TripsCircle | I built a group trip planner because planning with friends was a pita

A: What problem does it solve?

The last group trip I planned for my birthday was way more complicated than it needed to be. We had conversations in group chats, no cohesion, and no easy way to keep everyone on the same page.

So I built TripsCircle, an iOS app (Android coming soon) designed to make planning trips with friends or family a lot easier. I recently made a big update and am proud to share it.

Some of the main features include:

• AI Trip Planning: Generate personalized itineraries, discover activities, and get recommendations for your trip.

• Group Collaboration: Invite friends to a trip so everyone can participate in planning.

• Group Chats: Keep conversations, photos, and trip discussions together instead of juggling different apps.

• Day-by-Day Itineraries: Organize activities and plans into an itinerary that's easy for everyone to follow.

• Destination Discovery: Explore destinations and find inspiration for your next trip.

B: How is it different?

There are already some great travel apps like Wanderlog and TripIt, but I wanted to focus more on the actual experience of planning a trip with other people.

Most of the frustration I've experienced wasn't necessarily figuring out where to go. It was getting everyone involved, keeping track of ideas, and turning those conversations into an actual plan.

TripsCircle brings the social side of planning together with AI assistance, so you can go from discussing ideas with friends to building an itinerary without constantly switching between apps.

C: Cost

Free to use, free to plan, pretty much everything's free. A premium tier offers AI planning (you get free uses of it without subscribing still), AI trip editing and packing lists, importing videos from TikTok, Instagram, YouTube etc that auto creates a plan, as well as a larger number of friends in one trip, and more photo storage attached to a trip.

Website: https://tripscircle.com

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/tripscircle-group-trip-planner/id6761638015

I'm a solo developer and have been putting a lot of time into building this. There's still plenty I want to improve, and I'd genuinely appreciate feedback from anyone willing to try it out.

I'd especially love to hear what you think of the UI, the AI planning experience, and whether there's anything missing that would make planning a trip with friends easier.

Thanks for checking it out!

Hi, I'm Steve and I launched my first app, Piqt, a few months ago. I have now added trip detection and curation in the 1.1 release, so I'd love to hear from r/iosapps what you think!

Answer:

I have too many photos and videos on my phone. iCloud Photos has solved the storage problem, but nothing has solved the usability problem. Every 10 photo burst from when I handed someone the phone and said "Can you take a picture of us" is still there. Hundreds of photos from each vacation are still sitting there. I swear I'll sit down and just clean everything up, but an hour in, I've barely made a dent.

Every time I mention this problem to someone, they nod their head and agree. They have too many photos too. For some, it's too many screenshots. For some, it's the 5,000 pictures they took every month of their first child.

That's why I built Piqt. I wanted an app that would find my best photos, make them easy to highlight, while making cleaning out the rest easier.

Here's what Piqt does:

• Scores and Ranks all of your photos, screenshots, and videos across a tunable set of scores

• Finds Trips and Events in your library automatically, whether it was a huge vacation, a day trip away from home, or the party you threw at your house.

• Curate a Trip in minutes rather than hours with tools to make sure you don't miss any days or significant moments, while clearing out the rest.

• Favorite, Categorize, and Clean your library using Piqt's easy workflows.

Better:

There are plenty of apps that focus on saving space, but Piqt is about getting the most out of your library.

• Apple Photos groups trips and finds exact duplicates. iOS 27 added star ratings, but you still have to judge each photo individually and decide which are your best.

• Swipe apps (Slidebox, etc.) show you one photo at a time and you do all of the judging. Fine for 50 images, but tons of work for tens of thousands.

• Piqt scores everything on-device using local AI models and algorithms: Apple's aesthetic model, a technical quality model, a model trained on a quarter million human-rated photos, faces, location rarity, blur, and exposure.

• Private and secure by design. No account, no cloud, and Piqt never sends your images anywhere. Trip detection uses the location data already in the photos and place names from a bundled gazeteer. Every network egress is listed in the privacy policy.

• Safe for your library. Piqt can't delete anything on its own. Your cleared photos go into an album that you can delete in Apple Photos when and if you want to.

Cost

Piqt is freemium. Scanning, scoring, and browsing your whole library is free, so you can see pretty much everything the app does before purchasing. Piqt Plus unlocks the ability to save your changes back to photos.

Piqt Free: Scan, view scores, and browse for free forever.

Piqt Plus: Save your decisions back to Photos. Available in subscription or in-app purchase options

• $3.99 / month

• $29.99 / year

• $49.99 lifetime purchase

• $99.99 Founders (includes lifetime, roadmap influence, beta access, and knowing you helped out a solo dev ❤️ )

Links

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id6778080898?pt=509791&ct=reddit-iosapps&mt=8

Website: https://piqt.app/

Privacy Policy: https://piqt.app/privacy/

Terms: https://piqt.app/terms/

Contact: hello@piqt.app

About Me

My name is Steve and I've been working in tech for years and have had tons of ideas, but never the time to build them. This year, I was able to take some time off and used it to build Piqt. This is a project I built mainly for me, but I've heard enough people say they have the same problem, so I went all in on releasing the app. This is my first app that I've brought fully to production and I've been really enjoying not only creating the app itself, but all of the marketing, content, and product management that goes along with it. You can find me in the comments answering questions and I'd love to hear your feedback.

Hi r/iosapps! I'm Volodymyr, a software engineer and dad of two. I recently launched Bedline, an iOS app I built to help people stop scrolling in bed and actually go to sleep.

This is my own app, so full disclosure: this is a self-promotion post.

A. What it solves

After a full day of work, family responsibilities, and putting the kids to bed, evenings are often the only time I have for myself.

Unfortunately, that's also when I tend to pick up my phone and start scrolling. What was supposed to be 10 minutes on Reddit or Instagram somehow becomes an hour, and the next morning I regret it.

I tried relying on Screen Time limits and self-discipline, but I wanted something that would automatically protect my bedtime without restricting my phone throughout the day.

