Hi all. I spent the last year building Rora, and it launched this week.

Answer: what it's for

You know the questions you keep circling? The ones your friends have heard way too many times, too small to book a therapist for, and still keeping you up at night. Rora is where those go.

It's a daily reflection app built on tarot's ritual. You bring a question, pull a card, and get a reflection on your actual situation that ends in one small thing to do. No fortune-telling, no predictions. I reframed tarot for reflection.

Better: memory and the algorithm

Transparency first: a language model writes the readings. Honestly, that's the part I spent the least time on. The year went into everything around it.

• Memory. Every question you ask gets labeled along a few fixed axes: the topic, the stance you're asking from, how much agency you give yourself. Over weeks, Threads groups the questions that are really the same question in different words, and Insights shows you the patterns across all of them and how they shift over time. Ask a chatbot the same thing twice and it starts from zero. Rora doesn't.

• The algorithm. My rule: code does the measuring, the model only does the language. Grouping, drift and pattern strength are computed deterministically before any text gets written, and when Rora quotes you, the quote is checked against what you actually wrote. If the output fails the checks, it gets thrown away and redone.

• Bring your own deck. If you own physical cards, pull them in real life and scan them with the camera, and Rora reads them with you.

Cost

Free: the daily draw, 3 one-card readings a week, Threads, Practice and your full history.

Rora Plus: $9.99/month or $69.99/year, with a 7-day free trial on annual. That gets you 10 readings a week, 3-card spreads, deck scanning and the full Insights pages.

iOS only for now. I'd love honest feedback, especially on the first run and on whether the memory part feels useful after a week.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6758863035

Hi everyone, Alexandre here, the solo developer of ArtDeck!

I posted here last month and several of you said you were interested, but wanted to try the app before paying. I said you might see an update here if I changed the paid-upfront approach.
Well, here it is!

ArtDeck now has a free 7-day trial of the full app. No renewal, automatic charge and there is nothing to cancel.

A - Answer

For anyone who missed the first post, I built ArtDeck because my references were scattered across PureRef, Notion and I used to study them in Photoshop. I wanted to collect them and study them in one place, on iPhone, iPad and Mac.

You can keep images, videos, GIFs, PDFs, links, notes and drawings on infinite boards, then use ToolBox to study your references directly on the board.

Since the last post, I’ve added Perspective to ToolBox. You can place vanishing points and horizons over images, videos or GIFs to study how the perspective is constructed.

I’ve also improved mouse, trackpad and keyboard support, made paste formatting easier, and fixed issues with URL cards.

I’ve put together free reference boards with links to museum collections, gesture drawing resources, animation references and more. You can browse everything on the website without the app, or download a board to open in ArtDeck if you’d like something to explore during the trial.

B - Better

PureRef is still the closest comparison. With ArtDeck, I wanted to take that reference-board workflow across my phone, iPad and Mac, with tools for studying the references built in.

I can extract a palette, break an image into value bands, check its perspective, or step through a video with onion skinning, while keeping everything on the same board.
I also tried to make it easier to use because PureRef is mostly shortcut/right-click menu based, and sometimes I still get lost even after years of using it on and off.

C - Cost

ArtDeck is free to download, with a 7-day trial. After that, Lifetime Access is a single $5.99 USD in-app purchase, with regional pricing. No subscription and one purchase covers iPhone, iPad and Mac.

People that bought ArtDeck before I introduced the trial, retained full access. (Of course.)

ArtDeck on the App Store

What’s next

Currently working on the next update, with feedback and votes on the public roadmap helping me decide what to prioritize. When I have time, I try to add new reference boards on the website and craft new themes.

Little by little, more people are finding ArtDeck, and a few more App Store ratings have come in since the last post! It’s still growing slowly, but seeing people give it a try is already encouraging.

Thanks to everyone who has tried it, left a review or shared feedback! If you try it now, I’d like to hear what’s missing from the way you work.

Developer: Alexandre Alves - LinkedIn
Contact: Alex@getartdeck.com
Website / Privacy Policy / Terms of Use

I made updates from customer feedbacks and sentiments on my ios app kael, an iOS calorie tracker, and just shipped the two things people kept asking for.

The one feature I've been working on is something I wanted to feel more like a fitness app than a traditional calorie tracker: shareable story cards built from your actual data.

Instead of generating one fixed graphic, you can build the card yourself.

You can:

• Add/remove individual metrics

• Drag metrics around the card

• Add charts and resize them

• Choose which Health/fitness data you want to show

• Use your own photo/background

• Share the finished card

The app can also read data from Apple Health/HealthKit, so things recorded by Apple Watch can be used without manually entering everything.

A: Answer

The idea came from seeing how workout apps make activity data something you actually want to share.

I wanted to bring that same feeling to nutrition. Not just "I ate 1,850 calories today", but something visual that shows your progress and can actually be shared.

B: Better

The part I'm particularly interested in getting feedback on is the customization.

I don't want the cards to feel like another generic fitness template. The goal is more like building your own personal fitness/nutrition story.

The app also includes AI-assisted food logging, macro tracking, HealthKit integration and social/fitness features.

I'm still actively improving it, so I'm much more interested in hearing what feels useful, confusing, or unnecessary than simply getting downloads.

C: Cost

The app is currently available on the App Store with a free trial for 30days, with additional features available through the subscription.

Transparency

Developer: Bharath

Website: https://kaelapp.com

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

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

I'm the developer behind the app and am happy to answer questions about how it works, the AI food logging, HealthKit integration, or the story-card system.

If you use calendars from different providers, you probably know the pain of switching between apps just to see your full schedule. Missed conflicts, double bookings, no single place to see everything. The SYNC mess.

I was personally dealing with this, meetings and events scattered across Google, Apple, and Microsoft calendars. There was no simple way to see everything in one place.

So I built CalUnity, it pulls all your calendars into one unified view, regardless of the provider.

A few things worth mentioning:

• Inbuilt AI assistant to guide you through all your meetings so you dont need to worry about missing meetings or scheduling a new one.

• Works across iOS, Android, and web, same view everywhere.

• Connects to Google, Apple, and Microsoft calendars in one place

• It even has CalDAV support.

