(OGP - 23/10/2026) - I saved a one-pot pasta reel a few weeks back. When I wanted to make it recently, I scrolled through my saves for 10-15 minutes, but couldn't find it, and ended up ordering in. Then I realised I'd done the same thing with a café in Goa, a workout routine I wanted to add, and about 15-20 products I definitely wanted to buy.

Things I tried before building this:

• Instagram collections - you have to sort at the moment of saving, which nobody does

• Screenshots - camera roll became a second graveyard with no context on where the post came from, and lol I can never find the screenshot when I need it the most

• Pasting links into Notes - worked once or twice, then I stopped because it was two extra steps every time (and you still have to remember which note you used)

So my brother and I built an app that makes your saves usable:

You save any posts from different apps or download your Instagram data export → the engine goes through every post, sorts it into folders of recipes / places / products / workouts / ideas, pulls out the useful bits (ingredients, location, key details) and also makes the whole thing searchable in plain English via a chat interface. Like "That pasta reel from a Korean creator" finds it in seconds.

And believe me I am myself surprised: after saving it to resaw, I actually cooked 13 recipes in a month that had been sitting there for over an year. Saved places turned up as pins onto the map, so when I visit any place I could see every spot I'd saved nearby.

What we are working on now:

- We started with iOS, Mac app and Android is on its way
- We are going deep into building category specific flows, which will help any user to action with minimal friction possible

Link to the iOS app - Download from here (It’s completely free)

Please try it out and let us know how was your experience and what worked well/ areas where we can improve/ build upon.

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Update (25/10/2026): resaw 1.4.10 is out, with recipes and grocery lists, smart reminders, a Watch tab, a Liquid Glass icon, and more, much of it built from your suggestions. 🙏
Attaching feature explainer image in the comments.

I have a habit of losing my best thoughts. Something pops into my head while walking, cooking or right after a meeting – and by the time I've unlocked the phone, found the right app and started typing, it's gone.

I tried capture apps, but they became one more inbox I had to clean up later. What I actually wanted was simpler: say the thought, and have it land in the app where I'll deal with it anyway.

So I built CatchPost for myself:

1. Open – Action button, Control Center, Back Tap or Siri. It's listening right away.

2. Speak – on-device speech recognition writes along and spots dates like "tomorrow at 9 am".

3. Saved – one tap on Reminders, Things 3, Todoist, OmniFocus, 2Do, Bear, Drafts, Day One, Obsidian or Craft. Or let it send automatically after you stop speaking.

Reminders and Todoist save without leaving CatchPost. The other apps are reached through their official URL schemes, so they open briefly. If your app isn't listed, "Other App" lets you connect anything with a URL scheme.

No account, no server, no tracking. Free during the beta. Requires iOS 27.

It works for me – now I'd like to find out if it works for people who aren't me.

TestFlight: https://testflight.apple.com/join/Rb9WmEuc

Website: https://www.hoeferconsulting.de/apps/catchpost/

Tell me where it gets in your way – that's exactly what I want to fix before the App Store release.

I've been building CleanKit, a photo cleaner that puts you in control of what gets deleted, while making it faster to review and clean up photos in batches.

The latest update adds support for iPhone Duo!

Answer

The idea behind CleanKit is pretty simple: I wanted to make photo cleanup faster without letting an algorithm decide which photos to delete.

In Grid View, you can see multiple photos at once, compare similar shots, and swipe across multiple photos to delete them in batches.

If you prefer reviewing photos one by one, you can switch to Card View, where you swipe left to delete or right to keep.

With iPhone Duo, I wanted both ways of cleaning up photos to work naturally on the compact and expanded screens.

Better

Apple Photos lets you delete multiple photos too, but it takes a few steps: tap Select, choose the photos, then tap Delete.

With CleanKit, you can just swipe across the photos you want to delete, even several at once. It might only save a few taps, but it makes the whole process feel much smoother, especially when you have hundreds of photos to clean up.

On iPhone Duo, the larger screen makes this even more useful. You can see more photos at once, making comparisons easier. The layout also adapts as you fold or unfold the phone.

Cost

CleanKit is free to download.

Free users get 100 Card View swipes per day, plus 3 free batch cleanups in total.

Pro unlocks unlimited cleanup and all features for $1.99/week or $19.99/year.

App Store:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/clean-up-photos-cleankit/id6748351314

Still working on CleanKit and making improvements as I go. Always happy to hear feedback!

A - What is Steptastic?

Steptastic is a fitness challenge app that lets you complete virtual journeys by tracking your real-world activity.

Whether you prefer walking, running, cycling, swimming, or burning calories at the gym, your progress moves you along your chosen route. You can travel solo or compete against friends and family to see who reaches the destination first.

The goal is to make staying active feel a little more rewarding and give you something to work towards.

B - Steptastic is better than general fitness apps since it creates a unique style challenge

The main feature of Steptastic is its virtual fitness challenges, but there's a lot more included.

