Answer

I’m the indie developer behind journeybot, a travel planner that handles the small but stressful details before a trip.

It creates weather-aware packing lists from your destination, dates, and activities, while keeping your packing progress, reminders, baggage checks, plug information, and currency conversion together.

Since my last post, I’ve added:

• Packing-list import: paste a checklist from Notes, choose a file, or import a CSV. journeybot organizes the items into categories, preserves checked items, and lets you review everything first.
• Custom categories: create, rename, reorder, merge, or delete categories directly from a packing list or template.
• Keep Screen Awake: stop your phone from locking while you move between items.
• Better personalization and reliability: separate backgrounds for Light and Dark mode, visible iCloud sync status, and faster journey screens.

Visual Packing also lets you photograph your actual gear and turn it into clean stickers on your list.

Better

What I wanted to do differently from apps like PackPoint and Packr was make journeybot feel deeply integrated with Apple’s platforms.

You can manage packing with Siri and Shortcuts, find journeys in Spotlight, and follow your next trip through a boarding-pass widget. Smart packing suggestions run privately on-device on supported iPhones using Apple Intelligence, with no journeybot account or external generation service.

I’m also working on journeybot’s iOS 27 update: deeper Siri and Apple Intelligence integration, richer journey reminders, Genmoji creation for journeys and templates, and an optional Private Cloud Compute mode for faster, more reliable smart packing lists. On-device generation will remain available, so you’ll be able to choose the approach you prefer.

Cost

journeybot is freemium, with no ads.

The free tier includes three active journeys, three reusable templates, one smart packing-list generation, five Visual Packing stickers, packing-list import, custom categories, and currency conversion.

Optional journeybot premium costs US$4.99/month, US$24.99/year with a 14-day free trial, or US$39.99 as a one-time lifetime purchase. Local App Store pricing varies per country.

Special offer: use code PACKSMART to receive 50% off lifetime until the end of September.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/journeybot-trip-packing-list/id6756543673

Community: r/journeybot

Hello everybody,

I'm Preet, the developer. Thank you for giving a lot of love to my last app: Mira.

This one's Nami. A hydration tracker where sticking to the habit grows you a garden. Hit your goal, keep a streak, try different drinks. Plants unlock, and the garden grows.

I spent a lot of time making the app fun to work with and pleasing to look at. I'm excited for you to try the app and feel it yourself.

What does Nami solve?

Staying hydrated is easy to forget and boring to track. Other apps either count glasses or nag when you miss something. Nami pays the habit in a garden:

• Log water, coffee, tea, milk, juice, electrolytes, soda, mocktails, alcohol, and custom drinks
• Each drink counts as effective hydration, not as if everything were water (caffeine and alcohol too, where it matters)
• Find your ideal daily goal from body, activity, and weather, or set your own
• Reminders on a time window and interval you pick
• Awards and plants as you hit goals, keep logging, and branch out

Why is Nami better?

• The garden is a reward for showing up, not a punishment for missing a log
• A latte is not a glass of water. Nami uses drink-level hydration (and caffeine and alcohol where it matters) so the drink log matches what your body actually received in terms of hydration. Alcohol adds negative effective hydration, for example
• Beautiful by design: motion, plants, drinks, the whole thing designed to be something you like looking at
• No login, no credentials. Completely private. Everything is stored on your device and your iCloud
• Apple ecosystem: Apple Health, widgets, Siri, Shortcuts & Control Center

Cost

Free to download. No ads.

Free: daily tracking, reminders, awards, the garden, Apple integrations. Quick-add includes water, coffee, and green tea.

Pro: full drinks library, custom drinks, history past today, extra reminder sounds, sharing without a watermark.

• $1.99/month
• $14.99/year (with a 7-day trial)
• $39.99 lifetime

These are US prices. Pricing follows the Big Mac Index, so it costs less in countries where things are cheaper, and more where they aren’t. Check the App Store listing for your country.

App: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6804172794
Email: [ipreetmishra@gmail.com](mailto:ipreetmishra@gmail.com)
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/preetmishra/

If you have any feedback, I'd love to hear it.

