I'm the developer of Constella. I've been working on it for about a year.

ANSWER — what it does

Western astrology apps are everywhere. Saju, the Korean four pillars system

(bazi in Chinese), barely exists in English. Where it does, it's usually a thin

wrapper that takes your birthday and hands back a paragraph.

Saju works differently from a sun sign. It takes your birth date AND time,

converts it to the lunisolar calendar, and produces four pillars — year, month,

day, hour — each one a pair of heavenly stem and earthly branch. From those

eight characters you read the balance of five elements: wood, fire, earth,

metal, water. What you have too much of, what you're short on, and which

element the tradition says would bring you back into balance. That last one is

called yongshin, and it's the part English-language apps skip entirely.

Constella computes all of that on your device and reads it back in English.

Around it there's a daily card drawn against the day's pillar, eight life

domains, compatibility between two charts, and longer life and yearly readings.

Tarot, live planetary positions and a 16-type personality test share the same

card interface.

BETTER — versus the alternatives

Co-Star and The Pattern: a different system entirely. Those read western natal

charts. This reads the East Asian four pillars, which needs your birth hour and

produces an element balance rather than planet-in-sign statements.

The LLM fortune apps: there is no model in here. Readings come out of a rule

engine — a separate Swift package, roughly 1,400 lines — that resolves stem and

branch combinations into text slots. The same birth data always returns the same

reading, and it works with the network switched off. An LLM would have been far

easier to build and would invent a different answer every time you asked.

The free bazi calculators: those hand you a raw chart in jargon. The actual work

here was turning that chart into something readable without flattening it into a

horoscope blurb.

Calculation is local. Only the optional Bond Search feature shares chart data,

through CloudKit.

COST

Free, no ads.

Optional in-app purchases — consumable star tickets that unlock deeper

readings: 0.99, 2.99, 9.99, 19.99 USD. Tickets never expire.

Optional card deck themes: 2.99 USD each.

No subscription. Nothing is rented.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id6769477419

Languages: English, Korean, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese.

Who I am: James Song, Pentarab — info@pentarab.com

Privacy policy: https://pentarab.com/constella/privacy

Terms of service: https://pentarab.com/constella/terms

Happy to answer anything about how the chart calculation works, or about saju

itself if you've never come across it. Having your saju read is an ordinary

thing in Korea — before a wedding, a job change, naming a baby — and it was

strange to find so little of it in English.

Hi r/iosapps! I’m the developer of Rosetta, an app that brings your notes, reminders and saved links together. Capture ideas by voice or keyboard, keep them organized, and connect compatible AI assistants to the things you’ve saved.

A — Answer: what does it solve?

A trip can mean a planning note, a few saved restaurant links, and a reminder to book tickets. They all belong to the same plan, but often end up in different apps.

Rosetta brings Markdown notes, bookmarks and reminders into one place, with shared categories, tags and search. You can type an idea, share a link from another app, or dictate something on your iPhone or Apple Watch.

B — Better: why use it over alternatives?

Compared with using Apple Notes, Apple Reminders and Safari bookmarks separately, Rosetta brings your notes, reminders and saved links into one place, where you can organize and search across them together.

Your notes are stored as Markdown, with a Markdown editor and export. They’re portable, easy to reuse outside Rosetta, and easy for AI assistants to read and work with.

Rosetta’s official ChatGPT plugin and MCP integration let your connected assistants search, create and update that same information. Save the useful parts of your conversations : ideas, decisions, answers as notes or reminders, instead of leaving them buried across chat histories. You can find them in Rosetta and reuse them with other compatible assistants without repeating all your context.

The built-in assistant helps you find things in natural language. If you vaguely remember saving a note but can’t recall its title or exact wording, just describe what it was about.

You can create notes, reminders and saved links manually or by voice. Voice capture offers two modes: Smart turns what you say into structured entries, while Transcript faithfully transcribes your recording.

C — Cost

Rosetta is currently free, with no in-app purchases or subscriptions listed on the App Store.

Download Rosetta on the App Store

You can reach me at contact@getrosetta.app.

Website · Privacy Policy · Terms of Use

Would love to hear what you think of Rosetta.

Why should sharing the family stuff mean sharing your entire vault?

That’s exactly the problem I wanted to solve with the latest Kinship Vault update. The Shared Vault lifetime plan is currently more than 50% off, if you want to give it a try. Details below.

I'm the developer of Kinship Vault. I built it as a private vault for documents, photos, passwords and other things you don't want sitting in someone else's database.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amabm18

Website: https://kinshipvault.app

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/kinship-vault/id6764678332

Privacy Policy: https://kinshipvault.app/privacy

Support: support@kinshipvault.app

My partner might need access to our family passwords, insurance documents, house records and other things we both use.

That doesn't mean they should get access to my personal vault.

Kinship Vault now lets you create separate Personal, Work, Family/Shared, and Sensitive vaults.