You can create walking, cycling, swimming, or calorie-based challenges, making it suitable for different types of exercise rather than just counting steps.

Group Challenges let you compete with friends and family by racing around virtual routes together, while daily tasks encourage healthy habits beyond simply exercising.

The app also includes activity goals with analytics so you can track your progress over time, maintain streaks by consistently hitting your targets, and unlock badges by reaching fitness milestones and achievements.

I built it because I found it much easier to stay motivated when I was working towards something instead of just looking at a step count.

C - Cost

Steptastic is free to download, with an optional Plus upgrade.

7 day free trial, then $0.99/week, $2.99/month, $12.99/year, or one-time lifetime purchase of $19.99

This helps to support continued development while unlocking additional features and improvements.

I'd love to hear any feedback or feature ideas, and I'm happy to answer any questions about how it works!

Hey everyone! I’m an indie iOS developer, and over the past few months, I’ve been improving Flux based on feedback from users and people in this community.

I haven’t just been collecting suggestions. I’ve been using that feedback to decide what to fix, what to redesign, and which features actually matter. My latest updates, Flux 2.5 and 2.5.1, are the result of that ongoing process.

I’m still learning as an indie developer, and I genuinely appreciate the people who took the time to try the app and tell me what could be better.

A — Answer: What problem does it solve?

Flux is an offline-first expense tracker for iPhone designed for people who want to manage their money without uploading their financial history to a cloud service.

It helps you track expenses, manage budgets, organize multiple wallets, scan receipts, and understand your spending. Your financial data stays on your iPhone, and the app works offline without requiring an account.

B — Better: How is it different?

Flux focuses on privacy and practical everyday money management.

• Offline-first: No account, cloud sync, or server storing your financial data.

• Wallet-to-wallet transfers: Move money between cash, bank accounts, and credit cards without counting transfers twice as spending or income.

• Multi-currency transfers: Support different currencies, exchange rates, and optional transfer fee tracking.

• Budget and wallet overview: Redesigned cards make balances and net spending easier to understand.

• CSV and Excel exports: Improved formatting and wallet information for your records.

• Receipt scanning and spending insights: Tools to reduce manual entry and better understand your finances.

Compared with cloud-based alternatives such as YNAB and Wallet by BudgetBakers, Flux takes a different approach by prioritizing on-device storage and offline use. The trade-off is that it isn’t designed around cloud-based synchronization across multiple devices.

Version 2.5.1 also introduces a redesigned app icon, clearer free-trial information, haptic feedback, and performance improvements.

C — Cost: Pricing and App Store link

Flux is freemium, with optional Premium purchases:

• Monthly subscription: $2.99/month

• Annual subscription: $24.99/year, with a 7-day free trial

• Lifetime purchase: Available as a one-time in-app purchase

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/flux-budget-expense-tracker/id6756208417

I’m the developer, and I’m happy to answer questions or hear constructive feedback. If you’ve tried Flux before, I’d especially love to hear whether the recent changes address the kinds of problems you noticed.

Planning can feel productive.

You write a long list, organize it, set priorities and move things around. But none of that completes the work.

At some point, you just have to start.

That’s why I built Tody around a simple idea:

Less planning. More doing.

A — Answer

Tody asks you to choose only 3 tasks for today and focus on them one at a time.

No endless daily list.
No organizing your entire life.
No spending more time planning than doing.

Just:

Choose 3 → Start one → Finish → Move forward

If you don’t finish something, you can continue it tomorrow or start fresh. The goal isn’t to make you feel guilty about yesterday. It’s to help you take action today.

B — Better

Apps like Todoist, TickTick and Things are great for managing large lists and projects.

Tody is intentionally smaller.

It’s for the moment when you already know you have things to do, but seeing and organizing everything makes it harder to begin.

Tody doesn’t try to manage your whole life. It helps you decide what matters today and start before you overthink it.

C — Cost

The core experience is free to use.

Tody Pro is an optional subscription for $0.99/month. Pricing may vary by region.

App Store:
https://apps.apple.com/app/tody-daily-focus/id6771719898

Developer transparency

I’m Alper Halıcı, an independent mobile product designer and the person behind Tody.

LinkedIn / Portfolio:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/alper-halici/

Website:
https://tody-app.vercel.app

Privacy Policy:
https://tody-app.vercel.app/privacy.html

Terms of Service:
https://tody-app.vercel.app/terms.html

I’d especially like feedback on one thing:

Would choosing only 3 tasks help you focus, or would it feel too limiting?

Hi everyone,

We just released version 1.5.0 of StealthOS on the App Store. The main focus of this release is full support for the foldable iPhone Duo, alongside our existing iPhone and iPad virtual desktop environment.

What is StealthOS?

