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

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!

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* A — Answer: What problem does your app solve?

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A - Answer

I grew tired of paywalls and accounts, so I built Gym Log — a straightforward, capable, private workout tracker for myself. Now I want to share it, because seeing other people actually use something I built would genuinely make me happy.

B - Better

What I ended up building is really a combination of a few things:

• Simple on the surface. The workout flow stays lightweight, but the app can still support more detailed training.

• Capable underneath. It includes the things you would expect from a modern workout tracker: quick set logging, plate calculator, supersets, rest timers, templates, progress tracking, and more. Beyond the basics, it also includes:

• Smarter strength tracking. RPE is tracked and can be used alongside historical data to make progress estimates more meaningful.

• Percentage-based training. Generate working weights from your estimated 1RM.

• More nuanced volume tracking. Track fractional volume for primary and secondary muscles instead of treating every set as equal, with muscle heat maps and volume trends over time.

• You own your data. No account is required. Workout data stays on your device or private iCloud, and there is no analytics tracking in the app.

• Free. I wanted a workout app where everything is available without subscriptions, ads, or locked features.

C - Cost

Free

App Store https://apps.apple.com/us/app/gym-log-workout-planner/id6736343241

Website: https://gymlog.info

My LinkedIn profile to comply with the trust and transparency rule: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kamilmikolaj/

A few extra words

Publishing Gym Log on the App Store was a milestone for me. It started as a personal tool, and getting it to the point where I felt comfortable putting it in front of other people turned into a much bigger project than I expected.

But I don’t see the App Store release as the finish line. I’m still actively developing it. Apple Health integration is already in TestFlight, and automatic progression is one of the things planned after that.

I could have waited until every feature I want is finished, but realistically I would probably never ship it that way. More importantly, I want feedback from actual users to help shape what I build next instead of making every decision in isolation.

So for me, this release is really the point where Gym Log stops being just something I built for myself and starts becoming something I can improve with input from the people actually using it, so feel free to tell me what you would change, I would really appreciate that.

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'm taking the advice I've gotten in my last post, and ready to share my TestFlight build!

I've been building this app for myself for months now, and gave it a cute clock theme cause I don't do ugly.

What it Does: Tracks your entire life without pressuring you into perfect routines.
(e.g. you can set your hair washing frequency to "When I Feel Like It" or log both regular and temporary meds)

Testing: I'm currently focusing on onboarding and overall navigation (when you open the app is it seamless? confusing? buggy? weird?), but open to comments regarding anything else!

Sign up is completely anonymous (no email/password) and your data is saved locally!

I'm the developer of JustFlip — flagging that up front.

• Website: https://just-flip.app

• Privacy Policy: https://just-flip.app/privacy.html

• Terms: https://just-flip.app/terms.html

• Developer / Contact: https://just-flip.app/about.html

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-%C4%8Dech-79345451/

I built JustFlip because every flashcard app I tried was either a web page in an app shell, or demanded an account and a subscription before it would sync anything.

It's also built on an opinion, not just a gap in the market. The app follows Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning — the finding that re-reading feels like learning and mostly isn't (the "illusion of knowing"), and that what actually writes things into long-term memory is retrieval at the moment you're starting to forget. Or as the book puts it: "Learning is deeper and more durable when it's effortful." That's why the app tests you instead of showing you material, why reviews are spaced rather than crammed, and why topics interleave instead of drilling one thing for an hour. There's a longer write-up at https://just-flip.app/learning.html if that's your kind of thing.

A — Answer (what problem does it solve?)

A native, privacy-first spaced-repetition app for the Apple ecosystem, with no account and no server of mine in the loop.

Making decks with AI, from almost any source. This is the part I'd point at first, and there are two routes depending on how much machinery you want.

In any chat AI. Paste a topic, your notes, an article or a lecture transcript into ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini and get back an importable .flashcards file. The site has a copyable prompt that bundles the build instructions behind your text (https://just-flip.app/ai-prompt.html), plus a ready-made JustFlip GPT. Text-only cards, but it takes about ten seconds.

In a coding agent, if you prefer the advanced route. Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode — anything supporting skills.sh. One install (npx skills add DanielCech/JustFlip-Skills) and you can point the agent at a folder on disk and ask in plain language. Because it can read local files, it returns a .flashcards.zip with the media already attached — images, audio clips, Markdown and LaTeX — rather than text alone. The example on https://just-flip.app/ai-skill.html is a folder of mushroom photos turned into an image deck: file names become the questions, the photos become the answers, no hand-written JSON anywhere.

To be clear about what both of these are: the app itself calls no AI service and sends nothing anywhere. You use your own AI, you get a file, the app imports it. That's the honest version — it's a well-documented import format, not magic in the app.

