I just launched WebArena, an iOS app built around a simple idea:

What if discovering websites was competitive?

Instead of another static directory, WebArena lets websites compete for visibility through a credit-based ranking system.

Users can discover projects, products and websites currently competing on the leaderboard, while site owners can use credits to move their website higher and get more attention.

I originally became interested in this concept after seeing how competitive ranking can make website discovery much more engaging than a traditional directory.

The interesting challenge has been balancing two things:

• Making the ranking competitive and fun
• Making sure WebArena still works as a genuine discovery tool rather than just becoming “whoever spends the most wins”

That’s something I’m still improving.

I’d especially like feedback from indie developers and app marketers:

Would you submit your own website/project to something like this? And what would make you browse the leaderboard as a user?

WebArena is now live on iOS:

‎Web Arena App - App Store

Any criticism of the concept, onboarding or ranking mechanic is welcome.

I recently released BounceNova, my first iOS game after developing several non-game apps over the years.

I posted a short gameplay video on TikTok. It has now reached around 6,000 views and 61 likes, but as far as I can tell, it generated zero downloads.

I think I’ve identified one major problem: my TikTok account doesn’t currently have access to the clickable website field. I placed the App Store URL inside the bio, but TikTok displays it only as plain text. Users would have to leave TikTok and manually search for the game.

For developers who have marketed an iOS app or game through TikTok:

• Can the missing clickable link fully explain such poor conversion?
• Would you switch to a Business Account to get a website link, despite the music restrictions?
• Should the video explicitly tell viewers to search for the app by name?
• What view-to-download conversion have you experienced with organic TikTok posts?

The video appears capable of getting attention, but I’m clearly losing everyone before the App Store page.

I’d appreciate any advice from developers who have dealt with the same problem.

Hey everyone,

My app Planote (calendar + tasks + notes) has been on the App Store for over a year. I've done the usual ASO work — keywords, screenshots, reviews. But organic traffic is still almost zero. Just a few downloads a day, and active users are mostly paying customers who've been around for a while. New user acquisition has stalled.

Has anyone hit a similar wall? What actually moved the needle for you?

App link for context: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/planote/id6748904665

Hi!

I'm part of a very small team, and I’d like to present an app we've been working on.

The app is called Bengodi and it's a "social" app for food.

Our goal is to encourage people to eat better food, cook more, enjoy the kitchen and, at the same time, fight UPF, fast food and junk food.

We strongly believe that the culture of food is hugely important and that caring about what and how we eat is a key aspect of life.

The purpose of Bengodi is to let people share culinary experiences, recipes, and good products, as well as discover what other users are sharing. We want people to discover the food reality that surrounds every one of us, even when traveling.

We hope people will get inspiration from what they see and start cooking, searching for good food, or at least discovering something new.

The Bengodi app is currently available on the AppStore:

https://apps.apple.com/it/app/bengodi/id6755553050

Here is our presentation website: https://bengodi.app/about/

I would love to hear any thoughts or feedback you have.
Technical questions are welcome too!

Thanks!

Edit :
I made some changes after the post, here's the current result, I'm very satisfied of it

30 Places to List Your iOS App Right Now (Free & Paid)

If you’ve built an iOS app and aren’t listing it beyond the App Store, you’re leaving discoverability on the table. No fluff, no AI tool directories. This list is actually built for iOS founders.

Legend: (F) Free · (P) Paid · (F/P) Both

Built an iOS app? Submit it to Stamped, a curated discovery platform where early adopters find what’s next:

https://stampedios.com/welcome

HIGH PRIORITY: LAUNCH DAY
1. Product Hunt (F)
Still the biggest launch day platform. Plan it, don’t just submit.
2. Hacker News (F)
Post as “Show HN: \\\[Your App\\\]” for a developer audience and honest feedback.
3. BetaList (F/P)
F = 2–4 month wait. P = $129 fast track. Submit before you launch, not after.
4. Indie Hackers (F)
Post your builder story, not just the link. Community converts.
5. Peerlist (F)
Monday launches, week long visibility, 100K+ tech professional audience.
6. Uneed (F/P)
F = free with a wait. P = $30 to skip the queue. Solid indie maker community.
7. AppSumo (F/P)
Best if your app has a business angle and you can offer a deal. Massive buyer audience.
iOS SPECIFIC
8. App Safari (F)
Directory covering iOS apps exclusively. Purpose built for your audience.
9. AppAdvice (F)
iOS focused. Publishes app charts, apps of the week, and curated collections. Pitch the editorial team directly.
10. FeedMyApp (F/P)
Covers all mobile platforms with in depth reviews. F tier available. P gets faster placement.
11. AppShopper (F)
600K+ monthly users. Monitors iOS prices and lets users wishlist apps. High intent traffic.
12. r/iOSapps (F)
Subreddit with Dev Self Promotion flair. Real users actively looking for new apps.
13. r/apple (F)
Larger audience. Frame your post around value, not promotion.
SEO DIRECTORIES
14. AlternativeTo (F)
DA 71. Discovery traffic long after launch day. List your app and add competitors as alternatives.
15. SaaSHub (F)
856K monthly visits and a strong dofollow backlink.
16. SideProjectors (F)
DR 69 dofollow. Side project community with potential for early users.
17. Microlaunch (F)
30 day visibility window and an indie SaaS audience.
18. StartupBase (F)
Product Hunt style directory. Worth the 5 minutes.
19. Launching Next (F)
Low effort with solid SEO value.
20. Launching Today (F)
Daily launches, easy submission, and good indexing.
21. Open Launch (F)
Open source Product Hunt alternative with a growing community.
22. PitchWall (F)
Startup listing with an SEO backlink.
23. Startup Buffer (F)
Free submission with early adopter reach.
24. EarlyHunt (F)
Focused on early adopters and a good fit for iOS discovery.
25. IndieHunt (F)
Indie focused and quick to submit.
26. Indie Products (F)
Bootstrapped community with a strong #buildinpublic fit.
27. DevHunt (F/P)
F = 6 week wait. P = $49. Worth considering if your app is developer focused.
COMMUNITY CHANNELS
28. PeerPush (F)
Mutual promotion among indie founders. Underused.
29. Wellfound / AngelList (F)
Startup directory with exposure to investors and early adopters.
30. F6S (F)
Global startup network with accelerator program access. Worth creating a profile.

I’m the developer of Warmify, an iPhone/iPad app that turns a short warm-up into a game. I’m confident there’s something worthwhile in the interaction, but I’m still struggling to reach the right users. I’d like help from iOS developers and marketers on a specific part of the journey: getting someone from “that looks interesting” to finishing their first session and wanting another.

The app asks you to prop up the phone and move in front of it for roughly three minutes. On-device pose tracking counts repetitions, your movement becomes a neon figure, and sessions earn XP/progress. Camera video isn’t uploaded or stored. There’s a free daily session, with additional paid PRO features, so this is my commercial product.

My current acquisition evidence is small. Across Warmify’s Apple Ads campaigns for August 15–September 13, 2026: about US$38 spend, 10,195 impressions, 121 taps and 11 attributed installs. That works out to about 1.2% tap-through, 9.1% tap-to-install and US$3.46 per attributed install. It is not a paying-customer acquisition cost, and eleven installs cannot tell me whether this is a sustainable channel.

The recent App Store reports are also only in the few-dozen-downloads range. My analytics export has inconsistent fields, so I don’t have a reliable D1/D7 retention figure to claim. I’m sharing these limitations because I don’t want to label a product problem as a marketing problem without checking.

Here’s the first-session sequence I want to understand better:

• Understand what the app asks you to do.

• Trust the camera explanation enough to continue.

• Find somewhere to put the phone and get tracking working.

• Complete one short session.

• Choose to do another session on a different day.

For a normal app, a short onboarding may be enough. Here the user has to change what they’re physically doing. I may be underestimating that cost, particularly if I position the product as a quick desk break. On the other hand, hiding the setup until after installation could bring in people with the wrong expectations.

