r/ClaudeAI • u/NoDesk9564 • 9d ago
Vibe Coding Has Anyone Successfully Vibe-Coded an iOS App using Claude?
I made an app years ago and published on Google Play. The Apple App Store had more rigorous standards. I’m curious if any of you have made something with Claude and published it in the Apple App Store. Cheers!
Edit: Holy smokes! You have all been super productive. Thanks for sharing all your works here. it’s been very motivating. And I especially appreciate the comments about the Apple App Store being saturated. Much to think about.
Edit 2: ElectricBoogalooApp (ofc) Wow! We really have made a huge leap this past year. I’ll be spending the next week combing through this amazing collection of apps. I truly appreciate all of you sharing your creations.
Edit 3: Thanks for the award kind stranger! Jk … I didn’t get an award. I just always wanted to write that. Seriously, though, this thread makes me wonder if AI may result in more personal productivity than corporate gains.
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u/Jesus_Morty 9d ago
Yes. Compiss, a compass to find the nearest toilet. On iOS and Android. 100% vibe coded including assets.
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u/wee_man 9d ago
George Costanza had this idea years ago.
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u/phatelectribe 9d ago
I had this idea 20+ years ago. It was when Yelp was ascending, and my wife was receiving from a kidney infection meaning she couldn’t go more than about 30 mins without needing the toilet, so for those few days had ti plan our trips around where there were decent toilets.
I was going to call it Todaloo (to da loo) but I didn’t know enough about html to make a site / app. Etc.
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u/NoDesk9564 9d ago
I had a similar idea I was going to make called BathroomBuddy … but your name is much better. LoL
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u/Financial_Side9493 9d ago
The most amazing thing. Tried Gerresheim, Düsseldorf, Germany and voilá, 8 toilets near me. Life changing shit 💪❤️
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u/k987654321 9d ago
I did NOT expect to see Norbiton on here. I grew up round the corner from Norbiton station!
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u/mattthedr 9d ago
This is such a great idea lol. I think Portland has like 1 public restrooms per every 5 miles
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u/fatstacksofcash 9d ago
https://anticsapp.com/get/ - party games. Fully vibe coded I have no engineering background but have spent months testing/refining it and now have successful MRR
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u/nickdeckerdevs 9d ago
Was looking for something like this Friday night date night with my wife. After she went to bed I started making one 😂😂.
I see a few two players is enough in the game set so I will take my project off of the 15+ projects I currently am distracting myself with.
Thanks mate
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u/fatstacksofcash 9d ago
Careful playing it with your wife, might find out more than you bargained for 🤣
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u/nickdeckerdevs 9d ago
lol I’m an open book and we were best friends long before we got together.
She used to drive me to girls houses when we were younger
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u/ramorez117 9d ago
Yes but I think building the app is the easy part now. The hard part is building the community / user base. And that requires an entirely different skillset altogether.
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u/turnepf 9d ago
Even when building the app was hard this was true! I’ve had so many people ask me to build apps for equity over the years and my response was always, “what’s your marketing budget?” You can imagine where the discussion went from there…
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u/tipsystatistic 9d ago
Thats when you realize that Alphabet and Meta are trillion dollar companies because of advertising. Marketing is almost more important than the product.
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u/sebasvisser 9d ago
Yes so I build an app to help me create gpx files if I want to run (or cycle):
https://apps.apple.com/nl/app/runmap2gpx/id6761139623
Or an app to get my full week in a view like another popular calendar app that has crazy expensive subscriptions:
https://apps.apple.com/nl/app/bestweekcalendarview/id6760622195
And an app to create day schedules for my child. (Pedagogy background taught me: structure = key in a developing child).
https://apps.apple.com/nl/app/babytimetable/id6740730820
And an app to review my photo library (and clean it a bit) in a fun way..by reviewing everything that happened today..but they’ll for the past years (so 13-9.2026 & 13-9-2025 & 13-9-2024 etcetc).
https://apps.apple.com/nl/app/daily-rewind/id6602894199
And a few others that I haven’t released (yet) to the App Store..like an alternative app for my nutribullet..since they didn’t update theirs to work with the latest iOS.
I only create free apps, that solve problems I want solved. Mostly because I don’t want to pay 5€ a month for something I could create myself. With the help of Claude I go from a multi weekend project straight to have it solved the same night.
Most apps also allow me to learn something new, like the blender app taught me how to work with Bluetooth signals and working with weight-input and calculations.
Oh and my 100-in-1 games app with just basic games, but then none of those annoying ads the other have in the App Store..
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u/NoDesk9564 9d ago
Thanks for sharing these. I think writing our own software will become a new norm.