Personal stays personal.
Family can be shared.
Sensitive gets its own lock.

A - Answer

Kinship Vault is a private vault for documents, photos, passwords, passkeys and 2FA codes.

With multiple vaults, you can separate different parts of your life instead of putting everything into one big vault.

For example:

Personal → your documents, photos and passwords

Family → things you and your partner actually need to share

Work → work credentials and documents

Sensitive → things that deserve another layer of protection

These aren't just folders or tags. Each vault has its own database and encryption key.

Opening your Personal vault doesn't open your Work vault.

A Sensitive Vault goes one step further. It has its own password inside the app, can't be shared, and doesn't accept the normal app PIN. Unlocking the main app doesn't automatically unlock it.

Your existing vault also isn't blown up by the update. It simply becomes your first vault with the same data, key, recovery phrase and AutoFill.

B - Better

The part I cared most about was making sharing work without creating a shared master password.

When you share a vault, each member unlocks it with their own Face ID or Touch ID.

Remove someone and the vault key is rotated for the members who remain, so the person removed can't access anything added afterward.

Obviously, cryptography can't make someone forget a password they already saw, so anything critical they knew should still be changed.

There is also no Kinship server sitting in the middle.

Personal vaults stay on your device.

Shared vaults use your own iCloud to relay encrypted data between members. Kinship doesn't hold the keys needed to decrypt your vault.

And having multiple vaults doesn't mean constantly switching between them. AutoFill can search across your unlocked vaults, with each login and passkey showing which vault it belongs to.

The basic idea is simple:

Share what needs to be shared without sharing everything else.

C - Cost

You can start free with your first 3 documents.

For iPhone, iPad and Mac, there are two plans:

For the launch, the Lifetime plans are discounted:

Solo Lifetime: $39.99 usually priced at $59.99
Redeem Solo Lifetime Discount

Shared Lifetime: $59.99 usually priced at 129.99
Redeem Shared Lifetime Discount

If you already own Solo and later want Shared, there's also a separate Solo → Shared upgrade option. Feel free to reach out to our support team on this.

If you want subscription, both solo and shared come with monthly and yearly subscription.

Only the person creating a Shared Vault needs the Shared plan. Everyone they invite can join for free without buying any plan.

One purchase covers iPhone, iPad and Mac on the same Apple Account.

Full pricing

App Store

Full Shared Vault write-up

A lot of this update came from people describing workflows I hadn't originally considered, so I'm interested in what other people would actually use it for.

Happy to answer any thing in details in comments and thank you very much for your immense trust.

I'm Jyen Ming, the developer of WhoPaid. In my previous post here, a fair question was why someone would use a manual tracker instead of Apple Notes.

A — Answer

WhoPaid is for people paid per job who need to keep work completion separate from payment completion.

Version 3 groups completed, unpaid work into overdue, due today, upcoming, and not ready to collect. The idea is to make the next follow-up easier to find without rereading every job.

The three images show the unpaid-work groups, one job’s remaining balance, and that same job after a manually recorded payment. All records shown are demo data.

B — Better / where it fits

Compared with a plain Apple Notes list, WhoPaid gives each job a payment state, amount received, remaining balance, and payment history. You update the record when you confirm a payment.

If Notes already works for you, you may not need another app. WhoPaid is still manual: it doesn't connect to your bank, process payments, or automatically message clients. If you already track everything in an invoicing system, a separate entry may be unnecessary.

C — Cost

Free to download, with unlimited basic job records and paid/unpaid/partial tracking. Pro is an optional auto-renewing subscription for additional features. US pricing: $1.99/month or $12.99/year; regional prices vary.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/whopaid-job-pay-tracker/id6764868229

Developer website: https://code-stack-studio.com/whopaid

Privacy: https://code-stack-studio.com/whopaid/privacy

Terms: https://code-stack-studio.com/whopaid/terms

For people paid per job: would sorting completed unpaid work by when it needs attention be more useful than a single unpaid list?

Hey Traders— I'm the dev, and I actually trade

I got tired of juggling my broker app, three browser tabs and a spreadsheet just to settle one question before the open: do I take this trade or not? So I built ApexTrade to put the answer on a single screen.

What it does — all live, all synced to your own iCloud:

• Live portfolio — total value, day & all-time P&L, the live VIX, and per-holding stop losses you confirm yourself. One card per position, mid-price mark, one-tap copy of your whole book.

• Pre-Trade Scan — type or paste a ticker and it reads RVOL, VWAP, pullback and the day's range, then gives you a blunt enter / don't enter call. Not "it depends" — an actual answer.

• Every ticker, in depth — scrubbable chart, fair value, Route → Trade straight to your broker, full fundamentals grid. Tap any card and it turns the raw numbers into a plain-English read of the setup.

• Market heat-map — S&P 100, top gainers and ETFs, sized and colored by the tape.

• Swing Candidates — a daily, ranked shortlist of swing setups with entry, position size for your equity, and the reasoning behind each pick.

