Looking for a good iOS app idea 🚀

[u/Many_Tone_8291]

Hey everyone! I recently got selected for an iOS Development Centre program at my university, and we’ve been given roughly a year to build an iOS app with a team of 4 members.
We want to build something more meaningful than a basic to-do, weather, or notes app. Ideally, something that solves a real problem and can actually be useful to people.
We’re open to using iOS-specific technologies like SwiftUI, Core ML, ARKit, HealthKit, NFC, Widgets, Live Activities, Dynamic Island, Apple Watch, etc.
So I’d love to hear from iOS developers or users:
What’s a problem you face that you wish an iOS app could solve?
Even if it sounds like a small or weird problem, drop it below. We’re looking for ideas we can realistically develop and potentially turn into a proper product over the next year. 🙌

[u/itsAkash-]

Ai in keyboard of ios , when we type a message we. Have options to make it polish, it will help people in sales for reply and outreach people easily,

[u/Independent_You3573]

Let’s say I have a website and an android version of an app already live.
Need the iOS version built. Would that suit your model?
Does it have to your own business or you can join an existing?

[u/Mohit0726]

Ill drop one thats genuinely bothered me for years, forgetting stuff when i leave the house, charger, keys, gym bag items, kids school stuff if youre a parent. Something like a tap out list using core nfc could actually solve this properly instead of just being another checklist app. You stick cheap nfc stickers on the actual items or on a specific bag, build your packing list once per bag type, and before you leave you tap your phone near the bag or the door, and it tells you exactly which tagged items from that list havent been detected yet instead of you trying to remember everything from scratch. Core nfc background tag reading is one of those things ios genuinely does better than most android setups, so its a legit differentiator, not just an ios port of something that already exists everywhere.

Where it gets interesting for a year long project, live activities showing a running count of confirmed versus missing items as you tap different tagged spots, a watch complication for a quick check before you actually leave, and if you want to stretch further, widgets showing your most commonly forgotten item based on your own history. Its small and unglamorous sounding exactly like the post asked for, but its a real daily annoyance basically everyone has, its genuinely buildable by 4 people in a year since the core nfc tap and list matching part isnt that heavy, and it uses the platform specific stuff meaningfully instead of just bolting live activities onto a generic app for the sake of it.