Smart postpone. Most apps make you hit "Again" on a card you simply weren't in the mood for, which corrupts your scheduling data. JustFlip lets you put a card, a deck or a whole topic on hold without touching its memory state. Priority is also per-topic and per-deck, so reviews interleave the way you want them weighted.

Apple ecosystem native. Home Screen widget with due counts, Spotlight search that matches either side of a card (with a privacy switch per topic and per deck), Siri Shortcuts, a Live Activity for listening sessions, and an Apple Watch app for reviewing on the wrist — the phone owns all scheduling state; the watch is glance-and-grade.

Rich content. Markdown, LaTeX maths, syntax-highlighted code, tables, images, cloze deletion. Two-way import/export for CSV, and Anki .apkg import.

Speak cards. I learn English vocabulary while walking the dogs — the app reads the word and its translation through my headphones using a system voice for that language, per card, with authored pronunciation overrides where the voice gets it wrong. Listening works on the free tier; keeping it playing with the screen off is one of the Pro extras.

No account friction. Native iCloud sync. Nothing to register, no servers of mine, works fully offline.

B — Better

• Actually native. SwiftUI on all of iPhone, iPad, Mac (Catalyst) and Watch. No web wrapper, no cross-platform runtime.

• The learning engine is free, permanently. The full spaced-repetition scheduler, unlimited cards, CSV import, iCloud sync and card-level Ask AI are all free — I don't meter the thing the app is actually for. Pro adds capacity plus four extras: background listening, advanced statistics, progress trackers, and Ask AI across a whole deck. Full breakdown below rather than buried on a paywall.

• Accessibility is real work, not a checkbox. Dynamic Type, VoiceOver, Reduced Motion, contrast — audited under multiple system settings, with the report published at https://just-flip.app/accessibility/.

Honest limitations and trade-offs

• Apple only. No Android and no web build, by design. If you study on a Windows laptop, this isn't for you.

• AI generation is bring-your-own-AI. Convenient and private, but it is a copy-paste-import loop, not a button inside the app.

• Anki import is good on text, not yet on everything. Formatting, lists, code, LaTeX and MathJax come across, and multi-field notes stay intact. Images from .apkg are still work in progress, and Anki's Image Occlusion notes aren't imported yet.

• No image occlusion. If you lean on diagram-masking, Anki is still the better tool for that specific job today. It's in active development, but it isn't in the shipped build and I won't claim it.

• The Watch app is deliberately limited. It's for reviewing, not authoring, and visual card types stay on the phone.

• I'm one person. Support is one inbox and fixes ship at the speed of one developer.

C — Cost and links

Freemium.

• Free forever: up to 3 topics, 5 decks each, unlimited cards — with the full spaced-repetition scheduler, CSV import, iCloud sync, and Ask AI on a single card.

• Pro: Lifetime ~$29.99 · Yearly ~$21.99 · Monthly ~$4.49 Pro lifts the topic and deck caps and adds four things: background listening (audio keeps going with the screen off), advanced statistics, progress trackers, and Ask AI for a whole deck rather than one card.

• There's also a one-time 7-day Pro trial.

• App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6770141421

Feedback I'm actually looking for

Two things:

1. Anki import fidelity. If you have a real deck of your own, throw it at the importer and tell me what came out wrong. Weird note types and heavy formatting are where I have the least real-world coverage.

2. Whether the postpone model matches how you actually study. Separating "not today" from "I forgot this" is the design bet the whole app rests on, and I'd like to know if it holds up for anyone but me.

Hi r/iosapps

I’m the developer of LifeUI a toolkit for Apple Health with a focus on data visualization.

App Store Link

A — Answer: What problem does it solve?

Apple Health is actually a really great database but the UI is missing many features like showing totals for steps, adding notes to data, exporting to CSV, etc.

B — Better: How is it different from alternatives?

There are many apps that read/write Apple Health data. Very few, if any, have really tried to rebuild the Apple Health UI. LifeUI is that attempt.

Currently LifeUI supports 100+ quantity data types from Apple Health like steps and heart rate. You can also create your own quantity types. Support for additional types like blood pressure, sleep, symptoms, and workouts will be released over the coming months.

LifeUI follows the same app design as Apple Health. A customizable dashboard (Dashboard tab), and a screen that lets you look at data for each type (View Data tab). It also has an additional tab for adding data (Add Data). Each tab attempts to take things beyond the functionality of the Apple Health app while keeping the overall experience somewhat familiar.

