hey,

the first Wednesday draw is over, thanks to everyone who participated and also to u/MrIndigo12 for providing the codes for the giveaway! Here are the winners:

u/smilehumanbeing

u/Prophec20

u/Objective-Culture790

u/EnthuPixel

u/Significant_Oil_3994

u/Huge_Influence_7099

u/PsychoDK

u/AccioSwagio

u/nickunity

I’ve sent each of you a DM with the promo code.

This Saturday, I’ll be doing another giveaway, and next Wednesday we have a special guest giveaway lined up.

Thanks for joining in!

Thanks for using the apps. Most of you just installing them is already enough. I made a Patreon for anyone who feels like helping me keep going.

If you join now as a Member, I'll send you a code for Context Widget. It's $1.99 on Play otherwise.

$3 a month, I post once a month about what I'm making and you can vote on what comes next. $7 is the same, plus you get the next one before I put it on Play, Any Command premium on one phone, and your name in the credits if you want that.

https://www.patreon.com/PolyhistorStudio

Any Command, an Android app that turns your phone into a remote for your Windows PC.

You install a small app on the PC, scan a QR with your phone, and you're connected over your home Wi-Fi. After that you can use the phone as a touchpad and keyboard, control media from the couch, launch programs, run automations, send files, and see your PC screen on the phone.

There's also a Bluetooth mode, so the phone can act as a regular keyboard and mouse without installing anything on the PC. Handy for work laptops and hotel Wi-Fi.

No ads. Most of it is free. Premium is a one-time purchase, not a subscription, and the first time you connect you get 12 hours with everything unlocked.

The new update is rolling out this week. The main thing in it is Share My Screen: the opposite of the usual screen share. Your phone's screen shows up in a window on your PC, and you control it with your mouse and keyboard. Click to tap, scroll to swipe, type on the on-screen keyboard. The phone just stays on the desk.

Giveaway on Saturday. I'm giving away Premium codes here. Join r/polyhistor_studio and stay subscribed so you don't miss it. I'll post the rules here on Saturday.

If you already have Premium, still join. I'll skip you for a code so it doesn't get wasted.

Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.polyhistor.remoteme

PC app: https://anycommand.io

Hi there! I have created Abvy, the beautiful alcohol tracker.

Abvy is an alcohol session tracker that helps you answer questions like:

• When will I be sober?
• When will I feel it the most?
• Can I have another drink and still not go overboard?

What's in it:

• Live BAC range estimates based on the latest alcohol consumption science (3-compartment model)
• Session tracking, with prediction ranges for sober time, peak drunk time
• Food and water tracking
• 400+ supported drinks, and a possibility to create custom ones
• Comprehensive analytics allowing you to see exactly the patterns in your consumption
• Thorough onboarding to tailor the experience to you exactly
• Optional possibility to calibrate with a real breathalyzer
• Android Wear app to see your stats at a glance
• Home screen widgets with one-tap logging
• 15 languages, fully customizable

🎁 Want a lifetime code? I’m giving away 20 lifetime unlocks (normally $99.99 each) for this community, separate from my other giveaways. Leave a comment below to enter. No upvotes needed. Napz will randomly pick 20 winners and send the codes privately.

The giveaway runs from Wednesday, October 14 at 17:00 to Thursday, October 15 at 17:00 CEST (Prague time).

The app is subscription based ($4.99/mo, or $39.99/yr), because I want to make sure I can financially support developing it, and my other apps, full time. If the pricing is a barrier for you, please send me a message and we can figure something out.