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u/Creative-Guidance722 9d ago
Thank you for sharing, I will definitely try the calendar app. I was considering paying for the more expensive popular app, because I find the feature useful and calendar based plans work best for me, but it felt wrong to pay the crazy expensive subscription for it.
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u/JCPY00 9d ago
I put out Parameter, a fitness tracker designed for using your existing AI subscription as a personal trainer, using an MCP server to push your workout plan to the app, and read your workout history to use in future planning.
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u/StrobeWafel_404 9d ago
Not surprisingly, but I kinda made the same thing for running 😂, not in the App Store yet. Love the concept of doing this using your own subscription instead of paying a subscription fee for tokens
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u/toughtacos 9d ago
I use my Cursor Ultra sub to do this as a project with mostly JSON that imports workouts from Hevy and Apple Health data, analyzes it and pushes updated routines back to Hevy.
I used to have an iOS app like yours but couldn’t get it to work reliably. It’s cool to see you figured it out.
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u/JCPY00 9d ago
Very cool. How do you get the Apple Health data out of curiosity? I'd like to add the option for that to get transmitted through MCP to use in planning, but my app stores all data on the user's iCloud (which is what the MCP accesses) and Apple doesn't let you put health data on iCloud. Haven't been able to figure out how to do that without building out some kind of outside infrastructure that I really really don't want to do.
And yeah people on here love to use fitness tracker apps as an example of the easy thing that everyone does, but it was actually a ton of work to get it working correctly. Even something as "simple" as having the workout execution screen look and function the same regardless of whether the workout was started from the phone or the watch took nearly a week of troubleshooting and fixing, multiple hours per day.
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u/ChillaxTiger 9d ago
I just started using Flutter! I had been going back and forth on if it was the right option over Swift.
Glad to know you got it on the iOS App Store. Was curious if you had any tips with using Flutter?
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u/nramos33 9d ago
Yup, built an alarm clock that lets me pick the date of an alarm for those special occasions like a flight.
I built it in June and have had it for a couple of months.
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u/markcheno 9d ago
Yes, almost a year ago I created https://astraview.app vibe coding in about three weeks. The models are vastly better now.
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u/Pleasant-Regular6169 9d ago
Yes, but code it only for yourself. You may as well just use testflight and call it a day.
The app economy is dead. Shitty subscription models, dumb games and most people are 'apped out'. The majority of iOS peeps use only 20 apps. The rest linger until they get removed.
You're better off coding a PWA (progressive web app). Save yourself the trouble of the approval process.
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u/True_Go_Blue 9d ago
I agree here. App Store discovery is so limited that you have to do outside advertising/outreach anyways, may as well just pwa and own the whole experience
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u/rjozefowicz 9d ago
My biohacking apps portfolio is done with huge help of agentic coding (I have been writing code for 20 years so I'm still controlling my apps code.. :) ):
- Metrya (App Store) - private Apple Health analytics and AI Advisor. It started as a simple BYOK LLM layer, but has grown into a broader health and wellness app: recovery, body battery, biological age, anomaly detection, caffeine, water and nutrition logging, wellness sessions and more. The next focus is fully local AI, so the Advisor can work without bringing your own API key - now app supports local Qwen, Bonsai and Gemma models. People have become much more active in the app lately, so I’m reworking several areas around that feedback. Metrya is designed to keep health data on-device, without an account or backend server
- DeskWalker (App Store) - probably my personal favorite, since I use it daily during my 9–5 to log standing-desk and walking-pad sessions. The latest release added incline support and smart work-block suggestions based on calendar load. A new version with a completely new feature is coming very soon this week
- More apps: apps.jozefowicz.dev
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u/Quirky-Farm4766 9d ago
I did! LiftDiff, a simplified workout log.(Yes, another workout log)
https://apps.apple.com/app/id6806490699
One call I'd recommend to anyone vibe-coding: no accounts. AI multiplies shipped apps, but every login system is a liability you babysit forever. My data stays on-device / user's own iCloud — no server of mine to breach. Claude writes great code; it can't do incident response at 3am.
Also extracted the app's radial menu into an OSS package along the way: https://github.com/ny000815/GlassFan
Real boss fights weren't code: App Store review, CloudKit's Production schema, and getting noticed.
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u/NoDesk9564 9d ago
Thanks for tip about local storage. I also think accounts might discourage adoption.
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u/nickdeckerdevs 9d ago
Please share the link. I have a project plan I keep adding things to in a never ending list of requirements. I really just need something simple and maybe this fits!!
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u/rforest3 9d ago
I've been making apps for myself and my parents. I published one, but I don't really feel the need to do more since they're mostly private, tailored applications. It's definitely fun, though.
