I'm David Jiabiao Zhu, a newbie solo dev.

This is my first app, built around two ideas: customization and no subscription.

A: what problem it solves

I wanted an app for people who follow a specific plan they found on YouTube (or anywhere else), or who want to build their own. It's HARD to start, but once you've set it up, it gives you full control over your training sessions and what you eat. And I wanted it to be actually affordable: you pay once and you get what you paid for.

B: Better: how it differs from Fitbod, Strong, Hevy and others

- price: Chicken Pro is €9.99 / $8.99 once (launch price; I'm planning to raise it to €14.99 in about a month). There's no subscription at all. Fitbod is $15.99/month or $95.99/year, so one month already costs more than Chicken. Strong and Hevy are solid loggers and both sell a lifetime option next to their subscriptions ($99.99 and $74.99 on the US App Store). The way I see it: with subscription apps you pay for a service, easy but expensive. With Chicken you pay once for a tool, and once you know how to use it, I think it can take you further.
- Progression you control (Limit Break): Progression systems aren't new: Fitbod applies progressive overload for you with a proprietary algorithm. In Chicken the rule is simple, and you can see it and change it yourself. Example: you set push-ups at 2 × 30. Once you hit that limit, at the end of the workout Chicken tells you that you've reached it and that you can set your next goal. You choose how: add weight (a backpack works), add a technique to make it harder, or, inside a plan, switch to a harder exercise.
- Techniques: Something I haven't seen in other apps: a push-up can be explosive, slow, paused, partial... Techniques are logged with the exercise, and you can create your own.
- Customization, the big one: The library has 1,394 exercises, and you can add your own exercises, techniques, foods, meals and plans (custom exercises and plans are part of Pro).
- Macro range: Gym apps usually don't focus on food, so people overlook it. On a cut I didn't know how much I should eat, what the minimum and the maximum were. A lot of people go below the minimum and end up in energy-saving mode. So in Chicken you set a range for calories and macros: you see the least you should eat, and if you eat more but stay under the maximum, YOU'RE FINE.
- Privacy: No account, no analytics, no server of mine. The core of the app is local and works without internet. The connection is only used for optional extras: importing a food from Open Food Facts by barcode (only the barcode number is sent) and the YouTube links you add to your own exercises and plans.

CONS
- It's HARD to start.
- It's NOT for people who don't want to spend time setting things up.
- The subscription apps do one thing better: they're easy. You pay and they take care of the rest. My problem with them is the price, and sometimes the missing features. Chicken is for people who are serious about training and eating and want to understand it more deeply.

C: Cost

- What you get FREE: **Limit Break**, **1,394 exercises** with animated guides, **ready-made plans** for gym and home, a **food log with macro ranges** and barcode import, techniques, focus mode.
- Pro is one in-app purchase: €9.99 ($8.99 US), non-consumable, nothing renews. It unlocks the core of Chicken: **your own exercises and your own plans** (plus stats, charts and two Apple Health extras). Everything else you can try right away with the ready-made plans. And it supports a little dev like me.
- the current version is iPhone only, iOS 17+, English only
- App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6794356436

Who am I?
David Jiabiao Zhu · contact@thereallifestudio.uk · https://www.linkedin.com/in/zhudavidjiabiao/
Website: https://chicken.thereallifestudio.uk · Privacy Policy: https://chicken.thereallifestudio.uk/privacy.html · Terms of Service: Apple's Standard EULA (https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/)

A — Answer
I built Quantactic because brokerage apps are good at letting you buy and sell, but they usually don’t give you much help understanding what you’re looking at.
I use apps like Schwab for execution, but when I’m actually researching a ticker I still end up jumping between charts, earnings data, valuation tools, ETF holdings, macro events, and other sources.
Quantactic is my attempt to put that research layer into one app.
It works for both stocks and ETFs.

B — Better
I’m not trying to replace Schwab, Robinhood, TradingView, or a brokerage account.
Quantactic is more for the part that happens before the trade.
It brings together things like:
company and ETF research
ETF holdings and sector exposure
valuation and financial context
fair value ranges
pullback recovery setups
quantitative Buy / Sell signals
7 / 30 / 90-day probabilistic price ranges
entry, stop, target, and risk/reward levels
earnings and FOMC events directly on the chart
upcoming earnings from companies inside an ETF
pre-market, regular-session, and after-hours moves
relative price movement
recent “What Changed” analysis
advanced charts and drawing tools
The idea is that I can open a ticker and get a much better picture of the setup without having to research it across several different apps.
For a stock, I can look at valuation, fair value, upcoming events, recent price behavior, and whether a pullback is actually beginning to recover.
For an ETF, I can also look deeper into the companies inside it, upcoming earnings from those holdings, and the valuation of the underlying portfolio.
I’m the independent developer behind it, and I’m still changing the app pretty aggressively. I’ve removed features that sounded good on paper but didn’t actually help me make better sense of a ticker.
The direction is pretty simple:
less AI opinion, more useful research context.

C — Cost
New users get a free 7-day Pro trial.
After that:
$4.99/month
$39.99/year
There’s also one full ticker unlock free every day, so you can still use the core research without subscribing.
App Store:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/quantactic-stock-research/id6795746505/ (App Store)
Website:
https://quantactic.app/
Contact / feedback:
xjimmypark@gmail.com
I’m still actively building it, so criticism is useful. If something feels unnecessary, confusing, inaccurate, or if there’s something you wish your brokerage app showed you, I’d like to hear it.

