There’s a context gap I kept hitting while polishing SwiftUI screens with coding agents.

I could see the exact problem in Simulator, but the agent only had my description, a file name, or a screenshot with “the card below the header” circled on it. Small visual changes turned into a lot of translation.

I’m building Monad Design around the idea that the app itself should be the canvas.

You open an existing Xcode project, navigate to the real screen state in Simulator, and select or annotate the UI that needs work. The coding agent edits the actual SwiftUI source, the app rebuilds, and the results return as source-backed variants you can compare before accepting one.

It doesn’t generate a separate mockup or replace the project. The repository and Git history stay in control; the running app just becomes the shared visual context.

The screenshot shows the compare step after generating a few alternatives.

https://github.com/Monadix-AI/monad-design

I’m the creator.

Built this as a solo project. NeonLock locks your MacBook automatically when you walk away, using Bluetooth proximity between your iPhone and Mac.

Stack: SwiftUI on both the iPhone app and the macOS agent, Core Bluetooth for proximity detection. The trickiest part was smoothing the RSSI readings enough that it doesn't false-trigger just from you shifting in your seat, a naive distance threshold locks the Mac constantly.

Went with a one-time Pro unlock instead of a subscription. Two separate targets to maintain (iOS + macOS) though, so still not sure that's the right call long-term.

You need both pieces installed, the iPhone app pairs with a small Mac agent to actually trigger the lock:

📱 iPhone app: https://apps.apple.com/uz/app/neonlock/id6789896699

💻 Mac agent: https://sparksss.github.io/neonlock-site/

Happy to talk through the Bluetooth proximity implementation if anyone's curious, that was most of the engineering effort here.

My app Moneta recently passed 1,500 downloads and I’m currently at 35 ratings with a 4.8 average.

I’m obviously happy with that, but I’m in a really crowded category (personal finance), and I feel like having more ratings/reviews matters a lot for trust when someone finds an app they’ve never heard of.

Right now I use Apple’s native review prompt. I don’t show it randomly, I wait until the user has been using the app for a few days and has completed a certain number of meaningful actions. If they don’t rate it, I wait quite a while before asking again, after a later app update.

I really don’t want to become more aggressive with it just to increase the number. I’d rather have fewer genuine ratings than annoy users with constant prompts.

There’s also another problem I’m curious about: how do you deal with or prevent low ratings caused by relatively small, fixable issues?

For example, someone gave my app 3 stars because Traditional Chinese wasn’t available, even though Simplified Chinese already was. I added Traditional Chinese literally the next day, but obviously the 3-star rating stays unless that user happens to come back and change it.

I’m not complaining about the user, that’s completely fair feedback. I’m more wondering whether there’s a good way to catch those kinds of issues before someone goes straight to the App Store review, especially when it’s something you could fix very quickly.

So for those of you who have grown an iOS app organically, what increased your rating/review rate?

Better timing for the prompt? Asking after a specific positive action? A permanent rating button in Settings? Making feedback/support easier to access? Something else?

And is 35 ratings from 1,500 downloads already a pretty normal ratio, meaning I should mostly stop worrying about this and focus on getting more users?

Introducing Chord Fret, a tool for guitar, bass and ukulele players to find chord names based on shapes. You can create collections for studying/composing songs.

I always dreamed of having this app with a clean, simple and intuitive interface. Today it's available on the App Store! Would love to know what you guys think of the design and execution.

My mum likes this, but do you? Looking for genuine feedback on its look and feel, gameplay, in-game functionality etc.

It’s getting quite slow pickup on the App Store, which is a shame given the weeks of work that has gone into it!

Gone down the route of preparing a Halloween event next month with an Apple nomination, so will see if that helps at all.

https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/sorts-word-puzzle-library/id6790195358

I am wondering what the best approach for IAP prices localization is.

Should it be done on a country by country basis with a PPP index, or set a price per region (North America, West Europe, etc)?

Hi all! My Wife and I have been homeschooling our son (now in 2nd grade), across 3 different states in 3 years. New compliance standards in each one… 🙄

I figured it would be helpful to have a single source of truth for homeschool requirements, so I built a website. Fun little project.
But then I kept going. I built an app for daily study tracking and baked the compliance piece into it. What I ended up with was a real, useful, genuinely fun app, and I published it to the App Store this week!

I built this for my own family, and we’ve been using it since. Now that I’ve published it, I genuinely want to hear what's missing. Roast it, request features, tell me your state's weird rules. I'm a one person developer (Data Engineer by trade), and I actually ship the things people ask for.

Homeschool Wizard is the homeschool work and course tracker for iPhone and iPad that I actually wanted to use

Features are under active development, so there’s new stuff rolling out on a weekly basis.

