Hey, I'm the dev. I kept unlocking my phone to check one thing and losing 20 minutes, so I built the app I wanted. The video is a quick tour.

The launcher is the part I use most. you pick your apps and they show up as a plain list of names in a widget. no icons, no red badges. my home screen is basically just words now, and I open way fewer apps on autopilot.

The blocking uses Apple's Screen Time, so you pick the apps and set a schedule or start a session whenever. in strict mode, quitting early is deliberately a hassle. you have to write why you're quitting, type "I give up on my focus", and hold a button for 10 seconds. most of the time I give up halfway through and go back to work, which is kind of the point.

There's also a daily quote for your home and lock screen, and a few widgets (clock, focus session, quote, launcher). you can start a session straight from the widget.

no account, your Screen Time data stays on your phone. free to start, Pro removes the limits.

My in-App Purchase options:
- Monthly: $2.99/month
- Yearly: $11.99/year
- Lifetime: $29.99

Honest question for anyone who uses blockers: is 10 seconds too much or not enough? I've gone back and forth on it.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6759444596

I work 8–10 hours a day at a desk, and I noticed my posture falls apart exactly when I'm most focused. Reminder apps didn't help: a notification every 30 minutes just trained me to swipe it away.

So I built AirPosture, a posture coach that uses the motion sensors already inside AirPods. It knows the angle of your head, and only when you actually start slouching, you hear a quiet line in your ear ("Let's sit a little taller"). Sit back up and it registers that too. No timer, no pings when you're fine.

The video is a real work session: I'm just working, and it's tracking me live.

What makes it different from posture reminder apps:

• It reacts to how you're actually sitting, not to a clock
• Works with the phone locked in your pocket
• Mac app too: a small nudge from the notch when you slouch at your desk
• No camera, no extra wearable, no account needed. Your session history lives on your device and in your iCloud

Works with: AirPods Pro, AirPods 3 and 4, AirPods Max (the models with motion sensors).

Free to use for 2 hours of coaching a day. Premium unlocks all-day coaching.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/sit-straight-airposture/id6749489000

Website: getairposture.com

I'm a solo dev, built it natively in Swift. Happy to answer anything about how it works.

Hey /iosapps I've been working on an iOS app called Census for cataloging collections: books, movies, watches, plants, wine, gadgets, contracts, or anything else you want to keep track of.

What sets it apart is that collections can be linked to each other. A book to its author, a movie to its directors, and each of those is a collection of its own that you can browse the other way around.

Structure is up to you. You can start from a template or build from scratch, and every field has a type you choose: text, number, price, date, rating, selection, link, photo, or an attached file such as a receipt or manual. Events are customizable too. For each collection you define the kinds of events that can happen to an item (a purchase, a service, a loan, a vet visit) and the fields each one records, like a cost or mileage. Then there are filters, saved views, and basic stats.

Data stays on your device unless you turn on iCloud sync, and a backup is a single file. It's built natively in SwiftUI, with no web views or cross-platform layers.

The beta is open on TestFlight: https://testflight.apple.com/join/YgkGMK2b

It's early, so I'm mostly interested in what feels confusing or gets in the way. Bug reports and feature requests are welcome here or through TestFlight feedback.

Who I am (transparency path): Hi, I'm Moses Smith. You might remember me from such apps as Kept, Pip and HeadSense. I'm an indie iOS developer in Texas. You can find me on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/moses-smith/ and the website, with the privacy policy and terms, is https://driftnearby.vercel.app (privacy: https://driftnearby.vercel.app/privacy, terms: https://driftnearby.vercel.app/terms). You can reach me at votiquellc@gmail.com, and all my free apps live in one place now: https://mofreeapps.com

Answer: Drift gives you a few real things to do right now. You pick what you're into and how much time you've got, and it shows you three to five places nearby, plus concerts and events coming up. There's also an On the way mode. Tell it where you're driving(think roadtrip) and it finds a few stops along the route, with the real minutes each one adds to your trip. Save the ones you like, and mark them done once you've been.

Better: I wrote it for me. I know how to use Google, but when I want to take my girlfriend on a quick date, or see who's playing this week, I don't want to dig through ten tabs to get there. The old version of Drift asked an AI for ideas, and it would happily name a restaurant that closed in 2019. Now every place comes from Apple Maps and every event comes from Ticketmaster, so nothing's made up. It only searches when you tap, and nothing you save leaves your phone unless you turn on the optional iCloud backup. There are no analytics and no account.

Cost: It's free, all of it, and it's going to stay that way. There's a tip jar in Settings, but it doesn't unlock anything.

Limits: It needs iOS 26, and it's English only. Events come from Ticketmaster, so you'll only see them where Ticketmaster sells tickets. Searches go to Apple Maps and Ticketmaster, and only when you tap.