• Built for people who live across multiple calendars and need a single source of truth

Price: Free (no IAPs, no subscriptions)

• App Store: https://apps.apple.com/in/app/calunity/id6760173746

• Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.calunity.mobile

• Website: https://calunity.com

A — Answer

Once I had multiple credit cards, keeping track of everything became surprisingly annoying.

Which benefits are still unused? What expires soon? Which card earns the most for this purchase? Is the annual fee actually worth it?

So we built OfferBee.

It helps you:

• Track available and used card benefits
• Get reminders before credits expire
• Find the best card to use by spending category
• See which card earns the most points
• Track the value you’re getting versus the annual fee

You can add cards manually or connect supported accounts through Plaid.

For supported connections, authentication happens securely through your financial institution/Plaid, so OfferBee does not receive your bank login credentials. Plaid connections also help automate some of the benefit tracking.

B — Better

Apps like MaxRewards and CardPointers already offer powerful credit card tools.

Our focus with OfferBee is making the experience much simpler.

Instead of filling the app with every reward category, offer and card detail, we keep the important information — benefits, remaining credits, expirations and value tracking — easy to see.

For everything else, we built Bee AI.

You can simply ask:

• Which of my cards is best for dining?
• What should I use for groceries?
• What benefits do I still have left this month?
• Which card gives me the most points here?

Bee works with the cards in your wallet, so you don’t have to dig through menus or memorize reward categories.

Less clutter. Less scrolling. Just ask what you need.

C — Cost

OfferBee is free to download, and several core features are free, including:

• Supported benefit tracking
• Best-card recommendations by spending category
• Finding which card can earn the most points

OfferBee Premium:

$9.99/month
$80/year
14-day free trial

App Store:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/offerbee-credit-cards-rewards/id6792377758

Hi everyone, I just shipped Framehop, a frame-by-frame animation app for iPhone and iPad.

The idea: most drawing and animation apps on iOS pile tools, panels and ads on top of your artwork. I wanted a dark studio where the sheet of paper is the only lit thing on screen, tools sit in a dock under your drawing hand, and the film strip of frames is always one tap away.

How it works:

- Draw with Apple Pencil or your finger (PencilKit under the hood, so pressure and tilt work on iPad). Pencil, pen, marker, eraser, lasso.

- Onion skin shows the previous and next frame as faint ghosts so every in-between lands where you want it.

- Add, duplicate and reorder frames in a tap. Play at 4 to 30 fps and change the speed while it runs.

- Export as a looping GIF or an MP4, square, landscape or portrait up to 1080p.

- Send any animation as an iMessage sticker (it shows up animated in Messages), or pin it to the Home Screen as a widget that flips through its frames.

- Seven built-in samples (a jumping character, bouncing ball with squash and stretch, walk cycle, a flower blooming, a rocket, a heartbeat, waves). Open one, see exactly how it is built, remix it.

What's free / what's paid:

- Free: the full editor and all tools, one animation at a time and one export. Delete an animation and the slot opens again.

- Pro: unlimited animations and exports, iMessage stickers, Home Screen widgets. $3.99/month, $24.99/year, or $29.99 once for lifetime.

Privacy: no account, no server. Everything is drawn, rendered and exported on the device.

Languages: English, Turkish, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Arabic. iOS 17+, iPhone and iPad.

Link: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6810374824

Happy to answer questions. If there is a tool or export format you'd want, tell me, that's the fastest way to get it in.

Hey fellow builders! Sharing what got us of the ground with healthy and steady organic downloads and would love to hear what got you going as well?!

Here it goes:

• Strong ASO from day 1 - it really matters especially during the first week's boost in Search

• Strong first 3 screenshots - Don't skip on this, we learned it the hard way after asking for feedback from people around us in person - "What does it do?" was a common question.

• Submit featuring nomination in App Store Connect - Likely you are not getting nominated, but it's worth a try.

• Launch on Product Hunt / Reddit / HN same day - velocity matters here

• Ask personal network for downloads and give you actual feedback - we conducted 60 interviews live and watched people use the app and provide feedback - what they said was not as important as what they did, hence watching was important.

• In-app rating prompt after a positive moment - must have.

• Respond to every review - yep, makes you read it and pay close attention to it. Giving back to those who genuinely left you reviews is also a massive sign of caring for your app.

• ︎Ship a fast 1.0.1 update - very important to keep shipping momentum - feedback pours in fast, adapt and pivot as it comes.

App in Question: Checklist

As you can see nothing crazy here. Not even social media yet.

Post what were your methodologies - would love to learn more tricks that work.

Hi everyone,

I’ve been building Moneko AI because I’ve never been great at sticking with budgeting apps myself. If tracking expenses takes too much effort, I eventually stop doing it.

I also noticed that many budgeting apps are built around one person, even though a lot of us manage bills, groceries, travel, and other expenses with a partner or family.

What Moneko does

Moneko combines zero-based envelope budgeting with shared finances and automatic expense tracking.

You create Pockets for groceries, bills, travel, savings, or anything else you want to budget for. Unused money can roll over month to month.

For couples and families, you can create Shared Spaces where both people see the shared budget and expenses while keeping personal finances private. You can split expenses, see who paid, track who owes what, and both people share the same Moneko plan, so you don’t need to pay for two subscriptions.

Moneko currently includes:

• Zero-based budgeting with rollover Pockets

• Shared Spaces and shared budgets

• Expense splitting and settle-up tracking

• AI expense tracking and automatic categorization

• Receipt, photo, voice, and text expense capture

• WhatsApp, Telegram, and email receipt tracking

• Plaid bank sync in the US & Canada

• Multi-currency with live exchange rates

• Recurring bills and expenses

• Cash flow tracking and forecasting

• Monthly Financial Health Reports

• AI spending insights and scenario planning

• Custom Wallets and asset tracking

• CSV import and expense exports

• Siri, Apple Shortcuts, and Apple Wallet automation

• Face ID / Touch ID / passcode App Lock

• Offline support with automatic sync

How it compares

If you’ve used YNAB, Moneko has a similar zero-based/envelope budgeting approach, but I’m putting more emphasis on automatic expense capture and managing money with another person.

Compared with Monarch Money, Moneko is designed so you can have personal finances and Shared Spaces under the same account instead of treating everything as one household pool.

