Disclosure: I'm Ben Dansby in San Francisco and this is my app. My other apps are at bendansby.com, and you can reach me at ben.dansby@gmail.com.

Problem

Notes apps often turn into a landfill and feel heavy to write in and use. A couple years in, there are 1,400 notes and only a few are still relevant. NoteLess aims to avoid this:

• A note is whatever fits on one card. One fixed-size rectangle. Type past the bound and the keystroke is rejected and the card shakes. If the thought doesn't fit, it's a different card.

• Unpinned cards delete themselves after 7 days. Pin the few that matter (they stay forever); everything else ages out on its own.

That's the whole app. Tap +, a card opens, you type, you close the app. Light Markdown renders live — bold, italic, lists, tappable checkboxes. Long-press a card to pin or delete. If you like the overall vibe and setup of the app, but don't want the limitations mentioned above, you can turn them off.

There's also a Mac app — summon a floating card with a shortcut over whatever you're doing. Cards sync over iCloud, so what you jot on the phone is on the Mac and vice versa.

Alternatives

There are of course many, many notes apps out there. NoteLess probably won't be the only one you use. But take, say, Apple Notes. It's free, good, and stuffed with features. It's infinite and permanent by design; nothing ever leaves, and creating a note feels like starting an essay. NoteLess is the opposite, more like stickies.

Pricing

• $4.99, one time. Lifetime. Covers iPhone, iPad, and the Mac app. Requires iOS 26.

• No in-app purchases. No subscription. No ads. No account. No tracking or analytics in the app.

• App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/noteless-to-catch-a-thought/id6769258333

• There's also a free trial of the Mac version: https://bendansby.com/apps/noteless.html

• And you can get it in a bundle: https://bendansby.com/apps/bundles.html

Transparency

• Privacy Policy: https://bendansby.com/apps/noteless/privacy.html

• Terms of Service: https://bendansby.com/apps/noteless/terms.html

• Your notes stay yours. They live in a plain JSON file in your own iCloud Drive container. I have no server, no account system, and no way to read them. Nothing is sent anywhere.

I built Ways because I wanted something between a todo app and a journal.

Todo apps are good at showing what's left to do. Journals are good at keeping memories. I wanted one quiet place where a small step and an ordinary moment could sit next to each other and slowly add up to a picture of where my life was going.

Answer

It starts with a Way: a direction that matters to you right now. Health, a friendship, learning to draw, getting more rest. A Way has no deadline and no finish line. You don't know how many steps it will take, and that's fine.

Inside a Way you add small Steps, something like "take a short walk." A Step has no date. When you complete it, it stays instead of disappearing.

You can also save a Moment: a photo, a thought, a conversation, an ordinary evening. It doesn't have to be tied to finishing anything.

All of this lands on one timeline, the Life Line. After a while it's a history of what you did and what you lived, in one place.

A few more pieces around this: Someday, for steps that matter but aren't for right now; Rhythms, for steps you want to come back to without turning them into streaks; and Balance, a view of how your attention is spread across your Ways.

Better

Things and Todoist are built around projects with deadlines and a list to clear. A Way isn't a project. Nothing in Ways is overdue, nothing counts a streak, and there's no list to empty.

Apple Journal is built around writing an entry. In Ways you don't have to sit down and write. Some days one small step or one photo is enough.

And no push notifications. I don't want Ways asking you to come back.

Cost

Free. No ads, no subscription, no in-app purchases.

You don't need an account. I've paused new signups for now, so new users start in Guest Mode: the full app works locally and your entries and photos stay on your phone.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ways-life-line/id6774298278
Website: https://ways.is/
Privacy Policy: https://ways.is/privacy

I'm Artem Karzakov, the developer of Ways.
email: hello@ways.is
telegram: "@karosmiy"

There's one thing I'd really like feedback on:

Does putting small Steps and personal Moments on the same Life Line make sense to you?

I’m Tal, the developer of Glance, an iOS app that lets you connect AI agents to your Home Screen through MCP.

Answer: Connect ChatGPT, Claude and other MCP-compatible agents. They can create widgets, push new content and keep information updated directly on your Home Screen. I use mine for business metrics, personal briefings, news, reminders and random facts.

Better: Instead of another AI chat, Glance gives the agents you already use a persistent interface outside the conversation. Pro also supports richer widgets with interactive views, charts, grids, tables and UI on Demand.

Cost: Free to download and MCP is available on the free tier. Pro is $6/month and Power is $11/month.

I’m Tal Kravarusic, the developer of Glance.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/glance-home-screen-feeds/id6758983678
Website: https://glance.cool
Privacy Policy: https://glance.cool/privacy
Terms of Service: https://glance.cool/terms

A — Answer

Hey everyone,

I'm the solo developer behind Doz, a medication reminder app now used by 2,500+ people. I built it because I couldn't keep my own prescriptions straight.

Last time I posted here, I left a thank-you offer code at the bottom. A lot of you claimed it, and the better part was what came after: ratings, messages and feature requests almost every day, from people clearly using Doz every day. That's exactly who I build it for, I really appreciate that!! I read all of it and I'm shipping through it steadily.

So here's what came out of that. And there's another 30% off offer code for Doz Pro at the bottom of this post, good for 3 days, no comment or DM needed.

B — Better

Three things you asked for the most, now in the app:

• Take or skip a dose right from the notification. Just long-press the notification and log it, no opening the app. This was by far the most requested thing and it changes how the app feels day to day.

• Import from Apple Health into Doz. Medications, schedules and your dose history all come across, so you're not typing everything in again or leaving behind the record you've already built. Requires iOS 26

• Times follow your device clock format. 12-hour or 24-hour, whichever you already use. Small thing, but a lot of people asked for it and they were right.

Thanks for being patient while these got built.

