When we added the Developer flair, the goal was to give indie devs a way to share what they're building. We genuinely wanted to support people making cool apps.
But over the past while, it's turned into something else. The sub has filled up with low-effort promo posts, a few lines and a link, from people who drop their app and are never seen again. That's not what this community is for. r/iPhoneApps is meant to be a place for real discussion and value, not a free billboard.
So, effective today, we're removing the Developer flair.
To be clear about what this means going forward:
You can't just show up, promote your app, and ghost the community. Posts that are purely "here's my app, go download it" will be removed.
If you're an active member who actually contributes here, joining discussions, helping people, giving feedback, then mentioning your app in that context is completely fine. Value first, promotion second.
We'd much rather have devs who are part of the community than a feed full of ads. This keeps the sub worth being in for everyone.
Thanks for reading, and thanks for helping keep this place good.
I had some music player on my last iphone which isn't available on app store anymore. It could download music from yt and store it in different playlists to listen them offline. I tried all offline players but none of them have these playlists feature, can u suggest any apps?
Getting an app to look good in the first demo is exciting. You have the screens, buttons, and basic features working, and it suddenly feels like you’ve built something real. Can you make changes easily, fix bugs, and keep improving the app without having to start over? For anyone who has built an app, which builder helped you most after the first demo and why?
Someone asked me when the timing belt on my car was last done and I genuinely couldn't say. The answer was in a folder of receipts, and finding it meant walking out to the car.
So here's OdoKeep. Everything about a vehicle on one timeline: fuel and charging, servicing, insurance, the inspection, road tax, tolls, and what the thing actually costs to run.
Two bits I'd call the actual product, as opposed to the feature list.
It works out what's due next from your own records rather than from a fixed schedule, by distance and by date. So it'll tell you the oil is due in 1,200 km before you've thought about it, and the same logic counts down the insurance and the inspection.
And it's localised, not translated. Road tax is IUC in Portugal and VED in the UK and they aren't the same tax with a different name. France doesn't have an annual one at all, so the app doesn't invent one. Ten languages, and that was the part I most underestimated.
Rest of it: works with no signal, imports from Fuelly and Drivvo or any CSV, exports to CSV or JSON whenever you want, Siri shortcuts, Face ID lock. No ads (ever) and no analytics SDK.
Free tier is one vehicle. I keep going back and forth on whether that's too mean. Plus have no limit, plus the deeper stats, PDF reports, service reminders, and sharing a car with whoever drives it (up to 5 users).
Expo and React Native, Postgres, Sentry, RevenueCat, Cloudflare R2, Cloudflare Workers, ten months, on my own, from Portugal.
Recently had to use iOS more and the single biggest thing I miss from Android is 1DM (IDM).
On Android, 1DM just catches whatever video stream is playing in the built-in browser (even m3u8 / blob / embedded players) and downloads it without any hassle.
I tried stuff like Documents by Readdle and Aloha, but most of them fail the moment a streaming site uses a custom video player or split segments.
Is there any browser, app, or even an iOS Shortcut that reliably sniffs and downloads web video streams like 1DM does?
Don't mind paid apps or sideloading if it actually works. What are you guys using?
Honestly I just use my phone for just basic social media things. And I’m wondering if there are actual useful uses or apps that you guys use? My main one is wanting to plan out my weeks and have it appear when I look at my phone, and have it cycle everyday but for whatever reason the calander app is just ultra confusing to me somehow 😭
After reaching a point where a spreadsheet based tracking was no longer scaling to track all the Visa / Mastercard GCs I received over time, I came up with an iOS app to simplify the management of cards over time. Some basic functionality in place, and currently only for my use.
Is there interest in something like this? I do plan to release to the iOS store with a very generous free tier. Card data doesn't leave device.
I’m working on an ultimate TCG scanner that gets up to 30 cards at once one cards gets detected under 1s it gets prices from eBay (live listings and last sold data ) and tcgplayer hourly i need some advice from you guys is it worth it ?
