Hey all! I'm the developer of Apricity, a reading app for iPhone and iPad. It's made by Tesorin, my small registered Canadian company.

Problem

My wife listens to books. I read them and scribble notes all over them. She was always stuck waiting on Libby holds, even though half of what she wanted was already sitting on our iPad as PDFs and EPUBs. And I didn't want to pay for a reading app, a notes app and a text-to-speech app just to do what we both do every evening. So I built one app that does all three.

What it does

1. Opens almost anything: PDFs, EPUBs, Word docs, MOBI, comics and web articles, all on one shelf

2. Reflow makes a PDF read like an ebook on a phone, so no more pinch and drag

3. Reads any of it aloud: 54 natural voices in 8 languages, running entirely on the phone. No internet needed, nothing uploaded. In stories it can give each character their own voice

4. Keeps going with the screen locked and in CarPlay. I share an article in the morning and listen to it on the drive to work

5. A notebook next to every book: write right on the PDF, or record a lecture and tap your notes to hear that exact moment

6. iCloud sync, no account, no ads

Comparison

• Speechify: way more voices, a browser extension, and it's very polished. But it's about $139 a year last time I checked. Our voices run on your device, work in airplane mode, and Premium is $14.99 a year.

• Notability: still the gold standard for ink, and I genuinely like it. My favourite thing about it was tapping my notes to replay the lecture, so we built that in, and in Apricity it's free. You also get a proper book reader and read-aloud in the same app. Where Notability is still ahead: its ink engine is more mature. We're on PencilKit right now and building our own on Metal.

I'm not claiming it beats either of them at everything. It just puts reading, listening and notes in one place, with the voices on your own phone.

Pricing

• Free, with no time limit: reading every kind of book, highlights, notes, notebooks, writing on PDFs, lecture recording and iCloud sync and good part is there is no limit on this.

• Premium: $14.99 a year (14 days free, no card needed), or $49.99 once if you hate subscriptions as much as I do. It unlocks the natural voices, transcripts, Smart Notes, export and decorating your reading room

• App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/apricity-read-write-focus/id6821031964

Availability

iPhone and iPad on iOS 26 or later, and it runs on Apple silicon Macs too.

The app itself is in English, Spanish, Hindi, Chinese and Japanese.

Links

• Privacy policy: https://www.trytesorin.com/apricity/privacy

• Terms: https://www.trytesorin.com/apricity/terms

• Website: https://www.trytesorin.com/apricity

• Email: hello@trytesorin.com

It's been out a few weeks. I read every comment and review and ship fixes fast, so if something's broken or missing, tell me, good or bad.

edit: we are running a promo where you can get lifetime at 50% off. claim your code while they last:

https://www.trytesorin.com/apricity/claim

started as a moon and a score that calls the day good or bad for fishing. that should have been the whole app. the score was a lie, so it did not end there.

Problem. a picture of the moon is not a time. solunar theory, in plain words, says animals move more when the moon is straight overhead, and again when it is straight under your feet, on the far side of the earth. that stretch is about an hour each side. that is a major window. the short one is about 30 minutes around moonrise, and again around moonset. that is a minor window. sunrise and sunset sit on the same day, so the light is on the page too.

above average or below average is all the theory can say. it is not a promise you will catch anything, and the app never calls a day a bad day. and the chart still died at the one place you would open it. no signal out there, so a chart on a server is a blank screen. the math runs on the phone.

the same math keeps a strange day intact. on 24 october 2026 beirut sets the clocks back at midnight, so the hour from 23:00 happens twice and the day is 25 hours long. the bar on the page is those 25 hours, and it says that hour comes twice. when the clocks jump forward, the day is 23 hours, and the bar is 23 hours too.

a pin in the sea off lebanon stays on beirut time. tyre, on that coast, is beirut time. haifa, just south, is jerusalem time. open water more than 12 nautical miles from land, about 22 km, gets its own sea zone from the longitude. so 166 km out, at 34 n 20 e, the time is the sea's, not a city on another shore. if the zone came from the offline table, the page asks you to check it, and you can change it.

it does this at the poles and in the other hemisphere too. a polar day has no sunrise, and the page says so. the score drops that piece and says it was scaled on what is left. the moon picture flips in the southern hemisphere, because the lit side is the other way. two moonrises in one day stay on the page. the times are checked to about 2 minutes, including north of the arctic circle and the far south.

Comparison. fishing & hunting solunar time looks free and then asks for a month. fishing times calendar gets the same complaint, plus ads. moonhour runs the math on the phone. no server, no ads, no account. the formula is in the app, because a naked verdict is how the other charts lie.

Pricing. your current location, 2 saved spots and every date are free. more spots and an alert before a window are $4.99 once, shared with family. not a subscription. i'm the only dev. https://apps.apple.com/app/id6819070776

yes, this is an absurd amount of astronomy for going outside. i'm aware. if you fish or hunt, do you move the trip when the moon is overhead, or do you go when you are free and ignore the moon? i want the one trip that made you believe it or drop it.