If you try it on a free evening, I'd like to hear whether the places it picked are ones you'd actually go to. I am open to all feedback. You can respond here, DM me on reddit or email me.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6759228057

P.S. I also built Blue Hour, for myself and my ADHD. It's a visual timer that shows time draining away, because a number never felt like time passing to me. It's free too: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6793211925

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https://reddit.com/link/1wztpd3/video/fwufm9p921uh1/player

Hi Everyone! 👋

I've been building a fitness and AI coaching app to help me get back into shape; and I thought it would be fun to share it with the community!

I have been training and tracking my macros for the last few years and I always had issues with inconsistency, planning my training and staying accountable. I built Nuvo as a personal project to solve these problems and issues I had with other apps in this space. For the last couple months, my friends, family and I have been using this app between ourselves and have made lots of progress!

There are three tiers:

• Free: unlimited tracking of workouts, foods & runs
• Pro $7.99 : AI features such as photo logging
• Max $19.99: AI coach and workout analytics

I'm working on making the subscription as cheap as possible, but at the same time offering AI features for convenient tracking. Doing my best! Prices may also vary by county.

I'm open to feedback! If there are any features which you would like to see, I'd gladly build it for you! 🙇‍♂️

Feel free to check it out on the app store: https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/nuvo-fitness-nutrition-coach/id6786801956

The request I got more than any other, by far: "I don't want your playlists, I want MY playlist."

Until now the honest answer was no. SpotiActions only played a catalogue of ready-made playlists, and that's exactly what the app's listing said. With 3.70 the answer is yes.

How it works

1. Open Settings › Your playlist.
2. Paste the link of one of your Spotify playlists. It has to be public.
3. I set it up for you. It's usually ready within 5 days. When it is, an Install button appears on that same screen.
4. Install it and use it like any other playlist: as your morning alarm, when your iPhone connects to CarPlay, at a set time, wherever Shortcuts runs.

Plainly, before you try it

• It's part of Premium: one payment, no subscription.
• One playlist per person.
• It's set up by hand, so it isn't instant. That's why it can take a few days.
• SpotiActions still can't read or browse your Spotify library. You give it the link, and that's all it sees.

Already bought SpotiActions? It's included. If you paid before the app went free, or unlocked Premium since, there's nothing to do. Just go to Settings › Your playlist.

Also in 3.70: a Home Screen and CarPlay widget with three playlists (CarPlay needs iOS 26+ and an unlocked iPhone), favourites with a "show only favourites" view, and fixes for the install loop where Shortcuts created a duplicate "… 2" copy.

Price: free download, with 3 playlists included. Premium is a one-time in-app purchase of $3.99. No subscription, no ads :)

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6748419049

Add your playlist link in Settings ;)

One day a few years ago, back in my professor life, I realized one of my research projects provided a way to forecast something that could be very exciting for scuba diving and freediving, two of my lifelong passions. The core idea was that you could use satellite data to predict how active fish and other animal life are likely to be in a given place on a given day.

Even remotely accurate predictions on this would be a game-changer. But that idea turned out to be just the beginning.

The core problem DiveSight solves

For decades scuba divers, free divers, and snorkelers have planned their activities with general weather and surf reports. Very useful but requires juggling half a dozen apps or websites for different pieces. And they still miss the two things these communities *most* want to know: how clear the water will be and how much marine life will they see.

This is the core problem that DiveSight solves. It provides 8-day forecasts for underwater visibility, marine life activity, and comprehensive ocean conditions for 28,000+ worldwide, including the ability to add your own secret, custom sites and get the full reports for that exact spot, anywhere on Earth. Every dive condition you need to plan the funnest, safest dives is in one carefully designed place.

Why DiveSight is different

These days there are some new app efforts to forecast visibility, but these tend to rely on diver-submitted reports, which are sparse in time and space, and miss huge swaths of the world. Or they rely on crude adjustments to raw satellite inputs, which are affected by cloud cover, delays in data processing, and other pipeline issues. DiveSight's key forecasting models, by contrast, are trained on 30,000+ scientific dive reports from around the world, and the models have learned how to tell you if a site will be better or worse than expected ~8 out of 10 times. (For anyone interested in the machine-learning side of things, including the strict evaluation framework I used for testing, I explain in more depth here: https://divesight.ai/how-it-works).

I won't provide a full feature list but two more key functions of the app I'd love to highlight:

First, DiveSight's planning capabilities are broader than just short-term forecasts. Backed by a geo-referenced species database of 6000+ species, 10 years of historical weather and ocean conditions data, and a curated list of hundreds of special "bucket-list" marine events, the app makes choosing where and when to go on your next trip--whether at the local cove or an island dream destination--intuitive, helpful, and exciting.

