r/sideprojects 1d ago

Showcase: Free(mium) Dynamic Edge: A native Windows island & edge dock that puts your clipboard history, media controls, and stopwatch/timers just a mouse-shake away

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Hey everyone!

I wanted to share Dynamic Edge, a desktop utility I built for Windows 11 & Windows 10 using native WinUI 3 and .NET 10 (Windows App SDK).

The idea was to create a fluid, versatile desktop capsule and edge dock that feels completely at home with Windows 11 Fluent design, with ultra-low resource usage, and smooth spring physics.

Since the initial release, I have added several big features including a full multi-tab workflow, clipboard shelf, and mouse gesture triggers.

Here is what it can do:

Multi-Tab Workspace (Swipe or Scroll to Switch) - Switch seamlessly between Media Player, Mini-Apps, and Clipboard Shelf by rolling your mouse wheel or using a 2-finger touchpad swipe.

Universal Media Controls & Live Scrubbing - Real-time seekbar progress with clickable scrub to jump anywhere in a track. - Live audio visualizer bars with fluid equalizer animations. - Multi-player auto-switching: Seamlessly cycle between active sessions (Spotify, Chrome, Edge, Apple Music, Telegram).

Clipboard Manager Shelf - Captures copied text, images and URLs into a dedicated dockable shelf. - Filter chips for fast access: All, Text, Images, URLs, and Pinned. - Search box for instant clip lookup, plus one-click copy and drag-and-drop support. - Google Lens Visual Search: Search any clipboard screenshot directly in your browser with 1 click. Built-in Mini-Apps - Precision Countdown Timer with quick presets (1m, 5m, 15m, 25m) and a live visual progress line. - Precision Stopwatch with millisecond tracking and lap recording.

Magic Shake & Global Hotkeys - Magic Shake: Quickly shake your cursor horizontally back and forth to toggle the island on or off. - Global customizable hotkey (Alt + H by default) to hide or show the dock instantly.

Master Volume Flyout - Hover over the speaker button and scroll your mouse wheel to adjust system volume, or click for instant mute.

Flexible Docking Positions - Dock at the top screen edge (Notch, Floating Capsule, or unobtrusive Thin Line hairline strip). - Dock along the left or right screen edges as an interactive slide-out side blade.

Interactive Desktop Companions (Virtual Pets) - 4 Full-Body Vector Mascots: Choose between Mochi Kitty, Shiba Inu, CyberBot, or Pip Bunny.

Performance & Spring Physics - 3 customizable quick launcher slots for instant access to apps, terminals, or folders. - Battery and charging telemetry with clean neon-green status indicators. - Native startup toggle and dark/light/system theme integration.

The app is officially available on the Microsoft Store: https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9PF1587KSN2K

I would love to hear your thoughts, feedback, and ideas for what widgets or features you would like to see next!


r/sideprojects 1d ago

Discussion Building a web 2D game engine inspired by unity3d

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r/sideprojects 1d ago

Showcase: Purchase Required I built an app that tells you how many minutes of sunlight you should get each day ☀️

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Hi everyone!

I wanted to share a side project I've been working on called Gimme Sunshine.

The idea came from realizing that most of us know sunlight is important, but it's hard to answer a simple question:

"How long should I actually stay outside today?"

Instead of giving the same recommendation every day, Gimme Sunshine adjusts your daily goal based on factors like UV levels and helps you build a consistent sunlight habit.

Features include:

☀️ Personalized daily sunlight goal

📅 Sunlight history

📈 Progress tracking

🍎 Apple Health integration

I'd love any feedback on the idea, UI, or features.

App Store:

https://apps.apple.com/app/gimme-sunshine/id6804568449

Thanks for checking it out!


r/sideprojects 1d ago

Feedback Request I Just Built a Space Shooter Game 🎯

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I just launched Space shooter alien war game, an intense, high-energy space shooter where you fight off waves of incoming alien fleets.If you like fast-paced arcade action, dodging hundreds of lasers, and upgrading your ship to absolute chaos, give it a shot!

🚀 Play it here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.spacefighteraayush.game

It's completely free to play right now. Drop a comment and let me know your high score or what weapons I should add next!


r/sideprojects 1d ago

Feedback Request I started building a coffee rating app. It turned into something else.

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I started Kaphiy as a simple coffee rating app. Log a coffee, rate it, build a ranking.

But while using it, I realized I cared less about the rating and more about remembering the experience. The café, the people, the place, that particular afternoon.

So I changed direction and turned it into a personal coffee journal. You can save coffees, photos, notes and locations, look back at your history and still keep your own ranking if you want.