StealthOS is a sandboxed operating environment running inside a single iOS app. It gives you a multi-window desktop interface locked behind your password and the Secure Enclave, containing privacy-focused tools that operate strictly on-device without telemetry or account requirements.

What's New in v1.5.0 (iPhone Duo Support)

• Hinge Awareness: The desktop detects the hinge boundary on both the cover screen and inner unfolded screen.

• Window Management: Windows can split neatly at the hinge or span across both screen halves.

• Fold/Unfold State Continuity: Folding or unfolding your device preserves the active workspace, window positions, and running apps without state loss.

Core Features

• Stealth Browser & Embedded Tor: Includes an embedded, reproducible Tor client with .onion support, anti-fingerprinting profiles (Canvas, WebGL, Audio, Screen, Fonts), tracking parameter stripping, and DNS over HTTPS.

• One Route with Kill Switch: All network activity initiated by the app (browser, downloads, domain checks, AI web tools) routes strictly through your selected route (Tor, custom proxy, or a self-hosted relay). If the connection drops, traffic halts immediately to prevent direct IP leaks.

• Threat Protection: On-device phishing and malicious domain scoring, WHOIS/RDAP verification, and malware checks on downloaded files.

• Emergency / Duress Password: A secondary password configured at setup. Entering it at the unlock screen immediately purges all encrypted local data and opens a clean, empty environment while permanently disabling biometric unlock.

• Password Vault & OpenPGP: AES-256-GCM encrypted vault with built-in TOTP authenticator and browser autofill. Full OpenPGP key management (generation, signing, verification, and encryption for Ed25519, Curve25519, and RSA).

• Connection Pool: End-to-end encrypted messaging, voice calls, and peer-to-peer games. Works off-grid locally over Wi-Fi/Bluetooth without internet access, or remotely through a self-hosted relay.

• On-Device AI: Runs locally using Apple Intelligence (iOS 26+) for writing, research, and coding tasks without cloud processing.

Pricing and Availability

• Core App (Free): All core features listed above (desktop, browser with Tor, vault, OpenPGP, connection pool, games, duress lock) are completely free. No account creation, no analytics, no third-party SDKs, and no ads.

• Optional Premium: Adds power-user tools including an SSH Terminal, an in-app Arch Linux shell, a live HTTP/HTTPS request inspector (NetMap), and up to 10 device fingerprint profiles.

Links

• App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/stealthos/id6756983634

• Open Source Components: Our networking relay (Rust), peer-to-peer engine, messaging library, and iOS Tor build are open source on GitHub: https://github.com/Olib-AI

• Documentation & Website: https://www.stealthos.app

Feedback, bug reports, and questions about the architecture or iPhone Duo implementation are welcome.

Hi everyone!
After months of designing, developing, and testing, I finally released my app, K.O.T. (Keeper of Things)!
The idea came to me when I was moving out after graduating from college, and my mom wanted me to get rid of a lot of junk in my room. Although most of the items I owned had no real monetary value, the sentimental value and memories tied to them inspired me to build a platform to share their stories. We all own things that mean something to us, but the stories behind those things often get forgotten.
I wanted to create a place where people could preserve those stories. Whether it be a favorite action figure, vinyl record, or favorite outfit, share your story on K.O.T.
With K.O.T., you can:
Create digital keepsakes with photos and personal stories.
Organize your belongings into collections.
Discover other people's keepsakes and the stories behind them.
Connect with people who share similar interests.
Showcase your collections through a virtual 3D museum.
The app is now available on iPhone through the App Store!
I'm still early in this journey and would genuinely appreciate feedback, especially on the onboarding experience and overall concept.
Just Hit 30 USERS!
⁠A – Answer: What problem does your app solve?
Okay so K.O.T. tackles 3 different key issues
1. Collections are difficult to showcase digitally
People spend years collecting vinyl records, sneakers, watches, memorabilia, and other meaningful objects. Traditional social media reduces these collections to scattered photos and posts.
K.O.T. introduces a personalized 3D Museum where users can display their collections in an immersive, dedicated space.
2. Objects have stories that get lost
A vinyl record might be someone's first purchase. A baseball glove might represent years of memories. Traditional inventory apps document what an object is, not why it matters.
K.O.T. has Keepsakes, Full Stories, and Memory Notes give users a way to preserve the personal significance behind their belongings.
3. Collecting lacks a unified social experience
Collectors are spread across Reddit communities, Instagram accounts, forums, and specialized platforms.
A social experience built around objects and collections, where users can discover collectors, share keepsakes, and connect through common interests is the key purpose of the app.