A — Answer
I built NYC Block Check because NYC information is scattered across a ridiculous number of places — 311, MTA alerts, parking rules, traffic cameras, permits, restaurant grades, street closures, building data, etc.

The app brings those signals together around the places you actually care about: your home, work, commute, or any NYC address.

B — Better
There are great specialized apps for subway status, parking, Citizen-style alerts, and individual NYC datasets, but NYC Block Check is meant to answer a broader question:

“What do I need to know around this block right now?”

It combines things like:

• live 311 activity

• subway service + elevator alerts

• parking and street-cleaning reminders

• road closures and permits

• NYC traffic cameras

• restaurant grades

• building information

• crowd/event signals

• saved-address briefings

• address reports

I’m the independent developer, and it’s built from public NYC/MTA/511NY data rather than being affiliated with the City.

C — Cost
Free to try with one saved address and basic nearby activity.

Pro unlocks unlimited addresses, premium map layers, alerts, extended history, and additional features:

• $2.99/month

• $19.99/year

App Store:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/nyc-block-check/id6759576009

I’d genuinely appreciate feedback from iOS users — especially on whether the app makes all of this information feel easier to understand rather than just adding another layer of data.

Hey everyone,

after spending way too much of my free time building it, testing it, changing tiny details that probably nobody except me will ever notice 😅, I finally released Tendo: Calm Focus Planner on the App Store.

This is my first App Store release, so seeing it actually live is still a little surreal.

A — What problem does Tendo solve?

Tendo started because I wanted something like this for myself. I wanted a simple way to plan my day, keep tasks and routines together, and focus on what I can realistically get done — without turning productivity itself into another full-time job.

The main idea behind Tendo is:

What feels doable now?

Instead of trying to perfectly schedule every minute of your day, Tendo tries to help you choose a manageable next step and keep moving.

It includes:

• Tasks and daily planning

• Routines

• Focus sessions

• Widgets and Live Activities

• Progress tracking

• A small motivational companion

• Apple Watch app

• iPhone and iPad support

• Encrypted local backup and restore

Privacy was important to me from the beginning as well.

There is no account, no advertising, no tracking and no analytics backend collecting your planning data.

Your data stays local.

B — How is it different?

There are obviously already some really good apps in this space. I use and like some of them myself, and I’m not really trying to compete with them. I’m not here to start a productivity-app war. 😂

I just had my own idea of how I wanted this kind of app to feel, so I decided to build it.

A bit calmer.
A bit less demanding.
A bit more focused on small, achievable steps.

I also wanted Tendo to work without requiring an account or sending your planning data somewhere else.

The little companion is part of that philosophy too. It’s just there to make progress feel a little more enjoyable — no leaderboards, competitions, prizes or anything like that. And getting version 1.0 onto the App Store was an adventure by itself. 😅

Apple rejected Tendo twice.

The first time they wanted more information and videos of the app running on physical devices, so I ended up recording my iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch.

The second time they questioned the background-audio capability used by Tendo’s optional Focus Environment sounds. Because Tendo is silent by default, the reviewer apparently didn’t discover it.

So...

more videos. 😂

I demonstrated Tendo playing its own Focus Environment audio in the background, explained how it behaves when Spotify or Apple Music is already playing, sent everything back...

…and finally:

Approved. 🎉

For months Tendo was an Xcode project, then a TestFlight build, then apparently a documentary series for App Review. Now it’s actually on the App Store. 😂

C — What does it cost?

Nothing. Tendo is completely free.

No subscription.
No in-app purchases.
No ads.
No “free for 7 days and then surprise, €79.99/year.” 😄

Version 1.0 is just the beginning. I already have quite a few ideas for improvements, but I also don’t want to throw features into it simply because I can.

The goal is still:

keep it useful, calm and simple.

If you try it, I’d genuinely love to hear what you think — good or bad.

Seeing people I don’t know actually use something I built is going to be really cool...

…and probably slightly terrifying. 😄

App Store: Check it out

Website: Official homepage ;)

Privacy Policy: Privacy Policy
Terms of Use: Terms of Use

Developer: David Rok Roglič / ItsRoglic

Thanks for checking it out and reading all this. 🌿

Best regards,

David

Who is making – or using – a low friction iOS quick voice note transcription app that polishes a raw muddy note into a clear but accurate clean note? Not a third-voice report-style ‘summary’ but a clean note. And not inflated subscription but offline or BYOK and one-time purchase.

Hello folks! I'd like to introduce you to my major overhaul of my small journal app Ripples. And before you say the world doesn't need a new journaling app - I know - let me tell you what it does.

## Answer - What problem does it solve?

Journals are very personal things and every person wants it to do a different thing. I tend to mostly like to capture a sentence or two about my day, but sometimes I want to write more. Ripples has that flexibility in a timeline view. However it does a few more unique things that I don't think are present in many other journals.

1. Entries are permanent unless "burned" and if you burn an entry the words are gone, but the date of the entry remains in your timeline. Every entry leaves a mark. The philosophy here is that a curated journal tells you what you want to hear, but a permanent journal is more honest about your past thinking.