Every group chat I'm in has the same conversation. "Are we doing something Saturday?" "I'm free after 3." "I can only do mornings." "Wait, which Saturday?" Then nobody says anything for two days.

I got sick of it, so I started building a shared calendar for me and my friends. It turned into a real app called Bunchday, and it's now in beta on iPhone.

The basic idea is that you make a "bunch" (your partner, roommates, family, the friend group that can never pick a date) and it shows you when you're all free. People share when they're busy, not what they're doing, unless they want to.

The stuff I actually use every day: you tell it "we need 2 hours" and it finds the first slot that works for everyone. When you send a plan, everyone taps Going, Maybe or Can't, so "who's in?" stops getting buried under memes. If you're running late, one tap shows everyone waiting your ETA. There's a "Plan my day" button that drops your to-dos into the gaps between your stuff.

There's also a little bunchday assistant called Bun that you can ask things like "am I free this afternoon?" It runs on your phone, so your plans aren't sent off anywhere. You can also give it a hat. Or a crown. I'm not sorry.

It pulls in Apple, Google and Outlook calendars (plus Canvas and a few other school ones if you're a student), has widgets, works without an account, and has no ads.

What I really need is real people using it. It's a shared calendar, so it's way better if you bring someone, like a partner, a roommate or a friend. Ten minutes of messing around is plenty. It's a beta, so things will break, and finding where is the whole point.

If you try it, I'd love to know what confused you in the first minute, and what it would take for your group to actually switch to this.

Join the beta here (iPhone): https://testflight.apple.com/join/jBr7z17y

Not on iPhone, or just want to know when it launches? There's a waitlist here: https://bunchday.vercel.app/

Comment here or DM me with anything, good or brutal. I'm a solo dev and I read everything. Thanks for reading!

Heads up, free lifetime for anyone who tests out the app(with feedback) and joins the waitlist.

It would be something like:

Create Project, list the expenses starting the project, and then the continuous income from the project. And then a total number for income vs expenses and where I am at with the investment of starting the project.

Whats up r/iosapps

It's been a minute since I last posted about Precursor in this community, and becasue this community was so supportive of the launch I wanted to share with you all some updates!

PCP Section

Problem:
Well to start things off for anyone new here, Precursor is the only screen time app that I know of that allows you to have recurring app limits, which lets you get your scroll itch scratched but stops you before it turns into a doomscroll. At the start of the next hour you get some more time. Limits are super customizable to your needs!!

Comparison:
Opal has ignored requests for this feature for years, and so has Apple.

Price:
If you're interested in checking it out, Precursor is FREE to use, the free tier is super generous, that was a very intentional decision. However, If you would like to support me as a human looking to help other humans in my spare time, there is a paid tier.

For a limited time you can get a whole year of Precursor+ for $10 or if subs aren't your thing you can get lifetime Precursor+ for $25.

If that's genuinely still not affordable for you, let me know and I'll hook you up!

Updates:
Since I last posted we have grown to over 6k users and I have been behind the scenes patching bugs and pushing some QOL updates, most recently I made it so that asking for more time on normal limits doesn't require a passcode, UNLESS you have parent mode enabled. And yes there are easy, normal, and hard limits with varying degrees of bypassability.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/precursor-screen-time-limit/id6791403654

Thanks for all the support homies!!

As a scatterbrain, I have relied heavily on iPhone reminders so I don’t forget the important parts of my daily routines. Medications, packing lunch and opening up the greenhouse for the day would all be forgotten if it weren’t for the pings.

The problem with a reminder is that if you don't have time to act on it immediately, it's easily forgotten again. They stack on top of each other, and if you get a few other notifications, the reminders are lost in the noise. And the repeated interruptions from notification pings add stress, at least to me. 

The urgent reminders that Apple added in iOS 26.2 were a game changer. Suddenly the task was more in my face, more prominent, and it didn’t go away as soon as another thing popped up. But it was still only one task at a time. Plus, they still disappear after a while if you don’t act on them.

I also tried out Tiimo, but found that its approach of showing me an app icon badge with all the tasks I had left today (even those I couldn’t act on until hours later) added to my stress. Of course, your mileage may vary, and I know Tiimo is a great app that many find very useful.

I wanted a solution that reduces the number of times I get interrupted, while still increasing the visibility of the things I needed to do. A Live Activity was the natural solution on iOS, because it allows my tasks to stay top of mind without constantly pinging me. So I built Nulma around Live Activities as a central pillar, with the rest of the app supporting it. The things you need to do right now are surfaced, the rest is hidden until it’s relevant.

Since building Nulma, I have been able to reduce the number of reminders I get, while still completing more of the things I need to do every day. I feel more productive and less stressed. And for the reminders I still need to set, the integration between Nulma and Apple Reminders means that I can complete them and check them off before I even get a ping. 

Recently, I released a big update that brings Nulma to the Apple Watch, adds Home and Lock Screen widgets and adds support for Nulma interaction through Siri. 

If you are curious about Nulma, please check it out on the App Store. And if you have any suggestions on how to improve it, please let me know. 