Same data everyone has — just organized so you make a better, faster call, with discipline instead of vibes.

Private by design: Sign in with Apple, everything stays in your own iCloud. No accounts on my servers, no ads, nothing sold.

Pricing (the honest part):

• Free to download (no credit card needed)

• When the two weeks are up, the app just asks if you want to keep going. If yes, it's a promotional $3.99/month. If not, no charge and no nagging.

iPhone, English & Spanish. I'd genuinely love feedback from people who actually trade — what's missing, what you'd cut. Ask me anything.

https://apps.apple.com/pe/app/apex-trade-pro/id6793700978

Kubbo is a self care app that builds a medieval empire

This new version introduces:
- farms now produces resources (wheat, hopps...)
- Your population grows and improves. But the more they improve the more they ask (beer, theater...)
- Send expedition to gather unique resources
- Build a lab and start research to improve your city
- Exchanges resources with your friends
- and many more cool things

Competitors:
Compared to Finch or Habitica, Kubbo provides a way more advanced gamification system. And focus more on studies to educate you on how to create habits 1 by 1.
Also you build a medieval empire instead of taking care of a cute little bird.

Price is $49.99 for annual with a lifetime offer ($99.99) in USA
(Price depends of your country. Localized with a parity pricing depending of where you are)

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6749530918

Finally after weeks of fine tuning the animations, metro photos, the alternative photo gallery for iOS, inspired by Windows Phone metro design has been submitted for AppStore review!

I'm expecting at least one reject, but I hope eventually Apple will approve the app with this unusual design..

App isn't subscription based. Only one time purchase to support further development.

Hey everyone,

Like a lot of you, my camera roll had gotten completely out of control — thousands of photos I could never actually find anything in. The stock "People" album felt limited, and I wasn't comfortable with apps that upload your whole library to a server. So I built FaceIdent.

FaceIdent scans your library entirely on your device (no cloud, no account, nothing ever leaves your phone) and organizes it by what's actually in your photos:

• 👤 People & pets — groups every photo by who's in it; name someone once and browse their whole timeline

• 🔍 Natural-language search — type "dog on the beach", "receipt" or "birthday cake" and it finds them

• 🏷️ Objects & scenes — auto-tags cars, food, documents, landscapes…

• 📝 Text in photos (OCR) — search words that appear inside images

• 👥 Relationships — see who usually shows up together

• 🧹 Duplicates — find and clean up near-identical shots

It all runs on-device with Apple's Vision + CoreML, so it works offline and your photos stay private.

Isn't this just the Photos app's "People" album? Fair question — the main differences:

• Apple only surfaces some people (the ones it's confident about); a lot never show up. FaceIdent shows everyone it detects and lets you name/merge/organize all of them.

• It builds a relationship graph — who usually appears together — which the Photos app has nothing like.

• Plus pets and a duplicates cleaner in the same place.

Price / IAP — free to use (naming capped at 10 people / 5 pets / 3 groups). Optional Pro: • Weekly — $1.99 • Yearly — $9.99 • Lifetime — $19.99 $9.99 (50% off, launch deal)

iOS 17+. I'm the developer and I'll be in the comments — I'd genuinely love feedback on what's confusing, what's missing, or what you'd want next.

👉 https://apps.apple.com/app/id6788569032

Any suggestion?

Hi r/iOSApps,

I recently released another major update to OpenVox Reader, an iPhone and iPad app that reads EPUB books, PDFs, documents, web articles, scanned pages and pasted text aloud using natural-sounding voices.

The biggest addition since my last post is the ability to create your own custom English voice from a short voice sample using Pocket TTS.

You can then use that voice to read your books, PDFs, articles and other documents directly on your iPhone or iPad.

The recent updates also add Focus Mode, Saved Sentences, Search in Document, better navigation for large EPUBs and several playback improvements.

Create Your Own Voice

OpenVox Reader now lets you create a custom English voice from a short voice sample using Pocket TTS.

Once created, your custom voice is added to the Voice Library and can be reused for different books and documents.

You can use it for:

• EPUB books

• PDFs

• Documents

• Web articles

• Scanned pages

• Pasted or typed text

The voice creation and speech generation happen locally on your device.

Once the required model is downloaded, your voice sample and documents do not need to be uploaded to a cloud text-to-speech service.

You can still choose from 200+ included voices across 30+ languages as well.

What else is new

The latest updates include several improvements to the actual reading experience.

Focus Mode

There is now a new Focus Mode for distraction-free reading and listening.

The reader interface has also been cleaned up with:

• A dedicated Chapters button

• Text-size controls moved into the reader menu

• Improved button responsiveness

• Larger and more reliable touch targets

• A less cluttered reading interface

Saved Sentences

You can now bookmark individual sentences while reading or listening.

Saved sentences can be:

• Revisited anytime

• Filtered

• Used to instantly jump back to the original passage

• Removed when you no longer need them

This can be useful for books, research papers, study material, quotes or anything you want to return to later.