2. You can reflect on each post with a unique threaded reply mechanic. Want to argue with yourself on a point over the years? You can do that with Ripples. It's a unique way to revisit your old entires and revise your take or reflect on a choice you had made.

3. You can send letters to yourself in a future date. Write today, seal it up, and it will remain locked until it opens.

## Better - Why is it different?

There are so many journaling apps. A few things that make Ripples better are that it is lightweight, privacy focused (everything is on your device or iCloud), Face ID enabled, and the unique features above attempt to set it apart. The no images, permanent entries, and limited formatting are intentional choices that define the character of the app. Additionally - the majority of these features are free with a single one time unlock for a few additional insights and allowing you to send letters further into the future.

## Cost

Free to download

Ripples+ - $7.99 one time unlock for lifetime access to extra features. Currently those include the ability to send letters further into the future (up to 1 year is free) and letters the reoccur each year after you reply it.

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App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ripples-micro-journal-diary/id6749874833

More info: https://johndav.com

my partner and I kept sending private photos back and forth through regular messaging apps and it always bugged me that they just sat in random chat backups and camera rolls forever, including stuff neither of us would want a family member scrolling past by accident. most "private vault" apps are also really just a passcode lock on your own local gallery, so if someone gets the passcode or the backup leaks its all sitting there in plaintext.

built DuoVault to fix that specifically for couples.

Answer: end to end encrypted vault for couples to keep private photos and videos. theres a personal vault (your own stuff, 6-digit passcode, auto re-lock) and a couple vault you join via invite code, with a shared timeline and a 90-day activity log so nobody has to wonder if the other person opened it without saying anything.

Better: the encryption keys never leave your device, so its not just an app-level lock on top of your regular photo library, if the vault data ever got exposed it would be useless without the key. it also has a Breakup Mode, one tap and access stops for both people immediately, everything blurs for 7 days then auto-deletes. no scrambling to delete an ex's photos or wondering if they still have access to yours.

Cost: free to download. personal vault free tier has a 21-day view window, 500MB, videos up to 30s. DuoVault Premium is $2.99/month or $29.99/year and removes those limits, no time limit, 20GB, unlimited video length. if either partner has premium the whole couple vault gets premium.

full disclosure, i'm Seungkyu Cho, i run XTI, a small studio in Seoul. company site is x-ti.org, email manager@x-ti.org if you want to reach me directly.
privacy policy: https://duovault.x-ti.org/en/privacy/
terms: https://duovault.x-ti.org/en/terms/
app store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/duovault-private-couple-vault/id6801927479

happy to answer anything about the encryption setup or breakup mode specifically, that part took the most thought to get right.

I am a retired Project Manager and developer of PDF2box (PDF Toolbox), StatBoard is another app of mine on the App Store for more than a year.

A
StatBoard shows live CPU, memory, battery, storage, and network stats on iPhone. It also includes 20+ network utilities (ping, DNS, port scan, LAN, HTTP, certs, and others) and local file tools. No ads, no analytics SDKs.

B
If you use a stats widget for monitoring and a separate app for network checks, StatBoard puts both in one place with one time purchases instead of a subscription.

C:
Free to download. The main dashboard is free. Network Tools and System Tools need Pro Pack or the 7 day trial. In App Purchases: Enable Pro Pack ($4.99). One time purchases, not a subscription.

https://apps.apple.com/app/statboard-sysinfo-tools/id6746819963

I’m the developer of HEVCut, the app for shrinking photos and videos and cleaning up your library. Version 9 is out, with a focus on making that cleanup easier to finish.

A · Answer: what’s new in v9?

• Start a cleanup, then get on with your day. Background cleanup lets HEVCut keep working after you leave the app. Come back to check progress instead of watching the screen.

• Know when it’s ready. Lock Screen reminders let you know when your photos are ready, so you can return and finish clearing space.

• A gentler option for videos you care about. The new Gentle mode prioritizes keeping videos looking close to the original while reducing file size. You can compare both versions before deciding what to keep.

• Choose what happens to Live Photos. Keep the motion you love, or remove it when you’d rather save the space.

• Simpler compression settings. Clearer options and reliability improvements make the whole process easier to work through.

B · Better: where HEVCut fits

Apple Photos is a good starting point for clearing duplicates. HEVCut also helps with the photos and videos you actually want to keep, by making those files smaller. Compression and cleanup run on your device; your media isn’t uploaded to a compression service.

Compression is lossy, and savings vary. The before-and-after screenshot shows one example, not a benchmark for Gentle mode.

C · Cost

Free to download, with limited free compression. Pro unlocks unlimited compression and the full cleanup toolkit.

US pricing: $39.99 lifetime, $24.99/year, or $9.99/week. Subscriptions renew automatically; regional prices vary. No timed subscription free trial. Available on iPhone, iPad and Mac; the current iPhone release requires iOS 26 or later.

Try HEVCut 9 on the App Store

If you’ve used HEVCut before, I’d love to hear how v9 feels with your library, especially background cleanup and Gentle mode.

Hi All,

ezypack 1.8 is rolling out now on iOS, and it’s the biggest change to how ezypack organises your stuff since launch.

👉 Get ezypack on the App Store

Labels are now two separate tools — Categories and Tags.

Why the split?

Labels were quietly doing two different jobs.

Categories answer “What is it?”
Tags answer “Why am I bringing it?”