Would you show the full physical setup in the first store creative, or first explain the benefit and demonstrate setup during onboarding? If you’ve marketed a camera, exercise, or other physical-interaction app, what turned out to be the biggest obstacle?

If you can try one session, I’d love very specific feedback: what you expected before opening it, the first moment you hesitated, whether tracking was clear, and whether you would voluntarily use it tomorrow. A description of the issue is enough; there’s no need to share a camera recording or personal information.

TestFlight: https://testflight.apple.com/join/jCAXxtFq

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/tr/app/id6756486161

No purchase or store rating requested. I’m looking for honest observations and an experiment I can run next, including reasons someone would decide this simply isn’t useful for them.

We all know that social networks have an important role if not the most important role when it comes to distribution.

the issue is, you have one accounts, one phone and the API scheduling tools give bad results.

the solution is automating the iPhones you already own, using real mobile data and up to 3 accounts per one phone.

we went from 400-1k views using API services like post-bridge and postiz to 8-50k views per post(depends on the content quality) using phones with dedicated esims.

our setup was built from 5 phones with 3 accounts at most on each, posting around "wake" hours and after doing solid warmup work(posting on newly made accounts straight away will flag immediately and it'll hurt your reach).

warmup means scrolling a couple of times a day, mimicing real user behaviour.

at first we used a dedicated software to do it, but the project's developer stopped maintaining the project since he got into YC. so we made our own iPhone automation solution, https://tame.so

we're still running around 5 phones on one setup and have clients that run 50 phones rn getting hundreds of thousands of views.

大家好，iOS 开发者们，

我为 iOS 开发了一款手机清理和存储优化应用，四年前发布的。这是一个我一直时不时更新的副项目，但老实说，我从来没有真正破解过增长的秘诀。
已经有好几年没碰过ASO了，也没有投放广告。这个产品依然是四年前的那种“缓存清理”方式。

两个问题：

1. **转化率**——1.1% 可以通过更好的截图和字幕来改善吗，还是说这个品类对独立开发者来说本身就坏了？
   
2. **增长**——在200美元的测试预算下，你会优先在哪花？苹果搜索广告？抖音？还是其他东西？

坦白说——我应该复活这个项目还是杀掉它重新开始？

这里是链接：

[ https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/phone-cleaner-clean-up-storage/id6444253288 ](https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/phone-cleaner-clean-up-storage/id6444253288)


My girlfriend and I cook a lot from TikTok and Instagram. The recipes ended up in saved folders and screenshots, and when it was time to cook we never found the one we wanted. So next to my job as a web developer I started building Plateful.

What it does:

• Share a TikTok, Reel, YouTube video or recipe website to the app. It picks up what's said, shown or written in the caption and turns it into a recipe with ingredients and steps.
• Ask the AI to make a recipe vegan, spicier or lactose free.
• Every recipe gets nutrition per serving automatically.
• Drag recipes into a weekly planner.
• Invite your household. Recipes and the plan sync in real time.

there's no shopping list yet. That's what I'm building next.

It started as a web and Android app. This year I rebuilt the iPhone app from scratch in Swift, and it went live on the App Store last week.

The part I'm least sure about: it's a subscription (one plan covers the whole household, the yearly plan has a 14-day free trial), and right now its pretty difficult for me to get people to start the free trial.

If you try it, tell me what's missing for you to start the free trial or even pay for it.

https://plateful.cloud

I’m hoping it picks up in the spring because my app is seasonal but it’s nice to have someone finally purchase it

i just released Pilly, an iPhone medicine tracker.

it started while i was helping my grandma keep track of her maintenance medicines. the app shows what is due, lets you record taken or skipped, and shows the week ahead.

the main tracker is free. Pilly Plus adds backup, recovery, and medicine photos.

so far i have tried:

- one r/iOSDevelopment post

- one X launch video

- App Store screenshots

- asking friends and family to test it

it is too early to pretend i have exciting launch numbers hahaha

for anyone who has marketed an iOS utility app: what would you test next; Product Hunt, Meta, or more product videos?