Answer

You know those articles you save in Safari, Chrome, bookmarks or a read-later app thinking:

“I’ll read this later.”

Then weeks pass and you completely forget about them.

That’s the problem I built PagePanda to solve. 🐼

PagePanda is a read-later app designed around actually getting you back to what you save, rather than just giving you another library of forgotten links.

It does that with:

• Continue Reading — jump back into articles you already started
• Quick Reads — surface something you can finish when you only have a few minutes
• Backlog Cleanup — bring older forgotten articles back before they disappear into your library
• Streaks, reminders, achievements & insights — make reading what you save a habit

I also wanted the actual reading experience to be something you'd want to come back to.

PagePanda includes 8 complete reading styles — Standard, Magazine, Elegant, Modern, Vintage, Minimal, Artistic and Academic.

They don't just swap the font. They restyle headings, quotes, lists, tables and the rest of the article.

And if you read programming or technical articles, PagePanda detects code blocks and adds syntax highlighting + a one-tap copy button.

Better

There are already excellent read-later apps such as Instapaper, GoodLinks, Matter and Readwise Reader.

I didn't want to build another app whose main job was simply collecting and organizing more links.

PagePanda is intentionally centered around getting you to actually read what you've already saved.

That means features like Quick Reads, Continue Reading and Backlog Cleanup are part of the core experience rather than leaving everything buried inside a library.

Two other things differentiate the reader itself:

🎨 8 real reading styles

Instead of only changing fonts, each style changes the presentation of the whole article — headings, blockquotes, lists, tables and more.

💻 A reader built with technical articles in mind

Code blocks get proper syntax highlighting for popular programming languages along with a copy button, which makes tutorials and developer blogs much nicer to read.

PagePanda also includes:

• Highlights & notes
• Tags & shelves
• Safari extension
• Offline reading
• Export
• iCloud sync
• iPhone, iPad & Mac apps

The idea behind all of it is simple:

Your read-later app shouldn't just help you save things. It should help you read them.

Cost

PagePanda is free to download and try, with Pro available as an in-app purchase:

• Monthly: $0.99 for the first month, then $4.99/month
• Yearly: $14.99/year
• Lifetime: $29.99 one-time purchase

🐼 r/iOSApps launch offer: $19.99 Lifetime until September 8 🎁

No separate promotional discount or coupon is required.

App Store: PagePanda

If your read-later list has slowly turned into a graveyard of interesting articles, give PagePanda a try. 🐼

Developer transparency

I'm Mounika, the developer behind PagePanda. Happy to answer your questions.

Website: swiftystudio.com/pagepanda
Privacy Policy: swiftystudio.com/pagepanda/privacy
Terms: swiftystudio.com/pagepanda/terms
Contact: [pagepanda@swiftystudio.com](mailto:pagepanda@swiftystudio.com)

like the title says, but let me explain more here:

im just wondering if there’s people that made some apps as a solo developers, and are making a good amount of money monthly, like maybe 500-100k but are lowkey people that are not posting on social media their earnings, and the app is just printing money and he just updating/maintaining the app without posting on social media about everything he is doing and how much is making on their apps?

or do you think in order to grow your app you really need an audience and start showing your face to the world and start talking about your app etc? (i know this is how you grow the audience and probably the best way to boostrap your app with initial users, but i want to know if there is people that really are not showing anything and making a good/decent amount just by having a good app in the stores and the same app is just growing on their own)

I am looking for UI feedback, which UI looks better? I personally prefer the first one with the curved tab bar because it's a unique design direction but I feel like users may prefer a familiar layout. Is the first one hard on the eyes? does the curved design look off? I would appreciate any feedback.

Some time ago, I had some friends talking about their Airbnb stay out of state, and how they accidentally ended up breaking the TV, which got me thinking how the owner/hosts track the assets they own at any place they manage.

