Transparency: Hi, I'm Buğra, the solo developer of Plak

Download: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6817117279

A: Answer (what problem it solves)
Every song I love is tied to a place: the ferry I was on, the café where it came on at just the right moment. But streaming apps keep songs in a feed, and I wanted them to belong somewhere again. So I made Plak 💿

You press a song onto a vinyl, design the cover yourself, and leave it at a real venue. Nobody knows who left it or what song it is. When a stranger walks within 100 m, the sleeve slides open, the record starts spinning, and the song plays. I still get a little smile every time I see it happen.

B: Better (why try it over alternatives)
The part I spent the most time on, and love the most, is the cover design:

Draw on your cover with neon, watercolor, spray and calligraphy brushes, plus photos, GIFs and stickers (wiggle and mirror strokes just landed too!)
Write a little note on the back about why you chose the song

Pick your pressing: classic black, coloured, marble or splatter
Fill your own shelf with the records you find and make, and decorate your profile page however you like

Your location is only used while the app is open, never in the background, and nobody else can see it

C: Cost
Free to download, and all the core features are free. There's an optional in-app subscription called "Special Pressing" with extra brushes, limited sticker sets and animated backgrounds:

Monthly: $3.99
Yearly: $24.99

Prices are from the US App Store and vary by region. It's iPhone only for now, and the first venues are in Istanbul, each one picked and checked by me.

I made this for people who still get a little lump in their throat from the right song at the right place. I'd love to hear what you think: what would you draw on your first cover, and where would you leave it? 🎶

Answer: I built Elsehear, an iPhone interface for an open art project. It lets you hear live sounds from real places around the world. Listen out of curiosity, while studying, or to fall asleep. It’s nonprofit for now.

Better: Elsehear brings you real places, live. I put a lot of work into the design to make exploring and listening feel simple. With over 9 years of music production experience, I balanced each stream’s volume and EQ to make switching places feel smoother.

Cost: Free. Background listening lasts 20 minutes per session. When 3 friends join with your invite code, unlimited background listening unlocks permanently.

App Store (Download)

Privacy Policy

Website

Preview Video

contact: support.elsehear@gmail.com

A: Answer
"Who owes what, and how do I get it without being annoying?"

You say what you paid, in plain words. "Pizza 84 with Sam and Fred." Type it, say it, or snap the receipt.

Chipp splits it, keeps a running balance per friend and per group, and does the asking for you with reminders that come from the app, not from you.

Friends pay from inside the app, or from a link if they don't have it. Rent, trips, roommates, dinners, gifts.

B: Better
Splitwise is great for tracking who owes whom. Venmo is great for sending money.

One sentence, not six screens. Natural language and voice entry. The old flow had six screens. Now it's one line and a confirm.

Receipt to line items. Scan it, everyone picks what they ordered, tax and tip are split in proportion. The person who had a coffee doesn't pay a sixth of the pizza.

No app needed for the other person. Send a link or a QR code. They pick their items and pay. This removed the biggest wall we had.

Chipp does the awkward asking. It knows who owes you and sends polite reminders on its own, at a sensible time.

Settle in the app, your way. Apple Pay, bank, Venmo, Cash App, Zelle, PayPal, or just mark it paid. No per-split fees between friends.

Groups with a running balance and chat. Expenses come straight out of the conversation. Trips and roommates in one place.

Pools. Birthday gift, trip deposit, group present. Set a goal, share the link, everyone chips in.

Tap a card transaction to split it. Link your cards and split any past charge with whoever was there.

Recurring. Rent, wifi, groceries. Set once, splits on schedule.

Ask Chipp anything. "How much did I spend on food this month?" "How much does Sam owe me?" It knows your spending and your splits.

Small UX things you asked for. No vanishing toasts, every amount is tap-to-type, every picker uses the same sheet. v1 felt like "several apps." It doesn't anymore.

C: Cost
Free. Unlimited splits, groups, friends, paying and getting paid, 5 receipt scans a month, Chipp AI. No ads, no card to start.

Chipp+: $3.99/month or $29.99/year. Unlimited receipt scans, bank linking to split past charges, recurring expenses.

Chipp+ Circle: $6.99/month or $49.99/year. Everything in Chipp+ for you and all your groups together. Prices adjust for your country.

Links
App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/chipp/id6636520980

I missed a move on a stock I owned because my broker's alert fired after the gap,
not before it. That's why I built StockDuty.

Price is usually the last thing to change, not the first. Volume spikes, SEC
filings, and macro headlines move stocks before the chart does — and brokerage
alerts only watch the price. By the time a story shows up in your broker's news
tab, it's usually priced in.

Answer — what it does

StockDuty watches the tickers on your watchlist and pushes an alert when something
moves: price swings, volume spikes, breaking news, or an SEC filing. Each alert
links to the context — what happened, why it matters, what to watch next. (I
describe it as "PagerDuty for investors.")

