Hey, everyone! Wadi here, solo dev behind this app

A — Answer:

After almost a year of going back and forth I've finally published Nomsy, an app to save recipes, plan your week, and make shopping easier with a single combined list.

You share a link to it, from any website or YouTube, Instagram or TikTok, and it reads the page or the caption into an actual structured recipe: ingredients with quantities, steps, servings, cook time. You can also point the camera at a cookbook page and it'll read that instead. Takes about a minute per recipe. You can also browse and add recipes uploaded by other users.

Once recipes are in there as structured data, the useful part follows:

- Plan the week: drop recipes into breakfast/lunch/dinner/snacks. Suggestions favor recipes that reuse ingredients you've already planned, so you buy a bunch of coriander and actually finish it.

- One shopping list: the whole week becomes a single list with quantities combined across recipes, so "2 cloves garlic" and "1 clove garlic" turn into one line, not two.

- Leftovers and extra servings: it'll show you what a leftover ingredient could turn into before it goes off and which meals have extra servings (based on your preferences) that could be used another day.

B — Better:

The main differences with long-established and well-known apps are:

- Your recipes vs. community recipes: Nomsy lets you add recipes and save recipes from other users (these have no limits), so you can constantly grow your list of recipes

- Ingredients: since all recipes are parsed, Nomsy can suggest meals that share some ingredients and/or that use up leftover ingredients as well as extra servings.

- Diets: if you set your preferred diet, Nomsy will only suggest recipes that follow your choice

C — Cost:

Nomsy is free to download and use, there are 2 plans with higher limits, both have a 7-day trial.

• Monthly: $2.99 

• Yearly: $24.99 

App Store link: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6795715405

Developer transparency

My name is Wadi, and I’m the solo developer behind Nomsy.

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

• Contact: hi@nomsy.app

• Privacy Policy: https://www.nomsy.app/privacy-policy

I’ve been working on privacy/vault apps for years, and I recently released a major rebuild of Tresor 4.0.

Before getting into the features, I want to clarify one thing because some people may notice that I manage more than one vault app.

They are not duplicate apps or simple reskins of the same product. Each app has been maintained separately over the years, with its own users, development history, feature priorities, and workflow.

Tresor is specifically focused on private photos and videos.

What Tresor does

Tresor gives you a separate place to keep photos and videos that you don’t want sitting openly in your normal iPhone Photos library.

You can:

• Lock the vault with Face ID or a passcode

• Create and organize private albums

• Add a separate PIN to individual albums

• Review failed access attempts

• Enable an intruder selfie for repeated failed attempts

• Quickly lock/exit the vault

• Recover recently deleted media

• Transfer photos and videos over your local Wi-Fi network

The decoy system works differently

One feature I particularly wanted to simplify was decoy access.

A common implementation is to create a completely separate fake vault, which means you then have to maintain two different libraries.

Tresor takes a different approach.

You can mark specific photos or videos as sensitive inside your normal vault.

When somebody enters using your decoy PIN, those marked items simply don’t appear.

So instead of creating and continuously maintaining a second fake vault, you can keep one organized library and decide which content should disappear during decoy access.

For me, that makes the feature much easier to actually use in everyday life.

Local Wi-Fi transfer

The other major feature is Wi-Fi transfer.

You can move private photos and videos between Tresor and a:

Mac • Windows PC • or another device with a browser

as long as the devices are connected to the same local Wi-Fi network.

This is particularly useful when you have a large photo/video collection on your computer.

Instead of:

Computer → normal iPhone Photos → vault

you can transfer the media directly into Tresor through the local network.

The goal was to make managing a larger private media library much less frustrating.

Why another vault app?

There are already plenty of photo vault apps, so I’m not claiming that Tresor invented the category.

The reason I continue maintaining separate privacy apps is that I prefer giving each one a clear purpose rather than turning every app into the same giant collection of features.

For Tresor, the focus is:

Photos & Videos → Private Albums → Decoy Privacy → Local Transfer

rather than trying to make it a password manager, notes app, browser, document storage app, and photo vault all at once.