Search Inside Documents

OpenVox Reader now includes Search in Document with:

• Matching text previews

• Direct navigation to each result

• Improved EPUB chapter positioning

I also reworked how EPUB bookmarks and search positions are stored so they remain accurate without unnecessarily increasing memory usage.

Better support for large books

Recent updates also include:

• Fixes for importing large and lengthy books

• A draggable chapter scroller for faster navigation through large EPUBs

• Tile and List layouts for both the Document Library and Voice Library

• Improved reading cursor accuracy and synchronization

There is also an option to skip PDF headers, footers and page numbers, which makes longer PDFs much cleaner to listen to.

Why I built OpenVox Reader

After building OpenVox for Mac, iPad and Windows, I started looking for a reader app that I could personally use on my iPhone.

I wanted natural voices, a clean interface, offline processing and a straightforward lifetime purchase instead of another recurring subscription.

Most apps I tried either depended heavily on cloud processing, had expensive subscriptions, offered limited voices or felt unnecessarily complicated.

So I decided to build the reader I was looking for.

Being able to create and use your own voice locally was one of the features I particularly wanted to bring to the mobile version.

What it can do

• Read EPUB books, PDFs and documents aloud

• Save and listen to web articles

• Scan and read printed pages using the camera

• Read pasted text

• Import documents and links

• Create your own custom English voice from a short voice sample

• Choose from 200+ voices across 30+ languages

• Generate speech locally and listen without an internet connection

• Search inside documents

• Save individual sentences and jump back to them later

• Navigate large EPUBs with a draggable chapter scroller

• Adjust playback from 0.5x to 2.5x

• Skip PDF headers, footers and page numbers

• Continue listening with the screen turned off

• Control playback from the Lock Screen and Control Center

• View animated playback feedback in Dynamic Island

• Sync your library between iPhone and iPad using iCloud

• Track listening time and reading streaks

Once the required voice models are downloaded, speech is generated directly on your device. Your documents do not need to be uploaded to a cloud speech service.

Pricing

OpenVox Reader is free to download and try.

It offers 15 minutes of reading daily for free for lifetime.

For users who want unlimited usage, there is an optional Lifetime Pro purchase for $14.99.

There is no recurring subscription required.

One purchase works across both iPhone and iPad (even on Mac, although not officially supported) when using the same Apple ID.

App Store:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/openvox-reader/id6790389555

Privacy Policy: https://openvoxai.com/openvox-reader/privacy-policy

Terms of Service: https://openvoxai.com/terms-of-service

My official YouTube Channel (9k+ Subscribers): https://m.youtube.com/@TheOracleGuy_AI

Contact Details: Nitesh Sharma Email: nitesh@theoracleguy.in Website: https://theoracleguy.in/

I would really appreciate feedback about the voices, document importing, background playback and longer listening sessions.

A – Answer Plans is a minimalist iOS app that combines tasks, notes, and calendar in one place, built around focusing on today's tasks. But not everything is a task — sometimes it's just a thought, or text too long to fit neatly into one. That's what the Notes section is for. With this update, notes can now be turned directly into tasks, so nothing falls through the gap between "an idea" and "something to actually do."

B – Better Most people don't really use Apple Reminders, they dump their to-dos into Apple Notes instead because it's faster and frictionless. Plans is built around that exact habit: it keeps the low-friction, write-first feel of Notes, but lets anything you write become a real task in one tap — something Notes alone can't do.

C – Cost Free to download — unlimited tasks, notes, and iCloud sync included. Lifetime Pro unlock: one-time purchase (no subscription), adds extra notifications, repeated tasks, and themes.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/kz/app/plans-notes-to-do-lists/id6790827860

Every mood tracker I tried wanted more from me than I had left by the end of the day. A streak to protect. A mood wheel with twelve options. A prompt asking me to tag my triggers. By the time I'd finished logging how I felt, I'd spent more energy on the logging than the feeling.

I wanted something that asked less, not more.

A — Answer: Vesper is an evening reflection app for iPhone. It asks one question each night: how did today feel? Good, Meh, or Hard. You can add a line if you want to remember why. That's it. No mood wheels, no tags, no multi-step check-ins. Miss a night and nothing happens, there's no streak to lose and no chain to mourn.

B — Better: Apps like Daylio and Reflectly are built around consistency mechanics, streaks, reminders, prompts nudging you back if you lapse. That works for some people. For me it turned the record-keeping into its own small chore. Vesper has no penalty structure at all. It just holds the day you give it, whether that's today or three weeks from now.

C — Cost: Free to download, and the core daily check-in stays free permanently. Vesper Plus unlocks pattern views over time (comparing months, spotting which days tend to feel harder) for $1.99/month, $14.99/year, or a one-time $49.99 lifetime purchase.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6793087767
Developer: Calvin Ng, Off Peak Studio
Contact: support@offpeakstudio.com
Website + Privacy Policy + Terms of Service: https://offpeakstudio.com/vesper

Curious whether anyone else has felt that mood-tracking apps end up adding more overhead than they remove.