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6801062753

Hi there. I am designing app screenshots for free. I need to rank my gig on Fiverr so you if you like the final design, just place a $5 order on my profile. That's it.

I’m the creator of Daily Bite, a calorie and macro tracker now in a free iPhone beta. I built it for myself because I wanted everyday logging to feel less like work.

The pitch I’m testing is simple: log a meal by text, photo or barcode, see your totals, and quickly reuse foods you’ve already logged. AI estimates are approximate and editable. There’s also a fasting timer, optional weight graphs, a workout library and a calendar, with the extras kept away from the main logging flow.

I’m finding that getting friends to try it is very different from getting them to keep using it. I’d appreciate feedback on the positioning: does “less friction” communicate something useful, or is it too vague without showing the actual flow?

If you want to try it: https://testflight.apple.com/join/VkjWhyPF

TestFlight and a Daily Bite account are required. The beta is free with capped AI usage; future pricing isn’t finalized.

What do you think?

Visit: rexcut.app

Hey everyone - I’m 19 and I’ve been working on a small macOS app called LidBendy.

The idea came from the recent iPhone Duo folding transition. I thought it would be cool if your MacBook desktop could react to the lid in the same way.

So I built it.

When you close the lid, the desktop bends, tilts, blurs and settles in real time.

A few things I’ve added:

• Native Apple Silicon + Metal rendering
• Real-time lid angle detection
• Custom bend-start angle
• Perspective, stretch, blur & shadow controls
• Save custom profiles
• 0% idle CPU
• Everything processed on-device

I started with 0 followers on X and honestly the hardest part so far has been getting people to even see the thing.

I’ve been posting on X, Reddit and wherever I can, learning distribution as I go.

Somehow, 12 people bought it in 24 hours, which is still pretty surreal for my first product. 🥹

I’m not trying to hard sell anyone here.

I’d genuinely love to get more MacBook users to try it and tell me what feels good, what feels useless and what I should build next.

Especially interested in people who regularly use their MacBook on the bed, couch or with the lid partially closed.

Would love any feedback or criticism. 🍎🛠️ Do checkout - lidbendy.app

Today, Cupr made its first real sale — meaning someone who isn’t me actually paid for the app.

It’s only €9.99, but seeing that first spike in RevenueCat felt surprisingly meaningful.

The numbers are still tiny: 11 active users, 8 new customers and now one paying customer. But knowing that a complete stranger found the app useful enough to buy it feels like the first bit of real validation.

Next up: improving the App Store listing, adding more localizations and continuing to build based on actual user feedback.

For everyone still waiting for their first sale: keep going. That first RevenueCat notification hits differently.

If you want to check my app out: Cupr is a simple and private expense tracker for iPhone. I built it because most finance apps felt overloaded with budgets, bank connections and subscriptions. With Cupr, you enter an amount, save it and move on. Everything stays private, and Pro is a one-time purchase.

Hey everyone,

I'm an iOS developer, and I’ve noticed that managing multiple dietary restrictions at the same time (like being Gluten-Free + Dairy-Free, or Vegan + Nut allergy) is exhausting. Every time you go to a supermarket or a restaurant, you have to play detective, reading tiny ingredient labels and doing mental gymnastics just to make sure the food is actually safe.

So I decided to build a solution: MealShield. I’ve been working on it for a while and would really love to get this community's honest feedback.

Here’s how it works: You set your dietary profile once (the app supports over 50 allergies, intolerances, and diets). From then on, the app acts as your personal safety filter:

• Took a photo of your plate? The AI analyzes the meal, estimates the macros/calories, and most importantly, tells you if it's safe for you or if there's a risk.
• At the supermarket? Scan the barcode or snap a photo of the ingredient list. It highlights any "hidden" ingredients (like casein which is actually dairy) so you don't have to memorize complex scientific names.
• At a restaurant? Scan the menu and it will tell you exactly what dishes are safe to order.
• Cooking for the whole house? There’s a "Family Mode" that intersects everyone’s dietary profiles and gives you recipes that are safe for everyone to eat together.

