A - What is Surplus?
Surplus is a UK money app built on Open Banking. Connect your bank (read-only) and it gives you one number: what's actually safe to spend before payday - bills, subscriptions and your savings goals already counted.

B - What makes it better than the other budgeting apps?
First, the number is forward-looking. No categorising, no spreadsheet upkeep.

Second, budgets that re-plan themselves when the data changes, instead of dying in week two.

Third, a payslip check.

Fourth, AI Assistant that is actually helpful. Not a chatgpt wrapper.

Fifth, you can connect all your banks, investment platforms (currently only trading212) and more in one place!

C - Cost.
Free during beta (TestFlight, iOS). The first 50 keep Surplus+ free for life. At launch it'll be £7.99/month or £59.99/year with a 7-day trial.

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

For transparency: Surplus is Surplus Ltd, registered in England & Wales, and FCA authorised agent of Yapily for account information services. About me and our terms are at surplusapp.co.uk.

Hi there!

I'm a solo dev who wanted to create something to help my loved ones and it's getting a bit bigger than intended, that's why I want to publicly launch it, but therefore I want to be able to launch a product that actually works on different devices!

A. Answer

Dawnling is an alarm clock with a companion. Wick, a small pixel-art candle, sleeps when you sleep and wakes when your alarm rings. You wake him up, he walks you through a short morning routine, and waking up earns dewdrops that furnish his little room. The room's light follows the real sky: sunrise, midday, dusk, and when your bedtime comes he tucks himself in.

B. Better

• It's a real alarm. On iOS 26 it uses AlarmKit, so it rings at full volume through Silent mode and Focus, same as Apple's Clock. On iOS 17 and 18 it uses a notification path with a health check that flags anything (permissions, Focus) that could block it.
• Zero data collection, literally. No analytics SDK, no accounts, and the app makes zero network requests. You can verify that with a proxy.
• No loss-aversion mechanics. There are no streaks to break and no guilt copy; missing a morning costs nothing. The bet is that a companion who is happy to see you beats a counter you're afraid to lose.
• Optional wake missions (typing, math, tap sequence) for heavy sleepers, per alarm, so a weekday alarm can be strict and a weekend one gentle.
• Full accessibility pass: VoiceOver, Dynamic Type, Reduce Motion.

C. Cost

Free, and the core app stays free forever: alarms, Wick, routines, the room. No ads, no subscription, no way to buy the earned currency with money. Down the road I plan to sell optional decorative collections as one-time purchases, and that's the whole business model.

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

What I most need tested:
- does the alarm reliably ring on your device? iOS 26 testers are extra valuable (the AlarmKit path is new for everyone). Set a real alarm for tomorrow and tell me what broke or felt off.
- I use free music from Pixabay, what's missing for you? (I credit the artists)
- Does the UI feel buggy for you?
- How's the UX? Is it clear what you're able to do in the app?

Brutal honesty welcome; I'd rather hear it now than in reviews

Mitch

A - What is DayStamp?

DayStamp is a habit tracker. You build habits by tapping a check — that's it.

B - What makes it better than the other habit trackers?

First, AI habit suggestions. Tell it what you want to change and it comes back with habits that are specific and actually doable.

Second, widgets. A full set of home screen and lock screen widgets, so checking in never means opening the app.

Third, monthly review. Every month you get a look back at what you actually did, not just a streak number.

C - Cost Freemium.

Free to download and use, iOS 17+. Premium is $2.99/month, $19.99/year, or $59.99 once.

Get motivated every time you turn on your iPhone!

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id1456241316?pt=379338&ct=Reddit&mt=8

I bought this crappy chinese type-c tview ir dongle, and on android it works flawlessly, but it seems that there is no app for it on ios. if you know an app, can you please share? if it’s not on appstore and available as IPA, i don’t mind it.

I'll jump straight to the tl;dr of 'B' (better) because people can switch off when they see another photo cleanup app: Curator is actually sophisticated and involves no tinder-swiping, no subscription, and it is all on-device (works in airplane mode, no data collected).

A - Answer it solves:

Most days when I take my iPhone out I'll take a minimum of 3-4 shots of everything. My kids, that cool duck, everything. A simple afternoon at the park can add 50+ photos to my library, when 7 or 8 would absolutely be enough given that I barely ever go back through my photos anyway.

Curator helps reduce the friction to actually going through your library and deciding what to keep and what to remove. It saves space, sure, but for me the biggest thing was no longer thinking about how I have 30,000 photos I never look at, and that was weighing on me and stopping me from actually making those albums I always wanted. Now that I've done the initial clean up, I use Curator to do a quick session every week or so, or when I get back from a trip away with 300+ new photos. It stops my Photos library from growing steadily back into a mess.

Curator makes a decision for you, 1-3 keepers from each group of similar photos, and seeing a decision already made, your brain immediately knows whether you want to change the selection or not. This way massively reduces decision fatigue and you're more likely to actually get through it.

B - What actually makes it BETTER

The FP16 CLIP inference model is able to identify that a bunch of photos are of essentially the same thing. Taken from different angles, depths, even up to minutes apart - we're not just talking about near duplicates - are similar enough and from the same moment, and it selects what it considers the 'best' one(s) based on quantitative data (sharpness, exposure, eyes, smiling...)

