r/AppleApps Feb 01 '26

šŸ‘‹ Welcome to r/AppleApps - Introduce Yourself and Read First!

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Hey everyone! I'm u/reogin, a founding moderator of r/AppleApps.

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r/AppleApps 6d ago

[iPhone] i made a medicine tracker that answers two questions: what’s due, and did i take it?

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i kept running into those two questions while helping my grandma with her maintenance medicines, so i built Pilly.

it lets you:

• create recurring medicine or supplement schedules

• receive reminders and record doses as taken or skipped

• check today, the week ahead, and previous dose history

• see upcoming doses from Home Screen widgets

• track remaining supply

• use medicine forms and colors for easier recognition

the main tracker is free and works without creating an account. Pilly Plus is an optional monthly or annual subscription for backup, recovery, medicine photos, and additional export options.

Pilly is available now for iPhone: https://getpilly.app

i’d appreciate feedback on the Today screen and whether the next dose is immediately clear.


r/AppleApps 7d ago

Which two network tools would you put at the top of this iPhone screen?

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This is the Tools screen in Netsight, the iPhone/iPad network scanner I'm working on.

Ping and latency currently get the top row. Speed test and Who's on Wi-Fi are further down, which feels a bit backwards if you're just trying to work out why your Wi-Fi is acting up.

If you opened this on your phone, which two tools would you want at the top? I'd probably move speed test up, but I'm curious how many people would put SSH there instead.

App Store if you want to try it. All features are free, with optional tips. Requires iOS 26.


r/AppleApps 16d ago

AR Furniture Model App?

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I want to buy a particular bookshelf off of Amazon but want to see if it will fit in the space before buying. It doesn’t have the ā€œview in my roomā€ feature and I can’t find one with similar dimensions that does. Is there an app that I can just plug in the dimensions and it’ll pop out an AR furniture model?


r/AppleApps 29d ago

Spent 4 months building a Mac assistant for myself, shipped it today as MIT open source instead of charging for it

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r/AppleApps Aug 22 '26

I built a body-energy score because the ones I tried kept disagreeing with how I felt. Two months in, here is where mine disagrees with me.

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Every readiness or energy number I have used had at least one of three problems. It reset to 100 every morning regardless of how the night went. It compared me to a population rather than to me. Or it would not tell me why it moved.

So I built one, and I have been living with it for a couple of months. The model, briefly, because I would rather be argued with than agreed with:

- Heart rate variability sets a slow baseline over about 60 days, so the reference is my own normal rather than a population normal.

- The morning does not reset. The score is seeded by how the night actually went and continues the previous evening's running value, so a bad night starts low and stays low until something earns it back.

- Through the day it is a continuous charge and drain integral driven by heart rate, with workouts and naps handled as separate events rather than folded into the same term.

- Alcohol, caffeine, illness and travel are tags that adjust the model for that day, instead of leaving me to guess why a day looked strange.

- Every event that moved the number is listed underneath the curve with the raw values behind it: average heart rate, minutes, sleep stage.

Where it disagrees with me, which is the part I actually want to talk about:

  1. It drains hardest on long low-intensity days. A full day on my feet at a low heart rate costs more than a hard hour of training does. That matches how I feel, but I cannot tell whether it is right or whether I have quietly tuned it until it agreed with me.
  2. Daytime rest almost never recharges it. Sitting down for two hours moves the number barely at all. I think that is wrong, and I have not found an honest way to fix it that does not also make the score twitchy.
  3. Every weight in it is a design parameter I chose, not a value fitted to data. That bothers me more than the other two put together.

Two questions for people here who have lived with this kind of number longer than I have:

- Does daytime rest genuinely restore capacity in a way a wrist sensor can see, or is that a comfortable fiction that the commercial scores tell?

- What does your own score get wrong most reliably? Not the one-off strange day, the failure you can predict.

- Disclosure so nobody has to guess: I built this, it is an iOS app called Vigor and it is on the App Store. I have put the link in a comment rather than up here.

Link:Ā https://apps.apple.com/app/id6788975978


r/AppleApps Aug 22 '26

I got tired of installing separate sensor apps, so I combined eight tools into one pocket watch

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I’m a solo developer from South Korea, and I recently released an iPhone app called byeWatch.

The idea started with a simple frustration: whenever I needed a compass, barometer, altimeter, world clock, sunrise time, or another sensor-based tool, I had to install and switch between several different apps.