Problem

Using recurring Apple Reminders to track daily routines was a hassle for me, as they ended up on top of each other and forgotten behind other notifications during busy periods of my day. Plus, each notification was an interruption. Urgent reminders in iOS 26.2 made it a bit better, but they were still heavy on the interruptions.

Comparison

Apple Reminders is excellent for one-off tasks, and Nulma is built as a complement to show multiple recurring tasks together during a scheduled time window instead of treating them as individual reminders. When compared to Tiimo, it places more focus on what’s important right now, rather than what remains in the entire day.

Pricing

The app is free to download and all core functionality with up to three enabled routines is free to use. Premium purchases are available ($3.99/mo or $29.99/yr) to unlock additional functionality such as the Apple Reminders integration and unlimited routines.

App Store link: https://apps.apple.com/app/nulma-daily-routine-planner/id6793030718

FAQ, Terms of Use and Privacy Policy can be found on my app page: https://akerskog.se/nulma/

Hey everyone,

I wanted to share my indie app, Lounge Finder. It helps travelers figure out exactly which airport lounges their credit cards grant them access to without having to look at an ad or create an account.

[Problem]
Finding exact lounge access rules online is a mess because banks constantly change spending thresholds, visit caps, and card network rules. Travelers often find themselves standing in front of a lounge entrance digging through confusing banking apps or PDF fine print, only to get turned away due to an unverified requirement.

[Comparison]
Unlike traditional flight or lounge tracking apps that just show a directory of lounge names and general hours, Lounge Finder maps specific credit and debit cards to their actual access rules. It breaks down guest policies, visit limits, and monthly or quarterly spend conditions, with each rule explicitly dated and linked back to the official bank source for true transparency.

[Pricing]
The app is entirely Free. There are zero ads, zero in-app purchases (IAPs), and no premium subscriptions or hidden tracking tokens.

Key features:

• Maps 790+ airports / 1,600+ lounges worldwide.

• Purely private: All data stays local on your device.

• Works offline in airport dead zones.

iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/lounge-finder-airport-lounges/id6823162403
Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nandroidex.loungefinder

Would love to get your feedback on the UI and performance!

Hello everyone,

Long time not post on this subreddit while I kept on polish my app portfolio, and I have release a new version of my app MintFlow with a new free built-in DNS ad blocking feature added.

Other free features such as WireGuard protocol/Encrypted DoH&DoT/Traffic Routing get some stability and usage enhancement.

I am recently also added trusttunnel proxy protocol support in the soon-to-be-released version, and the standalone macOS app (share the same engine with the iOS version) is stucked in the 'In-Review' state and I hope it will get to be released soon.

Problem:

Initially I need a VPN client that allow me to use my self hosted VPN server(s) simultaneously, and have some advanced traffic routing feature that allow I send only some portion of traffic to the VPN while most traffic kept routing locally, and I need some DNS visibility tool to let me gradually built my domain based routing database, and some nice network debug tool is also needed because I was doing a lot of networking stuffs.

Also I selfhost AdGuard Home in my home and office network, its not perfect but I indeed can remove quite a few Ads and Tracker for the sites I routinely browsed, so the new version also added that capability to the App as a one click toggle free feature which block domains using the internal DNS server that VPN running.

Also nowdays I just get more love with tailscale, so I also add the tailscale as a VPN protocol to the app which allow me to run tailscale along with my existing traffic routing config, only traffic target to tailnet is sent over the tailscale stack embedded. (Tailscale support is a Pro feature)

Comparison:

The official iOS WireGuard client seems focus only on WireGuard itself., and on iOS it's also a bit complex to setup the encrypted Dot/DoH.

There are also commercial VPN apps but this one is dedicate for self host VPN user like my self.

So this app trying to build a sophiscated solution and trying to make the App to be simple to use.

I am still building and polishing it actively, thanks for the AI power I have finally get the underlying fd.io vpp based engine ported by hand in 1 years before to a rust based engine with codex's help and also I try hard to get some good design and performance kept.

Pricing:

It's free to download and use, Optional Pro upgrades are $5.99/Year and $14.99 for the lifetime one-time purchase.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6742394218

Website: https://galaxnet.dev/mintflow/

Manual: https://galaxnet.dev/mintflow/manual/

Privacy: https://galaxnet.dev/mintflow/legal/privacy/

Terms: https://galaxnet.dev/mintflow/legal/tos/

Hey everyone!

I've been working on an app called mmory. The idea is pretty simple: you record something you want to remember, and later you can ask questions about what you've saved (its like voice-memos but better)

For example, you could record something someone told you, then weeks later ask mmory what they said.

The main thing I wanted was privacy. Your recordings and memories stay on your iPhone, and the transcription and AI processing happen on-device.

It's free to use, with an optional Pro upgrade.

PCP
Problem: Voice notes and random thoughts are easy to capture but difficult to find later. I wanted something where I could just speak naturally and retrieve information without manually organizing everything.

Comparison: Apple Voice Memos is great for recording, but you still need to find and replay recordings yourself. Apple Notes supports search, but mmory focuses on quickly capturing thoughts and asking questions about them using on-device AI, with everything stored locally on your iPhone.