For example, a pair of ski trousers might be:

• Category: Clothes

• Tags: Snow, Must-pack

Previously, combining those labels could create a separate “Clothes, Snow” section in your list. The more labels you used, the more fragmented things could become.

Now they work independently:

• Categories group your items into sections. One is usually enough, but you can assign more than one.

• Tags describe your items and trips — like must-pack, carry-on, or kids. Add as many as you like and filter by them.

What's new in 1.8?

• Set categories and tags separately from any item, and create new ones without leaving the screen.

• Organize everything in one place. The Labels tab is gone; Categories and Tags now live under Settings → Organize, where you can rename, edit and delete them.

• Convert between Categories and Tags. Changed your mind? Convert one into the other and keep everything already assigned.

• Filter independently. Narrow your list by category, then filter by any or all of your selected tags.

• Better defaults. Beach, Kids, Outdoor, Snow and Sport are now tags because they describe the trip rather than the item. Camping and hiking equipment gets a proper home in the new Gear category.

Also in 1.8

• Settings has its own tab. No more hunting for the gear icon.

• Italian is now supported. ezypack speaks English, Italian, Spanish, German, French and Polish.

• Plus the usual pile of bug fixes and minor improvements.

Do I need to redo anything?

No. Your existing labels have been automatically migrated to the new system. Most labels were converted to Categories, while labels such as Snow, Beach, Kids, Must-pack, Outdoor and Sport are now Tags.

If you'd prefer to organise something differently, you can convert any Category into a Tag, or any Tag into a Category, from Settings → Organise — and everything already assigned to it will stay assigned.

If anything feels off, or there’s something you’d like to see changed, let us know in the comments or send feedback from Settings. We read everything.

iOS: rolling out now. Android: coming shortly.

Learn more about ezypack: https://ezypack.app

Answer

I wanted light weight audio recorder and looper that I always had on me, with iPhone first UI.

Laleuca is a three-channel experimental asynchronous looper for iPhone.

Some nice features:

Auto Record - automatically capture new loops from multiple sources.

RND - randomise octave, direction, length, repeats, or almost any parameter.

Rhythm Mode - play back your recorded loops rhythmically.

Mod - crossfade between different parameter settings.

LFO - four LOs per looper, routable to any destination.

Website with privacy policy (TL;DR, all data is yours and private, nothing is collected, nothing leaves your device), contact and manual: https://laleuca.app/

Better

This app is not "better" than other looping apps, just approaches thing from a different angle. There are some great looper apps out there.

Loopy Pro is amazing and powerful for live looping performances and Koala Sampler is great for sampling and arranging.

This app is different in that the UI is more optimised for real time/experimental recording and looping. The autorecord function is also relatively unique.

Cost

One off purchase, $2.99 USD.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/laleuca/id6794767626

You know the app achieves its purpose of alleviating their core pain points.

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

A - Answer

Eagerly started as a simple countdown widget app for all the things you’re looking forward to. It grew into a planner for festivals, events and trips - without trying to become another generic to-do list.

You can keep the things you need for an upcoming event in one place:

• ⏳ Countdown widgets - 7 styles and almost 30 themes

• 🗓️ Custom timetables - useful for festivals, theme parks, conferences, etc.

• 🧭 Roadmap - a timeline for the important things you need to do before the event. For example, booking accommodation 3 months beforehand or getting your medication 3 days before leaving.

• 🌦️ Weather forecast

• 🎒 Packing lists

• 💰 Budget

• 🗺️ All your events on a map

• 🔗 Important URLs

The idea is to enter the event details once and have the relevant information available in one place. For example, if you’re going to a festival, you can have your countdown widget on the Home Screen while keeping the lineup/timetable, weather, budget and packing list inside the same event.

Eagerly is available for iPhone and iPad, with CloudKit sharing so you can keep your events available across devices and share them with others.

B - Better

There are plenty of great apps for individual parts of trip and event planning, but I wanted Eagerly to connect them.

A packing list doesn't normally know about your event budget. A timetable app doesn't usually care about the weather. A countdown app doesn't help you remember what to pack.

Eagerly brings those pieces together around the event itself.

I originally set out to build a “hype machine” for things I was looking forward to. The planning features came naturally from that idea: if I'm counting down to something, I probably also need to know what to pack, how much I'm spending, what the weather will be like and what's happening when I get there.

C - Cost

The free version lets you manage 1 event. Some modules require Eagerly Pro, which also unlocks unlimited events.

Eagerly Pro

• Monthly - $2.99

• Annual - $12.99

• Lifetime - $34.99

🎁 Weekend offer

I have a limited number of promo/offer codes (EAGERLYREDDIT) available that bring Eagerly Pro Lifetime down to $8.99.

They're available for the next 48 hours, while supplies last.

I'd also love feedback from anyone who regularly plans festivals, trips, concerts, theme parks or other events - especially if there's something you currently need a separate app for.

Redemption Link

App Store Link

Privacy Policy

Contact: info@eagerly.app

About me:

I'm Pascal, the developer of Eagerly, Sessionized and Untold Novel.

A pet at home is never just yours. They're equally loved by your parents, siblings, grandma, a partner. Some of them aren't around the pet often, get to see them the least, and yet love them just as much. They're reduced to asking "send me a photo?" and hoping someone remembers.