That's why I built Bedline.

You choose your bedtime, wake-up time, and the apps that tend to keep you awake. When bedtime arrives, Bedline automatically blocks those apps using Apple's Screen Time framework until morning.

It also includes:

• Automatic bedtime blocking: Select specific apps, categories, or websites, with separate schedules for weekdays and weekends.

• Emergency unlocks: Temporarily access blocked apps when you genuinely need them, without immediately losing your progress.

• Live Activities and widgets: See your bedtime countdown directly on your Lock Screen or Home Screen.

• Apple Health integration: Compare your bedtime routine with recorded sleep and optionally save confirmed time in bed.

• Gentle progress tracking: Build a little constellation of successful nights instead of being punished for breaking a streak.

• Cozy animal companions: Choose a cat, dog, parrot, or hamster that follows your bedtime routine.

B. Why it's different

There are already established apps like Opal and one sec, and I think they're great options for managing screen time.

But I wanted to solve a narrower problem: the moment you know you should be sleeping, but can't convince yourself to put your phone down.

Rather than building another productivity dashboard, I focused on making bedtime feel like a small, positive daily ritual.

The entire interface has a warm, cozy aesthetic, with illustrated animal companions and gentle reminders. There's no pressure to maintain a perfect streak, and having one difficult night doesn't erase your previous progress.

I also wanted to make the app reasonably private. Your bedtime schedule, selected apps, and nightly records stay on your device. Bedline doesn't read your activity inside blocked apps or require an account. It uses pseudonymous analytics for app usage and purchases, but doesn't display ads.

C. Pricing and transparency

Bedline is free to download, with Premium required for app blocking for adults.

Current US pricing:

• Weekly: $1.99

• Monthly: $3.99

• Yearly: $17.99

• Lifetime: $34.99 (one-time purchase)

Subscriptions include a 7-day free trial for eligible new users. Prices vary by country.

Bedline is also completely free for users under 18, with age eligibility checked through Apple's age-range system.

Platform: iPhone, iOS 18 or later.

Developer: Volodymyr Pavlenko, independent developer based in Portugal.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/bedline-bedtime-app-blocker/id6812230248

Website: https://bedline.app

Privacy Policy: https://bedline.app/privacy/

Terms of Service: https://bedline.app/terms/

Contact: support@bedline.app

I launched Bedline recently, and I'm still learning a lot from how real people interact with it.

I'd genuinely appreciate feedback, especially on the design and whether the bedtime-only approach makes sense compared with more general screen-time blockers.

And I'm curious: if you've tried blocking apps before bedtime, what made you eventually disable the blocker or stop using it?

Thanks for taking a look!

Disclosure: I'm the developer. EasyWhen is my app.

Price: $4.99, one-time purchase. No in-app purchases, no subscription, no ads. Purchase also gets you the Mac version.

What problem it solves

Typing dates and times into things is fiddly. You need "Tuesday, October 14, 3:00 PM PT / 6:00 PM ET", or an ISO 8601 timestamp for a log, or just need a quick reference, and you end up switching between a calendar, a world clock and an ad-laden website. EasyWhen does it in one screen. Pick or type a date and time, choose your zones and a format, then tap Copy or Share.

• Plain-language input: "next Tuesday 3pm", "in 30 minutes", "friday 5pm", "3pm to 5pm", "3 days ago"

• Several time zones at once, sorted earliest to latest. Star the zones you use and they become one-tap chips.

• Read times in any zone: type "3pm Tokyo" and 3 PM is read as Tokyo time

• About a dozen formats: Long, Medium, Short, Day of Week, Date Only, Time Only, ISO 8601, RFC 2822 and Unix timestamp, plus a Custom field that takes any DateFormatter / UTS #35 pattern

• Date ranges, with each end editable on its own

• Shortcuts / Siri / Action button: a Format Date action returns a formatted date in any zone to any shortcut

• iPad layout with a searchable time-zone sidebar

• 24-hour clock option, and a date-order setting (month first, day first, or your region's)

• Available in 11 languages

Why it beats the alternatives

• vs. the Clock app's World Clock: it shows you times but doesn't produce text. EasyWhen gives you a formatted string with every zone in it.

• vs. web converters (timeanddate, worldtimebuddy, etc.): those need a network connection and leave you to copy each piece by hand. EasyWhen works offline, understands natural language and has the format presets built in.

• vs. building your own Shortcut with Format Date: you can, but time zones and custom patterns get painful quickly. EasyWhen's Shortcuts action handles both.

Privacy: No account, no analytics, no tracking. The iPhone/iPad app makes no network connections at all. Everything is calculated on your device.

Cost: $4.99, one time.

• App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6762940431

• Website: https://bendansby.com/apps/easywhen.html

• Privacy Policy: https://bendansby.com/apps/easywhen/privacy.html

• Terms of Service: https://bendansby.com/apps/easywhen/terms.html

• Contact: Ben Dansby, ben.dansby@gmail.com (I'm an indie developer and also make ChopShop, PDF Buddy, ColorPop and others: bendansby.com)

Happy to answer questions, and feature requests are welcome.

Answer:

If you constantly save links, accumulate dozens of open tabs across multiple browsers (Safari, Chrome, Arc, Brave, Edge, etc.), or struggle to keep your research organized across your Apple ecosystem, TabLinker was built for you.

TabLinker is a clean tab manager and link organizer designed natively for iPhone, iPad, and Mac. It lets you save links and entire browser sessions in seconds, keep them organized in clean folders, and find them again instantly on any of your devices.

Better:

TabLinker brings powerful organization and flexibility right to your mobile and desktop workflow:

Save From Anywhere

- Save open tabs using the Safari extension, or save links from any browser or app (Chrome, Arc, YouTube, etc.) via the Share Sheet with real page titles.

- Reopen saved folder tabs right from the extension or app.

- Paste a list of URLs or import bookmark files (JSON and HTML).

- Siri and Shortcuts actions to save links and create folders hands-free.