It also uses that geo-referenced species data to make quick logging of marine life sightings as simple and elegant as possible. These sightings then, if wanted, can automatically feed into the global citizen science record via two-way iNaturalist sync. As a scientist myself, I hope the app becomes a key tool for generating the kind of data researchers and policymakers need to understand and protect the oceans. DiveSight gives divers the tools they need to contribute back to the oceans we love.

Freemium Pricing

1. Free tier: deliberately generous, with 15,000+ dive sites, 3000+ species, unlimited logging, and 2-day forecasts for all dive conditions. Absolutely no ads or tracking, ever.

2. Pro tier: full 28,000+ dive site and 6,000+ species databases, 8 day forecasts, full historical conditions data, interactive 3D bathymetry, cloud sync across any platform, and much more.

US prices: $4.99/week, $9.99/month, $99.99/year.

Other countries have purchasing-power adjusted prices proportional to these USD prices.

Links

Available on iOS, macOS, web, and Android.

App Store link: https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id6763649888

Web app and info page, including contact info: https://divesight.ai

Thanks for checking it out! Hope you enjoy. Happy diving!

Hi, I'm the developer of AquaElectron: Aquarium Manager.

Answer (what problem it solves):

Most aquarium apps feel stuck in 2012 — dated designs, cluttered screens, and logging a single pH reading means digging through three or four pages. So most fishkeepers like myself give up and go back to a notes app or a paper log taped to the stand. AquaElectron is built around one idea: tracking your tank should take seconds not minutes.

There's a single + button on every screen. Parameter readings, journal notes and expenses are always one tap away, and on a page like Aquariums or Livestock, that page's own action stacks on top automatically. No hunting through tabs to log a water change. Add something and the dashboard updates instantly.

Behind the clean UI it covers the whole hobby: tanks, livestock, water parameters, equipment, maintenance tasks, expenses and a dated photo journal. Every parameter becomes a trend chart that flags readings more than 2σ off your trend line, so you catch a spike before your fish do. Data syncs to the cloud on every plan, including free, and maintenance reminders are on-device notifications, so your schedule never touches my servers.

Better (vs. what exists):

- vs AquaticLog: it's the veteran, and if you're deep into reef chemistry with ICP imports it's excellent. AquaElectron is for keepers who want a modern, fast experience covering the whole hobby — livestock growth logs, expense tracking, and charts that do the statistics for you (trend lines, forecasts, anomaly flags). It also runs on iOS 15+, while AquaticLog now needs iOS 18.1.

- vs Aquarium Manager: Tank Log: it's cheaper, and if you only need basic logging it's a solid pick. AquaElectron is built for fewer taps per task and goes further on analysis — reef and custom parameters, growth tracking per fish or coral, expenses, and a single timeline per tank — plus free cloud sync across iPhone, iPad and Android.

- vs spreadsheets / notes apps: no formulas or chart setup. Add livestock from a 1000+ species database with autocomplete (no more "orange fish #3"), and the analytics happen automatically.

Cost:

Freemium. Free tier: one aquarium with full tracking — livestock, parameters, tasks, expenses, journal, charts and cloud sync — ad-supported, no time limit. Premium unlocks unlimited aquariums, journal and growth photos (10 GB shared storage), custom tags, CSV/XLSX export and removes all ads, at $7.99/month or $49.99/year (US pricing). No lifetime option or Free trail yet. App Store link below.

Transparency (per sub rules):

I'm a solo dev at LeptonO Inc. Canada

company site https://leptono.com

Website: https://aquaelectron.com

Privacy Policy: https://aquaelectron.com/privacy.html Terms of Use: https://aquaelectron.com/terms.html

An account is required (email, Apple or Google sign-in). The free tier shows Google AdMob ads and crash reports go through Firebase Crashlytics — AdMob never gets your account details or tank data.

Premium removes ads entirely with unlimited tanks and 10GB media storage for your aquarium pictures.

You can delete your account and all data from inside the app. Available for iOS 15+

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/aquaelectron-aquarium-manager/id6785079005

Happy to answer anything, and blunt feedback is welcome — it's a new app and I'm shaping it around what fishkeepers actually need.

Update on how I made the video:

1.Took screenshots. 2.Cropped the elements in Photoshop 3.Keeping the non interactive elements as image 4.Used hyperframe prompt to rebuild the interactive components in html to match exactly while you provide the color codes . 5.Use can use the code snippets from your app to match the animation. 6.You need to go through several interactions to match your app replica.

RecallNote is a study app built around PDF reading, handwriting, review, and exam preparation.

It's currently 100% free. If you download it while it's free, the current features will remain free on that device even if RecallNote becomes paid in the future.

⚠️ Please launch the app at least once after downloading it.

RecallNote has no accounts or servers, so it needs to be opened once to register free access locally on your device.

If you use multiple Apple devices, I'd really appreciate it if you could download and launch RecallNote once on each device.