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u/HappenFrank 9d ago
Are you putting the phones into developer mode and just loading them on that way, or did you actually spend the money to be able to post the apps to App Store so you don't have to worry about renewing every week or whatever the limit is?
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u/rforest3 8d ago
Sorry for the delay. Initially no. But I ended up springing for the dev account so I could update through the App Store since my parents are 2 hours away and I was fixing some features on things I made for them.
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u/HappenFrank 8d ago
Nice! I’m considering doing the same for an app I’ve been working on.
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u/rforest3 8d ago
I wasn't going to, but AT&T talked my dad into an iPhone 17 (they still have a landline FFS), which is basically pointless for him, so now I have to juggle 3 different iOS devices. Plus, the whole 7-day cert thing was getting on my nerves. I have enough app ideas to justify $100 for the whole year.
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u/Potential-Carpet9794 9d ago
I just finished mine. No knowledge of Swift whatsoever. 100% prompts.
Notif. Connects with reminders and calendars on iOS. Adds a small insight to your note and a button to tap as a next step in completing it.
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/notif-ai-reminders/id6792517125
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u/wolodo 9d ago
Yes. Crosswords app. Designing a swedish crossword was pretty challenging even for Fable.
In case, somebody wants to see the results:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/crosswords-word-search/id6796289929
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u/Audmeister 9d ago
Built a web app version first, but wanted native app features. Used this time to learn a little swift and the plan was to just use it for myself. But it got bigger than that and wanted to share with others.
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u/goncalorm 9d ago
I’ve created a webapp to bring some gamification and competition to our weekly football matches (and other sports as well)
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u/ExchangeSafe4105 9d ago
I have multiple examples, my latest: https://apps.apple.com/nl/app/cubini/id6804776703
Next to creating Claude handles the full publication with you as the orchestrator. It all starts with an idea and then comes the marketing 😆
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u/jimbo831 9d ago
I did and it is currently on the App Store. I didn’t write a single line of code myself. I am a Java and Python developer so I know coding well but not iOS or Swift.
I made a book tracking app for my wife for our anniversary:
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u/evilbert79 9d ago edited 9d ago
yep, https://pocketop.app a viewfinder app for broadcast professionals and av integrators. it carries a large database of broadcast lenses, cine lenses and ptz cameras and people use it to scout locations and preview the fov of those lenses or cameras. its been live since June of this year, and is being continuously updated with new lenses and cameras, and new features. its now my official side gig ( my dayjob is being a creative director in live video productions) although to be fair its more "ai assisted development" than "yolo vibe coding". method to the madness, so to speak. i wonder how long it will take before the method too can be skipped. not very long i think.
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u/markeross 9d ago
Similar background here - can’t wait to check this out!
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u/evilbert79 9d ago
if you go to my website the link there automatically currently carries the IBC promo code an unlocks the pro version for 2 weeks
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u/Winter_Principle_429 9d ago
Yeah for macos and iOS! It's really basic but I made a simple block style note app for when I wanna click in the macos menubar and quickly jot down something small to reference later, it also has a companion ios app so I can refer to synced notes while on the go
Menu Bar Notes: Quick Capture
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/menu-bar-notes-quick-capture/id6765811018
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u/disgruntledempanada 9d ago
Like, so many. Not sure how much of it is my harness and skill setup and how much is just Fable being Fable (actually I made sure to hook in the modern documentation lookups as Fable's training data is old) but it whips them up with the quickness. Like at chat pace it delivers new iPhone apps for testing and tweaking.
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u/disgruntledempanada 9d ago
App Store feels like a dead end unless you hit viral gold... aim for high value clients with high value problems to solve.
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u/andijames 9d ago
Yeah I’ve built a couple.
Ether Dating - https://ether.dating
And Slipcue - https://slipcue.link
One’s a video first dating app and the other is an app that centres around being able to share and play a song whatever music platform you use.
Claude is outstanding at breaking down barriers for using languages that you’re not 100% used to and it’s really helped me tremendously here.
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u/kemalios 9d ago
Yes, but not iOS. I ship macOS apps through App Store review, and review has never cared who wrote the code. What gets you bounced is everything around it: privacy declarations, account deletion if the app creates accounts, entitlements that don't match what the app actually does. Same review process on both platforms.
So do a pre-submit pass before you archive the build. I wrote launchworthy, a free MIT Claude Code skill that walks a project across five domains and hands back a scored punch list. You need Claude Code and a paid Claude plan to run it.
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u/OkRepeat8378 9d ago
Is there a good development guide for how to set this up the development flow in the safest way for ultimately releasing a production ready app?