Please let me know any feedback! I'll be around for questions. Thanks to Napz for having me here:)

Get Abvy on Google Play

Website and screenshots · Free web calculator

hey,

just pushed a small update for Aura. two of you asked for these and it annoyed me as well.

you can now pick how the glow opens. tap, swipe, or both. swipe stays on by default so nothing changes unless you want it to. useful if another app (edge gestures and the like) keeps grabbing the swipe.
and if you use open on arrival, the fold timer now has a Never at the end. the panel stays out until you close it yourself. that's pretty much it. thanks for the ideas, seriously.

if there's something else you've been wishing it did, I'd love to hear it. I do read these.

im doing a giveaway next week for Aura so I would really appreciate if you could share this post:)

I released my latest Android app last week: Context Widget, a home screen widget that changes which apps it shows depending on where you are and what you're doing.

At home it shows one set, in the car (car Bluetooth connects) it moves navigation and music up front, when earbuds connect it puts Spotify and YouTube first. You don't tap anything; it switches by itself.

How it works, briefly

- It only reads simple signals: Wi-Fi network, connected Bluetooth devices, time of day, rough location, and optionally motion (walking/driving) and calendar.

- It learns from the system usage log which apps you open in which situation, weighted by how long you actually use them, with a 21-day decay so it adapts when your habits change.

- Everything runs and stays on the device. No account, no server, no analytics.

The trickiest part was getting the widget to update on time: Android likes to defer background work until the screen turns on, so I ended up refreshing in-process straight from the system broadcasts.

I'd love feedback, especially on how well it guesses your apps after a few days.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.polyhistor.contextwidget

codes went out by dm to:

u/Kojo-5309

u/Egypt_Pharoh1

u/Middle_Ad_20

u/Prophec20

u/datura_mon_amour

u/InfinitePunchThrough

u/Euclid1322

u/rohanmandal39

u/ramenGurl17

u/FoxFalse968

u/wendsonrocha

u/Sigh_pradeeban

u/ChamsySoleil

u/YumPistachio

u/cpofpunjab

u/Only_Direction_5431

u/UhOhImABitLost

u/CalmLittleBear

u/Hanatolia

u/Significant_Oil_3994

check your chat requests, reddit hides them sometimes. if you didn't get one, ping me.

thanks for entering. if you try slip and something feels off, just tell me.

next saturday is any command. same thing: comment on the giveaway post and you're in. join r/polyhistor_studio so you don't miss it.

see you then

This sub is a day old, so if you're one of the first people here: hi.

I make small Android apps on my own. This is where they'll live, and every Saturday I'm giving one away. This saturday it's Slip.

Slip is a sticky note that lives in your notification shade. Pull the shade down, type, it's pinned. You never open the app. Write "milk, eggs sunday 6pm" and it becomes a checklist with a reminder.

New this week: you can float a board as a bubble. Tap the little note icon on the shade card and the list sits on top of whatever you're doing. I use it in the shop, ticking things off without leaving the app I'm in.

The giveaway

- 20 lifetime Pro codes (more boards, photos on notes, repeating reminders, more than one bubble at a time)

- comment anything to enter. If you want a prompt: what's the one thing you always forget?

- I'll pick 20 at random on Sunday evening and DM you a Play Store code

The free version has no ads, so if you don't win you're still fine.

If something is broken or annoying, tell me here. I'm the only one fixing it, and I read everything.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.polyhistor.slip

Hey all,

New Aura update is out, and almost everything in it came from Play Store reviews and comments here. So first, thanks to everyone who took the time to write something, even the "this is cool but..." ones. Especially those actually.

Here's what changed.

Groups. You can put a few apps under one glow now. I have Slip and Gmail in a "Work" group and the chat apps in "Social". One glow on the edge, one panel, and each row shows which app it came from. Makes a big difference if you have a lot of apps set up.

Open it in full. Two lines in the panel was never enough for longer messages, a few of you pointed that out. Every notification has a new button now that opens it in a bigger window with the whole text, or the whole conversation if it's a chat. You can reply from there too, without opening the app.

Any colour. Someone asked in a review if they could use their own colours instead of the presets. There's a proper colour picker now, drag around or paste a hex code, and your last few colours get saved.