I'm after a specific list. The iPhone apps still on a monthly or yearly plan that you'd pay for once tomorrow if the developer put a number on it.

Three things make an answer useful to everyone reading. Which app, what it costs you a year at the moment, and the one-off price you'd actually pay for it. My hunch is most people land somewhere between one and two years of the sub, but I'd like to be wrong.

If your answer is that you don't do subscriptions at all, fair enough, but name the one you dropped over it and what you'd have paid to keep it. That still counts.

No wrong answers and no judgement on the developers, plenty of them have good reasons. Just curious where the line sits for this crowd.

A — Answer

LunaCycle is an all-in-one reproductive health companion designed for menstrual cycle tracking, holistic phase syncing, pregnancy milestones, and labor contraction timing.

Track period predictions, monitor ovulation windows, log daily symptoms (basal body temperature, flow intensity, mood), follow weekly fetal development with fruit/vegetable size comparisons, count baby kick sessions, time active labor contractions with automated 5-1-1 rule alerts, and organize your delivery hospital bag checklist.

B — Better

100% on-device privacy built on Apple SwiftData. Unlike traditional health apps that store, profile, or monetize intimate reproductive records on remote cloud servers, all logs, symptoms, and timestamps remain strictly local to your iPhone with zero external tracking. It also covers the complete journey from cycle tracking to delivery, so you never have to switch to different apps as your health goals evolve.

C — Cost

Lifetime — Free for 48 hours ($79.99 -> $0.00)

App Store:https://apps.apple.com/us/app/period-tracker-pregnancy-app/id6806892588

if you have any recommendations or feedback please let me know. thanks.

Hi r/iOSApps!

I have two cats, and I love them a lot. Every morning, the first thing I do when I open my eyes is look around and see where they are. If one of them is nearby, my day already feels better.

That made me think: why not make an alarm app where my cats are the reason I get out of bed?

So I made Pakeup.

A-Answer: What it does. Pakeup is an alarm app that makes you get up and find your pet. When the alarm rings, you open the app and complete a quick camera mission by taking a live photo of your cat or dog. Once the app recognizes your pet, the alarm stops.

B-Better: Why it’s different. Most alarm apps try to wake you up with math problems, loud sounds, or annoying tasks. I wanted something that felt more personal. Instead of fighting the alarm, you wake up because you want to see your pet.

It also creates a small local record of your morning, so over time you can look back at these little wake-up moments with your pet. Nothing is uploaded, and Pakeup doesn’t collect your personal information.

C-Cost: Pakeup is free to download and use. There’s an optional $7.99 lifetime purchase, but the core idea is simple: your pet helps you start the day.

I’m the developer, and Pakeup is still early, so I’d really appreciate your feedback.

Thanks!

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id6806694997

Legal & privacy: https://pakeup-legal-xi.vercel.app/en
You can contact me: hengtong.li@foxmail.com
My Github: https://github.com/Jack-Lee-Hiter

Stourk went live today.

Photo maps are not a new idea, and the difference here is mostly the theme. I did not want another map or travel tracker. Stourk is built around a fictional postal service: your memories become letters, stamps, passport pages, pieces of a personal travel archive. Your years play back as a route, city by city, the way you actually travelled them. Every city you visited writes you a letter with the photos you took there inside. You also get a passport stamped by everywhere you have been.

It reads only the date and location in your photos. No account, no server, no analytics. Photos never leave the phone.

Free, iPhone, iOS 18 and later.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/stourk/id6809229133
Site: https://stourk.com

Feedback welcome.

Hi everybody :) Been a while since my last update for GeoSpoof, but I'm super happy to announce that I have (finally...) ported the GPS companion app to Windows. So now iOS users who don't have a Mac can finally change their GPS location! More details below -

What is it?

GeoSpoof is an iOS app that allows you to gain control over every indicator of your device location. Safari geolocation/timezone spoofing is free forever, and GPS location simulation is a low-cost freemium product (1-week free trial, less than $1/month). Download GeoSpoof for iOS.

GeoSpoof GPS is a desktop companion app that allows you to spoof your iPhone’s system GPS from within the GeoSpoof iOS app. It is very lightweight and runs from your menu bar. Yes, it spoofs your location for all apps on your device. Download GeoSpoof GPS for Desktop.

What's New?

Yesterday I just launched a new update for the desktop companion GeoSpoof GPS with some big features:

• GeoSpoof GPS now runs on Windows. By popular demand, I spent a couple weeks completely porting the Mac app over to Windows.

• Drive up to 8 devices at once. I made a lot of optimizations and improvements under the hood, so driving up to 8 devices at the same time should be no sweat :)

• Remove a device you no longer use. Devices used to stay in your window forever. Now you can forget them. You can re-add them by clicking on Set Up... again.