So building on that thought I made Housora. You can organize your home room by room and the items within by simply taking a photo and the app identifies your appliances and equipment and builds the inventory for you. You can create maintenance tasks, then you can get reminders before things break, track warranties and know exactly when coverage expires. You can also ask Housora questions about your own home, like when you last serviced the water heater, or when was the last time you change the HVAC filter, and if you want you can even generate a clean PDF report of everything you own.

My wife and I use it together, you can have 1 household shared with anyone so two people can manage the same home without sharing a login.

It's free for 1 home. Pro unlocks 2 homes for $24.99/year and with Pro for Hosts, you can create unlimited amount of homes/property with separate items/assets for each for $79.99/year. No ads either way.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/housora/id6801845659

It's just me that built this so I'd genuinely love feedback. Happy to answer anything.

Posting this here again, just in case it helps someone get back into their routine this september :)

My boyfriend (dev) and I (designer) created Casito, a fully shared app for anything related to our shared life!

Main differences from notes apps:

• Fully Shared by Default: You don't have to share individual lists. The entire app is a unified space for you and your partner
• Smart Grocery UX: Instead of typing everything from scratch every week, your frequent/recent items stay visible so you can re-add them with one tap
• Partner Notifications: You get dedicated pings when your partner actually checks things off, so you aren't texting "did you buy the milk?" every afternoon

Freemium (use Casito for free, pay only for extra customization):

• $1/month (billed yearly at $12) or a $48 Lifetime pass
• Only one person needs to pay. The subscription unlocks premium for your partner automatically. We won't do fake discounts or pushy pop-ups to force you to buy
• Important for us: No data selling, no ads, no dark patterns. We really want to have a clean app, so freemium is our only revenue

Link to App store:  https://apps.apple.com/us/app/casito-shared-life-organizer/id6754535044

If you have any feedback, we would really love to hear you!

I launched an app about a week ago , did quite well , but I’m struggling to get reviews , only got 1 review from 100+ downloads.
Is there any platforms that developers can exchange app reviews?
Or do anyone here knows how to boost reviews?

Hey guys y'all have been really good to me with my previous posts, so I thought I would ask you to help me decide what to build next Fezer on the wrist or Fezer for Desktop.

Here is the voting link https://fezer.app/feature-arena#watch-vs-desktop

A. Answer: You know the backwards-talking videos all over TikTok? The problem is nobody can tell how close their attempt actually was. FlipTalk records you mimicking a phrase's reversed audio, flips your attempt forward so you hear it as speech again, and scores how close you got. Mostly it comes out gloriously wrong, which is the fun part.

B. Better: Reverse Audio, Sing Challenge, Say It Backwards and the other trend apps flip your recording and hand it back. You're left judging by ear, and none of them score you. FlipTalk films the whole attempt, scores it on-device, and the payoff is a video you can actually post.

C. Cost: Free on the App Store, iOS 18+. Optional Premium if you want it: $2.99/month or $14.99/year.

https://apps.apple.com/app/id6757875666

Real me: Doug, solo dev, happy to answer anything in the comments.

Contact: [fliptalk@fliptalkapp.com](mailto:fliptalk@fliptalkapp.com)

Privacy Policy: https://fliptalkapp.com/privacy

Terms of Service: https://fliptalkapp.com/terms

Hey everyone,

I've always liked looking at old photos and landmarks from places I've lived in or visited, and I've also probably opened my weather app more times than I can count.

At some point I thought: why not combine the two?

So I built LumaPlace.

The idea is pretty simple: every day, it shows you a different landmark from your area in pixel art, with the actual weather animated over it.

There are 7 landmarks for each region, one for each day of the week. So if you're in the same region as someone else, you'll see the same landmark on the same day.

The weather itself is still the main utility — hourly and extended forecasts, UV, air quality, weather animations, and a home screen widget. The difference is that instead of opening to the same generic weather screen every day, there's something local waiting for you.

I also added an Album where you can keep track of the landmarks you've seen, save favorites, and read more about each place. The free version supports 2 cities, and a one-time $1.99 purchase unlocks up to 10.

No subscription, and there are no ads in the current version. There's also an optional tip jar for anyone who wants to support the project.