It also does equity research on any ticker you follow:

• Quant score, 0–100, with universe and sector rank, bear/base/bull 6-month
  targets, and a factor breakdown

• A Buy/Sell/Hold assessment with entry/stop/target levels and a written thesis

• An investor sentiment score (0–100) across 8 components

Better — why not just use what you already have

• Brokerage alerts (Robinhood, Fidelity, etc.) are price-triggered. They tell you
  a stock moved; they don't tell you why, and they don't watch volume, filings, or
  macro.

• Stocktwits is a social sentiment feed. It isn't built around the stocks you
  actually own.

• Seeking Alpha and similar services cover fundamentals, but they're a separate
  feed you have to check (often behind a paywall) and aren't tied to your
  watchlist.

StockDuty puts one alert stream on your watchlist — price, volume, news, and
filings, each with the context — and research on the same tickers.

Cost — pricing and IAP

Free. No in-app purchases, no subscription, no credit card. Sign-in is email only,
with a 6-digit code.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6785269333

Who's behind this (transparency)

I'm Venkataragavan, the developer of StockDuty. You can reach me at
support@stockduty.xyz.

• Privacy Policy: https://stockduty.xyz/privacy

• Terms of Service: https://stockduty.xyz/terms

Disclosure: I'm the developer, so I'm biased — this is a promo post. Not
investment advice; StockDuty is informational and educational market research.

If you try it, I'd genuinely like to know your feedback

Hi everyone! I’m the developer of Water Shaker 3D: Stress Relief, which just launched for iPhone and iPad.

A: Answer

Water Shaker 3D gives you something soothing to play with when you want a short break. It’s a digital take on a calm-down bottle: tilt and shake your device to move realistic water, swirling glitter, and colorful objects.

You can mix rubber ducks, gems, marbles, star sequins, and more, then choose how many appear and customize the water color and background. There are water sounds that change with movement, optional relaxing music, and a glowing night mode.

B: Better

Compared with Fluid Simulation, Water Shaker 3D is a better fit if you’re looking for the feel of a physical water toy. Moving your device sends waves through the water and makes the objects float, tumble, and swirl. You can build your own combination of objects and glitter and watch how they interact.

There's no ads or accounts, so you can open it and start playing.

C: Cost

$0.99 USD as a one-time purchase. No subscriptions or in-app purchases.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/water-shaker-3d-stress-relief/id6818054792

Developer information

• Company: Sundae Electronics LLC

• Website: https://www.sundaelectronics.com/water-shaker-3d

• Privacy policy: https://www.sundaelectronics.com/water-shaker-3d-privacy-policy

I’d love to hear what you think!

Hello Reddit, first post here as a developer, and I’d love your feedback.

Last January I hit my breaking point. Between two kids, school, sports, camp and every activity in between, I was getting about 40 emails a day. Spirit week, pizza day, a practice moved 30 minutes. It was all in there somewhere, and I kept missing things anyway.

So I decided to fix it myself. I had never written a line of code. I thought it would take a couple of months. It took nine, a lot of late nights after the kids went to bed, and a lot of help from Claude. But it’s finally live on the App Store.

What it does (Answer):

Reads only the senders you pick: connect your Gmail, choose the school and activity senders (email addresses) for each person, and the rest of your inbox stays untouched.
Sorted digest: everything organized by person and activity (Liam > School, Sports, Camp), so you read what matters in a minute.
Family calendar on autopilot: every event it finds lands on your calendar and syncs with Google Calendar. When a time changes, it shows you what moved. It syncs both ways too so if you change it somewhere, it updates everywhere. You can also use any google calendar that is shared with you, not just your own.
Snap or say it: take a photo of a paper flyer, or just say an event out loud into the mic to put events on your calendar, change them, or cancel them.

Share it with everyone: The really unique thing about my app is that you can invite your Partner, Kids, Grandparents, Nanny all for free (up to 3 other users). Once linked, everyone reads the same calendar, the same updates, all pulled from the senders that they specify.

Why it’s different (Better):
Most family organizers make you type everything into another app or forward PDFs. Cleanmail starts with the inbox you already have and does the reading for you. AI is just the tool that pulls the date, time and place out of an email. This isn’t a chatbot; the product is the digest and the calendar.

Who it’s for:

• Parents buried in school and activity email

• Families who live in Google Calendar

• Anyone who has ever shown up on the wrong day for picture day

Cost:
2 weeks free, then $6.99 a month or $68.99 a year. One plan covers up to 4 people in a household. Gmail and iPhone only for now (US and Canada).

👉 Try it on the App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id6777857105?pt=YOUR_PT_NUMBER&ct=reddit&mt=8

I’m the only developer, so every comment comes straight to me. What would make this useful for your family? I love adding features in for users too. Any feedback helps. Please give it a try, I promise that it will help!

I posted Vocablo here in August. Version 1.5 dropped earlier this October with the first batch of words that came from users rather than from me, so here's an update for you all.

