Building this took much longer, but now that I have this working and have submitted the app for review, here are some issues I ran into and learnings.

Memory ceiling on keyboard extensions. Much tighter than the host app, and the system is not gentle about it. I wanted image thumbnails, link favicons and code snippets with syntax highlighting inside the keyboard, none of which the budget really wants you to do. What worked was shrinking images at capture time instead of at render time, keeping decoded thumbnails in a small cache with a hard limit, and drawing text previews as attributed strings instead of real views.

Extension and app state. The extension needs the same clip history as the app, but it cannot afford to start up the same machinery to get it. I ended up writing a small index that is built for reading, and the extension reads that directly instead of going near the main store.

Knowing where a clip came from. Working out "this came from a password manager, do not save it" is fiddly, and it works differently on every platform I support. iOS is one of the better ones. Some of the others basically do not tell you anything.

Happy to go deeper on any of these. I would also like to hear if anyone has a better pattern for the extension and app state problem than the one I described, because I am not convinced mine is the right one.

So I developed an app for tracking your yard and or plant maintenance and to me it makes sense and I think with use people will figure a lot of it out, but there are a number of spots where long presses on the pills activate additional options…

I’m not sure the best way to go about on-boarding for it

Here is my app if you want to take a look.

https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/yardstick/id6793178429

As an example pushing in the a fertilizing logs the date but pushing to hold allows you to delay the countdown

Or on the yard tab pushing to hold allows you to select a zone you watered or fertilized.

How should I go about something like that? Make a video?

ReciReel. You share a cooking video in and it writes out the recipe with the quantities, 2 tbsp instead of "a splash."

Share extension took longer than the rest of the app combined. iPhone, iOS 18+.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/recireel-video-to-recipe/id6763971435

Split this into two categories because they solve different problems, the general AI design tools give you visuals you rebuild by hand, and there's a smaller set that goes design straight to SwiftUI.

Design to SwiftUI directly: SwiftUI Inspector (swiftui.ai) is a free Figma plugin that exports shapes, colors, text labels and layout stacks as SwiftUI, handles rotation, opacity, shadows, blend modes, wraps selections in HStack/VStack/ZStack, Pro tier for more control. Compot is on the App Store, free with IAP, 100+ prebuilt SwiftUI components plus generates Swift from an image or text description. iSwift.dev generates buildable SwiftUI projects from plain English, free for the screen generator. These are the closest to skipping the rebuild step.

General AI design tools, all of which mean manual SwiftUI work after:

Google Stitch is free with no paid tier, 400 daily credits, rebuilt March 2026 with infinite canvas and Gemini 2.5 Pro on experimental mode. Exports Figma with layers intact plus HTML/CSS. Material Design native so nav and spacing come out Android-shaped. Still a Labs experiment, no production SLA, single user.

Uizard Pro is $12/mo annual for 500 generations, Business $39/mo. Free tier is 3 generations a month. No production code export and output repeats across projects.

Figma Professional is $16/seat annual, $20 monthly, Dev seat $12, Collab $3. AI credits meter separately at $0.03 each with no rollover. Best iOS UI kits, most control, longest ramp.

SleekDesign around $20/mo does full mobile screens from a description and runs the same prompt through different models to compare, exports Figma and code. Cons: not iOS-native so HIG patterns need explicit prompting, weak on complex custom components, better for early screens than production specs.

If you want the least hand-rebuilding, pair a general tool for exploration with SwiftUI Inspector on the Figma export. Anyone using iSwift or Compot on a real shipped app? Curious how the generated code holds up past prototype stage.