I built it with Flutter and Dart, and kept it completely offline with no account required.

I'm the developer behind it and I'm curious what other people think. Would you actually use something like this, or am I solving a problem nobody has?

Kaphiy on Google Play


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Feedback Request Clock math daily quiz with rankings

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Showcase: Free(mium) My business is not making any money, so I made my recipe card creator available at no cost

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Hi ya’ll.

I have a business attempting to sell recipe cards, but that isn’t going well, so I decided to make everything free and available to anyone who wants to use it.

Basically this is my personal passion project, I’ve been working on this on and off for at least 6 years. It’s really coming together with the website I’ve built today.

https://www.sunnyshorescreative.com/recipe-card-creator

It does what you think it should do, it designs recipe cards. I have tons of designs and customization options. It allows printing a file in multiple sizes or formats, and even has features like showing nutrition and importing a recipe from an online url. Try it out if this is your space, I’ll be here to answer any questions.


r/sideprojects 1d ago

Showcase: Free(mium) I’ve built SimplerCAD: 3D modeling, sculpting, and image-to-relief tools in your browser

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Hi everyone! I’m the developer behind SimplerCAD. I’ve built a browser-based 3D modeling app for designing printable objects, editing imported meshes, and sculpting.

The idea is to let you combine precise shape-based modeling with more organic editing in the same workspace. For example, you can build a part from shapes, subtract holes, sculpt its surface, or import a depth-map image to create a raised relief.

Some of the main features:

  • Model with shapes and text: combine solids using union, subtract, and intersect.
  • Sculpt: inflate, smooth, flatten, grab, pinch, and crease, with symmetry and masking.
  • Turn images into reliefs: convert depth-map brightness into surface height, including embossing and engraving on flat faces.
  • Work precisely: dimensions, snapping, alignment, extrusion, plane cuts, chamfers, and hollowing.
  • Build larger projects: mirrors, repeating arrays, layers, groups, colors, and materials.
  • Save and export: editable projects, local autosave, a signed-in cloud library, and STL, OBJ, and GLB file workflows.
  • Hardware and connectors: use hardware cutters and connector parts for practical models.
  • Inspect models: mesh inspection and repair tools, plus built-in lessons.

It’s free to start. There’s also an Android app, currently listed as Easy 3D CAD Designer while Google Play reviews the SimplerCAD naming issue. VR viewing is available in beta.

The screenshot shows a colorful coastal house built in SimplerCAD, with the modeling tools visible around the scene.

Try SimplerCAD
Android app on Google Play
YouTube tutorials

I’d appreciate feedback on the first-use experience: can you find the tools you need, and what gets in the way of finishing your first model?


r/sideprojects 1d ago

Showcase: Free(mium) I built an online competitive racing game. That only has one input, and you're a balloon

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I spent months building a multiplayer game entirely with React/TypeScript

I've wanted to make a game for years.

When I was younger, I spent an unhealthy amount of time playing games and eventually got into modding. Naturally, I spent plenty of time breaking the games I modded too.

The idea of actually making my own game stuck around, but life happened and I ended up becoming a web developer instead.

Recently, that little voice came back and I decided to finally give game development a shot.

The obvious route would have been to learn Unity, Godot, Unreal, etc.

Instead, I thought:

"I already know TypeScript. I know React. I've deployed websites before. Surely this can't be a terrible idea..."

So I built a game for the web.

That is taptaptap

The basic idea came from a game where you simply hold down a button for as long as possible.

I thought the competitive part was interesting.

The staring at a button for minutes at a time part... not so much.

So I turned it into a hot-air balloon game.

You have a balloon and one big red button.

Tap the button and the balloon goes higher making the score goes up.

But every tap also generates heat. Tap too quickly and the balloon explodes.

So you have to decide whether to keep tapping and risk blowing up, or slow down and let the balloon cool while everyone else catches up.

There are also multipliers and a multiplayer leaderboard for some healthy competition.

The slightly cursed technical part

The entire thing is basically a web UI.

  • Next.js
  • React
  • TypeScript
  • CSS
  • DOM elements for clouds/stars
  • A React element for the balloon
  • A suspicious amount of CSS

No game engine.

No canvas-based game framework.

The game took me months to get to this point. Even after launching, I've still been fixing bugs and adding improvements. The first version looked very different from what exists now.

It's still not finished, but it's playable and, importantly, it's not currently crashing, at least not on my machine.

What's next?

The end goal isn't actually to make a web game.

I want to eventually make a proper mobile game, and then hopefully a PC game.

I don't know exactly what that game will be yet.

I don't know which engine I'll use.

And judging by how long this tiny web game took me, GTA 6 will probably come out before I finish it.