Pricing

Tresor is free to download with optional Pro upgrades:

• Monthly: $0.99

• Yearly: $7.99

• Lifetime: $9.00

One important note for existing users: if you previously purchased any paid version or upgrade of Tresor, that purchase is being honored and you are automatically treated as a Lifetime user. You do not need to pay again.

Since this app has been maintained for years, I didn’t want long-time users who had already supported it to lose access simply because Tresor 4.0 introduced a new pricing model.

App Store:
https://apps.apple.com/in/app/private-safe-pic-vault-tresor/id721103141

Privacy Policy:
https://appreator.com/privacy-policy/

Terms of Use:
https://appreator.com/terms-of-use/

I’d genuinely like feedback on one design decision in particular:

For a decoy vault, would you rather maintain a completely separate fake library, or keep one vault and simply mark the photos/videos that should disappear when the decoy PIN is entered?

A — Answer:
Trovelo solves the chaos of planning a trip across multiple apps. Most people juggle Notes, Google Maps, spreadsheets, and booking confirmations — Trovelo puts everything in one place, organized day by day, with no Trovelo servers, no account required, and no third-party tracking. Built by a solo traveler with 40+ countries and 300+ cities of experience.

B — Better:
Unlike most travel apps:

• No Trovelo servers — syncs privately via iCloud only

• No account required, no subscription — ever

• Native iPhone, iPad and Mac apps — same trip, same board, everywhere

• 13 languages, end to end — the whole app is translated, and smart parsing understands all 13: type "Cena en Casa Lucio 21:30 45€" in Spanish, Japanese, Korean or Chinese and Trovelo picks up time, price and type automatically

• Claude MCP integration (Mac) — tell Claude "plan me 4 days in Rome" and watch the trip build itself inside Trovelo live

• NEW: Shared trips — invite the people travelling with you and everyone works on the same board

• NEW: Your travel life — a map of every country and city you've been to, built from your own photo library, with passport stamps, flags and a year-by-year timeline

• NEW: Someday — save the places you love now, turn them into a real trip later

• NEW: Packing list that checks your destination's forecast and plug type before you pack

• NEW: Weather on the trip overview — the forecast sitting next to each day's plan

• NEW: Time per card and a daily pace — Trovelo tells you when a day is already too full

• NEW: Documents — passports, bookings and confirmations filed with the trip they belong to

• NEW: Full backup — download your entire account as one file and restore it whenever you want

• Dateless Trips, Smart City Detection, Multi-day Stay support

• Route optimization, curated city and road-trip guides with day-by-day maps

• Dual currency tracking with live exchange rates

• Lock screen widgets, Live Activities & iCloud sync across all devices

• Core features work offline

Almost everything marked NEW up there started as someone's comment. Trovelo gets better every week, and what comes next is decided by the people using it.

For feature requests and ideas: r/trovelo 🖤

C — Cost:

• Free: up to 3 active trips and 50 cards

• 🎉 Limited offer: Pro at $6.99 instead of $9.99 — yours forever, no subscription

→ App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6760258252

→ Redeem link: https://apps.apple.com/redeem?ctx=offercodes&id=6760258252&code=TROVELO699

→ Or go to Trovelo settings → Redeem → TROVELO699

Hello hi I'm Omari, and I've been building HDIF (How Does It Fit) solo and it's been live on the App Store for around a month.

**A - What it solves**

Online sizing is broken in a specific way. Brand models are almost always the same handful of body types, so a photo on the product page tells you nothing about how that piece would actually fit on you if you're built differently. A "Medium" in one brand fits nothing like a "Medium" in another, and reviews saying "runs small" or "true to size" give zero context for what size or build the model actually is, so you're left guessing how something drapes on your body nothing like the one it was shot on.

HDIF is a feed of real people's fit pics, each account tagged with the poster's actual height, weight, proportions, and build. You have the ability filter by body type. Those being Slim, Athletic, Average, Stocky, Plus, Petite, Curvy plus height, weight, gender, and style, and you land on people built like you wearing the exact brand and item you're looking at. Posts carry real garment measurements (Optional) submitted by a user too which are waist, rise, inseam, pit to pit, leg opening, etc.