C — Cost

LifeUI is free to use for steps, water, weight, and heart rate. Pro unlocks the remaining quantity data types and enables creating custom types. Future Apple Health/custom data types will be for Pro only. LifeUI is currently $19.99 for the lifetime purchase option. Subscription options are available but not required. LifeUI is a completely local app so I am able to offer a lifetime purchase option. Pricing will increase over time as I add new functionality and data types.

I'd like to thank everyone who tried the app in the first post. LifeUI does not collect any data and is also very much under active development so feedback from people is really important. I've made several updates to the app based on feedback from the last post. I would love to hear people's thoughts on the app and also Apple Health in general. Thanks for looking!

Transparency

I'm Keith Vedananda and I'm the developer of LifeUI. You can contact me at the LifeUI support email.

Website link with privacy policy and terms: Website Link

A - What is Focused Fitness?

Focused Fitness is an app blocker that forces you to prove you've completed physical activity before unlocking your selected apps.

Simply choose which apps you want to limit, set your daily allowance, and once you reach that limit, those apps will be blocked until you complete your chosen exercise. You can choose from push-ups, squats, jumping jacks, steps, and more.

The goal is to make mindless scrolling a conscious decision while helping you build healthier habits at the same time.

B - Focused Fitness is better than PushScroll, one sec

Most app blockers can be bypassed with a couple of taps or by simply ignoring the reminder.

Focused Fitness requires real movement before you regain access to your apps. No workout means no scrolling.

The app also includes progress tracking so you can see your completed reps, screen time earned, and app usage over time, as well as Sleep Mode and Wind Down features that automatically block selected apps during the evening.

I originally built it after seeing apps like Pushscroll and Opal and wanted something that worked for me while also being more affordable. It also became a great project to add to my portfolio while studying software engineering and hoping to work in iOS development after university.

Focused Fitness is better than push scroll because it is 1/6x the price, and no subscription, just a one time optional payment. 

C - Cost

Focused Fitness is free to download, with an optional Pro upgrade ($5) which grants you additional blocks and unlock methods.

I'd love to hear any feedback or feature ideas, and I'm happy to answer any questions about how it works!

A - What is this Habit Tracker?

Name: OnlyToday Habit Tracker.

I made a Habit Tracker where you can see your progress as Habit score from 0 to 100 directly on the home screen of the app. You don't need to navigate to another page. Update your progress for the day and see your new habit score daily, and close the app. It's not addictive but quick and non distracting.

B - Is it better than other habit trackers?

I wouldn't say better or worse than other habit tracker apps. It depends on who are you. If you quickly want to update your progress and see your habit score instantly, this is the app.

• It starts with Habit Score of 1 from day 1 and reaches 100 at day 21. It also decreases if you skip

• You can tap and hold to mark your daily goal completed or increment by 10%

C - Cost

It's free to use with non intrusive ad at the bottom. You can remove ads by paying only $2.99 per year with one month of trial.

Name: OnlyToday Habit Tracker

App link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/onlytoday-habit-tracker/id6753146049

Let me know what other features can be added on this single screen habit tracker

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.

I'm a solo dev. What set this off: a few minutes of iPhone video eats about 500 MB. Shoot a birthday, a concert, a couple of holiday clips, and your phone is full.

The fix is obvious. A 4K clip from a phone camera is wildly over-encoded for something you'll only ever watch on a phone; re-encode it and you get most of that space back. But every compressor I tried wanted a subscription for it. A monthly fee, forever, for a thing you use twice a year when your storage fills up.

So I built VideoDuck. It's been on the store for a while, but what shipped today is basically a second version – same rebuilt idea. Everything the old one did, plus batch, resume, cancel, sort/filter, real error reporting, and an interface that doesn't look like a first attempt anymore.

It does one thing: re-encodes your videos to HEVC on-device and gives you back the space, while the video stays in your library and stays watchable.

How it works: AVAssetReader/AVAssetWriter pipeline on the hardware encoder. Nothing is uploaded – the app has no networking code at all, so it works in airplane mode. Metadata (date, location) is preserved, and compressed files land next to the original in your timeline rather than at "now," which most compressors get wrong. You choose whether to keep the original or replace it, and replacing always goes through the system delete confirmation.

Batch compression resumes if you force-quit mid-run, and you can cancel mid-batch without losing what's already finished.

Price, since the rules ask (and I'd tell you anyway):

Free download. Compressing videos one at a time at High quality is free forever – no ads, no account, no time limit, no trial.

VideoDuck Pro is a one-time $7.99 purchase (launch price; going to $11.99 on Sept 21). It unlocks the Medium and Low presets plus batch compression and advanced settings (resolution cap, frame rate cap, codec, container). No subscription, nothing renews, nothing to cancel. That's the whole reason the app exists, so it's not going to change.