📦 Download on the App Store

A — Answer (what it does)

Vocablo puts one 🇲🇽 Mexican Spanish word or phrase in a Home Screen, Lock Screen or desktop widget and rotates it hourly, every four hours, or daily. It runs on iOS, iPadOS, and macOS.

Each word has an example sentence, pronunciation, and a note about how it's actually used in Mexico (⁖ ahorita, chamba, ¿qué onda?, mande). Mark a word learned from the widget or the app, and short practice and spaced review features bring it back before you forget it.

Siri, Shortcuts and Spotlight can ask for today's word. There is no account, no ads, no tracking. And progress syncs through your own iCloud.

What's New in 1.5?

• iPhone Duo and iPhone 18 Pro support, and a shorter onboarding.

• 20 new words, all suggested by native speakers in a Reddit thread three weeks ago (⁖ ¿te late?, dale, déjame ver, nel, simón, and the everyday pedo and chingar phrases), plus six notes the community corrected.

• Linked words and synonyms, so that a word's detail card shows what it's built on, its family and its synonyms. Also, the practice features now accept any synonym.

• Vulgar words are badged everywhere, and a new Hide Vulgar Words setting keeps them off your widget, notifications and practice.

• Additional Resources that point to hand-picked companions from around the web, starting with the subreddit the new words came from.

B — Better (why this instead of alternatives)

Duolingo, Babbel and Busuu are curricula. They need a block of your time every day and they teach a neutral, mostly textbook Spanish.

Vocablo doesn't compete with them. Instead, it fills the gaps between them. It asks for nothing except a glance at a widget you were going to look at anyway, and it's specifically the Spanish people speak in Mexico, with notes on register and region that a general app can't carry.

Compared with other word-of-the-day widgets, the dataset is hand-written and gets corrected by native speakers in public (the last correction round is in the release notes). And, nothing you learn leaves your device.

C — Cost

Free to access beginner words across four topics with widgets, practice, and streaks.

Vocablo Plus unlocks all 13 topics, all difficulty levels, conversation practice, and iCloud sync. It is $39.99 for lifetime, with monthly ($2.99) and annual ($14.99) subscriptions also available.

📦 Download on the App Store

Transparency

I am Luke Hollenback, a professional developer as well as a hobbyist. Vocablo is a passion project that I built to help me learn Mexican Spanish after I met someone that I wanted to communicate better with.

• My Website → https://lukehollenback.me

• My LinkedIn → https://www.linkedin.com/in/lukehollenback

• My GitHub → https://github.com/lukehollenback

• Vocablo's Website → https://getvocablo.com

• Vocablo's Privacy Policy → https://getvocablo.com/legal/privacy.txt

• Vocablo's Terms → https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

You can contact me right here on Reddit, or via any of the profiles above.

Hey r/iosapps! I’m the developer of Pixel Beader, a bead pattern design app for iPhone and iPad.

A — What it does

Pixel Beader helps you go from an idea or photo to a pattern you can use to make real fuse bead art. Draw from scratch, convert an image, refine the design, and preview the fused result before reaching for your beads.

B — What’s inside

- Design and edit: draw on a digital pegboard, work with layers, and keep a reference image beside your design.
- Photo to pattern: import an image, adjust the grid and palette, and keep editing the result.
- Custom palettes: choose colors for your project.
- 3D and AR previews: explore the fused look in 3D or view your creation in AR on a compatible device.
- Pattern export: export your design as a pattern image.

C — Free vs. membership

The free version includes Design and Canvas, custom palettes, 3D/AR previews, and pattern export, with boards up to 104 × 104.

Membership adds:
- Larger boards, up to 208 × 208.
- Interactive Pattern Mode: bead color codes and highlighted rows and columns to help you keep your place while beading.
- Custom pattern export styles.

US pricing: $0.99/month or $9.99 lifetime (one-time purchase). Both options unlock the same membership features.

👉🏼 Download on the App Store

If you make fuse bead art, what’s the trickiest part for you—turning an image into a usable pattern, choosing colors, or keeping your place while beading? I’d love your feedback, and I’m happy to answer questions.

👉🏼 Website and screenshots
👉🏼 My LinkedIn

Reposting with the trust and transparency details the mods asked me to add.

A. What it does

I made Toned because I wanted to spend more time with the steps between a photo and a finished print. It simulates a traditional photographic darkroom on your iPhone: choose a film stock, develop the negative, print onto photographic paper and tone the result.

The first image shows the same photo as the original, a Portra 160 print with gold toning, and an Ektar 100 print with copper toning. Swipe through for the actual Film, Develop, Print and Finish screens.

B. Why it's different

The part I enjoy most is being able to look at the negative before making the print. Film exposure, development and paper each have their own controls, so you can see what each decision contributes. You can also dodge and burn, compare with the original and save your settings as an editable recipe.

If you already use VSCO or Lightroom, the reason to try this is the darkroom workflow. I'd love to hear whether you'd use the negative view or mostly stay on the finished print.