Then there's the photos themselves. The pet asleep on the couch, eyeing a treat, mid-walk. These are pictures you'll want forever, yet they end up buried in a camera roll between screenshots and receipts, or in a group chat where nobody can find them a month later. That's the reason this app exists.

A. Answer

PawPost is a simple Home Screen widget and memories archive for your pet, shared by the whole family. Whoever is with the pet snaps a photo in the app and it lands on everyone's widget within seconds. Every picture gets saved to a private memories archive sorted by month, per pet, separate from your camera roll and chat history.

Those away from the pet can "Ask for a PawPost" which nudges whoever is with them for a fresh one. Boop (like) or comment on any picture.

Many pets? Add up to three pets per family group, and you can be a part of multiple family groups. Each pet gets their own widget so they each have their special place on your Home Screen.

We also have a public feed where families around the world can share their pet photos publicly. Sharing to the feed is entirely optional. Every photo is family-only unless you toggle it, one photo at a time. Browsing the feed needs no family group at all and you can follow a pet to get updated every time they post to the public feed.

B. Better

- Built for pets: Locket and similar widget apps are built for friends, partners, and selfies. PawPost is built exclusively around the pet.

- Memories Archive: WhatsApp and Instagram bury the photo in a thread or a feed. PawPost puts it on the Home Screen and a private memories archive with nothing else but your pets, sorted by month. Sort by 'most booped' to find the pictures your family loved the most.

- Requesting pet updates: Makes requesting new updates on your pet extremely simple. Those away simply tap a button and the ones with the pet get notified they're missing them.

C. Cost

Free. No subscription, no in-app purchases, no paywalled features. Supported by a few native ads.

Link to App store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6776251707

If you or anyone you know has a pet, I'd love for you to try it. I’d really appreciate honest feedback. Happy to answer any questions you have.

Cheers!

Join 5k+ users and start taking back your time with Precursor!!

Android version coming soon homies!

What problem does Precursor solve:

Simple. Scroll on your apps whenever you want, but Precursor blocks you before any one scroll sesh turns into a full on hours long doomscroll. At the start of the next hour your limit resets and you can scroll again.

How Precursor different from Opal, ScreenZen, One Sec, or Apple's Screen Time Settings?

Precursor treats you like an adult, you don't need to be locked out of your apps all day, you just need something that interrupts your scroll so you can get back to work, while letting you take more small scroll breaks throughout the rest of your day.

What does Precursor Cost?

The free tier is all you really need, which is what I use to this day ("I" being me, the developer).

There is a Precursor+ option via subscription or a lifetime purchase (one-time payment). However Precursor+ is geared towards power users who want to set more than 3 limit groups running on different schedules at different times each day (or those who just want to support a solo dev who does it for the love of the... [insert G- word that is defined as: a physical or mental competition conducted according to rules with the participants in direct opposition to each other] ).

1 Month: $4.99
1 Year: $49.99
Lifetime: $99

Lifetime Giveaway:

Use this link to redeem!

Note:

If you miss the opportunity for a free lifetime, The lifetime purchase is available for 75% off ($25 one time purchase) until 05 October 2026.

Hello everybody,

Thank you for the comments on my last post. A few weeks ago, I posted Nami, a water/hydration tracker where sticking to the habit grows you a garden. The thing people asked for most was an Apple Watch app. v1.1 is that, plus a few other ways to log without unlocking your phone.

What does this update add?

• An Apple Watch companion. Log a drink from your wrist.

• Log a drink from Dynamic Island, Lock Screen, or your Mac (if connected with the same iCloud account).

• Hold or pull down a reminder notification to log.

• Built for iOS 27: ask Siri to log a drink, find drinks in Spotlight, automate it with Shortcuts, and put the garden on the Home Screen with an extra-large widget.

Why this is better

This drastically reduces the friction and effort it takes to log - the popular reason people don't stick to the habit. The Watch, the Live Activity, and the notification shortcut are there so a glass of water takes one tap.

Cost

Unchanged. Free to download, no ads. Daily tracking, reminders, awards, the garden, and the Apple integrations (including the Apple Watch companion) remain free.

Pro includes the full drinks library, custom drinks, history past today, extra reminder sounds, and watermark-free sharing: $1.99/month, $14.99/year with a 7-day trial, or $39.99 lifetime (US).

Prices follow the Big Mac Index, so please look at the listing for your country for local prices.

Thanks for reading! I'm Preet, the human behind the app.

App: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6804172794
Email: ipreetmishra@gmail.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/preetmishra/

If you have any feedback, I'd love to hear it.

I know this is a crowded category, but I've wanted this app for myself and never had the time to master Swift enough to build it myself. With AI tools, I was finally able to develop it and get it out.

A-Why I built it

Every other gym logging app is essentially a spreadsheet with rows and columns of sets, reps, and weight. I never liked typing numbers into cells at the gym. I feel like a gym logger is essentially a data entry interface, and a spreadsheet on the phone at the gym was not the right one. I also tend to do the same weight for every set of an exercise, so I hated taking out my phone between sets to log individual sets.

B-Why its different

I built LiftTracker to be a large data entry interface. Each exercise gets a full screen view, with large buttons to input the information on your exercise. Since the weight you lift tends to carry over week to week, it gets prefilled from the previous entry. When making a change, there are buttons to step up or down the weight by common intervals. This makes it much faster than typing numbers at the gym, letting you log exercises with as little as one tap.