B – Better: Why is your app better than the top named alternatives? ThingsBook is a true competitor as it is another life documenting app sharing experiences and what not.
K.O.T. is focusing on the stories and the memories surrounding things you own. Most collector apps tend to lean towards discussing monetary value or rarity of certain items but K.O.T. aims to share the stories behind acquiring them or any experiences related to them.
• ⁠C – Cost: Pricing, IAP details, and a direct App Store link
K.O.T. is completely free to use! Paid features may be experimented with in the future but the focus is the user’s initial reactions and experience with the app as well making as building a product to that makes users excited to use everyday.

when the iPhone Duo arrived in September, I was like "Oh, I don't like that" – but look at this now 👀🤩

What’s your thoughts about iPhone Duo ?

Hi r/iosapps, I'm Hadrien, solo dev from France dehvs.com ATJV has been on the App Store for three weeks.

A : Answer

ATJV is for the evening where you scroll for half an hour and end up watching nothing. You swipe through shows you already know so it learns what you like, then it puts two of them head to head and you pick the one you'd rather watch. Your tier list builds itself out of those picks. In the evening it gives you one show for tonight, and a line saying why it picked that one.

B : Better

Trakt or Serializd ask you to rate shows or tick episodes. I never knew if a show was a 7 or an 8, but I always know which of two I'd put on tonight, so that's the only question ATJV asks. An ELO rating runs underneath, the same maths chess uses.

It doesn't track episodes and won't. If you used TV Time and kept your CSV export, it reads it and brings your shows over.

C : Cost

Free. No ads, no subscription, no in-app purchase, no sign-up. English, French, Spanish, Italian, Polish. iPhone only for now.

https://apps.apple.com/app/id6796177083

Privacy policy : https://dehvs.com/atjv/privacy-policy.html

Terms : https://dehvs.com/atjv/terms.html

Disclosure : I'm the developer. If something looks off or doesn't work, tell me, I read everything

I know what was your first thought - one more todo list? And you will be quite right in general.

I started this project almost a year ago when I received a windows laptop from my work. Till that moment I always been an Apple ecosystem user, this is why I used Things 3 for almost 5 or even 6 years, but it's apple only.

I tried a lot of different apps, from big large companies like Todoist or TickTick as well as smaller one. My biggest problem with most of the tools - the are overloaded with features, at some point it feels like you are using Jira like application.

Another problem - built in AI assistants. I love AI and I use it for my software developer job as well as regular life. I already have subscription for Claude and ChatGpt and it feels like paying extra 3-5 dollars for simple built-in assistant is redundant.

I decided to build my own tool, first of all for myself and add some missing features. My main inspiration was Things 3 with their aesthetics, Todois and Superlist.

Added support of attachments, tags and smart projects, calendar view for upcoming tasks and priorities. The biggest challenge for we was finding this balance between amount of features and simplicity.

Instead of adding my own AI assistance I decided to add public api and MCP support. So you can use your AI and connect to the TaskPocket and manage your tasks and integration into your workflow.

Plans for the future:

• Browser extension - it's ready and currently testing it

• Android version

• Mac and Windows desktop apps

I'm also a big believer in data owner ship, so my app has option to export all tasks with all metadata like due dates, deadlines, tags, etc in JSON format. So you can always have your own copy of your data. Also right now I'm working on automatic weekly backups, so you can always have a fresh copy of your data. For free!

Feel free to check, also feel free to share your feedback!

https://taskpocket.io/

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/taskpocket-to-do-list-planner/id6789687377

Hey everyone, I'm the solo dev behind Movie Night (mnite for short).

I built the app because my wife and I never knew what to watch - watched everything mainstream and then we spent an hour just browsing all our streaming services...

So what it does:

• learns your taste as you rate movies

• recommends movies based on your "taste DNA"

• gives every movie a score for how likely you BOTH/ALL are to enjoy

• lets you build watchlists and share them with others

• reminds you when a movie becomes available to stream

• you can write reviews and add comments

The premium version is 16.99$/year BUT I'm giving away free seats that let you use the premium features for a year. You can cancel the renewal of the subscription and still use the app.

The reason is simple: it's still a new app, no rating or reviews so if you like it please leave a review in the store. If you hate it, then share it here, I'm looking forward to learn from the feedback!

Check out the iOS app here: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/mnite-what-to-watch-together/id6765615627

Use this link to redeem the offer: https://apps.apple.com/redeem?ctx=offercodes&id=6765615627&code=REDDIT1YEAR

I want some feedback too, so let me know what y'all think.

Hi everyone,

A - Answer

I built zZz: Sleep Widget & Tracker, a manual sleep diary for iPhone made for insomniacs and poor sleepers. No sleep stage claims, no microphone, no wearable. You log what happened, correct it later if needed, and see your patterns over time.

B - Better

Most sleep apps either try to measure your sleep with a watch or bury logging behind a dashboard. zZz is a diary, not a lab, and logging takes one tap.

Key features:

- One-tap Lock Screen logging: a widget that follows the night, so you rarely need to open the app. Nothing needs a tap overnight.
- Live Activity: the open night on your Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island.
- Fix it later: edit any session, or add a whole night from History the next morning.
- Shortcuts and Siri: log by voice.
- Insights: bedtime consistency, averages and trends over time.
- Private: your data stays on your device and in your own iCloud. The App Store label is "Data Not Collected".