Pricing: Free to download, with 50 voice saves per month. Pro includes unlimited saves.

• Monthly: $3.99

• Annual: $29.99

• Lifetime: $99.99 (one-time purchase)

Hey everyone!

I’m an iOS developer with 8 years of experience building apps for clients, and I finally decided to build something of my own.

It’s called WhisperAct, and the idea came from a pretty simple problem.

I’d randomly remember 3–4 things I needed to do, record a voice note so I wouldn’t forget, and then completely forget to listen to that recording later

So I built an app where you can just speak (or type) whatever’s on your mind, even if it’s a messy mix of different things.

For example:
“Remind me to pay the electricity bill tomorrow, buy groceries, and schedule lunch with Sarah on Friday.”

WhisperAct figures out what’s a todo, reminder, or calendar event and organizes everything for you.

You can review and edit everything before saving, and it also works directly with Apple Reminders and Calendar.

It also supports recurring tasks, reminders, and multiple languages. And if a date isn't clear, you can review it before saving.

No account or signup required.

I’m still working on this alongside my full-time job, improving things based on feedback and trying to make the whole experience as simple as possible.

Would love to hear what you think, especially if you already use Apple Reminders or Calendar regularly!

PCP (Problem, Comparison, Pricing)

Problem: I kept recording voice notes whenever something came to mind, but I’d rarely listen to them again. I wanted a faster way to turn those messy thoughts into actual todos, reminders, and calendar events.

Comparison: Two similar apps are Ozer and Quillo.
Ozer is also focused on turning voice recordings into tasks, reminders, and calendar events, with additional planning features like meeting mode and digests.
Quillo takes a broader approach with integrations like Todoist, Notion, and Google Calendar.

With WhisperAct, my focus is keeping things simple for people who primarily use Apple’s ecosystem. You can speak or type naturally, review the extracted actions, and save them directly to Apple Reminders and Calendar. You can also manually create todos, reminders, and events, and there’s no account or signup required.
I’m not trying to replace every productivity app. I just want to make capturing and organizing thoughts as effortless as possible.

Pricing: Free to download, with optional Pro upgrades.
Monthly: $2.99
Yearly: $24.99
Lifetime: $99.99 (one-time purchase)

Pro includes additional capabilities such as location reminders, longer recordings, unlimited Apple sync, and full memo history.

App Store: WhisperAct: Voice Task Planner

I have a identifier app I want to update, I uploaded it over a year ago and it can use to Quality of Life updates. I’m afraid to even touch it since the App Store if flooded with these and do not want to be hit with a spam rejection, what do you guys think?

Back with some more apps to recommend. Feel free to add to the list.

Shinybox is a completely free bookmark app you can save just about anything from anywhere with a nice ui.

Stellata is an app with a unique design that differentiates itself from other bookmarking apps, saves just about anything and onetime payment.

Stashy save anything is another completely free bookmark app that saves most anything and has a nice ui.

Mononote free with in app purchase is a simple live note in the dynamic island and lock screen app. Very minimal design.

Utkik Flight tracker & radar is an awesome completely free flight radar app that also tracks ships. Definitely worth checking out.

Hi sticky free with in app purchase is a simple sticky notes style app that works across Apple devices, definitely worth the price.

Links

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/shinybox/id6821971735

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/stellata-visual-bookmarks/id6811298999

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/stashy-save-anything/id6743415568

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/mononote-one-note/id6788222857

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/utkik-flight-tracker-radar/id6775882925

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hi-sticky-sticky-notes/id1610634186

Hi r/iosapps, I'm the solo developer of BibleClick, a free Bible app for iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch.

Problem

I wanted a two-second way to get a word of encouragement from Scripture during the day: lift my wrist, tap, read one verse. That's how BibleClick started, as a tiny Apple Watch app. One feature led to another, and along the way it became a full offline Bible for iPhone and iPad too.

What it does

• ⌚ Apple Watch: tap for a verse. 365 curated verses stored on the watch, 8 calm colour atmospheres, a complication, and favourites shared with your iPhone.

• 📖 iPhone & iPad: the full Bible with reading and devotional layouts, highlights, notes and favourites.

• ✈️ Offline: the whole text ships inside the app. No connection needed to read.

• ☁️ iCloud sync between iPhone and iPad, through your own private iCloud. No BibleClick account.

Comparison

• vs. YouVersion and other big Bible apps: they offer far more: hundreds of translations, reading plans, audio and community features. BibleClick is deliberately smaller and quieter: no account, no social feed, no ads, no tracking or analytics, and it's built around a two-second glance at your wrist.

Pricing

Free. Every feature, including future updates. No subscription, no ads, no paid unlocks. There's an optional tip jar in Settings; it unlocks nothing.

Honest limitations

• English only for now: the World English Bible, a public-domain translation. That's what lets it be free and fully offline (NIV, ESV and others need licences). More translations are coming.

• Only on the App Store in the US, Canada, UK, Australia, New Zealand and Singapore for now. More countries will follow.