I'm an indie developer, and I recently released LookCalendar, a small iPhone calendar app focused on one simple idea:
See the entire month without opening the Calendar app.
It provides a full-month calendar on the Lock Screen and Home Screen, with several widget styles and options to highlight today's date.
It also supports:
Apple Calendar
Google Calendar
NAVER Calendar
A full-month calendar complication on Apple Watch
Optional quick launch to your preferred calendar app
One thing I've been working on recently is making the Lock Screen widget easier to read on Always-On Display. I added an option to hide the weekday row so there's more room for the dates.
The basic features are free, with an optional one-time Pro purchase for additional features. No subscription.
I'm still actively improving it, so I'd really appreciate hearing from people who actually use calendar widgets.
What would you want to see in a calendar widget that isn't available in Apple's default Calendar app?
Before the newest IOS update, I really wanted to get good voice notes with transcription, so I can go out for a walk and get my thoughts together instead of sitting in front of the screen all day.
I’m also a huge fan of vintage tech, that’s why “Cassette - Speech to text” came into existence!
Even though the newest voice notes are much better than in previous version of IOS, maybe someone will enjoy this retro vibe. And the easy and visual organization of the voice notes.
It’s 100% free and local. Optimized for IOS with Swift. Enjoy!
this is my play store images i want to know whether you actually get the idea of the context of what the app does with just this information and if there is anything that needs to be improved or changed,
i already took a few recommendations from Reddit and created this so, now i'm looking for a v2 before i actually go live.
Been using cozi for a few years and its fine for what it is but I keep running into the same walls everything goes in manually which isn't a big deal on its own but I also have three kids so the volume of stuff that needs to be entered is pretty high also the grocery list feature is fine but its just a list you still have to move things somewhere when you want to shop
Looking for a cozi alternative that does more of the work automatically whether thats pulling in schedule updates or having a smarter grocery integration what are people using
I was digging through my childhood time capsule boxes earlier this year and found my Game Boy Camera. It was fun walking around snapping pics of anything and everything throughout my day.
However the pics were a bit too dithered/grainy/low res (it was 1998 after all...) so I wanted to recreate the vibe of the camera, just with more useable/shareable pics, while still being true to the photo output. So if you want to get nostalgic and mess around, go for it!
I've found some sweet useful apps in this community and wanted to give back with something fun that hopefully sparks a little joy for all my nostalgia nerds out there.
This post was written (poorly) by me, a human, and not AI.
I was looking at my electric toothbrush the other day and realized I had absolutely no idea when I last changed the head. The same thing always happens with washing my pillows, cleaning the fridge, or watering the plants.
I tried tracking these non-daily chores in standard habit apps, but those tools are built for daily routines. The second you don't do something every 24 hours, they break your streak and hit you with a red ring of failure. It is genuinely exhausting trying to manage normal adulthood when your own apps constantly guilt-trip you.
I got tired of the broken mechanics, so built SinceWhen.
It is an "anti-streak" tracker designed entirely around the messy, irregular chores of actual life. It acts as the exact opposite of a traditional habit app.
Zero Guilt: No daily streaks, no red rings, no failure states. It simply gives you a quiet timeline of the exact days since you last did something.
Smart Predictions: Instead of forcing a rigid calendar on you, it learns your natural rhythm over time and quietly predicts when a chore is actually due.
Frictionless Siri Logging: Deep Shortcuts and Siri integration. You can just say, "Hey Siri, log the fridge cleaning" while your hands are full, and it logs the exact time in the background without you ever opening the app.
Clutter-Free Control: Group your tasks with custom category chips, pin priority chores to the top, and hide seasonal tasks until you need them.
It is completely free to use for up to 3 events if you want to test out the smart predictions and finally stop guessing when you last did things around the house.
I work as a cybersecurity analyst on this App. I want to take your questions and answer all about this app. Disclaimer: Every question will be listed in our database. I thought you guysarethe best, nicest group for this.