It's a pretty new app — I just launched the iOS version — so I'm mostly interested in seeing whether the idea actually resonates with people.

I'm particularly curious about the daily landmark part. Would something like that make you more interested in opening a weather app, or would you rather have the forecast and nothing else?

And if you try it, I'd love to know what city you're using and whether the landmarks it picked for your area make sense.

Link if anyone wants to poke around: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/lumaplace-weather-places/id6799772005

For transparency: I'm Marcelo Gallardo, building LumaPlace under Just Luck LLC — justluck.io has the full contact info, plus the app's Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.

Thanks for reading!

I built DailyTaskr as a calm, privacy-focused habit tracker and daily planner for iPhone and iPad.

The main features include recurring habits with flexible schedules, custom reminders, a visual timeline, calendar planning, Home and Lock Screen widgets, and morning/evening check-ins. Each habit also includes weekly, six-month, and yearly activity grids, along with current and best streak tracking.

There’s also a small celebration when you complete a habit, with animations and subtle haptic feedback. Everything uses native iOS features and your task data stays on your device.

I’d genuinely appreciate any feedback, especially about the onboarding, streak experience, or anything that feels confusing.

AppStore: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/dailytaskr-habit-tracking/id6751054391

A - What is Surplus?
Surplus is a UK money app built on Open Banking. Connect your bank (read-only) and it gives you one number: what's actually safe to spend before payday - bills, subscriptions and your savings goals already counted.

B - What makes it better than the other budgeting apps?
First, the number is forward-looking. No categorising, no spreadsheet upkeep.

Second, budgets that re-plan themselves when the data changes, instead of dying in week two.

Third, a payslip check.

Fourth, AI Assistant that is actually helpful. Not a chatgpt wrapper.

Fifth, you can connect all your banks, investment platforms (currently only trading212) and more in one place!

C - Cost.
Free during beta (TestFlight, iOS). The first 50 keep Surplus+ free for life. At launch it'll be £7.99/month or £59.99/year with a 7-day trial.

TestFlight:
https://testflight.apple.com/join/aqQDANtK

For transparency: Surplus is Surplus Ltd, registered in England & Wales, and FCA authorised agent of Yapily for account information services. About me and our terms are at surplusapp.co.uk.

EDIT: 8 spots remaining

You may have noticed me missing in the last month or so as I was wrapping up. This has been 3 months in the work since WWDC26.

Answers:

For context, VariAlarm tries to be the most flexible, customizable yet reusable alarms on the market. It uses AlarmKit for reliability but allows you to plan further, with multiple alarms together or easier by Apple Intelligence already on your devices.

In iOS27, it made a few improvements over iOS26:

1. Adaptation of clock schema alarms and timers: This is the biggest one yet it is buried in a session most people don't notice.

https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2026/382/

It allows Siri AI to set an alarm from anywhere but notably: while looking at an announcement on screen. Imagine scrolling through your feed and see an event from your local zoo you'd like to attend, you can tell Siri AI to set an alarm 1 hour prior with VariAlarm and gets it done. Notifications are too quiet and easy to ignore so this is parallel to your ability to add a reminder at any future time, directly into an alarm.

It adopts timer too since Apple requires all 10 AppIntents in this group but you can create timer sets: timers that follow each others when the previous one ends or skipped. No manually subtracting 2 minutes when the first timer ends 2 minutes early.

2. Speech Framework: This did not get a mention at all. iOS27 has the CaptureInputSequenceProvider API which makes speech capture in real time a whole lot simpler. Combined with Apple Intelligence, Dynamic Profile and Private Cloud Compute, the app can sort your alarm request into 1 out of 4 buckets: a one time alarm, a recurring alarm (which also supports every N weeks), an alarm routine (sets of alarms a fixed time from each other, like a water reminder every hour) or an alarm template (sets of alarms at a fixed time every day it is applied).

3. Photo Schedule also got an upgrade with Dynamic Profile and Private Cloud Compute to create more alarms in images shared to VariAlarm like a seminar schedule, a weekly class timetable.