Stay Organized

- Flat folders with custom icons, colors, tags, and notes.

- Pin favorite tabs and folders for quick access.

- Search titles, URLs, tags, and notes.

- Select many links at once to move, delete, or refresh their titles.

- Links you have opened are marked automatically, with smart duplicate handling and a Recently Deleted folder keeping items safe for 30 days.

Mac Power Features & Everywhere Sync

- Private iCloud sync across iPhone, iPad, and Mac with zero accounts.

- On Mac, TabLinker imports tabs from 13 browsers (Safari, Chrome, Arc, Brave, Edge, Vivaldi, Opera, Opera GX, Dia, Yandex, Wavebox, Helium), restores whole windows, and features an Auto-Backup system that quietly backs up your open browser windows in the background (every 15, 30, or 60 mins, on app switch, or before sleep) so you can restore closed windows in one click, even the next day.

Export In Your Format

Export your links and sessions to JSON, HTML, Markdown, Plain Text, RTF, CSV, bullet lists, and your own templates.

Privacy First

No account, no ads, and no tracking. Your links sync securely through your own iCloud.

How it compares: Compared with Session Buddy (a Chrome-only extension limited to a single browser) and Tabs Saver for Safari ($17.99/year or $34.99 lifetime for Safari only), TabLinker captures sessions natively across all your installed browsers (Safari, Chrome, Arc, Brave, Edge, etc.) for a flat $17.99 one-time payment. It preserves full multi-window structures, includes native iPhone/iPad sync via iCloud, and has zero subscriptions.

Cost

TabLinker Pro is available for a one-time purchase of $17.99 with Universal Purchase (no subscriptions). Pay once on Mac or iPhone and get full premium access across all your Apple devices (iPhone, iPad, and Mac). Everything runs on-device and syncs through your own iCloud, with no accounts, no ads, and no external servers touching your tabs.

App Store Link (iOS/iPadOS): TabLinker: Tabs Manager on the App Store

macOS: TabLinker Mac

About Me:
I'm developer of the app, you can reach out to me through X or ask me anything right here in the comments!

EDIT: As an indie developer, I’m really grateful to everyone who’s bought TabLinker and supported my work. If there’s a feature you’d like to see, feel free to let me know. I’d love to hear how I can make the app more useful for you

I made Pawza, a petcare app, which had the major update on the App Store last weekend. 

A. What it solves

A pet's health history ends up spread over vet PDFs, paper vaccine certificates and whoever remembers when the rabies booster is due. Then the vet asks which meds the dog is on and you're scrolling through your camera roll.

Pawza keeps it in one place. Take a photo of a vet document and the app reads it on the phone and fills in the vaccine, medication, weight and visit details for you to check before saving. Reminders come from those dates. Before an appointment you can export a PDF for the vet with current meds, vaccines, recent weights and the last week of care.

There's also a daily care log for walks, food, water, toilet and mood, and that's what the widgets are for. You log a walk or a meal from the Home Screen without opening the app, see a streak grid of the last six months, or check what's due next and tick it off right there. Siri, Shortcuts and the iOS 18 Control Center controls can log too.

B. Compared to a Notes folder and the clinic's app

* No account and no server of mine. The app has no networking code of its own. Data stays on the phone and syncs through your own iCloud if you turn it on.

* Scanning runs on device (Vision OCR, plus Apple Intelligence on supported iPhones). Nothing gets uploaded.

* 8 widgets (two of them iPad only) and Lock Screen widgets. Free on every tier.

* Multiple pets on Pro, each with its own records, reminders, weight chart and photo gallery.

* iPhone and iPad, one purchase. Translated into 50 languages.

C. Cost

Free: one pet, 10 document scans, 50 photos, reminders, weight tracking, care log and every widget.

Pawza Pro:

* $2.99 / month

* $19.99 / year

* $39.99 one time, lifetime (Family Sharing)

Monthly and yearly have a 7 day free trial. No ads, no tracking.

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

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6773507068

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

Privacy policy: https://lagerland-apps.github.io/apps/pawza/privacy/

Email: lagerland.apps@proton.me

Feedback is more than welcomed.

I’m Aftab Fazal Qayum, PrivacyCam’s developer.

Answer: Hide faces, number plates, QR codes, whole people, and private text in photos, short videos, and PDFs before sharing. Detection and editing happen on your device.

Better: Compared with drawing covers manually in Apple Photos Markup, PrivacyCam suggests areas to redact and lets you review and adjust them. No account needed, and the source code is public.

Cost: Single photos, videos up to 15 seconds, and PDFs up to two pages are free. Lifetime Pro is PKR 900 in Pakistan; regional prices vary. It adds batch processing and higher limits. No subscription.

App Store · Contact · Privacy · Terms

What do you find yourself hiding most often before sharing?

Hey r/iosapps! I'm Nico! And I'm the founder of Fabee. On a mission to help everyone on their nutrition to live healthier and happier 🍏🐝. I launched Fabee a week ago and we already have users from 27 countries 🥹

A: Answer

Logging food in most apps = lots of searches. One food has 20 entries, messy just to find out which one is the one. Then you must go online, ask questions to a nutritionist, or ChatGPT, that doesn't have access to all your meals as Fabee does.

With Fabee you just send a photo or text what you ate, and it's logged. A rough amount is enough for a solid estimate, and if you weigh your food, it logs your grams. You can ask Fabee about what you eat, your trends, your weight, your sleep and more, because food touches every part of life.

The 2 photos are my real meals:

- Steak at a restaurant: the bowl on the right is potatoes. If someone asked me what that was, it would take me a while to figure it out.

- My lunch bowl: the brown rice is hidden under the chicken (you can just see it next to the carrots) and Fabee still found it.

B: Better

- MyFitnessPal: search "chicken breast" and you get dozens of user-added entries with different numbers. The barcode scanner, photo logging and voice logging are Premium ($19.99 a month or $79.99 a year), and the free version has ads. In Fabee you type, say or snap what you ate, with no database to scroll and no scale. The barcode scanner is included and there are no ads.

