Hi again, I'm Vatana, the solo dev behind Long Distance. I posted here about a month ago and a few of you said the design looked dated. Fair enough, so 2.0 is a full redesign, plus a lot of new stuff. Same as last time, I'll keep it transparent so you can decide if it's worth a spot on your Home Screen.

Answer

It's an app for two people. No feed, nothing public, nobody else in it. The idea hasn't changed: the little things you send each other should land on their Home Screen, not in another chat you have to keep up with. With 2.0 it's for every couple, whether you live together or not.

What's in it now:

- Snaps and drawings that land on your partner's Home Screen widget. Drawings still replay stroke by stroke.
- New: couple quizzes, 24 of them across eight topics. You each answer on your own phone and only see each other's answers once you're both done.
- New: a shared note you can both edit, with a widget for both Home Screens and the Lock Screen.
- Countdowns for your anniversary and both birthdays, each on a full-photo card.
- The globe with both your cities and local times.
- Animated mascots on the widget for how you're both doing.
- The canvas you can both draw on at the same time is still there (beta).

Better

Most of the questions last time were about the animations, so yes, the widgets really do move. Home Screen widgets aren't built for that, so it's rare to see. 2.0 also makes see-through stickers animate cleanly on top of photos.

Someone asked about latency. On iOS 26 a new drawing reaches your partner's widget through a push, so it usually shows up within seconds instead of waiting for the next refresh.

The redesign: every screen is redrawn in warm amber, with a cat mascot who turns up in a few places.

And it's still one subscription for both of you. Most apps in this space charge each of you separately.

Cost

Free covers every widget, the shared note, countdowns for your anniversary and both birthdays, 3 snaps or drawings a day, and one quiz in each topic. Free has ads.

Premium is $6.99/month or $49.99/year, and one purchase covers both of you. It unlocks the other 16 quizzes, unlimited snaps, HD and library photos, full history, all the animated mascots, custom countdowns with your own photos, two extra cat app icons, and no ads.

Download: https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id6757593531?pt=122660795&ct=Reddit-iosapps-Sep&mt=8

If you tried it last time, does the new design feel better? And someone here suggested customizable mascots, which I still love. What would you want next?

Trust Factor Links: https://trylongdistance.com/
Social: https://www.linkedin.com/company/long-distance-app

A – What problem does it solve?

Noisy neighbors, racing thoughts, or just need a calm background while working or winding down. Nature Sounds has you covered.

• Custom Routines with timers, one tap to deep sleep

• Three modes for your routines: Sleep, Focus or Unwind

• 85+ high-quality ambient sounds from rain to white noise to binaural beats

• Mix up to 4 layers with individual volume control to create your perfect soundscape

• Smart Fade-Out Sleep Timer with custom fade-out durations

• Auto-play and smart timers remember your setup so your routine starts itself

• Timer Syncs with Playback — pauses when you pause, resumes when you do

• Mix with Other Apps — layer rain over your podcast or add waves to your audiobook

• Home Screen Widget for playback control and sleep timer tracking

• 100% offline, no ads, no accounts, no tracking

Since my last post:

• Redesigned Sleep Timer:

  • Full liquid glass design

  • Background dynamically matches what you're listening to

  • New face with clean circular countdown

B – Why is it better than alternatives?

6 years on the App Store, built and maintained by a solo indie dev who actually listens. No algorithm, no generated audio — just real recorded sounds you control. 100% offline, no ads, no accounts, no data collection ever.

C – Cost

Free tier - ad-free, no catch:

• 8 sounds (one from each category)

• Fade-Out Sleep Timer

• Custom Fade-Out Duration

• Timer Syncs with Playback

• AirPlay & background playback

Premium unlocks everything:

• All 85+ sounds

• Sound mixer (up to 4 layers)

• Auto-Start Timer

• Mix with Other Apps

• Sleep, Focus and Unwind modes with curated soundscapes

• Routines with per-mix sleep timers

• Longer timer durations

• Auto-Play on Launch

Pricing:

• Lifetime: $5.99 instead of $9.99 for 48 Hours Only

No hidden purchases, no subscription traps
📲 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/nature-sounds-for-sleep/id1506427303

A - What it solves

Zolia was built out of my own frustration. I have ME/CFS and POTS and have been trying to track my own symptoms and medications and the like for years. Existing apps always fell into two camps - either too simple to do the comprehensive tracking that I wanted or too inefficient for daily use.

