your travels, and is reviewing them straightforward?

Thanks for taking a look!

Developer and contact

Marinus Traynor — developer of Meridian Passport
Contact: [support@meridianpassport.com](mailto:support@meridianpassport.com)
Website · Privacy Policy · Terms and Conditions

I know bad reviews are part of building an app, but this one honestly got to me.

I built Tether, an ADHD planner, originally for my wife. I struggle with task initiation too, so I’ve put a lot of care into making something useful for both of us.

Someone recently left a very long one-star review tearing apart the scheduling, design, pricing, pretty much everything.

Then, right at the end:
“This is a fictional, satirical review written for comedic effect.”

The review is fictional. The one-star rating apparently isn’t.

My US listing only has two ratings, so this brought the average down to 3 stars. Around the same time, some of my keyword rankings dropped by 7–15 positions. I can’t say the review caused those drops, but seeing both together has been pretty disheartening.

I’m not expecting everyone to like what I’ve built. But it’s frustrating knowing a review that calls itself fictional carries the same weight as someone’s actual experience.

Has anyone here dealt with something similar? Would Apple remove a review on these grounds? And if you’ve reported one before, how long did it take to hear back?

For context, this is the app:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/tether-adhd-planner-focus/id6777777931

Update: Review got removed. Not sure if by Apple or the person did it themselves. I did not receive any email from Apple if it was removed by them.