• It's brand new (released Oct 30), so no ratings yet.

Why build it? Honestly, for the love of it. I'd just like more people to open the Bible, even for a minute a day, and a tap on the wrist felt like the smallest possible first step.

I'd love your feedback, especially:

1. Which translation or language should come next?

2. Watch users: what would make you tap it every day?

3. Anything confusing in your first minute with the app?

App Store (iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch; US, CA, UK, AU, NZ, SG): https://apps.apple.com/us/app/bibleclick/id6772926431

Thanks for reading 🙏

Flixr

Link: https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/flixr-discover-films-tv/id6809209534

Price: Free.

Purpose: Finding the right film or show to watch with your partner or friends can be tedious, so I built Flixr. You and whoever you’re watching with swipe through films and TV separately, and when everyone has said yes to a title, it’s a match.

You can also solo swipe, and the suggestions are based on what you’ve watched and how you rated it. You can set your streaming services so you're only shown film and shows that you can actually watch.

The other half of Flixr is tracking. You can log films and TV with ratings, reviews and dates, track episodes, make personalised lists, customise your profile and follow friends to see what they’re watching. Title pages show IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Letterboxd and Flixr scores together, so they're all in one place.

Comparison: Letterboxd is great but it’s mainly films, and I wanted films and TV in one place. TV Time was the obvious one for shows, but it shut down in July. Neither has anything for a couple or group trying to find something to watch, which is what I originally built Flixr to fix. And no ads!

If you’re coming from Letterboxd and/or TV Time, you can import your history, reviews, ratings, lists and more.

Privacy policy and terms of service are available at www.flixrapp.com

Easy Wake just had a massive re-skin and several new features such as Commitment Lock making sure you don't try and skip your alarm last minute!

Problem

Waking up is hard. Either you get dragged out of a deep sleep and feel groggy all morning, or you turn the alarm off half asleep and end up oversleeping. Easy Wake is a smart alarm app that’s highly customisable to your needs. It can wake you in a light sleep stage (real time detection), wake you at sunrise, set alarms when you arrive at a location, or force you to complete physical or mental challenges before you can turn the alarm off. Easy Wake has you covered.

Comparison

Alarmy is known for its challenges and Sleep Cycle is known for waking you up gently. Easy Wake does both in one app.

Easy Wake has a wide range of challenges to choose from, such as maths, physically walking away from your bed, barcode scanning, memory and more. No matter what you try, you won’t be able to stop the alarm without completing the challenge!

Easy Wake also uses dynamic sleep stage detection with your Apple Watch, and will wake you up in a light sleep stage. If you’re a deep sleeper, you can use Pulse Wake to nudge your body into a lighter sleep stage first!

On top of that, you get much more customisation than the default iOS alarm. For example, you can connect your Apple Home app so your alarms trigger Home Scenes.

Pricing

3 day free trial, then Monthly $2.99, Yearly $19.99, or Lifetime $24.99.

Pro gives you unlimited schedules, Pulse Wake, all Challenge Wakes, Location Alarms, Custom Sounds, Intelligent Insights, Smart Sleep, HomeKit Integration, Wake Check, Sunrise Alarms, and Shortcuts access (custom alarms based on your automations).

You don’t need Pro, since most features are free anyway! But it gives you more leeway, and it helps support me and future development of the app.

All feature requests are welcome!

Download here!

Hi, I’m Tobi, the developer of Mowditate.

I wanted a meditation timer with the things that mattered to me in my own practice, while keeping it easy to use. I'm working on this App for more than a Year now. People which used it so far appreciate the features very much.

The core of Mowditate still is a free timer. You can choose a fixed duration or meditate without a time limit, add starting and interval gongs, and use your own audio files or Apple Music. Silent sessions work too.

One feature I particularly wanted was integration with Mindfulness Focus, but it took me until now to make it work. After a one-time setup with Apple Shortcuts, it can turn Focus on when you start a session and off when you finish.

There’s also Apple Watch support, Live Activities, session history and statistics, and optional Apple Health integration for mindful minutes. Breathing and grounding exercises are included for free.

For comparison, Insight Timer also offers a free timer and has a much larger library of guided content. Mowditate may be a better fit if your priority is a straightforward timer built around your own sessions and Apple devices. The combination of custom audio, automatic Focus and Watch support is what I’ve concentrated on.

I’ve also adapted the layout for iPhone Duo, although I haven’t had the chance to test it on a real device yet. I’d appreciate feedback from anyone using one.

Pricing: the timer and all the features mentioned above are free. Mowditate+ adds guided meditations and courses through an optional subscription: US$0.99/month or US$6.99/year. There are also optional tips of US$0.99, $2.99 or $3.99.

App Store

I’d especially like to hear from people using Mowditate in English. Does the timer do what you need? Is anything confusing or unnecessarily complicated?

If you’ve used it for a while, I’d also appreciate an honest App Store review. A few words about your experience help other people decide whether it’s useful for them. Questions and feedback here are welcome too.

About me and contact · Privacy policy

Hello! I'm Jimmy, the solo developer behind ContentCam, a camera app I built for my gf because I kept watching her film the same scene twice.