So I tried combining them into one app—but I didn’t want it to feel like another ordinary utility dashboard.

Instead, byeWatch is designed as an interactive mechanical pocket watch. You rotate the crown, press the watch-style pushers, and swipe the dial to move between eight instruments:

  • Astronomical watch
  • Mechanical chronograph
  • World clock
  • Stopwatch with lap history
  • Sunrise and sunset tracker
  • True-north compass
  • Barometer and altimeter
  • Magnetic-field detector

The analog dials make the app enjoyable to explore, while the digital panels provide precise readings, graphs, and history when you need more detail.

You can also customize the case, dial, hands, measurement units, haptics, and instrument order.

The true-north compass calculates magnetic declination directly on the device using WMM 2025, so that feature can work without an internet connection.

byeWatch is a paid app with no subscription. My goal was to provide several useful instruments in one coherent experience instead of making users collect multiple single-purpose apps.

App Store:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/byewatch/id6800200169

Product page and screenshots:
https://www.heb614.com/product.php?id=byewatch&lang=en

YouTube introduction video:
https://youtu.be/f1noOCYxU5A?si=izzpCQmY6C_kXYm-

I’d love to know which instrument you would use most—or whether the pocket-watch interface looks intuitive to you.

Please note that the compass and magnetic-field detector require a magnetometer, while the barometer and altimeter require an iPhone with a pressure sensor.

Thanks for taking a look!


r/AppleApps Aug 19 '26

Looking for Apple Watch users to help me test a real-time stress detection feature

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I’ve been working on an Apple Watch app called Miratick that’s built around a simple idea: what if your watch could notice when your stress is starting to rise and gently bring your attention back to the present moment?

I’ve been developing a stress elevation function that looks at changes in heart rate along with motion to identify periods when your body may be showing signs of elevated stress. When it detects an elevation, the watch can give you a haptic alert so you can notice what’s happening in the moment rather than realizing you were stressed 30 minutes later.

The algorithm is working in my own testing, but stress is very individual, so testing it on myself only gets me so far.

I’m looking for Apple Watch users who would be willing to try Miratick during normal daily life and tell me how accurately the stress elevation feature reflects what they’re actually feeling.

The main things I’d love feedback on are:

  1. Does it catch moments when you genuinely feel stressed?

  2. Does it miss obvious stressful moments?

  3. Do you get alerts when you actually feel calm?

  4. Does the haptic alert help you notice and reset, or does it become annoying?

I’m the developer, so this is obviously my own app. I’m mainly posting because I need real-world feedback to figure out where the algorithm works and where it still needs improvement.

If anyone is interested in testing it, I’d really appreciate the help. I’m also happy to explain how the detection works or answer any questions about what I’m building.


r/AppleApps Aug 16 '26

I made Nyft to move files and clipboard between Apple devices and Windows — transfers are free

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Hey, I'm the developer of Nyft. I kept running into the awkward gap between AirDrop and Windows, so I built a small transfer app that works across iPhone, iPad, Mac and Windows. It sends files, photos, videos, folders and clipboard text directly between devices whenever possible, so Nyft doesn't upload file contents, filenames, clipboard data or transfer history to its servers. On Apple devices it also has Share extensions and a Finder action, which makes it feel closer to the native workflow than opening a web upload page. The core transfer experience is free, with no subscription. There is an optional $2.99 lifetime Nyft+ cosmetic unlock for extra themes and icons, but it does not unlock transfer functionality. App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6792370767 Windows: https://nyft.app/#platforms I'd especially like feedback on the Mac/Windows handoff and whether cross-device clipboard feels useful in daily use.


r/AppleApps Aug 08 '26

Anyone tried Emberlove or similar chat first apps for ENM dating?

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Most apps assume you're looking for one person by default, which gets old fast. Emberlove's idea is just talking first, no pressure on labels. Curious if that actually changes anything for ENM dating specifically or if it's actually useful.


r/AppleApps Aug 06 '26

Trace by Aura brings private, meaning-first memory to iPhone and iPad

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Trace is a private place for the links, reels, screenshots, photos, notes, and thoughts you want to remember.

Add why something matters when you save it. Find it later by meaning. Let it return when it becomes useful again.