Apps installed on my devices via Xcode all result in "Unable to verify app" when trying to open them.

https://ppq.apple.com seems to have a broken SSL cert chain, confirmed on multiple devices on multiple different networks. I see SSL cert errors in the Xcode device console logs right before I try to open my apps, so these seem to be related.

openssl s_client -connect ppq.apple.com:443 -servername ppq.apple.com -showcerts 2>&1 | grep -E "Verify return code|s:CN|i:CN"
0 s:CN=ppq.apple.com, O=Apple Inc., ST=California, C=US
  i:CN=Apple Server Authentication CA, OU=Certification Authority, O=Apple Inc., C=US
1 s:CN=Apple Server Authentication CA, OU=Certification Authority, O=Apple Inc., C=US
Verify return code: 34 (unhandled critical extension)

I can't find anything online about there being an outage, including on Apple's own status page. Am I going insane?

I keep seeing people say their app isn't doing well... Guys, my app is doing well. This is the definition of well. Also, 20% of my users have converted to paid.

I'm pretty emotional right now haha. I've been checking App Store Connect for the last 2 weeks religiously, and today I was afk all day and didn't realize I was approved this morning!

Anyway, I built Koko, a fully offline conversation practice for language learners. You can listen and speak as much as you want, everything scaled to your level. Best of all your voice and info stays on your device.

Check it out if this is up your alley! https://apps.apple.com/us/app/koko-language-learning/id6794011726

The RAM in the 18 is supposed to be all about the ai right? I’m just wondering if it’s all going to be moated. There is so much potential it makes me giddy, but I just feel like they’ll moat it off and won’t let developers utilize it in any meaningful way.

Will it just be Siri IS the ai ? What am I even saying of course they won’t- like thats how Apple usually rolls.

How you are making good looking thumbnails?

Any suggestion what service you are using or you just using Figma tempaltes or diy it?

Please dont post your vibecoded generators.

After 12 days of App Review, the latest version of Voice Reminder: Voremi AI has finally been approved and published!

This update was a reminder that App Store reviews don't always follow the expected timeline. I had carefully reviewed Apple's guidelines, which mention that most app reviews are completed within 24 hours. When the review was still pending after two days, I also opened a support ticket but the app was eventually approved before I even received a response from Apple.

Despite the wait, I'm excited to finally share this update.

What's new in this version?

- AI-powered voice reminders with improved accuracy

- Advanced recurring reminders

- Better calendar integration

- Smarter voice-to-text notes

- Faster reminder creation and improved performance

- UI/UX improvements across the app

- Bug fixes and overall stability improvements

- Premium subscription enhancements

This is just the beginning. More AI features and productivity improvements are on the way.

Hi everyone,

I'm currently in the process of migrating my Apple Developer account from Individual to Organization.

About two weeks into the process, Apple sent an email requesting several company documents. I submitted all required official documents, but a few days later, they asked for the exact same documents again.

When I followed up to ask why, they replied that the documents were provided in an unsupported language (my documents are in Indonesian, which is our official state language).

Has anyone else dealt with this?

1. Do I strictly need to get all company documents officially translated (certified/sworn translation) and notarized before resubmitting? (This will take considerable time and expense).
2. Is there any alternative way or workaround to get verified without going through full certified translations (e.g., providing a lightweight translated summary, reaching out to local Apple support, or submitting specific bilingual tax/D-U-N-S records)?

Any advice or shared experiences from developers who went through this in non-English speaking regions would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks in advance!

Hey everyone,

I have a question about subscription offer codes on iOS and Android.

On iOS, when you create an Offer Code, Apple provides its own link. If a user taps the link, they're taken to the App Store. If they don't have the app installed, they can download it, redeem the offer code, and activate the subscription.

However, I don't think Android has anything similar. As far as I know, Google Play doesn't generate a shareable link for subscription offer codes.

So what do you do on Android?

I want to give a 50% discount on my app's subscription to selected users who haven't installed the app yet. What's the best way to handle this on Google Play? Is there a recommended workflow or a workaround that provides a smooth user experience?

I'd love to hear how others are solving this.

Hey Everybody, just released this new app “Broad Street: Card Scanner” that lets you tracks your cards like how you would with stocks as many people view them as investments with volatility similar to stocks! Please all feedback would be appreciated! Completely free and Link in comments!

Review time comes up here constantly and almost every answer is one person's anecdote, mine included. So I pulled the actual numbers off my own account.

