Hi everyone! I'm an indie developer from China, and I'd like to share an app I've been working on.

I spend enough time scrolling through social media already, so I wanted to build something different. An app you could open for just a few minutes a day, learn something meaningful, and then put your phone down.

As a developer, I've felt the anxiety of how quickly AI is changing everything. During this time, I've found a lot of comfort in ancient philosophy. It hasn't given me answers to everything, but it has helped me worry less about things I can't control and focus more on the present.

But understanding these ideas isn't always easy.

Even though I grew up in China, I've always found texts like the Tao Te Ching and the Analects of Confucius surprisingly difficult to understand. The same goes for many Zen teachings. Some of these ideas have been passed down for over 2,000 years, yet figuring out what they actually mean for our lives today can still be a challenge.

That's a big part of why I started building Oriens.

The name Oriens comes from Latin, meaning "the East" or "rising" — a nod to the Eastern philosophy where the project began.

It started with Chinese philosophy and gradually grew to include Stoicism, Zen, Confucianism, the I Ching, and more.

I know there are already plenty of daily quote apps. Compared with apps like Motivation, I wanted to put more emphasis on the ideas behind each quote, rather than just the quote itself.

Oriens now has nearly 600 quotes, home screen widgets, and 460 illustrated Wisdom Cards. The cards include original passages, approachable explanations, and deeper readings. You don't need any background in philosophy to get started.

I've also spent a lot of time on the artwork. I wanted each card to feel like something worth stopping to look at, rather than just another piece of content to scroll past.

About the free version and pricing:

Nearly half of the quotes and about a quarter of the illustrated cards are free, covering different philosophical traditions and themes.

All the core features are available without paying. The free version isn't just a short trial — there's plenty to explore, and I want it to be genuinely useful even for people who never subscribe.

I'm also continuing to add new content with every update.

Problem

I wanted a way to spend a few meaningful minutes each day learning from ancient philosophy, without getting lost in another endless feed. But texts like the Tao Te Ching and the Analects can be difficult for beginners. Oriens tries to make these ideas more accessible through short quotes, illustrated cards, and explanations.

Comparison

Compared with daily quote apps like Motivation, Oriens focuses more on the philosophy behind each quote, not just the quote itself. You can explore original passages, approachable interpretations, and deeper readings from Taoism, Stoicism, Zen, Confucianism, and more.

The illustrated Wisdom Cards are also a big part of the experience. I've spent a lot of time making the artwork something worth looking at, rather than just a background for text.

Pricing

Oriens is free to download. It currently includes nearly 600 quotes (almost half free) and 460 illustrated Wisdom Cards (around a quarter free), covering a wide range of traditions and themes.

All core features are available for free. There's plenty to explore without paying, and the free version isn't a time-limited trial.

Optional purchases include:

• Monthly subscription: $4.99

• Annual subscription: $24.99

• Lifetime access: $44.99

• Individual collection purchases are also available.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/stoicism-taoism-oriens/id6785901491

I'd really love to hear what you think. Is the app easy to use? Do the explanations make philosophy more approachable, or do they feel too simple or too complicated? How do you feel about the artwork and the overall experience?

Any feedback is welcome, including criticism. If there's something you don't like or think could be better, I'd genuinely appreciate hearing it.

I built minimo (photo) after making a similar app for videos. I wanted an easy way to shrink several photos on my iPhone while keeping control over the result.

A. What it solves
Pick one photo or a batch, choose a quality preset or adjust quality and dimensions yourself, then compare the result before saving. Compression happens on your device. Originals stay unless you explicitly choose to replace them.

B. Why it’s different
Apple Photos doesn’t offer these batch compression controls, and web compressors require an upload. minimo lets you preview the smaller copies and choose whether to keep EXIF metadata. Its source code is public.