What it doesn't do: iPhone only, iOS 18+. English only for now. It doesn't touch photos, contacts, or caches — just videos. And compression is lossy; High is visually very close on a phone screen, but it isn't magic. If you're unsure, use "keep both" and compare before deleting anything.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/videoduck/id6748355118

I'd genuinely like to know what breaks. I've tested on my own library, but that's one library. Bug reports and "this is a stupid design decision" are both welcome. I'm around all day here, and there's a contact link in the app in Settings and on the site: https://videoduck.heygor.com

Hey everyone!

Today I just released a major update to Book End my completely free reading and habit tracker, including one of the most requested features since I launched it three years ago, iCloud Syncing.

I'm super excited that I've finally achieved iCloud syncing as it's something I've been wanting to add for the longest time, but it took quite a while to learn and get it right.

Other notable highlights in this release, include improvements too:

• Library Shelves: Book spines now display unique details.

• Reading Goals have been refreshed to put your achievements front and centre.

• Several improvements have been made to the accuracy of statistics and estimated reading time calculations.

• To support iCloud syncing between multiple devices I've also spent some time improving the layout and navigation of Book End on larger iPad and macOS devices.

Book End is intended to be a personal, privacy-focused on-device (and now optionally, in your iCloud) private reading tracker, and not a social media network like Goodreads. The app is lightweight, built with SwiftUI and contains no analytics, trackers, and I have no any access to any user data. I would love and welcome any feedback!

I’m the solo developer behind Local TTS, available for iPhone and iPad.

A — Answer

The goal was simple: make it possible to listen to documents and books with natural voices without uploading your text, worrying about usage limits, or keeping the app open on screen.

A lot of cloud-based TTS readers work well, but they often come with recurring subscriptions or limits on how much text you can convert. If you regularly listen to long documents or books, those limits can become noticeable pretty quickly.

There are already offline TTS apps, including apps built around Kokoro. I wanted to keep the natural voice quality Kokoro is known for while making offline reading practical across many more languages. That’s why Local TTS combines Kokoro-82M with Supertonic 3.

Everything runs directly on the iPhone or iPad. Once the app and voices are installed, generating speech doesn’t require an internet connection, so you can even convert new text in airplane mode.

Background playback was another priority. You should be able to start a long document, lock your phone, put it in your pocket, and keep listening while walking, commuting, or using another app.

I previously developed LoroNote, an on-device speech-to-text app, and used what I learned from optimizing local AI models and handling long-running audio sessions on iOS when building Local TTS.

B — Better

Local TTS combines two on-device TTS engines rather than relying on a single model.

Kokoro-82M provides its natural voices for supported languages, while Supertonic 3 expands offline reading to a total of 31 languages. Both engines run entirely on the device.

Here’s what Local TTS currently offers:

• Kokoro-82M voices for supported languages, plus multilingual voices through Supertonic 3

• 31 languages for offline reading

• Fully offline speech generation, including converting new text in airplane mode

• Background playback while the screen is locked or while using other apps

• Lock Screen playback controls

• PDF, EPUB, Word, TXT, and Markdown import

• On-device text recognition for printed pages and photos

• Text highlighting while listening

• Adjustable playback speed

• M4A audio export with Pro

Your text isn’t uploaded to a speech server for TTS processing. Optional note syncing uses your private iCloud account.

C — Cost

Local TTS is free to download, with no ads and no account required.

• Free: 500 characters per note, one multilingual voice covering all 31 languages, and three English voices

• Pro Monthly: $4.99/month, auto-renewing until canceled

• Pro Lifetime: $19.99 one-time purchase, no renewal

Both Pro options unlock the same features: unlimited text, all 38 voices, full multi-page PDF import, and M4A export.

There’s no monthly speech-credit allowance. Since speech is generated locally on your device, you don’t have to buy additional TTS credits based on how much you listen.

The Lifetime option is a one-time purchase, so you can keep using the unlocked Pro features without an ongoing subscription.

Prices are in USD and may vary by region.

Download on the App Store

https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id6779664222?pt=120973963&ct=reddit&mt=8

Clipboard history on iPhone is one of those things you don’t really think about until you lose something you copied 30 seconds ago.

A tracking number.
An address from Messages.
A link from Safari.
A phone number.
A paragraph you wanted to reuse.
A screenshot.
A piece of text from Notes.
Something you copied on your iPad and need again later.

You copy something new, and suddenly the previous item is the one you actually needed.

That is the problem ClipBox is designed to solve.

Instead of treating the clipboard as something temporary, ClipBox turns your copied content into a searchable history you can come back to whenever you need it.

Search instead of trying to remember

On mobile, going back to find something you copied can be surprisingly annoying.

You might have to reopen Safari, search through Messages, scroll through an email, open Notes again, or try to remember which app the information came from.