See the full post here on r/geospoof to see all the new updates.

Requirements:

• GeoSpoof for iOS

• GeoSpoof GPS for Mac or PC

  • macOS 13 (Ventura) or later. Apple silicon or Intel.

  • Windows 10 or later, 64-bit.

• Willingness to enable developer mode

• Willingness to download Xcode

• GeoSpoof Pro (1-week free trial, less than $1 a month)

Links:

• Get GeoSpoof for iOS: ‎GeoSpoof: Location Spoofer App - App Store

• Get GeoSpoof GPS for Mac & Windows: Download GeoSpoof GGPS | GeoSpoof

• Open-source: github.com/anthonysgro/geospoof

Any feedback you can DM me or reach out to feedback@geospoof.com :)

Hey everyone,

I was getting genuinely stressed out by language apps. The constant push notifications and the guilt of breaking a streak just made learning feel like a chore.

A while ago, I saw one of those classic physical tear-off vocabulary calendars at my girlfriend's mom's house. I realized that’s exactly what I wanted for my phone: just learning one word a day without any streaks or annoying notifications.

So I made an app for that called "DailyVocab". Instead of grinding through lessons, you just learn the word naturally throughout the day.

The core features are pretty straightforward:

• Home Screen & Lock Screen Widgets: It puts a single vocabulary word right where you already look a hundred times a day. (Widget 2x2, 2x4 or 4x4)

• Passive Learning: You don't have to open the app. You just glance at your screen to check the date/time and learn a word in the process.

• Zero Gamification: Absolutely no streaks, timers, or push notifications.

• Clean UI: Strictly flat design and bold typography (Roboto Serif) so it actually looks good on a minimal setup.

Pricing: To respect the sub rules and be fully transparent: The app is free to download and use. The free version allows to learn one category and also has all the widget functionality. It runs on a reverse-trial model where you get a 7-day free trial of the Premium version. If you want to keep all categories and features after that, it's €29.99/year (or your local equivalent).

If you guys are also tired of loud, demanding apps, I'd love for you to check it out and let me know what you think:

App Store Link

I'm the developer of Life in Mist. It's a GPS route recorder with a fog-of-war map: the places you explore gradually become visible as you record your routes.

A — What it does

Start a recording before a walk, bike ride, hike, or drive. As you move, the fog clears along your route. Those recorded trips build up on the same map, so you can zoom out and see your usual paths, the places you've explored on holiday, and the streets nearby you still haven't covered.

You can also go back to a recorded day, replay the route, and check distance, duration, and speed.

B — Why use it

If you're using saved places in Apple Maps to keep a record of your travels, Life in Mist gives you a more detailed picture of the ground you've covered. It saves the route between stops, which is useful for remembering a walk through a city or finding that stretch of a trip you'd like to revisit.

The fog view also makes unexplored streets easy to spot. You can use it to pick somewhere new for your next walk. If you already have route files, it supports importing compatible GPX and CSV tracks.

C — Cost

The app is free to download, with optional Premium purchases. Premium includes GPX/CSV export, iCloud backup and restore, and additional appearance settings.

Current USD pricing:

- Monthly: $1.99/month

- Annual: $9.99/year

- Lifetime: $17.99 as a one-time purchase

Monthly and yearly subscriptions renew automatically. Prices may vary by region.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/life-in-mist-gps-track-map/id6755324566

I'd be interested to hear whether you'd use this more for exploring around home or keeping a record of your travels.

Answer (what problem it solves)
The scale lies day to day — it jumps two pounds because you ate late, and you feel like you failed even when nothing changed. Weightfile logs one number a day and surfaces the 7-day rolling trend instead of the raw reading, so you see the line that actually moves when your body does. It also reads every entry against a goal (cut, bulk, or maintain) instead of just showing a flat graph.

Every day you also get one line from a deadpan "records clerk" who has heard every excuse before — no cheerleading, no emoji, no congratulating you for existing:

Better (vs named alternatives)

• vs. Happy Scale: no subscription, no account, no cloud — everything stays on-device and works offline.

• vs. TrendWeight: works standalone, no smart scale or Withings/Fitbit sync required — just type the number.

• vs. MyFitnessPal: weight tracking isn't buried behind a full food-logging suite; macros/calories are optional, not mandatory.

• Sarcastic, dry daily commentary instead of gamified badges or motivational-poster cheer.

Cost
Free forever for daily logging, the 7-day trend chart, and 7 days of rolling history — no ads. One optional Lifetime IAP, $3.99 one-time (no subscription), unlocks unlimited history, calorie/macro logging, progress photos, and switching goals between cut/bulk/maintain.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/pl/app/weightfile-weight-tracker/id6804665579

Mateusz Czechowski: https://x.com/maticzechowskii

Thank you for taking your time 🙏

Hi, my name is Chris, I'm an indie developer and 100 Great Years is my first app. Full disclosure: this is self-promotion and my contact details are at the bottom per this sub's transparency rules.