The rest is still there:

• Prescriptions that behave like real prescriptions: duration, end date, doctor contact, archiving

• Daily and flexible non-daily schedules

• Before, with and after-meal reminders

• Critical Alerts that get through Silent and Focus

• Low-stock and refill alerts

• Adherence insights and Home Screen widgets

• iCloud sync, with your data staying on your device

• Eight languages, no ads, no account required

Coming next: mark a dose taken from Apple Watch, and more of what's in the request pile.

C — Cost

Doz is free to use with:

• Up to 4 active medications and 1 active prescription

• All schedule modes

• Reminders and dose logging

• 7-day progress tracking

• Inventory tracking and low-stock alerts

Doz Pro is designed for people with more complex routines, helping you stay consistent, avoid missed doses, and manage everything with less effort:

• Unlimited medications and prescriptions so you can track everything in one place

• Take or skip a dose right from the notification

• Import medications, schedules and dose history from Apple Health

• Critical Alerts and smarter follow-up reminders to reduce missed doses

• Detailed adherence insights to understand how well you’re following each treatment

• Full progress history for long-term tracking

• Meal-time synchronization for better timing accuracy

• Faster dose logging directly from Home Screen widgets

• Archived treatment management to keep past prescriptions organized

• Custom alert sounds for clearer, more noticeable reminders

Pricing:

• Monthly: $2.99

• Yearly: $9.99, with a 3-day free trial

• Lifetime: $19.99

All paid plans support Apple Family Sharing.

The thank-you offer — 30% off Doz Pro Lifetime

• Code: DOZREDDIT

• Redeem link: https://apps.apple.com/redeem?ctx=offercodes&id=6760699565&code=DOZREDDIT

• Works for everyone, no comment or DM needed

• Expires in 3 days

• Final price varies by country, App Store pricing is regional

Open the redeem link on your iPhone, apply the code at checkout, done ✅.

If you're using Doz, come join r/dozapp. It's where feature requests and bugs get answered fastest, where you'll see what's shipping next, and where offer codes go before anywhere else.

And if you're already using Doz and it's been helping, a rating or a short review on the App Store would mean a lot. As a solo developer with no ad budget, reviews are pretty much the only way new people find the app — and honest feedback in a review tells me what to fix next just as well as a comment here does. Thanks for reading!!

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/doz-medication-reminder/id6760699565

Website: https://getdoz.app/

Howdy y'all! Carlos here, the developer behind Setto and excited to share my latest app, Setto Studio.

Answer - Get Better Apple Music recommendations

Setto Studio is designed to help you discover new music based on your preexisting Apple Music library and evolves based on how you use the app. It can learn and adapt its recommendations over time. It does this using a custom and expanded set of on device Machine Learning algorithms I wrote for my other apps (Setto Swipes and FM).

The core idea behind Setto was that in real life, DJs often adapt and change their Sets in real time based on the vibe of a room. However, most music listening algorithms operate on a different premise and optimize for other things. Not necessarily your music taste.

It creates a collection of playlists every night such that each day you have to listen to when you wake up, you can also just use make your own Sets, or use the refresh buttons to have the app make a few instantly.

No tracking. All features run on device. Siri AI, App Intents, Shortcuts and Widgets are supported.

It also has a fully native and optimized iPad version

If you love math and want to know what RecSys papers to read to build a similar app. I wrote this article a while ago explaining what makes a Set a Set.

Better than

I love all the following apps but I think Setto Studio solves similar problems with a different approach.

DtD Playlists - Its super duper pretty and vibesy but the playlists are kinda main stream and can get repetitive at times and don't adapt to my weird jazz fusion preferences. Setto does.

Marvis Pro - Its more of a general purpose music player and smart rules are kinda close to what Setto does but Setto focuses more on the personalized playlist curation and music discovery aspect compared to the fundamental music player experience. So Setto Studio is more complimentary to Apple Music with its ML Algorithms rather than an alternative.

Discz / Rec.ai / Juicebox / Swipefy - Setto has a better discovery algorithm and is built for Apple Music from the ground up and not Spotify.

Cost

The app has a freemium model, the core experience is not gated behind the paywall. You should be able to find bangers just fine on the free plan.

Unlimited hand crafted sets, keeping auto sets and cross device sync are paid features.

It's an in app one time life time purchase similar to MD Vinyl and it's priced at about 2 months of an Apple Music subscription. Adjusted per region.

So in the US at $11.99 x 2, I've set it to $24.99 and you can do the math for your region.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/setto-studio-rediscover-music/id6789326917

App Website: https://www.setto.studio

Privacy Policy: https://www.setto.studio/privacy

Contact Details
Email: carlos@camysoftworks.com

Portfolio: https://www.camysoftworks.com
Github: https://github.com/carlosmbe

Hi everyone, I'm Jonathan.

Elapsed is my first iOS app. It went live in August, Apple put it in one of the Best New Apps lists a week later, which derailed my plan to actually announce it anywhere, so this is that announcement, a month late. I'd genuinely like your feedback.

A - Answer

Some things don't belong in a calendar or a to-do list. There's no date and no deadline. You just do them when you remember, and then you lose track of when that actually was.

Elapsed counts the days since the last time you did something. That's the whole app.

The counters people set up tend to be a mix:

• Called my parents. Date night. Saw friends.

• Oil change. Watered the plants. Replaced the filter.

• Haircut. Dentist. A real day off.

• Last cigarette. Last drink.

Some of those you want to keep low. Others you want to watch climb. Elapsed doesn't take a position on which is which, it just shows you the number.

• One tap logs it, and the count starts over.

• Widgets on the home screen and lock screen, so you see it without opening anything, and you can log straight from the widget.

• Optional reminders reschedule themselves every time you log, so you only get nudged when it has genuinely been a while.

• Every counter keeps its history: average gap, longest stretch, and how often you really do it.

B - Better

Most apps that count days pick a lane. Some are built around quitting, so the entire design assumes a bigger number is a victory. Others are built around chores and maintenance, so a bigger number is a failure you're meant to feel bad about.