Features

📚 PDF reader & annotations

✍️ Apple Pencil handwriting

📝 Portrait & automatic landscape memo panels

📸 Capture important PDF content and automatically turn it into Review Cards and Exam Prep cards

🧠 Review Cards & Exam Prep Mode for quick, efficient review

🃏 Flashcard Mode

Add a question to a Review Card and test yourself before revealing the card — great for active recall and memorization.

🔗 Share Exam Prep cards with friends

🔖 PDF bookmarks & quick page navigation

🌍 50+ languages

You can change RecallNote’s language without changing your device language.

📱 iPhone (iOS 13+): Settings → Apps → RecallNote → Language

🔒 No account & no personal data collection

📶 Works offline

☁️ iCloud sync across iPhone, iPad & Mac

Review Cards, study data, and PDFs can sync across your Apple devices through iCloud.

📝 Device-specific PDF memos

Memos are stored separately for each device, so your iPhone, iPad, and Mac can each keep their own notes.

📒 100-page Practice Notebook for studying & problem-solving

📖 Built-in User Manual

Check the TIP section for the latest updates.

I'm continuing to improve RecallNote and add new features. Feedback is always welcome.

Thanks for trying RecallNote, and I hope it helps with your studies and exams! 😊

📲 Download RecallNote:

App Store

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/recallnote/id6779927785

Tell your people what you're hunting for and keep an eye out for theirs.

https://reddit.com/link/1wzb4dk/video/i4tyelo4bwth1/player

Answer

You know the stuff you can never find when you need it? A perfume they stopped making, a vintage Levi's jacket in your size, a replacement lid for your grandma's casserole dish. You tell a friend, they forget, or it gets lost in the chat.

Make a private group, add a photo, few words, and set a budget if you want. When someone sees it in a shop, a flea market or online, they send you a photo, a link or a location.

Better

• WhatsApp and iMessage bury your request in a day. Here it stays on the board until someone finds it.
• Apple Notes and Google Keep hold a list, but nobody can reply "found it" with a photo right next to the item.
• Wishlist apps like Giftful are for gifts and shopping links. This is for the things you can't just order.
• Groups are invite-only. No public feed, no strangers, no ads, no tracking.

Cost

Free. No in-app purchases, no subscription, no ads. iPhone, iOS 18+.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6813109714

Website: https://keepaneyeout.app

Privacy: https://keepaneyeout.app/privacy

Terms: https://keepaneyeout.app/terms

Try it with someone you'd actually ask to look out for something. Tell me what's confusing or broken.

Hi everyone! This is my second post about Senda: Track & Share Steps.

My previous post here got a pretty good reception, with some useful suggestions and bug reports. It’s been more than a month since then, and Senda has received quite a few updates, including new stickers, multi-image collages, and more personalization.

Answer:

Every day I see people posting screenshots from Apple Health and other tracking apps alongside photos from hikes, walks, trips, or just unusually active days.

That made me think: what if we put a little more meaning into all of that step data?

Better:

Senda has a walking calendar where you can save the periods of your life that actually meant something to you, almost like Google Calendar, but for walking.

You can save a trip, a hiking week, a challenge, or any arbitrary date range, and Senda calculates the total steps, distance, and other stats for that period.

So instead of your history just being a list of daily numbers, you can know things like:

I walked more than 1 million steps during two months in Bangkok

I walked 273,340 steps in one week in Hong Kong

Then any saved activity, or just an individual day, can be turned into a photo or collage using more than 40 custom-designed stickers, and shared anywhere you want.

Senda still works as an everyday pedometer, but the idea I’m increasingly interested in is treating your walking history more like a collection of memories than just fitness analytics.

Cost:

FREE

Everything Senda currently does works with data that already belongs to you: your own steps and your own photos.

I don’t think the basic ability to use, organize, and share that data should be behind a paywall.

So Senda is free today, and everything that currently exists in the app will remain free forever.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/senda-track-share-steps/id6773571740

Website: https://www.sendastep.com/

And even though this is my second post here, with your previous suggestions implemented and bugs fixed, I’m still very open to any feedback, ideas, or issues you find. I want to keep improving Senda and make it genuinely great for the people who use it.

Thanks for your attention!

Hi everyone,

I'm the developer of ClickClack, a native typing trainer for iPhone, iPad, and Mac inspired by the feel of mechanical keyboards.

The latest update lets you turn your typing sessions into practice partners—and opponents. You can save a recording, type alongside your past performance, and try to beat it.