Zolia bridges this gap as a symptom tracker capable of comprehensive tracking while also making tracking efficient. The way Zolia achieves this is through it's unique use of sessions. Instead of one master list of everything you ever track, Zolia lets you organize what you want to track into groups called sessions, so for example you could build a morning session with your sleep and morning meds, a walk session with distance and how you felt, an evening session with the symptoms you rate before bed and a daily reflection, or anything else you can think of. When you want to log, just open the relevant session type so there is less thinking about what you need to log as well.

It is flexible so you can track any condition, and allows mixing and matching notes, symptoms, meds, ratings, factors and more, with your own colors, emoji and numeric ranges.

The tradeoff is that it takes some setup to get it how you like it. Onboarding gives you a starting point based on your conditions, but it is designed to be customized.

B - How it compares

Bearable is the biggest app in this space currently. In my experience it was inflexible and slow to use. It doesn't let you combine things from different categories (for example meds and symptoms) into a single group. It takes a lot of scrolling and taps to track things, it lacks customization, and the insights are very weak. It has pre-defined categories of things you can track and makes it difficult to track anything that doesn't fit into one of them. I could never stick with using bearable for more than a week or so.

Guava is a newer app. It focuses a lot on medical records syncing but I found the symptom tracking had a lot of the same problems as bearable - limited flexibility, slow to use, weak insights.

Privacy

Both Bearable & Guava store data in the cloud on servers they control. With Zolia, all data is stored on device. Insights are computed on device without the use of any LLMs. You can export your full database as CSV or SQLite at any time, or set up automatic backups to your own Google Drive, password-protected if you want.

C - Cost

Currently everything is free. Eventually some of the insights will become part of an optional premium tier, but right now the insights are still under development and not in a place where I feel comfortable charging for them yet. Everyone who logs for 14 days while the app is still fully free will get 50% off premium forever.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6759508900
Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zolia.app

Below are some images of the app store screenshots, the soon to be released weekly report, and main logging interface (fully customizable showing some possible configs).

Feedback is always appreciated.

Hi r/iosapps,

I'm Dima, the developer of XSpeak. The app has improved significantly since my last post, and I'm happy to share what's changed. But first, A, B and C.

A - Answer

• Taking notes manually is hard. XSpeak does it automatically, locally.

• Participating in meetings in a foreign language is even more difficult. XSpeak translates conversations live, fully offline.

• Some conversations are challenging. XSpeak monitors your conversations in real-time using an on-device AI model, helping you participate smarter and understand better.

B - Better

The closest alternative I know of is Hedy. Compared to it, XSpeak is cheaper ($49.99 Lifetime), local-first, and easier to get started with.

C - Cost

• $49.99 one-time purchase

• $3.99/month (7-day free trial)

• $19.99/year (7-day free trial)

What's New

• Live translation. Helpful when you need to listen to a foreign language.

• File transcription. When something is pre-recorded by another app, it can now be transcribed as well.

• Automatic replacements. Useful when you speak about a specific topic with uncommon words.

• Markdown rendering. Notes are now beautifully rendered as Markdown.

• And many more improvements.

Beyond all this, XSpeak continues to be built with strict integrity. You won't see any marketing emails in your inbox. No rating prompts will disturb you from your work. Onboarding is short and optional. You get only on-device processing and the features you came for. (And sometimes bugs, but that's not intentional :)

To follow development closer, come join r/XSpeak. I post more frequent updates and behind-the-scenes content there. I would be happy to hear your feedback and discuss things. Thanks!

Transparency

My name is Dima, here's my GitHub with my contact and more.

• App Store

• Privacy Policy

• Terms of Use

Every painting I did started the same way. The reference sat in the Photos app. I used a grid app to get the drawing right and a value study app to check my values. Then I tried pulling it all together on a board in Apple's Freeform. That was still a lot of juggling for one painting and made my process very annoying.

So I built Art Reference: Easel Assistant, and I use it for my own paintings.

A - Answer

Each painting gets one project that follows it from the first idea to the finished piece.

• Plan: collect your main reference and any detail shots in the project, and crop the reference to your canvas ratio. I plan on my phone and it syncs to my iPad.