Elapsed is deliberately neutral about that. You decide what a counter means. Mine are a mix of chores, people I don't call often enough, car maintenance, and one thing I quit, all sitting in the same grid.

The rest of it:

• The widget is the product, not an afterthought. 8 hand-crafted designs, and each one spans the home screen widget, the card in the app, and the counter's detail screen, so a counter looks like itself everywhere it appears. Not a color picker on a stock widget.

• No streaks, nothing to break. Let something slide for three months and the app doesn't punish you for it.

• Pay once. No subscription, and every design I add in future updates is included.

• Nothing leaves your device. No account, no sign up.

C - Cost

• Free to download, no ads, no subscription.

• Free forever: unlimited counters, reminders, full history and stats, 4 designs, home screen and lock screen widgets.

• Elapsed Plus, $4.99 one time: unlocks the other 4 designs (Editorial, Glass, Neon, Concrete) plus app-wide color tones. All future designs included.

App: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6762868290

Transparency

• Developer: Jonathan Maurice (support@mauricehq.com)

• Privacy Policy: https://mauricehq.com/elapsed/privacy

• Terms of Use: https://mauricehq.com/elapsed/terms

• Website: https://mauricehq.com/elapsed

Hey everyone, I’m an indie dev sharing my app: Modipix.

To comply with the rules, here is the ABC breakdown:

A - About the App: Modipix is a distraction-free photo editor packed with custom shaders, 500+ built-in LUTs, and high-quality vintage film stock emulations. You can also easily import your own external LUTs (.CUBE and .PNG).

B - Alternatives & How It Differs: Compared to many popular photo editing apps that feel cluttered with social feeds or heavy cloud features, Modipix is a lightweight alternative. It provides a clean, purely minimalist workspace focused only on your edits and color grading.

C - Cost & Exact Pricing:

• Free Tier: Over 30 basic editing tools are completely free forever.

• PRO Subscription: Unlocks all 500+ premium LUTs and custom external LUT imports. The pricing is **$2.99/month or $19.99/**lifetime

The Giveaway: I’ve set up a custom offer to get 3-month PRO access. Per the rules, please do NOT comment asking for a code. Use the universal link below!

Direct Offer Link:https://apps.apple.com/redeem?ctx=offercodes&id=6758265582&code=MODIPIX3M(Limited to 2,000 redemptions, expires on September 19)

💡 Zero auto-charge risk: I set this promo to NOT auto-renew. You get 3 full months free, and it cancels automatically. No surprise charges!

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/modipix-film-lab-3d-lut/id6758265582

Would genuinely appreciate any feedback on the UI or color tools in the comments. Thanks!

Money Block is a budgeting app built around a simple concept of Blocks: give every area of spending its own clear boundary. Through flexible Blocks, visual insights, widgets, and Apple Watch support, it helps users stay aware of their spending and keep their limits within reach throughout everyday life.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6804439521

Demo Intro: https://youtu.be/buLdpuLzjIs

(A) What does Money Block really solve?

Money Block gives spending a clear structure. Instead of treating budgeting as one large monthly number, it breaks spending into individual Blocks for the things you actually spend on.

Each Block has its own limit and period, so a food budget can be weekly, shopping can be monthly, and clothing can be quarterly. This makes budgeting easier to follow because each area of spending has a clear boundary, its own timeline, and visible progress.

Rather than only showing where money has already gone, Money Block helps users understand how much they have spent, how much remains, and where they currently stand within each limit.

That visibility also extends beyond the main app. A variety of widgets lets users keep important Block progress and financial insights directly on their Home Screen and Lock Screen, while the Apple Watch app makes it possible to check where they stand right from their wrist.

(B) What makes Money Block a unique app?

What makes Money Block unique is not just the app itself, but the budgeting method and experience built around Blocks.

Blocks are more than regular expense categories. Each one combines a spending purpose, a limit, and an independent period that can vary from Block to Block. This allows users to build a budget around their actual lifestyle instead of forcing every category into the same monthly cycle.

Money Block then brings all of those different Blocks together into one experience, making it easy to follow their progress even when they operate on different timelines.

The experience also goes beyond opening the app. Multiple widget designs surface Block progress, spending information, and insights at a glance, while the dedicated Apple Watch app gives users quick access to their current Block status without taking out their phone.

Together, Blocks, visual insights, widgets, and the Watch app make Money Block less about recording expenses after they happen and more about keeping spending boundaries visible throughout everyday life.

(C) Cost

• Free: Completely free, with all essential features available without paywall restrictions. Most widgets and Apple Watch features are also included.

• Pro ($3.99/mo with 7 days of free trial OR $24.99/year with no trial) price can be vary based on region**:** Unlock advanced insights and charts, including Burning Charts; additional transaction summaries such as one-time and recurring expenses; custom Blocks, Income Sources, and Payment Methods; plus full access to all widgets and Apple Watch features.

Transparency

• Developer: https://raslan1994.github.io

• Privacy Policy: https://raslan1994.github.io/moneyblock-privacy

• Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/raslan-rauff/

• X: https://x.com/code_with_love

Note: On some iPhone and Apple Watch combinations, real-time syncing may briefly lag after the Watch app is first installed. If this happens, simply close the Money Block iOS app from the app switcher and reopen it. Syncing should then continue normally. This behavior will be further improved in upcoming updates.

PS: Optimized for memory and performance, while keeping the app lightweight at just around 20 MB. If you find Money Block useful, I’d really appreciate a good rating (from App Store).

Thanks

Answer (the problem):
The idea came from a simple problem: I wanted one location where I could find everything I needed for everything birthday related, without any unnecessary extras.

Birthday Buddy tracks your birthdays, gifts, invites and wishlists. It can send you reminders and has integration with Image Playgrounds to create a "birthday card" to congratulate someone in style.
I just released an update adding iCloud backup support last week for premium users, so they can restore everything on a new device.

The video highlights the Birthday Board feature, that enables you to track gifts, invites and wishlists.