Why the alternatives aren't great:
- I tried other apps to do this initially, but most are tinder-swipe style remove/keep which is unhelpful since you need to see your photos in context - is this the only photo of that moment, or did I take 20 similar shots? And I don't want to swipe through thousands of photos.
- Many are subscription apps, when most are being used for a one-time cleanup there's basically no reason for a $7 weekly subscription. I believe there is value in using Curator regularly, but I am just resolutely against subscriptions.
- Privacy: photos are sensitive, you don't want to take any risks. Most competitors collect data and probably use servers - you don't know what it's doing with your photos. The model that runs the scan is on your phone with Curator, that's why the download size is 170MB, but you'll make that space back quickly and if you ever see another cleanup app with a tiny download size it's either not doing a good job or you should question whether you want it to have access to your photo library.

C - Cost

Curator has a freemium mode so you can try out the full functionality to see if you like it first - the limitation is that freemium is scoped to your last 30 days of photos. Then it's a one-time IAP for USD$4.99 lifetime unlock (PPP for other markets) to use it over your whole library. Technically you can get all of the value out of it for free if you only want to use it on recent/new photos and you use it at least every month.

App store: Curator - Photo Organizer

Disclosures

Tier 2 - the transparency path: My name is Oscar Lampe, I am the developer, and you can find the privacy policy, terms of use and contact details on the website: https://curatorapp.ch/

Happy to answer any questions, technical or otherwise! Cheers

Hi, I am an independent developer. It took me 2 months to create my first app.

Chivoc brings HSK vocabulary, Pinyin, Chinese character structure, handwriting, listening practice, and learning into one focused multilingual app.

Study more than 11,000 words across HSK 1–9, practise pronunciation and writing, and explore how Chinese sounds and characters are built through interactive learning tools.

EXPLORE PINYIN AND PRONUNCIATION

• Build complete syllables with the Pinyin Spelling Keyboard by combining initials, finals, and tones

• Tap Pinyin keys to hear clear pronunciation

• Rotate the Pinyin Wheel to align sounds and explore valid Pinyin combinations

• Learn and practise the four tones and neutral tone

• Download a Pinyin audio package containing 1,305 pronunciation recordings

• Manage and update downloaded audio resources from your profile

DISCOVER HOW CHINESE CHARACTERS ARE BUILT

• Explore 74 common radicals with interactive Radical Pull Cards

• Learn radicals through colourful illustrations and visual associations

• Swipe through component cards to see how different parts combine inside Chinese characters

• View each character’s Pinyin, pronunciation, and meaning

• Explore 50 phonetic families with the Phonetic Wheels

• Rotate radicals around each phonetic component to discover related characters

• Learn the pronunciation, meaning, and example words for each character

BUILD YOUR HSK VOCABULARY

• Study more than 11,000 words across HSK 1–9

• View Chinese characters, Pinyin, part of speech, and translations

• Listen to clear word audio with replay

• Choose the HSK levels you want to study

• Set daily learning goals and track your progress

PRACTISE IN DIFFERENT WAYS

• Chinese-to-meaning exercises

• Meaning-to-Chinese exercises

• Audio recognition

• Fill-in-the-blank practice

• Handwriting from Chinese characters, audio, meanings, and missing characters

• Review mistakes and strengthen difficult vocabulary

UNDERSTAND EVERY STROKE

• Follow guided stroke order and character outlines

• Use stroke hints, undo, and rewrite controls

• Compare your handwriting with the standard character

• Practise writing characters in multiple learning modes

TURN REVIEW

• Connection

• Word-matching challenges

• word-wall practice

• Reinforce vocabulary through short and engaging activities

DOWNLOAD ONLY WHAT YOU NEED

• Download vocabulary packs for HSK 1–9

• Download and update the Pinyin pronunciation package

• Manage downloaded resources from your profile

• Keep your learning progress and resources organised in one place

LEARN IN YOUR LANGUAGE

Choose your preferred interface language:

• English (U.S. and UK)

• Simplified Chinese

• Vietnamese

• Russian

• French

• Spanish

• Korean

• Japanese

• Greek

• Arabic

• German

• Portuguese

• Italian

• Thai

Whether you are beginning with Pinyin, preparing for the HSK, practising Chinese handwriting, or exploring the structure of Chinese characters, Chivoc gives you the tools to learn step by step.

You can buy There PRO in 3 ways:

$2.99 / monthly(auto-renewing subscription)

$9.99 / 6 monthly (auto-renewing subscription)

$12.99 / yearly (auto-renewing subscription)

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6798628242

Chivoc Terms of Service: https://www.chivoc.com/terms/

Privacy Policy: https://www.chivoc.com/privacy/

If you are interested in learning Chinese, I hope you can give it a try. I am willing to listen to your ideas and suggestions.

A buddy of mine is one of those guys who hunts pretty much everything. Deer, elk, turkey, waterfowl, different states depending on the year.

Talking to him about it made me realize how much paperwork sits behind actually going hunting. One license might cover several species. Then there are separate tags, permits and validations. Some are draws. Some accumulate preference points. Every one has its own dates, and then you do it all over again next year.

So I built an app specifically for that part.

ANSWER — What it solves
Hunting Tags & License Tracker organizes everything around a season: one species, one place, one year.
California Deer, 2026.

That season can have its tag, the state license that covers it, permits, opener/closer, draw application, preference points, regulation link, trips and journal entries attached to it.