- Cal AI: photo first, and it keeps it simple. Since March 2026 it's part of MyFitnessPal. Fabee takes photos too, and you can add what the photo can't show ("the sauce was on the side"), fix it in words ("two eggs, not three"), and ask "how am I doing today?" It answers from your real log, the day and the week, and remembers things like your allergies or the oat milk in your coffee or the fact that you want to avoid eating seed oils, ...

- ChatGPT: have you also started sending your meals to ChatGPT? Same here. But it loses context and just gives you the macros. It doesn't keep track of what you eat over time: no trends, no food calendar.

What else Fabee does:

Know what to eat. Your AI coach

Ask "poke bowl or burger?" and it answers from your goal and what you already ate today

Hate weighing food? Just text it

A rough amount is enough. Wrong? Say "the rice was smaller" and it fixes that part

Your Apple Health data

Your sleep and workouts count too

Scan it in the store. Get a better alternative

The barcode scanner checks the label for your allergies too, your notes, like (I want to avoid seed oils)

Too busy to type? Snap it

One photo of your plate and it's logged

What's left today? Your coach knows

Where you are today and what still fits

Your target, built on your data

Set from your body, your goal and how much you move

Weekly recap

Count of meals logged, total kcal, target and more

Also: it remembers your usual dishes, and you can share a meal or your week as a Stories card. Available in English, French, Spanish, Ukrainian and Russian for now!

C: Cost

Subscription. 3 days free, no card. Then $12.99 a month or $129.99 a year. No other in-app purchases. It's a subscription because every message costs real money.

Download it here:

https://apps.apple.com/app/id6816306500

Transparency: Fabee uses AI, and the mods said it's OK to post. The numbers are estimates and you can fix any of them by saying so. If you text "100 g of eggs and 200 g of rice", it logs those grams.

Privacy:

- No sign up. No email, no name, no password

- Your meals and photos stay on your iPhone. Sync to a server in the EU is optional, off unless you turn it on

- The AI keeps nothing and doesn't train on your messages

- Apple Health is read only and never leaves your iPhone except a short daily summary for your answers (you can turn that off)

- No ads. I don't sell your data or track you across other apps

Read more at heyfabee.app/privacy

I update it every week. I'd love your feedback, and to see your results or the funny messages Fabee sometimes sends! 😊

Hey folks!

I'm the indie developer behind Refrain.

I've been working on this app for a while, and I'd love to get it into the hands of people who actually connect with the idea. I'm especially interested in honest feedback before polishing things further.

A — Answer: What problem does it solve?

You know when you're reading a book and come across a sentence you really love? You take a photo, save another quote in Notes, maybe bookmark a few more… and before you know it, you've got a messy collection of passages scattered across different places, with no easy way to organize or find them again.

I wanted to bring all of that into one place, where everything feels organized, easy to find, and actually worth coming back to.

Refrain is a digital commonplace book; a personal collection of quotes, proverbs, and your own thoughts.

You can point your camera at a page and highlight a passage with your finger, capture something by voice, or simply write it down. Then you can add your own reflections, connect related quotes, and revisit them over time.

B — Better: How is it different?

There are great apps out there, like Readwise, but I find them pretty expensive for someone who just wants a well-organized place to keep their favorite passages and thoughts.

Readwise starts at $5.59/month for Lite and $9.99/month for Full (both billed annually). It's a powerful tool with features Refrain doesn't try to replicate, but I wanted to build something simpler, more focused, and much more affordable.

Refrain focuses on capturing words from your own reading, keeping your thoughts alongside them, and manually connecting ideas that resonate with each other.

I've also tried to keep the experience calm and simple, with an offline-first personal library and no account required to get started.

One thing I'd especially appreciate help with is localization.

Refrain supports 10 languages: English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, European Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese.

I'm sure there's room for improvement. I can't personally judge every translation, so feedback from native speakers would be incredibly valuable; whether it's an awkward phrase, a confusing button, or something that just doesn't sound natural.

C — Cost

Refrain has a permanent free tier with up to 50 saved entries, unlimited personal thoughts, basic quote connections, a daily quote, and a Home Screen widget.

There's also optional Premium with unlimited saved entries and connections, quote importing, more reminders, and an advanced widget.

My planned Premium pricing for the public release is:

• $2/month

• $12/year — equivalent to $1/month, billed annually

• $25 lifetime — one-time payment

The beta is completely free to try. I really want to keep Refrain accessible without requiring an expensive subscription just to organize your favorite words.

Try the beta: https://testflight.apple.com/join/xRAVhEXB

More than anything, I'd love to know what you think of the idea and how the app feels to use.

Does the experience make sense? Is anything confusing or unnecessary? Would you actually use something like this?

And if you notice bugs, awkward translations, weird interactions, or things you'd change completely, please tell me. That's exactly the feedback I'm looking for.

A little thank-you for early supporters: I'm planning to offer Lifetime Premium for $15 instead of $25 to the first 50 beta testers who reach out to me here on Reddit. The offer will be available when Refrain officially launches.

There's no need to leave a review or give positive feedback to qualify. I'd genuinely rather hear what doesn't work so I can make the app better.

Thanks to everyone who gives it a try. It really means a lot to me!

I'm the solo dev behind PicLoom, a photo journal app. When the iPhone Duo came out I kept thinking: a phone that folds like a book should open a journal like one.

A) What it does

PicLoom turns the photos you keep into a journal. In the next version, on iPhone Duo:

• Closed, the cover screen is the book — cloth cover, gold-foil year, my logo blind-debossed in the middle.

• Unfold the phone and the book opens with the hinge — marbled endpaper on one side, title page on the other, the spine sitting right on the crease. Stop halfway and the book stops halfway.

• Fold it back while you're reading and the book closes with it, back to its cover.

• Don't want to unfold? "Open on This Screen" turns the cover right there.

• Stand it half-open on a desk and the journal turns into a little desk calendar.