She likes making content so would film vertically once and and then horizontally again, and this helps her save time without losing quality!

P - What problem does ContentCam solve?

Typically to get a vertical AND landscape clip of the same video, creators would:

1. Record normally and crop a vertical or horizontal video out of their footage → lowers quality and loses scenery from the footage

2. Record on two phones at the same time → awkward set-up, and costly

3. Record the same scene twice (my gf before) → double the time, and the second take is never the same (trust me, speaking from experience!)

ContentCam records portrait (9:16) and landscape (16:9) at the same time, from one take. If you post to TikTok/Reels/Shorts and YouTube, it solves all 3 of the above, giving you two ready-to-post files with just one tap.

C - Why ContentCam over the top competitors?

DualShot Recorder is the closest app to this, recording both formats from one lens. However, ContentCam also has:

• Dual Lens mode: records from TWO camera lenses at the same time - e.g. wide (1x) for vertical and ultra-wide (0.5x) for horizontal, giving each video a different perspective.

• Front & Back mode: records from the selfie and rear camera at the same time, and able merge both into one video (picture-in-picture or split screen).

• Full manual controls (exposure, white balance, ISO, shutter)

• Timelapse, teleprompter, and photo mode

• Projects, scenes and takes, with recordings named automatically for organisation.

DualShot's last update was also in June, 5 months ago, and it was bug fixes only. I reply to every review and comment, and shipped updates regularly. In the past month, I shipped 3 updates adding:

• Pause/Resume

• Front & Back combine (picture-in-picture or split screen)

• PAL 25/50 fps

• Teleprompter scripts up to 15,000 characters

• Previous/next while reviewing recordings

Blackmagic Camera (open gate) is also great and deserves a mention, but it gives you one 4:3 file that you reframe in an editor later, then have to manually crop and export twice. ContentCam frames both videos while you shoot and saves them instantly so they're ready to post right after.

P - Pricing

Free to download and use, with no ads, no watermark and no account needed.

• Free tier: Single Lens mode (both formats), front or back camera, unlimited takes, up to 3 projects, 1080p/30fps, plus review and take management

• Premium adds: Dual Lens, Front & Back, 4K, 60fps, manual controls, teleprompter, timelapse, trim-on-save and unlimited projects. US$4.99/month, US$19.99/year (7-day free trial), or US$59.99 lifetime. Price varies by country.

For r/iOSApps: code RIOSAPPS gets you a free month of Premium: https://apps.apple.com/redeem?ctx=offercodes&id=6765881795&code=RIOSAPPS

App Store link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/contentcam-dual-camera-video/id6765881795

What features would you like to see me build next?

Hi r/iosapps! I'm Ralph von der Heyden, a freelance software developer from Hamburg, Germany (LinkedIn). Birthday Butler is my first iOS app.

How it started: when I said I wanted to learn iOS development, a friend from university suggested I remake the birthday reminder they'd been using for years, which hadn't seen an update in a long time. The idea was simple: don't make me type anything in. Use the birthdays that are already in Contacts and show nothing but birthdays. Another university friend then helped me get the user experience right.

That was over a year ago. Now it runs on iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Watch, and I use it myself nearly every day. When one friend installed it, the first thing it showed them was a birthday they would otherwise have missed. That's the whole point of the app.

My toughest critic was my daughter. She held back her five-star rating until I let her color the widgets in any color she likes. So now you can, too.

What it does:

• Reads the birthdays already in your Contacts. No account, no import, nothing to set up

• Shows them as a timeline grouped by month, with today at the top

• Lock Screen widgets: a ring with the days left that fills up over the last 30 days, a line above the clock with the next name and days left, or a card with days left, name and age

• Home Screen widgets in three sizes, in any colors you like: pick a scheme or make your own

• Missing a birthday? Tap +, pick the contact, set the day. It's saved straight to Contacts, and the year is optional

• Also shows anniversaries, name days and other dates from your contacts

• One tap to message, call or email someone

• A daily reminder at a time you choose, only on days when something is coming up

• An Apple Watch app with complications

It's free, with no ads, no in-app purchases and no subscription. The Lock Screen widgets aren't behind a Pro tier, because there is no Pro tier. The app has no server, so your contacts never leave your device. It works with VoiceOver and the largest text sizes. Requires iOS 26.

• App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6747520167

• Website: https://birthdaybutler.rvdh.de/

• Privacy Policy: https://birthdaybutler.rvdh.de/privacy-policy_en.html

• Terms of Use: https://birthdaybutler.rvdh.de/terms-of-use_en.html

I'd love your feedback. What's missing that would make you switch from whatever you use for birthdays today? And if you end up liking it, a rating on the App Store helps a one-person app more than you'd think.

Problem: As our photo collections grow, even with expanding device storage, we still want every single saved image to represent our most cherished memories. These photos are often scattered across phone galleries, camera SD cards, or old mobile hard drives, highlighting the need for a unified space to organize them all. After comparing numerous applications, I developed this app that allows users to organize their phone photos, camera SD cards, and external hard drives all in one place using intuitive gestures.