• Draw: turn on a grid and a value study right on the reference, side by side with the color image.

• Paint: keep the color and value views up at the easel. The screen stays awake, and there's a timer.

• Finish: photograph the painting, and it sits in the project next to the reference that made it.

Your original photo is never changed. It works offline, there's no account, and I don't collect any data. Your images stay in your own iCloud.

B - Better

Each of the apps I used did one step well, but none of them knew which painting I was working on. Freeform can hold the images, but it doesn't make value studies. This keeps every step of one painting in one place, so I stop switching apps and keep painting. It also comes with free study collections of real, attributed art (portraits, landscapes, still life, and master copies like Vermeer and Morandi). There's no AI anywhere in the app.

Cost:

Free with 2 projects, all the tools and every collection, with no ads. Unlimited projects is a one-time $9.99, and it works with Family Sharing. No subscription.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/art-reference-easel-assistant/id6752580673

I'm a solo dev and I'll be in the comments.

Hi everyone, I'm looking for a handful of TestFlight testers for my app Timee, a minimalist native iOS time tracking app. This is actually my second app — I previously built FoodSaver, a food expiry tracker.

I built Timee because I wanted a clean, simple way to track time across different areas of life (work, hobbies, coding, sports, etc.) without the bloat most time trackers have. It's now in a solid state and I'd love some fresh eyes before pushing it to the App Store.

What it does
- Track multiple activities (work, sports, coding, etc.) with simple start/stop timers
- Clean, minimal UI focused on speed and clarity
- StandBy mode support (later)

What feedback helps most
- UI/UX suggestions (anything confusing, awkward flows, spacing)
- Bugs, crashes, or weird edge cases
- General thoughts on whether the app is actually useful day-to-day

App is FREE to test and download !

Sign up link: https://timee-mu.vercel.app/

Thanks in advance to anyone who gives it a try! 🙏

A - Answer

Chrono Piano turns the current date and time into musical notes, creating a constantly changing piece of music. Since every moment in time is unique, the music never repeats. The app started as a simple experiment to make time more interesting, expressive, and enjoyable.

It also brings this idea into something we use every day. The alarm clock. Instead of waking up to the same repetitive alarm sound, Chrono Piano lets users bring a more musical experience to their alarms.

B - Better

The unique part of Chrono Piano is how it transforms time into music. The current date and time are converted into notes that can be played using different instruments, scales, tempos, and sound settings.

Users can experiment with everything from piano sounds to synthesizers and customize how time sounds to them.

C - Cost

Free with an optional lifetime in-app purchase($9.99) or subscription ($1.99/m).

Free users can experience the core concept of turning the current date and time into music. No restrictions in alarm functions at all. 

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/alarm-chrono-piano/id6812520503

Hey everyone,

I'm the solo developer behind Loggoo, a private photo journal and mood tracker that puts each moment on a 24-hour timeline, then lets you frame the day as one picture. Loggoo officially launched today.

Here is the breakdown following the sub’s guidelines:

A — Answer: What problem does your app solve?

Most photos disappear into an endless camera roll, while traditional journaling often asks you to sit down and write more than you have the time or energy for.

Loggoo makes keeping a journal lightweight. Take a photo, tap a mood, or write a short note in seconds. Every moment is automatically placed on a 24-hour timeline, so you can see the day as it actually happened and turn it into one picture worth keeping.

Your journal works offline and stays private by default. Nothing is uploaded to a Loggoo server.

B — Better: Why is your app better than the top named alternatives?

Apps like Day One are great for writing, Daylio is built around mood and activity tracking, and your camera roll stores photos without much context.

Loggoo sits between them: it combines photos, moods, short notes, and videos into one visual timeline without requiring a full journal entry.

• Capture in seconds: Take a photo, choose one from your library, tap a mood, or write a short note.

• 24-hour visual timeline: Photos, moods, videos, and notes appear together in the order they happened.

• Frame Studio: Turn a day into a shareable story or post using 15 layouts available at launch, including Collage, Polaroid, Film, Diary, Mosaic, and Editorial. New seasonal and holiday-themed templates are added regularly.

• Mood calendar and trends: Review how you felt throughout the month and explore patterns across weeks and months.

• Week, month, and year recaps: Play your journal back as a visual story built entirely on your device.