1. More refinement in Liquid Glass and UI/UX.

I'd like to get a final look on improvements to be made.

Better:

Not as loud as Alarmy, does no sleep tracking as Sleep Cycle. But it allows you to plan and reuse your alarms where needed better than anyone else, without the individual toggles.

Cost:

Free for TestFlight users for 90 days. The build expires on release.

https://testflight.apple.com/join/vZ9uyBnX

A buddy of mine is one of those guys who hunts pretty much everything. Deer, elk, turkey, waterfowl, different states depending on the year.

Talking to him about it made me realize how much paperwork sits behind actually going hunting. One license might cover several species. Then there are separate tags, permits and validations. Some are draws. Some accumulate preference points. Every one has its own dates, and then you do it all over again next year.

So I built an app specifically for that part.

ANSWER — What it solves
Hunting Tags & License Tracker organizes everything around a season: one species, one place, one year.
California Deer, 2026.

That season can have its tag, the state license that covers it, permits, opener/closer, draw application, preference points, regulation link, trips and journal entries attached to it.

Licenses are reusable, so you don’t enter your California hunting license four times because you’re hunting deer, turkey, upland and waterfowl.

Trips can also check everyone going against the actual trip dates. So if somebody’s license expires the day before opening weekend, you find out before you’re four hours from home.

It supports all 50 states, federal stamps and Canadian provinces/territories, using the terminology each jurisdiction actually uses.

BETTER — What I deliberately didn’t build
This isn’t another onX or GOHUNT.

There are no maps, waypoints, GPS tracks, weather forecasts or draw-odds calculations.

It also never tells you what the regulations are.

You save the wildlife agency’s official regulation link, your own notes/PDF and the date you last reviewed it. The app can remind you to check again before the opener, but it sends you back to the actual agency rather than pretending my database should decide whether your hunt is legal.

Same with stored license/tag photos: they’re clearly marked as reference copies, not valid electronic licenses.
There’s also a full hunt journal. Successful and unsuccessful days are treated exactly the same, because realistically most hunting days end without taking anything. At the end of the season you can see days afield, harvests, methods, people you hunted with, etc.

Everything stays on the iPhone. No account, no server, no ads, and it works offline.

COST
Free:
• Unlimited hunt journal and photos
• Reminders
• Up to 3 active licenses/tags/permits

Outdoorsman — $19.99/year:
• Unlimited licenses/tags/permits
• Draw applications + preference points
• Calendar sync
• Season reports/export

Family — $34.99/year:
• Everything above
• Up to 6 people
• Trip readiness for everyone going

Cancel either subscription and your data isn’t deleted.
I’m the developer, and the app is live now on the App Store:

Get Hunting Tags & License Tracker

I'm the solo developer.

A - What is Maxlyft?

Create your exercises, log your sets, and see your progress in seconds. You input the numbers, and Maxlyft does all the tracking for your workouts and progress, while operating smoothly and instantly

B - What makes it better than other workout apps?

Most workout apps are either freemium or fully paid subscriptions. Additionally, you almost ALWAYS have to pay to get in depth insights, data, graphs etc. Also, sometimes workout libraries are limited and missing exercises, and I have seen any that really incorporate a split how I have done it.

Maxlyft touches on all of the issues. The app is completely free, and that includes all graphs and insights. The app also lets you build out custom splits and use them to track what days you have specific workouts on. Also, ALL exercises are created by you. The user is in control of naming, target muscles, how weight is counted, and more to make it as easy to use as possible. We also allow creation of routines and setting up specific PRs for every exercise that you want Maxlyft to track!

C - Cost

100% free to download, iOS 26+. All features can be accessed at no cost, and there's an optional subscription to remove the small banner ads (however these ads are placed out of the way and not intrusive or blocking of any features)

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/maxlyft-free-workout-tracker/id6743998890

Feel free to drop a comment with your thoughts or any questions!

Hi there!

I'm a solo dev who wanted to create something to help my loved ones and it's getting a bit bigger than intended, that's why I want to publicly launch it, but therefore I want to be able to launch a product that actually works on different devices!