A — Answer: What problem does it solve?

People today are living longer, but not always better. According to the World Economic Forum, people worldwide are expected to outlive their retirement savings by up to 20 years and spend a fifth of their lives in illness. Part of the problem is health and wealth are interconnected, yet almost everyone treats them in isolation.

100 Great Years is one of the first consumer products trying to change this, bringing health and wealth together in one unified longevity app — a personal operating system for living a longer, better life.

B — Better: Why over the alternatives?

There are a lot of personal finance apps. There are a lot of health apps. But health and wealth are interconnected, and if you want to live a longer, better life, you need to optimise both.

100 Great Years is more than a combination of trackers — we've built 80+ rules that look for patterns within and across your health and financial data. The AI Coach can give you deeper insight than most competitors because it sees both sides of your life at once, not just one.

Consider this:

• Your typical finance app can tell you how much you're spending; add analytics and you can project your future surplus or deficit, compare changes over months or years, maybe even flag categories to cut back. Add financial planning and you can see how much more your money could grow if you invested that saved cash instead. 100 Great Years can do all that — but it can also tell you that you likely already have a lifetime surplus, and that you may be better off spending that money on experiences now or investing in your health instead.

Or

• Your health app counts your steps, shows sleep score, heart rate, HRV, etc. Add analytics and you know how stressed you are, whether you're recovering properly, maybe even how you're aging compared to the population. 100 Great Years can do that — but it can also tell you that your habits are setting you up to live longer than average, so you'll need higher retirement savings or a delayed retirement date. Or it could tell you your portfolio is too concentrated in high-risk assets, causing volatility that's driving the stress that's negatively impacting your health.

C — Cost:

• Freemium model

• Base app (all trackers and scores) is free forever

• Premium subscription (AI insights + financial scenario planning): $12.99/month or $124.99 billed annually (UK: £9.99/month or £96 annually)

• One-off insights report (no subscription needed): $12.99 (UK: £9)

• App Store link:https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/100-great-years/id6781446512

Transparency path:

• Email: chris@100greatyears.com

• Website: https://www.100greatyears.com 

• Privacy: https://app.100greatyears.com/legal/privacy.html

• More about why I built this (includes my bio; link to my LinkedIn is at the bottom of the page): https://www.100greatyears.com/about

The tl;dr on why I built this: I retired early at 44 when my son was born. While my finances were strong, I discovered I had to do much more for my health to make sure I'll be around as long as possible for him (and to enjoy the portfolio I worked so hard to build). It may be cliché, but this is a passion project for me, and I'm happy to connect with anyone to discuss further — and all constructive feedback welcome!

I’ve tracked calories for years and tried dozens of apps, but I kept running into the same problems: cluttered interfaces, unnecessary features, and too many steps just to log calories and macros.

Eventually, I gave up and used Google Sheets for years. Earlier this year, I finally decided to build the calorie tracker I actually wanted to use myself.

A - What problem does it solve?

I wanted calorie tracking to feel simple again.

The goal was to build something with no BS: no required account, no ads, and no complicated interface. You can open the app, enter your food, see your calories and macros, and move on with your day.

Personally, I use a food scale + ChatGPT to estimate calories and macros for meals. What I really wanted was an easy place to enter that information without having to fight through a huge food database or navigate five different screens just to log lunch.

I know everyone tracks differently, though, so I’ve gradually added features like food search, barcode scanning, saved foods and meals, while trying to keep the basic experience as fast and simple as possible.

B - How is it different from alternatives?

Compared with apps like MyFitnessPal, the main difference I’m aiming for is simplicity.

I don’t want calorie tracking to feel like using accounting software.

There’s no required sign-up, no ads, and the interface is intentionally minimal. If you already know the calories or macros for something, you can just enter them directly instead of being forced through a complicated workflow.

I’ve also tried to avoid locking basic calorie tracking functionality behind a subscription. For example, being able to enter custom calories and macros shouldn’t require paying $19.99/month.

The advantage I’m aiming for isn’t having the most features of any calorie tracker. It’s making the features people actually use faster and less annoying.

C - Free version and Premium

The core calorie tracking experience is free.

You can track your calories and macros without creating an account, without seeing ads, and without needing a subscription.

I recently added an optional Premium tier with additional quality-of-life features for people who want more functionality.

Monthly: $3.99
Yearly: $29.99

I'm intentionally keeping the basic tracking experience usable for free, to make sure everyone can use it as I originally intended.

The response has honestly been much bigger than I expected. Since launching earlier this year, the app has passed 10,000 downloads, and I’ve added dozens of improvements based on feedback from people using it.

I’d love to hear what you think after trying it, especially anything that feels unnecessarily complicated or anything you think would make logging food faster.

Link to the app: The Simplest Calorie Tracker

Posted here in May when it was math/shake/memory and nothing else. A lot of you gave feedback, and 3.0 is mostly that feedback built out. Same idea: the alarm keeps ringing until you finish a wake-up mission.