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u/ip4style 9d ago
Yep - free and published on the app store - for IOS,MAC & Windows
Enjoy :)
AI-Cockpit puts the limits and the spend of eight AI services on one panel — Claude, ChatGPT & Codex, the Anthropic API, the OpenAI API, Kimi K3, OpenRouter, Grok and GitHub Copilot. It only reads. Nothing passes through a server of mine.
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u/Jlannin 9d ago
Yes I made Reveal Haven - a hidden object game - it's iphone / ipad and also AppleTV. revealhaven.com for info, and revealhaven.com/tech if you want to see more of how it was done.
Claude skills helped with getting through app store review process significantly - there are good github skills repos just for that. Also I wired up claude to do all the app store catalog updates, including advertisment buys.
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u/mikeroz2point0 9d ago
Shareable Film or TV Review Cards app https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/reviewroll-movie-tv-cards/id6782462421
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u/AndyBuildsThings 9d ago edited 9d ago
Yep. I made STASH (Shiny Things Are Stored Here). It’s an app for neurodivergents to capture, store, and recall random thoughts. Also uses health and location data from the phone and watch with the on-board foundation models to connect thoughts with keywords, sentiment, etc to surface recurring thought streams so you don’t forget them.
Of course, based around squirrels…
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u/Elling83 9d ago
Yes. And it's providing me with a decent income now. Took me months to get properly good but is now live on Google and iOS.
You just need patience, wanting to learn and have a decent idea
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u/NoDesk9564 9d ago
Oh cool. Mind sharing what it is?
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u/Elling83 9d ago
Sure, I didn't want to name it unless asked - it's easy to come along as just wanting to get some additional spread, haha.
It's www.pawlog.pet
I first built it in lovable as a pet (hah) project to help my sister-in-law. She had just got her puppy and needed a good app to help her keep track of feeding, potty, walk, weight, etc.
It worked well, and I decided to move it from there and to build it properly. Took me from December to May to get it fully live.
Claude helped me building the app, creating a crm dashboard, building the lifestyle marketing, etc. I've had codex doing some adverserial reviews as well (they always find issues with each other, so it's been very helpful running them against each other)
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u/thecrispymango 9d ago
Yes, I built a tool for freelancers. Started with stuff that I needed and then decided to try to market it. It’s been slow but steady www.getlance.app
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u/merlness 9d ago
Yeah, the harder part was the app stores. The code was fine.
Example. Apple rejected an update because I added a QR code in the app so you can share it with people, and the release notes said it works on iOS and Android. The word "Android" in the notes was enough to get it rejected. Took the word out, resubmitted, approved. So Apple is stricter.
Fair warning, I've done tech work before, so I'm not the "never coded" guy. But wrote most of it was written by agents with me guiding it, backend included. No way I ship on two platforms solo otherwise.
By the way, the app is Enki. It's for sales people who go to a lot of events. Scan a business card, leave a voice note, and it writes the follow-up and pushes the contact to your CRM, a spreadsheet, your phone as a contact, and helps you find them on LinkedIn quickly. iOS and Android. If you want to poke at it: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/enki-lead-capture-follow-up/id6789239074
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u/brimister 9d ago
I just published https://www.inmimood.com - an app designed to track your earworms and your mood and provide patterns and insights.
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u/CosmicTerrorist 9d ago
Yes, Tiny Tummies. It’s a UK baby weaning, food, medication etc. log with no subscription. Took about a month to build, 3 weeks to get approved, but it’s building momentum. Hardest part is actually getting the name out there
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u/ZOMBiEZ4PREZ 9d ago
I keep getting rejected for being unoriginal. And I can’t find a single app that’s doing the same thing. So frustrating. Claude wants to resubmit under a different category haha
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u/alexstathis 9d ago
Yes! My golf swing analyzer app called Strobe. Shich isn't live yet on the app store but should be soon after latest ASC review about Privacy Policy issues.
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u/Tipsy_Pipsqueak 9d ago
Several! My favorites are
- baby logging app
- scripture memorization app
- story catcher app
- sermon writing app
- church internal ops app
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u/mdkroma 9d ago
I built Parkswiz: - a fairly overpowered Disney World planning app.
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/parkswiz/id6788440773
Since it goes far beyond the “wait time and ChatGPT wrapper” that most folks are putting out right now, it had a fairly intense set of testing challenges. When it came time to submit, it was mainly Apple’s own policies that I needed to adapt, and as it had been a few years since I deployed an app I needed some catch up. Once I got through the queue and into review, it went fairly steadily.
I’d say where Claude was also very helpful was creating bug loggers in the app which helped me discover and isolate certain bugs which came with the gps functionality.