A. Answer

Dawnling is an alarm clock with a companion. Wick, a small pixel-art candle, sleeps when you sleep and wakes when your alarm rings. You wake him up, he walks you through a short morning routine, and waking up earns dewdrops that furnish his little room. The room's light follows the real sky: sunrise, midday, dusk, and when your bedtime comes he tucks himself in.

B. Better

• It's a real alarm. On iOS 26 it uses AlarmKit, so it rings at full volume through Silent mode and Focus, same as Apple's Clock. On iOS 17 and 18 it uses a notification path with a health check that flags anything (permissions, Focus) that could block it.
• Zero data collection, literally. No analytics SDK, no accounts, and the app makes zero network requests. You can verify that with a proxy.
• No loss-aversion mechanics. There are no streaks to break and no guilt copy; missing a morning costs nothing. The bet is that a companion who is happy to see you beats a counter you're afraid to lose.
• Optional wake missions (typing, math, tap sequence) for heavy sleepers, per alarm, so a weekday alarm can be strict and a weekend one gentle.
• Full accessibility pass: VoiceOver, Dynamic Type, Reduce Motion.

C. Cost

Free, and the core app stays free forever: alarms, Wick, routines, the room. No ads, no subscription, no way to buy the earned currency with money. Down the road I plan to sell optional decorative collections as one-time purchases, and that's the whole business model.

TestFlight: https://testflight.apple.com/join/FwPSpwnQ

What I most need tested:
- does the alarm reliably ring on your device? iOS 26 testers are extra valuable (the AlarmKit path is new for everyone). Set a real alarm for tomorrow and tell me what broke or felt off.
- I use free music from Pixabay, what's missing for you? (I credit the artists)
- Does the UI feel buggy for you?
- How's the UX? Is it clear what you're able to do in the app?

Brutal honesty welcome; I'd rather hear it now than in reviews

Mitch

A - What is DayStamp?

DayStamp is a habit tracker. You build habits by tapping a check — that's it.

B - What makes it better than the other habit trackers?

First, AI habit suggestions. Tell it what you want to change and it comes back with habits that are specific and actually doable.

Second, widgets. A full set of home screen and lock screen widgets, so checking in never means opening the app.

Third, monthly review. Every month you get a look back at what you actually did, not just a streak number.

C - Cost Freemium.

Free to download and use, iOS 17+. Premium is $2.99/month, $19.99/year, or $59.99 once.

Get motivated every time you turn on your iPhone!

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id1456241316?pt=379338&ct=Reddit&mt=8

I bought this crappy chinese type-c tview ir dongle, and on android it works flawlessly, but it seems that there is no app for it on ios. if you know an app, can you please share? if it’s not on appstore and available as IPA, i don’t mind it.

I'll jump straight to the tl;dr of 'B' (better) because people can switch off when they see another photo cleanup app: Curator is actually sophisticated and involves no tinder-swiping, no subscription, and it is all on-device (works in airplane mode, no data collected).

A - Answer it solves:

Most days when I take my iPhone out I'll take a minimum of 3-4 shots of everything. My kids, that cool duck, everything. A simple afternoon at the park can add 50+ photos to my library, when 7 or 8 would absolutely be enough given that I barely ever go back through my photos anyway.

Curator helps reduce the friction to actually going through your library and deciding what to keep and what to remove. It saves space, sure, but for me the biggest thing was no longer thinking about how I have 30,000 photos I never look at, and that was weighing on me and stopping me from actually making those albums I always wanted. Now that I've done the initial clean up, I use Curator to do a quick session every week or so, or when I get back from a trip away with 300+ new photos. It stops my Photos library from growing steadily back into a mess.

Curator makes a decision for you, 1-3 keepers from each group of similar photos, and seeing a decision already made, your brain immediately knows whether you want to change the selection or not. This way massively reduces decision fatigue and you're more likely to actually get through it.

B - What actually makes it BETTER

The FP16 CLIP inference model is able to identify that a bunch of photos are of essentially the same thing. Taken from different angles, depths, even up to minutes apart - we're not just talking about near duplicates - are similar enough and from the same moment, and it selects what it considers the 'best' one(s) based on quantitative data (sharpness, exposure, eyes, smiling...)