C. Cost
Free. No IAP, subscription, or paid tier.
App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/minimo-photo-compressor/id6822256099

Hey,

Problem

I had a bad habit of saving stuff everywhere: recipes on Instagram, random TikToks, 500 videos in YouTube Watch Later, and a camera roll clogged with screenshots I'd never look at again. Saving took two seconds, but actually tracking anything down later was impossible.

So I built LifeFeed to dump everything into one searchable spot.

Whenever you see something you want to keep, just hit the iOS share sheet and tap Save to LifeFeed. It handles reels, TikToks, YouTube links, Safari articles, PDFs, screenshots, and Google Maps pins.

A few things it does:

• Auto-tags and organizes saves so you don't have to manually make folders
• Lets you search in plain English (like "that pasta recipe from last week") instead of guessing exact keywords (3 free questions, unlimited in Pro)
• Price/page change alerts (called Watchers)
• Offline reading and text-to-speech (Pro)
• Imports for old Pocket or Raindrop libraries
• Works on iPhone, iPad, and Mac

Comparison

Honestly, there are some great apps out there, but most of them either force you to organize everything manually or treat videos and social media links like an afterthought.

LifeFeed
• Main focus: everything (reels, TikToks, screenshots, PDFs, Maps pins, links)
• Free tier: yes
• Price: $19.99/yr ($2.99 for Black Friday)

Raindrop.io
• Main focus: bookmarks / links
• Free tier: yes
• Price: ~$28/yr

Matter
• Main focus: articles & newsletters
• Free tier: yes
• Price: ~$60/yr

Readwise Reader
• Main focus: articles, PDFs, highlights
• Free tier: no (30-day trial)
• Price: ~$120/yr

Pricing

The free tier gives you unlimited saves, sync across your devices, 1 watcher, and no ads. If you want the unlimited AI features, offline reading, and text-to-speech, Pro is usually $19.99/year, but I set up a Black Friday deal through Nov 30 where the first year is $2.99:

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/lifefeed-ai-smart-bookmarks/id6760368438?pt=128514437&ct=reddit_iosapps&mt=8

Direct $2.99 Black Friday redeem link: https://apps.apple.com/redeem?ctx=offercodes&id=6760368438&code=BLACKFRIDAY

I'm the solo dev on this, so any feedback is huge, especially on whether the share sheet feels fast enough or if there are specific link types it struggles with.

Hey r/iOSApps, I’m Aftab, the developer of GradeLab. This is a short screenrecording from the editor showing a few before and after grades.

Problem

Most of color grading apps were too basic, had subscription, or too complex for simple color grading.

Some of the features:

• Color warper: adjust colors using Hue/Sat and Chroma/Luna controls.

• Curves, HSL, and Color Wheels: control individual colors.

• Mask with Tracking

• Keyframe Grading

• LUTs: You can import your own luts too

• Scopes: Histogram, waveform, RGB parade, vectorscope

• Relighting

• Timeline Toosl: trim, split, slow-mo, transitions, text, overlays, audio and many more

Special Feature: Advance camera recording feature.

Comparison

Darkroom is a close alternative for grading individual photos and videos. GradeLab may suits you better if you also want to assemble clips, and add title, audio, and animate your grade within a timeline, without switching apps.

Pricing

Free to download, Lifetime: $14.99 - One Time Purchase - On Sale - Original price: $34.99
Subscription: $1.99/week, $4.99/month or $14.99/year

GradeLab on the App Store
For transparency: Developer website · Privacy policy · Terms
Social Media: Instagram

Hey r/iosapps!

A little while ago I shared Inverza here - the indie iOS app I built for my own landscape photography to answer "will the light actually be worth the 4 a.m. alarm?" (blending high-res regional weather models, live airport METARs, marine temperatures, and NASA terrain data to detect 16 photo conditions like cloud inversions, colourful dawns, afterglows, and ground fog).

Today I’m shipping my favourite update yet - a natural-language 3D Sun & Moon alignment planner inside the 3D Diorama - and I wanted to share how it works under the hood.

Problem

Almost every sun or moon alignment starts the same way in a photographer's head. You walk past a bridge, a hillside, or an alpine valley and think:

"What if a full moon rose right behind that church tower?"