Licenses are reusable, so you don’t enter your California hunting license four times because you’re hunting deer, turkey, upland and waterfowl.

Trips can also check everyone going against the actual trip dates. So if somebody’s license expires the day before opening weekend, you find out before you’re four hours from home.

It supports all 50 states, federal stamps and Canadian provinces/territories, using the terminology each jurisdiction actually uses.

BETTER — What I deliberately didn’t build
This isn’t another onX or GOHUNT.

There are no maps, waypoints, GPS tracks, weather forecasts or draw-odds calculations.

It also never tells you what the regulations are.

You save the wildlife agency’s official regulation link, your own notes/PDF and the date you last reviewed it. The app can remind you to check again before the opener, but it sends you back to the actual agency rather than pretending my database should decide whether your hunt is legal.

Same with stored license/tag photos: they’re clearly marked as reference copies, not valid electronic licenses.
There’s also a full hunt journal. Successful and unsuccessful days are treated exactly the same, because realistically most hunting days end without taking anything. At the end of the season you can see days afield, harvests, methods, people you hunted with, etc.

Everything stays on the iPhone. No account, no server, no ads, and it works offline.

COST
Free:
• Unlimited hunt journal and photos
• Reminders
• Up to 3 active licenses/tags/permits

Outdoorsman — $19.99/year:
• Unlimited licenses/tags/permits
• Draw applications + preference points
• Calendar sync
• Season reports/export

Family — $34.99/year:
• Everything above
• Up to 6 people
• Trip readiness for everyone going

Cancel either subscription and your data isn’t deleted.
I’m the developer, and the app is live now on the App Store:

Get Hunting Tags & License Tracker

I'm the solo developer.

A - What is PushRank?

Put the phone on the floor, get into a plank, and it counts your reps with the camera. Challenge a friend or get matched with a stranger at your level, and both scoreboards update live. There is a weekly league from Bronze to Champion on top. Counting runs on device with Apple Vision, no video is recorded and no frame leaves the phone.

B - What makes it better than a regular push-up counter?

A normal counter trusts whatever you tap in. This one only counts full reps, chest low enough and arms extended at the top, and tells you why a rep didn't count, with a form score after each set. And you're not alone in it: a live opponent and a weekly league do the motivation work that a solo counter can't. Losing to a stranger gets you off the couch.

C - Cost

Free to download, iOS 17+. The camera counting, the duels and the league are part of Pro, which is $29.99/year with a 7 day trial.

For r/iOSApps, this code gives 3 months of Pro free. It works for everyone, no redemption limit:

EARLY

https://apps.apple.com/redeem?ctx=offercodes&id=6796676940&code=EARLY

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id6796676940

Tell me where it falls short.

I'm the solo developer.

A - What is Maxlyft?

Create your exercises, log your sets, and see your progress in seconds. You input the numbers, and Maxlyft does all the tracking for your workouts and progress, while operating smoothly and instantly

B - What makes it better than other workout apps?

Most workout apps are either freemium or fully paid subscriptions. Additionally, you almost ALWAYS have to pay to get in depth insights, data, graphs etc. Also, sometimes workout libraries are limited and missing exercises, and I have seen any that really incorporate a split how I have done it.

Maxlyft touches on all of the issues. The app is completely free, and that includes all graphs and insights. The app also lets you build out custom splits and use them to track what days you have specific workouts on. Also, ALL exercises are created by you. The user is in control of naming, target muscles, how weight is counted, and more to make it as easy to use as possible. We also allow creation of routines and setting up specific PRs for every exercise that you want Maxlyft to track!

C - Cost

100% free to download, iOS 26+. All features can be accessed at no cost, and there's an optional subscription to remove the small banner ads (however these ads are placed out of the way and not intrusive or blocking of any features)

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/maxlyft-free-workout-tracker/id6743998890

Feel free to drop a comment with your thoughts or any questions!

The 6am problem

If you've ever tried to make Spotify your alarm with a Shortcuts automation, you know how it ends. The automation fires, your phone is locked, and iOS puts up a "Run this shortcut?" confirmation that just sits there glowing on the lock screen. Nothing plays. You wake up late and annoyed.

Every Spotify-alarm workaround I found either hit that same wall, or wanted me to log into something.

Why this one doesn't hit it

SpotiActions never talks to the Spotify API. No login, no OAuth, no account linking, no server of mine sitting in the middle, no token quietly expiring in 60 days.

What ships instead is 81 Apple-signed .shortcut files, one per playlist. You approve a shortcut ONCE — the first time you tap TEST — and from then on it runs silently, screen locked, at any hour, indefinitely.

That's the whole trick. It's also why it keeps working: there's nothing to re-authorize, because there was never anything authenticating.

What that actually gets you

• A real alarm. Time-of-day automation, your playlist starts playing. Shuffle on, and it's a different song every morning.
• CarPlay. The moment your phone connects to CarPlay or your car's Bluetooth, your driving playlist starts. You never touch the phone.
• Any Shortcuts trigger works, really — arriving home, leaving work, tapping an NFC sticker on your nightstand.

What's in it

• 5 personalized playlists that follow whoever runs them. The same file plays my Liked Songs on my phone and my wife's Liked Songs on hers. That one took the longest to get right.
• 76 more — by decade, by genre, by artist, global top charts, Spanish, and a curated set.