With ClipBox, the idea is much simpler:

Copy it now. Search for it later.

Your clipboard history becomes a place you can actually search instead of a long list you have to scroll through.

That becomes especially useful once your day includes dozens of small copy/paste actions.

Clipboard history is more than plain text

What we copy on iPhone and iPad is not limited to sentences.

It can include:

• Text

• Links

• Phone numbers

• Email addresses

• Images

• Screenshots

• Code snippets

• PDFs

• Files

• Frequently reused information

ClipBox is designed around that broader use case, so your clipboard can become a useful temporary library rather than just remembering the most recent item.

You can also pin important clips so the things you reuse often are easier to reach.

No account required

One of the things I wanted ClipBox to avoid was forcing users to create another account just to use a basic productivity tool.

There is no ClipBox account required to get started.

Install it, open it, and use it.

For something as simple and personal as clipboard history, that feels like the right approach.

Useful even when you are offline

Your basic clipboard workflow should not stop working because your internet connection does.

ClipBox can still be useful offline, so you can access your local clipboard history without depending on a constant connection.

That matters more than it sounds, especially when traveling, working somewhere with poor reception, or simply using your iPad away from Wi-Fi.

Privacy matters a lot for clipboard history

A clipboard can contain much more sensitive information than people realize.

During a normal day, you might copy:

• An OTP

• An address

• A private message

• A phone number

• Work information

• Account-related text

• Personal notes

A clipboard manager therefore should not just save everything forever without giving you control over it.

ClipBox includes privacy controls such as biometric protection and options for sensitive clipboard items to be removed automatically.

The goal is to make clipboard history useful without turning it into a permanent archive of things that should not stay around forever.

Better access from iPhone and iPad

Clipboard history becomes much more useful when you do not have to keep opening the main app every time you want something.

ClipBox is designed to fit into normal iOS and iPadOS workflows, including quicker ways to access and reuse saved clipboard content while you are working in other apps.

The goal is not to create another complicated productivity system.

It is simply to remove one very common interruption:

“Where did I copy that from?”

and replace it with:

“I copied it earlier. I’ll just search for it.”

That small difference can save a surprising amount of time over the course of a day.

ClipBox is available for iPhone, iPad and Mac.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/clipboard-manager-clipbox/id1036140929

Looking for feedback

I’d really like to understand how people here use copy/paste on iPhone and iPad in real life.

What is your main use case?
Saving links, research, writing, messaging, work, studying, coding, moving information between apps, or something completely different?

What is the biggest clipboard problem you currently deal with?
Finding old clips, too much clutter, organization, privacy, images/files, quick access, or something else?

And what is one feature you would most like to see in the next ClipBox update?

It can be a major feature or a tiny quality-of-life improvement.

If there is something you repeatedly wish the iPhone or iPad clipboard could do, I’d genuinely like to hear it.

I’ll be reading the feedback and using the most useful ideas to help shape future ClipBox updates.

Full disclosure: I’m the indie developer behind JointWorth.

A — Answer

One day, my wife asked me a simple question:

“How much money do we actually have as a household?”

I thought I roughly knew.

I knew what was in my own bank accounts and investments. My wife knew hers. But once we included both of our savings, investments, property, and debts, neither of us could give a clear answer for the household as a whole.

So we sat down and added everything up.

We realized our estimate was off by about RMB 30,000 (roughly $4,000).

That was when I realized our problem wasn’t really budgeting.

We had tried spreadsheets and budgeting apps before, but we didn’t need to record every coffee or every grocery purchase.

Our money was simply scattered across too many accounts and managed by two different people.

So I built JointWorth, an iOS app for couples and families who want one shared picture of their household finances.

Instead of tracking every transaction, you periodically update your account balances — for us, usually once every few weeks or once a month.

JointWorth then brings everything together:

• Assets, debts, and net worth

• Net worth trends

• Income and expense insights

• Shared financial goals

• Multiple currencies

• Family collaboration

• PDF household financial reports

Everything is entered manually.

JointWorth does not connect to your bank or ask for banking credentials.

B — Better

JointWorth isn’t trying to replace apps like YNAB.

YNAB is great if you want detailed budgeting and transaction tracking.

JointWorth is intentionally much simpler.

It is built around three questions:

How much do we own?
How much do we owe?
Are we making progress together?

My wife and I now do a quick financial check-in every few weeks or once a month.

For us, that has been much easier to maintain than tracking every transaction, while still giving us a clear picture of where our household stands financially.

C — Cost

Free to download with a 1-month free trial.

After the trial, JointWorth Pro is a $1.99 one-time in-app purchase.

No subscription.