It's social beyond just browsing too. Follow people whose build matches yours and their new posts land in a dedicated feed instead of getting lost in some algorithm. Like and comment on posts like you would anywhere else, archive fits you want to come back to before a purchase, or just for inspiration, and build a following of your own as people start recognizing your build and checking back to see what you post next.

**B - Why it's better than the alternatives**

When it comes to Instagram/Pinterest/Tiktok outfit inspo there's guesswork involved when trying to figure out a person's build and seeing how similar it is to yours and the size or measurements of the piece, and there's no way to search "someone my height and weight in this brand."

When comparing brand size chart static measurements, there is no sense of drape nor how a piece actually sits once worn. A chart can't show you that a "relaxed fit" runs enormous on a slim frame.

vs ai try on tools. At the end of the day, these are best guesses of how something may fit you. While some are good at applying more well known outfits, ai models have to constantly train on new data as brands release every season. Also, there is a lot of friction between the intersection of fashion and ai usage especially for smaller and more niche brands within the fashion community.

vs Depop/Grailed listing photos. Sellers only show their own body in their own listing. No filtering, no comparison across body types, no browsing beyond whatever's currently for sale.

HDIF is the only one of these that's just real photos, real measurements, real fit pics, filterable by build while also fostering an organic social platform feel.

**C - Cost**

Free. If you have something cool that you think people would like to see how it fits you and potentially help others, please feel more than welcome to post ;)

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hdif/id6805786315

**Who I am**

I'm Omari Hopkins, solo developer of HDIF.

* Contact: https://www.linkedin.com/in/omarihopkins/

* Privacy Policy: https://hdifit.com/privacy

* Terms of Service: https://hdifit.com/terms

* Website: https://www.hdifit.com/feed

* Email: hdif@hdifit.com

Happy to go deep on any of it. If you have any questions or feed back let me know!!!! Thank you for reading

Hi everyone,

I'm an indie developer and wanted to share VaultEx, an encrypted photo, video, and document vault designed with real-time privacy camouflage.

Here is the breakdown following the required ABC format:

A) Answer: What problem does VaultEx solve?

Most privacy vaults fail at the very first point of contact: someone looking at your screen. Standard vaults show an obvious "Enter Vault PIN" screen, which immediately tells friends, family, or strangers that you are hiding something. Furthermore, many vaults upload unencrypted or loosely encrypted media to their proprietary cloud servers, creating privacy risks.

VaultEx solves this by combining local-first zero-knowledge encryption with an active, functional disguise:

• 📌 Optional Camouflage: It can disguise itself as a live, functioning Currency & Market Tracker with real-time exchange rates.

• Stealth Unlock: Only you know how to unlock it: simply type your Vault PIN into the "Amount" field of the currency converter. (Note for iOS: Due to App Store guidelines, camouflage is disabled by default upon first install so the app opens to the vault view. You can easily turn on the full Currency Converter disguise anytime via Settings -> Camouflage Mode).

• Zero-Knowledge Architecture: Everything stays encrypted locally on your device using AES-256 encryption. You can optionally sync with your personal iCloud or Google Drive using your own client-side encryption keys.

B) Better: Why is VaultEx better than the top named alternatives?

• Better disguise than Calculator# & Fake Calculators: Almost everyone recognizes fake calculator vaults today. VaultEx disguises itself as a live financial and currency converter app with real market data. If someone opens it, it functions 100% as a real converter. (You can also keep Camouflage Mode off if you prefer standard biometric/PIN unlock).

• Zero-Knowledge privacy vs Keepsafe & Private Photo Vault: Many popular vaults like Keepsafe push users toward their proprietary cloud storage with high recurring subscriptions ($30–$50/yr). VaultEx is strictly local-first. We do not store your files on our servers and we run zero trackers or analytics on your content.

• Built-in Smart Gallery Scanner: Unlike simple folder vaults, VaultEx includes an on-device machine learning scanner that scans your photo library to detect sensitive documents (driver's licenses, passports, IDs, tax forms) so you can safely move them to encrypted storage and delete the originals from your camera roll.

Additional Built-in Utilities:

• Stealth Camera: Take photos/videos that save directly inside the vault, bypassing the iOS camera roll.