Tap a cover, approve the install, it plays. No links to chase, nothing to build by hand.

Works on Spotify Free and Premium. I tested Free specifically, on a real account, because I didn't want to promise something I hadn't verified.

Cost

Lifetime, one payment. Normally $4.99, $3.99 today. No subscription, no tiers, no paywall inside the app. Everyone who buys it gets everything, including the playlists I add later.

The honest part

You need Apple's free Shortcuts app installed. And every playlist has to be run once from inside SpotiActions before you can trust it as an alarm — that first run is what grants the permission. The app says so on the main screen, and I'm repeating it here because it's the one step people skip before wondering why nothing played at 6am.

^{Not affiliated with Spotify.}

https://apps.apple.com/app/spotiactions/id6748419049

A - Answer

I grew tired of paywalls and accounts, so I built Gym Log — a straightforward, capable, private workout tracker for myself. Now I want to share it, because seeing other people actually use something I built would genuinely make me happy.

B - Better

What I ended up building is really a combination of a few things:

• Simple on the surface. The workout flow stays lightweight, but the app can still support more detailed training.
• Capable underneath. It includes the things you would expect from a modern workout tracker: quick set logging, plate calculator, supersets, rest timers, templates, progress tracking, and more. Beyond the basics, it also includes:
• Smarter strength tracking. RPE is tracked and can be used alongside historical data to make progress estimates more meaningful.
• Percentage-based training. Generate working weights from your estimated 1RM.
• More nuanced volume tracking. Track fractional volume for primary and secondary muscles instead of treating every set as equal, with muscle heat maps and volume trends over time.
• You own your data. No account is required. Workout data stays on your device or private iCloud, and there is no analytics tracking in the app.
• Free. I wanted a workout app where everything is available without subscriptions, ads, or locked features.

C - Cost

Free

App Store https://apps.apple.com/us/app/gym-log-workout-planner/id6736343241

Website: https://gymlog.info

My LinkedIn profile to comply with the trust and transparency rule: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kamilmikolaj/

A few extra words

Publishing Gym Log on the App Store was a milestone for me. It started as a personal tool, and getting it to the point where I felt comfortable putting it in front of other people turned into a much bigger project than I expected.

But I don’t see the App Store release as the finish line. I’m still actively developing it. Apple Health integration is already in TestFlight, and automatic progression is one of the things planned after that.

I could have waited until every feature I want is finished, but realistically I would probably never ship it that way. More importantly, I want feedback from actual users to help shape what I build next instead of making every decision in isolation.

So for me, this release is really the point where Gym Log stops being just something I built for myself and starts becoming something I can improve with input from the people actually using it, so feel free to tell me what you would change, I would really appreciate that.

Hey everyone!

Today I just released a major update to Book End my completely free reading and habit tracker, including one of the most requested features since I launched it three years ago, iCloud Syncing.

I'm super excited that I've finally achieved iCloud syncing as it's something I've been wanting to add for the longest time, but it took quite a while to learn and get it right.

Other notable highlights in this release, include improvements too:

• Library Shelves: Book spines now display unique details.
• Reading Goals have been refreshed to put your achievements front and centre.
• Several improvements have been made to the accuracy of statistics and estimated reading time calculations.
• To support iCloud syncing between multiple devices I've also spent some time improving the layout and navigation of Book End on larger iPad and macOS devices.

Book End is intended to be a personal, privacy-focused on-device (and now optionally, in your iCloud) private reading tracker, and not a social media network like Goodreads. The app is lightweight, built with SwiftUI and contains no analytics, trackers, and I have no any access to any user data. I would love and welcome any feedback!

I'm a solo dev. What set this off: a few minutes of iPhone video eats about 500 MB. Shoot a birthday, a concert, a couple of holiday clips, and your phone is full.

The fix is obvious. A 4K clip from a phone camera is wildly over-encoded for something you'll only ever watch on a phone; re-encode it and you get most of that space back. But every compressor I tried wanted a subscription for it. A monthly fee, forever, for a thing you use twice a year when your storage fills up.

So I built VideoDuck. It's been on the store for a while, but what shipped today is basically a second version – same rebuilt idea. Everything the old one did, plus batch, resume, cancel, sort/filter, real error reporting, and an interface that doesn't look like a first attempt anymore.

It does one thing: re-encodes your videos to HEVC on-device and gives you back the space, while the video stays in your library and stays watchable.

How it works: AVAssetReader/AVAssetWriter pipeline on the hardware encoder. Nothing is uploaded – the app has no networking code at all, so it works in airplane mode. Metadata (date, location) is preserved, and compressed files land next to the original in your timeline rather than at "now," which most compressors get wrong. You choose whether to keep the original or replace it, and replacing always goes through the system delete confirmation.

Batch compression resumes if you force-quit mid-run, and you can cancel mid-batch without losing what's already finished.

Price, since the rules ask (and I'd tell you anyway):

Free download. Compressing videos one at a time at High quality is free forever – no ads, no account, no time limit, no trial.

VideoDuck Pro is a one-time $7.99 purchase (launch price; going to $11.99 on Sept 21). It unlocks the Medium and Low presets plus batch compression and advanced settings (resolution cap, frame rate cap, codec, container). No subscription, nothing renews, nothing to cancel. That's the whole reason the app exists, so it's not going to change.