It has features we wanted as users. (If there’s anything you’d like the team to add, please let me know too so I can include it on the roadmap. For example, list sorting is recently added as a user request, location-based notifications, import from Apple Reminders are user requests)
ABC's of the App:
(A)nswer
ETasks (www.etasks.app) is a native iOS, iPadOS, Mac OS client for Google Tasks. Some highlights: All tasks in one view, Real alarms, Shared lists, Apple Watch.
(B)etter
It addresses the functional limitations of the official Google Tasks iOS app by providing missing native features and enhanced tools. And it is not a vibe-coding project.
Native and enhanced with iOS.
+ You can manage your Google Tasks. They appear in your Google Calendar and Gmail ... well, obviously 😄*
+ Import from Apple Reminders
+ See all task lists together, even drag&drop between them (and to calendars)
+ Alarms
+ Location reminders
+ A wide range of nice widgets, including countdowns and full week/month widgets
+ Lock screen widgets (e.g., quick add)
+ Link photos/files to tasks
+ See your tasks categorised by dates in Month/Week/Day/Agenda views
+ Add people to Task List (co-edit)
+ Sort your task lists
+ Search your tasks
+ AI support where it makes sense; make titles, extract info from links, create lists for you, suggesting task list names, dictating tasks, context aware search, naming photos shared in,...
+ Choose priority for favorites
+ Drag and Drop interface between tabs (e.g., to calendar tab to drop on a date)
+ Recycle bin
+ Share from other apps into ETasks (texts, links, photos, PDF; all processed accordingly)
+ Apple Watch / iPad Apps
+ Import/Export task lists
+ Modern iOS design
+ A how to AI chat bot to help you with specifics of ETasks
+ Highly customisable user interface
+ Can be used without an account
+ Welcome to explore the rest, it is now open early access.
Maps tells you who has the dish, but it doesn’t tell you who does it well. So I'm building an app for that.
You search ‘best ramen near me’ and Maps gives you every Japanese place nearby sorted by stars. None of that tells you who actually makes good one, which was the question you asked.
That gap is the whole app. You pick a dish and it looks for places known for that dish. Chains and tourist spots get pushed down. If you don’t know what you want yet, you swipe through dish cards until something lands.
The restaurant data all comes from map services. No paid placement and nothing on the map is invented.
Pricing: the city you’re physically in is free, any cuisine, any dish with a daily cap on nearby searches. $3.99/mo covers cities you’re not physically in and a few optional filters.
When I was freelancing, regular time trackers always showed me hours and minutes. I found that information useful, but not particularly motivating.
What I actually wanted to see was how much the current work session was worth. That idea became Monymo, an iPhone timer that converts tracked time into live earnings based on your hourly rate.
It is deliberately focused on individual work rather than team management. You can track sessions, use different project rates, review earnings, and export reports.
I’m the developer, so I’m obviously biased, but I’m interested in the psychological side of this: would seeing your earnings increase make a work session more satisfying, or would it create unnecessary pressure?
The basic tracker is free. Pro costs $0.99 monthly or $6.99 yearly.
I know there are experts here who could give me a genuine direction. Awaiting.
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Here's how the app works:
If you use calendars from different providers, you probably know the pain of switching between apps just to see your full schedule. Missed conflicts, double bookings, no single place to see everything. The SYNC mess.
I was personally dealing with this, meetings and events scattered across Google, Apple, and Microsoft calendars. There was no simple way to see everything in one place.
So CalUnity, it pulls all your calendars into one unified view, regardless of the provider.
A few things worth mentioning:
Inbuilt AI assistant to guide you through all your meetings so you dont need to worry about missing meetings or scheduling a new one.
Works across iOS, Android, and web, same view everywhere.
Connects to Google, Apple, and Microsoft calendars in one place
It even has CalDAV support.
Built for people who live across multiple calendars and need a single source of truth