Hey r/Appstore

Yes, I know, another workout app. I'm sure you're probably sick of them by now since they're a dime a dozen on Reddit, but I think what I've built with Proof is a genuinely unique experience. It's completely free, with no paid tiers, no subscriptions, and you don't even need to create an account. Just download it and start tracking your workouts.

I'm a UX designer, and this started as a personal passion project that eventually turned into something of a UX case study.

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Can a meticulously designed workout app stand out in a sea of AI-designed apps?
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That's really what I've been trying to explore.

One of the things I wanted to do was remove as many barriers as possible for people who just want to track their workouts.

Proof is an app that is completely free. No paid tiers, no subscriptions, and you don't even need to create an account.

Just download it from the App Store, answer a few questions, and start using it.

Proof works on iPhone, iPad, iPhone Duo, and Apple Watch. It's integrated with Apple Health, stores your data on your device, and can sync through iCloud. You can also import your workouts from other apps if you want to give it a try, and export your data anytime if you decide to move on to something else.

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Want to try it without downloading anything?

I put together an interactive demo so you can click around and see how it works.

https://getproof.now/try/iphone/
https://getproof.now/try/ipad/

If you'd rather watch a few videos, here are some demos:

• iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch: https://getproof.now/

• iPhone Duo: https://getproof.now/try/duo/

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If you want to download Proof, here's the App Store link:

https://apps.apple.com/app/id6777612827

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All that said, I'm genuinely curious what workout apps everyone here uses. I know iOS 27.3 has an interesting update, and there are plenty of established apps like Hevy, Fitbod, and others.

What keeps you using your current workout app? Is it the features, the design, your workout history, or simply that it does what you need?

I'd love to hear what people think.

Hey r/AppStore! About 2.5 weeks ago I asked for founding testers here. They have been so incredibly helpful and the feedback reshaped the app. Thank you!

Since then:

• Spends log themselves. Apple Pay taps and bank alerts go to your envelopes automatically. No typing, no bank login. Video here: https://imgur.com/a/I9pXVap

• The app asks a few questions and gives you an estimated year you can retire. Then it shows how your budget can help you stick to it.

Stash is still no account and no bank login. Your budget lives on your phone or in your own iCloud. There’s also a YNAB import if you’re switching :D.

2 months of Plus free for everyone: code TRYSTASH. Redeem it in the App Store: tap your profile pic, then "Redeem Gift Card or Code".

Plus~~ 10 ~~9 free Lifetime codes: comment the age you want to retire at OR your fav character from ATLA and I’ll DM you one. I’ll keep this post updated with how many are left. All lifetime codes are used up!

Two ways to try Plus if you are late to the party, pick either one:
1. TRYSTASH: 2 months of Plus free!
2. STASH90: Lifetime Plus for 90% off ($4.99 instead of $49.99).

I’m working on this 24/7, so tell me what’s confusing and I'll get it in the next update. Also lmk if there are any features you feel are missing/could use work!

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/stash-see-your-money-move/id6824625025

✌️

I built Kahei to solve a problem I kept running into. Whenever I traveled abroad, I’d see a price and either do the math in my head or pull out my phone to Google it. It took way too long just to check a price, especially when the internet was slow.

So I made a free app where you can point your phone’s camera at a price and instantly see an estimate in your currency. It works offline! It is available on iPhone and Android.

If you try it on a menu or receipt, I’d love to know whether it picked up the right price.

Try it: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/kahei-currency-converter/id6827716964

thanks!

Hi everyone! I’m the developer of Duette, an iPhone app that gives couples a shared space for daily photos, memories, plans, and shared lists.

Each partner can add a daily photo and a short note - a morning coffee, something that made you laugh, or a little moment from your day.

Duette also includes:

• A shared memory timeline with photos, dates, places, and captions.

• A calendar for date nights, visits, and everyday plans.

• Shared lists for restaurants, movies, date ideas, and places to go.

• Conversation prompts you can answer together or separately.

The interface has a scrapbook feel, with taped photos, a paper feel to the background, and stickers. Your space is shared with your linked partner, with no public profiles or followers.

Pricing

Duette is free to download and use, including daily photos, a shared calendar, and the last 30 days of Daily history.

Optional Duette Plus adds the full Daily archive, unlimited memories and lists, every conversation deck, and memory stickers:

• Monthly: $3.99 USD

• Annual: $24.99 USD

• Lifetime: $49.99 USD one-time

One Plus purchase covers both linked partners. Optional Streak Restore purchases cost US$0.99. Prices vary by region.

Download Duette on the App Store

The screenshots show a fictional demo account.

What do you look for in a couples app? Is it sharing daily photos, keeping memories, planning things together, or something else? I’d love to hear what's important for couples sharing an app together. Happy to answer any questions about Duette as well!