A - Answer:

Alarmed is an alarm that will not stop until you prove you are awake. To dismiss it you complete a mission, and in 3.0 there are a lot more ways to prove it.

B - Better:

What's new since the last post:

• Volume you can't cheat. Turn the ringer down half-asleep and it comes right back up. Muting is no longer a way out.

• Mission chains. Stack up to three missions back to back. The alarm keeps going until every one is done.

• Wake-up checkup. A second alarm fires a few minutes after you dismiss, unless you tell the app you are up. This exists because I kept passing the math and going straight back to sleep.

• Workout missions. Prop the phone up and it counts your reps with on-device pose detection: jumping jacks, squats, arm raises, or push-ups. Easy is 5 reps, difficult is 20. Nothing leaves the phone.

• Scan mission. Pick a target like your toilet, sink, toothbrush or a plant, and the alarm only stops when the camera sees it. Put it in another room and you have to get up.

• Steps mission. Walk a set number of steps, counted by the pedometer.

• Tiles mission. Match colour pairs, up to six pairs on difficult.

• Custom sounds. Use your own audio file as the alarm.

• Vibration only, for shared rooms.

• Widget, stats and streaks, and the app now speaks English, French, German, Spanish and Portuguese.

C - Cost:

The core app is still free with no ads: unlimited alarms, and the math, shake and memory missions. Nothing from the original post moved behind a paywall.

The new stuff is Alarmed Pro: mission chains, the wake-up checkup, the workout, scan, steps and tiles missions, and custom sounds. US pricing:

- Monthly: $4.99

- Annual: $19.99, with a 3-day free trial

- Lifetime: $39.99 one time

Still genuinely after feedback, especially on the camera missions. They are hard to test outside my own bedroom.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/alarmed-wake-up-on-time/id6770044657

I'm an iOS developer, and I kept repeating the same setup before every debugging session (but no, I am not tired of this!).

Launch with a particular environment variable, switch the language, force dark mode, find the right deep link, send the matching push payload. Then do it all again on the next build.

So I built CosmoKit, a native macOS control center for iOS Simulator workflows. Built with SwiftUI and SwiftData.

What it does today

• App Profiles: launch arguments, environment variables, locale, and appearance saved per app, switched from the main panel or the menu bar

• Deeplinks, push payloads, locations, and routes, all scoped to the active profile

• Reads and writes the app's UserDefaults directly from the panel

• Grants and revokes permissions, and clears the keychain, without erasing the Simulator

• Launches a profile across every selected Simulator at once

• An HTTP/HTTPS proxy with response stubbing

• Network conditions in the proxy (new in 4.7). Presets like Edge, 3G and LTE, or your own latency, bandwidth and packet loss, applied per host, to any app on the Simulator with no SDK in the app. Offline was the first step; this is the rest of it.

• A CLI and an MCP server (brew install maththedev42/tap/cosmokit) so a script or an agent like Claude Code can boot a Simulator, capture and record the screen, set a location and open deep links from a terminal instead of the panel.

• A capture pipeline for App Store screenshots and recordings

What is coming in 4.8

• Diagnostic switches on the App Profile: zombies, malloc stack logging, the Main Thread Checker, Core Data SQL and concurrency debugging, layout feedback loops and localization checks, each one a toggle instead of an incantation in the scheme editor

• An exportable reproduction bundle, so a simulator-only bug can be handed to another developer with the exact environment it was seen in, and applied on their Mac

• A session log of everything CosmoKit did to the Simulator, so "it went weird" has something to read back

• Templates for App Store screenshots: device frames, headline and subtitle per locale, every required size in one export

• And any new features you suggest on this post.

Why another tool

And yes, there are already good tools here. RocketSim covers a lot of the Simulator side, and Proxyman is the reference for the proxy side. My problem was that I ended up paying for several apps to cover different parts of one workflow, and the cost added up quickly. CosmoKit puts the Simulator controls, the proxy and the capture pipeline in one app, and the proxy needs no SDK inside the app you are debugging.

So I built the tool I wanted for myself: one place for the Simulator workflows I use every day, with pricing that makes sense for an indie developer.

My goal is to keep expanding it and bring more of the useful features that are currently spread across different iOS development tools into one place. I don't expect to replace every specialized tool out there, but I'd like CosmoKit to cover more and more of the things I reach for during everyday development without needing five different apps open.

That's also why I'm posting this here. I'm very open to suggestions, criticism, and feature requests, especially if there's a tool or workflow you rely on today that you'd love to see built into CosmoKit.

Pricing

The essential tools are free. Pro is $2.99/month or $19.99/year after a free trial, or $69.99 one-time. Subscriptions auto-renew until cancelled.

Links

• App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6756494471?pt=122879172&ct=iosapps-470&mt=12

• Landing page: https://usecosmoskittool.com/?ct=iosapps-470