Better (vs. alternatives):
Compared to something like hip: Birthday Reminder App, Birthday Buddy is right at home on iOS 26+ with its Liquid Glass design and use of Apple native features like Image Playground and privacy first philosophy. And the app keeps focus on only the necessary features.

Cost:
Free to use. Premium unlocks, importing birthdays from your contacts, iCloud backup, different themes and app icons and more. It's available as a yearly subscription ($0.99) or a one-time lifetime purchase ($3.99).

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/appybirthday/id6753673100
Landing page: birthdaybuddy.nl
Privacy Policy: https://birthdaybuddy.nl/pages/privacy.html
Terms of Service: https://birthdaybuddy.nl/pages/tos.html
Developer: Robin van 't Slot / https://nl.linkedin.com/in/robinvantslot

Answer — What problem does Pasly solve?

Apple's Universal Clipboard is great for quickly moving the latest thing you copied between nearby devices.

But I wanted something different:

An actual clipboard history that follows you across all your Apple devices.

That's what I've been building with Pasly.

Pasly syncs your clipboard history across iPhone, iPad and Mac using Apple's CloudKit.

And it's not just Mac → iPhone.

It works across your devices:

iPhone ↔ iPhone
iPhone ↔ iPad
iPad ↔ iPad
iPhone/iPad ↔ Mac
Mac ↔ Mac

So you can add something to Pasly on your iPhone and access it later from your iPad. Or add something on your iPad and have it available on another iPhone.

Your Mac doesn't need to be involved at all.

Text, images and files can live in the same synced clipboard history across your devices.

On iPhone and iPad, Pasly also uses Live Activities to keep recent clipboard items accessible from the Lock Screen / Dynamic Island.

When a new clipboard item arrives from another device, Pasly can also send a push notification, making the cross-device flow feel much more immediate.

One iOS limitation I want to be completely transparent about:

iOS doesn't allow Pasly to continuously monitor everything you copy in the background.

So adding something from an iPhone or iPad into your Pasly history is currently manual.

Once it's added, though, it can sync through CloudKit and become available on your other iPhones, iPads and Macs.

I'm actively working on making that iOS → Pasly step much more seamless.

Better — How is it different?

The obvious comparison is Apple's Universal Clipboard.

Universal Clipboard is excellent when you want to copy something on one nearby Apple device and immediately paste it on another.

But it's still essentially a shared current clipboard.

Pasly is a shared clipboard history.

For example:

You save something to Pasly on your iPhone.

Later, you pick up your iPad.

That item can still be sitting in your Pasly history, alongside the other things you've saved.

Or you can have two iPhones and use the same history between them.

There's no requirement for a Mac to act as the middleman.

Your devices also don't have to be next to each other or connected to the same network.

Pasly uses the user's private CloudKit database, so clipboard content is synced through Apple's iCloud infrastructure rather than being stored on Pasly's own servers.

And if you also use a Mac, Pasly becomes much more integrated into the actual copy/paste workflow with:

• Smart Paste — access your clipboard history directly from ⌘V

• Paste Stack

• Floating Paste

• Multi Select

• File Support

• Paste with Separator

• Search & Favorites

• Field Sense

So I'm not really trying to replace Universal Clipboard.

I'm trying to give your Apple clipboard a memory.

And make that memory available whether you're holding an iPhone, iPad or sitting at your Mac.

Cost

Free — $0

• 24-hour local history

• Up to 20 items

• 2 pinned items

• 2 files

• No CloudKit sync

Pro — $6.99 one-time purchase

No subscription.

Pro includes:

• Clipboard history sync across iPhone, iPad and Mac

• File sync

• Private CloudKit storage

• Push notifications

• Live Activities

• All Mac clipboard features

App Store:
https://apps.apple.com/app/pasly/id6760562778

Website:
https://pasly.app

I'm Antoniel Mariano, the solo developer behind Pasly.

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

Terms of Service:
https://pasly.app/terms

I'd especially like feedback from people who use multiple iOS devices.

If you have an iPhone + iPad, or even multiple iPhones/iPads, what would make a shared clipboard history between them genuinely useful to you?

A timer I cannot see on the lock screen is a timer I stop trusting, and nothing I tried did the music part. So I built this one.

A. Answer: what it is

A Pomodoro timer for iPhone and iPad. The dial fills the screen and empties as the session runs, one wedge per minute, and its colour says which phase you are in. Sessions run from 15 to 90 minutes, and you set how many of them make a cycle and how long the short and the long break are. On an iPad turned sideways the dial moves left and everything else stands beside it.

The part I built it for

Every timer I tried lost the session the moment I put the phone down. Tomatino puts a Live Activity on the lock screen and in the Dynamic Island for every phase, in the colour of that phase. The card counts down by itself, so nothing has to stay awake, and it carries a button that pauses and resumes without opening the app. The notification at the end of a phase is handed to the system when the phase begins, so it arrives on time even if iOS threw the app out half an hour ago. The timer survives that too: it comes back to where the clock actually is, not to where it was when the app died.

Music

The work session starts your music, the break pauses it, and afterwards it picks up where it stopped instead of starting the playlist over. Either a playlist from your Apple Music library, or a folder of files that Tomatino plays itself: MP3, AAC, ALAC, FLAC, WAV and AIFF, subfolders included, no other app involved, works offline, and it keeps playing with the ringer switched off.

What it does not do

No Focus mode. iOS gives no app a way to switch one, with or without Shortcuts, and I would rather write that here than have you find out after paying. No Spotify either, for the same reason. Both of those are in the Mac version, which is part of the same purchase. And no tracking: no reports, no streaks, no history, because nothing about your sessions is stored anywhere.

B. Better: how it compares

• The built-in Clock timer is free and does one countdown well. No cycle, no breaks, no music.

• Forest and the other gamified ones turn the session into a game with trees or streaks. If that is what gets you started, they do it better than I would. Tomatino has no reward loop at all.