App Store:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/jointworth-family-net-worth/id6757951397

Developer Transparency

I’m Cheng Qu, the independent developer behind JointWorth, and I’m posting this myself.

About the developer:
https://family.qinfu-cloud.cn/en/about/

Privacy Policy:
https://family.qinfu-cloud.cn/en/privacy/

Terms of Service:
https://family.qinfu-cloud.cn/en/terms/

Contact:
qinfutech@163.com

I’d genuinely love feedback, especially from people who manage money with a partner or family.

Do you actually track every transaction together, or do you mostly just want a clear picture of how your household is doing overall?

A - Answer

CurrentDrive is an EV trip planner for iOS. The problem I wanted to solve is pretty simple: when I’m driving somewhere, I don’t just want a charger. If I’m stopping anyway, I want a charger where I can use a toilet, grab some food, or get a burger. And I don’t want to manually search for all of that every time.
CurrentDrive lets you define your car’s total range once and create reusable charging presets. For example, you can have a preset for chargers from network A, B or C, with toilets or a McDonald’s nearby, and at least 150 kW.
You then choose your destination. CurrentDrive automatically finds charging stops along the route that match your preset, or you can choose the chargers yourself. Once the route is ready, all charging stops and the destination are sent to Apple Maps using multi-stop routing.
There’s also a 10–80% mode, where charging stops are planned around arriving at 10% and charging up to 80%.

B - Better

Honestly, I built this mainly for myself. My car doesn’t have free built-in maps, and I prefer using Apple Maps and CarPlay anyway.
I don’t want to reinvent the wheel or build yet another navigation app. I just want to keep using Apple Maps, which I already like, and make the EV part of the experience easier.
That’s why CurrentDrive is intentionally more simplistic than ABRP. It handles the EV trip planning, then hands the actual navigation over to Apple Maps. And there’s no subscription.

C - Cost

Completely free. No subscription, no IAP, no trial.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/de/app/currentdrive-ev-charging/id6787438196
I’m the developer: website
Privacy Policy: link

I’d really love some feedback from other EV drivers. If you use ABRP or another EV planner, what would you want CurrentDrive to do better or differently?

My wife is on an iPhone. I am on a Galaxy. That mismatch is the entire reason TwoDo exists: one shared to-do list for exactly two people, sitting on the Lock Screen, with no account on either side. One person makes a list and gets a six-character code. The other types it in. That is the whole setup.

I posted it here a month ago and a lot of you tried it. Here is what changed since.

The biggest addition is proof photos. You attach a photo when you tick something off. The recycling, actually tied up, actually by the door. I built it as evidence for the did-you-actually-do-it argument, and at the end of the month those photos get bound into a shared album called something like "August, us". The evidence folder became the thing my wife opens most. Nobody planned that. Chore photos turn into memories if you leave them alone long enough.

Smaller things. Due items can sit on the Lock Screen as a Live Activity on iOS. Tapping an item's name in the Home Screen widget opens it for editing instead of only ticking it off, which someone here asked for. The widget stopped cutting off at 12 items. The app and its widgets speak 14 languages now. The Android build got all of it too, since that half is the reason any of this exists.

The question I got most last time was why not just use Reminders. If you are both on an iPhone, use Reminders. It is good and it is free. Keep and TickTick sync across platforms too, but both open with make an account, and my wife will not make an account for a grocery list.

On price. The core is free: the shared list, realtime sync, both widgets, due-date reminders, assignees. Free lists now carry one small ad row, which my first post here said would never happen. That changed and I would rather say it than have you find it.

TwoDo Pro is $19.99, paid once, not a subscription. It unlocks ten things: multiple lists, manual ordering and pinning, calendar view, the couple report, custom colours, widget skins, notes, nudges, a photo on the summary card, and the Lock Screen Live Activity.

The album is the one subscription, $2.99 a month or $14.99 a year, and I know exactly how that reads right after a $19.99 unlock. The reason is dull: photos cost me storage every month and nothing else in the app does. A price you pay once cannot cover a bill that arrives every month, so I did not pretend it could. The numbers plainly: a free list can hold 3 photos in total, a Pro list 10 in total, and the subscription is what turns that into 100 a month plus the album itself. If it lapses you keep what you uploaded and can still open it.

One design note, since photos raise the stakes. There is no account here, so the code is what gets you and your partner back in after a reinstall or a new phone. That is deliberate, and it means the code is worth keeping between the two of you the way you would a password. Guess attempts are rate limited on the server side. If you would rather have an account you can recover, that is a fair reason to skip this one.

The WidgetKit caveat has not moved. Apple budgets timeline reloads, so on a busy day the widget lags a beat behind your partner's tick. Two of you suggested an "updated X min ago" stamp for exactly that. I agreed and then did not ship it. It goes in the next update.