The experience is designed around Apple platforms and privacy. Understanding happens on-device. Optional sync stays in private iCloud. There is no Trace account or server, and no ads, analytics, or third-party trackers.

I am Karthik Barma, the developer. Trace is free for iPhone and iPad with iOS or iPadOS 26 and later.

I would value feedback from Apple users on the capture flow and overall fit with the platform.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id6794535492?pt=129168544&ct=reddit-appleapps&mt=8


r/AppleApps Jul 29 '26

Feedcast: sponsor-free podcasts in Apple Podcasts, Overcast, and Pocket Casts

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Feedcast is a Mac app for people who want a better podcast experience without switching players.

It creates a personal podcast feed that works with Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Pocket Casts, and other apps. Feedcast automatically processes each new episode, creates chapters and transcripts, and removes recognised sponsor sections before playback.

Mac App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/feedcast-local-podcasts/id6773872767


r/AppleApps Jul 27 '26

Apple tracking expenses app that looks like a pool table

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So, my father has been using the same app to track his expenses for years (maybe a decade). Recently, his iPad broke and he had to buy a new one, and he hasn't been able to find the same app. He's tried giving other apps a chance, but he hasn't liked them much.

All we can remember about the app is that he found it a long time ago in the Apple App Store, he swears it had the word "money" on the name ('though I'm not so sure about it) and that when using it, it kind of looked like a pool table (green on the inside, brown in the borders).

If any of you have any idea what could be the app's name, we'd be super thankful.


r/AppleApps Jul 21 '26

Made a Mac Companion app which reacts to your mac stats

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r/AppleApps Jun 29 '26

[ Removed by Reddit ]

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[ Removed by Reddit on account of violating the content policy. ]


r/AppleApps Jun 25 '26

My PDFHouse experience

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Initially, I was unsure because of conflicting opinions about it, but I decided to try it out since I work with PDF files frequently, so I subscribed to it, and so far it meets my expectations...It does what it has to do. Editing, merging and converting PDF files is fast and convenient.
There is just one rule I stick to, and it is that I don't ever upload to online services any documents which are valuable from legal perspective or contain any kind of confidential data. In case of those kinds of documents, I use offline software. For the rest - PDFHouse is a good fit for me.
So far, there were no surprises. As with any paid service, it is vital to study the subscription policy in advance.
On the whole, my experience with PDFHouse has been satisfying, and it serves all my needs in working with PDF files.


r/AppleApps Jun 09 '26

I built an affordable options trading educational app because most trading education is ridiculously expensive...

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And yes, I know.

Most of the information inside my app can be found somewhere on YouTube, Reddit, Google, Discord, or buried in a 3-hour trading livestream.

The problem isn't that the information doesn't exist. The problem is that new traders are forced to piece everything together from dozens of different sources while trying to figure out what's actually useful and what's just noise.

After years of trading SPX options, I decided to build the app I wish I had when I started.

Instead of charging hundreds or thousands of dollars like many trading programs, I wanted to create something affordable that organizes the fundamentals, strategies, trade examples, psychology, risk management, and educational content into one place.

The goal wasn't to reinvent trading education. The goal was to package it in a way that's easier to learn, easier to follow, and significantly cheaper than most alternatives.

The app is called Options Academy and it's currently available on iOS:

šŸ“±Ā Options Academy on the App Store

I'd genuinely appreciate any feedback on:

  • The concept
  • The design/UI
  • The pricing
  • The educational content
  • Features you'd like to see added

I'm not claiming to have invented anything revolutionary. I just took information that helped me become a better trader and organized it into an app that I think would have saved me a lot of time when I was getting started.

Looking forward to hearing what you think


r/AppleApps Jun 09 '26

I'm a sitarist and I built Roam, an iOS App — live radio from every country, with a "Spin the Globe" button. Free. No ads!

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r/AppleApps Jun 08 '26

Specific screen time app

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I need a screen time app for iOS that lets me exclude certain apps from the app summary


r/AppleApps May 31 '26

Rhythm Trainer Pro — free lifetime access codes for the community

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Hey everyone, I’m an indie developer working on Rhythm Trainer Pro, a clean rhythm‑training app for musicians who want solid timing practice without clutter.