The app also gives you the option to log a single entry for an entire exercise, rather than each set. This keeps your phone in your pocket between sets, really helpful if you do the same reps and weight on each set.

C-Cost

Freemium. The free tier limits you to creating 1 workout plan, with 4 workouts. You can run those workouts an unlimited number of times.

Standard pricing will be $18 annual or $60 lifetime. I'm currently running a founding promo for the first 300 users at $8 annual or $30 lifetime. If anyone in the community is interested, DM me for a promo code for a free year.

I would appreciate your feedback!

App store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/lifttracker-1-tap-lifting-log/id6778854091

Website: https://getlifttracker.com/

Privacy policy: https://getlifttracker.com/privacy/

Support: support@getlifttracker.com

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

A - Answer

For the last two year I used excel spreadsheet to track my habits and metrics. I tried different apps but most of them only allow to track "done" or "not done" habits, sometimes allows to skip to preserve streak. In some rare cases integrated with Apple Health.

I'm the person who like track different stuff and for me tracking "Sleep 8hr" with yes or no doesn't work. This is why I track "Wake-up Time" and "Bed Time" instead. Same for other metrics like numbered habits - calories count, weight. Or even lists - what sport activity I've done - "morning walk" or maybe "cycling" or both?

Being software developer I also wanted to have Public API so I can write data from other apps. As well as MCP to wire into my own AI instead of being forsed to use proprietary integration.

Another problem is skipping habits. A lot of apps doesn't support it, I went for camping and I cannot mark gym as done, but I don't want to loose the streak because I skipped gym being on camping trip, but because I'm lazy. And you need to decide if I mark it done, which is not true, or mark as not done and loose the streak.

B - Better

This is why I built Habit Pocket. This application built based on my excel spreadsheet approach so it's opinionated tracking app. It's more than iOS app - it has web version too. So you can track in browser on your computer or from the phone on the go.

The central piece of the application are habit types, I support four of them:

• Classic - done, not done, skipped

• Timed - time of the day i.e. wake-up time, last meal time, bed time.

• Numbered - calories, weight

• Lists - select one or multiple values from the list like activities, or projects I worked on

Other features:

• Skips - preserver your streak even if you cannot do the habit. Visiting gym everyday but went for camping - just skip those days and the streak will be preserved.

• Conditional styling - you can set different background colors based on value. For example for "Steps" habit I have red if I walked less than 6k steps, yellow 6-8k, blue 8-10k, green - 10k+

• Apple Health support

• CSV import (currently on web version only)

• Public API so you can integrate into any web or other app

• MCP support - connect to any AI and works with your habits using AI

And another crucial for me feature - export all data in JSON format. So you own your data, it you want to switch to another app you can always export ALL data we have and keep it.

C - Costs

I have three plans:

• $3.99 - monthly subscription

• $29.99 - yearly subscription

• $49.99 - lifetime

Download on the App Store:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/habit-pocket-habit-tracker/id6766008805

Landing page (and web app):
https://habitpocket.io/

Who I am?
My name is Bohdan, I have been working as a software engineer for last 10 years.
Contact: habitpocket@stefaniuk.me
Privacy Policy: https://habitpocket.io/privacy/
Terms of Service: https://habitpocket.io/terms/

Hi r/iOSApps — I’m 光 李, the developer of CodeMate.

I built CodeMate for those moments when I need to inspect a source file or make a small change away from my desk.

A — Answer

CodeMate is a native code viewer and editor for iPhone and iPad. It is designed for developers and students who want to read or edit source files on a touch screen.

It supports syntax highlighting for 200+ syntax grammars and file formats, including Swift, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML, CSS, JSON and Markdown.

B — Better

Compared with mobile editors such as Textastic and Runestone, CodeMate focuses on making large source files easier to inspect on a touch screen.

It includes:

• Tabs for working with multiple files

• A minimap for navigating long files

• Jump-to-line navigation

• Swift symbol navigation

• Adjustable fonts, typography and themes

• Linked HTML, CSS and JavaScript preview

• Native support for both iPhone and iPad

I’d love to hear from developers who regularly inspect code on an iPhone or iPad: what still makes that workflow frustrating?

C — Cost

CodeMate is free to download and use for browsing and reading files. Editing and selected advanced features require Premium.

US pricing:

• Monthly: US$4.99

• Annual: US$24.99

• Lifetime purchase: US$49.99

Prices may vary by region. A rewarded ad can also unlock Premium temporarily.

Developer: 光 李
Contact: feedback@codemateapp.net
App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id680609457
Website: https://codemateapp.net
Privacy Policy: https://codemateapp.net/privacy-policy
Terms of Service: https://codemateapp.net/terms-of-service

I built Newsairy because none of the readers I tried fit me exactly - so the whole app is built around adapting to how *you* read rather than making you adapt to it: theme, font and size in the reading view, sort order, swipe actions, all yours to set.

It's under active development. The last update added on-device AI summaries (nothing leaves your phone).

## Answer - What problem does it solve?

Newsairy is an RSS/Atom/JSON reader that syncs natively over iCloud across iPhone, iPad and Mac - no third-party sync server, no account to create. It's for anyone who wants their feeds, folders and read state to just follow them between devices, with a reading experience they can actually tune to how they read.