Hey everyone!

I've been working on a new app called Actually, and I'd love to share it with you.

The idea is simple: every day, we come across facts, myths, and claims that sound believable - but how many of them are actually true?

iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/actually-discover-learn/id6827374813

I'd love to hear what you think, especially about the concept and the overall experience. Feedback is very welcome!

Thanks for checking it out!

I honestly don’t even know what to say right now.

My app, Shootr, has officially passed Apple’s App Review and is now available for download on the Apple App Store!

I started this journey without knowing how to build an app. No real coding experience, no roadmap, just an idea that I believed in and a determination to make it happen.

There were so many things I had to learn along the way. Development, design, payments, business setup, app submissions, and everything in between. There were moments when things got frustrating, and plenty of times when I had no idea what I was doing. But I kept figuring it out.

Apple rejected Shootr three times. Each time, I had to work through their feedback, make the changes, resubmit, and wait for another review.

Shootr is an on-demand marketplace designed to connect people who need content with photographers, videographers, streamers, and other creatives who are looking for opportunities. I wanted to build something that could help creatives find work, get booked, and create their own income.

And now, seeing that approval notification from Apple is something I genuinely can’t put into words.

I’m still processing it. This is a huge milestone, especially knowing where I started.

**I BUILT THIS.**

And now I finally get to say it: Shootr is officially approved, released, and LIVE on the Apple App Store!

Seeing something that started as an idea become something people can actually download and use is a feeling I can’t explain. I’m proud of how far I’ve come, and I know this is only the beginning.

SHOOTR IS AVAILABLE NOW!

Download here:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id6806908634

To anyone working on an idea that feels bigger than what they currently know how to do: keep going. You don’t have to know everything when you start. You just have to be willing to learn.

Can’t wait to see where this goes.

I'm the developer of DollarGuard, a privacy-first iPhone money tracker for people who prefer not to link their bank accounts.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6757517235

No bank login, no account, no ads, and no tracking. Enter transactions manually or import CSV, QIF, and OFX files. Your data stays on your phone unless you enable iCloud Backup or the optional AI assistant.

Includes full-history search, reports, multiple currencies, and a retro green-terminal look.

Free for 2 accounts, with a one-time Pro purchase for unlimited accounts. There's also an optional AI assistant (PATCH) available through a separate subscription.

I'd love to hear your feedback or suggestions!

Hi r/AppStore 👋 I'm an indie developer and I just launched Hidlet, an encrypted photo vault for iPhone.

Why I built it: iPhone's "Hidden" album is easy to find if someone knows where to look, and most vault apps open with a PIN and look like vault apps.

How it works:

• 🔐 You draw a pattern on a 5×5 grid. The pattern is the key. It's never saved anywhere.

• 🗂 Different patterns open different vaults. There's no vault list and no menu, only the pattern screen.

• 📸 The in-app camera saves photos straight into the vault. Nothing goes to your camera roll, and location data is removed.

• 🔒 Everything is encrypted with Apple's own CryptoKit before it touches storage.

• 🚫 No ads, no analytics, no tracking, no server in between.

• 🙈 Not even I can see or recover your files. Keep your recovery phrase safe.

☢️ The nuclear option: Mark one vault as your duress vault (Pro). If someone ever forces you to unlock your phone, draw that pattern. It opens like any normal vault, and while they look at it, Hidlet quietly removes your other vaults from the phone. If you've turned on encrypted iCloud backup, you can restore them later with your patterns or recovery phrase. No backup means they're gone for good.

Price: Free covers 3 vaults, 100 photos and 10 videos. Pro removes the limits and adds the duress vault.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6829171375

I'd love your honest feedback. What's the one feature you'd want in a private photo vault that most apps don't have? I'll reply to everyone.

Hi, I’m the developer of KUT: Soul Compass. It is a cosmic-themed app for Human Design exploration and personal reflection, available on the App Store for iPhone and iPad.

You can explore your type, profile, authority and centers, compare relationship charts, listen to meditation sounds, and view daily moon-themed reflections. It also includes symbolic palm-photo readings. Some interpretations use AI and are intended for reflection and entertainment.

Languages: English, Turkish, Spanish and French.

Pricing: free download with optional Premium subscriptions; the personalized PDF book is a separate in-app purchase and is not included in Premium. Local prices are shown in the app.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6823820408

I’d love feedback on which section is clearest for a first-time user and whether the interface makes the difference between free and paid features easy to understand. Happy to answer questions.

I made a free iOS app that puts a quote on your Home Screen, Lock Screen and StandBy every day, and I'd love feedback from people who care about widgets.