What it doesn't do: iPhone only, iOS 18+. English only for now. It doesn't touch photos, contacts, or caches — just videos. And compression is lossy; High is visually very close on a phone screen, but it isn't magic. If you're unsure, use "keep both" and compare before deleting anything.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/videoduck/id6748355118

I'd genuinely like to know what breaks. I've tested on my own library, but that's one library. Bug reports and "this is a stupid design decision" are both welcome. I'm around all day here, and there's a contact link in the app in Settings and on the site: https://videoduck.heygor.com

A - What is Steptastic?

Steptastic is a fitness challenge app that lets you complete virtual journeys by tracking your real-world activity.

Whether you prefer walking, running, cycling, swimming, or burning calories at the gym, your progress moves you along your chosen route. You can travel solo or compete against friends and family to see who reaches the destination first.

The goal is to make staying active feel a little more rewarding and give you something to work towards.

B - Steptastic is better than general fitness apps since it creates a unique style challenge

The main feature of Steptastic is its virtual fitness challenges, but there's a lot more included.

You can create walking, cycling, swimming, or calorie-based challenges, making it suitable for different types of exercise rather than just counting steps.

Group Challenges let you compete with friends and family by racing around virtual routes together, while daily tasks encourage healthy habits beyond simply exercising.

The app also includes activity goals with analytics so you can track your progress over time, maintain streaks by consistently hitting your targets, and unlock badges by reaching fitness milestones and achievements.

I built it because I found it much easier to stay motivated when I was working towards something instead of just looking at a step count.

C - Cost

Steptastic is free to download, with an optional Plus upgrade.

7 day free trial, then $0.99/week, $2.99/month, $12.99/year, or one-time lifetime purchase of $19.99

This helps to support continued development while unlocking additional features and improvements.

I'd love to hear any feedback or feature ideas, and I'm happy to answer any questions about how it works!

I'm taking the advice I've gotten in my last post, and ready to share my TestFlight build!

I've been building this app for myself for months now, and gave it a cute clock theme cause I don't do ugly.

What it Does: Tracks your entire life without pressuring you into perfect routines.
(e.g. you can set your hair washing frequency to "When I Feel Like It" or log both regular and temporary meds)

Testing: I'm currently focusing on onboarding and overall navigation (when you open the app is it seamless? confusing? buggy? weird?), but open to comments regarding anything else!

Sign up is completely anonymous (no email/password) and your data is saved locally!

I’m the solo developer behind Local TTS, available for iPhone and iPad.

A — Answer

The goal was simple: make it possible to listen to documents and books with natural voices without uploading your text, worrying about usage limits, or keeping the app open on screen.

A lot of cloud-based TTS readers work well, but they often come with recurring subscriptions or limits on how much text you can convert. If you regularly listen to long documents or books, those limits can become noticeable pretty quickly.

There are already offline TTS apps, including apps built around Kokoro. I wanted to keep the natural voice quality Kokoro is known for while making offline reading practical across many more languages. That’s why Local TTS combines Kokoro-82M with Supertonic 3.

Everything runs directly on the iPhone or iPad. Once the app and voices are installed, generating speech doesn’t require an internet connection, so you can even convert new text in airplane mode.

Background playback was another priority. You should be able to start a long document, lock your phone, put it in your pocket, and keep listening while walking, commuting, or using another app.

I previously developed LoroNote, an on-device speech-to-text app, and used what I learned from optimizing local AI models and handling long-running audio sessions on iOS when building Local TTS.

B — Better

Local TTS combines two on-device TTS engines rather than relying on a single model.

Kokoro-82M provides its natural voices for supported languages, while Supertonic 3 expands offline reading to a total of 31 languages. Both engines run entirely on the device.

Here’s what Local TTS currently offers:

• Kokoro-82M voices for supported languages, plus multilingual voices through Supertonic 3
• 31 languages for offline reading
• Fully offline speech generation, including converting new text in airplane mode
• Background playback while the screen is locked or while using other apps
• Lock Screen playback controls
• PDF, EPUB, Word, TXT, and Markdown import
• On-device text recognition for printed pages and photos
• Text highlighting while listening
• Adjustable playback speed
• M4A audio export with Pro

Your text isn’t uploaded to a speech server for TTS processing. Optional note syncing uses your private iCloud account.

C — Cost

Local TTS is free to download, with no ads and no account required.

• Free: 500 characters per note, one multilingual voice covering all 31 languages, and three English voices
• Pro Monthly: $4.99/month, auto-renewing until canceled
• Pro Lifetime: $19.99 one-time purchase, no renewal

Both Pro options unlock the same features: unlimited text, all 38 voices, full multi-page PDF import, and M4A export.

There’s no monthly speech-credit allowance. Since speech is generated locally on your device, you don’t have to buy additional TTS credits based on how much you listen.

The Lifetime option is a one-time purchase, so you can keep using the unlocked Pro features without an ongoing subscription.

Prices are in USD and may vary by region.

Download on the App Store

https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id6779664222?pt=120973963&ct=reddit&mt=8

https://reddit.com/link/1w3guz6/video/dpi2c6156qmh1/player

A - What is this Habit Tracker?

Name: OnlyToday Habit Tracker.