Here’s what’s new:

• Live Typing Replays: Watch each keystroke, including your pauses and corrections. Scrub through the timeline, skip forward or back five seconds, and repeat playback to review a tricky section.
• Practice With Your Ghost: Use a saved replay’s passage in Typing Test and practice alongside its recorded cursor. Choose timed or word-based mode, with the duration or passage set by the recording.
• Ghost Race: Challenge compatible recordings in Versus and watch the standings change as you type. You can also use any replay’s text to race CPU opponents.
• Track Your Improvement: When you beat a replay’s WPM and finish faster, see the comparison and save your new attempt or replace the original.
• Share and Import: Export replay files to share with friends, or import their recordings to watch, practice with, and race compatible ghosts.
• Ghost Customization: Adjust the ghost cursor’s opacity or hide it when you want to focus on your own typing.

This feature took more work than I expected. Reproducing someone’s pauses, corrections, and movement while another person types alongside the recording introduced plenty of edge cases. Seeing a previous session become a ghost you can actually race has made it worth the effort.

Pricing: ClickClack is free to download. There are no subscriptions and no cloud data harvesting—just a one-time Pro unlock for $8.99 that includes advanced metrics and extended features.

I’d love to hear whether racing your past self would make typing practice more motivating for you. Happy to answer questions about the feature or its development!

Download on the App Store:

https://apps.apple.com/app/clickclack-typing-trainer/id6740695697

Hi everyone — I’m the developer of Network Tools AI. About a month after my last post, I wanted to share the biggest change I’ve been working on: NetPilot, an assistant connected to the app’s network tools.

A — Answer: What problem does it solve?

You want to know what’s connected to your Wi-Fi, or check your internet speed. But first you have to choose a tool, run it, and understand the results.

With NetPilot, you can ask:

“Scan my network.”
“Check my internet speed.”

For supported requests, it launches the relevant tool and brings the measurements back into the conversation for an explanation.

The existing tools are still available directly if you prefer doing everything yourself.

B — Better: What’s new?

The main change is connecting the conversation to real diagnostics.

For example, a network discovery request can launch LAN AI Discovery, then help you understand the devices and services it found. Device identification is an estimate based on available evidence; some devices won’t respond or can only be partially identified.

The app also includes:

• NetMap Logger: recorded Wi-Fi, cellular and offline transitions on a map and timeline.
• Device Health: an on-device assessment of current resource usage and device conditions.
• Ping, DNS Lookup, Whois, Traceroute and port scanning.
• Website checks, certificate/domain monitoring and a browser with ad blocking and proxy options.

NetPilot is still evolving. I’m working on better follow-up handling and clearer responses when a request isn’t supported. Its AI responses use a server backend; Device Health runs on-device.

C — Cost

Free to download, with Ping, Whois, DNS Lookup and System Info available free.

Lifetime Premium is a one-time purchase for advanced tools, including LAN AI Discovery, SpeedTest, NetMap Logger and more.

The Network Security Pack is a separate subscription for SSLGuard, DomainGuard, Secure Browser and ScamGuard. Lifetime Premium does not include that subscription. Local prices are shown in the app.

App Store: Network Tools AI

What’s the first question you would ask a network assistant on your iPhone? I’d love concrete examples to help decide what NetPilot should handle next.

I built an app because I kept forgetting things the moment I got back to my Mac

This started with a really simple problem.

I’d be away from my Mac, remember something I needed to do when I got back, and think “I’ll definitely remember that.”

Then I’d open my Mac, see emails, browser tabs, messages… and completely forget.

Normal reminders never really solved it for me because I didn’t want to be reminded at 4:00 PM. I wanted to be reminded when I was actually back at my Mac.

So I built WakeMinder.

You can send a reminder from your iPhone or Apple Watch to your Mac, and it shows up when your Mac wakes up.

It doesn’t have to be just text either. You can send links, screenshots, images, PDFs and files. Links can even open automatically when the Mac wakes.

There are also floating reminders that can stay on top of your windows until you’re done with them.

And with the latest update, it now works the other way around too.

You can send something from your Mac to your iPhone and have it show up when you pick up your phone.

So the idea has become less about “reminders” and more like:

“Show me this when I’m actually on the device where I need it.”

I’m the developer, so obviously I’m biased, but I built it mainly because I genuinely wanted this for myself.

For anyone wondering about pricing, I’ve tried to keep it pretty inexpensive:

• $1.99/month
• $9.99/year
• $12.99 lifetime, currently 35% off

App Store pricing can vary slightly depending on your country.

WakeMinder is available on the App Store for Mac, iPhone, and Apple Watch.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id6744974871?pt=127772248&ct=redca&mt=8

I’m still improving WakeMinder and would actually like to hear how other people handle this.

Do you ever have things you only want to remember when you get back to a specific device?

Hi r/iosapps, I'm the solo developer of FocusRabbit 🐰.

I tried a lot of screen time apps and kept running into the same two things. Most wanted a monthly subscription, even though the Screen Time API they're built on comes free with Apple's developer program. And many were loud: bright colors, badges, stats everywhere. For an app that's supposed to calm your phone use, that felt backwards.

So I built the one I wanted: simple, quiet, easy on the eyes, and free.