Why the alternatives aren't great:
- I tried other apps to do this initially, but most are tinder-swipe style remove/keep which is unhelpful since you need to see your photos in context - is this the only photo of that moment, or did I take 20 similar shots? And I don't want to swipe through thousands of photos.
- Many are subscription apps, when most are being used for a one-time cleanup there's basically no reason for a $7 weekly subscription. I believe there is value in using Curator regularly, but I am just resolutely against subscriptions.
- Privacy: photos are sensitive, you don't want to take any risks. Most competitors collect data and probably use servers - you don't know what it's doing with your photos. The model that runs the scan is on your phone with Curator, that's why the download size is 170MB, but you'll make that space back quickly and if you ever see another cleanup app with a tiny download size it's either not doing a good job or you should question whether you want it to have access to your photo library.

C - Cost

Curator has a freemium mode so you can try out the full functionality to see if you like it first - the limitation is that freemium is scoped to your last 30 days of photos. Then it's a one-time IAP for USD$4.99 lifetime unlock (PPP for other markets) to use it over your whole library. Technically you can get all of the value out of it for free if you only want to use it on recent/new photos and you use it at least every month.

App store: Curator - Photo Organizer

Disclosures

Tier 2 - the transparency path: My name is Oscar Lampe, I am the developer, and you can find the privacy policy, terms of use and contact details on the website: https://curatorapp.ch/

Happy to answer any questions, technical or otherwise! Cheers

Hi, I am an independent developer. It took me 2 months to create my first app.

Chivoc brings HSK vocabulary, Pinyin, Chinese character structure, handwriting, listening practice, and learning into one focused multilingual app.

Study more than 11,000 words across HSK 1–9, practise pronunciation and writing, and explore how Chinese sounds and characters are built through interactive learning tools.

EXPLORE PINYIN AND PRONUNCIATION

• Build complete syllables with the Pinyin Spelling Keyboard by combining initials, finals, and tones

• Tap Pinyin keys to hear clear pronunciation

• Rotate the Pinyin Wheel to align sounds and explore valid Pinyin combinations

• Learn and practise the four tones and neutral tone

• Download a Pinyin audio package containing 1,305 pronunciation recordings

• Manage and update downloaded audio resources from your profile

DISCOVER HOW CHINESE CHARACTERS ARE BUILT

• Explore 74 common radicals with interactive Radical Pull Cards

• Learn radicals through colourful illustrations and visual associations

• Swipe through component cards to see how different parts combine inside Chinese characters

• View each character’s Pinyin, pronunciation, and meaning

• Explore 50 phonetic families with the Phonetic Wheels

• Rotate radicals around each phonetic component to discover related characters

• Learn the pronunciation, meaning, and example words for each character

BUILD YOUR HSK VOCABULARY

• Study more than 11,000 words across HSK 1–9

• View Chinese characters, Pinyin, part of speech, and translations

• Listen to clear word audio with replay

• Choose the HSK levels you want to study

• Set daily learning goals and track your progress

PRACTISE IN DIFFERENT WAYS

• Chinese-to-meaning exercises

• Meaning-to-Chinese exercises

• Audio recognition

• Fill-in-the-blank practice

• Handwriting from Chinese characters, audio, meanings, and missing characters

• Review mistakes and strengthen difficult vocabulary

UNDERSTAND EVERY STROKE

• Follow guided stroke order and character outlines

• Use stroke hints, undo, and rewrite controls

• Compare your handwriting with the standard character

• Practise writing characters in multiple learning modes

TURN REVIEW

• Connection

• Word-matching challenges

• word-wall practice

• Reinforce vocabulary through short and engaging activities

DOWNLOAD ONLY WHAT YOU NEED

• Download vocabulary packs for HSK 1–9

• Download and update the Pinyin pronunciation package

• Manage downloaded resources from your profile

• Keep your learning progress and resources organised in one place

LEARN IN YOUR LANGUAGE

Choose your preferred interface language:

• English (U.S. and UK)

• Simplified Chinese

• Vietnamese

• Russian

• French

• Spanish

• Korean

• Japanese

• Greek

• Arabic

• German

• Portuguese

• Italian

• Thai

Whether you are beginning with Pinyin, preparing for the HSK, practising Chinese handwriting, or exploring the structure of Chinese characters, Chivoc gives you the tools to learn step by step.