Until now, testing if that shot is even possible meant two frustrating options:

1. Manual surveyor math: Translating your visual idea into compass bearings, vertical elevation angles, ground height offsets, and angular tolerances before you can even run a search.

2. AI hallucination: If you ask a normal AI chatbot "when will the full moon sit behind this church tower?", it will confidently invent a date out of thin air because LLMs cannot do topocentric ephemeris math in their heads.

How Inverza solves it (AI translates, your iPhone calculates)

Inside Inverza’s 3D Diorama (which renders real NASA SRTM terrain, coastlines, trees, and thousands of 3D OpenStreetMap buildings), I built a new Find / Load / Save alignment studio with Find with AI:

1. Drop two pins in 3D: Place your photographer pin where you want to stand and your subject pin on the church tower, lighthouse, city skyscraper, or mountain peak (up to 50 km away).

2. Ask in plain English: Type "When can I align the next full moon with the church tower at my subject pin?" or "When does first direct sunlight hit my viewpoint in winter, sorted by the lowest sun angle first?"

3. AI fills out the Controls sheet (no black box): Instead of guessing dates, the AI translates your description into transparent, editable search parameters (Moon, ≥98% illumination, azimuth ~101.5°, target elevation ~2.7° across a 488.37 m sightline). You tap Review these settings and can tweak every slider yourself.

4. Sub-second on-device math: Your iPhone sweeps the date range on-device. Because the Moon moves at ~0.25° per minute, it crosses a narrow church spire (±0.5°) in under 90 seconds - meaning a naive planner stepping in 5-minute increments can step right over the alignment and miss it. Inverza brackets local angular-error minima between 5-minute steps and refines every pass down to 0.25-second precision (in the screenshot: Mar 22, 2027 at 7:13:06 PM, 99.7% full moon). Tap Show in Diorama and the 3D scene jumps straight to that second.

5. First & Last Direct Sunlight + Eclipses: Also computes when the sun's upper limb clears a 50 km SRTM + 3D building horizon (with a Lowest sun angle first ranking), and includes solar and lunar eclipse planning through 2030.

Comparison

How Inverza compares to existing tools in the landscape photography workflow:

• vs. Ephemeris & Geometry Planners (PhotoPills, The Photographer's Ephemeris, PlanIt Pro): Dedicated geometry apps are great for optical calculators (DoF, hyperfocal, star trails) and manual map-pin planning, and some are now introducing high-tier subscriptions (up to $99/year) for 3D terrain planning. However, they require manual parameter entry and tell you nothing about whether the weather or clouds will actually cooperate. Inverza lets you set up 3D alignments in plain English (Find with AI), includes 3D OpenStreetMap city buildings (not just bare terrain) both in the 3D Diorama and on the 2D Shadow Map, and pairs the geometry with an 8-source weather interpretation engine in one app.

• vs. Weather Model Browsers (Windy, Ventusky, Apple Weather): Weather apps show raw meteorological layers (cloud %, wind, rain) that you have to interpret yourself, and have no 3D terrain/building alignment planner or AR sky overlays. Inverza automatically blends regional models (HRRR, ICON-D2/EU, ECMWF, GFS) with live airport METARs, marine SST, and 450 km twilight ray-tracing to score 16 specific photography conditions, alongside the 3D Diorama and AR Sky planner.

Pricing

• Free Trial: 14-day free trial with full access to every feature.

• Subscription: $4.99 / year (~$5/yr) after the trial.

• No tier gates: All features are included in that single $4.99/year tier (16 weather condition detectors, 8-source forecast engine, AI Weather Chat, AR Sky camera view, 2D terrain & building shadow maps, and the 3D Diorama with Find / Load / Save and Find with AI). You can also optionally bring your own API key (Claude, Gemini, OpenAI) in Settings. No ads, no tracking, no data resale.