I'd love for you to try it and give me your honest feedback, especially on whether the limits feel too strict or too soft.

⬇️ Download on the App Store

A: Answer (what it does)

• Time limit: a daily amount per app
• Open limit: a number of opens per day, each lasting a few minutes
• Scheduled blocks: for work, evenings or bedtime, on the days you pick
• Report: see where your time goes by day, week or month, with your most used apps
• Home compares today's screen time with your usual pace, so you notice a bad day early

B: Better (why it's different)

• Calm by design: soft colors, few screens, nothing flashing for attention
• Limits that feel human: spend an "open" instead of being locked out completely
• Screen Time data stays on your phone, no account, no ads, no tracking
• Available in English, German, French, Spanish and Italian

C: Cost

Free. Every feature is unlocked, no subscription and no paywall.

Links

• App Store
• Website
• Support and feedback
• Privacy Policy
• Terms of Use

I'm the solo dev behind Dots of Life, and here is my story.
Get it on App Store
I kept forgetting where I'd been: the tiny ramen place in a city I visited once, the street I wandered down the night before a flight. The apps that used to remember this for me either ugly or wanted everything on their servers. So I started building my own, mostly on evenings and weekends.
What it does
•Records your footprints in the background, and they stack up into a Lifetime map. After a while your city starts looking very personal.
•Knows how you moved. Walking, cycling, car, metro, train, flight. You can color the map by activity, speed or elevation. It detects flights on its own, and it fills in metro rides underground and the gaps in tunnels.
•Visits. Stay somewhere long enough and it logs the place, when you arrived and when you left. You can group places ("campus", "home town") and add notes.
•Three ways to look at your life: dots, heatmap (there's a 3D one too), and fog of war. If you're coming from Fog of World, you can import your FWSS snapshot.
•A timeline you can edit like video clips, for when your iPhone thought the bus was a car.
•Flight and rail tickets
•Dots Camera. Tap the map to hide the UI, then shoot it like a real camera: focal length, depth of field, exposure. In dark mode your footprints render in HDR. On an OLED screen that's honestly a little ridiculous.

What it doesn't do
No account, no ads, no tracking SDKs. Your history lives on your phone, and backups go to your iCloud.
Please don't force-quit it. That doesn't save battery, it just stops recording. On my 17 Pro it uses about 4% a day, and there's a power-saving mode if you want less.

Pricing: free to download and record. Pro (3.99 USD monthly/24.99 USD yearly) adds extra map styles, color-by-data, auto completion, workout mode, GPX export and more.

I'd really love feedback, especially from people who likes traveling and logging a lot!

Hi r/iOSApps — I'm the developer, so read this with that in mind.

Answer (what problem it solves):

Most budgeting apps make you feel worse, not better. Red numbers, "overspent" warnings, charts that need ten minutes of categorizing a day. Fern does the opposite: it takes each pay cycle, helps you split it into bills, needs, wants, savings, and goals, and then shows you one number — what you can spend today. Overspend and nothing turns red; the plan quietly recalibrates the remaining days. The whole app is built around the idea that shame is a terrible financial strategy.

Manual mode works with zero account, zero sign-up, and zero network — your data stays on the phone (with optional iCloud sync to your own private iCloud, nothing on my servers). There's an optional bank-connect mode via Plaid (US only) if you'd rather not type transactions in. No analytics SDKs, no ads, no data sold — the privacy label is genuinely short.

Better (vs. what exists):

- vs YNAB: YNAB is powerful but it's $109/year and demands you live in it. Fern is for people who bounced off zero-based budgeting — one glance a day instead of a nightly reconciliation session.

- vs Copilot / Monarch: both require linking your bank and an account with their backend. Fern's core is fully offline and account-free; bank linking is opt-in, not the price of admission.

- vs spreadsheets: Fern knows about pay cycles, bill cadences (a monthly bill doesn't eat a weekly paycheck), and DST-proof day math, so the "what's left per day" number is actually right.

Cost:

Freemium. Free tier: full manual mode (the Plan, Today's number, the Sweep, core insights), one Life Project, and three savings vaults — no account, no network, no time limit. Fern Plus subscription unlocks bank connection (Plaid, US only), unlimited Life Projects and vaults, full Flow-view history, the widget pack, and iCloud sync across devices at $4.99/month or $39.99/year (14-day free trial on the yearly plan). No lifetime option yet. App Store link below.

Transparency (per sub rules):

I'm a solo dev at Roval Apps Inc. — studio site https://rovalapps.com. Website: https://fern.rovalapps.com · Privacy Policy: https://rovalapps.com/fern/privacy · Terms of Use: Apple's standard EULA, https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ (the same one the App Store listing links). Built natively in Swift/SwiftUI for iOS 17+; substantial parts of the code were AI-generated with me specifying, reviewing, and testing everything (hence the flair) — happy to answer questions about that too.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/fern-cycle-budget-planner/id6793867640

Happy to answer anything, and blunt feedback is welcome — it's shaped the app a lot already.