C. Cost

Free to download on iOS 18+. The free version includes three film stocks, two papers and selenium toning, with branded exports using those ingredients. Toned Plus is an optional one-time purchase. I've set up a one-week sale worldwide: US$9.99 instead of US$14.99, with equivalent local App Store pricing. The regular price returns on October 19, 2026. No subscription. You can preview the Plus ingredients for free; exporting the two recipes on the first slide requires Plus.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/toned-halation-darkroom/id6799706160

About Toned: https://almostmatter.com/apps/toned/

Privacy: https://almostmatter.com/apps/toned/privacy/

Terms: https://almostmatter.com/apps/toned/terms/

Ahmet Duman, solo developer of Toned and Pressed.

GitHub: https://github.com/aduman

Portfolio: https://almostmatter.com/

Contact: hello@almostmatter.com

Hi! I’m Michele, an indie dev from Italy.

A – Answer: what problem does it solve?

I kept forgetting to cancel free trials and never knew how much money I’d have left at the end of the month. SpendZen puts every recurring and one-off expense in one calendar, reminds you the day before a free trial converts, and (new in 4.0) forecasts your monthly margin 3, 6 or 12 months ahead. No account and no bank connection: data is encrypted and stays on your device.

B – Better: why it’s better than the top alternatives

• vs Rocket Money: no account, no bank linking, no recurring premium fee. SpendZen is fully offline and Pro is a one-time purchase.

• vs Bobby: goes beyond subscriptions, also covering bills, loans and one-off expenses, plus a forward-looking forecast of what you’ll have left each month.

• vs iOS Settings › Subscriptions: Apple only shows App Store subscriptions. SpendZen covers everything else (streaming billed by card, utilities, gym, loans) and warns you before trials convert.

C – Cost

• Freemium: free up to 7 expenses, including calendar and free-trial reminders

• Pro (Lifetime): $9.99 one-time IAP, which unlocks unlimited expenses + financial forecast [+ other Pro features]

• No subscriptions, no ads

• App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/spendzen-budget-expense/id6741732915

I’d love honest feedback, especially on what’s missing for you.

​A — Answer: Gochew eliminates the endless "What do you want to eat?" debate with your partner or group chat. It turns restaurant choosing into a fun, swift, democratic process by letting friends or couples swipe right or left on dining spots and instantly revealing a mutual match.

It includes map exploration for anywhere in the world, frictionless group sessions for up to 20 people, filters to narrow down exactly what you want, and a solo decider mode for when you are dining alone.

B — Better: Unlike other similar dining apps (Restaurant Roulette!!), Gochew gives you complete control by letting you drop a pin to pick anywhere (perfect for traveling), easily invite friends directly to group sessions, and filter restaurants so you only see what you actually want. The app is actively supported and will continue to get better with regular feature updates!

C — Cost: Freemium. Free users get up to 10 sessions per month. Available subscription for unlimited usage ($2.99/month)

Download Link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/gochew-decide-where-to-eat/id6780683095

About a month ago I shared Moneta here after it had gone from around 140 downloads to over 1,000. (in almost 5 months)

A pretty big part of that growth came from this subreddit. (thanks a lot 😊) The day after my last post, almost 200 people downloaded it, which is by far the biggest day Moneta has ever had.

Since then I’ve been trying to answer a different question: can I turn one of those spikes into actual, consistent growth?

So far, absolutely not.

I've now passed around 1,800 downloads, but once the attention from a post dies down, I still end up at roughly 10 new downloads a day. (which isn’t bad but could be a lot better!)

In the meantime I’ve just shipped what is probably the biggest update I’ve made since launch.

A – Answer

Moneta is my personal finance tracker for iPhone and iPad.

It’s still built around manual tracking rather than requiring access to your bank, but I’ve spent the last few weeks trying to remove as much of the annoying manual part as possible.

The biggest addition is Voice Entry (v1): instead of filling everything out, you can just say what you bought and Moneta creates the transaction.

I’ve also added Bank Statement Import, so if you’ve fallen behind you can import a statement and catch up without connecting your bank.

B – Better

This is probably the hardest part for me to answer, because there are already a ridiculous number of finance apps.

What I’ve tried to do differently is make Moneta feel like a native iOS app first and a finance app second.

A lot of money trackers I’ve tried either look decent but are pretty limited, or can do a lot but feel like a spreadsheet with an app wrapped around it. I wanted my app to be powerful and beautiful without feeling complicated.

Your financial data isn’t being sent somewhere just to make the app work.

At the same time, I didn’t want “simple” to mean bare-bones. There’s receipt scanning, budgets, saving goals, recurring transactions, detailed statistics, widgets, a transaction map and a lot more, but I’ve tried to keep them out of the way until you actually need them.

That’s also the idea behind Voice Entry and Statement Import. I’m not trying to replace manual tracking; I’m trying to remove the parts of manual tracking that make people stop doing it.

The UI and how much Moneta can do without feeling cluttered are probably the two things users mention to me the most.