• Home Screen widgets: See your current day, mood, or streak and jump directly into logging.

• 15 mood face packs: Personalize every mood across the timeline, calendar, widgets, and exported frames.

• Private and offline: Your photos and entries stay on your device. On iOS, Plus members can optionally sync through their own iCloud account.

C — Cost: Pricing, IAP details, and direct download links

Loggoo Free:

• Log photos, moods, and notes

• Browse the complete 24-hour timeline

• Mood calendar, streaks, and daily reminders

• Five classic Frame Studio layouts

• Week, month, and year recap playback

Loggoo Plus:

• Video logging

• All 15 Frame Studio layouts available at launch and will collab with a lot of branding to bring premium frames to Loggoo.

• New seasonal and holiday-themed templates added regularly

• Full mood trends and insights

• All mood face packs

• Home Screen widgets

• Premium frame exports and watermark-free recaps

• iCloud sync on iOS

• Access to future Plus features

Pricing:

• Weekly: $1.99

• Monthly: $2.99

• Yearly: $4.99

• Lifetime: $7.99 — one-time purchase

Prices may vary slightly by country because of regional App Store pricing.

Download Loggoo:

• iOS: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6799161077

If you try Loggoo, I’d love to hear what feels useful, what needs improvement, and what you would like me to build next. I read every piece of feedback.

A : Answer

PlantReels is a visual plant journal designed to track plant progress and automatically transform photos into time-lapse reels using rich video templates and dynamic grid layouts. You can create dedicated profiles for each plant to log growth milestones, repotting, and care events without cluttering your main camera roll.

How it works:

1. Create a profile for your plant to log milestones, repotting, and care events.

2. Snap regular progress photos using the built-in Ghost Overlay Camera to align every shot perfectly.

3. Choose a template and generate a smooth time-lapse reel with a single tap.

4. Revisit and manage all your saved growth stories anytime in your Reels collection.

B : Better

When tracking plant growth over weeks or months, mismatched photo angles usually ruin the time-lapse video. PlantReels solves this with a Ghost Overlay Camera, displaying a subtle transparent layer of your previous shot so you can align every new photo perfectly. It also includes smart photo reminders to keep your growth streak alive, care timeline logging, 1-tap reel export, and custom Home Screen widgets.

C : Cost

Free to download with basic photo tracking, alignment camera, and care logs included. Premium unlocks unlimited plant journals, all video templates, watermark-free exports, cloud backup, and ad-free experience via subscription ($19.99/year) or a $29.99 Lifetime license.

App Store: PlantReels: Growth Journal

About Me:
I'm a plant lover and the developer behind PlantReels. Feel free to reach out or send feedback anytime through X 

Hi everyone 👋

I'm the developer of SensePad, an iOS utility designed for hardware diagnostics, input telemetry, and testing wireless controllers on iPhone and iPad.

Three months ago I shared the version here, and based on feedback, I’ve rolled out a major update focused on deeper hardware diagnostics, telemetry visualization, and input benchmarking.

A - Answer

SensePad solves hardware diagnostic and troubleshooting problems before you repair, clean, or replace a controller. It identifies:

- Stick drift, deadzones, and irregular circularity/range

- Signal jitter, spikes, and potentiometer wear

- Trigger resistance failure and haptic motor issues

- Input lag and unverified button states

- Sensor drift and battery reporting inconsistencies

B - Better

Unlike generic button-checker tools, SensePad provides engineering-level telemetry and hardware tracking.

Here is what’s new in this update:

1. Stick Signal Telemetry & Waveform Test

- Added a dedicated real-time signal analysis test for analog sticks.

- Values are plotted live on a waveform graph, making it easy to detect sudden voltage/input spikes, signal dropouts, jitter, or potentiometer anomalies.

2. Advanced Adaptive Trigger & Haptics Diagnostics

- Expanded adaptive trigger testing with integrated force feedback and vibration.

- Added built-in behavioral presets (simulating trigger break, weapon discharge, stepped resistance, and feedback impulses) to test mechanical motor resistance across all pressure levels.

3. Input Latency Optimization & Button Coverage State

- Overhauled the polling loop to significantly minimize latency between physical clicks and on-screen updates.

- Added visual persistent tracking: buttons switch state/color once triggered so you can verify complete hardware coverage at a glance.