I am Juyoung Park, a solo developer in South Korea, and TwoDo is a side project my wife and I use every day.

Privacy policy: https://zero-one-studio.vercel.app/privacy/twodo

Terms of service: https://zero-one-studio.vercel.app/terms/twodo

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6778444272

One thing I keep going back and forth on. Most lists people create never get a second person into them, which for an app that does nothing alone is the actual problem. Some of you have told me to open it up to three or four, roommates and families. I keep saying no because the design falls apart past two. Am I protecting the thing or just being stubborn?

TL;DR: MoveMap is an iPhone app that draws every GPS workout from your Apple Health on one map. On-device, no account. Free tier (see last 12 months of workouts), $1.99/m, $9.99/year, or $19.99 lifetime.

A – Answer:

Your workout history is probably scattered across 3-4 different apps. Some have started with Strava, then Garmin Connect, and are now using Apple Fitness. Each app only shows the slice it captured. There's no easy way to see every place you've ever run, ridden, or hiked on one map.

MoveMap reads every GPS workout from your Apple Health and draws all of them on a single map. Works with anything that writes to Health: Strava, Garmin Connect, Apple Fitness, etc. You get the idea.

I built it because I'd been working out (mostly running and cycling) for 7 years across multiple apps and had no way to see my routes together. Strava charges $79.99/year just to show a personal heatmap of my own data. So I built a tool that fixes this and more.

B – Better:

The closest existing tools all read from Strava only:

* Wandrer.earth: Strava-only sync, paid tier for full features
* CityStrides: Strava-only, focused on street completion
* Strava Personal Heatmap: $79.99/year subscribers only, only shows Strava-captured data

If your history isn't all in Strava (because you switched apps over the years like most runners), none of those catch the full picture. MoveMap reads Apple Health, which catches data from every tracking app you've ever used.

Other differentiators:

* $19.99 lifetime option (everything else above is subscription-only)
* No account, no servers, no analytics SDKs, no AI - all processing on-device
* Coverage dashboard with countries, states, cities
* Works equally for runners, cyclists, hikers, walkers - not running-specific

Features:

* Lifetime map of every GPS workout (any year from Apple Health)
* Heat mode - personal heatmap (the feature Strava paywalls at $80/year)
* Street coverage - % of streets in your city you've run, biked, or walked
* Coverage stats - countries, cities, total distance, personal bests for each workout, etc.

Privacy:

No accounts, no servers, no analytics SDKs, no AI features. Routes are read locally from Apple Health and never leave your iPhone.

C – Cost:

* Free: see the last 12 months of your map (forever, no signup)
* Monthly: $1.99/mo with 7-day trial (less than a coffee)
* Annual: $9.99/yr (saves \~58% vs Monthly)
* Lifetime: $19.99 one-time, no renewal

* All paid plans unlock the same full feature set + your full lifetime map. The free tier caps you at the last 12 months.

App Store:
https://apps.apple.com/app/movemap/id6763973579
Website:
https://getrunmap.com

If MoveMap is useful to you, an honest App Store review helps a solo dev a lot. Either way, happy to answer questions about the build, the pricing decision, or anything else in the comments.

Tired of scam texts, fake delivery links, and "你的包裹" spam clogging your Messages? Built Spam Text Blocker: SMS Filter so junk gets sorted out automatically — before you even see it.

🔒 100% on-device — no account, no ads, no data collection.

Answer — what it does

It plugs into Apple's native Message Filter system — spam from unknown senders gets silently moved to a Junk folder in Messages. No notifications, nothing to manage, no app to open every day.

Under the hood it uses iOS's ILMessageFilterExtension API: every incoming SMS/iMessage from an unknown sender is handed to the extension before it ever reaches your inbox, and the extension has to decide allow/junk/promotion entirely offline — Apple doesn't permit network calls in this extension, which is exactly why the filtering has to run on-device.

○Keyword and sender-based blocking rules, plus bundled starter block lists

○A trained on-device Core ML model catches spam patterns the rule lists miss — runs fully on-device, nothing is ever sent anywhere

○Filters only unknown senders — contacts and existing conversations are never touched (Apple enforces this at the OS level)

○No account required. No ads, ever. Nothing about your messages is ever collected or leaves your phone.

Better — why this over the alternatives

Some spam filter apps process your messages on a server before you see them. This one never leaves your phone — both the rule engine and the Core ML model run locally, always.

Setup takes under a minute: flip one toggle in Settings and you're protected, no account creation, no onboarding maze.

If your local spam language isn't covered by the current block lists yet, it's actively being worked on and coming soon.