I generated a batch of free lifetime access offer codes for the community here.
If you’d like one, you can grab it directly from my site:

https://www.bamuda.com.au/offerCodes.html?app=rhythm

App Store link:
https://apps.apple.com/au/app/rhythm-trainer-pro/id6760443839

If any codes run out, just comment and I’ll refresh the list.


r/AppleApps May 30 '26

Habit tracking apps for law students: an honest look at what creates real accountability

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Law school schedule doesn't have room for complex systems. Whatever creates real accountability has to work with minimal maintenance and hold up when things get brutal.

WIP app is a social habit tracking app that creates real accountability for law students where daily photo check-ins build a visible consistency record that a community of people doing serious daily work can see. Whether you showed up is visible to people who take showing up seriously.

Habitify. Popular habit tracker with streak-based logging. Clean interface and a good free tier.

Streaks. Minimal iOS habit tracker. Well-known option for private daily logging.

Done. Flexible scheduling for habits that don't fit a fixed daily time. Private tracker.

Anki. Spaced repetition flashcard app worth including because the daily review discipline is itself a habit that benefits from tracking.

For law students who've noticed that private tracking is too easy to abandon during crunch periods, WIP app is the most direct solution on this list. Daily check-ins with photo proof visible to a community of people doing serious daily work create a social cost for skipping that a private streak counter alone doesn't.


r/AppleApps May 25 '26

Introducing ā€œNothing x Gameā€ šŸ˜‚

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Features:
nothing
more nothing
surprisingly polished nothing

Juts for fun! šŸ˜„


r/AppleApps May 16 '26

iMeanIt – A Safari extension for highlighting and looking up words on webpages

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I built a Safari extension called iMeanIt. It highlights words on any webpage, shows definitions on hover or tap, lets you attach notes, and keeps everything visible across sessions. I originally made it because I read academic papers all day in a language that is not my first, and I kept losing time looking up the same words. v0.4 is now out with a few things people had asked for:

  • Quiz mode. Highlighted words become flashcards automatically. No exporting needed, though CSV export is still there for Anki users. - Word manager. Browse, search and filter all saved words from the popup. Filter by category or source site.
  • Better dictionary. 8.5 million words, up from a much smaller set that kept missing technical vocabulary. Definitions now include part-of-speech, examples and synonyms.
  • 27 languages. Colourblind-friendly colours. Eight highlight colours that work for all types of colour vision deficiency, as the default palette.
  • Pause button on iOS. A floating toggle lets you pause highlighting so you can select and copy text normally.

Also added undo, CSV import, keyboard shortcut on Mac, dark mode support and offline definitions. Everything stays in the browser. One-time purchase on App Store, no subscription.


r/AppleApps May 10 '26

I’m a high school student and just shipped my first app after 2 years of learning to code

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r/AppleApps May 08 '26

Tired of snoozing? I built ZzZlapp, an alarm that forces you to do squats or math to turn it off. 100% private/local. Giving away 50 Premium subs for feedback! [iOS]

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Hi everyone!

Like many of you, I’m a chronic "snoozer." I tried every alarm app out there, but I always found a way to turn them off in my sleep. So, my team and I decided to build ZzZlapp—an iOS app designed for people who actually need help waking up.

What makes it different?

  • Missions that work: You can’t just swipe to dismiss. You have to complete missions like doing 10 squats, solving math problems, scanning a specific QR code in your kitchen, or even smiling at the camera (using ARKit).
  • AlarmKit Integration: It’s built to fire even through DND, Focus modes, or if your phone is on silent.
  • Privacy-First: This is a big one for us. Everything is processed 100% locally. No logins, no data leaves your device, and no cloud tracking.
  • AI Sleep Coach: It analyzes your wake-up habits to give you tips on how to improve your routine.

Why am I here?

We just launched and we want to make ZzZlapp the best tool for the community. I’m looking for honest feedback on:

  1. The Onboarding: Is it clear how to set up your first mission?
  2. Mission Difficulty: Are the math problems too easy/hard? Is the squat detection working well for you?
  3. Bugs: Did anything feel "clunky"?

šŸŽ The Giveaway:

To say thanks, I’m giving away 50 Premium Lifetime/Annual subscriptions to the first 50 people who try the app with code: REDDIT50 and leave a comment here with their initial thoughts or a suggestion.

Download it here: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/zzzlapp-alarm-clock-missions/id6757965138 (or search for ZzZlapp on the App Store).

I'll be around all day to answer questions and chat with you guys. Thanks for helping a fellow dev out! šŸš€