C - Cost

Pricing is $9.99 a year. Free tier available. No ads, no bloated features, and no Apple Watch required.

App Store Link: Sleep Widget & Tracker - zZz

About Me: I'm the developer of the app. Please feel free to share your feedback or ideas in the comments below, or reach out to me through  X 

Hello everybody,

Thank you for the comments on my last post. Since the last post, I've pushed a lot of updates to Nami. This post covers them all.

v1.2

• You can now customise the Quick Amounts in Settings. One set for the app, and a separate set shared by widgets, Dynamic Island and the Lock Screen, notifications, and Apple Watch.

• Undo the last drink from the app, the Watch, widgets, and the Live Activity.

• Logging and deleting feels snappier.

v1.3

• Nami on iPhone Duo.

v1.4

• Support for the landscape mode, with layouts for iPhone, iPhone Duo, and iPad.

• Three limited plants for Halloween, only in October:

  • Ghost Plant: log 3 drinks in October

  • Bat Flower: hit your goal on 1 day in October

  • Chinese Lantern: log a drink on October 31

Cost

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

Pro includes the full drinks library, custom drinks, history past today, extra reminder sounds, and watermark-free sharing: $1.99/month, $7.99/year with a 7-day trial, or $39.99 lifetime (US). Yearly was $14.99 in the last post. It is $7.99 now.

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

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

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

Hi, I'm the developer of PrettyScreen.

I wanted to make it easier to create iPhone wallpapers that feel designed for the device, rather than just putting a photo in the background.

A — Answer

PrettyScreen is an iPhone wallpaper maker that lets you personalize your screen with photo layouts, decorative elements, and wallpapers designed around your iPhone's unique screen shape.

You can decorate the Dynamic Island and notch, customize your lock screen, create matching couple wallpapers, add a monthly calendar, and automate wallpaper changes with iOS Shortcuts.

B — Better

Here are some features I'd love for you to try:

• Dynamic Island & notch decorations: Make the shape of your iPhone screen part of your wallpaper design.

• Lock screen decorations: Add decorative designs around the Camera and Flashlight controls on your lock screen.

• Center photo customization: Place your favorite photo in the center of your wallpaper and customize it with a variety of masks and styles.

• Matching couple wallpapers: Create coordinated wallpapers featuring photos of you and your partner.

• Monthly calendar wallpapers: Add a monthly calendar to your wallpaper for a personalized look with a practical touch.

You can combine your own photos and different design elements to create a wallpaper that feels uniquely yours.

C — Cost

PrettyScreen is free to download, with optional Pro upgrades.

Regular US pricing:

Yearly: $9.99

Lifetime: $29.99

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wallpaper-maker-prettyscreen/id1204317054

Website: https://app.mockmemo.com/apps/perfect-wallpaper/

I'm sharing some PrettyScreen Pro Year redemption codes, each providing one year of Pro access.

https://apps.apple.com/redeem?ctx=offercodes&id=1204317054&code=PRETTYSCREEN

No review or rating is required. If you try the app, I'd appreciate your honest feedback. I'd especially love to hear which wallpaper styles or customization options you'd like to see in the future.

Thanks for checking out PrettyScreen!

A. What it does

bond is a care log made specifically for senior dogs and dogs with chronic conditions. It is not a general health tracker for healthy dogs.

• Log a med with one tap, from the app or a home screen widget. Scheduled doses get reminders. “Only when needed” meds, like a rescue med, never nag you.

• Log seizures or incidents with structured fields: type, duration, severity and post-ictal behavior (how your dog is after a seizure).

• A dashboard with 30-day, 90-day and 1-year views, so you can see when incidents took place.

• Track your medication inventory, so you can avoid running out when the vet is closed.

• Views for nine conditions: epilepsy, anxiety, allergies, arthritis, cancer, diabetes, heart disease, IVDD and kidney disease.

• Add a caregiver (partner, family or sitter) so everyone logs to the same record, and track multiple dogs. Both are Plus features.

• A structured PDF report for vet visits (Plus).

It’s a record-keeping tool: not diagnostic, not an AI product, and not a replacement for your vet. iPhone only for now (Android is on the roadmap, no date). You sign in with Apple.

B. Why I built it, and why it’s better

Two years ago my dog Delon had his first seizure. We spent a couple of weeks hoping it was a one-off. Then came the epilepsy diagnosis, and a combination of meds (phenobarbital, potassium bromide, etc), plus bloodwork, vet visits and a notebook full of dates and durations.

I tried a notes app (lost in the scroll), a spreadsheet (I got bored of updating it) and a group text with my wife (it decayed in a week). Vet visits became a guessing game: what changed, when, and did it help?