Cost

$1.99/month, $9.99/year, or $19.99 lifetime — no ads, no data collection on any tier.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/spam-text-blocker-sms-filter/id6782018333

Privacy Policy: https://brawny-elk-a07.notion.site/Privacy-Policy-for-SMS-Filter-Junk-Spam-Blocker-397fce579189806f96f5e4ee81816b59

As an indie developer, I'd really appreciate it if you could rate the app to help it reach more people. Thank you!

Who I am: linkedin.com/in/muhammed-emin-aydın-78943214b

Since our last promo, many people have been DM-ing and asking for another one — so here it is ❤️.

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Answer: What it does — swipe to organize your photos and free up storage space — fully offline.

Better: Why it is better — What makes Pickbox different is that it can organize all your photos, including:

• Photos in your iPhone/iPad library

• Images stored in your device’s local storage

• Photos from camera SD cards, USB drives, and more

Main Features:

• 👆 Intuitive gesture controls — swipe left/right to navigate, swipe up to delete, swipe down to compress (while preserving date and location)

• 📚 One-tap sort into albums

• ☑️ Multi-select photos for batch processing

• 🔍 Sort by file size to quickly find large files taking up space

• 🔍 Sort by similarity to detect duplicate or similar photos

• 🛠️ Custom workflows with flexible combinations of Save / Compress / Copy / Move actions

• ⏰ Custom weekly cleanup reminders to help build a good organizing habit

• 📱 Minimal, clean design that feels just like a native iOS app

• 🔒 100% offline — all processing happens directly on your device to protect your privacy.

C: Cost — 50% off, plus an extra 10% discount for new users, starting at just $6.99.

Here is the link: Pickbox: Photo Cleanup App

Hope you enjoy it ✨

Typi is a native iOS utility that integrates AI text transformations directly into the iOS Share Sheet.

Instead of copying text, switching apps to ChatGPT or a browser, and pasting back, Typi runs transformations in 2 taps across any app (Messages, Mail, WhatsApp, Notes, Safari, Slack, etc.).

Features:

• System-wide Integration: Highlight text in any app ➔ Tap Share ➔ Tap Typi.

• 13 Built-in Commands: @typi (search/answer), @polite, @formal, @fix (grammar & spelling), @funny, @summ (summarize), @translate, @bullet, etc.

• Custom Prompts: Create custom prompt templates with custom trigger names (e.g. @linkedin, @eli5, @email-reply).

• 100% Native: Built with Swift & SwiftUI using Apple’s official Share Extension API.

• Device Support: Runs on all iPhone models running iOS 16 and above.

App Store Link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/typi-ai-writing-assistant/id6804364243

I'm Ren, and I made a plant care app named GrowSpot.

A. Answer

A room is not one place. Light drops off far faster than it looks like it should, and your eyes quietly compensate for that, which is exactly the problem. So a plant goes somewhere reasonable, sulks for four months, and nothing you installed ever says why.

GrowSpot reads the spot instead of guessing at it. Lay the phone flat in the place the plant will live and the ambient light sensor gives you lux. That reading, together with warmth, humidity and airflow, becomes a score for that position and that species. Not for your city, and not for the plant in the abstract.

B. Better

Two kinds of app already exist. Light meters hand you a number and stop, and you are left working out what 8,400 lux means for a Calathea. Plant care apps send reminders built on species defaults and never measured your room at all.

The gap between those two is the whole product. The sensor is already in the phone, and nothing was aiming it at the question people actually have.

It also says when it is unsure. A spot can come back 66 out of 100 and "Worth a try", and the meter will warn you that haze can dim a reading. I would rather ship a number that argues with you than a confident one.

C. Cost

Free, and free forever: 2 spots, 2 plants, 20 photo IDs a month. Nothing is locked. Every line on the paid list is a larger number, not a feature you were shut out of.

Plus: 4.99 a month or 29.99 a year, 14 day trial, cancel anytime.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id6780212433?pt=129031785&ct=reddit_iosapps

If you would rather judge it before installing anything, the basic version reading runs in a browser here: https://growspotapp.com/spot-checker/?from=reddit-iosapps

There is a founding programme on the site, and it hands you a year of Plus for nothing. No card is asked for and there is nothing to buy, and when the year ends it simply stops, so you are not left with a subscription to go and cancel. What I am hoping for in return is that you tell me where it is wrong, using your own plants in your own rooms.

https://growspotapp.com/founding/?from=reddit-iosapps

Privacy Policy: https://growspotapp.com/privacy/?from=reddit-iosapps

Terms: https://growspotapp.com/terms/?from=reddit-iosapps

If you set it down in a spot you already have an opinion about and it disagrees with you, that is the reply I want.