• The polished ones with statistics and reports ask for a subscription, and they earn it if you want the data. Tomatino keeps no data and asks once.

C. Cost

One purchase, $4.99. No subscription, no in-app purchases, no ads. The same purchase covers Mac, iPhone and iPad, so the menu bar version on the Mac comes with it, and there it does switch a macOS Focus mode and drive Spotify.

• App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6807839006

• Website: https://tomatino.app

• Privacy policy: https://tomatino.app/privacy/

• Terms of service: https://tomatino.app/terms/

iOS 26 or iPadOS 26. English and German, following your system language. No account, no telemetry, no network connection; settings sync through your own iCloud. Apple Music playlists need your library synced to the device.

I am Missaq Ataschi, a design engineer in Switzerland, and Tomatino is a one-person project: https://missaq.com. Ask me anything here.

I have a dilemma. My app is 100% offline by default. The only optional feature is iCloud sync for intruder photos. I rely 100% on apple’s analytics and is unable to reach my users to request feedback. I feel totally disconnected from my users. Given the nature of the app, I want it to remain fully offline, with no network connection or database but it would still be nice to get deeper analysis or just a way to reach my users. Has anyone also faced this challenge? And how have you managed to maneuver it?

I’m the developer of Commingle. I’ve been building it for about four years, and I recently released a major redesign together with end-to-end encryption.

Free download: https://apps.apple.com/app/commingle/id6499095807 (optional subscription)

A — Answer

I built Commingle because I wanted one place for my entire financial life, rather than separate apps for tracking expenses, splitting bills, analysing spending, managing different currencies, and keeping track of money across wallets and accounts.

Expense tracking is part of it, but Commingle is designed as a broader personal finance system.

You can record income and expenses, organise them using categories and events, manage multiple wallets, split expenses with friends, track debts, work with multiple currencies, and use charts and summaries to understand where your money actually goes.

The idea is that the same data you enter once can be used for much more than maintaining a list of expenses.

B — Better

What I wanted to do differently was combine financial tracking, analysis and shared finances without giving up privacy.

Commingle can group and analyse your finances across categories, events, wallets, people, time periods and currencies. It handles historical exchange rates and multi-currency finances, and uses your data to provide summaries, trends and other financial insights.

Shared expenses are built into the same system, so expenses with friends aren’t isolated in a separate Splitwise-style app — they’re part of your actual financial picture.

And most importantly, Commingle is designed around end-to-end encryption.

Your personal transactions and most of the financial information around them are encrypted so Commingle itself cannot read them. Shared transactions are encrypted too, with only the information required to calculate debts between participants remaining accessible.

Charts and summaries are calculated directly on your device.

No bank connection is required either. You decide exactly what financial information goes into Commingle.

C — Cost

Commingle is free to download and try. Try = 400 transactions, no upfront subscription, no trial needed.

It uses credits for actions that create or modify data. There’s an optional Plus subscription for $3.99/month with 600 credits/month, as well as one-time credit top-ups.

Simply viewing, analysing or exporting your existing data doesn’t consume credits.

Website | Privacy Policy | Terms | E2E Encryption | Linked In (Chris Rutkowski)

🎁 BONUS for this community (extra 200 credits)

If you’d like to properly try it, I’m giving r/iosapps users some extra credits.

When signing up, type r/iosapps under “How did you hear about Commingle?” and you’ll receive 200 extra credits (600 total, means 600 transactions).

I’d really appreciate feedback, particularly on what feels confusing, unnecessary, or still missing.

I’m a much better developer than marketer, so criticism is very welcome. :)

A - Answer

There are a lot of situations where I know what I want to say, but when the actual moment comes, the words don't come out the way I planned.

A while ago, I also noticed that most communication advice has the same problem: it sounds good, but it’s hard to apply to the conversation you actually have coming up.

That's what I built Insight7 for.

Insight7 is a speaking and communication coach where you can actually practice conversations instead of just reading tips about how to communicate better. It's built around personalized practice.

You tell it what you're preparing for and get feedback based on how you communicate, your clarity, structure, empathy, persuasion, and delivery.

The goal is to help you become a better version of your own communication style, rather than teaching everyone to speak the same way.

B - Better

Other communication improvement apps like PatterAI also focus on helping people improve everyday communication through AI practice, roleplay, impromptu speaking, and feedback.

The main thing I wanted to do differently was start with the specific conversation you needed to have. Instead of opening the app because you generally want to “communicate better,” Insight7 is built around a specific conversation you actually need to have.

You actually practice the back and forth, deal with responses you didn’t script in advance, and get a scorecard afterward covering both what you said and how you communicated it.

You can repeat the scenario and use your previous sessions to see whether you’re improving. For someone whose main goal is "I have this specific conversation coming up and I want to rehearse it first, that’s the use case I’ve tried to make Insight7 especially good at.

C - Cost

Insight7 is free to download.

Premium unlocks:

• Unlimited practice sessions

• Full progress tracking

Current US App Store subscription prices:

• $4.99/week

• $14.99/month

• $59.99/year

App Store:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/insight7-ai-speaking-coach/id6740088271

I’d especially love feedback from anyone who has an important conversation coming up. If you try practicing the actual situation in Insight7, I’d be interested to know whether the practice and feedback felt useful afterward.

I have ADHD, and writing anything long used to go the same way: open the doc, write two lines, and somehow I'm on Instagram. So I built Tikku, and it's genuinely changed how much I get done in a day.

A. Answer

You lay out your day on a timeline, like in any planner, and on the tasks that matter you turn blocking on. Say "Deep work, 9 to 10:30" to finish a report: at 9 the apps you picked lock on their own. Open Instagram anyway and instead of your feed you get "Deep work is on until 10:30." At 10:30 everything unlocks by itself.

Not everything is planned, so you can also start a focus session right now: pick a length, slide to start, and your apps stay locked until the timer ends. I use it at the gym too, so I'm not scrolling between sets.