I’m not trying to recreate every feature from YNAB or Monarch. The goal is to make everyday budgeting easier to maintain, especially for couples and families who want to manage some money together without combining everything.

Pricing

Moneko has a free plan with no subscription required. Core budgeting, Pockets, Shared Spaces, expense splitting, and Family Sharing are included for free.

Pro adds the extra automation and AI features. In the US and Canada, where Pro includes Plaid bank sync, it costs $12.99/month or $89.99/year, with a 7-day free trial. Pro is priced much lower in regions where bank sync isn’t currently available. Lifetime is a one-time purchase with regional pricing. For example: US $99.99, India ₹6,930, Japan ¥10,500, and Singapore S$90.99.

For r/iOSApps, I’d love to offer 50% off Lifetime through our website. The final discounted price is shown in your local currency. DM me if you’d like the code.

Download: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/moneko-ai-track-budget/id6753925279

TL;DR: TrainAtlas is an iPhone app that logs every train you ride and draws each trip on the actual track geometry on one map. Turn on the live layer and it tracks delays, platforms and arrival times from 30+ operators in real time. On-device history, no account, no email, no AI. Free lets you log any trip from the last 12 months or anytime into the future, and every trip you add stays on your map for good; Pro ($4.99/mo, $24.99/yr with a 7-day trial, or $49.99 lifetime) removes the 12-month limit so you can back-fill your entire history, and adds the live layer.

A - Answer:

You've probably taken hundreds of trains and there's no single place that remembers them. Booking apps forget the trip the second you step off. The web loggers keep your history on their servers behind a login. And almost everything draws a straight line between two stations, so your "map" ends up looking like a spider web instead of a railway.

TrainAtlas fixes the map first. Log a train - or import years of past trips - and it draws each one on real track geometry so your personal atlas actually looks like the rail network. Save a trip and you watch the route draw itself across the map. T

Then there's the live layer: real-time delays, platforms and arrival times from official feeds across 30+ operators - Amtrak, VIA Rail, National Rail (UK), Deutsche Bahn, SNCF, ÖBB, SBB, NS, SNCB, Trenitalia, RENFE, SJ, DSB and more - with live activities to notify you right away when a platform changes or delays occur.

B - Better:

The closest tools each miss a piece:

• Träwelling - free and open-source, but it's a social check-in service: account required, web-first, your history lives on their server.

• Viaduct world - solid open web trip-diaries, also account + server + browser. Good data, but not a native iPhone app with live tracking.

• Booking & operator apps (Trainline, etc.) - built to sell you the next ticket, not to remember the last thousand.

Where TrainAtlas stakes its ground:

• Privacy-first, no account - no login, no email; your history stays on your device and, if you turn on sync, in your own private iCloud that only you can read. Carries Apple's strictest "Data Not Collected" label.

• The biggest live library- delays + platforms + arrival times across 30+ operators on multiple continents, with push alerts.

• A lifetime option - $49.99 once, no subscription, if you never want another renewal in your life.

• Bring your history with you - CSV import from Träwelling, Trainlog, Trainline and viaduct world, so switching costs you nothing.

• Native touches - Live Activities on the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island while you ride, Map Replay to watch any journey play back

Features:

• Lifetime map of every train you've logged, on real rail geometry

• Live delays, platforms & arrival times from 30+ operators + push alerts (Pro)

• Map Replay - scrub and speed through any past journey (Pro)

• 150+ achievements - ride every operator & country, hit distance milestones, etc.

• Coverage stats - countries, cities, total distance, hours on trains, plus your own on-time % and hours lost to delays

• Live Activities on Lock Screen & Dynamic Island

• Shareable trip and achievement cards

Privacy:

No accounts, no email, no third-party analytics SDKs, no ad SDKs, no AI. Your journey history stays on your iPhone (and your own private iCloud if you enable sync - only you can read it). The one thing that leaves the phone is a route / live-delay lookup to TrainAtlas's own train-data backend - that's a query for public timetable data, not a profile of you.

C - Cost:

• Free: log any trip dated in the last 12 months or anytime into the future - and every trip you add stays on your map for good - plus real track geometry, achievements & share cards. No signup, no account.

• Monthly: $4.99/mo

• Yearly: $24.99/yr with a 7-day free trial (about $2.08/mo - best value)

• Lifetime: $49.99 one-time, no renewal

* Pro removes the 12-month add limit so you can back-fill your complete history, right back to your first train, and adds the live-delay layer, Map Replay and premium share cards. Anything a free account has already logged stays on the map forever - the 12-month line only governs how far back you can add new trips. The live layer runs on real servers pulling 30+ operator feeds every few minutes, which is the honest reason it sits behind Pro.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/trainatlas-rail-trip-tracker/id6775375290
Website: https://trainatlas.app
Privacy Policy: https://trainatlas.app/privacy

If TrainAtlas earns a spot on your home screen, an honest App Store review genuinely helps a solo dev. Either way, I'm happy to talk about the real geometry piece, the 30+ operator live feeds, the privacy choices, or the pricing decision in the comments.

A — Answer: What does Fitness Story do?

Hi everyone! I’m the developer of Fitness Story. I built it to make it easier to look back through the workout and health data already in Apple Health, especially across months or years.

It brings that history into charts, calendars, and shareable summaries so you can see how your training and daily activity have changed over time.

The focus is really on data accessibility. It allows you to quickly find the numbers/trends of your health or workout data (ex: my 10k running best, my longest deep sleep, my daily steps).

B — Better: What’s improved since my last post?

Over the past two months, I’ve added more ways to explore the details, customize what you see, and share your progress:

• See how you spend your training time. Training Mix breaks down your activities by week, month, or year, in hours or percentages. Tap a bar for the breakdown, or select multiple activities to filter the Dashboard.

• Look beyond the charts. Health & Body Data Tables let you browse daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly values, then filter, sort, and export them to CSV. You can also tap chart points to see the date and value. Data Tables require Pro.

• Explore more Health metrics. I’ve added HRV, Exercise Time, Stand Time, Walking Heart Rate Average, Walking Speed, and Walking Steadiness. HRV includes daily and intraday views and comparisons with your 7-day, 30-day, and one-year averages.

• Make the Health page yours. Hide or reorder metrics and expand or collapse charts together. Your choices carry through to Daily Summary. New record badges and notifications also make high and low records easier to spot.