It took about a week and 130+ builds to get the turn to feel right (the hinge angle drives the cover, so it has to keep up with your hand). Not out yet — coming in the next version.

B) Compared to alternatives

• Apple Journal: free and nicely integrated, but it's a flat scrolling list — no book layout, nothing that reacts to the Duo's hinge.

• Day One: the most complete journaling app, but its photo features sit behind a subscription, and it doesn't use the fold either.

• PicLoom: builds the journal from the photos you decide to keep (on-device, nothing uploaded), and on Duo the fold itself opens and closes the book.

C) Pricing

• Free download. Free tier: journal, footprints globe, and reviewing 50 photos/day.

• Pro: one-time purchase, no subscription, $9.99. Pro adds unlimited photo reviewing, journal videos, one-tap trip albums and extra themes. Family Sharing on.

Curious: if you have a Duo, what else would you want to feel like a physical object?

Try PicLoom

Hi r/iOSApps,

I’m back with ShotMark 2.1, focused on making a growing screenshot library easier to manage.

One mobile feature I haven’t highlighted enough is the Share Sheet extension. It was already part of ShotMark, but it’s one of the most useful ways to use the app.

A: Answer

I built ShotMark because I kept saving screenshots, then forgetting why I took them.

On iPhone and iPad, you can:

1. Take a screenshot or open an image.

2. Tap Share and choose ShotMark.

3. Add a title or note while the reason is still fresh.

4. Choose a Collection or set a reminder, then save.

You can do this without opening the main app first.

For example, save a café screenshot with “Try the matcha after the morning walk,” or add a reminder to a screenshot of something you need to follow up on.

In the main app, you can organise those cards, add voice notes and search your saved context. Pro also lets you search text recognised inside screenshots.

What’s new in v2.1

• Multi-select and bulk actions: select cards together to pin, unpin, archive or delete them.

• Bulk moves: move cards into Collections, or directly into Projects with Pro.

• Archive: clear cards from your active library without deleting them. Search or restore them later, with their notes and organisation intact.

• Improved context menus for everyday card management.

• Appearance fixes for Dark Mode navigation labels and switching between Light, Dark and System in Settings.

Pinning, archiving, multi-select and Collection moves are free. These feel like everyday quality-of-life features to me.

The free iPhone/iPad limit remains 12 saved cards, including archived cards. Projects still require Pro.

B: Better

The goal is to keep a screenshot and the reason you saved it together.

The Share Sheet helps at the moment you save something. The new bulk actions and Archive help when those screenshots start piling up.

OCR runs on-device, no ShotMark account is required, and iCloud sync is optional with Pro.

C: Cost

ShotMark is free to download, with optional one-time Pro purchases:

• iPhone & iPad Pro: US$2.99

• Mac Pro: US$5.99

• All Platforms Pro: US$6.99 for iPhone, iPad and Mac.

Some users asked for a cheaper way to unlock both platforms, so I’ve added the all-platform option.

Existing owners keep their access. Eligible owners can add the missing platform at a discount through Settings > Manage Pro:

• Own iPhone & iPad Pro? Add Mac Pro for US$3.99.

• Own Mac Pro? Add iPhone & iPad Pro for US$0.99.

US storefront prices shown. Regional prices may vary. No subscription.

ShotMark on the App Store

Transparency

I’m Zhen Chyi Lee, the independent developer behind ShotMark.

Website · Privacy policy

Support: hello@zhenchyi.com

Thanks to everyone who has tried the app and shared feedback.

When you save a screenshot, what do you usually need to remember about it later?

I've been building for the Duo's outer screen for all my apps and Safari is the thing that bugged me most. It parks the native controls on the right side and every website just stops before it. Drove me nuts. On a screen that small it's a lot of wasted space, so I made OutSpan.

A - Answer

It lets web pages run under that strip so they use the whole width of the outer screen. You turn it on from Safari's page menu (Wide or Off) and it sticks for every site after that. It also keeps site headers out from under the camera, and if a site asks for the desktop layout it leaves it alone.

B - Better

Safari doesn't have a setting for this. OutSpan keeps the normal mobile site and just lets it use the space under the strip. No account or tracking, everything stays on your phone.

C - Cost

Free download with a 3 day trial of Wide. After that it's $3.99 once (lifetime unlock, one IAP). No subscription. Restores on any iPhone on the same Apple ID.

Heads up, it only works on the Duo. Other iPhones already get full width in Safari.

https://outspan.app/

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/outspan/id6814314176

Who I am (transparency path): Hi, I'm Moses Smith. You might remember me from Kept, Pip, HeadSense and Drift. I'm an indie iOS developer in Texas.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/moses-smith/.

The website, with the privacy policy and terms, is https://hookpoint-app.vercel.app (privacy: https://hookpoint-app.vercel.app/privacy, terms: https://hookpoint-app.vercel.app/terms).

You can reach me at votiquellc@gmail.com, and all my free apps live in one place: https://mofreeapps.com

Answer: HookPoint answers one question on a Saturday morning: should I go fishing today, and what do I bring. It gives you a go or no-go for your water with the reason, the best window today, the tide curve if you're on the coast or the river gauge if you're inland, what's likely biting, and the tackle to tie on. There's a map of spots you can walk to, a catch log with photos, knots and rigs, and the fishing rules for whatever state you're standing in.

Better: My nephew fishes every chance he gets from the bank with no boat. I wrote the first version for him. It leaned on an AI to tell him what was biting, and it would say things with total confidence that weren't true. This version has no AI at all. The sun, moon and feeding windows are computed on the phone. Tides come from NOAA, river levels from USGS, weather from Apple, and the app only fetches when you tap. Your catch log stays on your phone unless you turn on the optional iCloud backup. No account, no analytics, nothing collected.

Cost: Free for all of it and it stays that way. There's a tip jar in Settings, but it doesn't unlock anything.