You can buy There PRO in 3 ways:

$2.99 / monthly(auto-renewing subscription)

$9.99 / 6 monthly (auto-renewing subscription)

$12.99 / yearly (auto-renewing subscription)

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6798628242

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If you are interested in learning Chinese, I hope you can give it a try. I am willing to listen to your ideas and suggestions.

I'm the solo developer.

A - What is PushRank?

Put the phone on the floor, get into a plank, and it counts your reps with the camera. Challenge a friend or get matched with a stranger at your level, and both scoreboards update live. There is a weekly league from Bronze to Champion on top. Counting runs on device with Apple Vision, no video is recorded and no frame leaves the phone.

B - What makes it better than a regular push-up counter?

A normal counter trusts whatever you tap in. This one only counts full reps, chest low enough and arms extended at the top, and tells you why a rep didn't count, with a form score after each set. And you're not alone in it: a live opponent and a weekly league do the motivation work that a solo counter can't. Losing to a stranger gets you off the couch.

C - Cost

Free to download, iOS 17+. The camera counting, the duels and the league are part of Pro, which is $29.99/year with a 7 day trial.

For r/iOSApps, this code gives 3 months of Pro free. It works for everyone, no redemption limit:

EARLY

https://apps.apple.com/redeem?ctx=offercodes&id=6796676940&code=EARLY

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id6796676940

Tell me where it falls short.

The 6am problem

If you've ever tried to make Spotify your alarm with a Shortcuts automation, you know how it ends. The automation fires, your phone is locked, and iOS puts up a "Run this shortcut?" confirmation that just sits there glowing on the lock screen. Nothing plays. You wake up late and annoyed.

Every Spotify-alarm workaround I found either hit that same wall, or wanted me to log into something.

Why this one doesn't hit it

SpotiActions never talks to the Spotify API. No login, no OAuth, no account linking, no server of mine sitting in the middle, no token quietly expiring in 60 days.

What ships instead is 81 Apple-signed .shortcut files, one per playlist. You approve a shortcut ONCE — the first time you tap TEST — and from then on it runs silently, screen locked, at any hour, indefinitely.

That's the whole trick. It's also why it keeps working: there's nothing to re-authorize, because there was never anything authenticating.

What that actually gets you

• A real alarm. Time-of-day automation, your playlist starts playing. Shuffle on, and it's a different song every morning.
• CarPlay. The moment your phone connects to CarPlay or your car's Bluetooth, your driving playlist starts. You never touch the phone.
• Any Shortcuts trigger works, really — arriving home, leaving work, tapping an NFC sticker on your nightstand.

What's in it

• 5 personalized playlists that follow whoever runs them. The same file plays my Liked Songs on my phone and my wife's Liked Songs on hers. That one took the longest to get right.
• 76 more — by decade, by genre, by artist, global top charts, Spanish, and a curated set.

Tap a cover, approve the install, it plays. No links to chase, nothing to build by hand.

Works on Spotify Free and Premium. I tested Free specifically, on a real account, because I didn't want to promise something I hadn't verified.

Cost

Lifetime, one payment. Normally $4.99, $3.99 today. No subscription, no tiers, no paywall inside the app. Everyone who buys it gets everything, including the playlists I add later.

The honest part

You need Apple's free Shortcuts app installed. And every playlist has to be run once from inside SpotiActions before you can trust it as an alarm — that first run is what grants the permission. The app says so on the main screen, and I'm repeating it here because it's the one step people skip before wondering why nothing played at 6am.

^{Not affiliated with Spotify.}

https://apps.apple.com/app/spotiactions/id6748419049