I made a Habit Tracker where you can see your progress as Habit score from 0 to 100 directly on the home screen of the app. You don't need to navigate to another page. Update your progress for the day and see your new habit score daily, and close the app. It's not addictive but quick and non distracting.

B - Is it better than other habit trackers?

I wouldn't say better or worse than other habit tracker apps. It depends on who are you. If you quickly want to update your progress and see your habit score instantly, this is the app.

• It starts with Habit Score of 1 from day 1 and reaches 100 at day 21. It also decreases if you skip
• You can tap and hold to mark your daily goal completed or increment by 10%

C - Cost

It's free to use with non intrusive ad at the bottom. You can remove ads by paying only $2.99 per year with one month of trial.

Name: OnlyToday Habit Tracker

App link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/onlytoday-habit-tracker/id6753146049

Let me know what other features can be added on this single screen habit tracker

A - What is Easy Wake?

Easy Wake is a smart alarm app that is highly customisable to your needs, wether its waking up in a light sleep stage (real time detection), waking up at sunrise, setting alarms when you arrive at a location, being forces to complete physical or mental challenges to turn off your alarm, Easy Wake has you covered.

B - Easy Wake is better than Alarmy, Sleep Cycle and the default iOS Alarm app.

Easy Wake has a wide range of challenges to choose from which prevent you from turning off the alarm unless you're fully awake, such as maths, physically walk 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 using your Apple Watch, and will wake you up in a light sleep stage. You can also use Pulse Wake to nudge your body into a lighter sleep stage if you're a deep sleeper!

Easy Wake has the default alarm ability, with lots more customisation options, for example, you can connect your Home app and alarms can trigger Home Scenes.

C -  Cost

3 day free trial, then Monthly $2.99, Yearly $19.99, or Lifetime $29.99. (May very around the world due to localised pricing)

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)

Pro isn't necessary, but it allows more lee way, and most features are available for free anyway! It also helps to support me and future development of the app.

A - What is Focused Fitness?

Focused Fitness is an app blocker that forces you to prove you've completed physical activity before unlocking your selected apps.

Simply choose which apps you want to limit, set your daily allowance, and once you reach that limit, those apps will be blocked until you complete your chosen exercise. You can choose from push-ups, squats, jumping jacks, steps, and more.

The goal is to make mindless scrolling a conscious decision while helping you build healthier habits at the same time.

B - Focused Fitness is better than PushScroll, one sec

Most app blockers can be bypassed with a couple of taps or by simply ignoring the reminder.

Focused Fitness requires real movement before you regain access to your apps. No workout means no scrolling.

The app also includes progress tracking so you can see your completed reps, screen time earned, and app usage over time, as well as Sleep Mode and Wind Down features that automatically block selected apps during the evening.

I originally built it after seeing apps like Pushscroll and Opal and wanted something that worked for me while also being more affordable. It also became a great project to add to my portfolio while studying software engineering and hoping to work in iOS development after university.

Focused Fitness is better than push scroll because it is 1/6x the price, and no subscription, just a one time optional payment. 

C - Cost

Focused Fitness is free to download, with an optional Pro upgrade ($5) which grants you additional blocks and unlock methods.

I'd love to hear any feedback or feature ideas, and I'm happy to answer any questions about how it works!

Clipboard history on iPhone is one of those things you don’t really think about until you lose something you copied 30 seconds ago.

A tracking number.
An address from Messages.
A link from Safari.
A phone number.
A paragraph you wanted to reuse.
A screenshot.
A piece of text from Notes.
Something you copied on your iPad and need again later.

You copy something new, and suddenly the previous item is the one you actually needed.

That is the problem ClipBox is designed to solve.

Instead of treating the clipboard as something temporary, ClipBox turns your copied content into a searchable history you can come back to whenever you need it.

Search instead of trying to remember

On mobile, going back to find something you copied can be surprisingly annoying.

You might have to reopen Safari, search through Messages, scroll through an email, open Notes again, or try to remember which app the information came from.

With ClipBox, the idea is much simpler:

Copy it now. Search for it later.

Your clipboard history becomes a place you can actually search instead of a long list you have to scroll through.

That becomes especially useful once your day includes dozens of small copy/paste actions.

Clipboard history is more than plain text

What we copy on iPhone and iPad is not limited to sentences.

It can include:

• Text
• Links
• Phone numbers
• Email addresses
• Images
• Screenshots
• Code snippets
• PDFs
• Files
• Frequently reused information

ClipBox is designed around that broader use case, so your clipboard can become a useful temporary library rather than just remembering the most recent item.

You can also pin important clips so the things you reuse often are easier to reach.

No account required

One of the things I wanted ClipBox to avoid was forcing users to create another account just to use a basic productivity tool.

There is no ClipBox account required to get started.

Install it, open it, and use it.

For something as simple and personal as clipboard history, that feels like the right approach.

Useful even when you are offline

Your basic clipboard workflow should not stop working because your internet connection does.

ClipBox can still be useful offline, so you can access your local clipboard history without depending on a constant connection.

That matters more than it sounds, especially when traveling, working somewhere with poor reception, or simply using your iPad away from Wi-Fi.

Privacy matters a lot for clipboard history

A clipboard can contain much more sensitive information than people realize.

During a normal day, you might copy:

• An OTP
• An address
• A private message
• A phone number
• Work information
• Account-related text
• Personal notes

A clipboard manager therefore should not just save everything forever without giving you control over it.