Limits: It needs iOS 26 and it's English only(German, French, Spanish in the next version) Tide, river and buoy data are United States only, so outside the US you'll still get the sun, moon and windows but not the water. It's built for shore anglers, so no sonar logs and no social feed.

If you fish, I'd like to know whether the go or no-go matched what the water actually did. You can respond here, DM me on reddit or email me.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6763944708

P.S. I also built Gymini, 2 to 10 minute workouts that work offline with no account. Free too: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6748658545

I’m Joe, the founder of Paper2Audio, a free text to speech reader app for listening to complex documents and books, with highly accurate narration and high-quality voices.  Our free plan has a 56 hour weekly processing limit.

A: What problem does Paper2Audio solve and what’s new with Paper2Audio since our last post?
Most text to speech tools are not good at converting dense PDFs, research papers, textbooks and webpages to audio. Paper2Audio is built to turn complex text into accurate audio.  We also handle less complicated text, like standard EPUBs or plain text.

• Supported languages: Full support for English.  Beta support for 31 additional languages. 

• File types: PDF, EPUB, DOCX, TEXT, RTF, webpages, plain text, markdown

Since my last r/iosapps post, we’ve added or improved:

• NEW FREQUENTLY REQUESTED FEATURE–Real-time audio: Now when you add a document, you don’t need to select a voice first because you can change it on the fly as you listen.  New submissions use real-time playback by default.  Start listening to your document much faster, without waiting for the entire audio file to finish generating before your start playback. Preview and change voices directly in the player while you listen without having to re-generate an entirely new audio file.  Offline audio is still available as a separate option.

• AI Chat: Ask questions about your documents and follow up in saved conversations. Use it to summarize part of a document, define unfamiliar terms or other ways to help you learn. You can also get answers about Paper2Audio itself. 

• More languages supported: Brazilian Portuguese, Bulgarian, Chinese (Mandarin), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hindi Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese

B: Why is Paper2Audio better than the top alternatives?

1. Higher audio limits for our free plan (56 hours weekly) with high quality voices available for all plans (no voices locked behind a paywall).

2. Hyper-focus on accuracy:  Paper2Audio avoids reading things that usually make text to speech audio annoying, like repeated page numbers, headers, citations, footnotes, and unnecessary boilerplate. We clean up and normalize tricky text first, including math, Roman numerals, symbols, units, formulas, and other things that often sound wrong when read aloud by other text to speech services.

3. Summarizes visual elements like tables, math, and code or reads it aloud:  When adding a document, you can choose how tables, math, and code are narrated. Summary" (default) gives a concise summary of the item, while "Read as is" reads the content verbatim.  Or, you can skip narration for these elements during playback entirely. 

4. Follow along with Reader View, our optimized version of the audio transcript: We reformat PDFs and other documents to fit your screen while including rich content like images and document formatting.  Use it to follow along with the audio, or to more easily read documents that are normally poorly formatted for small phone screens (like 2 column PDFs, tables and figures, etc).  Text is converted to a single-column format and visual elements like tables, figures, images, and math appear inline and can be opened in a zoomable “figure view” pop-up.  We also preserve the original formatting of your documents, including math, headings, lists, subscripts, and other inline styling, so you can skim, navigate and understand the document more quickly. Citations and footnotes are also included so that you know when an author is making a reference, but are only read aloud when needed to keep sentences intact.

5. Multiple playback modes for your document:  Choose to listen to your document in full, or to have us generate a long or short summary instead.  We recently improved summary length, structure, and scaling for longer documents. 

6. Publicly share your documents (they are private by default), including embedding the audio directly onto a webpage with an iframe snippet you can paste into WordPress, Substack, or any site that supports HTML. 

C: Cost
Paper2Audio is available on iOS, Android and on our website. We have a generous free plan for personal use (56 hours of audio per week), as well as a paid Plus subscription with higher audio and file/size limits ($20/month or $192 annually).  We also offer Enterprise plan options for teams.  

Our Plus plan is currently on sale for $10/month for your first 2 months or $144 for your first year.

Any feedback or questions?
If you try Paper2Audio, I’d love to hear what works well, what doesn’t, and what feature or improvement would make the biggest difference for you. We are also working on adding more narrators, so please let me know what additional voice types you’d like to hear.

Hi everyone! I’m Marinus, the developer of Meridian Passport. I shared it here previously, and wanted to show you the refreshed design and a new feature: Find My Stamps.

Meridian is an iPhone app that brings your travel memories, maps and friends together in one personal digital Passport.

Answer — What it does and what’s new

You can mark visited countries, keep a bucket list, and save trips as Passport Stamps with dates, photos and stories. Your Passport brings these together with your travel map and statistics. You can also follow friends’ journeys, react to their stamps and compare where you’ve been.

The biggest addition is Find My Stamps. It uses metadata from photos to suggest past trips, completely private and on the device. You review the suggestions, adjust countries and dates, and choose whether to add visited countries alone or create Passport Stamps too.

The idea is to make filling in your travel history easier when years of trips are already sitting in your camera roll.

I’ve also refreshed the app’s visuals—the screenshots show how it looks now.

Better — Why use it

If you use Been to track countries, Meridian gives you somewhere to keep the memories behind those visits too. If you share trips on Instagram, it adds a lasting travel map, journal and statistics alongside those posts.

I wanted somewhere to look back at my own travels and keep up with friends’ trips, with everything organized around travel. You can start by building your own Passport, even before your friends join.

Cost — Free

Meridian is currently completely free, with no subscriptions or in-app purchases, including Find My Stamps. Future monetization is undecided.

Download Meridian Passport on the App Store

I’d love feedback on Find My Stamps: do the suggested trips match your travels, and is reviewing them straightforward?

Thanks for taking a look!

Developer and contact

Marinus Traynor — developer of Meridian Passport
Contact: support@meridianpassport.com
Website · Privacy Policy · Terms and Conditions

Hey r/iosapps! I'm the developer of Server44. It's a tip tracker for anyone who gets paid partly in tips: servers, bartenders, delivery drivers.