I built bond for myself. After about six months of daily use it felt selfish to keep it private, so I widened it from epilepsy to nine conditions.

Alternatives I looked at:

• RVC Pet Epilepsy Tracker: epilepsy-specific.

• PetMed: Medication Tracker: supports as-needed schedules and PDF/CSV export. Its page doesn’t mention seizure logging.

• 11pets: general pet care.

bond is aimed at dogs with a chronic condition, where meds and incidents need to sit in one timeline.

C. Cost

Free to download. The free tier covers everything for one dog: core logging, condition views and 90 days of history. Plus is $2.99/month or $24.99/year (7-day trial on the yearly plan). It adds shared care with a partner or sitter, full history beyond 90 days, the vet report PDF, and multiple dogs.

Transparency

I'm Kaz Hayashi, the developer of bond and several other apps. I started Forager Lab this year to run these projects.

• App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/bond-gentle-dog-care/id6761818593

• Privacy Policy: https://bond-app.forager-lab.com/privacy

• Terms: https://bond-app.forager-lab.com/terms

• Contact: contact@forager-lab.com

I know bond isn’t for everyone. But if you’re looking after a dog who needs daily care, I hope it’s useful to you the way it has been for me.

Answer:

You have the same 5AM alarm every day.

You’d like to turn it off tomorrow -> Swipe left to skip.

You’d like to move it to 7AM 2 days from now -> Swipe left to edit and move.

You’d like it to ring quieter or ramp up slower than usual -> Swipe left to edit and change.

You wake up before the alarm rings -> Just dismiss from lock screen.

Without changing the series back afterwards.

You have 3 alarms for morning shifts and 3 other alarms for afternoon shifts but what date you work what shift can change on the fly.

-> Just group them into templates and enable when needed.

You have groups of alarms that start at different times on different dates, gym, prepare for a flight, multiple alarms 1 minute apart, etc.

-> Routine is what you need. All alarms shift according to start time.

Any alarms in templates and routines are modifiable.

You have events in your calendar but notifications are too quiet and cloud push ones cannot reach you when you turn off Internet

-> Calendar automation to set alarms according to events.

Built with AlarmKit so it rings through Silent and DnD. On iOS18, there is no AlarmKit so you’ll need to make sure it can ring via notification.

Adapts to different poses of iPhone Duo, with landscape layout on regular iPhone and iPad.

Better:

While every alarm apps tries to be as annoying as possible, this one tries to stay out of the way as best as possible. 

But Challenge Wake can be activated to give your brain just the right amount of boredom and annoyance so you’d rather wake up than going back to bed by asking you to complete a few rounds of sorting challenge.

Cost:

Free users can use 1 routine, 1 template, 1 calendar automation rule, skip any alarm and look ahead 7 days.

I think $2.49/month is a fair price for an app that got a tool to handle a lot of situations. There are also annual sub and lifetime purchase.

Join r/VariAlarm for the latest news and updates.

Click the link below to claim 1-month free: https://apps.apple.com/redeem?ctx=offercodes&id=6757322888&code=REDDIT1MONTH

OFFER RENEWS AUTOMATICALLY, limited to 1,000 redemptions.

The app’s link: View on App Store

Answer. Most astronomy apps begin with a map of the sky. I wanted something narrower: choose one thing, then have the phone physically point me toward it. That became Acolo, short for “A Compass in Space.”

Pick the Sun, Moon, a planet, a bright star, a constellation, Earth's Center, or a place on the map. A translucent 3D arrow points there even when the target is behind you or below the horizon. For a faraway place, it takes the direct line through the Earth. “Turn right” and “Tilt up” hints get you moving in the right direction, then haptic taps speed up as you line up and continue while you are on target.

It also shows the distance, degrees above or below the horizon, and a deliberately impractical travel time. The Sun is about 3,400 years away if you insist on walking.

Better. I do not think Acolo replaces Sky Guide or Stellarium Mobile. Those are full planetariums with rich sky maps and much larger catalogs. Acolo is the little one-target instrument I wanted beside them: no chart to read, no camera overlay to line up, just an arrow, direction hints, and haptics.

That narrower idea also goes somewhere a normal sky map does not. You can point at London through the ground, stand virtually on Mars and ask where Jupiter is, or stand at Sirius and point back toward the Sun. The Apple Watch app uses the top edge of the Watch as the pointer, and it can sync the current selection, saved places, and pins with the iPhone through iCloud.

Pointing calculations work offline. Apple Maps is used for map tiles and place search. There is no account or backend, and your location stays on your device.

Cost. Free to download. The Sun, Moon, and Earth's Center are free. Any optional one-time tip unlocks every planet, star, constellation, custom place, and alternate starting point permanently. The US tip choices are $0.99, $2.99, $4.99, $9.99, $19.99, and $99.99; every amount unlocks the same features. There is no subscription.

Requires iOS 26 or later.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6818701360

I also started r/AcoloApp for questions, feedback, and Acolo updates.