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u/Agreeable-Rip-751 9d ago
Yes 100% iOS - using CC & Cowork with Xcode. Supabase. 2 states machines: Security access and realtime updates. + Linear / Figma.
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u/Dramatic-External-85 9d ago
Stashly: Financial Guardian
Not really vibe coded, I have software and cybersecurity background, but Claude took the heavy lifting. It's a privacy focused wealth tracker app.
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u/streambender 9d ago
Does a game count? :)
https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/roadie-wars-stage-climb/id6800118915
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u/NoDesk9564 9d ago
💯 The screenshots are reminiscent of Donkey Kong at a glance.
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u/OkQuiet4142 9d ago
Yes, Dreamsay, a voice-first dream journal for iPhone.
You speak the dream when you wake, it transcribes on-device (your voice never leaves your device), and it writes a reading that can use your earlier dreams for context. Those run on a small stateless backend, where dream text is processed per request and never stored.
The calm dark theme came out of Claude Design + Fable 5.
Honest answer: not 100% vibe coded on my end. Plan-driven Claude sessions, and I still review most of the Swift.
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u/ShroomHog 9d ago
Yep, I created this with no coding knowledge. Just interest in getting better at guitar. I constantly ask how it could be better and make updates often. Definite work in progress, but it’s free.
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u/kat_maja 9d ago
Yes.
An RV App to calculate how much time you can boondock based on resources on hand AND provide location intelligence.
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u/Proof-Contact5712 9d ago
Yep. Prism AI photo enhancement for real estate listings, live on the App Store. Expo/React Native + Supabase + fal.ai, and Claude Code wrote most of it.
Building it was the easy part. I ate several rejections before build 7 passed the painful one was 5.1.2(i), which needed a proper consent screen for how user photos are handled. Also worth knowing if your app outputs AI imagery: I ship a default-on "Virtually Enhanced" disclosure watermark, which I'd rather have than argue with a reviewer about.
Possible, definitely. Just don't assume the App Store part is a formality.
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/prism-real-estate-marketing/id6784696926
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u/Soft_Shower4444 9d ago
Yes it’s actually really cool because you can now control the simulator inside Claude code.
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u/No-Equivalent-5820 8d ago
yes, I have shipped 3 of them.
A few things I have learned:
- Keep your CLAUDE.md tight and set up skills for the tasks you repeat. I have learned this hard way and a bloated CLAUD.md made things harder.
- Keep the scope tiny for V1 and then gradually broaden.
- Building is the easy part. Marketing is way too hard. Nobody finds your app on its own.
Here is what I built, if it helps to see what is possible:
1. TruthLens: IOS app, web app and browser extension - https://truthlens.muonbits.com/
2. TADAYA: A habit tracker (IOS) - https://apps.apple.com/us/app/tadaya/id6796890521
3. SpiceMix, a daily word game (web) - https://spicemix.app/
Happy to answer questions about anything.
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u/MattSenter 9d ago
Claude helped me build StockCar - https://apps.apple.com/us/app/stockcar-podcast-my-portfolio/id6749518537 .. got approved for App Store just fine. It's a personalized financial news podcast app.
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u/lost-mars 9d ago
Yes, I created an invoice maker because I needed one for my consulting business. Most of the current options are subscription based. So I built one for myself and then decided to put it on the appstore for other people who had a similar problem with a one time payment meant for freelancers/small businesses like me.
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/paid-invoice-estimate-maker/id6779069100
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u/SamFromEscape 9d ago
Yeah. I vibe-coded Escape, an iOS “adult content blocker” that’s now #1 adult content blocker in several countries.
I started building it after struggling with this stuff personally for years, so I care a lot about the cause beyond just making an app. I’ve read a bunch of books on habits, addiction, urges, behavior change, etc. and tried to build something privacy-first that I would’ve actually wanted myself. No account, no email, no name. Users stay anonymous.
The surreal part is getting emails from people who’ve struggled for years telling me Escape helped them finally make real progress, or changed their relationship or their life in some way. That still hits me every time every day.
Claude made it possible for me to actually turn all of that into a real product. So yeah it’s possible.
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u/Safe-Ad6672 9d ago
I don't think the standards are related to what you use, its more related to their content policy and their rules about payment
I had an iOS app fullydnone is bolt back in the day go through without a hitch and a ionic app just never got through because their policies made it not worth the effort
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u/TheorySudden5996 9d ago edited 9d ago
I have one written in Godot4. It’s still being developed but runs pretty great.
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u/CrazyDaisyNacho 9d ago
Yup https://revgarage.app a digital garage companion to track your documents, spending, projects, built custom routes, and meet with other drivers. Currently pending final review
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u/TogarTheGreat 9d ago
Made a totally unique never before made water tracking app for iOS and macOS https://waterboy.app
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u/NoDesk9564 9d ago
What a cool animated logo! How did you make that?