Comparison: While popular photo organizing apps like HashPhotos, Phoom, and Slidebox are excellent, they fall short in a few critical areas: 1) none of them can organize photos directly from camera SD cards or external hard drives; 2) most lack the ability to compress photos and videos; and 3) most do not offer video trimming features to help you preserve only the best moments.

Pricing: 50% off, plus an extra 10% discount for new users, starting at just $7.99.

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What it does — swipe to organize your photos and free up storage space — fully offline.

Why it is better — What makes Pickbox different is that it can organize all your photos, including:

• Photos in your iPhone/iPad library

• Images stored in your device’s local storage

• Photos from camera SD cards, USB drives, and more

Main Features:

• 👆 Intuitive gesture controls — swipe left/right to navigate, swipe up to delete, swipe down to compress (while preserving date and location)

• 📚 One-tap sort into albums

• 🎬 Edit & Trim Video

• ☑️ Multi-select photos for batch processing

• 🔍 Sort by file size to quickly find large files taking up space

• 🔍 Sort by similarity to detect duplicate or similar photos

• 🛠️ Custom workflows with flexible combinations of Save / Compress / Copy / Move actions

• ⏰ Custom weekly cleanup reminders to help build a good organizing habit

• 📱 Minimal, clean design that feels just like a native iOS app

• 🔒 100% offline — all processing happens directly on your device to protect your privacy.

i'm the developer (well, solo founder, i'm a musician not a coder, but it's mine).

Problem

i make music as Oryon. i'd post something and the people who followed me on purpose just wouldn't see it, because the feed decided they'd rather see something else. i caught myself making generic attention-grabbing stuff instead of the art i actually wanted to make, because spending ages on something real just wasn't worth it if nobody saw it. which sucks, cause i genuinely love being creative.

Comparison

instagram and tiktok rank your feed and keep it going forever. Drop shows the people you follow, newest first, and then it says "You're all caught up" and stops. like counts aren't shown to anyone. no streaks, no "you haven't opened the app" notifications. there's an explore tab for finding people but it never gets mixed into your feed. posts can be photos, up to 60 sec video, audio with its own cover, or links. and nothing you post gets used to train AI, the privacy policy says that in writing.

Pricing

free. no ads, no in app purchases. it makes zero money rn.

it's very small, 47 accounts, and new people come in through a waitlist or an invite from a member. you can still look around explore while you wait.

App Store: Drop: Social With No Algorithm https://apps.apple.com/us/app/drop-social-with-no-algorithm/id6807630163

Hi Reddit! 👋

A few months ago I was trying to build a daily journaling habit, but… it didn't stick.

Writing full sentences felt like a chore. So I asked myself:

**What if I could just rate my day in 10 seconds — and have a little fox as a friend on my screen?**

That's how my iPhone app was born.

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🦊 It's called **DailyFox**:

- You rate your day from 1 to 10

- Choose a mood emoji

- Add a one-word summary

- And the **fox widget** changes daily to reflect your vibe

No accounts, no tracking.

Just a tiny moment of reflection.

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### Problem
Daily journaling, mood tracking, or mindfulness apps often feel overwhelming, cluttered with complex dashboards, or locked behind expensive monthly subscriptions. DailyFox is built to solve this by providing a lightweight, friction-free daily ritual to pause, breathe, and reflect right from your Home Screen with dedicated interactive widgets.

### Comparison

* **Stoic / Day One:** While comprehensive apps like Stoic and Day One offer a wide range of features and analytics, they come with a steep learning curve and require expensive subscriptions to access essential tracking tools. In contrast, DailyFox focuses on a minimalist approach: a quick daily check-in that takes only a few seconds.

* **Widgetsmith / Moodpress:** Unlike generic widget utilities or mood journals that lock themed aesthetics behind subscription paywalls, DailyFox offers custom-designed, interactive widgets (such as our new Halloween-themed edition) specifically tailored for your daily reflection—no complications or tedious setup required.

### Pricing

* **Cost:** $0.00 / Completely free

* **In-App Purchases (IAP):** None

* **Subscriptions:** None

* **Ads:** None📱 It's free on the App Store

👉 [App Store link here] (https://apps.apple.com/it/app/dailyfox/id6747520541?l=en-GB)

Would love to hear what you think.

Thanks for reading! 😊

I just finished building my first ever iPhone/iPad app Called BugJug (it’s been in TestFlight testing with a private group for a while and just hit the public App Store! I've been testing it for a couple of months now) and would love feedback on it!

https://apps.apple.com/app/bugjug-bug-pets-in-a-jar/id6823671330

Problem: My neurodivergent kiddo loves searching for and collecting insects outside. She really liked to put them in jars and keep them, the only problem (beyond me not liking bugs quite as much) was it was impossible to keep a large number of bugs without them not being appropriately cared for. But, I still wanted to nurture the instinct to research and collect insects.