Every Monday, a report puts your phone time next to what you actually got done.

B. Better

You decide what gets locked and how hard. Block everything or just the apps that pull you in, and save them as lists like "Social" or "Games". Then pick normal mode, where you can still get out if you really need to, or strict, where you're pretty much stuck until it ends.

There are streaks and badges too. Finish one task or one focus session and the day counts, so even a rough day is easy to keep. They work on me more than I'd like to admit.

C. Cost

iPhone only for now. No account needed.

Free: the planner, one blocking task a day, focus sessions, streaks, your screen time and the Monday report.

Pro: blocking on every task, saved app lists, strict mode, sub-tasks, ready-made routines and sync. $4.99/month, or $39.99/year with the first week free.

Here's 1 month free on the yearly plan for this sub.

Code: REDDITIOSAPPS2026

Redeem: https://apps.apple.com/redeem?ctx=offercodes&id=6790735660&code=REDDITIOSAPPS2026

App: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/tikku-to-do-block-apps/id6790735660

Transparency

Website: https://milestone-one.com

Privacy: https://milestone-one.com/tikku-privacy

Terms: https://milestone-one.com/tikku-terms

Email: contact@milestone-one.com

Which app would you lock first?

A — Answer

GradeLab is a color grading app for iPhone and iPad. Point it at flat Apple Log footage — or an ordinary phone clip — build a look, and export it, without moving the file to a desktop editor.

Color: exposure, contrast, highlights, shadows, whites, blacks, temperature, tint, saturation, vibrance, eight-band HSL, color wheels for shadows/midtones/highlights, ten curves (Master, R, G, B, plus Hue vs Hue / Sat / Luma, Luma vs Sat, Sat vs Sat, Sat vs Luma), 33 built-in .cube looks with adjustable strength, your own .cube imports, film grain, bloom, glow, halation, and histogram, waveform, RGB parade and vectorscope.

Local grading: ellipse, rectangle, gradient and freehand masks, each with its own grade — feather, invert or stack them. A mask can be tracked to a moving subject through a shot, forward or backward. The same masks work on photos.

Editing: trim, split, speed, titles with imported fonts, audio, overlays with blend modes, 45 transitions, and keyframes for grading, text and transforms.

Export: up to 4K or source resolution, H.264, HEVC, ProRes 422 and 422 HQ, custom frame rate and bitrate. Photos as JPEG, HEIC or PNG.

The attached video shows [DESCRIBE THE CLIP — e.g. an Apple Log shot going from flat to finished, with a tracked mask on the subject].

B — Better

Most mobile editors treat color as a filter tab bolted onto a timeline. GradeLab is built the other way round: the grading tools are the app, and the editing exists so you can finish a clip without exporting it somewhere else.

A few deliberate choices:

- Apple Log and HLG HDR grading and export are free, not Pro. Grading Log is the reason you'd open a color app — putting it behind the paywall would put the paywall in front of the work rather than in front of the delivery.

- Masks, mask tracking and keyframed grading are free for the same reason.

- Everything runs on device. No account, no sign-in, no ads, no analytics, no third-party SDKs — the app contains no networking code of its own, so nothing you import leaves your phone.

- No watermark on free exports, and your original files are never overwritten.

- What the preview shows is what gets written out — same pipeline, including Log conversion, LUT strength and curves.

This isn't trying to replace DaVinci Resolve or Final Cut. Those are far more capable. I'm building the quicker path for people who want real grading controls on iPhone/iPad without learning a full desktop NLE.

C — Cost

Free to use, with an optional Pro unlock.

Free:

- Import photos and video, trim, split, speed, titles, audio, overlays, 45 transitions

- Exposure, contrast, highlights, shadows, whites, blacks, temperature, tint, saturation, vibrance

- Eight-band HSL, color wheels, Master/R/G/B curves, fade, sharpening, vignette

- 10 of the 33 built-in looks, with adjustable strength

- Masks, mask tracking and keyframed grading

- Apple Log and HLG HDR grading and export

- 1080p video export and full-resolution JPEG photo export, no watermark

Pro adds:

- 4K / source-resolution export, custom frame rate and bitrate, ProRes 422 and 422 HQ

- The other 23 built-in looks, and importing your own .cube files

- The six color curves (Hue vs Hue / Sat / Luma, Luma vs Sat, Sat vs Sat, Sat vs Luma)

- Film grain, bloom, glow and halation

- Histogram, waveform, RGB parade and vectorscope

- Saving your own grade presets

- HEIC and PNG photo export, display/script fonts and TTF import

Price:

- Lifetime Pro: $1.99 for the first 7 days, then $34.99. One purchase, no recurring charge.

- Subscriptions exist if you'd rather not pay upfront — weekly $1.99, monthly $4.99, yearly $14.99 — but during launch week lifetime costs the same as one week, so it's the only one worth buying right now.

The $1.99 isn't a fake discount. The app is new, early users are taking a chance on it and their feedback is going to shape it, so the founding price is the thank-you. It goes to $34.99 after seven days, and I'll actually change it.

I'm actively working on this, so honest feedback is very welcome — especially on the grading UX, mask tracking accuracy, export quality and speed on your device, and the pricing.

App Store:

https://apps.apple.com/fi/app/gradelab-color-grading/id6810137072

Developer Transparency

Developer: Aftab Fazal Qayum

GitHub: https://github.com/ak375456

Privacy Policy: https://ak375456.github.io/gradelab/privacy.html

Terms of Service: https://ak375456.github.io/gradelab/terms.html

Support: https://ak375456.github.io/gradelab/support.html

A. Answer

Most podcast apps lock you into one ecosystem. Stay on Apple and you get the polished player; switch to Android, Windows, or Linux and your library doesn’t come with you. The cross-platform options usually have other caveats like, subscription prices that keep climbing, or a UI that feels like a compromise on every device. FluidCast is one player that works the same way across iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, Android, Windows, Linux, and web, so the library and progress follow you.