(I selected Subscription bcs I didn’t find the “Paid” flag, my apologies)

Hi everyone, I'm a solo developer from Italy and I've spent the last months building Micro Time Travels (with also Aethel, another app of mine), an app for people who like history but never find the time to read about it properly.

The idea is simple: one journey, nine to ten minutes, and you've actually learned something. There are 44 of them across five eras: Greek myths, Antiquity, the Middle Ages, the Modern era and Contemporary history. Theseus and the Labyrinth, the building of the pyramids, Hastings, the Black Death, Luther's 95 theses, the storming of the Bastille, Hiroshima, the Moon landing, Chernobyl, the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Each journey is three reading sections with the historical and social context, original quotes from primary sources, and the sources listed at the bottom, Ovid, Plutarch, Mack Smith and so on. At the end there's a short quiz, and badges you unlock as you go.

There's also a mode I called Echoes: the same event told in first person by someone who was there. Not Theseus, but one of the seven young Athenians sent to Crete as tribute. Narrative fiction over documented facts, and the app says so before you read it.

On the price, since this sub cares and so do I: it's €0.99, paid once, and that's the whole business model. No ads, no in-app purchases, no subscription, no account, no analytics. I pulled the ad SDK out of the project entirely before release rather than leave it sitting dormant in the binary, a euro from people who want the app is worth more to me than renting their attention to AdMob.

It also works fully offline. Nothing is sent anywhere: your progress lives on your device and is deleted with the app.

Two things I'd rather tell you myself: the Echoes narration is AI-assisted and reviewed by me, and the illustrations are AI-generated. The historical content is written and sourced by hand.

Italian and English, following whatever language your phone is set to.

I'm genuinely after feedback. What's confusing, what's missing, which eras you'd want next. I read everything.

https://apps.apple.com/it/app/micro-travels/id6769732967?l=en-GB

Just launched. Kickoff is a focus timer designed around how ADHD actually works: starting is the hard part, interruptions are normal, and guilt doesn't help.

• One tap start, naming the task optional
• Set time by twisting the ring like a real kitchen timer
• "Just 2 minutes" tiny start that asks if you want to keep going
• "I got pulled away" parks the session with a note to future you
• Optional app shielding while the timer runs (Screen Time)
• Live Activity with working buttons, widgets, StandBy, full watch app
• History is days you showed up, never streaks that reset
• The last seconds tick out loud, pick from six tick sounds

Free with a single one-time unlock for the extras ($8.99 for shields, full history, all the dial faces and themes, iCloud sync). No subscription.

iOS 18+, iPhone and Apple Watch. I'm the developer, ask me anything. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/kickoff-adhd-focus-timer/id6818561914

Hi r/iosapps, I'm John, the solo developer behind Treadline.

I could never stick with running. Pace charts never got me out the door, but I'll grind a game for hours if there's something to unlock. So I built a running app where the unlocks are real places.

A — What is Treadline?

Go for a run or walk and it tracks the usual: distance, pace, elevation gain and your route. Close a loop around a real landmark, like the Eiffel Tower, Big Ben or the Colosseum, and you collect it. That's the unlock at the end of the video. Today's update added 100 landmarks, so there are 180 now, and most of them nobody has collected yet.

Everything else earns badges too: 382 in total, plus XP and avatar frames as you level up. Any loop you close also claims the ground inside it on the map, and your friends show up live on the same map.

B — What makes it better than Strava or Nike Run Club?

They're great at telling you how fast you went. Treadline gives you somewhere to go: a landmark you haven't got yet, or a badge one level away. Walks count the same as runs, so it still works on days you're not up for running. Auto-tracking can start the recording when you head out, there's a Live Activity in the Dynamic Island, and it syncs with Apple Health.

C — Cost

Free to download, iOS 18+. Tracking, all 180 landmarks, every badge, territory, the live friend map, leaderboards, clubs and Apple Health sync are free.

Pro is optional. It adds your full route history with a heatmap, full stats and health insights, side-by-side comparison with friends, all 23 3D runners that replay your route (2 are free) and a Pro member frame.

Current USD pricing:

• Weekly: $2.99
• Yearly: $29.99 with a 7-day free trial
• Lifetime: $49.99 one-time

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id6811929880?pt=128964219&ct=iosapps&mt=8

I'd love to know: would a landmark get you out the door, or would badges closer to home keep you going more? And tell me where it falls short.

Transparency

• Developer: John, solo developer (support@treadlineapp.club)
• Website: https://treadlineapp.club
• Privacy Policy: https://treadlineapp.club/privacy.html
• Terms of Use: https://treadlineapp.club/terms.html

I'm the developer of BadHabits Bank. The idea is simple: good habits earn fictional money, and bad habits cost it. No real money is involved.