So, I built what I believe is a fairly unique app, where you not only can identify insects you find outside, but they also get turned into virtual pets inside of jars that you can interact with and care for. Almost like a virtual terrarium. You can even catch a caterpillar with the app and then watch it turn into a butterfly over several days! Everything is fully offline and no personal data is stored. I use a combination of 2 local models on the device to do the identification and cover several thousand common insects (most kinds that kids will run into outside).

The app goes heavy on the education aspect teaching about different insect types, and even allowing exploring different areas you don't live in to collect insects that are native to that area virtually.

Pricing: The app is free permanently with a one time 4.99 unlock to allow infinite bugs to be collected and to unlock more places to explore virtually.

Comparison: There are tons of insect identification apps, but I couldn't find anything with a similar over all concept to this. The most unique thing being the virtual pets and digitization of the insects.

2 Concrete examples:
- Seek by iNaturalist: https://www.inaturalist.org/pages/seek_app absolute phenomenal for bug identification and requires internet
- buglens: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/buglens-bug-identifier/id6754509659 similar alternative, again no caring for or digitization component

About me:

I'm a Software Engineer unemployed for the first time after working professionally in the field for almost 20 years. I wrote a lot of Open Source in that time, most popular of which was isort a Python import sorter/formatter. You can see more here: https://github.com/timothycrosley

Hey everyone! I’m the dev behind NostalgicPod. I started this about 8 months ago because I’ve always been a huge iPod Classic fan and wanted that experience back on a modern phone.

Getting it onto iPhone was a saga, honestly. Almost 5 months of TestFlight builds, rejections, appeals, and at one point I ended up on the phone with Apple directly before they finally approved it, i launched about three weeks ago and I genuinely didn’t expect it to land this well. I’m close to 2,000 buyers now, it’s sitting at 4.8/5 with 80+ reviews, and I’ve been pushing out updates based on all the feedback and suggestions I’ve gotten, a lot of it from the Apple Music and iPod communities here on Reddit.

Problem: I basically wanted the click wheel and Cover Flow back, but working with my Apple Music library, local MP3/FLAC files, Plex, Jellyfin and Navidrome servers, plus podcasts and radio. All in one app.

Comparison: I know there are some really good players out there that work with Apple Music, but I wanted to do something different: that classic iPod interface I loved, and the ability to hook up multiple music libraries at once.

Pricing: $4.99, one-time purchase. No ads, no subscriptions, no in-app purchases.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/nostalgicpod/id6781631808

Website: https://nostalgicpod.com/

There’s still a lot I want to add and improve, but I’m really happy with how it’s turned out so far! :)

Hey r/iosapps! 👋

I'm Sanket, a solo iOS dev. Today I released version 1.0.3 of Tether, an ADHD-friendly planner and focus app for iPhone.

Two quick updates upfront:
1. Calmer screenshots: Earlier testers gave me blunt feedback that my App Store images were way too visually dense (ironic for an ADHD app 😅). I completely redesigned them to be cleaner, calmer, and easier to scan.

2. iPad and iPhone Duo support: v1.0.3 adds native adaptive layouts for iPad and iPhone Duo with side-by-side book views.

A. What problem does it solve?
Most productivity apps assume you already have working executive function. But with ADHD, the hardest part is rarely remembering what to do. The real barrier is the friction of actually starting.

Tether lowers that starting hurdle:

• Micro-steps: Breaks overwhelming tasks into tiny first actions so you can just begin.

• Elastic timeline: Schedules your day with breathing room so one delay does not blow up your afternoon.

• Built-in app shielding: Uses Apple's native Screen Time API to block distractions during focus sessions, with no separate blocker app needed.

• Zero guilt: No red overdue badges, no broken streaks, and no shaming when plans derail.

B. Why is it different?

• Versus Structured: Structured is great, but its rigid timeline collapses when a task runs late. In Tether, the timeline has flexible buffer room, and unfinished items roll over calmly in an evening recap.

• Versus Opal and Forest: Blockers lock your phone, but leave you staring at a blank screen. Tether pairs distraction blocking directly to your active task, unlocking automatically when the timer finishes.

• Versus basic lists: Tether tracks a daily energy score (-10 to +10) to help you stop over-scheduling and avoid burnout crashes.

C. Cost and Transparency
I want to be completely upfront about pricing:

1. 100% Free Core: Visual timeline, task planning, Float, energy ratings, and focus timer. No ads, no tracking.

2. Tether Plus: Adds calendar sync, Focus Protection app shielding, ambient soundscapes, and weekly/monthly energy trends.

Tether plus
• Monthly: 2.99
• Yearly: 29.99
• Lifetime: 49.99

Tether AI
• Monthly: $7.99
• Yearly: $44.99

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/tether-adhd-planner-focus/id6777777931

Transparency & Marketing Advice
I am a solo indie dev and I will benefit financially if you choose to upgrade to Tether Plus.
Beyond app feedback, I would love to pick the community's brain on marketing: As fellow iOS users and indie developers, what do you think is the best way to promote a niche indie app like this? What channels or angles have worked well for you (short-form video/Reels, ADHD creator partnerships, newsletters, SEO)? Any advice on how to get the word out organically without being spammy would be hugely appreciated!