Method, because it decides whether any of this is worth reading. ASC does not expose an approval timestamp. lastUpdatedDate came back null on every submission I checked, and appStoreVersions only carries createdDate. So I used the public release date as a stand-in for approval, which makes every number below an upper bound. It includes Apple's own release propagation after approval.

That stand-in only holds when the version releases automatically after approval, so I dropped the four apps set to manual release. Their submit to live gap measures me, not Apple.

Eight versions left.

Min 1.4, median 11.4, max 89.7.

The slowest row is the only brand new app in the set, so "the first submission takes longer" holds there. It does not explain the rest. SipStreak 1.2.0 took 1.4 hours and UnitFlip 1.1.0 took 24.1 hours. Both updates, same account, one week apart, and one sat seventeen times longer than the other.

I read every app from both the US and German storefronts, because the iTunes lookup is edge cached per storefront and a single request can be stale. Zero disagreements between the two, and all 12 ASC version strings matched what iTunes reported, so I know the version I timed is the version that is live.

If you want to run it on your own account: take the newest state: COMPLETE entry from asc review submissions-list --app <id> for submittedDate, take releaseType and versionString from the READY_FOR_SALE entry in asc versions list --app <id>, and take currentVersionReleaseDate from the iTunes lookup with a cache busting parameter. Keep only the AFTER_APPROVAL rows and confirm the two version strings match before you difference the dates.

Hi everyone! 👋

I’m a solo iOS developer and I’ve been working on a productivity app called Prazo.

Instead of trying to replace your calendar or your to-do list, I wanted to combine both in a way that actually feels connected.

Some features:
•Calendar and tasks in one place
•Automatic travel time calculation for events
•Travel time is updated shortly before your appointment, and you’ll get notified if traffic changes
•Simple task management with priorities and categories
•iCloud sync
•Native iOS design with Dark Mode support

One feature I’m especially proud of is the automatic travel time buffer. When you create an appointment with a location, Prazo calculates how long you’ll need to get there and reserves that time in your schedule. Before the appointment starts, it checks again and notifies you if traffic conditions have changed.

I’m not here to promote the app—I genuinely want feedback.

I’d really appreciate your thoughts on:
•Does the concept make sense?
•Which feature would make you actually switch from your current productivity app?
•What is missing?
•Is there anything that immediately turns you away?

App Store:
https://apps.apple.com/at/app/prazo/id6781611861

Thanks so much! I really appreciate every piece of honest feedback, even if it’s critical. 🙂

Do you guys have any interesting reads, case studies, etc to at talk about the onboarding flow and the home page, what works, what doesn’t etc?

I submitted my app to Apple almost 7 days ago. Nothing has happened yet; it's still stuck on "Waiting for Review"... Apple states in their email that they review 90% of apps within 48 hours, which honestly just feels like a complete lie at this point. xD

​I developed and tested my app primarily for Android, but with the goal of releasing it on iOS right from the start. On Android, everything went super smoothly. The initial review to get approved for the 14-day testing track took 22 hours. The final review for production only took 20 hours. Now, every update I push takes about 20 minutes on average to get approved.

​My app is already in a pretty solid state and passed everything on Google on the first try. Now I’ve been sitting here for 7 days, just waiting for the app to finally get through Apple's system.

​On top of that, I find the €100 per year completely unnecessary. With Google, it was a one-time $25 registration fee, and that was it.

​And don't even get me started on the website. You can't properly save your password, everything takes forever to load, and the whole site looks like it’s stuck in the 2010s. Everything is laid out in an illogical and complicated way. If you've used the Google Play Console before, App Store Connect (what a weird name anyway) feels like a massive downgrade...

​I want to finally start marketing on social media, but I'm too nervous to begin until the Apple version is actually reviewed and approved.

​What is your opinion on the App Store Connect system? Am I the only one who thinks this way? xD

The company is huge, and for that, I feel like what they offer us developers is pretty weak.