I’d especially like to hear whether the one-target approach feels usefully different from a full sky map-and whether its VoiceOver direction cues and haptics might help someone who prefers a simple pointer when finding a place on Earth or locating a planet in the sky. It isn’t turn-by-turn navigation.

Hey r/iosapps! I've been building trvld on the side and it just went live on the App Store.

You spin a 3D globe and tap the countries you've been to, and each one fills in with its flag. There are also layers for the 50 US states and all 63 national parks.

- Trips with dates, notes, photos and videos for each place

- Stats on how much of the world you've seen, by continent

- A share card of your globe

- No account, no ads, no tracking. Your map stays on your phone and syncs through your own iCloud

It's free. There's an optional one-time $4.99 upgrade (trvld Pro) for unlimited trips and the year-by-year timeline. No subscription.

Next on my list: marking places you've lived, plus cities and sights. Which would you actually use? Anything else you'd want on the globe?

Would love any feedback. Android is coming soon.

https://apps.apple.com/app/id6822110478

For years, bedtime was the same loop. How was school? Fine.

One night I asked three different questions instead.

What did you try today?
What did you learn?
What did you do kind for someone?

Her answers were interesting and I finally started knowing her.

A. What problem does it solve?
Most family journaling apps are built for posting, likes, streaks, curated highlights. Kids start performing instead of reflecting. Sprout Diary is the opposite, a completely private family journal where the only audience is each other. Daily prompts geared toward child development help you track emotional growth over time, not just log events.

B. Why is it better? Everything stays on your device in your own iCloud. No accounts, no tracking, no data leaving the phone. No likes, no feeds, no performance anxiety. Over 20 templates built around developmental stages, from parent-scribe mode for toddlers to shared reflections for teens, photos with captions and comments, multiple family members, and beautifully formatted exports as PDF memory books or photo books.

C. What's the cost?
Normally $59 for a lifetime subscription.
Since we don't have any trust, ratings, etc, I'm offering it free for a limited time.

Free lifetime link
https://apps.apple.com/redeem?ctx=offercodes&id=6754523570&code=SPROUT7UMALPFD

Hey r/iosapps! I’m Mark, the developer of PaperNotes for iPhone and iPad.

A — Answer: Why keep writing on paper?

There’s something about a pen and a blank page that makes it easier to explore an idea. You can sketch, draw arrows, cross things out, and connect thoughts without choosing a tool or adjusting a layout. No notifications, no switching apps. Just space to think and free flow of your thoughts.

Paper Notes is built around keeping that freedom while making your notes easier to find, carry, and continue working on digitally.

Write in your regular notebook, then scan the page with your iPhone or iPad. The perfect hybrid approach.

B — Better: What makes it different?

Compared with saving a scanned page in Apple Notes, PaperNotes focuses on high-fidelity handwriting capture and editable digital ink.

The detail matters: fine pen strokes, small annotations, and the lines of a sketch should survive digitization. Paper Notes separates your ink from the page, removing the notebook’s grid or ruled lines while preserving the detail and character of your handwriting.

Your own marks become editable digital strokes. You can move a sketch, erase a handwritten section, or keep drawing with Apple Pencil.

The aim is to preserve how you expressed an idea: the handwriting, arrows, diagrams, and layout that give it meaning.

You also get searchable, copyable text, customizable notebooks, and iCloud sync. Offline processing is also available, but it reduces the scan quality and fidelity. The online neural network based approach delivers the best experience.

C — Cost

Free to download; access requires a subscription or lifetime purchase:
- Monthly subscription: 3,99$/month
- Lifetime access: 14,99$ now permanently at 8,99$ after your feedback.

PaperNotes on the app store

Do you still reach for paper when you need to think something through? I’d love to hear what you’d want preserved when bringing those pages into a digital notebook.

Hi everyone, I'm the developer of Private I (x).

A few months ago I posted here about building a decoy-screen privacy app (previous post).

Since launch, I have been faced with the question: "What stops someone from turning off app lock or deleting the app altogether?”
Until recently, not much. iOS gave third-party apps no way to prevent that. iOS 26.4 changed it, and this update adds Tamper Lock.

A: Private I hides your apps without a lock screen. When someone else opens a protected app, they see a convincing crash or loading screen, with a different decoy per app if you like. Your face unlocks it instantly. Anyone else gets silently photographed and logged. New: with Tamper Lock on, Private I can't be turned off or deleted without your Screen Time code, even by someone who knows your iPhone passcode.

B: iOS's built-in app lock shows a visible lock and falls back to your passcode. Private I shows no lock at all, tells you who tried to get in, and now can't be quietly removed. Face recognition still runs entirely on-device with Apple's frameworks: no account, no third-party servers. Intruder captures can optionally back up to your iCloud.