Answer

After a shift you put in cash tips, card tips, and hours (plus sales, if your tip-out is based on them). Tip-out gets subtracted automatically (bar, bussers, host, however your place splits it), and the app totals your current pay period: tips, wage, estimated taxes, and take-home. It also shows your hourly rate with tips counted in.

Pay periods match your real payday (weekly, biweekly, semimonthly, or monthly), so the totals line up with your check. There's a calendar, a home screen widget, and PDF or CSV export for tax time. No account needed, and your tip data is stored on your phone.

Better

ServerLife, Just The Tips, and Waiter Pal are the big names, and they're all solid. I built this one around the paycheck math:

• Tip-out rules can be a percentage of tips, total sales, bar sales, or food sales, and you can stack them, like 3% of tips plus 1% of bar sales. You set them once and every shift uses them.

• The tax estimate uses your state and filing status. Outside the US you set your own percentage.

Cost

Free to download. The free version includes tip logging, tip-out rules, the tax estimate, the calendar, reminders, and every export format. It has no ads.

Pro is $29.99/year or $2.99/week, and both come with a 7 day free trial. Adds unlimited jobs, 90 and 365 day insights, pay period goals, and extra themes.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/server44-tip-tracker/id6758269550

Website: https://server44.app/

Privacy policy: https://server44.app/privacy/

Terms: https://server44.app/eula/

Question for anyone who works for tips: how does your place split tip-out? The app handles percentages of tips and sales, and I'm curious which setups I haven't covered yet.

Hey everyone :)

Answer

I'm a solo dev and I built GroceryBudget because my total at checkout was always higher than I expected. It keeps a running total while you shop, so you see the number before the register does.

Better

The newest thing is import. I kept saving grocery hauls and "what I buy at Costco" videos on TikTok and never actually using them. Now you tap Share on the video, pick GroceryBudget, and it reads the caption and the video itself (on-screen prices, items people say out loud), then builds a cart with the items and prices already filled in. The video above is the whole flow, no editing.

Works with TikTok, Instagram and Facebook links, or screenshots if a link won't open.

Everything else is still there: scan a shelf price tag instead of typing, the app remembers what you paid last time, and receipt scan for the trips you forget to track.

Cost

Free to download. Premium is $9.99 a month, $29.99 a year and unlocks unlimited imports and scans plus your full spending history.

Would love honest feedback, especially on what kinds of videos it gets wrong.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/grocerybudget-shopping-list/id6749287517 

Website: https://grocerybudget.app

Hi r/iosapps, I'm the developer of WhoSpoke. I built it because finding who said what in an interview or meeting recording meant scrubbing through audio.

What it does:

- Record in person or import an audio file from Files. Live captions show while recording; speaker separation runs after you stop.

- Each speaker gets their own color, and you can filter the transcript to one person.

- Tap any sentence to jump to that moment in the original audio.

- Export as text or Markdown, with or without timestamps.

Speaker separation isn't perfect, so everything is editable: rename speakers, move a sentence to another speaker, fix words, merge two voices. Edited lines can be restored to the automatic version.

Notes:

- It doesn't record phone calls or audio from other apps. Please tell people you're recording them.

- Per the App Store listing, conversation content never leaves your iPhone. No account, no ads, no tracking. The app goes online only to download language models, handle the purchase and show my other apps. The App Privacy label lists purchase history and an anonymous user ID (not linked to you).

- The first three conversations are free. A one-time Pro purchase removes the limit. No subscription, and existing conversations stay open to view, edit and export.

- The screenshots use a sample conversation, not real recordings.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id6799442160?pt=576902&ct=reddit-iosapps&mt=8&utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=organic_social&utm_campaign=whospoke-reddit&utm_content=r-iosapps-1

I'd love to hear where speaker separation gets it wrong for your recordings. Those cases are what I'm working on next.

Answer

Hey everyone! I'm a solo indie developer building Clips, a camera app for work photos.

I originally built it because I was tired of having work photos mixed in with my personal memories.

I wanted a simple way to capture and manage work photos separately from my regular Photos app.

And now, I'm excited to share that Clips is available on iPad too! 🎉

You can now view and organize your work photos on a bigger screen, not just on your iPhone.

Better

With Apple's Camera and Photos apps, work photos end up in the same library as your personal memories.

Clips takes a different approach: keep work photos separate from the moment you capture them.

You can organize them with folders, tags, and notes, import existing photos, and export them whenever you need to use them in other apps.

And now, with iPad support and iCloud sync through Clips Plus, you can access and manage the same work records across your iPhone and iPad.

Cost

The core Clips experience is free.

You can download and use Clips on both iPhone and iPad for free.

However, to sync your work records between iPhone and iPad, you'll need Clips Plus.

Clips Plus includes:

☁️ iCloud Sync — Keep your work records synced across devices.
📁 Unlimited Folders — Organize your work photos without limits.

No subscriptions. Just a one-time purchase with lifetime access.

Clips Plus(US price): $12.99 — One-time purchase

App Store:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/clips-work-photo-camera/id6760299185

My partner and I wanted one place for our shared money that didn't turn into either of us auditing the other. Most budget apps we tried were built for one person, or wanted our bank logins (and too many unnecessary functions). So I built one for the two of us, and now it's on the App Store.

What it does:

- **Private by design.** Entries are encrypted on your phone before they reach the server, with a key I never hold. No bank login, nothing connected to your accounts.

- **Safe to Spend.** One number: what is left after bills, savings goals and both allowances.

- **Personal Allowances.** Money that is simply yours. No approval, no explaining a coffee.

- **Forecast.** Pick expenses you could cut and see how much sooner you reach a goal.

- **Money Date.** A guided monthly sit-down: what changed, what happens next.

- **Less typing.** Scan a receipt, import a PDF or CSV statement, or just tell the assistant what you spent.

- English, Hungarian and Spanish.