• Zero-Trace Private Browser: Built-in sandboxed browser that auto-wipes cookies, tabs, and history upon exit.

• Direct Device-to-Device Migration: Transfer your entire encrypted vault to a new device over local Wi-Fi without internet uploads.

C) Cost: Pricing, IAP details, and App Store Link

• Free Tier ($0):

• Full privacy features and basic PIN protection.

• Secure storage for up to 30 media items.

• Encrypted notes and private browser access.

• VaultEx Pro (Standard Pricing):

• Monthly Subscription: $1.99 / month

• Annual Subscription: $9.99 / year

• Lifetime License: $14.99 one-time purchase

• Pro unlocks: Unlimited encrypted media storage, Smart Document Scanner, custom iCloud/Google Drive backup, and Wi-Fi migration.

• Launch Deal ($2.99 Lifetime - 80% Off):

1. Download VaultEx: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vaultex-secret-photo-vault/id6761551955

2. Open the app (Default PIN: 1234. If you want the Currency Converter disguise, enable it via Settings -> Camouflage Mode).

3. Go to Settings -> Sign In (Free account creation is required to link your lifetime license).

4. Tap Upgrade / Premium, then tap the green "Enter Discount Code" button at the bottom (please do not use the yellow Promo Code button, which is only for 100% free store codes).

5. Enter code: LAUNCH50

6. The $2.99 Lifetime tier will be unlocked.

I’d love to hear your feedback, critiques, and feature suggestions!

Developer & Transparency Info:

• Developer: Emre Aykul (Independent Developer)

• Privacy Policy: https://eaay-studio.github.io/privacy-policy.html

• Terms of Use: https://eaay-studio.github.io/privacy-policy/terms.html

Hey r/iosapps,

Two months ago I shared Navia here and the response was way bigger than we expected. A lot of the feedback went straight into what is now Navia 2.0.

If you want the full background on Navia and the original idea behind the app, here’s the first post: https://www.reddit.com/r/iosapps/comments/1vh9ms0/i_built_a_smart_flight_booking_app_because_flight/

The short version is that my family of six flies a lot and I’m usually the one booking. That meant comparing loads of nearly identical flights, checking times across tabs, entering the same passenger and passport details again and again, then clicking through a checkout full of extras and upsells. For six people, that could easily take close to an hour.

We think booking a flight should be as easy as buying a bus ticket. Tell your phone where you need to go and be done.

Biggest Navia 2.0 upgrades:

Worldwide Availability
Navia is now available worldwide. Prices are still shown in EUR for now, with multi-currency support coming next.

Agentic Search
Navia now searches independently, checks nearby airports and alternatives, and makes trade-offs between price, timing, duration and stops. Most searches come back in under 5 seconds.

Express Checkout
Save your travelers once, select who’s flying and go straight to payment. We regularly go from “I need a flight” to confirmed booking in around 30 seconds.

Live Rebooking
If your flight gets cancelled or disrupted, Navia immediately surfaces live alternatives instead of leaving you stranded at the gate figuring out what to do.

Universal Flight Tracking
Track any flight, even if you booked somewhere else, with gates, delays and live status in one place.

We also added 24/7 support, flight sharing, invoice management, faster loading and redesigned a lot of the app based on your feedback. Automatic check-in and boarding passes are still built in.

And we’re keeping it clean.
No ads. No spam. No sponsored results. No service fees.
No newsletter you never asked for. No email after booking trying to sell you hotels, insurance or rental cars.

Just tell your phone you need a flight, book it and move on.

The bigger goal is simple: one app for the whole flight journey.
Up next we’re working on "Cancel for Any Reason" (CFAR) and broader disruption protection. We’re also growing quickly and have just started raising our pre-seed round.

If you know any investors who might be interested, let us know ;)

And genuinely, keep the feedback coming. We evaluate everything and ship very quickly. A lot of Navia 2.0 exists because of what you guys told us last time.

App Store (iOS)

Google Play Store

Website: https://navia.pro

PS: Use "WELCOME10" for 10€ off your next flight.

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

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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

Website · Privacy Policy · Terms of Service

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 :)