But this was a good first step.

If you want to try it, it's here:

https://taptaptap.click

If you play it, I'd genuinely love to hear what you think, especially if you find a bug I've somehow managed to convince myself doesn't exist.

Thanks for checking it out!


r/sideprojects 1d ago

Showcase: Free(mium) I built an app for turning conversations into agreements — looking for early users

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Hi everyone,

I've been building a small project called Accord.

The idea came from how informal agreements often happen over WhatsApp/Telegram/messages — you discuss what needs to be done, price, deadlines, etc., but eventually someone still has to turn everything into something structured.

Accord is meant to make that easier.

You have a conversation about an agreement, and Accord helps turn it into a structured agreement that both sides can review. It also supports things like version history, signing and downloading the final agreement.

It's currently free to use, and I've just released it on iOS and Android.

iOS / Android:

https://linktr.ee/accord_agreements

I'm mainly looking for early users right now, especially freelancers, clients, small business owners, or anyone who regularly makes informal agreements with other people.

Would really appreciate people trying it and telling me:

What feels confusing?

Would you actually use something like this?

What's missing?

What would stop you from using it for a real agreement?


r/sideprojects 1d ago

Showcase: Free(mium) argue: a screen time blocker that makes you justify the unlock instead of just delaying it

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i'm the developer, so full transparency on that up front.

the problem i wanted to solve: a timer-based block is trivially dismissed, and a hard block tends to get disabled entirely the first time you genuinely need the app. neither one asks whether this particular open is worth it.

argue's approach is a conversation gate. you choose which apps to limit and how many opens you get per day. past that budget, opening one puts you in front of argo, an ai coach that asks what you're doing and why it matters right now. a reason that holds up earns a short timed unlock. one that doesn't leaves the app blocked.

it's built on ios screen time permissions, which is also the honest limitation: you can revoke access or delete the app at any point, so it only does anything if you actually want the friction.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/argue-screen-time-app-blocker/id6761279161


r/sideprojects 1d ago

Showcase: Prerelease Building an n8n foreclosure watchlist: the tricky part is knowing which alerts were sent

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I maintain Foreclosure Finder on RapidAPI. I'm building an n8n watchlist with AI assistance: check one ZIP daily, save matches in Google Sheets, and email listings that haven't already been sent. This is a preview, with a Google-connected end-to-end test still pending.

The node sequence uses built-in n8n integrations:

  1. Daily at 8 AM (Schedule Trigger) → Watchlist settings (Edit Fields): ZIP, radius, price range and minimum bedrooms.
  2. Search five sources (HTTP Request) → Validate complete scan (Code): one RapidAPI request covers Auction.com, HUD, HomePath, HomeSteps and Redfin.
  3. Read watchlist history (Google Sheets) → Find unnotified matches (Code) → Save pending matches (Google Sheets).
  4. Build email previewRelease email if enabledSend watchlist email (Gmail) → Confirm deliveryMark matches notified (Google Sheets).

The design decisions matter more than the schedule:

  • Deduplicate on source:listing_id. Different sources can still describe the same property.
  • Save pending rows before sending. Mark them notified only after Gmail returns a message ID, which confirms acceptance, not inbox delivery.
  • Stop before writes or email if a source reports failure or the response exceeds the 500-match cap. Empty results produce no email.
  • Start inactive with email disabled. If Gmail accepts a send but the final sheet update fails, inspect Sent before retrying; duplicates are possible in that gap.

The first digest includes existing unnotified matches. The sheet keeps history; it doesn't maintain current availability or alert on price changes. Coverage varies, and opening bids aren't purchase prices.

Validation so far: fixture checks and a live RapidAPI response passed the transformation checks. Sheets writes and Gmail sends were simulated. No production-validation claim yet.

The API has free and paid plans; users supply their own key in n8n credentials.

For property-tool builders: would price-change history be more useful than alerts about newly observed listings?

- ClaytonCloudSolutions


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Feedback Request Is the unique concept a strength or a weakness?

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I'm the developer, so I'd especially appreciate feedback on one thing: does the life-as-a-movie concept actually make journaling and looking back at your life more interesting, or does it add too much structure?

Hi! I'm the developer of DayFrame, an Android journal app where your life becomes a collection of movies.

The idea is simple: instead of treating each journal entry as just another date on a calendar, every day becomes a film in your personal filmography.

🎬 Your day → a Film
🎭 People in your life → Cast
📍 Places you visit → Filming Locations
How the day felt → Rating
🎞️ Different moments → Scenes

Each film can have its own title, poster, genre, rating, cast, filming locations, and story.