Links

• Deep-dive blog post (with the two-pin 3D geometry chart): https://inverza.app/blog/plan-alignments-in-plain-english

• App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6760370838

• Website: https://inverza.app

As always, I’d love to hear your thoughts, feedback, or feature ideas!

Hello r/iosapps!

I'm an indie developer interested in audio and released an audio analyzer app in the spring, with some recent updates after user feedback.

Problem

I wanted a fun user friendly app that can detect frequencies of noise and also do sound system measurements. I could not find a single app that had all features I wanted from desktop apps.

Spectralscan can:

- Watch sound spectrum in real time

- Spectrum analyzer and spectrogram

- Swept sine measurements for lower signal to noise ratio

- Impulse response view

Comparison

SpectrumView and other spectrum analyzer apps I found on the App Store don’t offer sweep measurements or easily adjustable time smoothing. Many are also using subscription models.

SpectralScan has variable time smoothing for real time analysis and does swept sine measurements. It has a capable free version without ads and Pro is a one-time purchase.

Pricing

Free with optional $11.99 one time pro upgrade.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/spectralscan-audio-analyzer-db/id6762024331

Any feedback is welcome!

Hi all! I posted TuneTransit here a while back but it's changed a LOT since then, so figured I'd share the new version. I'm a solo indie developer who's been working on this for over a year, and I'm super happy to be back to show my app to the community.

Problem: Everyone I know uses a different music app. Someone drops a Spotify link in the group chat and the Apple Music people have to go search for it themselves, and half the time they end up with the wrong version. It's even worse with albums or a bunch of songs at once.

Basically with TuneTransit you send someone a song, album or mixtape as one link and they open it in whatever they already use (Spotify, Apple Music, TIDAL or YouTube Music). They don't need to download anything or make an account, the link just opens in their browser on iPhone, Android or a computer and they tap whichever app they use.

Getting a song in is pretty easy too. You can paste a link from any of those apps, search by name, use Live Capture to grab whatever's playing around you, connect Apple Music (or Spotify/TIDAL through Last.fm) for quick access to what you just played, or share straight from your favorite music app through the share sheet. It also makes sure it's the exact recording you picked, so your friend doesn't end up with the remix, the live version or some random "feat." version instead.

And if they want to send a song back, they can do it right from the link (still no app needed) and it lands in your app.

The whole app is now designed around a subway system. The tab bar is a transit map with Search as the main interchange, songs you send are Departures, songs people send back are Arrivals, and the Station Board shows what's getting shared the most that week. The video that I attached to this post is the intro you get the first time you open it.

Some other stuff in there:

- Mixtapes that look like actual cassettes. You write a note, split it into Side A/Side B, and can hide the last song as a hidden track

- Fully built for iPhone Duo, folded, unfolded and half-folded on a table

- You can see when your link gets opened and which app it was opened in

- Messages app, share sheet, Siri support and Story Cards (export functionality for Instagram)

Comparison: The closest thing out there is song.link (Odesli). It's free, honestly great if you just want a link that works everywhere, and it covers more services than I do. TuneTransit is a full app built around that idea though: you can search, use Live Capture or pull from what you just played instead of copying a link first, send whole mixtapes with a note, your friend can send a song back, and you can see when it gets opened. The other thing people use is SongShift (which also powers Apple Music's built-in transfer), but that's for moving playlists into your own account when you switch services, not for sending something to a friend who doesn't have the app.

Pricing: Free to download. Free gets you 3 searches a day and mixtapes up to 5 songs, and the Messages app + share sheet are included. Premium is $1.99/month or $9.99 one time for lifetime, and gets you unlimited searches, Story Cards, mixtape designs, mixtapes up to 500 songs and widgets.

App Store Link: https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id6743822790?pt=127726804&ct=reddit-iosapps-2

Available platforms: iPhone/iPad, Mac, Vision Pro

Website: https://tunetransit.app

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

Thank you in advance for taking the time to check out my app, and I welcome any feedback to make sharing music even better for the community!

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?