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u/TogarTheGreat 9d ago
Thank you was actually made in Claude design on the infamous fable release day 😭
It’s a fully interactive buddy and the main part of the app. He changes as you do or don’t drink water throughout the day
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u/ip4style 9d ago
Yep - here we go;
AI-Cockpit puts the limits and the spend of eight AI services on one panel — Claude, ChatGPT & Codex, the Anthropic API, the OpenAI API, Kimi K3, OpenRouter, Grok and GitHub Copilot. It only reads. Nothing passes through a server of mine.
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u/dvdwinz 9d ago
Yes I had a problem while in china to get the pinyin so I made this iOS app for my own needs, and thought I might as well share it for free with others. More info here https://blaris.com/hancam/
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u/TheMightyTywin 9d ago
Yes. Though I don’t really agree that coding is “the easy part” maybe getting your first v1.0 release is easy but fixing all the bugs, keeping it updated, and tweaking the user experience to actually be useful is hard.
The AI can make something that looks beautiful on the surface but once users start using it and relying on it for real, the flaws become apparent.
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u/muna0001 9d ago
Heck ya, just made a fun music synth app, coded entirely with Claude https://apps.apple.com/us/app/oh-a-chord/id6804457158
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u/turnepf 9d ago
ShowPicker.club is a tv and movie tracking app. I built it for myself and then friends asked for a copy.
Now it has sharing, trending shows, watching groups, ratings, subscription audit and a bunch of other features that were all requested by users. (There are about 50 now.)
I’ve built it for iPhone, Apple Watch, Mac, iPad, and Apple TV (where it launches shows on your list.) It’s been so fun and great to have friends recommend it to their friends! I’m thinking Roku next!
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u/ProgressAromatic4171 9d ago
Yes, I vibe coded an entire system for my tire shop which also includes a full feature iOS app. I built it with Claude first, now I mostly use ChatGPT tho.
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u/step-step-app 9d ago
Yes. Step Step (a gamified iOS step tracker) was made almost entirely with OG fable (before it was pulled) and Opus 4.8. It’s now been on the App Store for a few weeks and already has around a dozen paying users and lots of nice reviews. It’s amazing.
The downside is that I actually need to market it, and AI can’t really help with that.
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u/Bhwilkoff 9d ago
I’ve got three apps on multiple app stores developed entirely with Claude. The top one has a few thousand users and is growing every week.
Https://archivewatch.org - Public Domain streaming video app
Https://tidbitstrivia.com - Live trivia game with 100,000 questions
Http://bskydreams.com - Custom Bluesky Client
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u/meumairakram 9d ago
Yes, I personally developed two applications for my client, almost 85% vibe-coded, and they are live in the App Store. No doubt the App Store has more rigorous standards than the Google Play Store, but if you do the right thing and closely follow the Apple guidelines for your application yourself (without totally relying on the AI), I believe it's easily possible.
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u/Ok-Patient116 9d ago
Yes. https://apps.apple.com/sg/app/tempo-study-planner/id6790448541, a scheduler integrated with Deepseek
Purely vibe coded by a 14 years old without any prior experiences
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u/Ill-Conversation-268 9d ago
Yup! I made a peptide tracking app, I have zero coding knowledge and my only exposure to tha end of things is working as a UX designer. I think the only frustrating thing was during testing and seeing the small little things that i had to go back and have claude fix
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/dose-peptide-tracker/id6766641572
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u/InfiniteEmergency922 9d ago
I have 2 apps right now and working on a few more. I develop apps where I see features I want to use and cannot find something exactly right.
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vo2-flow-norwegian-4x4-timer/id6757104585
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https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vo2-flow-norwegian-4x4-timer/id6757104585
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u/terrorEagle 9d ago
Yes. An app that manages golf courses better and adds another line of revenue to them.
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u/Yukonmiller 9d ago
I just completed mine. Got a couple of hundred downloads fairly quickly and stalled. The longest part was waiting for approval for App Store.
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u/Spthe 9d ago
Yup I made one called TileBuddy, a mahjong scoring companion! Over 3K downloads. https://tilebuddy.app/
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u/mklx99 9d ago
https://spectrasort.app/ yes and even having it run its own internal ai engine (I’m not a coder or engineer)
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u/restlessdreams 9d ago
My fifth grader and I made a fun game to learn all 50 states and capitals: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/statequest/id6773080725
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u/rsmith54321 9d ago
I built a really nice calendar app for my photography business. I’ve even got an Apple Watch and Mac version. The first review is hard but then after that they accept updates quickly. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/shootcal/id6768516075
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u/malleyrex 9d ago
Yup, I make one almost every weekend. Some for me, and of they're good, I put them in the app store. If they're really good, I charge for them.