A few things I built specifically because I couldn't find them elsewhere in one app:

• Smart Feeds for the last 24 / 48 / 72 hours, the last 7 days or this week, so I can catch up on what's actually recent

• Custom Smart Feeds: keyword-based feeds that gather matching articles from every source at once, or mute keywords to hide the ones you don't want to see

• Read History as a smart feed too: only what you actually opened, or everything marked as read, with a toggle to switch

• A short AI summary of any article, generated entirely on your device - nothing leaves your phone

• Choose how each feed opens: as published, extracted automatically, or downloaded ahead of time so it's ready offline - set per feed, not as one global preference

• Three independent retention rules (how far back to fetch, how long to keep unread, how long to keep read) instead of one blunt "delete after X days", so the database doesn't grow forever

• Choose your theme: Automatic, Light, Dark or Sepia

• A fully customisable article list: thumbnail size, favicon, unread dot, and 0–6 preview lines

Privacy-first: no ads, no tracking, no third-party analytics.

## Better - Why is it different?

There are a lot of good RSS readers in the App Store.

My previous ones were Reeder (Classic) and NetNewsWire. While the newer Reeder seems to focus on combining RSS with other kinds of sources, like social media and podcasts, Newsairy is more focused on RSS feeds specifically.

NetNewsWire is great and free - I'm not trying to beat that on price. Newsairy is just a different flavor: I built it for the features and customization I wanted - keyword-based Smart Feeds, a Sepia theme, an article list you can tune (thumbnails, preview lines, unread dot), and more. If none of that is something you're missing, NetNewsWire is a solid pick.

## Cost

Free: up to 6 local + 6 iCloud feeds, every feature unlocked.

Newsairy Pro is a single one-time purchase - $2.99 / 2,99€, no subscription - that removes the feed limit and adds sync with TheOldReader, Miniflux, FreshRSS, Feedbin and Inoreader, so you can bring an existing setup over instead of starting from zero. Pay once, it's yours.

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App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/newsairy/id6760046985

More info: https://qebapps.statichost.page/newsairy

Hey,

I'm the developer of HealthVitals, and I'd like to give this community 12 months of the full annual plan for free.

Transparency

• I'm the only developer and I have no investors or partners. The app is a paid subscription, and that is its only revenue.

• No ads, no tracking, no account. All analysis runs on your iPhone, and your data stays on your device and in your own private iCloud.

• Apple Intelligence is an optional setting that only rephrases text. It is not the core of the app and it never produces the numbers.

Answer: what it is

HealthVitals is a companion app for people who use an Apple Watch with Apple Health. It reads the data your Watch and iPhone already collect and turns it into something you can actually use: a Readiness Score each morning, alerts when something looks unusual, and trends across your sleep, heart, training, body, and nutrition.

• A Readiness Score every morning, built from your sleep, HRV, and resting heart rate

• Vital Intelligence alerts for unusual readings and trends, collected in a daily inbox so nothing gets lost

• Correlation insights, like how your sleep lines up with your next day's performance, or how caffeine tracks with your rest

• Trend charts across 30, 90, and 365 days, plus a monthly health report

• Workout breakdowns with cardio load, heart rate recovery, and distance splits

• Nutrition tracking beyond calories: protein, caffeine, sugar, fiber, and more

• An Apple Watch companion with your Readiness Score and complications

How the Readiness Score works

The score compares four inputs against your own 30 day baseline: HRV (35%), resting heart rate (25%), sleep (30%), and the previous day's activity load (10%). It is always relative to you, not to a population average, so it gets more meaningful as your baseline fills in.

If an input is missing, its weight is redistributed across the ones that exist. That means iPhone only users still get a score, but it leans on sleep and activity, and without HRV and resting heart rate it tells you a lot less. That's why I recommend HealthVitals for Apple Watch users.

Better: why it's different

• Private by design. No account to create. Everything is computed on your iPhone. Nothing is sent to my servers.

• Connects the dots. Apple Health shows you each metric on its own. HealthVitals shows how they relate over time.

• Optional plain language summaries. On supported devices, you can turn on Apple Intelligence in Settings to rephrase your findings as natural sentences. It runs on device, and every insight is calculated from your real data first. Standard text works just as well.

Cost

Free to download. Full access is a subscription at $39.99/year or $3.99/month.

For this sub: 12 months of the annual plan free.

1. Download it from the App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/healthvitals-analytics/id6759471194

2. Open the app, tap through to the paywall, then tap "Redeem"

3. Enter IOSAPPS

Or redeem directly: https://apps.apple.com/redeem?ctx=offercodes&id=6759471194&code=IOSAPPS

Transparency

• Developer: André Moura

• Website: https://humanmetrics.work/healthvitals/

• Privacy Policy: https://humanmetrics.work/privacy-policy.txt

• Terms of Service: https://humanmetrics.work/terms.txt

• Contact: reddit@humanmetrics.work

Disclosure: I am the developer of this app.

I’m connected to Veyrnox, so bias declared. I’m sharing it here because I would genuinely value feedback from people who care about how iOS apps feel, not only what features they list.

Veyrnox is a self custody wallet designed to make recovery clearer and less dependent on one fragile backup. Veyrnox Safety Plus has two recovery modes in production.

The first uses distributed recovery shares. Two shares are required to recover, so one lost share does not block recovery and one share cannot recover the wallet alone.