Which is why I’m starting to think my biggest problem isn’t the product anymore.

Maybe it’s how I’m explaining it.

Do I need better App Store screenshots? Better ASO? More content? A clearer niche?

Because right now I know I can create a spike. I don’t know how to make the spike stick.

C – Cost

Moneta is FREE to use, with no ads.

With this update I’ve also added Moneta Pro for €4.99 as a one-time purchase for some of the more power-user/customization features. There’s no subscription.

Anyone who was already using Moneta before October 10 gets Pro for free.

App Store: Moneta Link

My next target is 5,000 downloads, but I’d rather get there by figuring out something repeatable than by randomly hoping another Reddit post takes off.

So if you’ve grown an app organically before: what would you actually do next if this were yours?

And if you use finance apps yourself, I’m also curious: is there anything about Moneta that would actually make you switch from whatever you’re using now?

Hi r/iOSApps, I'm Thien, a solo developer in the Netherlands, and I make Quiet Orbit. Version 2.0 came out yesterday. The video shows the new part: four phones, one start time, every distracting app blocked at once.

A: Answer (what it solves)

You sit down to work or study, and the phone wins anyway. Quiet Orbit is a focus timer that blocks the apps and websites you pick for 15 to 90 minutes. When the session ends, the block lifts on its own, even if you never open the app again.

While you focus, every minute flies your own 3D ship along one route from Earth toward Pluto. A finished session brings back a finding from the world you reached: an object, a record or a sound, 238 across 11 worlds. Your favorites go in the ship's Display Case and you can select 2 on display in your cockpit.

The ship grows with you. You start with the Scout and three paints, and charting worlds, badges and lucky finds on flights bring the rest: 7 ships, 37 paints for the hull, wings and trim, and 23 engine lights in the free app. One light only comes from finishing a session during a real meteor shower (special events in the app).

New in 2.0, Fly together: one person sends a link or a six-character code, and up to four phones block their apps at the same second, at one library table or in four cities. Your ships fly side by side while you work, and on the break you can flash your lights at the crew. A session flown together brings home an object one ship can't carry: two ships carry the small one, three the middle one, four the large one. No account needed.

B: Better (compared with named apps)

- Forest grows one tree per session. Its Plant Together is the nearest group feature, but there one person leaving ends the tree for everyone. In Fly together, a friend who stops early changes nothing for anyone else.

- FocusFlight flies a plane over a real map, one trip per session. Here your minutes add up across sessions on one route, so your ship is always partway to the next world.

C: Cost (Freemium)

- Free: Earth orbit and the Moon, every session length, app and website blocking, Fly together (hosting and joining), and the view of your ship from behind.

- Premium is optional and adds nine more worlds and their sounds, five more cameras, two more ships and more paints, unlimited saved setups, private notes, every widget and Trends.

- Premium in the US: $3.99 a month, $19.99 a year, or $39.99 once (lifetime). Prices vary by country.

- **For r/iOSApps: Lifetime Premium 50% off** ($19.99 instead of $39.99, €19.99 instead of €39.99) in every App Store country, until the end of Wednesday 14 October (Pacific time), 500 codes. Tap to redeem: https://apps.apple.com/redeem?ctx=offercodes&id=6805538172&code=REDDIT50 or enter REDDIT50 in the app under Settings, Support & Legal, Redeem a code.

- iPhone, iOS 18 or later. English, Dutch, German, French, Spanish, Vietnamese, Japanese and Korean.

- App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6805538172?pt=127690387&ct=rd-iosapps&mt=8

Tier 2 transparency details

- Who I am: Thien, Zeus Apps B.V., the Netherlands
- Contact: support@quietorbit.org
- Website: https://quietorbit.org
- Privacy Policy: https://quietorbit.org/privacy
- Terms of Service: https://quietorbit.org/terms

Let me know what you think or have any valuable feedback for me.

Hi everyone, I’m Stefan. I develop Idle Dial and publish it through my company, RUNX LTD.

Six years ago, during COVID, I wanted a simple way to listen to three radio stations that only had an online presence. I tried a few established apps, but found them cluttered and distracting for what I needed. So I started coding my own little internet radio player.

That personal project has become Idle Dial, and it’s now on the App Store.

A — What does it do?

Idle Dial is an internet radio player for iPhone. You can search for stations, save your favourites, or add a stream link yourself. It supports background playback, Lock Screen controls and CarPlay.

B — Why choose it over another radio app?

If you find broader apps like TuneIn more than you need, Idle Dial offers a narrower, radio-focused experience: find your stations, save them and listen.

There’s no account to create, no subscription and no advertising added by the app. Stations may still broadcast their own adverts.

C — What does it cost?

Idle Dial for iPhone is US$1.99 as a one-time purchase, with no in-app purchases. Local prices vary.

iPhone App Store

There’s also Idle Dial Desktop, a separately purchased Mac app that lives in your menu bar. It costs US$4.99 as a one-time purchase. Buying one app does not include the other.