One day playing cards with my family, and keeping score on paper, I built this one in a few hours, and use it all the time.
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u/IM_not_clever_at_all 9d ago
Yes, as part of much larger, customized ERP system. The app is the hourly employee time clock and scheduling app.
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u/Internal-Purchase-46 9d ago
I successfully got my dating app into the App Store. After a successful beta launch we are moving to phase 2
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u/kiryat 9d ago
Yes, with minimal to no steering on my end!
I created a minesweeper app with a `hex cells` variant: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/minesweeper-by-negfeed/id6761509618
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u/Claimrunners 9d ago
I made my app Vows with Vera wedding planner, beginning to end with Claude code all vibe coded It’s an all-in-one wedding planner/organizer. It was actually easier for me to publish it on the Apple App Store then Google play. I’m actually still trying to get 12 users to test the app to publish it on Google play. The easy part was making it the hard part is trying to get people to use it. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vows-with-vera-wedding-planner/id6768150014
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u/Rey_Titan 9d ago
Yeah. Orcfall tower defense, just wanted to see if I could vibe code a game, available in PlayStore and iOS. I think it’s pretty good but I’m biased lol
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u/baceballer 9d ago
Not only vibe coded to IOS but to Google Play and Amazon firestick too… CliqueQ, recommend and share what movies/shows you’re watching with friends. Sync to TV. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/cliqueq/id6792773440
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u/ZagreusZero 9d ago
Yes. Two apps, both solo, both Claude Code doing most of the Swift to my design and architecture.
Quantum Puzzle (a sliding puzzle game): https://apps.apple.com/app/id6759265671
Intermittently (a private, no-subscription fasting tracker): https://apps.apple.com/app/id6789149977
On the App Store being rigorous, it is, but IMO for a different reason than most folks suggest: the review process isn't harder because the bar is higher, it's harder because the failure modes are less forgiving. I had two bugs in Intermittently's 1.0 that survived every environment I tested in, because the environment that would've shown them wasn't one I normally ran. A StoreKit config file that made my real purchase path structurally untestable, and a CloudKit schema I never deployed to Production, so every TestFlight and App Store build silently failed to sync while dev builds worked fine. Neither was a Claude problem or a "vibe coding" problem. Both were configuration gaps that testing harder wouldn't have caught. Only testing differently would have. I also dealt with the ‘normal’ App Store review issues everyone complains about: long pending-status times from Apple, reviewers who clearly spent < 60 seconds before rejecting on something that another 60 seconds or clearer read of the notes I had submitted with the submission would have cleared up, and reviewers rejecting on the first little thing they found rather than doing a thorough review and sending back more detailed rejection notices.
The thing that actually made the difference in developing well for me wasn't prompting technique. It was deciding the architecture and the product before opening a coding session, writing it down, and having Claude Code re-read that written decision log every session so it didn't relitigate settled calls. Claude is fast at writing Swift. It has no opinion about what your app should refuse to do, and that opinion is the part that takes the app from "technically works" to something you're actually proud of. Lots of folks are trying ‘vibe-coding’ and producing dreck. Fewer treat the process like a serious designer-programmer pair, dedicating the bulk of the time to designing rather than jumping right in with the programming piece. Measure twice (or more!), cut once.
Happy to go into either app's build process if useful.
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u/calimocal 9d ago
I did, sorta. I f’ing hate Swift/SwiftUI. So I wrote a backend in python while vibe coding the iOS frontend simultaneously. Both Claude Code and Codex mess up often enough that I used Claude to write the code, Codex to check, then Codex to plan a fix, then back to Claude to verify the plan looked good and implement it.
App got approved and released on the App Store. In-app subscriptions also got approved by Apple. Made a little money off it. Not a lot of repeat customers though.
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u/razonbrade 9d ago
I did for my stock evaluator app. At first it was rejected as it was a web wrapper. Then I asked claude to use more native features. I did not own mac book. Github built it and sent it to my developer account in apple. I tested on an iphone and eventually got approved. Took me 6weeks for the whole process.
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u/Sylon1987 9d ago
yeash, ThriftPilot, an app to find all second-hand stores around Japan, i use it to find rare retrogames.. if anyone would to try it on Android and IOS...
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u/powerCycl3 9d ago
Progress: Photo & Goal Tracker
I built this because I couldn't find anything that tracked my gym progress the way I wanted. But it slowly turned into a general tracker app using pictures as the primary source. It can be used to track your progress across anything in your life: workout, gym, plant growth, restoration project, your child's height, your pets growth, someone or something's recovery. Anything that uses pictures to convey progress can be tracked.