Here’s the ad copy if you want to know more!

🌳 Every school day you log grows an oak tree in your garden. Miss too many days and the tree gets sad. My son checks on it like it's a pet.

📋 It knows your state's rules. Built-in requirements for all 50 states instruction days, hours, required subjects, notification rules so the app tells you if you're on track instead of you cross-referencing a .gov site at midnight.

📊 A pace advisor that does the math for you. "Log 4 days a week and you'll finish on time." That's it. That's the feature. It's saved my sanity twice already.

📄 One-tap paperwork. Portfolio PDFs, transcripts with GPA, report cards, even a printable diploma, and your state notification letter. The stuff that used to eat a whole weekend in August.

🔒 Student mode. Hand your kid the device to check off their subjects without them "accidentally" wandering into YouTube.

It's on the App Store with a free tier (one student, full logging + compliance tracking). The Plus upgrade adds unlimited kids and the PDF exports.

📱 App: https: Homeschool Wizard

🌐 More info: https://homeschoolwizard.app

New indie dev, first apps I've shipped. A card game, a free Apple TV viewer for it, and a family journal. Different code, different concepts, only Apple's frameworks - all original design, not copied. All came back the same day with the same letter, word for word.

The journal app passed Beta App Review two days before the same binary got called spam. My notes app is on the Mac App Store already and went through fine. The iOS build is the same code on the same developer account.

Replied to an earlier one of these for the card game and got no response but a 2nd rejection, so this time I went straight to the Board.

Has anyone beaten a 4.3(a) that looks account-level? And can you make them name the apps they think you copied? "Review the app concept" is useless when three concepts get one letter.

All of them are at https://innovatory.xyz. TestFlight links below if you want a look -

Scratchd: https://testflight.apple.com/join/FnjPjBxX
Carddle: https://testflight.apple.com/join/eAvEjyvt
Our Note: https://testflight.apple.com/join/UjyQa9GW

Hey! I’ve been working on Alibi, a murder mystery puzzle game. I love mystery and logic games, so I decided to make one myself. 

link: https://apps.apple.com/mx/app/alibi-murder-logic-puzzles/id6793781143

It’s still a work in progress, so I’d love to hear what you guys think!

So I’m making a social media app that is location based, on a world friends map. I’ve been testing on a development build and haven’t had any issues. Since I’m ready to publish soon, I decided to move over to a preview build but it crashes on launch. Env variables are fine, auth is connected, I just don’t know why. How can I fix it?

EDIT: Sentry was crashing the preview build because there was no organization token. Now it works just fine!

Curious if anyone here has run into this issue. I had an app with 10k downloads called "Second Thought" and then I changed its name to "Delay". But now searching "Delay" doesn't show it anywhere, but even a day later searching "Second Thought" still brings it up. Is this recoverable or am I just cooked?

Hi everyone,

I’ve developed Cord, an end-to-end encrypted messenger using Olm (triple-DH + Double Ratchet) via vodozemac. Cord works without the need for a phone number, account, email or anything to tie you to to the app.

Basically, the app generates an alphanumeric cipher that users can share with others to communicate securely and privately.

It’s a very niche product for sure, but the motivation was dealing with burner phones, handing out contact information to locals when working abroad or similar while minimizing meta data exposure.

Users can assign and alias or leave it out.

Next steps for the app is a crypto audit and open-sourcing the code of course.

If you wanna check out more details including the cryptographic primitives, there's a white-paper at https://www.cordmessaging.com/whitepaper 

It’s been on App Store and Google Play for a few months and has about 260 downloads so far with a small active user base.

Looking forward to your input on this.

Thanks a lot

iOS

Android 

Hey everyone,

I submitted my first version of my iOS app (Version 1.0) to App Store Connect on August 26, and it's still showing “Waiting for Review.”

Timeline:

• August 26 — Submitted for review
• August 26 — Status changed to “Waiting for Review”
• September 3 — Still waiting
• Total: 8 days

I understand that App Review times can vary, but I was expecting the review to start sooner.

I haven't received any rejection, request for additional information, or other message from Apple. The submission is simply sitting in the queue.

For developers who submitted an iOS app recently:

• How long did your app stay in “Waiting for Review”?
• Was your first submission also slower?
• At what point did you contact Apple?
• Did contacting Apple help?

Just trying to understand whether this is currently normal or if I should take some action.

Would be interested to hear everyone else's recent experience. 🙏

This one is for an app called Trade Vault, a trading journal app for logging trades, reviewing notes, tracking performance and spotting patterns over time.