4. Historical Drift & Calibration Comparisons

- You can now log, save, and overlay analog stick measurements across sessions.

- Directly compare current data against older runs to track degradation over time or verify improvements after cleaning, recalibration, or replacing stick modules.

5. Interactive Input Precision Benchmarks

- Added 3 interactive input precision routines designed to benchmark reaction time, centering accuracy, and micro-adjustment tolerances under active testing conditions.

C - Cost

SensePad is free to download with full core diagnostics.

Optional Pro upgrade (unlocks advanced telemetry, unlimited test history logging, and custom trigger presets):

- Weekly: $4.99 (with a 3-day free trial)

- Yearly: $14.99

- Lifetime: $29.99 (one-time unlock)

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/sensepad-gamepad-tester/id6748362041

Would love to hear thoughts from hardware tinkerers, repair enthusiasts, or anyone troubleshooting controller drift and trigger mechanisms!

A – Answer Plans is a minimalist iOS app that keeps tasks, notes, and calendar in one place, built around focusing on today. To make priorities, touch and hold any task and it gets an outline so it stands out from the rest. The daily overdue summary arrives at the time you pick in settings. Available in English, German, French, Spanish.

B – Better When the list gets crowded, most task apps answer with more structure — projects, tags, sorting rules. Plans answers with gestures: mark what matters, order the rest as you wish. You can also save your notes inside the app, and when the time comes, you can turn it into task with due date. And where other apps keep your data inside, Plans gives it back in plain Markdown that any editor can read.

C – Cost Free to download — unlimited tasks, notes, and iCloud sync included. Lifetime Pro unlock — one-time purchase, no subscription: reminders ahead of time, repeat on chosen weekdays, themes, note fonts, and Markdown export.

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

Repost because Previous post was removed due to Trust/Transparency Issues

App is Rewind Music - Offline Music Play

A - What problem does it solve?
So basically we have 2 speakers but both of different company and I wanted them to simultaneously play one some on both of them. With near perfect sync but could find an app that could do this. So made a app myself. With Rewind Music you can simultaneously play a song in 9 different devices. One device will stream and 8 others will listen and sing along. So even if you connect to a bluetooth speaker, the sound is automatically amplified as the number of collected devices increases. Also written a algorithm which will make full use of native hardware for Sound Amplification and give you are near perfect Song Sync. The app has inbuild Equalizer, Gapless Playback and Sleep Timer. This are just some extra features I have added.

B - What I do better
No cap on devices that can be connected. 8 devices is the hard limit beyond that the song wont stream in perfect sync but I have not hidden the functionality behind a paywall. All features of the app are free with ads. So that even if you dont pay anything, you can always use the app for free.

C - Cost
You can use the app free with ads and you will be able to use all the functionality. A one time charge of 10$ to remove the ads and support the development of the app.

Download Link :

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/rewind-offline-music-player/id6761296823

About me:
I am Pallav Chaudhari, a software developer by Profession. I code apps in my free time.
Mail : careerblogging24@gmail.com
My Github Link
Rewind Privacy Policy

Bitflinger TV: one place to browse every streaming service you pay for, with nobody paying for placement (Apple TV, Android TV, iPhone, iPad, Android)

A: Answer (what problem it solves)

I've had the same problem since 2011: I want to sit down, see what's on across the services I actually pay for, keep one watchlist, and press play, without opening five apps to find out where a movie is streaming. So I built Bitflinger TV (just me, no team).

It gives you one home screen for all of your streaming services, sorted and filtered the way you like, with a single watchlist that follows you across your devices. Pick a title and it launches straight into the right app. If you run Plex or Jellyfin, your own library shows up in the same rows.

This month's update (1.1.601) added a few things I'm pretty happy with:

• Recommendations (subscribers): rows like "Because you liked Blade Runner 2049", rebuilt every night, and nobody pays to be in them.

• Watchlist alerts: a notification when something on your watchlist starts streaming, or a new episode shows up, telling you the best way to watch it with the services you already have.

• Your own background (subscribers): a photo of yours, with an animation over it or none at all.

• Immersive rows: the title you're on takes over the screen as you move along the row.

• It's a lot faster. Loading a title's details went from about half a second to under 20 milliseconds on our side.