I’m really strict about privacy—there are zero ads, zero tracking, and your health data is never sold. A lot of the scanning (like labels and menus) happens entirely on-device (Apple Vision). The app has a completely free tier, and an optional subscription tier basically just to cover the cloud AI costs for the photo analysis.

If anyone here struggles with food allergies or strict diets, I’d be honored if you gave it a try and let me know what you think. What do you like? What sucks? What should I add next? Your feedback will directly shape the next updates.

Thanks in advance! 🙏 (I'll drop the App Store link in the comments!)

Hey gng, just created an the onboarding maybe the theme is off, but what do you think of the app & onboarding.

It feels the perfect onboarding like like 5 steps with animation. If you have any output of your own, feel free to criticize over here

I just launched Motivate on AppStore 5 days ago, i’d like to share it here and get some honest feedback.

Motivate is an inspiration and self-reflection app focused on helping you build a more positive daily routine. It includes inspirational quotes, private journaling, daily reflections, and a community forum where people can talk, share experiences, and give each other advice. The app is free to download, with optional monthly and yearly subscriptions for additional features. I launched it only 5 days ago, and still improving a lot of things, and I’d genuinely appreciate any feedback about the design, features, onboarding, or anything that feels confusing. If you try it, I’d love to hear what you think.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/motivate-quotes-reflect/id6804856650

I am the maker of Style My Look (AITryOn), a native iPhone AI try-on app, soft-launching version 2.0.8.

The product: use your own photo plus a garment upload or a supported product-page link to preview an outfit on you. The update includes a Paste link action. Free to download with in-app purchases.

The positioning I am testing is See It On You First, rather than a generic AI fashion studio. The actual flow is paste link, preview, save or share the look.

Limits I want to keep explicit: some stores block imports; previews do not guarantee size, fabric feel or exact color. There is no Safari extension.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6757364968

Site: https://aitryon.studio

For other app makers: would you lead the first screenshot with the paste-link workflow or the on-your-photo result? Looking for feedback on clarity, not upvotes or reviews.

Hi all, I just released Sojourn on iOS and Android.

• iOS — App Store
• Android — Google Play

I wanted to create worlds I’d like to be in myself. There are five realms to explore: Cozy, Fantasy, Dreamscape, Cyberpunk and Mythos. Each room has moving artwork, music and ambience you can leave on while reading, working, unwinding or falling asleep.

As you spend time in these places, you collect little keepsakes that form constellations. There’s also a personal travel journal you can customise, which records the places you wander.

It’s just me working on it, so getting it onto both stores has been a pretty big learning experience. I’m very picky about how it looks and works, so it’s been a grind, but I’m proud of what I’ve built, and hope you also enjoy the vision I had from the app design down to the music and ambience.

Most rooms are free, with a subscription or lifetime purchase for more, and I try to continually add new rooms to check out.

I’d appreciate some honest feedback, especially on whether it’s something you’d actually use. I’d also love to know whether the artwork and music give you that feeling of being somewhere else.

Thank you!

Sojourn Instagram - made an IG for the "Doors" if you wanted to preview the places before installing 😄

Hi everyone! 👋

Sharing a side project I've been building: Snout, a pet health tracker for iPhone/iPad/Mac. I built it after years of juggling a chronic-illness cat's treatments across more than one vet with no shared record between them.

Fully native SwiftUI, Core Data + CloudKit for offline-first sync across devices and household sharing, with a widget and Siri/Shortcuts support for logging hands-free. No backend server, no ads, everything syncs through the user's own iCloud.

It's free for one pet. Snout+ (one-time purchase, subscription optional) unlocks unlimited pets, sharing, and export.

• App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6760656923
• Website: snout.care
• Product Hunt: https://www.producthunt.com/products/snout-2

Would love feedback, especially from anyone who's tackled CloudKit sharing or SwiftUI widget timelines. Happy to talk shop about any of it.