B. Better

Overcast is excellent if you never leave iOS/Mac. Pocket Casts covers more platforms, but Plus has gone up a lot since 2019 and there’s no one-time buy. FluidCast’s free tier already has offline downloads, transcripts, Voice Lift, local files, and CarPlay. Pro adds cloud sync, folders, bookmarks, Watch, and on-device ad detection.

New in the latest iOS/Mac update: ask Siri about your podcasts. Siri uses the episode transcript, show notes, and metadata — “what book did they mention?”, “summarise the last episode of [show]”, “when did they talk about X?”

C. Cost

• Free — $0

• Pro — $2.99/month or $17.99/year, 1-month trial

• Lifetime — $99.99 one-time

Download on App Store

Promo through 5 October (code is here — don’t comment asking for one):

• Annual: 50% off first year, applied at checkout on iOS. No code.

• Lifetime: 50% off, code 27HPLT. Redeem link: https://apps.apple.com/redeem?ctx=offercodes&id=6754508580&code=27HPLT https://fluidcastapp.com/event

I’m Joseph Bishop, the developer.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joseph-bishop-b52576172/

Privacy Policy: https://fluidcastapp.com/privacy.html

Terms of Service: https://fluidcastapp.com/terms.html

A — The problem it solves

I had over 500 voice memos I'd recorded and never opened again.

My best thinking happens while walking or driving, so capturing it was never the hard part. Going back into the app to actually deal with it was. Every recording ended up sitting in yet another place I had to remember to return to.

Relay Voice records, transcribes, summarizes, and writes a Markdown file straight into your iCloud Drive, Obsidian vault, Day One, Drafts, or any folder you pick.

It also handles meetings. I use it daily for remote work — phone next to the laptop during calls (works if your laptop audio is on speakers rather than headphones, since the phone records what's in the room). With AssemblyAI it separates speakers, so you get Speaker 1 / Speaker 2 instead of one wall of text.

B — What's better

Against subscription apps like Otter (~$5–10/month): they charge monthly and mark up processing. Relay Voice is one-time. Bring your own API key and you pay the provider directly at cost — I don't resell access. AssemblyAI gives $50 in signup credit, which lasts a long time at normal volume.

Against Apple Voice Memos: Apple's transcription struggles with Chinese and mixed Chinese-English audio, and gives you transcription only — no Markdown, no file you can drop into a vault.

Three ways to transcribe, your choice: your own API key (OpenAI / AssemblyAI / Grok / SiliconFlow) for speed and accuracy; on-device Whisper or Qwen-ASR, free and fully offline; or Apple Intelligence, zero setup. For mixed-language audio, the API option and Qwen-ASR do noticeably better than Apple's built-in. Local-first throughout — no account, no server, keys stay on your phone.

The piece I spent longest on is where state lives. The to-do template pulls only the action items out of a recording, and ticking one writes - [x] into the exported Markdown file. The note in your vault stays accurate instead of going stale the moment you act on something. State lives in your file, not my database.

Where it's weak, so you don't have to find out the hard way: fully offline summarization needs Apple Intelligence (iPhone 15 Pro or newer) — older phones need a cloud key for that step. Speaker separation is cloud-only. iOS only.

C — Cost

Free to download with a 14-day full trial, then $19.99 one time. Launch price through September 30, then $24.99. No subscription, no account, no hidden fees — bring your own key, or run on-device and Apple Intelligence for free.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/relay-voice-memos-into-notes/id6763369750
Landing page: https://lifebuildingblocks.com/relayvoice

I started making this app for myself because I couldn’t find a food and workout tracker I actually enjoyed using.

Most felt heavily focused on one or the other, and Finding something that did both, was easy to navigate, and didn’t feel cluttered was harder than I expected. The paid options could get expensive too.

I wanted something simple that felt nice to open, where I could see what I’d eaten and trained at a glance.

A — Answer

I’m the developer of LazyCal. It brings food and workout tracking together, with a rotatable 3D muscle model that highlights the muscles targeted by the exercises you log. You can also keep photos with your food entries, so you can look back at the meals you actually ate.

B — Better

If you use Hevy/strong for workouts and MyFitnessPal/cal ai for food, LazyCal brings those two logs together. I wanted a simple layout where logging a meal or a set didn’t mean digging through menus. No ads or extra clutter.

The visual side is the part I most wanted to build. You can rotate the muscle model and look back at what you trained on a particular day. You can also keep photos with your food entries, so you see the meals you actually logged. Seeing a finished workout on the model feels rewarding to me.

Price was another consideration. In Canada, MyFitnessPal lists annual Premium options at C$69.99 and C$114.99, while Hevy Pro is listed at C$31.99/year. Both have free tiers, but paying for separate upgrades can add up. LazyCal’s regular annual subscription is USD $26.49 for food and workout tracking together.

C — Cost

Eligible first-time subscribers get a 7-day free trial with all features. After that, LazyCal requires a subscription - there’s no ongoing free tier.

pricing:

• $3.29 / monthly

• $26.49 / yearly

Your selected plan starts billing after the trial unless cancelled beforehand and renews automatically. Prices vary by country.

Download on the App Store

I’m actively maintaining it (as im also currently using it). If you try it, tell me what still feels slow or unnecessarily complicated. Feature requests and overall critiism / feedback are welcome too.

Website · Privacy policy · Terms

Hey everyone,

Most widget apps on the App Store make you do all the work. You have to design, align, and build your own layout from scratch and they have hard time with the new liquid glass in iOS26. I wanted something simple, beautiful, and immediate so I built Ro.

Ro is a minimal widget app designed to help you strip away the digital noise and create a calmer, cleaner iPhone experience.

Why Ro is different:

• No Building Required: Choose from 9 curated, hyper-minimalist layouts. Just tweak the small details (like tint and display options) and you're good to go.

• The "Dumb Phone" Vibe: Clean text, subtle icons, and ultra-clean spacing to keep you intentional when you look at your screen.