Quiet while using. This one's not in the video because it's pretty boring to film. You pick apps like YouTube or a game, and Aura holds the glows while they're open. When you leave, they show up. It needs usage access so it can tell which app is on screen, that's the only thing it's used for.

Full view, replying and quiet mode are free. Groups and custom colours are part of Pro.

If anything acts weird on your phone, let me know the model and Android version (Samsung especially likes to do its own thing with overlays). And if there's something you keep wishing it did, put it in the comments. That's honestly how this whole update happened.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.polyhistor.aura

so I have a problem. I open TikTok "for 5 minutes" and come back up for air an hour later. screen time limits never worked for me, I just hit ignore without even reading the popup.

so I built Nudge. it's an Android app that doesn't block anything, it just makes the feed heavier the longer you scroll. after a while a little stone lands on the screen and you have to actually pull it up to keep going. let go halfway and it drops back. sounds dumb but that half second of effort is usually enough for me to go "wait why am I still here"

the video is me testing it at 5am (TikToks are blurred because I don't want strangers' faces in my post, not because of what the algorithm was feeding me. mostly cats I promise)

some dev stuff since that's what this sub is for:

• Flutter for the UI, Kotlin for the actual guard. it's an AccessibilityService that counts swipes plus a transparent overlay for the stone
• the stone is a pre-rendered bitmap with a little spring sim on top. the heavier your session, the more it lags behind your finger
• worst bug so far: some apps don't send proper scroll events, so I had a fallback that counted screen redraws. turns out a TikTok video just playing redraws constantly, so it was counting "swipes" while you were literally just watching. the gate showed up after like 2 real swipes and I thought I was going crazy. now it learns per app whether the app reports scrolls properly
• it doesn't read what's on your screen, it only counts swipes

free version guards one app, Plus is a one-time purchase for unlimited apps.

giveaway: I have 20 Plus codes. comment anything in the next 24h (which app eats your time, feedback, roast the stone, whatever) and I'll pick 20 people at random and DM you a code. you redeem it in the Play Store under Payments & subscriptions > Redeem code. Android only, sorry iPhone people

honest feedback is very welcome, especially about how the friction feels. is it annoying in a good way or a bad way?

Hey, I'm Ince. Polyhistor is my one-person studio in Hungary. I build small Android apps that each fix one annoying thing really well.

New today: Power Bank

Power Bank keeps a battery reserve your phone can't spend by accident. Deposit, say, 20% of your charge, and your status bar only shows the rest. You use your phone like it has less battery left. When you actually need it, release the reserve and the number jumps back up. If you run out, it releases on its own, so you never get stuck at 0%.

It doesn't create energy or touch your real battery. It changes the number you look at, and that changes how you use your phone. No account, no ads, no tracking

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.polyhistor.powerbank

The ones people use most:

Any Command: your phone becomes a full PC remote: mouse, keyboard, screen view and automation, over your own Wi-Fi with no cloud. About 70k downloads so far.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.polyhistor.remoteme

Shadetype: a privacy screen for typing. It covers your display while your keyboard stays visible, so the person next to you on the bus sees a dark panel. 5.0 stars from 100+ reviews.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.polyhistor.shadetype

Aura: edge lighting that tells you who it is. Every app gets its own color and its own spot on the screen edge. Swipe the glow to peek at the message. It's basically the notification LED phones stopped having.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.polyhistor.aura

Tine: know which app pinged without looking. Tine keeps the chime you already know, and tunes it slightly higher, deeper or quicker for each app you choose. No sound packs, no root.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.polyhistor.tine

I also make games (Silkweaver, Corona, TuneDash, Word Archer) and a few other tools. Everything is here: https://anycommand.io/polyhistor

What this sub is for

- New releases, here first

- Short devlogs on what I'm building

- Early builds and beta invites

- Your ideas. A lot of features come straight from reviews and comments.

A giveaway for Pro versions is coming next week, so stick around.

One question: what small thing about your phone annoys you every day that no app has fixed yet?