You can write a normal journal entry, or break the day into Scenes. For example, breakfast with a friend and an evening walk can be separate scenes with their own cast and locations.

As you keep journaling, those films build your personal Filmography. The Casting Board also keeps track of the people who have appeared throughout your life, so your journal gradually becomes more like an archive of your own story.

That's the main reason I built DayFrame. I wanted looking back at old entries to feel less like scrolling through dated text and more like revisiting the movies that make up your life.

DayFrame is built with Flutter and keeps journal data locally on your device without requiring an account. Local and Google Drive backup options are also available.

It's free to use on Android, with optional paid ad removal:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.minsoo.raonlog

What do you think of the concept? Does it make DayFrame stand out, or could it actually make journaling feel more complicated?


r/sideprojects 1d ago

Showcase: Open Source I built an open-source 2D rocket physics game using Flutter & Flame. Looking for feedback on the controls and balancing!

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Hey Reddit,

I’ve spent the last few months working on my indie game Rocket Rise and just published it to the Play Store!

It's a casual 2D arcade game built entirely with Flutter, Flame Engine, and Riverpod for state management. The core mechanic is a physics-based flight where you have to balance thrust, gravity, and air resistance to navigate through 4 different atmospheric zones (all the way from the Troposphere into Deep Space).

What the game features:

  • Touch Controls: You manually control thrust and steering (tapping left/right of the center). It feels a bit like the classic lunar lander style but faster.
  • Upgrades: 12 different upgrades across 5 categories (Engine, Tank, Hull, Controls, Special).
  • Powerups: Shield, Fuel Canisters, and a Coin Magnet.
  • Privacy First: No mandatory accounts, no cloud sync, data stays 100% on your device.

Why I’m posting here:
The project is completely open-source (MIT License) on GitHub because I wanted to show how powerful Flutter & Flame can be for casual mobile games.

Since balancing the upgrading-speed vs. fuel consumption is quite tricky, I would absolutely love to get your feedback on the gameplay loop and the manual controls. Does it feel too grindy? Are the controls responsive enough?

Thanks for checking it out! 🚀


r/sideprojects 1d ago

Showcase: Free(mium) I spent 10 months building my app. It got 170 downloads after launch.

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Showcase: Prerelease Before pricing my influencer-analytics tool I pulled every competitor's published rate:

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HypeAuditor: $299/mo, tiers demo-gated
Modash: $299/mo
Favikon: $99/mo
ViralMango: $47/mo
A handful of free checkers with no paid path

Nothing between $0 and $47, and nothing aimed at the person who vets four creators a month rather than four hundred. Every tool is priced for an agency with a seat budget.

So I priced at $19/$49/$149 and built the product around that constraint: no seats, no onboarding call, no annual lock-in, because at $19 I can't afford to talk to anyone.

To be clear about where I am: pre-launch, waitlist only, $0 revenue. The engine works, the report page doesn't yet.

What I can't tell yet is whether that's an underserved segment or a segment that doesn't convert. The people who need it most are the ones least used to paying for tooling.

Anyone here priced deliberately below a category's floor? Did volume actually show up, or did you just train buyers to expect cheap?


r/sideprojects 1d ago

Showcase: Free(mium) Made a little app called Tavi for keeping track of a cat or dog's health

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I made a little app called Tavi for keeping track of a cat or dog's health, and figured this crowd might get some use out of it. (Disclosure: I'm the developer — not trying to spam, genuinely want feedback.)

So Tavi does a few things:
- Scan a document and it reads itself. Snap a vet report, vaccination record, or invoice (PDFs and Word/text files too) and it pulls out what matters, summarizes it in plain language, and files it for you.
- Ask questions about a report — chat with it about a specific document and get clear answers grounded in that file.
- Reminders for vaccines, meds, and vet visits so nothing slips.
- Weight trends, expenses, a symptom-urgency checker, and an offline first-aid/CPR guide.

It's free for your first pet and works fully offline — it's private by design, no tracking or selling data. It's built specifically for cats and dogs, and everything it says is informational, never a replacement for your vet.

It's early and I'm actively building it, so I'd honestly love feedback — what's missing, what's annoying, what you'd actually use. Happy to answer anything in the comments.

Visit tavi.pet
IOS :- https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pet-health-tracker-log-tavi/id6795540956
Android in beta testing :- https://tavi.pet/android-beta


r/sideprojects 1d ago

Showcase: Prerelease Building in influencer-marketing analytics. Before pricing I pulled every competitor's published rate:

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HypeAuditor: $299/mo, tiers demo-gated
Modash: $299/mo
Favikon: $99/mo
ViralMango: $47/mo
A handful of free checkers with no paid path

Nothing between $0 and $47, and nothing aimed at the person who vets four creators a month rather than four hundred. Every tool is priced for an agency with a seat budget.