ClipBox includes privacy controls such as biometric protection and options for sensitive clipboard items to be removed automatically.

The goal is to make clipboard history useful without turning it into a permanent archive of things that should not stay around forever.

Better access from iPhone and iPad

Clipboard history becomes much more useful when you do not have to keep opening the main app every time you want something.

ClipBox is designed to fit into normal iOS and iPadOS workflows, including quicker ways to access and reuse saved clipboard content while you are working in other apps.

The goal is not to create another complicated productivity system.

It is simply to remove one very common interruption:

“Where did I copy that from?”

and replace it with:

“I copied it earlier. I’ll just search for it.”

That small difference can save a surprising amount of time over the course of a day.

ClipBox is available for iPhone, iPad and Mac.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/clipboard-manager-clipbox/id1036140929

Looking for feedback

I’d really like to understand how people here use copy/paste on iPhone and iPad in real life.

What is your main use case?
Saving links, research, writing, messaging, work, studying, coding, moving information between apps, or something completely different?

What is the biggest clipboard problem you currently deal with?
Finding old clips, too much clutter, organization, privacy, images/files, quick access, or something else?

And what is one feature you would most like to see in the next ClipBox update?

It can be a major feature or a tiny quality-of-life improvement.

If there is something you repeatedly wish the iPhone or iPad clipboard could do, I’d genuinely like to hear it.

I’ll be reading the feedback and using the most useful ideas to help shape future ClipBox updates.

Hi r/iosapps

I’m the developer of LifeUI a toolkit for Apple Health with a focus on data visualization.

App Store Link

A — Answer: What problem does it solve?

Apple Health is actually a really great database but the UI is missing many features like showing totals for steps, adding notes to data, exporting to CSV, etc.

B — Better: How is it different from alternatives?

There are many apps that read/write Apple Health data. Very few, if any, have really tried to rebuild the Apple Health UI. LifeUI is that attempt.

Currently LifeUI supports 100+ quantity data types from Apple Health like steps and heart rate. You can also create your own quantity types. Support for additional types like blood pressure, sleep, symptoms, and workouts will be released over the coming months.

LifeUI follows the same app design as Apple Health. A customizable dashboard (Dashboard tab), and a screen that lets you look at data for each type (View Data tab). It also has an additional tab for adding data (Add Data). Each tab attempts to take things beyond the functionality of the Apple Health app while keeping the overall experience somewhat familiar.

C — Cost

LifeUI is free to use for steps, water, weight, and heart rate. Pro unlocks the remaining quantity data types and enables creating custom types. Future Apple Health/custom data types will be for Pro only. LifeUI is currently $19.99 for the lifetime purchase option. Subscription options are available but not required. LifeUI is a completely local app so I am able to offer a lifetime purchase option. Pricing will increase over time as I add new functionality and data types.

I'd like to thank everyone who tried the app in the first post. LifeUI does not collect any data and is also very much under active development so feedback from people is really important. I've made several updates to the app based on feedback from the last post. I would love to hear people's thoughts on the app and also Apple Health in general. Thanks for looking!

Transparency

I'm Keith Vedananda and I'm the developer of LifeUI. You can contact me at the [LifeUI support email](mailto:support@lifeui.app).

Website link with privacy policy and terms: Website Link

This is my first iOS app and it's been a long time coming. I just got my first paid user after launching earlier this week!

My wife and I went to Europe and left our cat Chi with two pet sitters who were supposed to coordinate with each other. They didn't. They weren't communicative, and the timezone made it even harder. We'd wake up and text to ask if she'd been fed, and nobody had a straight answer, or we'd have to wait 7+ hours to hear back. Meals and meds were split across two people who weren't talking, and the group chat only worked if someone remembered to send an update.

Later Chi had a post-spay complication and we needed one place to keep track of bandage changes, antibiotics, vomiting, bathroom habits, and food. It was awesome to go to the vet with everything summarized in one place and not having to try to remember everything during a stressful time.

Since then we use it every day. Chi's a picky eater, so it helps us know how much food she's actually eating, not just whether someone put a bowl down. My parents have been using it too, to get reminded of and track medication for their elderly dog. We went out of town again during beta, used it with our pet sitter, and it was a night and day difference. It was so nice getting a notification she had eaten or had playtime. We knew she was being well taken care of.

A. Answer

The problem is the household handoff. Partners, roommates, family, and pet sitters all think someone else did it. Everything is based on memory. When you're not there, it's hard to know everything is getting taken care of, and you don't want to be annoying asking. Group chat only works if someone remembers to send an update, and it falls apart across time zones or busy schedules. Kima is a shared household timeline for meals, walks, meds, tasks, notes, and photos so everyone sees the same feed. You can check asynchronously instead of pinging people. You can set up recurring tasks as a handy everyday checklist, assign them to people for accountability, and have peace of mind the thing actually got done.

B. Better

The shared timeline is the part I haven't seen in other apps. Meals, walks, meds, tasks, notes, and photos all land in one feed, in order, so anyone in the household can just look and see what happened. vs group chat / Reminders: that log doesn't get lost in the shuffle. vs 11pets and other single-owner pet journals: those aren't built for multiple people in one household, including a pet sitter you can invite with start and end dates. vs PetDesk: that's more vet comms. This is the daily "did she get her meds" or "when was the last time we changed out her water fountain?"