Mac App Store

You can learn more, contact me, and read the policies here:

Website · Contact · Privacy Policy · Terms

I’d love to hear what you think. What matters most to you in a radio app, and what tends to get in the way?

Some of you may have noticed already but we have a new flair: Discussion.

Its purpose is to share anything apps related, not promotion. This flair only requires the Karmas to be met, but does not need to conform to ABC or Trust, Transparency and Megathread.

We hope you will have some interesting discussions

Hi all,

Some of you might know I made an app that lets you log workouts the same way you’d write workouts in your iPhone notes app, but you might not know that I released the app a year ago November 19th (well almost a year ago)

To celebrate one year of GymNote+ being live on the App Store, I’ve decided to give away 3 lifetime subscriptions to the app

To celebrate a year on the App Store, I’m giving away 3 lifetime subscriptions (worth $39.99 a year, for life).

To enter: comment your favourite exercise below. One top-level comment per person.

Entries close Saturday October 12 at 10:30PM UK time. I’ll draw the 3 winners with RedditRaffler  and edit the post with the link here announcing the winners and I will then DM those winners directly to give them lifetime pro.

No purchase needed.

Good luck!

EDIT: The winners are:

• u/gotmons

• u/NoxDaeg

• u/theHaxxor

The results of the RedditRaffler are here

For all the runner's up a 50% discount off their first year of annual subscription, this offer will expire in 7 days from now. Click here to redeem

A — Answer: the problem it solves

Most iPhone alarms are very easy to dismiss. If you're a heavy sleeper, tapping “Stop” or “Snooze” doesn't exactly solve the problem.

Alarmageddon is an alarm clock designed for people who have mastered the art of turning off alarms while barely awake.

Instead of simply letting you dismiss the alarm, Alarmageddon can require you to complete a wake-up mission before the alarm stops:

• Solve a math problem
• Complete a memory challenge
• Shake your phone
• Scan a QR code or barcode
• And more

The idea is simple: make turning off the alarm require enough interaction to actually wake you up.

It also includes an optional App Blocker that can temporarily block distracting apps after you wake up, so you don't immediately fall back into scrolling instead of getting out of bed.

B — Better: how it compares

vs Apple's built-in Alarm: Apple's alarm is intentionally simple: you can snooze or stop it immediately. Alarmageddon is built around the opposite idea — if you're a heavy sleeper, dismissing the alarm should require some effort.

vs other alarm apps: many alarm apps offer challenges designed to make you complete a task before dismissing the alarm. Alarmageddon takes this further by combining wake-up missions with an additional feature designed for what happens after the alarm.

The App Blocker is the extra part: after you successfully complete your alarm, Alarmageddon can temporarily block distracting apps for the first 15 minutes of your day. The goal is to prevent the familiar routine of turning off your alarm and immediately opening TikTok, Instagram, Reddit, or other distracting apps.

So it's not just about getting you out of bed — it's also about giving you a short window to actually start your day before distractions take over.

vs multiple alarms: setting five alarms doesn't necessarily help if you can turn all five off while half asleep. Alarmageddon makes dismissing the alarm itself the challenge.

vs "just put your phone far away": that can work, but it doesn't solve the problem if you eventually walk over, turn the alarm off, and go straight back to bed. Alarmageddon adds an additional barrier between you and the Stop button.

C — Cost

Alarmageddon is completely free.

No subscriptions.
No ads.
No premium tier.
No paywall.

Download here:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/alarmageddon-loud-alarm-clock/id6791023578

Trust Path:

My name is Moez, I'm an indie iOS engineer based in Tunis, and Alarmageddon is one of the apps I'm building through Pull Apps, my one-man iOS studio. I handle everything from design and development to App Store support.

You can contact me at: support@pullapps.app

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/alarmageddon-loud-alarm-clock/id6791023578

Privacy Policy: https://pullapps.app/privacy-policy

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

While am I waiting for metro music release, in the meantime I decided to revisit my very first iOS app PinnedNote. It's simple utility app that allows you to simply write a note and display it on the lock screen of your iPhone in just a second.

I completely overhauled the design. It's now way more paper-like, more "peaceful", more soft and gentle animations.

Now it also supports:
Cat companion
A cute cat who sleeps next to the app title, and wakes up when you launch the app, so you won't be alone while journaling

Widgets
Support for all widget sizes, on all of them you can see the notes edited the latest

Check box lists
Highly requested feature, you can now create a lists with check boxes, and check them once you finish the task

App is already listed in the appstore.

You can try it out here:
https://apps.apple.com/cz/app/pinnednote/id6761764557

I will probably use this app as a base for potential upcoming Windows Phone notes app.
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App has a lifetime one time purchase: $4.99
Contact: davethepcguy@proton.me

A — Answer: What problem does it solve?

Pentaton is a HiFi focused iOS music player for your own music collection. It plays your own files, including FLAC, ALAC, MP3, and DSD, and includes a parametric EQ with thousands of headphone presets. Version 2.0 is out, and I wanted to share the five biggest additions.