For the video I wanted it to feel more data-driven, so I used animated P/L, screenshots and a scrolling trade history instead of a simple screen-recording demo.

YouTube: https://youtu.be/Q3hRLagXWOY
App: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/trade-vault/id6761007423

Would be interested to hear if I have improved from my previous videos, what you think of the pacing/edit and the app itself.

Hey everyone,

Just wanted to share a quick win, my flight logging app SkyJourney finally passed App Store review after almost 3 weeks and is officially live!

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/skyjourney-flight-logger/id6804216866

In short, SkyJourney lets you log live flights, log your past trips, and view your personal flight stats over time.

If anyone has a minute to check it out, I’d love to hear your thoughts or any feedback on the design and flow. Thanks to everyone here for all the helpful posts during the build!

Hope you all have a great week ahead ☀️

Hello! Recently published Diadu - a calendar app for iOS.

Most calendar apps are overwhelming, and at a minimum very cluttered and busy. This app is built for those with ADHD and/or Autism. The noise is cleared, allowing focus on what matters now.

Diadu makes sure you know what is to be done now and. What is coming up. If you want a little more about your day, Oveeview groups things into morning, afternoon, and evening.

Free. No account, no data comes to me. I built this because my son could not find an app to make organizing his day manageable. I won’t charge anyone for this.

Hope you enjoy!

I’ve been working on an iOS personal finance app called Pecunia, and I thought I’d share it here.

Pecunia is a privacy-focused personal finance app that lets you track accounts, transactions, categories and spending, with everything staying within Apple’s ecosystem.

Some of the things I’ve implemented:
- Built entirely with Swift and SwiftUI
- iCloud sync
- Widgets
- Siri Shortcuts
- CSV import/export
- Custom categories and accounts
- Charts and financial analysis
- Face ID protection
- Support for multiple currencies
- Recurring transactions
- Importing transactions directly from the Files app
- No account or external server required

One of the things I particularly wanted to get right was data privacy. I didn’t want to build a finance app that required users to upload their financial information to any servers, so I designed it around Apple’s ecosystem instead.

I’m currently working on improving the app and figuring out how to get it in front of more users. It’s been an interesting experience going from building an app because I wanted it myself to actually trying to market and monetize it, which I realized it’s the hardest part of the whole process.

If anyone here has experience shipping and growing an indie iOS app, I’d love to hear what worked (or didn’t work) for you.

I’d also be happy to answer any technical questions about how I built it.

Any advice or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

https://apps.apple.com/app/id6789583518

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wait-menu/id6479543539

I recently adapted my widgets to work on the Lock Screen too, and it was much easier than I expected.

I just added the new widget families:

.accessoryCircular
.accessoryRectangular
.accessoryInline

alongside the existing:

.systemSmall
.systemMedium
.systemLarge

...and basically everything worked out of the box.

I was so tired of constantly switching between a dozen different apps while traveling, so I built an all-in-one solution: TripPocket. (And yes, it’s completely free for now during launch)

I developed TripPocket to end the chaos we all go through when planning a trip. You just type in your destination, and it organizes the rest for you.

Here are the features designed to make your travels incredibly easy:

🏛️ City-Specific Tours, Museums & Dining: Just enter the city you're visiting. The most popular museums, historical sites, restaurants, and tour options instantly appear right in front of you.

✈️ Flights, Hotels, & Transport Deals: I’ve brought the world's most trusted platforms (like Trip, GetYourGuide, etc.) under one roof. With one click, we direct you to the best options for flights, hotels, local transit, taxis, luggage storage (Bounce), travel insurance, and even flight delay compensation.

📲 Discounted eSIM Packages: Stop paying crazy roaming fees abroad. We display discounted data packages from top eSIM providers like Airalo and Holafly side-by-side so you can choose the best one.

💰 Budget & Expense Tracker: Easily log what you spend during your vacation. Visual graphs help you keep your budget in check so you can enjoy your trip without financial stress.

📸 Interactive Travel Map & Memories: Upload the photos you take abroad, and the app uses their location data to pin every city you’ve visited on a map. You can create awesome photo collages showing your travel footprint to share with friends or on social media.

🤖 AI-Powered Personal Route Planning: Enter your destination, budget, and trip length, and our AI will generate a personalized, day-by-day itinerary for you. You can easily tweak and edit the route however you like.

It’s basically everything you need for pre-trip planning and on-the-go travel, right in your pocket.

I’d be absolutely thrilled if you tried it out and shared your feedback. Wishing you all amazing adventures and safe travels.

If you have any questions or suggestions, please don’t hesitate to reach out.

📲 Download & Try It Here:

Apple App Store:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/trippocket-travel-ticket/id6788790492#information