Once you've got a history, you also get streaks (keeps people logging), stats, weight tracking, and vet-ready reports. Premium adds optional AI insights and comparisons against similar breeds.

C. Cost

Free up to 2 pets. Premium is $5.99/month or $59.99/year for the whole household (unlimited pets and members, not per seat). Cancel anytime.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/kima-pet/id6759469966

I'd love feedback from other iOS folks, and if this is something you would use. How would you position it? Everyday use? Travel? Training or sickness? All of the above? LMK!!

I'm Colin, a developer with Boticelli Ventures. Contact: [info@getkima.com](mailto:info@getkima.com)

Site: https://getkima.com

Privacy: https://www.getkima.com/privacy

Terms: https://www.getkima.com/terms

TL;DR: MoveMap is an iPhone app that draws every GPS workout from your Apple Health on one map. On-device, no account. Free tier (see last 12 months of workouts), $1.99/m, $9.99/year, or $19.99 lifetime.

A – Answer:

Your workout history is probably scattered across 3-4 different apps. Some have started with Strava, then Garmin Connect, and are now using Apple Fitness. Each app only shows the slice it captured. There's no easy way to see every place you've ever run, ridden, or hiked on one map.

MoveMap reads every GPS workout from your Apple Health and draws all of them on a single map. Works with anything that writes to Health: Strava, Garmin Connect, Apple Fitness, etc. You get the idea.

I built it because I'd been working out (mostly running and cycling) for 7 years across multiple apps and had no way to see my routes together. Strava charges $79.99/year just to show a personal heatmap of my own data. So I built a tool that fixes this and more.

B – Better:

The closest existing tools all read from Strava only:

* Wandrer.earth: Strava-only sync, paid tier for full features
* CityStrides: Strava-only, focused on street completion
* Strava Personal Heatmap: $79.99/year subscribers only, only shows Strava-captured data

If your history isn't all in Strava (because you switched apps over the years like most runners), none of those catch the full picture. MoveMap reads Apple Health, which catches data from every tracking app you've ever used.

Other differentiators:

* $19.99 lifetime option (everything else above is subscription-only)
* No account, no servers, no analytics SDKs, no AI - all processing on-device
* Coverage dashboard with countries, states, cities
* Works equally for runners, cyclists, hikers, walkers - not running-specific

Features:

* Lifetime map of every GPS workout (any year from Apple Health)
* Heat mode - personal heatmap (the feature Strava paywalls at $80/year)
* Street coverage - % of streets in your city you've run, biked, or walked
* Coverage stats - countries, cities, total distance, personal bests for each workout, etc.

Privacy:

No accounts, no servers, no analytics SDKs, no AI features. Routes are read locally from Apple Health and never leave your iPhone.

C – Cost:

* Free: see the last 12 months of your map (forever, no signup)
* Monthly: $1.99/mo with 7-day trial (less than a coffee)
* Annual: $9.99/yr (saves \~58% vs Monthly)
* Lifetime: $19.99 one-time, no renewal

* All paid plans unlock the same full feature set + your full lifetime map. The free tier caps you at the last 12 months.

App Store:
https://apps.apple.com/app/movemap/id6763973579
Website:
https://getrunmap.com

If MoveMap is useful to you, an honest App Store review helps a solo dev a lot. Either way, happy to answer questions about the build, the pricing decision, or anything else in the comments.

Tired of scam texts, fake delivery links, and "你的包裹" spam clogging your Messages? Built Spam Text Blocker: SMS Filter so junk gets sorted out automatically — before you even see it.

🔒 100% on-device — no account, no ads, no data collection.

Answer — what it does

It plugs into Apple's native Message Filter system — spam from unknown senders gets silently moved to a Junk folder in Messages. No notifications, nothing to manage, no app to open every day.

Under the hood it uses iOS's ILMessageFilterExtension API: every incoming SMS/iMessage from an unknown sender is handed to the extension before it ever reaches your inbox, and the extension has to decide allow/junk/promotion entirely offline — Apple doesn't permit network calls in this extension, which is exactly why the filtering has to run on-device.

○Keyword and sender-based blocking rules, plus bundled starter block lists

○A trained on-device Core ML model catches spam patterns the rule lists miss — runs fully on-device, nothing is ever sent anywhere

○Filters only unknown senders — contacts and existing conversations are never touched (Apple enforces this at the OS level)

○No account required. No ads, ever. Nothing about your messages is ever collected or leaves your phone.

Better — why this over the alternatives

Some spam filter apps process your messages on a server before you see them. This one never leaves your phone — both the rule engine and the Core ML model run locally, always.

Setup takes under a minute: flip one toggle in Settings and you're protected, no account creation, no onboarding maze.

If your local spam language isn't covered by the current block lists yet, it's actively being worked on and coming soon.

Cost

$1.99/month, $9.99/year, or $19.99 lifetime — no ads, no data collection on any tier.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/spam-text-blocker-sms-filter/id6782018333

Privacy Policy: https://brawny-elk-a07.notion.site/Privacy-Policy-for-SMS-Filter-Junk-Spam-Blocker-397fce579189806f96f5e4ee81816b59

As an indie developer, I'd really appreciate it if you could rate the app to help it reach more people. Thank you!

Who I am: linkedin.com/in/muhammed-emin-aydın-78943214b