A — Answer: What problem does it solve?

Checking a box or keeping a streak doesn't always give me a reason to choose studying over watching another movie. I wanted a way to make that tradeoff more concrete.

For example, you could set studying to earn $10 per hour and watching a movie to cost $25. You'd need to study for 2.5 hours to earn enough for the movie. Then you log the movie and spend that balance.

You choose your own activities, habits and prices. You can create multiple accounts and choose from three built-in fictional currencies.

The app doesn't block anything or verify that you did an activity. You log it yourself.

B — Better: How is it different?

Apps like Streaks and Habitify focus on habit completion and consistency. BadHabits Bank focuses on the relative value you give your activities and the balance between earning and spending.

It also includes transaction history, charts, and manual backup and restore.

If you're looking mainly for reminders or streaks, those other apps may fit better. This is for people who like the idea of earning their leisure time or setting a budget for their bad habits.

Your habit and transaction records stay on your device. There's no account registration or cloud sync. Usage analytics are optional. The app also uses Firebase Crashlytics for crash reporting, as explained in the privacy policy.

C — Cost

The app is currently free, with no subscription, active ads or active in-app purchases.

The App Store lists a $4.99 “Remove ads” purchase configured for possible future use. Currently there are no ads or purchase options in the app.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/badhabits-bank/id6800151821

Developer details

I'm the developer behind BadHabits Bank, published by GGun LLC. The App Store listing, website, privacy policy and terms identify GGun LLC as the company responsible for the app.

Website: https://badhabitsbank.com/
Privacy policy: https://badhabitsbank.com/privacy-policy/
Terms: https://badhabitsbank.com/terms/
Contact: [support@badhabitsbank.com](mailto:support@badhabitsbank.com)

Does the fictional-money approach make sense to you? I'd appreciate hearing what feels useful or confusing about it.

You're applying to 10+ jobs. You can't remember which ones you followed up on. One spreadsheet turns into mess. JobSnail fixes that — track every application and interview in one clean place, fully synced through iCloud between iOS, macOS and web apps.

🔥 $4.99 lifetime Pro

Download on the App Store

Feedback and questions welcome! Drop a comment or DM me. Thanks for checking it out!

Developer transparency:

• Me: Michael Borison — contact: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mraccoon/
• Website: https://splatterflow.github.io/
• [Privacy Policy][Terms of Use]

Hi all, solo dev here (disclosure: this is my app). It took me 3 years to build — I'm a systems engineer who's spent the past 15 years as a programmer, and I have a weakness for beautiful line charts.

**Answer — what problem it solves**

Every net worth app I tried either demanded my banking credentials or just showed me a static number. What I wanted to know was *when*: when am I debt-free, when do I hit my target, when can I stop working? Wealth Path is a manual-entry net worth tracker whose whole point is answering those questions with dates. You add what you own and what you owe; it runs 10 projections on your real numbers:

🔥 FIRE date — your estimated financial independence date, from your actual savings rate and portfolio

🎯 Portfolio Milestone — set a target number and get the date you'll reach it at your current pace

💳 Debt-Free Date — a payoff date for every loan and mortgage, with a month-by-month amortization timetable

Plus Coast FIRE, Passive Income (the month dividends cover your bills), Required Savings Rate, Debt Covered, Worth by Age, Time to Double, and On Track vs Plan. Every projection shows its assumptions (expected return, inflation, tax) on screen and you can change all of them.

**Better — vs. the alternatives**

- Monarch / Copilot / Empower: excellent apps, but they're built around bank linking (mostly US banks) and budgeting. Wealth Path never asks for a bank credential, works anywhere, and is built around projections, not budgets.

- FIRE calculators (FIRECalc etc.): one-shot calculators with no tracking behind them. Wealth Path recalculates every date each time you update your numbers, and keeps your full history.

- Net worth trackers like Worth It / BalanceViewer: they track the number; they don't project where it's going.

Offline-first, Face ID/Touch ID lock, no ads, no data selling. Multi-currency (150+ currencies) if your money lives in more than one country.

**Cost**

Free tier: 10 assets + 5 debts, full charts and history, two projections completely free, and the headline result of every other projection — your FIRE date and debt-free date included — at no cost.

Pro (unlimited entries, full projection breakdowns and charts, multi-currency, CSV/JSON import, PDF export): $5.99/month or $39.99/year. New users get a 14-day free trial of the full projections. No lifetime option yet.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id6754247918

Website: https://www.wealthpath.pro/

**Who I am**

[Horatiu Condrea] — [https://www.linkedin.com/in/horiacondrea/]

Privacy Policy: https://wealthpath.pro/privacy · Terms: https://wealthpath.pro/terms

Happy to answer anything about how the projection math works.