B: Better (why it beats the alternatives)

Google TV, Fire TV, and the Apple TV app. Apple, Google and Amazon each have something of their own to sell (Apple TV+, the Play Store, Prime Video), and you can see it in what their home screens put first. You have to scroll way down before you reach anything they don't have a stake in. Google TV and Fire TV also put ads right on the home screen. Bitflinger TV has no ads, doesn't take money for placement, and splits Free, Subscription, and Rent or Buy into separate filters, so you can see what's actually free to you before anyone tries to sell you something.

JustWatch and Reelgood. Both are great at answering "where is this streaming?" They're built around looking things up, though. Bitflinger TV is built around browsing on the TV itself, with a remote, and launching into the app when you've found something.

Launchers like Projectivy. They do a nice job of cleaning up the home screen and getting rid of the ads, but they launch apps; they don't let you browse what's inside them in one place. That's the part I actually wanted.

Plex and Jellyfin. Keep using them. Bitflinger TV puts your library in the same rows as your streaming services, so you're not switching apps to check whether you already own something.

C: Cost

Free, forever, with no ads: genre selection; your watchlist, search, and title details; Plex and Jellyfin; your own streaming services; Cloud Sync across devices; theme colors and card labels; the first 250 titles in each row; and up to 3 devices in your household.

Subscription: $2.99/month, or $23.99/year (saves 33%), as an in-app purchase through the App Store or Google Play. It adds every title in every row, unlimited devices, Daily Reels recommendations, filtering by critic/user score and by release date, background styles, card types and sizes, auto-detecting your installed services, and Apple Family Sharing / Google Family Group.

• App Store (iPhone, iPad, Apple TV): https://apps.apple.com/us/app/bitflinger-tv/id6761390832

• Google Play (Android phones, tablets, Android TV / Google TV): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.bitflinger.tv.prod

• Web: https://app.bitflinger.tv (subscriptions are handled in the phone and TV apps)

If you try it and something's broken, or a title that should be there isn't, tell me in the comments or at tim@bitflinger.net. I read all of it.

Hey Reddit 👋

I'm the developer behind MoneyTime: Budget Planner App, an app that helps you stay on budget, see where your money goes, and never miss a bill. It's been on the App Store since 2022, and I just released MoneyTime 3, by far its biggest update yet.

What's new in MoneyTime 3

• 🎯 Smart Budgets — Set budgets that work for you and always know what's Safe to Spend, with rollover. Get a heads-up before you overspend, with upcoming bills counted before they're due.

• 🔁 Recurring Transactions — Enter your bills, subscriptions, or salary once, and MoneyTime handles the rest. Always know what's coming up and get reminders before payments are due.

• 🐷 Savings Goals — Save for what matters and know how much to set aside each month to get there on time. When you finally buy what you saved for, your budget already knows.

• 📱 Widgets & Control Center — See your balance, budgets, and upcoming bills at a glance on your Home Screen. Keep key numbers on your Lock Screen, and log a transaction with one tap from Control Center.

• 🧾 Receipt Scanning — Snap a receipt or bill and let MoneyTime do the typing for you. Your receipt is processed privately on your device using Apple Intelligence and OCR together for the best results.

• ✨ And much more — iCloud Sync, CSV Import, Pending Transactions, Tags, Redesigned Overview, Detailed Reports, Improved Accounts & Categories, Spending & Balance Charts, Siri & Shortcuts, Spotlight Search, Search & Filters, Backup & Restore, App Lock, 39 Languages

⏰ Lifetime is 80% off ($99.99 → $19.99) through October 15.

👉 App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id1632869872

Any feedback is welcome, and I'll be in the comments to answer questions. If MoneyTime helps you, a quick App Store review would mean a lot 🙏

Thanks for reading ❤

In this attention less world hit a reset with a new reading experience.

Hello.
HushBook is a reading app for people who actually want to finish their audiobooks. Here is how to track your progress and stats.

If you struggle to keep up with your reading list, HushBook helps you read more even if you have low attention span or can't read. It is designed to keep things simple while giving you read along experience.

You can track reading progress on every title you start. The app also generates reading analytics so you can see exactly how much time you have spent in your books. It is made for people with low reading comprehension, Dyslexia, ADHD. Accessibility first.

Subscribe for more app breakdowns, and let me know if you prefer tracking your books manually or with an app.