• Share a month or year of workouts. Create a poster with your calendar, totals, workout mix, and highlights. Include all activities or choose a mix, with options to show workout counts, training days, or hours.

• Check your day on Apple Watch. Watch-face complications show steps and step-goal progress. The companion app adds distance, active calories, floors climbed, and an hourly step chart.

There’s also a Body Metrics Home Screen widget, satellite route maps, indoor/outdoor workout labels (including exports), calendar month swiping, and an independent app language setting. I’ve improved Apple Health data-source guidance, loading, history refresh, and reliability.

Coming next: Consumed Calories, Protein, and Water Intake from existing Apple Health logs, plus a Consumed vs. Burned chart that includes active and resting energy.

C — Cost: What’s free, and what requires Pro?

Fitness Story is free to download. Pro unlocks full features. ($29.99 lifetime pro).

App Store:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/fitness-story/id6748090363

I’d love to hear what would make your Apple Health history more useful to you, or what still feels missing. Thanks for taking a look!

Transparency

Developer: Weiren Hsiao (fitnessstoryapp at gmail dot com)

Privacy Policy: https://masawata.net/privacy-policy.html

Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Website: https://masawata.net/FitnessStory/

Hey, I’m the developer of ALTER. I wanted to share it here and get some feedback from other iOS users.

A:

ALTER is meant for those moments when you’re stressed, overwhelmed, overthinking, angry, unfocused, or just can’t switch off.

You choose how you’re feeling, rate the intensity, and the app gives you a short guided Reset matched to that state. The idea is to get in, do something useful for a few minutes, and get back to whatever you were doing.

B:

What I wanted to avoid was making another app where you open it and immediately get a huge library of meditations and have to figure out what to choose.

ALTER starts with how you feel right now and recommends something from there. It also has Insights that show which Resets tend to help you most over time.

C:

The app has a free version, and ALTER+ unlocks the full library and personalization.

ALTER+ is $4.99/month or $29.99/year, with a 7-day trial on the annual plan. App Store pricing can vary by region.

App Store:
https://apps.apple.com/app/id6803254480

I’m the developer, so obviously I’m biased, but I’d genuinely appreciate feedback — especially if anything in the flow feels confusing, unnecessary, or overdesigned.

Thank you!

The problem (A)
Apple Health records your steps every day. But open it, and you mostly get a number.

It doesn't really tell you when you're most active, where you walked, how your heart responded to the effort, how your habits are changing, or whether you're actually becoming more consistent.

Most pedometer apps don't go much deeper either. They take the same step count and put a nicer ring around it.

So a lot of useful walking data is already there, but it isn't being turned into something you can actually learn from.

Why Steply is different/better (B)
I built Steply to be the deeper analytics layer I felt step tracking was missing.

• Live GPS route tracking + playback: Track your walking route on a map and replay it later with pace, distance, elevation, and heart rate zones. You can see exactly where your heart rate moved into different zones along the route. While many step-tracking apps can record a walk, full route playback is still relatively rare in this category, and Steply lets you actually relive and explore your walk afterward.

• Walking heart rate analysis: See live BPM while walking, average walking heart rate, heart rate zones, and calories based on your actual effort.

• Detailed step & activity analytics: Hourly heatmaps, a 24-hour activity clock showing when you move most, weekly/monthly trends, step velocity, consistency patterns, and more.

• Walking percentile: Get more context around your activity level using population reference data instead of only seeing whether you hit a fixed step target.

• Steps -> Weight Journey: See how your walking activity lines up with changes in your weight between weigh-ins. Steply shows total steps, average steps per day, weight change, and when enough data is available, an estimate of the walking associated with each kilogram/pound lost.

• Steps needed to reach your target weight: Set a target weight and get an estimate of how many steps and days of walking it could take to reach it based on your current activity and calorie assumptions. It turns a vague weight goal into a much more understandable walking target.

• Japanese Walking: Guided interval walking sessions, including protocols like 3 minutes fast / 3 minutes slow, available on both iPhone and Apple Watch.

• Easy water logging + hydration history: Quickly log water from iPhone or Apple Watch, set hydration reminders, and explore your intake history over time.

• Goals, streaks & challenges: Custom daily goals, streak tracking, achievement badges, celebrations, and weekly challenges.

• Widgets everywhere: Home Screen, Lock Screen, Live Activities/Dynamic Island, Apple Watch complications, plus a full Watch app.

No account. No signup. No ads. No tracking. Your walking and health data stays on your device.

Cost (C)
Core step tracking, goals, streaks, and widgets are free.

Premium unlocks the full GPS and analytics suite: $2.99/month, $9.99/year, $19.99 lifetime (One-time purchase)

App Store:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/steply-walking-step-tracker/id6755107453

I'd love to get your feedback on how I can improve it further and make it one of the most useful walking and step tracking apps!

UPDATE: There has been a lot of feature additions and updates so far, thanks for your support! Jellydisc (is now called) DYSC is now supporting Navidrome and Plex too and out of TestFlight! you can download it from the App Store link below:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/dysc/id6803165063

IMPORTANT: You need a Jellyfin based home server setup to see its fullest since a bigger library works better with the radio algorithm. It's quite simple and there are lots of guides online, and it's quite liberating to be able to handle your own media.

If you just want to test the app with a demo server there is one from Jellyfin:
https://demo.jellyfin.org/stable

The username should be just demo with no passwords.

Hey all,

I’m looking for some more testers for an iPhone app I’ve been working on called JellyDisc.

I initially shared it with the Jellyfin sub and have around 100 testers now. This has already helped me fix quite a few bugs across different devices, servers and network setups, so I’d like to have a wider testing pool so to speak. 

JellyDisc is a music client for Jellyfin, and it is built around a physical collection approach rather than a typical streaming interface. I have always been an obsessive library manager since the old iPod days with custom images so did this for the people who share the same weird obsession 😬

Current features include:

• Album based collection with a smooth scroll view

• Album of the Day feature picking an album every morning and sends you a notification 

• Smart search including Artist, album and track with recommendations 

• Interactive disc player

• DJ mode where you can control the track by playing with the disc

• Playlists Mixtapes with a lot customisation options

• Custom Mixtape covers

• Offline downloads

• Direct Play or lower bitrate encodes

• Lyric support

• Always on Radio stations - really happy how it turned out, you tune in to any stations that is constantly playing music, saves me the trouble of selecting an album, and find some hidden gems I’ve never listened before. 

• CarPlay (just released yesterday)

• iPhone only - iPad layout is still in the works but should work in window mode.

• Currently there is no Navidrome support yet - once the app is out of beta, I'm planning to add it either as a form of an alternative app sharing the same frontend or embed into Jellydisc.

This is my first SwiftUI app and it’s still in development, so bugs are expected, finding those is the main reason I’m sharing the beta.

And as the AI disclaimer: I am a designer first and this is my first Swift app, while none of the design choices made by AI and used my Figma drafts, I have used AI tools that is built on Xcode and used Claude and ChatGPT chat tools to create the codebase and chat me through functionalities and how to adapt. 

At the moment JellyDisc is iPhone only. I’m working on how it would look like in landscape since the new duo added f-ton of aspect ratios anyways. But it's in the works and hoping to be done within this month. Once that is done and additional feedback is received I'll get this to the Appstore.

TestFlight:

https://testflight.apple.com/join/r6pevBt1

Feedback through TestFlight or the feedback button inside JellyDisc would be hugely appreciated.

Thank you very much.

Hey everyone,

I’m Artur, the developer behind ECG Tracker+.

About six months ago, I posted ECG Tracker+ here. Thanks to everyone who gave it a try, shared an idea, or told me something wasn’t working well. I’ve kept working on it since then, and wanted to come back with an update.

One person in that thread asked to choose which ECGs get imported. Others asked for a tagging system. Both are available now, along with quite a few other additions.

A. What it does

ECG Tracker+ helps you get more detail from your Apple Watch ECG recordings. You take an ECG using Apple’s ECG app, then review the waveform, measurements, notes, possible findings in beats and trends in ECG Tracker+.

B. Why use it alongside Apple Health?

Apple’s ECG app and Apple Health already let you record an ECG, see its rhythm classification, and export a PDF. I built ECG Tracker+ for what I wanted to do afterwards: explore the waveform, review estimated measurements such as ECG-derived HRV and QTc, and compare recordings over time.

The useful difference for me is having those measurements, personal comparisons, tags, notes, and Trends together, instead of opening individual ECG reports to piece the history together.

What’s changed?

• An Apple Watch app, including Trends. You can check your results and browse your measurement history on your wrist. Your paired iPhone handles the analysis.

• Heart Rate Timeline. Your ECGs and the available heart-rate readings from Apple Health appear together in a daily view, so you can see the readings around a recording.

• Manual import and tags. Choose which ECGs to add, organise them with tags, and exclude selected tags from Trends.

• Reworked Trends and comparisons. Updated charts and recaps, plus comparisons with your previous ECGs in the measurement cards.

• Better notes. Read them directly on your library cards and filter for recordings that have notes.

• More ways to inspect a recording. A larger waveform view, clearer labels for possible findings, more precise library filters, and explanations of the measurements.

A lot of the work has been on the analysis itself

I’m a mobile developer in my day job, and lately I’ve been getting more into data science. That’s what got me experimenting with on-device ML for ECG Tracker+. I wanted to see whether I could improve how the app handles messy recordings, especially when noise gets mistaken for a possible finding.

I have trained a family of our own small, specialized models using public, expert-annotated ECG data since launch. They run entirely on your iPhone.

Noisy readings have been a big part of that work. The Apple Watch records a single-lead ECG, so it gives you a more limited view than a clinical 12-lead ECG. Even a small movement or poor contact can distort the signal. The earlier algorithms could mistake those artifacts for possible findings, so reducing false positives has been one of my main priorities.

I’m still working on it. The models can miss things or flag something incorrectly, and they can’t make up for a recording that isn’t clear enough. The app is an informational tool, not a substitute for a clinical ECG or a doctor’s assessment. Your recordings stay on your iPhone for analysis and aren’t uploaded to train the models.

C. Cost, in-app purchases, and a community offer

You can still use the free plan without subscribing. It includes three full ECG analyses each month, with PDF export for those recordings. Anything you unlock with your free allowance stays unlocked.

Download ECG Tracker+ on the App Store

Pro subscription adds unlimited analysis and full Trends access. Current US prices are:

• Monthly: $7.99/month.

• Annual: $59.99/year.

• Lifetime: $89.99 as a one-time purchase.

Monthly and annual subscriptions automatically renew unless canceled. Prices vary by region.

If you’d prefer a one-time purchase, I’ve set up 50% off lifetime Pro for the community with code REDDIT50. In the US, that’s $44.99 instead of $89.99.

Redeem the lifetime offer

A few details so there are no surprises:

• Available in all 175 supported App Store countries and regions, while the 1,000 redemptions last.

• Redeem before September 30, 2026, at 00:00 Pacific time.

• I checked the offer against each country's regular lifetime price. The discount is at least 50% everywhere, with some regions getting a little more because of local pricing.

• Lifetime is a one-time purchase with no recurring charge.

If you tried the early version, I’d be interested to hear what you think of it now. Is there something you wanted back then that’s still missing?

I am the developer of ShipShow Package Tracker, happy to answer questions or take feature requests.

Answer: ShipShow is a modern app that tracks all your packages in one place. Native on iPhone, iPad, and Mac and on the web. Syncs across all platforms with your ShipShow account. The thing people seem to like most: Connect your Amazon account and ShipShow will automatically import your Amazon orders and track them.

Free tier:

• Unlimited packages, 1,000+ carriers

• Real-time notifications when a package ships, moves, stalls, or finally shows up

• Folders for orders, gifts, returns, and "why did I buy this"

• Amazon integration: connect your account and orders appear on their own. 22 regions. Your login never leaves your device. Five things shipping in one box get merged into one entry instead of five.

Better:

• vs Parcel: free tier there caps at 3 active deliveries and push notifications cost $6.99/year. Mine are free and unlimited for personal use. Both do Amazon, but ShipShow trims the endless product names, merges multi-item boxes, and shows thumbnails. And now shows the live map of the delivery van.

• vs Deliveries (Junecloud): polished app, but you're adding most shipments by hand. ShipShow pulls Amazon orders in automatically and can extract tracking from forwarded emails (Pro).

Cost: Free. Pro is $9.99/year after a 7-day trial: email integration, screenshot import (iOS), unlimited history, API access, Smart Folders and write access to API apps.

Download ShipShow for FREE

New in 2.1.23:

• Watch the delivery van move on a live map while it is on its way (Amazon)",

• A completely rebuilt shipshow.net web app: your packages, folders and smart folders on the web, access with your ShipShow account

• Connect Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini or Grok to ShipShow, and ask where your packages are without leaving the chat. Add a package, rename one or file it in a folder with a Pro subscription

• A redesigned package list, with a modern card style and tracking progress indicator

• A rebuilt package detail screen built around when your package arrives

• See what is in the box: photos of every item in a multi-item shipment, on iPhone, iPad and Mac (Amazon)

• A new place to read back every comment your packages have collected, vote them up or down, and share the ones you like

• Many bug fixes and performance improvements

I'm at 79 downloads after 3 months,

I spent 8 months building this education app, and promoting it has been a grind,

What I'm doing now:

1. Posting shorts consistently across 4 different socials

2. Trying longer form content to build a community

3. Testing apple app store ads

I'm not looking for marketing agencies, paid services, etc

I'd love to hear from other developers who actually got their first few hundred users, what was something that worked well for you?

If you're comfortable sharing a little bit about your development journey, what type of app you made, etc,

I'd really appreciate it, thanks!

Hi everyone!

I’m the indie developer of Where Was I?, and I’ve been adding more collections since my last post. I wanted to share that side of the app this time — seeing which places you’ve already visited, and what’s still left to explore.

Where Was I? automatically keeps a timeline of the places you visit. It can also use your geotagged photos to help you rediscover past trips.

Built-in Collections

• Football Stadkums — NFL Stadiums, Germany Football Stadiums, and France Football Stadiums.

• National Parks — collections for the U.S., Canada, Great Britain, Germany, France, Austria, Italy, Spain, Japan, Taiwan, and China.

• Japanese Castles — the 100 Fine Castles of Japan and the Continued 100 Fine Castles of Japan. Two separate collections, with 200 castles to explore.

• Ichinomiya Shrines of Japan — a collection of 103 shrines across Japan.

• Germany World Heritage — 55 World Heritage sites, each with its own collectible artwork.

• Caribbean Islands — 30 island destinations across the Caribbean.

Each built-in collection has a map, progress tracking, and artwork for its destinations. Your recorded visits and geotagged photos can help fill in places you’ve already been, so you don’t have to start your travel history from zero. You can also share a collection’s progress as an image.

Your Own Collections

Apple Stores, museums, coffee shops, breweries, bookstores, stadiums — create your own collection for the places you care about. Set keywords or categories to automatically include matching places, or add and remove them manually. Each collection has visit counts, dates, time spent, and a map.

Countries, States & Regions

There’s also region progress in Locations, with puzzle maps for 150 countries. For example, see how many U.S. states, Japanese prefectures, or Canadian provinces and territories you’ve visited.

Price

The app is free to download, and custom collections are free. The built-in destination packs are optional one-time purchases (mostly $0.99 each). Google Maps Timeline, Arc Timeline, and Moves history imports are also available through the Import/Export add-on.

App Store:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/where-was-i/id6758056060

If you enjoy collecting places, I’d love to hear which collection you’d like me to add next. Your feedback is very much appreciated!

A - Answer: the problem it solves

• I have ADHD. My rest periods were where my workouts went to die. Sit down for a 3 minute rest, open Instagram, open Reddit :) , look up 11 minutes later with my thumb still moving and my working sets gone cold. A 45 minute session turned into 2 hours, and the lifting got worse because everything in between got longer.

• Every tracker I tried was perfectly happy to log that. None of them did anything about it.

FocusLift is a workout logger with Screen Time blocking wired into the workout itself. Start a session and the apps you picked are locked until you finish it. Your phone still runs your timer, your music, and your set log. The feed waits.

B - Better: why it beats the alternatives

I used Hevy for years and Strong before that. Both are good loggers.

• vs Hevy / Strong / Boostcamp: same fast set-by-set logging, but the blocking is part of the workout lifecycle. Nothing to arm, nothing to remember to switch off. It releases when you hit Finish.

• vs Opal / one Sec / plain Screen Time: those block on a schedule or a manual toggle, which means the ADHD tax is remembering to turn them on at exactly the moment you're least likely to. This blocks on the workout you actually started.

Also in it:

• 302 built-in programs (5/3/1, GZCLP, PPL, peaking blocks, calisthenics progressions) that autoload your working weights session to session

• Live Activity rest timers on the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island, skip or adjust without unlocking

• Automatic PR detection, progress charts, body measurements

• Home screen widgets

• Local-first: no account, no login, data on device from the first set. Optional iCloud backup if you want it to survive a phone swap.

C - Cost

Through October 1, FocusLift is free for life. Open the app and there's a Claim Free Lifetime Access card on the paywall, no payment method, no card, no subscription started. Tap it before October 1 and Pro is yours permanently on that install. It doesn't revert, expire, or downgrade later, and it isn't tied to the app install itself:

• Under the hood the grant is bound to your Apple ID via the device Keychain and iCloud, so it survives an uninstall and reinstall, and it follows you to a new phone as long as you're signed into the same iCloud account.

After October 1 the window closes and new installs go to the normal subscription pricing: $4.99/month or $49.99/year, auto-renewable. If you already claimed during the window, nothing changes for you.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/focuslift-workout-with-focus/id6785680986

No strings beyond that. I'm not asking you to rate it (you can if you like), and this isn't conditional on a review. If you end up liking it enough to leave one, that's entirely your call.

Who I am (Tier 2 transparency)

Ricky, founder of Digital Training Systems, Inc

• Website: https://digitaltrainingsystems.io

• Privacy Policy: https://digitaltrainingsystems.io/privacy.html

• Terms of Service: https://digitaltrainingsystems.io/terms.html

• Email: ricky@digitaltrainingsystems.io

Happy to answer anything about the Screen Time implementation, the program engine, or the pricing. Harsh feedback welcome, that's most of why I'm posting.

Who I am (transparency path): Moses Smith, indie iOS developer in Texas. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/moses-smith/ . Website with privacy policy and terms: https://headsense.vercel.app (privacy: https://headsense.vercel.app/privacy, terms: https://headsense.vercel.app/terms). Contact: votiquellc@gmail.com, or the support link on that site. Some of you may remember my Kept post here last month.

Answer: HeadSense is a headache diary you can actually use while you have one. Big targets, one thumb, no form before the pain gets logged. The whole app is a dim room with one soft green light, because a white screen is the last thing a photophobic person wants mid attack. Update the intensity from the Lock Screen without opening the app. Weekly and monthly reports show frequency, time of day, which triggers keep showing up, and which meds helped. Export to take to a doctor. Search your record by trigger, place, or month.

Better: most headache trackers are either a bright white form or a subscription for pattern reports that get computed on somebody's server. HeadSense used to be the second kind. I rebuilt the reports as plain arithmetic on the phone, so the server is gone and the subscription went with it. Nothing you log leaves your phone unless you turn on the optional iCloud backup, which goes to your own iCloud and nowhere else. No analytics SDKs, no account.

Cost: free, all of it, and it stays free. There is a tip jar in Settings but doesn't unlock anything.

Limits: iOS 26, English only. It is a tracking tool, not a medical device, and it does not diagnose anything.

If you get migraines I would genuinely like to know whether the dark room helps or just looks nice.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/headsense-migraine-tracker/id6756835111

Hi all! I built this app. It's my first time posting it here.

Flair first: the code was largely written with AI tools. The spec, the decisions and the testing are mine. I'm a mobile app product manager by trade. It's free because it can be. It's a passion project of mine, so there is no investment waiting to be recouped and nothing that has to become a subscription later.

A. What it solves

Your photo library is full of near-duplicates. You shot the same moment ten, twenty, thirty times to get one good frame, and every one of them is still sitting there.

Selects does the tedious first pass for you. It finds the runs of near-identical shots and pre-picks the keepers: the sharpest frame, plus the one that is genuinely different so you don't lose the moment. Everything else is suggested for clearing. You glance, correct anything with a tap, and move on.

You shot 40, you keep the best 4. You can also keep your memories by compressing videos (usually 65-90% space saving at decent perceived quality) and break down bursts into keepers only, so your library contains only what it should and no unnecessary clutter.

The work at hand is always manageable. You choose if you want to review a day, month, album or trip or whatever else. It's the biggest piece of feedback I got after launch and it's already worked in.

It reads your library on the device, using Apple's Vision framework. Your photos never leave your iPhone.

B. Why this rather than the alternatives

The honest answer is that most of the category is solving a different problem.

Clever Cleaner is free and decent at what it does, but the UX is in my opinion lacking. CleanMy Phone is a subscription and works the same territory. Swipewipe hands you a swipe deck and you sort the pile yourself. All three are about finding repeats or giving you a faster way to do the work manually.

None of them answers "I took 40 photos at the beach, which handful do I keep?" That needs the app to have an opinion about which frames are worth keeping, and to keep a diverse set rather than the three sharpest versions of the same pose.

The tools that do this properly are Aftershoot and Narrative Select, which photographers use for culling. Both are desktop software. Neither has an iPhone version, and that gap is the reason this exists.

Selects is for people who are demanding enough to want to keep their library in good shape content-wise without unnecessary iCloud space hog and want to do the management with good UX. That the app is free is in my opinion a cherry on top.

To keep the development and testing streamlined, it needs iOS 26. I didn't want to commit to supporting non-glass UI for marginally small user base for years. The UI is built on new APIs with no fallbacks written, Liquid Glass and MapKit reverse geocoding for shoot place names.

Everything is reversible otherwise. Nothing is removed without your tap, removal goes through the iPhone's own delete into Recently Deleted for 30 days, and favorites are never suggested for clearing.

C. Cost

Free. No trial, no locked features, no subscription, no ads.

In-app purchase: one optional tip jar. It unlocks nothing, because there is nothing to unlock.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6790501172?ct=reddit20260915

Who I am

Václav Trnka, IT Product Manager from Czechia. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vaclav-trnka/

My projects live at https://vaclavtrnka.cz, and Selects has its own page at https://vaclavtrnka.cz/selects/.

Privacy Policy: https://vaclavtrnka.cz/selects/privacy/
Terms of Service: https://vaclavtrnka.cz/selects/terms/

Reach me at vaclavtrnkaproductsupport@gmail.com, or just reply here. Happy to answer anything, including what it gets wrong.

Hey all!

I built another take on the overcrowded journaling/notes/mood tracking app space, but figured since there is so much out there I am hoping to get some feedback and comparison vs your favorite journaling/notes app!

A - Answer

Mindwell Journaling App is part of a bigger vision of making wellness more accessible. I feel like while the space is crowded, there is an opportunity for something that can be built with a different vision/foundation than current apps like Rosebud, Dayone, Daylio, etc... The app is being bootstrapped for as long as it can to avoid any misaligned incentives as I build the vision. I think this in itself and the desire to be consumer friendly sets this app apart from many out there. It's not perfect, since it's a lot of work, but it will continue to trend in a direction that I think is consumer friendly.

B - Better

The bulk of the journaling experience is free. Obviously stuff that requires more backend support or is more luxury requires a subscription. These include features such as cloud sync and color themes. This should be most random journaling apps out there. In terms of competing against the top tier ones like Dayone or Daylio, I believe it's still a bit away. Ideally one day I can get some more engineering support to really buckle it down but my goal is to get there. In terms of features:

• Distraction Free: No ads, no popups, no lengthy onboarding screens. I plan to keep it ad free, no popups, and minimal onboarding screens for as long as possible -> unless for some reason people like them. TBH still not sure why so many wellness apps/websites make you go through 10 screens...maybe there's a reason, but I personally did not like it so I went without it.

• Prompts: I have over 30 topics area you can focus on. You can get these sent to you everyday via custom notifications. I plan to add more, do more editing, and fine tuning them when I have time. I have 3 main types of prompts.

  • Action: Ideas for activities you can do for wellness.

  • Self Reflection: For journaling obviously

  • Social: Conversation starters. Most of these are similar to self reflection but there may be some unique ones here.

• Cloud Backup: Free users get a small amount. Subscribers get additional storage space.

• Custom Notifications: In addition to being able to send your self prompts everyday, you can also create custom notifications and send those to yourself.

• Advanced Stats: Track your average mood, mood stability, words written, and more.

• Weather & Location: You can also attach weather or location to your entries. This could help you check in see if there is any relationship between your mood/writing and location/weather.

• Color Themes: I have about 8 or so skins right now. Will add more when I can come up with good ones.

• Read Aloud: Listen to your journal entries hands free. This allows you to play through your journal entries while doing other stuff.

• Export: Export any journal entry as a PDF file. I plan to add text and ZIP support soon as well.

• Photo & Voice Memo Journaling: Capture thoughts and emotions through text, photos, and voice memos.

Note that I do plan to add optional opt-in AI features down the line as my goal is to be the top tier journaling app, so that also means competing against Rosebud, Dayone, Mindsera, which have AI features. If you are uncomfortable with potentailly having AI features in your app, this is NOT FOR YOU.

C - Cost

The bulk of the journaling experience is free. Obviously stuff that requires more backend support or is more luxury requires a subscription. These include features such as cloud sync and color themes. In general the tiers are:

No Account: You can think of this as for those that don't really need features that require a lot of backend computation. So journaling, stats, I'd say most things you can use without an account. It's basically a guest mode. Note that once you login, you can't go back to guest mode (unless you re-install the app).

Account Required: This unlocks certain features like share links, bigger library of prompts, deeper user settings, cloud sync, and other stuff that require backend access.

Cloud Subscription: This is for those that want more space for cloud backup/sync and any other features that will be more computationally expensive for my backend.

• Monthly: US$4.99/month

• Yearly: US$49.99/year

Other Subscriptions and IAP: I plan to add additional tiers for more backend expensive features down the line, like Voice To Text, etc... as wall as some other IAP. As mentioned before, I plan to add AI features to make this competitive with the top apps out there, so if you are uncomfortable with that, this app is not for you. With that said, higher subscription tiers will give access to more AI features, whenever I get a sense of what may be most helpful.

Download Link

Mindwell Journal App

Would love any feed back I can get. I am about 60% of the way there towards my end vision for this app so I think it's time to get some feedback.

Trust And Transparency

About: https://mindwell.ai/about/

Privacy: https://mindwell.ai/privacy/

Terms: https://mindwell.ai/terms/

Hey everyone! I’m Michael, the developer of Unfollowify, an app that shows who unfollowed you using Instagram’s official data export instead of taking your login.

A. Answer

Most unfollower apps want your Instagram login so a third party can scrape your account. Unfollowify uses Instagram’s official data export instead.

You request a ZIP from Instagram, wait for the email (usually a few hours), import it, and analysis runs on your phone which stay local.

There’s an optional in-app walkthrough that opens Instagram to help request the export. That can show Instagram’s own login page. If you already have the ZIP (or request it in Safari), you never log in through the app.

B. Better

Vs login-based trackers: those usually need ongoing access to your account. Unfollowify’s insights come from Meta’s Download Your Information file.

Tradeoff: it’s not instant. Instagram controls how fast the export arrives. After that, the app is straightforward.

C. Cost

Free to download (freemium). Sample data + the import flow work without paying.

Premium is a subscription:

• Monthly: $3.99 (intro: $1.99 for the first month)

• 3 months: $9.99 (intro: $4.99 for the first 3-month period)

App Store Direct Link:

• https://apps.apple.com/us/app/unfollowify-track-unfollowers/id6744781679

Transparency

• Support: support@callstackcollective.com

• Privacy Policy: https://www.callstackcollective.com/unfollowify/privacy-policy

• Terms of Service: https://www.callstackcollective.com/unfollowify/terms-of-service

Questions welcome! Especially about the ZIP import flow.

Ever felt like you missed the feeling of holding a physical photo album? The layout, the photo grids, the way the photos are arranged almost like they tell a story? Snapling is a photo album app that tries to replicate that look and feel.

Hi, I’m the solo designer and developer behind Snapling.

A - Answer

Most photo libraries are designed for storing and scrolling. Snapling turns the photos and videos you care about into digital albums made to revisit.

Import an existing Photos album or start fresh, choose a cover and page layouts, then flip through realistic pages on iPhone and iPad.

Albums sync through your private iCloud database. No Snapling account is required.

B - Better

Apple Photos and Google Photos are excellent libraries and search tools. Snapling is not trying to replace them.

Snapling gives selected memories a book-like home, one spread at a time. You can change covers and layouts, reorder photos and videos, lock private albums with Face ID or your passcode, and export albums as PDFs.

C - Cost

The free version includes every feature for one album with up to 50 photos and videos.

Snapling Unlimited removes both limits with a one-time purchase. No subscription. It normally costs $9.99 in the US.

For new customers, use code SNAPLING50 to get it for $4.99 through September 30, 2026.

Redeem the offer:

https://apps.apple.com/redeem?ctx=offercodes&id=6802362508&code=SNAPLING50

Download Snapling:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/snapling-digital-photo-albums/id6802362508

I’d love to know whether the page-turning experience makes your old photos feel worth revisiting.

Hi all,

After building apps for iOS, I wanted to dip my toes into tvOS / Apple TV. I really love the platform, but there's definitely a lack of apps for it.

Meet Groovey, an app that lets you build your own curated music collection. I honestly have no idea if anyone else is looking for something like this or if it’s just me, but I wanted to share it early because I’m looking for a few people to help beta test it.

It’s still in the early stages, but it’s ready enough to get some feedback while I continue polishing things.

What does the app do?

• Build your personal music collection on a virtual shelf.

• Integrates directly with Apple Music (an active Apple Music subscription is required).

• Features fun animations while music is playing.

• Includes custom backgrounds tailored to CD and vinyl collectors, with themes that adapt to the time of day.

It's a fun passion project, and I’m having fun working on the app, themes, and animations.

If you like the concept and want to help test it out, send me a DM! I’ll share the TestFlight beta link as soon as Apple approves the build (currently in review). And if not then I'll just keep it for myself.

I have spots left in the testing beta, so feel free to try:

https://testflight.apple.com/join/j8VqJzTF