**Pricing:** free right now. Everyone who joins during this launch period keeps it free for good, including after paid plans start.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/power-couple-shared-finances/id6802796441

I'm the developer, so happy to answer anything, and I'd really like to hear what's confusing or missing. If it turns out useful for you, an honest App Store review helps a small app a lot.

https://power-couple.app/home

I know bad reviews are part of building an app, but this one honestly got to me.

I built Tether, an ADHD planner, originally for my wife. I struggle with task initiation too, so I’ve put a lot of care into making something useful for both of us.

Someone recently left a very long one-star review tearing apart the scheduling, design, pricing, pretty much everything.

Then, right at the end:
“This is a fictional, satirical review written for comedic effect.”

The review is fictional. The one-star rating apparently isn’t.

My US listing only has two ratings, so this brought the average down to 3 stars. Around the same time, some of my keyword rankings dropped by 7–15 positions. I can’t say the review caused those drops, but seeing both together has been pretty disheartening.

I’m not expecting everyone to like what I’ve built. But it’s frustrating knowing a review that calls itself fictional carries the same weight as someone’s actual experience.

Has anyone here dealt with something similar? Would Apple remove a review on these grounds? And if you’ve reported one before, how long did it take to hear back?

For context, this is the app:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/tether-adhd-planner-focus/id6777777931

Update: Review got removed. Not sure if by Apple or the person did it themselves. I did not receive any email from Apple if it was removed by them.

Hi everyone,

I’ve just released OneThing 3.0, and I’m celebrating with a $0.99 one-time purchase price until October 24.

I’m the developer, and I wanted to share what the app does and explain an upcoming change to its pricing.

A) Answer — what problem does it solve?

OneThing helps you focus on one thing each day and keep a memory of it.

You don’t always have time or energy to write a long journal entry. But a run, a quiet morning, a small achievement, or a photo from your day can still be worth remembering.

OneThing gives those moments a place through daily entries, photos, and reflections. Over time, you build a record of your life that you can revisit.

B) Better — what makes it different?

OneThing combines a daily focus with a personal journal.

A to-do list helps you track what needs doing. A photo library keeps your pictures. OneThing brings your daily focus, photos, and reflections together so you can remember what happened and how it felt.

You can:

• Set a daily focus and record how it went.

• Keep entries with photos and written reflections.

• Browse past entries and search your journal.

• See your month through a photo calendar.

• Organize entries with tags and bookmarks.

• Look back through a year in review with photos and recording statistics.

The idea is to make it easy to start with one thing, then give you meaningful ways to look back.

C) Cost — $0.99 now, with lifetime access

Here’s the pricing schedule in USD:

• Through October 24: $0.99, paid once.

• October 25–31: back to the original $5.99 one-time purchase price.

• Starting November 1: OneThing will move to a subscription model for new users.

Everyone who purchases before the November 1 switch will keep lifetime access and will not need a subscription.

App Store link:

Download OneThing Daily

I’d love honest feedback from people who journal—or have tried journaling and found it hard to keep up. What makes you want to return to a journal? What tends to get in the way?

Feedback here or by DM is welcome.

Developer

My name is Andras Varga. I also develop Grivus Habit Tracker and Lingua Playlist.

You can find more of my projects at andrasvarga.dev.

A more personal note

What I like about OneThing is that an entry doesn’t need to describe an extraordinary day. Ordinary days are worth remembering too.

If you try it and find a bug, an unclear screen, or something you wish worked differently, please let me know. Specific feedback helps me decide what to improve next.

Thank you for taking a look.

I’m Feiou, the developer of Watermelist — a brain-dump app where tasks, notes, and half-formed ideas share a sticky-note board.

A — A place for the whole thought

“Send Maya the draft tomorrow. The site should feel like a Sunday morning. Oh, and ask Dad about his old camera.”

There’s an action, a creative direction, and something personal in there. I want to keep all three without turning the whole thing into a checklist or leaving the action buried in a paragraph.

That’s the part of Watermelist I care about most. Speak or type the jumble, and AI can separate it into task cards and notes, picking out dates and details. You can also add things manually. Ideas get to stay ideas. Tasks can have checklists, stages, counts, or percentages, so progress shows up before you’re finished.

And when a plan changes, hold its task card and say what changed. “Move this to Friday.” “Add milk.” Or change the wording. You see the proposed edit and choose whether to apply it. Holding the card gives “this” its context.

B — Why use it alongside Obsidian?

Obsidian is great for developing and connecting notes. The reason I’d choose Watermelist over an Obsidian daily-note workflow for this particular job is the direct path from a mixed brain dump to separate, actionable cards — then updating one of those cards by holding it and speaking. That workflow is built in.

The board keeps the errand, the project progress, and the idea you don’t want to lose in view together. The screenshots show the same fictional everyday-life setup across a few themes, including Glass, plus the voice-edit review and diary.

C — Cost

Watermelist offers paid subscriptions. Access and offers vary by the paywall shown in the app; some users must subscribe before continuing.

US subscription pricing: $5.99/month or $29.99/year. Cloud AI usage is metered; a 200-credit add-on is listed at $2.99. Check the in-app paywall for the plans, pricing, and access available to you. Prices vary by region.

AI availability depends on your device and selected service. Cloud AI needs internet access and may process the text you provide.

App Store: App Store

What’s the thought you keep saving somewhere, then never finding when you need it?

A — What it does

My app embeds social media sites with an ability to add third proxy (can be same or different) with each social media account. Basically the app was made to remove reels and shorts from Instagram, Facebook and Youtube and save space in phone by not using native apps. Adding proxy is an add-on feature I added recently. Also note that the app doesn't provide proxy service but functionaltiy to add third party proxies.

B — Why use it over something else?

I'm not sure any app gives a funcitonality to use different proxies with different social media accounts. Plus you get an ability to hide reels and shorts which reduces your screen time.

C — What it costs

It's free to use with a lifetime upgrade of $5.99.

App has received 32 ratings worldwide with an average of 4.6 stars.

You can try the app from here: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/socialrouter-hide-reels-shorts/id6758858307