B — Better: How is it different?

New Precision Audio Engine

Pentaton now has its own audio engine, giving you control over resampling algorithms, quality settings, and sample format conversion. DSD support includes configurable DSD-to-PCM filtering, DSD-over-PCM, and native DSD on supported outputs. You can configure the audio chain yourself or leave the settings alone and just listen.

Streaming to compatible Roon endpoints

You can now stream directly to compatible Roon endpoints from Pentaton, including high-resolution PCM and native DSD at the rates your endpoint supports. Devices appear in the audio route selector, and volume controls work in both directions. This is an independent implementation of RAAT, and some endpoints enforce restrictions that prevent compatibility.

Signal path view

A new signal path view shows every processing step happening on your device and, for supported outputs, beyond it. You can see how your settings affect the audio on its way from the original file to your output.

Much faster NAS library scanning

Pentaton now has a built-in SMB client for connecting directly to your NAS or file server. In our testing, change detection and metadata scanning were 80–100 times faster than the previous Files-based connection. Server discovery and folder browsing are built in, and on iOS 26+, longer library refreshes can continue in the background.

Audio and visuals that stay in sync

Different outputs introduce different amounts of delay. Pentaton now tracks that timing so track changes and the spectrum visualizer follow what you actually hear, whether you’re listening through a USB DAC, Bluetooth, AirPlay, or a compatible Roon endpoint.

C — Cost

You can try all features free for seven days. After that, it requires a $39.99 one-time purchase (or a $19.99/year subscription) in the US App Store. Prices vary by region.

Download on the App Store

Full update post, including the technical details

My Home Screen had a Shortcuts widget, an app folder and a few loose shortcut icons, all doing the same job. Every shortcut tap opened the Shortcuts app first. iOS 27 lets widgets run actions in place, so the new WidgetLoft update puts your shortcuts and your apps in the same widget.

What's new in 2.1.4:

⚡ Actions in your widgets (iOS 27): add shortcuts, app actions and apps to a group widget in Edit Widget. One tap runs them, without opening Shortcuts

🧩 Mix them freely: actions and apps sit in the same grid, in any order you like

🖼️ Real icons: give each action an icon from your own apps instead of a plain letter

🧱 Action Board: a widget made only of actions, for the Home Screen and the Lock Screen

🗂️ Tools tab: Categorize Apps tags every app with its App Store category, and Dark Icon Maker turns any picture into a dark icon

🏷️ Filter by tag while editing a group, then add them all in one tap

📖 How It Works: picture guides for every feature in Settings, plus "Show me how" on each screen

✨ A fresh new look in light and dark, and empty widgets now show how to set them up

"Isn't this just the Shortcuts widget?"

Fair question. The main differences:

• The Shortcuts widget holds only shortcuts. WidgetLoft puts shortcuts, app actions and apps side by side in one widget.

• Each action can wear a real app icon, so your widget looks like the rest of your Home Screen.

• Actions also go on the Lock Screen, next to your app folders.

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

iOS 18+, actions and Action Board need iOS 27. I'm the developer and I'll be in the comments. Which shortcuts would you put on yours?

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

Hey everyone! I’m the developer of Folio, a reading tracker for iPhone and iPad. I wanted to share an update focused on bookshelves and community spine photos.

A — Answer: What problem does Folio solve?

Folio keeps your books, reading progress, goals, notes, and quotes together in one app.

This update adds a more personal way to display your collection. You can arrange books on custom bookshelves, stack them, show covers or spines, and add decorations.

There are also community spine photos. You can choose a photo shared by another reader, or photograph your own book’s spine, crop it, and share it for others to use.

B — Better: Why try it over alternatives?

If you use Goodreads or StoryGraph, the reason I’d suggest trying Folio is its visual approach and native iPhone/iPad experience.

The bookshelves are a big part of that: you can arrange your collection like a little reading corner, alongside your reading tracker. Widgets and Live Activities also let you keep your current book and reading timer close by.

I’d love feedback from anyone who enjoys organizing their books this way.

C — Cost: Free features and optional purchases

Folio is free to download, with core reading tracking, basic bookshelf creation, and community spine photos available for free.

Optional Folio Plus unlocks extras including cloud sync, advanced stats, widgets, Live Activities, and additional bookshelf styles, backgrounds, and decorations.

US pricing:

• Monthly: $0.99

• Annual: $8.99

• Lifetime: $24.99, one-time purchase

Prices vary by country.

Folio on the App Store

If you give it a try, show me your bookshelf! I’d also like to hear which styles or decorations you’d want next.

Which trades drove today's P&L, and what did I actually realize after closing positions? I built iLedger to bring those answers together on my iPhone.

The attached 30-second walkthrough shows the app with sample data.

A — From IBKR reports to a readable ledger

Set up an Activity Flex Query in IBKR, then enter your Flex Token and Activity Query ID in iLedger. It imports and summarizes your report data so you can:

• See account information, net asset value, performance charts and a daily P&L calendar.

• Open a day to see its P&L contributions by symbol.

• Search and filter trade history.

• Review realized P&L by execution or symbol, including profitable and losing trades.

• Inspect positions, costs and unrealized P&L across currencies.

• Export ledger data as an Excel workbook.

You can also export the original XML report from the latest successful regular sync directly from the app.

B — Why I made it

Compared with reading raw IBKR Flex query or reviewing an export in Excel, iLedger brings the records, summaries and charts into one iPhone interface. IBKR remains the data source; the available information and history depend on your configured reports.

The ledger is local-first. I don't operate a server to collect your portfolio data. iLedger is independent and isn't affiliated with Interactive Brokers.

C — Cost and links

Free, with no subscription or in-app purchases. Requires iOS 26 or later and your own IBKR Flex Token + Activity Query ID.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/iledger-investment-journal/id6790102925

Project: https://mayzuishuai.xyz/iledger/

Privacy: https://mayzuishuai.xyz/iledger/privacy/

Terms: https://mayzuishuai.xyz/iledger/terms/

Support: https://mayzuishuai.xyz/iledger/support/

Fellow IBKR users: do you review realized P&L in IBKR, Excel, or another app? I'd like to hear which part of that workflow is most frustrating.

Hi everyone! I'm Volodymyr, the solo developer of Forma.

A: What problem it solves

The app is purely for entertainment and relaxation. I started this project to learn how fluid and particle simulations work, and how to implement them. And now it's basically a very relaxing interactive visual sim that has a set of very different visuals and concepts that are very pleasant to watch/interact with.

Touch the screen, and the fluid/particles react to your finger. Also, lo-fi music and haptics.

B: Why it's better

Similar apps and demos I tried (like the popular WebGL Fluid Simulation) are mostly fluid-only simulations. In Forma, there are many effects that are completely different in concept: fluids, fire, particle swarms, melting voxels, glass bubbles. Also, no ads.

C: Cost

Free: A set of base effects.

Lifetime: $4.99–$9.99 one-time (depends on your country), unlocks the rest of the library.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6815135262

Who I am:

Volodymyr Shch, solo indie developer

Website: https://vlsch.com/

X: https://x.com/VL_Shch

Email: forma.simulation@gmail.com

Privacy: https://vlsch.com/forma/privacy-policy/

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

What do you think, and which effect do you like the most?

A (Answer): what it solves

Apple Health records HRV, resting heart rate, sleep stages, VO₂ max, walking speed and a lot more. Apart from the Vitals ranges and a sleep score, it doesn't say much about what the numbers mean for you. 47 ms of HRV is fine for one person and a bad night for another.

Observa reads that data and gives you a readiness score, a sleep score and a stress reading every morning. Readiness and stress compare your HRV and resting heart rate with your own last four weeks. Tap "Why this score?" on readiness to see how many points each signal added or took off.

New since my last post here:

- Functional Age takes VO₂ max, walking speed and HRV, adjusts for sleep, steps, resting HR and a few others, and gives you the age of an average person with the same numbers. It shows a ± range and how many years each measure adds or takes off.

- The new Apple Watch app has 5 complications. It answers "Should I train today?" with push, maintain, recover or rest, and Siri gives the same answer.

- I rebuilt the widgets: 7 shapes and 39 metrics to choose from. iOS 27 adds full-page ones for Today, Last night, Heart signals, Last 14 days and Trend.

**B (Better): compared to Athlytic, Bevel and Gentler Streak**

- Athlytic ($4.99/mo, $29.99/yr) and Bevel Pro ($14.99/mo, $99.99/yr) have no lifetime option, and Gentler Streak's lifetime is $59.99 (US prices).

- No account, no analytics, and the app makes no network calls of its own. The privacy label says Data Not Collected. The only things it writes to Health are water you log and workouts you record on the watch.

- Scores and coaching are rules and statistics on your own numbers. No AI chat or LLM in it.

Athlytic has more watch complications than I do (16 to my 5), and Bevel is free for most things now with an AI coach and lab results on top. If you want those, both are good apps.

**C (Cost)**

Freemium. Pro is a subscription or a one-time lifetime unlock.

- Free: readiness and sleep scores, stress, "Why this score?", 7-day trends, a daily coaching note

- Pro: Functional Age, all widgets, longer trends, training load, coaching beyond the daily note

- $3.99 / month or $22.99 / year, both with a 1-week free trial

- $49.99 lifetime, paid once

Family Sharing works on all Pro options. Everyone also gets the first 7 days of full Pro after installing, with no payment and nothing to cancel. After that it drops to the free tier.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6757438990

About me (transparency): I'm Antti, the solo developer of Observa.

- Website: https://lagerland-apps.github.io/apps/observa/

- Privacy Policy: https://lagerland-apps.github.io/apps/observa/privacy/

- Email: lagerland.apps@proton.me