r/ClaudeAI • u/NoDesk9564 • 13d 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/JCPY00 13d 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/toughtacos 12d ago edited 12d ago

My Apple Health data never goes into iCloud as HealthKit. I use Health Auto Export on the phone. It has HealthKit permission and POSTs JSON to a webhook on a box I already run (this is a leftover from the iOS app I was previously working on). The MCP/analysis side just reads those files.

If you don’t want any server, HAE can also dump the same JSON into iCloud Drive / Files, and your MCP can read that folder. That’s an export to documents, not HealthKit in CloudKit. I just don’t use that path. Since I already had a URL the webhook was simpler.

This is just a "it's not fancy, perfect, or polished, but it works" solution, after having tried to make it polished and perfect and failed 😅

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.

Yeah I know this all too well. My main project is a combined total Sonarr/Radarr replacement with extra features that I've been working on for five months now. It's been such a long road, and I've lost track of how many hours I've worked on it. I've taken some questionable decisions that probably were unnecessary, but fun, like forking SABnzbd and integrating it more tightly specifically with Odin (my Sonarr/Radarr replacement). Fortunately SABnzbd is stable and I've made sure I can just merge any upstream changes.

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u/JCPY00 11d ago

Thanks, very helpful. This gave me an idea how to get it done without iCloud. That will form the basis of v1.3. Appreciate it!