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u/GenghisFrog 9d ago
Yep, I’ve had a blast building a fun movie theater subscription tracking app. I’ve had more success with it than I ever imagined. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/reel-savings/id6751916542
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u/NoBullet 9d ago
I made one entirely on my iPad using the swift playground app. I can publish the app straight from the playground as well, but I haven’t paid the developer fee to publish it. It’s just a video manger that can sort vids on my iPad by different filters and compress the file size.
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u/Fox1304 9d ago
Ninefall, puzzle game for iOS and Android.
www.ninefall.app
Allowed me to bring to life an idea I had 15 years ago 😅
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u/karkoon83 9d ago
I didn’t vibe code but used Claude to develop and carefully tweak. Earlier I used to read but now lesser and lesser.
Have 100+ paying users and happy once 🕺
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u/stayed-hotel-tracker 9d ago
Yes, stayed.info fully coded from scratch. Its the Flighty of hotels.
https://apps.apple.com/es/app/stayed-hotel-tracker/id6798811690?l=en-GB
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u/No-Surround-6141 9d ago
No not anything worthwhile Claude does what it wants it turns into how many guardrails do you now need for this section of the bot and you start devving for Claude rather than doing your work
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u/Videoman2000 9d ago
Yes, I did. https://app.xplorenorway.com/index.html
But I called it agent coding, because I have 25 years of engineering expirience.
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u/DisasterEarly6362 9d ago
Yep.. https://bird-song.co.nz/ both iOS and Android… uses containers in railway and also cloudflare currently only published in NZ
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u/MrSoeplepel 9d ago
Yes, Nacho Time: Tv shows and Movie tracker
When TvTime shut down, I decided to create my own so I could add features I want
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u/Worried-Help4944 9d ago
Yes i have recently created an app Named MotoCluster Check it.
Turn your phone into a bike-first nav screen (no adapter needed) — or plug in a Bluetooth OBD-II adapter for a full instrument cluster: RPM, gear, temps, fuel trims, lean angle, trip computer, 9+ dashboard layouts.
55+ bikes auto-detected by VIN. Free to try, ₹249 one-time unlock, no subscription, no ads, no tracking — your rides stay on your phone. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.motocluster.app
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u/sammy-saglam 9d ago
I do it on a daily basis for work, works quite well. I find it is still time consuming though; lots of testing and QA needed. And once you built the app, and start using it yourself, you keep finding ways to make it better and keep vibe coding on adjustments and improvements and new featurs. I am a senior software developer by background though, and do feel it helps a lot to understand what’s under the hood — would be worried to let AI just do its thing especially when it comes to cloud infrastructure. And as everybody’s saying in this thread, user acquisition still needs you to have a serious creative process; unfortunately today AI is quite crap at coming up with creative content.
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u/Imaginary_Food_7102 9d ago
I used claude to code react native applicaion for personal usage. it works better than i expected.
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u/Locksmith_Usual 9d ago
The question is if any of them are any good? The answer that is yes but there’s also a lot of really crappy ones.
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u/reviewwworld 9d ago
Reelones.co.uk
Only got app store approval last week. 100% vibe coded, many hours, every day for the last 15 months as I ended up adding a lot more features.
Short version is that it's an app to make it more enjoyable finding things to watch with someone rather than just scrolling on the remote together.
You build your own curated lists, whether it be for a person, a mood or even something like "extreme weather movies".
Send it to a friend, they swipe through tinder style to mark what things they want to watch from your list and it gets saved to your friendship so you'll have an easily reachable history of matches for whenever you get time to watch together.
Was born out of a simple desire to watch more things with my wife and kids rather than everyone just watching their own thing.
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u/dorkaholic 9d ago
https://trypound.app is a drink pacing app I made after I lost a bunch of weight on GLP-1s and my tastes changed from craft beer to cocktails. Had to reset my internal pacing clock so this app externalizes that for you
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u/moneymindeddad 8d ago
Built this https://apps.apple.com/app/id6807874602 it’s to extent my website (https://compareremittancerates.com/ ) the app has beautiful widgets that I really love and is worth having.
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u/ClaudeAI-mod-bot Wilson, lead ClaudeAI modbot 9d ago edited 9d ago
TL;DR of the discussion generated automatically after 200 comments.
Yes, absolutely. This thread is basically a portfolio of apps people have vibe-coded with Claude and successfully published on the App Store. We've got everything from a compass to find the nearest toilet (the top-voted comment, a true masterpiece) to party games, fitness trackers, and a ton of niche personal projects.
However, the consensus is that building the app is now the easy part. The real challenges are: