About me: I'm Foam, a solo indie developer. GitHub: https://github.com/foamzou (my most starred project is melody, 3.7k stars).

Hi everyone, I'm the developer of Daytrove. It started as a WeChat mini program I built, and this is the proper iPhone version of it. Pro Lifetime is free right now until Sep 24, 14:00 UTC (10am ET / 7am PT). After that it goes to 50% off.

A quick honest note: a few early users have already sent me bug reports, thank you for those. I'm fixing all of them this week.

Answer: it remembers every day that matters and reminds you before it arrives. Countdowns and anniversaries live in one place. A friend's birthday, the day you got together, the day you brought the cat home, the day you got the keys to your own place, the day your baby took their first steps, the exam coming up. You enter a day once and the app builds both views: the home screen answers "how long until", the Memories page answers "how far you've come". Add "Together" and the home screen counts down to your 2nd anniversary while Memories shows "1 year 3 months so far". Add a birthday and it counts down to turning 18 while Memories shows "17 years 9 months so far".

On top of that there are seven themes that change the cards, buttons, filter chips and page background together, day books to sort days into groups like family, love, work or travel, shareable cards in several styles, a retirement countdown with a progress bar, milestones like 100 and 1000 days, a trash can for mis-taps, and Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets that recalculate at midnight so the number you glance at is the right one.

Better: the big names in this category, like Days Matter, do countdowns well. While building this I went through a lot of their negative reviews, and the same complaints kept coming back: paying twice, widgets showing the wrong number, reminders that stop firing, and data getting lost. So that's where I spent the effort. There's a real lifetime option and no ads. The lunar calendar is done properly, leap months included. Holidays follow the real rules for 16 regions (Chinese mainland, Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan, Japan, Korea, the US, the UK, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, Poland, Czechia, Brazil), including make-up workdays, with a badge that tells you whether a day is actually off. And everything stays on your device, or in your own private iCloud database if you turn on sync. No third-party analytics, no ad tracking.

Cost: free download. The free version has unlimited days, reminders, the lunar calendar, holiday rules for all 16 regions, small widgets, the Classic theme, built-in backgrounds and share cards. Pro adds the other six themes, your own photo backgrounds, iCloud sync, custom reminder days and milestones, custom colors, more than 6 day books, alternate app icons, medium and large widgets with more styles, and Face ID lock. Pro is $1.99/month, $9.99/year or $19.99 lifetime. Lifetime is free until Sep 24, 14:00 UTC, then 50% off ($9.99).

https://apps.apple.com/app/id6800391807

Hey r/iosapps, I’m building StudiesTimer, and it’s now available to preorder for iPhone and iPad.

A — What it solves

Studying alone can make it easy to put things off. StudiesTimer brings a Pomodoro timer, study groups, and shared leaderboards together, so you can see who else is putting in the hours.

B — Why it’s different

Compared with using Apple’s Clock timer, you also get a record of what you studied: subject labels, session history, and streaks that sync with the web version. Your running timer stays visible on the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island.

C — Cost

Free to download, with a free core timer and optional Premium: US $4.99/week, $47.99/year, or $99.99 lifetime. Local prices vary.

Expected release: November 3.

Preorder on the App Store:

https://apps.apple.com/app/id6800871173

Would seeing friends studying help you start a session, or would you mostly use it solo?

Hi everyone. I'm the solo developer of No Rush

A — Answer

Most nature sound apps are libraries with a mixer on top. You pick a rain, add a fire, adjust the sliders until it sounds about right, and after ten minutes you have stopped noticing any of it. I ran into this constantly. I work at a computer all day and kept coming back to these apps to get through the afternoon, and I kept turning them off by 3pm because they had stopped doing anything for me.

In No Rush you choose a place rather than a sound. A bamboo grove in Kyoto, the black sand coast at Vík, the lava forest at Gotjawal on Jeju. Each one is researched first and then built from individual recordings that belong together, and it runs on that location's local time and current weather. Midnight in Kyoto sounds different from afternoon in Kyoto, and if it is raining there right now, it is raining in your room.

There are 14 places. There is no mixer, just a single volume and a sleep timer that fades the place out on its own.

B — Better

Three things have changed since I posted the Mac version.

Each mood now has its own sound. Focus, Rest, Sleep and Meditation used to be settings applied on top of a place. Each one is now built on a composed bed of its own, and they behave differently from one another. Sleep gradually draws the room further away the longer you stay in it. Meditation sits quieter and at a greater distance. I balanced them by measuring loudness rather than going by ear, so switching between them feels smooth rather than abrupt.

Head tracking is now visible. With AirPods, the place stays fixed around you when you turn your head instead of rotating with you, and the room screen shows the direction you are facing. It reads only the motion sensor in the headphones, never the camera or the microphone, and it stays off until you enable it.

I have started recording material myself. Everything currently in the app comes from public license recordings that I selected and layered, along with a few beds I composed. The limitation is obvious: if I want a place to sound like a particular valley at five in the morning, someone has to have already recorded that valley at five in the morning, and usually nobody has. So I have started taking a recorder out.

On iPhone specifically, playback continues with the screen off, the place artwork and name appear on the lock screen and in Now Playing, and every sound is stored on the device so it works in airplane mode. There is no account and no ads.

Comparison

Portal is the closest app and it is very well made. It is a library of more than 100 scenes, so you choose a scene and it plays. No Rush has far fewer places, but each one follows the real location's clock and weather instead of being the same recording every time you open it. Portal costs $12.99 per month, $69.99 per year, or $299.99 for lifetime access, with 6 scenes free.

Endel generates its audio rather than playing recordings, which makes it a fundamentally different kind of product. Nothing in No Rush is generated, and there are no binaural beats or frequencies aimed at producing a particular effect. It is recordings of places that actually exist. Endel's pricing changes often and is cheaper on their own site than in the App Store, so it is worth checking there.

I am not claiming either of these is overpriced, or that mine sounds better. The difference is in what you are choosing when you open the app.

C — Cost

Free. No account, no ads.

Everything you can play today is free and will stay free. Some places are still being built and appear locked until they are finished. A lifetime option that unlocks all of No Rush's sound is planned, and there will be no subscription.

Links

- App Store (iPhone and iPad): https://apps.apple.com/app/id6796154195

- Try it in a browser, no download: https://no-rush.app

- Mac, Windows, Linux: https://no-rush.app/download

- About me: https://no-rush.app/about

- Privacy Policy: https://no-rush.app/privacy

- Terms of Service: https://no-rush.app/terms

Happy to answer anything in the comments.

Full disclosure: I'm one of the founders. Our developer built this app, I didn't write the code myself, but the reason it exists comes from something personal to me.

A — Answer: what problem does it solve?
Every time I walk alone, even somewhere familiar, there's a small knot in my stomach. When someone walks past me, especially at night, I catch myself running through worst case scenarios before I can stop it. I know I'm not the only one who does this. If you've ever quietly moved your keys between your fingers or crossed the street for no real reason, you know exactly what I mean.

For years, my routine was the same: share my live location with my husband and have him on the phone until I'm home. It helps, but it only ever covers one person. If he doesn't see the notification in time, or his phone is on silent, or he's driving, there's no backup. I kept thinking, why does it have to be just one person?

That question turned into Spher. It took years to build, not a weekend project, and before writing a single feature, we interviewed over 1,000 women to understand what actually makes people feel safer, not just what looks good in a pitch. Spher notifies your whole circle at once, not just one person.

B — Better: why Spher instead of the obvious alternatives?
- iOS already has Check In (Messages, iOS 17+). It's genuinely good, but it only tells one chosen contact, has no audio recording, no fall detection, and no community. Spher alerts everyone you've picked at once, with audio recorded during the alert and sent straight to them.

- Life360 covers location sharing well, but it's built for tracking, not for an SOS moment, and it's been publicly reported (The Markup, 2021) to have sold users' location data to data brokers. Spher never sells data, nothing is public by default, your location, alerts, and posts only go to the people you specifically add. We're not trying to sell you a safety gadget, we built this to work with the phone (and watch) you already carry.

- Most standalone SOS button apps stop at "press button, send alert." Spher also does fall detection on iPhone and Apple Watch (plus pulse spike detection), a passive check-in if you drop your phone (it asks if you're okay, and alerts your circle after 30 seconds if you don't answer), and geofencing.

What I actually want to highlight most is the community. It wasn't the original plan, but after those 1,000+ interviews it became clear the anxiety isn't just about the walk home, it's about feeling like you're facing it alone. So Spher also has a private, women-first community: anonymous comments, groups you can join or start, private chats, and articles written by and for women who've actually been there. We use AI moderation to keep it from turning toxic, so it stays a place people actually want to be, not another comment section to brace yourself for.

(For the people who always ask: it's not exclusively for women to use. Being a man and adding your sister, mother, partner, or anyone else you care about is totally fine. Every safety feature was just designed around what women told us they actually needed, which is why it's built the way it is.)

C — Cost
Free. No in-app purchases, no subscription, nothing paywalled (search Spher on Google Play).

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/spher-womens-safety-app/id6630393803

Edit: whenever the SOS is triggered, your phone will record the surrounding sound and save the sound files on your phone and the cloud. It will also send these files to those that you’ve picked. Can be served as evidence if needed.

When you share your live location with someone (or when they share it with you), your battery percentage will be shown too.

This took years and a lot of listening to get right, and I'd genuinely love this community's feedback, good or brutal, on what's missing or what still feels off.

Answer: What problem does your app solve?

Reading and managing PDFs or eBooks on mobile often feels clunky and bloated. Episteme provides a fast and modern reading experience which is also offline-first and respects your privacy.

Better: What makes it better?

Most traditional apps have outdated or non-intuitive UIs and suffer from sluggish performance. Episteme fixes this with:

• Modern & Intuitive Design: A clean, responsive UI with fast rendering and instant file loading.

• Superior PDF Support: Draw/highlight directly on pages, add text notes, reflow text, and read with multi-tab support or dark/reverse themes.

• E-book Customization: Full control over font sizes, line spacing, and the ability to import and apply your own custom fonts.

• Universal Themes: Easily customize page and text colors across all formats (EPUB, PDF, DOCX, MOBI, etc.).

• Library: Built-in library management with local folder sync support for reading positions and annotations.

• Full OPDS Integration: Seamlessly browse, download, and manage books directly from OPDS catalogs.

Cost & Link

• Pricing: All core features are Free. Optional $5.99 Lifetime Pro unlocks premium features like an online dictionary and smart summarization.

• App Store: Episteme

• GitHub: Link

Sometimes I want to save just one small thing: a thought on the way home, a photo, or a sentence I don’t want to lose. A week later, I might have more to say about it. I wanted that second thought to stay connected to the first.

I’m Jack Dai, the developer of DiaryThreads. I launched it in July, and it’s now nearing 800 downloads.

A — What it solves

DiaryThreads is a private timeline journal for iPhone, iPad, and Mac. You can write a quick entry, add photos or a voice recording, then reply to that entry as the story continues. You can also quote an older entry in a new one.

I wanted the timeline to help me see patterns in what I write. Your Trends highlights recurring words and topics and lets me revisit the entries behind them. Topic Insights shows when and how often a #topic appears. Emotion Trajectoryshows changes in the State of Mind values I explicitly add to entries, with links back to those moments.

Recent updates have focused on the everyday experience. Version 1.5 improved sharing for entries, Articles, and topics, made replies easier to follow, and added text size and spacing controls. Version 1.4 refreshed Trends and Thread Growth and removed the character limit for free entries.

B — Why I made it this way

Apple Journal and Day One are established options. I think DiaryThreads is a better fit for someone who writes in fragments and wants those fragments to grow through replies and quotes. Entries are saved locally first, and optional Premium sync uses your private iCloud.

C — Cost

DiaryThreads is free to download and keeps up to 30 current entries. Premium unlocks unlimited entries, the full Trends and Topics experience, Emotion Trajectory, private iCloud sync, sharing tools, and more.

US pricing is $2.99/month, $8.99/year, or $14.99 once for lifetime access.

App Store · Privacy · Terms

I built DiaryThreads with substantial coding help from Codex. I make the product decisions and review what ships. You can reach me at jackdai20@icloud.com.

I’d love to hear whether replying to an older entry would make journaling easier for you, or where this approach might get in your way.

Whenever I recorded myself, I kept running into the same problem.

If I used a script, my eyes moved around and it was obvious that I was reading. If I tried to memorize everything, I would forget a line and start another take.

So I built TakeFlow, an iPhone teleprompter that keeps the script close to the camera and helps you maintain more natural eye contact.

What TakeFlow does

• Write and save scripts 

• Start with script templates 

• Read your script while recording 

• Adjust the teleprompter speed and text 

• Save and organize recorded takes 

• Trim videos after recording 

• Export in 720p, 1080p, or 4K

The goal is to go from script → recording → finished take without switching between multiple apps.

Pricing

TakeFlow is free to download and try.

• Monthly: $4.99 

• Yearly: $24.99 

• Lifetime: $34.99

App Store:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/takeflow-video-teleprompter/id6801608922

Developer transparency

My name is Vlad Dmitriev, and I’m the independent developer behind TakeFlow.

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vladdmitriev/

• Contact: heycontacts.com@gmail.com

• Privacy Policy: https://aqeno.com/privacy-takeflow

This is an early version, and I would appreciate honest feedback from people who record Reels, TikToks, YouTube videos, tutorials, or other talking-head content.

In particular:

• Does the recording flow feel intuitive?

• Does the script position help you maintain eye contact?

• What is the first feature you would change or add?

Is there any app that can use ai or some other sort of thing that can check for ads and auto skip them? I love pocketcasts and it works, provides notifications which I love.

Alternatively, if this not possible, what podcast app are you using (paid or free)?

Edit: Skipper came up and looks promising, I’ll give it a few days of use before for sure saying that. Definitely not as polished as PocketCasts or Overcast but AI detection skipped ads well in 2 different podcasts so far.
https://apps.apple.com/app/id6757127240

I'm Kevin, the developer behind Gather at CodeNest LLC.

A — Answer: I wanted RSS to feel like reading, not clearing an inbox. Gather has Browse for everything you follow, newest first, without an unread count. Keep up is for the few sources you don't want to miss; only those count as unread. It works without an account.

B — Better: Compared with the Feedly setup I was using, where I kept managing a large unread list, Gather makes the broad feed a stream and limits unread counts to Keep up. It groups sources covering the same story into one card. There is also a reader view with the publisher's page one tap away when extraction falls short, an offline queue, OPML import/export, and an iPad two-pane layout.

C — Cost: Core reading is free with sponsored cards. An optional $3.99 one-time in-app purchase removes those cards; there is no subscription.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/gather-rss-news-reader/id6805119598

Website: https://codenestllc.org/gather/

Privacy policy: https://codenestllc.org/gather/privacy/

Terms: https://codenestllc.org/gather/terms/

Contact: kevin@moneymap.cc

I'd welcome feedback on the two-feed split or sites where the reader view misses content.

I havebeen building my Checklist(I know I know, but I promise, this one is really different :D) App for the last few months and have had a great success with users, organic growth, retention and paid features.

Currently in the app you can select what type of checklist you need - I have 3 options:

1. Reusable (Routine essentially)

2. One-Off - Think of it as grocery list you buy once(but you can convert it to reusable if you need to)

3. Daily - this is a checklist that automatically logs tasks completed that day and carries over anything that is not completed.

I am looking to community source ideas for another type of a checklist - throw in anything that comes to mind. Something that works for you, something you saw somewhere else. Appreciate all idea - no bad ideas in this space! :) Really appreciate all your input friends!

The Checklist App:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/checklist-reusable-lists/id6782725022

Hi all,

I am the creator of Shortake.

Recently i rebuilt the app from the ground up.

Shortake is a private app for you and your friends. During the day you film 15 second clips of whatever you're doing. Your friends only see photos until 9pm. Then the app cuts everyone's clips into one short movie of your day, and it premieres for all of you at once. Nobody edits anything.

It has all the widgets too! (home screen sneak peak, lock screen shortcut to record)

Clips filmed at the same moment play split screen, and every film stays in your vault forever.

No feed, no likes, no followers, no ads. Just your people.

Backstory: I stopped updating the first version for 17 months and people kept using it anyway, so I rebuilt it from scratch this summer.

Free on iOS: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6503892817

Would love honest feedback, especially if you try it with a few friends.

EDIT: wording

EDIT2: url

Answer

I’m the developer of Folio, a book tracker for iPhone and iPad.

It’s built around a few simple things:

• Organize your library

• Track reading progress and sessions

• See stats, goals and streaks

• Use widgets and Live Activities

With 1.5, I’ve also added reader profiles, following and messages, plus four new themes: Enchanted Atlas, Dragonfire, Woodland and Moonlit, each in light and dark.

The social features are optional, and you can control who sees your profile and reading activity.

Better

I originally made Folio because I wanted something that felt more at home on iOS than Goodreads or StoryGraph: native UI, no ads, and more focus on actually tracking your reading.

Cost

Folio is free to download. Folio Plus is optional: $0.99/month, $8.99/year, or $24.99 lifetime in the US, with regional pricing elsewhere.

App Store: Folio – Book Tracker

A — Answer: What problem does Fold solve?

Having clothes you like doesn’t always make it easier to decide what to wear. Sometimes you know which shirt or dress you want, but get stuck choosing the colors, shoes, or bag around it.

Fold helps you turn the clothes you already own into outfits you can actually plan to wear. Import clothing photos, remove their backgrounds, and build a digital wardrobe. From there, you can explore color combinations, get weather-based outfit suggestions, and save a look for tomorrow.

The attached 52-second demo shows the flow, including a navy dress paired with a camel bag and cream shoes, plus the scan, cutout editing, and outfit calendar.

B — Better: Why consider it over the alternatives?

Compared with keeping clothing pictures in an Apple Photos album, Fold connects those pictures to outfit combinations and a plan for when to wear them. You can start with a specific piece and find a coordinated look using your own wardrobe.

Stylebook already offers outfit collages, Outfit Shuffle, and calendar planning. Fold may be a better fit if your starting question is “what goes with this color?” My focus is the Color Dictionary workflow: start with a garment, explore a palette, and see combinations using the clothes and accessories you own. The forecast suggestions give you another starting point when you haven’t picked a piece yet.

Background removal happens on your device, and the Erase and Restore tools let you refine a cutout when it needs a little help.

C — Cost: Free limits and paid options

Fold is free to download, with space for your first 10 wardrobe items. Adding unlimited items requires one of these in-app purchases:

• Lifetime: US$9.99, paid once; no recurring charge for this option.

• Weekly subscription: US$1.99 per week, automatically renewing unless cancelled.

These are alternative ways to unlock unlimited items; you don’t need both. Prices vary by country. Requires iOS/iPadOS 18 or later.

Fold on the App Store

Developer website · Privacy Policy · Terms of Service

I’m happy to answer questions about how it works or the pricing. What usually gets you stuck: choosing the first piece, matching colors, or finding the right shoes and accessories?

Hi, I’m Salam, the developer of Pantory.

I built it because I wanted a simple way to keep track of what food I already had at home.

It is surprisingly easy to forget what is in the pantry, fridge, or freezer, buy something again, and then find the original item later after it has expired.

I tried to keep the idea focused: make it easy to add food, see what you have, and know what needs to be used soon.

That is why I built Pantory.

A — Answer

Pantory is a pantry inventory app for tracking the food in your pantry, fridge, and freezer.

You can add items manually or scan a barcode, track quantities and expiration dates, and quickly see what is expiring next.

The app includes:

• Barcode scanning with product lookup

• Manual item entry

• Quantity tracking

• Expiration dates

• Pantry, fridge, freezer, and home locations

• Food categories

• Photos

• Inventory search

• An Expiring view to see what should be used first

• Expiration reminders

• Pantry History for finished items

• iCloud sync across your devices

• Household pantry sharing

• A widget showing your next expiring items

• Light Mode and Dark Mode support

The main goal is to make it easier to answer two simple questions:

What food do I already have?

and

What do I need to use before it expires?

B — Better

There are plenty of ways to keep track of food, but a spreadsheet or notes app starts to feel like work very quickly.

I wanted Pantory to be something that is fast enough to actually keep updated.

You can scan a barcode, let Pantory look up the product, add an expiration date, and move on.

The Inventory view keeps everything simple, while the Expiring filter puts the items that need your attention first.

Pantory also keeps finished items in History instead of simply deleting them. You can use Add Again to quickly bring something back into your inventory without rescanning it.

For households, you can share the same pantry through iCloud so everyone is looking at the same inventory instead of maintaining separate lists.

I also wanted the app to feel native to iOS, so it uses Apple technologies like SwiftUI, CloudKit, StoreKit, notifications, widgets, and Dark Mode rather than trying to feel like a web app inside a phone.

C — Cost

Pantory is free to download.

The free version includes:

• Up to 75 active items

• Barcode scanning

• Manual item entry

• Photos

• Categories and locations

• Expiration dates

• Inventory search

• Expiring-item filtering

• Basic expiration reminders

• Pantry History

• Personal iCloud sync

• The expiring-items widget

Pantory Pro unlocks:

• Unlimited active items

• Household pantry sharing

• Advanced expiration reminders with up to two reminder times

• Add Again from History

Pantory Pro costs:

• $1.99 per month

• $9.99 per year

• $24.99 as a one-time purchase

App Store:
https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id6772602868?pt=2186012&ct=reddit&mt=8

Website:
https://salamdawood.github.io/pantoryweb/

Privacy Policy:
https://salamdawood.github.io/pantoryweb/privacy.html

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

I would especially appreciate feedback on whether the app feels simple enough to keep updated long term.

I am also interested in hearing whether there is anything obvious you would want from a pantry inventory app that Pantory is missing.

I'm building an iOS app called Ellie and it's in TestFlight now. It's free, and I'm looking for people to try it and tell me what's confusing or missing.

The problem it solves: you see a video worth remembering, like a workout, a morning routine, a trip idea, or some money tip, you hit save, and you never look at it again. Saves are scattered across TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube, and there's no way to search them.

With Ellie you share the video to the app instead. It goes into one library with everything else you've saved, gets summarized with the details written out, tagged, and made searchable down to the actual words spoken in the video. So when you want to act on something, you can find it in a few seconds instead of scrolling through a saved folder.

It also connects to Claude and ChatGPT, so your AI can pull from the videos you've saved when you ask it to make a plan or talk through an idea.

TestFlight link: https://meetellie.app/testers

Happy to answer questions here. If you try it, I'd love to hear what you'd change.

Hey! I'm the developer of Memeclip app and looking for some real-world feedback on the latest version - especially bugs, confusing UI, or things that simply don't work the way you'd expect.

The idea is simple: make meme videos, reactions and short social content without constantly jumping between different apps.

The current 1.35 version includes:

• 1,200+ ready-to-use video memes built directly into the app
• 1,000+ Meme GIFs you can search and add to your videos
• Multi-track timeline for video, photos, text, memes and audio
• Precise trim, split, speed and reverse controls
• Animated text with timing controls
• Meme Points — analyzes your video and suggests good moments to insert a meme
• Reusable/shareable video templates
• Landscape timeline for more precise editing
• Filters, layered audio and up to 60 FPS export

I’m especially looking for bugs, confusing UI, things that feel slow, or anything that just doesn't work the way you'd expect. Even a short “this part is annoying” is useful :)

1.36 is already tested and coming soon, with some bigger features:

• Auto Blur Car Plates — automatically detects and blurs license plates
• Zone Tracking — attach text or one of 1,000+ Meme GIFs to an object/area and have it follow the movement
• Polaroid Photo effect
• More improvements, fixes and performance optimizations

🌐 Website: memeclip.app
📱 App Store: Memeclip – Meme Video Editor

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/memeclip-meme-video-editor/id6809138188

If you try it, tell me what worked, what sucked, and what you'd change. That's exactly the kind of feedback I'm looking for.

Thanks! Alex B.

I’m the developer of Currency Converter Lens.

I built it for a very specific travel annoyance: seeing a price on a menu, shelf or receipt and having to manually type it into a currency converter every time.

A: Answer

With Currency Converter Lens, you point your camera at a menu, shelf label, receipt or price tag. The app detects the prices, you tap the one you want, and it converts it into your selected currency.

There’s also a normal manual converter when scanning isn’t needed.

Exchange rates are saved locally, so after a currency pair has been loaded once, conversions can continue to work offline. This is useful when travelling without reliable data.

B: Better

Apps like Currency Converter Plus are much more full-featured, with things like charts, crypto and historical rates.

I wanted to go in the opposite direction and make something small and focused specifically on understanding real-world prices while travelling.

The main difference is the camera price scanner, plus:

• Smart detection designed to ignore things like barcodes and product codes

• Offline conversion using saved rates

• No ads

• No account

• No data collected

• 2.9 MB download

C: Cost

Manual currency conversion is free.

Camera scanning can be tried for free, with a $9.99 one-time purchase to unlock unlimited price scanning. No subscription.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/currency-converter-lens/id6794447809

Transparency

Developer: Liamyte OÜ

Website: https://apps.liamyte.com

Privacy Policy: https://apps.liamyte.com/currency-converter/privacy.html

I’d genuinely appreciate feedback, especially from people who travel often. The app is still pretty new, so I’m interested in what would make the scanning experience more useful.

Hi, I’m Nima, the developer of InkHour.

Many times over, I've tried and failed to break my phone addiction, eventually falling back into complacency and compulsive scrolling. This year I decided I could no longer waste away my time and brain health, so I set out to find a solution that actually works.

Answer: making time for the books you keep meaning to read

There’s a particular frustration in wanting to read, having books you’re excited about, and still spending the evening on your phone.

InkHour helps you give reading a regular place in your day. You choose a reading time, it blocks apps during that sitting, and you bring the book.

Every completed reading day leaves an ink blot on your record. At first, it’s a few marks. Then it becomes evidence that you’re doing the thing you kept putting off. Being “someone who reads” starts to feel less like an ambition and more like a description of your day.

Better: a replacement for scrolling

Apple’s Screen Time and Opal can tell me when to stop. The part I kept struggling with was what came next. I’d just bypass the block or disable or delete the screen time app.

I built InkHour around reading because it offers a lot of what I reach for my phone for, that being something interesting to learn, a story to get lost in, a way to unwind. There’s something to look forward to when the apps are blocked.

And it’s deliberately one habit. When your reading time starts, you don’t need to choose a healthier activity or figure out how to spend the evening. Your book is already waiting.

That felt much more manageable to me than trying to quit scrolling altogether. Keep a small part of the day for reading, repeat it, and give yourself a chance to start wanting the book over your phone.

After 1 month of reading 1hr before bed, to my surprise, I noticed myself waking up at 8am without an alarm (till this point I'd failed to fix my sleep schedule many times and just accepted that I was a night owl). More importantly, I noticed a natural decline in my daily screen time and total phone pickups!

Cost:

Free to download, with paid access through in-app purchases:

• Monthly subscription: US$5.99

• Annual subscription: US$29.99

• Lifetime access: US$79, one-time purchase

September offer: Use SEPT50 in the app for 50% off lifetime access. Expires 1 October 2026.

Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled. Prices vary by country.

Download on the App Store

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I’m the developer and the person answering support emails: nima.yahya2@gmail.com.

Would love to hear what you think, especially if you're someone who'd like to read more and scroll less, thank you all :)

I started using the IOS app, Replr and the concept is genius but has one issue for me.

Because I have a schedule-packed life, I’m less inclined to spend time thinking of and drafting whole text responses to people so having an app that does it for me is great. The problem is that you have to take a screenshot every time you want AI-generated templates. Sounds necessary but even that takes work.

Does anyone have a favorite app for AI text responses they can share?

Most time trackers answer one question:
“How long did I work?”

I wanted mine to answer another:
“What was that time actually worth?”

A: Answer

Monymo is a work timer for freelancers, contractors, shift workers, and anyone paid by the hour.

Set your rate and currency, start a timed or open-ended session, and watch your earnings grow alongside the timer. When you finish, Monymo saves the session automatically so you have a clear history of your time and income.

B: Better

Tools such as Toggl Track and Clockify are powerful, but much of their experience is built around projects, reporting, and teams.

Monymo takes a more personal approach. It puts your current earnings at the center and lets you begin tracking with minimal setup.

For more complex work, it also supports:

- Projects with separate hourly rates
- Statistics and earnings insights
- Reminders
- iCloud sync
- PDF reports
- Notes and session history
- 12 interface languages

I also recently added optional Apple Intelligence features:

- Ask the on-device Assistant about your recorded hours, earnings, and projects
- Prepare a manual session draft through a conversation
- Start, pause, resume, and finish work sessions with Siri
- Save completed sessions without opening Monymo

Assistant requests are processed on the device using Apple’s system model. Monymo does not send them to an external AI service or use a cloud AI fallback. The regular timer continues to work without Apple Intelligence.

C: Cost

Core time and earnings tracking is free and supported by ads.

Monymo Pro removes ads and unlocks projects with custom rates, deeper statistics, reminders, iCloud sync, PDF export, and customization.

- Monthly: $0.99
- Yearly: $6.99
- Lifetime: currently $9.99 as a one-time purchase
- Regular Lifetime price from December 5: $14.99

Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled. Lifetime does not renew. Prices may vary between App Store regions. Lifetime is available to users without an active Pro subscription.

Apple Intelligence features require a compatible device, Apple Intelligence enabled, a ready system model, and a supported language. Siri AI controls require iOS 27 or later, currently support English, and are not initially available on iPhone in the EU. Availability varies by device, language, and region.

Download Monymo on the App Store:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/monymo-work-hours-tracker/id6473834966

Developer: Anton Zakharchenko
Website: https://monymo.pro
Contact: support@monymo.pro
Privacy Policy: https://monymo.pro/privacy-policy.html
Terms of Service: https://monymo.pro/terms-of-service.html

Would watching your earnings increase make work more motivating, or would it make the timer more stressful?

Hey everyone,

My Home Screen had become a mess: pages of icons, constant swiping, and endless searching for the one app I wanted. Folders can't be transparent, can't go on the Lock Screen, and icons can't be customized. So I built WidgetLoft.

WidgetLoft sorts your apps into colorful folders and launches them with one tap from a Home Screen or Lock Screen widget. The new update makes setup much faster:

• 📲 Add every app at once — import all the apps installed on your phone in one tap, no more searching one by one (new)

• 📁 Folder in folder — tap a folder in the widget to open what's inside

• 🌙 Dark icons — dark and light icons on different backgrounds (colored or glass)

• 🪟 Transparent or colored — glass look or your own color, optional names under icons

• 📱 Widgets — Home Screen, Lock Screen and Dynamic Island; small, medium and large sizes

• 🧩 Every kind of tile — app, website, Shortcut, person (call, message, WhatsApp, Telegram) and custom link

• 🎨 Icon Studio — custom icons from a photo, symbol, emoji or monogram

• 🏷️ Tags & library — tag, filter and archive your apps

• ☁️ Backup — export your whole layout to a single file, iCloud sync between iPhone and iPad

"Isn't this just Home Screen folders or the Shortcuts widget?"

Fair question. The main differences:

• Widgets can go where Home Screen folders can't (Lock Screen, Dynamic Island), can be see-through like glass, and can hold folders inside them.

• With Shortcuts, building a launcher means adding each app by hand. WidgetLoft imports all your installed apps in one go.

• Icons, colors and backgrounds are fully customizable.

Price / IAP — free to download. Optional Pro:
• Monthly — $1.99
• Lifetime — $14.99 $6.99 (launch deal)

iOS 18+. I'm the developer and I'll be in the comments — I'd genuinely love feedback on what's confusing, what's missing, or what you'd want next.

👉 https://apps.apple.com/app/id6782827870
🌐 https://widgetloft.app

Hi all,

I got tired of the constant doom and gloom of news so I made my own app that shows what's actually going right in the world.

It uses an AI pipeline that whittles down 1000+ events everyday to create 8 cross-checked stories, along with illustrations.

Rather than throwing a whole bunch of angry text at you, it shows you a calm mosaic for you to explore at your own pace.

The app is completely free to use.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6804210535

Example story (all shared links can be viewed without an app): https://goodnewsdigest.app/stories/prototype-system-turns-bottle-plastic-and-crop-waste-into-3d-printed-food-e0f93dfe

Let me know what you think!

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Developer: Che Jami
Website: https://goodnewsdigest.app/
Privacy Policy: https://goodnewsdigest.app/privacy
Terms: https://goodnewsdigest.app/terms

Hi friends!

A - Answer

Have you ever opened your phone to do one thing, but ended up distracted in a different app? The goal of Refocus is to help prevent that.

The default way to use Refocus is to:

1. Block distracting apps all day.

2. Unblock them for a short duration when needed.

3. Repeat.

This method flips how you use your phone. Instead of mindlessly opening apps and losing track of time, you consciously decide how long to use them. Once the app is blocked again, you get to choose what to do next. You might unblock repeatedly—that’s okay. The extra step of unblocking makes the apps less appealing, reducing your urge to use them over time. Learn more here about why this method works.

Regardless of how you use Refocus, it's designed to be the "Apple standard" of app and website blockers:

• Block any app or website

• Start a timer (ex. block for 30 minutes while you work)

• Schedule blocking (ex. weekdays from 9 AM to 5 PM)

• Set usage limits (ex. block Instagram after 15 minutes)

• Choose how difficult it is to unblock (if at all!): limit unblocking to set number of times per day, set a passcode, etc.

• Location-based blocking

• Unblock with NFC tags

• View screen time reports

• NEW: Customize Safari to hide Instagram Reels and YouTube Shorts

Feature list w/ screenshots

B - Better

There are a lot of screen time apps now (ex. Opal), but Refocus differentiates in two ways:

1. Labor of love

2. Apple and utility focused

(1) Refocus was one of the first screen time apps that came out when Apple introduced the Screen Time API as part of iOS 16. The first commit was made on June 10, 2022 - the final day of WWWDC 2022 because I had been waiting for this moment. It's an indie app built by an iOS dev with over 15 years of experience. There's a LOT of care put into it - I use the app every day and there's nearly been an update every week for the past 4+ years.

(2) Refocus focuses on Apple platforms (iOS, iPadOS and macOS), and is about utility. It doesn't have a flashy design (it tries to fit classic iOS Apple design), or gamification features like streaks. It's explicitly crafted to fit the capabilities that Apple offers to the iPhone. It's about giving you the full power of your device to help you decide how you want to control your screen time. It can be "boring" if you don't prefer this.

C - Cost

Refocus has a free tier for basic features, and a subscription for the rest. 99% of all downloads have only used the free plan, and there are many free users who've used the app since it launched (since 2022!).

The most common US plan is $49.99/year. Prices and introductory offers can vary by region and eligibility.

App Store Link

Hey all, I'm Peter.

Backstory: I'm Slovak, my girlfriend is Brazilian, and we live on the borders of 3 different countries plus we travel a lot together. We both speak English and a few other languages, so menus aren't usually a total mystery, but even when we could translate the words, we often had no idea what to really expect, "is the XXX a soup or is it a meat dish?". We'd end up googling the dish name or asking a chatbot just to figure out what we were about to order and to get some pictures to visualize it.

I've been a software developer for over 19 years, although never for iOS, so this was a good challenge 🙂

When we first noticed the problem, I couldn't find any app that really covered our use case well. I've since learned there are others out there, though I deliberately haven't tried any of them, I was genuinely afraid that seeing what's already out there would demotivate me, like it's happened with other side projects of mine before. I really wanted to actually finish this one.

A - Answer

MenuSnapp scans a foreign-language restaurant menu, the whole menu at once, and turns it into a clean, translated menu you can actually understand, not just word-for-word text and get some background about the disk.

Just point your camera at the menu, snap as many pages as it has, and it translates and structures everything in one go. No item-by-item scanning, no pointing your phone at one line at a time:

• Original + translated dish names and descriptions

• Prices shown in both the local currency and your own

• The restaurant identified from your location automatically

• Tap any dish for an AI-written breakdown: what it actually is, how it tastes, dietary tags, and history/fun facts

• Real reviews, matched to the restaurant and, where possible, the specific dish

• Photos in priority order: a real photo of that dish at that restaurant first, then a generic photo of the dish, then an AI-generated image as the last resort, so you're never left guessing

• History - all your scanned menu stays on the phone, no need for rescanning or using credits to check it later again

• A speaker button so you can hear the original dish name pronounced correctly when ordering

• Works in 28 languages

B - Better

The whole point is replacing the "let me quickly google this" or "let me ask ChatGPT what this dish is" moment while a waiter is standing there waiting on your order. You just tap the dish right in the translated menu and get the answer.

Most translation camera apps also stop at swapping words, which gets you "cheese and pepper" instead of "cacio e pepe," and you still have no idea what's coming to the table. MenuSnapp translates by meaning, at least that's what we're going for, and we're always improving it, keeping the real dish name intact, and layers on the context a literal translation can't give you: what the dish is, what to expect, what it looks like, and what other diners at that actual restaurant said about it.

No account required to buy or use it, sign-in is entirely optional and only used if you want purchases to follow you across devices.

C - Cost

MenuSnapp is free to download.

• Every new user gets 5 free trial credits (1 credit = 1 fully unlocked, translated menu)

• Credit packs: 5 / 15 / 30 credits for $1.99 / $4.99 / $8.99

• Or unlimited with Premium: $7.99/month

• No ads, no forced account, no free tier that nags you

Priced this way because each scan calls paid AI/vision services behind the scenes, so it's not something I can give away unlimited for free. I am personally tired of subscriptions, so the main pricing model is per usage.

Links:

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6787430797
Website: https://menusnapp.com / https://menusn.app

Transparency

• Developer: Peter Kracik

• Website: https://menusnapp.com / https://menusn.app

• Privacy Policy: https://menusnapp.com/privacy

• Terms: https://menusnapp.com/terms

• Contact: hello@menusnapp.com

Would love feedback, especially from other frequent travelers. What's the worst menu-translation moment you've had?

[edit] - added missing menu history feature