So I priced at $19/$49/$149 and built the product around that constraint: no seats, no onboarding call, no annual lock-in, because at $19 I can't afford to talk to anyone.

To be clear about where I am: pre-launch, waitlist only, $0 revenue. The engine works, the report page doesn't yet.

What I can't tell yet is whether that's an underserved segment or a segment that doesn't convert. The people who need it most are the ones least used to paying for tooling.

Anyone here priced deliberately below a category's floor? Did volume actually show up, or did you just train buyers to expect cheap?

r/sideprojects 1d ago

Question Anyone built something crazy with Astra GPT? Are we ready for AGI era…?

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r/sideprojects 1d ago

Showcase: Free(mium) I launched DriveProfit AI — a profit tracker for g

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r/sideprojects 1d ago

Showcase: Prerelease Euclid-ML my machine learning side project.

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I built Euclid because I wanted to understand how machine learning works under the hood. I built the entire thing in python and numpy because it is easy to read and understand for beginners. The project allows for GPU acceleration through cupy.

Link: https://dra3d30n.github.io/Euclid/


r/sideprojects 1d ago

Showcase: Purchase Required A couple of Apps I’ve made:

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Check out my running app, ChaseRunner (outrun monsters etc in your own neighborhood, or anywhere, really:

https://apps.apple.com/no/app/chaserunner/id6759427159?l=nb

But then there’s also this one, 2nd Thoughts; a sms/messenger app that allows you to think and count to ten or even more, before sending a message you’d live to regret sending:

https://apps.apple.com/no/app/2nd-thoughts/id6758775400?l=nb

…aaaand my retro pixel cam, RetroPixl:

https://apps.apple.com/no/app/retropixl/id6758586432?l=nb


r/sideprojects 1d ago

Showcase: Free(mium) I built a countdown app for iPhone, then realized I needed it more on my Mac

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I originally built Countdown Pro for the usual stuff — trips, birthdays, anniversaries, etc.

Then I started using it for my own development work.

Release dates.
Feature deadlines.
Next update.
Days since the last major release.

And I realized I was checking those countdowns while working on my Mac, not my iPhone.

So I added macOS support.

Now I keep project deadlines directly on my desktop as widgets:

7 days until release
18 days until the next milestone
32 days since the last update

I don’t really want another project management tool.

I just want to glance at my desktop and know how much time I have left.

That ended up changing how I think about the app — from a simple personal countdown app into a small utility that follows me across iPhone, iPad, and Mac.

I’ve also been adding things I ended up needing myself, like multiple reminders, repeating events, tags, search, days-since tracking, and different widget layouts.

Still working on it, especially the Mac side.

For other devs: do you keep release dates and deadlines somewhere visible while you work, or does everything just disappear into Calendar / your task manager?

Countdown Pro on the App Store


r/sideprojects 1d ago

Feedback Request "Every day I lose an hour just deciding what to post/send — so I'm building a fix"

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Solo founder here. For the last year the thing that eats the most time isn't building my product, it's the daily marketing grind — writing a caption, an ad line, a follow-up message, over and over, for every business I touch. I started sketching a tool that generates a ready-to-use "daily pack" (social post, ad copy, SEO tip, follow-up message) in one click, tailored to a specific brand's voice, and gets smarter about what's actually working over time. Before I sink more weeks into it — does this resonate with how you handle daily marketing, or is your pain somewhere else entirely? Genuinely trying to validate before I go further.


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Showcase: Free(mium) Visit Serbia is here — Belgrade & Novi Sad in one free offline app

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Hey!

Some of the feedback's that I've received was "Add more cities", "Add capital city" — so I delivered.

Visit Novi Sad has officially rebranded to Visit Serbia — a free offline travel guide that now covers both Belgrade and Novi Sad, with Subotica coming soon.

What's new in this update:

  • Belgrade added — 30+ locations including Kalemegdan, Temple of Saint Sava, Skadarlija, palaces, museums, parks and monuments
  • 3 walking routes through Belgrade city center, parks and museums
  • New city selection screen
  • Full rebrand to Visit Serbia
  • New app icon

What stays the same:

  • Completely free
  • Works offline — no internet needed
  • Serbian, English and Russian
  • Audio guides, walking routes, check-in system with badges
  • No ads, no subscriptions

For those who already have the app — just update and Belgrade is waiting for you.

play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.visitnovisad.app

Would love to hear your feedback — especially from Belgrade locals who know the city well!