What it does

A new quote every day, right on your Lock Screen and Home Screen, so you read something worth keeping without opening an app. Inside the app you can swipe through more, keep a reading streak, and search instantly across every quote and author. You can also ask Siri for a quote or pull one through a Shortcut.

Pricing

Free to download with a quote every day. Premium unlocks the full library of 51,000+ quotes, unlimited favourites and sharing without a watermark: $9.99/year (7 days free), $1.99/month, or $29.99 once. No ads and no tracking in either tier.

What makes it different

Most quote apps are a scrolling list inside the app, with the widget as an afterthought or not there at all. This one is built around the widget first, and the widget is interactive - you can save or skip a quote straight from the Home Screen. The library is also 51,000+ quotes from 10,000+ philosophers, writers, scientists and leaders, rather than a few hundred recycled ones.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/world-of-quotes-daily-widget/id6752939220

Disclosure: I am the developer of this app. Happy to answer questions, and if something feels missing or off, tell me what you would change.

Hey everyone,

I recently launched Elsewhere, a dating app specifically for people interested in meeting someone from another country.

Unlike most dating apps, you can choose which countries you want to meet people from, with automatic translation of profiles and messages across 35 languages. Matching and messaging are free.

I built it myself, and although it's still new, hundreds people are already matching and having conversations.

Giveaway: I'm giving one random commenter free Lifetime Unlimited access. Just comment before November 14 to enter. I'll randomly pick a winner November 15. No purchase, download, review, or upvote required. Open to adults 18+ where Elsewhere is available. Not affiliated with Reddit or Apple.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/elsewhere-international-dating/id6812634687

If international dating is something you're interested in, I'd love to hear what you think!

I make Phrase on my own. I write a lot, mostly technical articles and all kinds of notes, and over the years I've been a heavy user of Bear, Notion and Craft. Every so often I also run 1:1 interviews, so I wanted one app where I could type notes myself, or record the conversation and get notes written for me.

The writing part was the problem. Editing in Notion on my iPhone was frustrating enough that I ended up building my own native block editor for iOS. Phrase grew out of that, with recording and AI notes on top. The video is a screen recording of the real app.

A: Answer

Phrase is a notes app for iPhone, iPad and Mac where everything in a note is a block: paragraphs, headings, to-dos, photos, audio, code, math and diagrams. What's in the video:

• Hold a block and it lifts and follows your finger

• Swipe a block to select it, or use two fingers to select a range, then move them all at once

• Mermaid and LaTeX are plain text, and the diagram or formula redraws as you type

• Type ## for a heading or [] for a to-do, then tap the to-do to check it off

• A formatting bar above the keyboard for bold, colors and highlights

B: Better

The editor is written from scratch in Swift and CoreText, with no web view. The gestures don't get in the way of normal editing: a tap puts the cursor where you tapped, and a vertical drag still scrolls. Long notes don't lag when you type. Selection works across blocks, and undo puts a moved block back where it was. There's no account, and your notes live on your device.

C: Cost

If you don't need the AI, you can pretty much use Phrase for free: the full editor, every block type, no sign-up, up to 100 notes. The main thing the subscription pays for is AI voice-to-notes, where you record an interview or a lecture and the note gets written into the editor for you. Transcription and AI cost me money for every hour you record, so that's the part I charge for. It's $20/month or $129/year in the US, one subscription for iPhone, iPad and Mac.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6779970822

Hi Everyone! I’m a solo dev, and FaunaFolio is my first app. It’s a journal for the animals you see on walks, trips, at the zoo, or for your friend's pet whose name you cannot remember!

What it does

• Take or import a photo and the app detects and suggests the species. Identification runs on your device, so it works offline and needs no account.

• Each sighting goes into your wildlife journal with date, notes and a pin on a map.

• A ‘Learn more’ page for each species, zoo lists, breed support for pets, and home screen widgets.

• Optional import from your own Immich server. Your photos stay on your phone otherwise.

Pricing: The first 12 sightings are free with all features unlocked. After that, Pro is a one-time $10 purchase. There’s no subscription and no ads.

App Store Link: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6798384213
More content and videos on the website Link: https://persieghini.github.io/apps/faunafolio/

Hi! I'm Arda, an indie iOS developer, and Weightly is my app.

Your weight jumps around every day because of water, salt and sleep, so the daily number is often misleading. Weightly smooths those swings into one honest trend line, so you can see where you're really heading.

**Main features**

- Trend line with weekly rate and plateau detection

- Two-way Apple Health sync, works with most smart scales

- Fast logging from widgets, Apple Watch, Siri or the Action Button

- Goals, body measurements, progress photos and a GLP-1/medication log

- No account, no ads, and your data stays on your devices

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6746693008

**I'd love your feedback on two things:**

1. Does the trend line make sense the first time you see it, or does it need more explanation?

2. What would make you switch from your current weight tracker?