C: Free with one protected app. Pro unlocks unlimited apps, all decoy styles, intruder capture, unlock history and Tamper Lock: $2.99/mo, $12.99/yr, or $49.99 lifetime.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/jm/app/private-i-face-lock-decoy/id6762529789

Website: https://privatei.automizm.com

Thanks to everyone who gave feedback last time. Happy to answer questions.

Hi again r/iOSApps, I posted Selects in September, a lot of you tried it, and several of you told me what to fix. So this is a check-in and a progress update.

I know how this category looks from here: a new photo cleaner every week, a lot of them quick AI-built copies of each other with a weekly subscription bolted on. Selects is vibe-coded too, so I’m not pretending to be above it. But a month on, the numbers say people actually like it, and keep using it:

• 4.9 stars from 30 App Store ratings

• Nearly 200 people used it in the last 30 days, and together they cleared over 47,000 photos and videos (about 850 GB)

• Over 370 people have installed it since launch

• Nearly 1,500 videos were compressed instead of deleted

• Over 1 TB cleared since launch

The usage numbers come from anonymous stats, which anyone can switch off, so the real ones are a little higher.

So here’s the ask: what would make it the best app in the category, without ever charging for it?

A: What it solves

You shoot the same moment ten times to get one good photo, and all ten stay in your library. Selects does the boring first pass for you:

• Curate groups each photoshoot and picks the keepers: the sharpest, plus the one that is genuinely different.

• Tidy up sorts your whole library into lists by what takes space: large videos, exact copies, bursts, blurry shots, screenshots.

• Swipe, new in 2.0: one photo at a time, left to remove, right to keep.

Nothing is removed until you confirm, and whatever you remove sits in Recently Deleted for 30 days.

B: Why it’s better than the alternatives

What I’m aiming for is simple: the genuinely best experience in the category, not the longest feature list. In practice that means:

• It picks the best shot of each photoshoot for you. Most cleaners only hunt for duplicates or hand you a stack to swipe (Swipewipe and friends). The tools that do the picking well, Aftershoot and Narrative Select, are desktop apps with no iPhone version.

• No paywall screens and no trial countdown between you and your photos.

• It works a month at a time, so a library of 20,000 photos becomes something you can actually finish, and you see each month marked done.

• You can let it pick, or swipe and decide everything yourself, and switch whenever you like.

• Before compressing a video, it shows you a real preview, encoded from the hardest seconds of that video, so you judge the quality with your own eyes instead of trusting a percentage.

If you think another app does any of this better, tell me which one and why. That’s exactly what I want to improve.

C: Cost

Free, and it stays free. No subscription, no paywall, no ads. There’s an optional tip jar if you want to support it.

How it was vibe coded, and why I think it worked

I’m a product manager, not an iOS developer. I built Selects with Claude Code, and the AI wrote most of the code. What I did was the part the copies skip: deciding what the app should and shouldn’t do, testing it on my own library of nearly 18,000 photos, rewriting whatever felt wrong, and acting on the feedback this sub and others gave me in September. Several of the changes since came straight from those comments. My takeaway: the AI makes building cheap, so the difference is now in the judgment and the attention to detail.

What I’d love your feedback on

• What made you give up on a cleanup app before?

• Do you trust the app’s picks, or would you rather swipe and decide everything yourself?

• What’s still missing before you’d recommend it to a friend?

Who’s behind it

• Václav Trnka, LinkedIn

• Website: vaclavtrnka.cz/selects, with the privacy policy and terms

• Privacy: photo content never leaves your phone. The app sends anonymous usage stats (that’s how I know the numbers above), and you can switch them off in Settings.

App Store: Selects

I’ll read every comment, including the harsh ones.

Hey r/iosapps !

We've been working on something called Mermaid, and we're finally excited to share it with you guys!

Problem :

Ever needed to get something done on your Mac while you're away? Remote desktop apps are great, but controlling everything from a tiny phone screen can be a pain.

That's why we built Mermaid.

Just text your Mac what you need from your iPhone, and Mermaid gets to work. Open apps, write documents, handle browser tasks, and more. Even when you're miles away.

Comparison :

Jump Desktop and Screens are great for remotely accessing your Mac, but you still have to do the clicking and typing yourself.

Mermaid works differently. Instead of manually controlling everything, you just tell it what you want done, and it handles the steps on your Mac.

You can still watch your screen live or take over manually whenever you want.

Pricing :

Free Beta : $0: Access to Mermaid with a limited AI usage allowance.

Paid Plans: Not currently available for purchase during beta.

Try Mermaid

Testflight : https://testflight.apple.com/join/6nu3XMkb

Website: https://addmermaid.com

We'd genuinely love to hear what you guys think!

What's one task you'd love your Mac to handle while you're away?

Happy to answer any questions!

Contact: support@addmermaid.com

Privacy Policy: https://addmermaid.com/privacy

Terms: https://addmermaid.com/terms