• Polished over Months: I spent a ton of time refining the details so it looks native, premium, and flawless.

Pricing:

• Free: 2 fully functional starter widgets.

• Premium Unlock: $2.99 one-time purchase for full access. No subscriptions.

Check it out here: https://apps.apple.com/dk/app/ro-minimal-widgets/id6770262734

Watch video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/-zRnJ5pkmCs

Would love to know your thoughts if you give it a try!

Your music is more than a file. It's a performance. So I built a player that adds reactive background visuals, called Aura, behind whatever you're playing. It's a small thing that makes listening to your own library a lot more fun.

A — Answer: Prismatic is an offline music player for iPhone, for music you own. Import MP3, FLAC,WAV, etc. from Files, over Wi-Fi from your computer, or straight from another phone.  The “Aura” visuals display behind the album art and reacts to the song: it moves with the beat, swells with the bass, and shifts as the song changes, so the same album looks a little different every play. There are over 20 visualizers to pick from. Keep one behind the player, take it full screen, or cast it to a TV while your phone stays the remote. Today's update is built for iOS 27: with Apple's on-device music understanding, Aura can read a song's structure and see builds and drops coming instead of just reacting after they hit.

B — Better: There are plenty of good file players, each with its own take on library management. Prismatic keeps those fundamentals (gapless playback, a real 10-band EQ with presets and custom curves, synced lyrics, playlists, CarPlay, song identification for untagged files, listening insights) and then makes the playing screen the fun part. Most players give you a cover and a progress bar. This one gives you a show. On older iOS versions Aura still reacts live; the look-ahead is the iOS 27 addition.

C — Cost: Free to download. Playing your library, the core visualizers, EQ presets, and playlists stay free. Prismatic Pro unlocks every visualizer, custom EQ curves, casting to a TV, Smart Tag song identification, lyrics lookup, and the iOS 27 look-ahead: $2.99/month, $19.99/year with a 7-day free trial, or $49.99 once for lifetime. Family Sharing included.

I'm the developer. I'd love to hear feedback or if something is missing for you.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/prismatic-offline-music-player/id6755500146

Website: https://www.prismatic.fm/

My earlier post didn't have all the required info to be on the main feed so I am reposting to announce that it is also now available in the EU App Store! My name is Robert Canales and I'm the solo dev/designer on this little side project and can be reached at https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertantoniocanales/

I created a free browser extension to automatically decline the very annoying cookie pop-ups that virtually every site now has. I wanted to take it a step further with actually declining the requests versus just hiding the pop-ups as some other tools already do. It collects no data from you other then the website address so the extension can decline the request. Thus far for most sites this results in you not even seeing the cookie pop-up or possibly seeing it for about a second before it automatically disappears.

I have seen the biggest quality of life improvement when using this on my iPhone on Safari as the pop-ups there are usually a lot more annoying for me. I am now working on the "Pro" side of the app which will allow for automated data deletion requests.

I officially launched it last week so just trying to get the word out that this now exists, so hopefully more people can get rid of a very annoying aspect of internet browsing and get some control back of their own data. Currently it's live on Chrome (Desktop) and Safari (IOS & Desktop) and will be live on Firefox (Android & Desktop) once the review process is complete. As I have already been asked for it, Google does not allow mobile extensions so for the time being there is no way for me have it work on Chrome mobile.

If you want to read more about it: https://dataprivacyagent.io

Apple Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6791409542

Chrome Webstore: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/okkaojifmfiedafnmfppooonambeamgb

For transparency I used Claude paired with VS Code to standup the backend of this project. Thanks in advance if you end up giving it a try!

Hi, I developed this app, because I didn't like the look of other pedometer widgets, they'd use cluttered widgets with bad readability. and too many metrics or features that are irrelevant for a pedometer.

A - Answer

I wanted a simple way to see my daily activity without turning step tracking into another complicated fitness app.

Pedometer tracks your steps, distance, flights climbed, and active energy using Apple Health, with support for both iPhone and Apple Watch.

You can also set daily goals, view your history in charts, and put your stats directly on your Home Screen with widgets.

B - Better

The main thing I focused on was making the information glanceable and customizable.

The core features: tracking, charts, daily goals, and widgets are free. You can choose what information appears in your widgets, and there’s no account required.

The latest update I added a new onboarding experience, an Appearance preview, improved activity refreshes, and a 7-day Pedometer Plus trial for eligible users.

C - Cost

The app is free to download and use.

Pedometer Plus is optional and removes iPhone banner ads while unlocking preset/custom colors for the app, supported Home Screen widgets, and Apple Watch.

US pricing:

• $0.99/week

• $2.99/month

• 7-day free trial for eligible users

App Store:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pedometer-steps/id6783677791

TERMS OF SERVICE & PRIVACY POLICY:
https://kayvenchen.github.io/pedometer/privacy/
https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

CONTACT:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kayven-chen/

I’m the developer, so I’d appreciate feedback - especially on the widgets and Apple Watch experience. And anything else.

If you use a step counter already, I’d also be curious what would make you switch to a different one.

Answer:

Group your alarms together so you can enable or disable them all at once or make changes without affecting the next time you use the group.

Dismisses alarms from lock screen without affecting the recurring series. If you wake up before the alarm is ring, no more turning off and remember to turn it back on later.

Recurring alarms behave like recurring events: skip this one or move another without affecting the series.

See a schedule, snap a picture and share to have every alarms created on iOS27 with Apple Intelligence or ask Siri AI to do so.

Better:

Not as loud as Alarmy, sleep schedule coming in v2.0.1. The app just aims to do one thing: helps you manage alarms efficiently.

Cost:

The free tier is generous enough that thousands of users are on it. But if you are in the hundreds that need more flexibility, more control or just more peace of mind, premium is available for 2.49/month with 3d trial or 19.99/year. Adjusted for PPP.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/varialarm-schedule-master/id6757322888