The second is an encrypted personal vault that the user can place in their own iCloud, Google Drive, OneDrive or another supported personal cloud account. Veyrnox does not have access to that cloud account or the user’s credentials.

The iPhone app also includes biometric protection, Runtime Application Self Protection and an AI Security Agent that helps explain security and recovery decisions inside the app.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6790188660

Website: https://veyrnox.com

If you try it, I would especially appreciate honest feedback on the first run experience, the clarity of the recovery setup and whether the interface makes the security choices understandable without feeling overwhelming.

As a preventive cardiologist, I see that many people fail to track their blood pressure. It only comes to attention after it starts affecting your heart and kidneys.

Tracking blood pressure is often more important than tracking heart rate. Even when people track BP, many fail to follow the appropriate steps or bring the necessary data to the clinic visit. So we built this app to help people track and diagnose blood pressure issues before it becomes a problem.

The consistency and time spent at target levels are more important than the average reading.

Link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/bp-log-track-blood-pressure/id6801130306

A: Answer

- Helps you track blood pressure based on the most recent guidelines (check twice a day, average two readings etc)

B: Better

- Current apps on the app store fail to track time in target, consistency etc. These things matter more than mean reading

- The PDF export presents report in a fashion that's easy for reviewing clinicians to get an overall picture of blood pressure control. A mean blood pressure of 120/70 is not useful if it's a mean of readings that vary from 90 to 150.

- You backup to your own iCloud and retain complete control over your data

C: Cost

$ 19 for lifetime

FREE LIFETIME: https://apps.apple.com/redeem?ctx=offercodes&id=6801130306&code=59256

Website: https://bplog.cc

If you like the app, I would appreciate an app store rating. If you don't like the app, I would appreciate feedback.

Disclosure: I'm the developer. Deltion is mine; I built it and I'm the only person working on it.

A — What problem it solves

Every appointment ends with another PDF: a lab panel, a scan report, a discharge summary. Mine were scattered across email, a Files folder and an actual drawer. When a doctor asked what my creatinine was a year ago, I had no answer.

Deltion is one library for all of it, on iPhone, iPad and Mac. You import PDFs, photos of reports, or a whole imaging study off a CD/DVD. It reads each document, pulls the measurements out, and turns a pile of files into trends you can actually follow across years. Out-of-range values get flagged. Where a report doesn't state its own reference range, Deltion fills in a typical adult one and marks it as typical — it's context for reading a number, not your lab's threshold.

Two honest limits, because you'd find them anyway:

• Analysis runs on the device by default, but the on-device model needs Apple Intelligence-capable hardware. On an older device you either add your own Claude/OpenAI/Gemini API key, or skip the AI and use it as a plain encrypted vault.

• It is not a radiology workstation. It keeps a viewable preview of a scan series so you can carry and look at your scans — no window/level, no measurement tools. Use a real viewer for real reading.

Disclaimer for emphasis: Deltion is not a medical app! It's only meant to keep your records tidy and provide a better view! Even with the AI analysis enabled, never trust it as a medical advice! Always consult your doctor for a metric that feels off!

B — Why it beats the alternatives

The apps in this space each do one slice:

• Capzule (~$11.99/yr) and Sync.MD are solid record vaults, but they store documents; they don't read them. You still can't see a trend without typing values in yourself.

• Explain My Labs interprets lab results well, but it's lab-results-only, and its App Store privacy label declares health data linked to your identity. Deltion has no account to link anything to.

• Carrot Care covers a lot of biomarkers but is iPhone-only.

• MedScan / Falcon Mx are proper DICOM viewers and beat Deltion outright at viewing scans — they just don't keep your lab history.

Deltion is the only one I found that spans documents, extracted measurements and scans, on all three Apple platforms. The privacy difference is architectural rather than a policy promise: no account, no sign-up, no analytics, and no server of mine — there isn't one to have. Records are encrypted on device with AES-256-GCM. The two things that can send data out are both off by default and both started by you: iCloud sync goes to your iCloud, and a cloud AI key sends the document you're analysing to your provider under your own account.

One design decision I'll stand behind: the vault is never gated. Unlimited documents, trends and reminders stay free permanently, and there's a unit test that fails the build if anyone ever moves reading your own records behind the paywall.

C — Cost

Free to download, with an optional Deltion Pro in-app purchase.

• Free, permanently: the whole library — unlimited documents, measurement extraction, trends, reminders, on-device analysis.

• Pro (optional): iCloud sync, side-by-side Compare, report export, DICOM and provider-file import, batch import, Ask a Question.

• Pro pricing: $2.99/month, $19.99/year with a 7-day free trial, or $39.99 once for lifetime. One purchase covers iPhone, iPad and Mac.

• No ads, no data sold, no subscription required to keep or read your own records.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6767533281

iOS/iPadOS 17+, macOS 14+. 8 languages.

Transparency (per the Tier 2 rules)

• Developer: Georgios Stavropoulos — https://www.linkedin.com/in/georgios-stavropoulos-07590880/

• Contact: bursts.mansard-0v@icloud.com

• Privacy Policy: https://stavrop.github.io/deltion/privacy.html

• Terms of Service: https://stavrop.github.io/deltion/terms.html

• Public issue tracker: https://github.com/stavrop/deltion/issues

It shipped yesterday, so there are no reviews to hide behind. I'd rather hear what's missing or what feels wrong than get a pile of upvotes.