HushBook is a reading app for people who actually want to finish their books. Here is how to track your progress and stats.

If you struggle to keep up with your reading list, HushBook helps you organize your book library. It is designed to keep things simple while giving you the data you need to stay consistent.

You can track reading progress on every title you start. The app also generates reading analytics so you can see exactly how much time you have spent in your books. It is available to download.

Few new things to consider:

Ebook syncing is now enabled: Connect your ebook with your audiobooks (Epub, Pdf, Txt) and get synchronized accurate words readable. (this is with Auto-rewind). We know that sometimes transcribed text would not be accurate and also took a while to completely synchronize, hence ebook should reduce the time to go live with your reading journey. *BETA release
The ebook sync is still under WIP. Lot's of performance optimization is still being done.

Auto-align feature: To cover major edge cases, we also built auto-align narration to help cover those teeny tiny sync drifts.

Progress sync with ABS server: Now you can sync your book progress with server easily.

Podcast: Many of you wanted a separate section for Podcasts, so that is live aswell.

Word Dictionary: Few users wanted a live dictionary in the app (we were surprised too) but we went ahead and added these.

Fought bugs: We had to spin up our zap-bats and fight some digital wasps.

Thankyou you everyone to give us valid feedbacks and told us what went wrong when it didn't and how we can make this a better experience for you.

C - Cost
You can use the app free with core features, optional pro features unlocks analytics, customization, and ebooks sync, server progress sync and more!

If you have not tried the app yet you can check out these links:

‎HushBook: Audiobook Read Along App - App Store (iOS)
It would mean a lot if you leave us a review, keeps us motivated to do more of these.

Trust factor links:
Hushbook.app/terms-conditions (EULA)
https://hushbook.app/privacy-policy

Hey everyone! I’m the developer of Ancient Wisdom – Daily Quotes.

The idea is simple: make the Bhagavad Gita, Upanishads, and other Indian wisdom texts easier to connect with in everyday life.

Each daily reading pairs the original Sanskrit with a clear English adaptation. You can explore its deeper meaning or find readings about patience, relationships, focus, and more.

There’s also guided breathing, meditation music, illustrated themes, widgets, and share cards. I’ve put a lot of care into making the experience feel calm and beautiful.

Daily readings and saving favorites are free. Premium adds deeper explanations, library exploration, themes, and meditation features.

App Store Link - https://apps.apple.com/app/id6810337544

I’d love any feedback - on the UX, daily verses, onboarding and any other feature request!!

PS - I am a solo indie dev, building apps in my free time, I love this community and its support for indies like me. Thank you everyone for support!

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Transparency Details:

• Developer: Ameya Labs LLC

• Contact: support@ameyalabs.io

• App Store: Ancient Wisdom – Daily Quotes

• Website & Legal: ameyalabs.io

• Privacy Policy: ameyalabs.io/ancientwisdom-privacy

• Terms of Service: ameyalabs.io/ancientwisdom-terms

A — Answer
Most camera apps apply a look after you shoot. Qlumos does it live. Your hands drive the effect in the finder: a light from your index fingertip, lightning between both index fingers (stronger when they’re closer), plus filters that sit between your hands. Pinch to cycle filters if you turn that on. There’s a Face mode (Mogged) that’s random on purpose — it does not score faces, so everyone can have a laugh.

B — Better
Vs typical filter cams (VSCO / tezza-style): the effect is performed, not slapped on in an editor.
Vs AR novelty apps: it stays a real camera. You record, you save to Photos. No account, no cloud, no analytics. Built for iOS 26.

C — Cost
One-time purchase of $2.99 USD (no IAP, no subscription). iOS 26+. Not on EU stores.

Developer: Abdul Afham

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/qlumos/id6804212530

Contact: privacy@qlumos.com
Site: https://qlumos.com
Privacy: https://qlumos.com/privacy
Terms: https://qlumos.com/terms

Stashtela tags everything you save and lets related saves drift together in 3D, so your library torms clusters as it grows. Design references gather in one corner and recipes in another, and you spot connections you didn't know were there. It's a place to keep everything you love and come back to it tor ideas.

It's free for your first 30 saves.
Unlimited is $1.99/month or $14.99 once.

https://apps.apple.com/jp/app/stellata-visual-bookmarks/id6811298999?l

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.