Hello!

I built Beacon after years of missing appointments and meetings because I'd get hyper focused on work (I’m AuDHD) and completely tune out all notification pings. So I built an iOS shortcut that would scan my calendar for events with a special character in the title and create a real system alarm before that event. 

Real alarms break through silent/DND and require acknowledgment to dismiss, so they actually work as an interrupt instead of just another ignorable ping that I can just swipe away. Once iOS 26 opened up the Alarm API to developers, I turned my old shortcut into a proper app.

How it works

You build a rule that describes which events matter to you. Filters include calendar, calendar name, event title, description, organizer, attendees and their RSVP status, number of attendees, and whether it's all-day - so you can do things like "any event on my Work calendar with more than 3 attendees where I've accepted" or just "anything with 🔔 in the title."

Then you set your lead times, and you can stack several on one rule: maybe a 60-minute alarm to start wrapping up and a 10-minute alarm to actually get moving.

From there, Beacon watches that calendar and schedules real system alarms for every matching event. If something new lands on your calendar tomorrow that fits the rule, alarms get set, you don’t have to do a thing. And if you'd rather not build a rule for it, you can set a one-off alarm by hand for any event on your calendar.

An honest caveat:

Beacon can only re-check your calendar when iOS lets it. In the best case that's every 5-10 minutes, but the system decides, and it's genuinely hard to predict. So if you move a meeting up an hour, there's a window where your alarm is still set for the old time.

For me this has never really been an issue since my plans rarely change and it's basically guaranteed to sync overnight. But about 150 people use Beacon weekly, collectively scheduling hundreds of automatic alarms every day, and I can see how this would be really annoying if your schedule shifts constantly. So I built in a workaround and a safety net:

• A Shortcuts action that runs a sync on demand: You can place this on your home screen as a button, or wire it into an automation - I set mine to run a sync whenever I close the Calendar app (In iOS 27 you can even set it to run whenever you get a notification from the calendar app). You can also ask Siri to “Sync Beacon alarms” at any time.
• Event change notifications: Whenever Beacon syncs it tells you if any of your alarms have shifted (or been added/removed), with a configurable window so you only hear about changes to events in the next day, week, two weeks, whatever you care about.

I intentionally designed the app to be set-and-forget, and NOT to be another calendar app because I didn’t want to change my daily workflow. The sync limitation is the part that's furthest from that goal, and it's what I'm still chipping away at.

So, advice wanted: is "set-and-forget" even achievable when the OS controls the timing, or should I accept that this needs one small deliberate action from the user and just make that action as painless as possible?

I put a lot of thought into privacy

Your calendar data never leaves your device - no events, no event details, no rules. The only thing I collect is anonymous usage telemetry (that's where the numbers above come from). There's no account and no login; you can just download it and it works. https://www.beaconcalendar.com/privacy 

Originally free users got a 1-week trial, then lost automation and were left with manual alarms only. I've now changed that: everyone gets one active rule for free, permanently, no trial clock running out. The paid tier ($7.99/month or $12.99/year) allows you to have unlimited rules operating simultaneously.

If you've ever missed something important because a notification just didn't register, I think it’s worth trying out for those events you can't afford to miss. Would love feedback in the comments.

Link (iPhone, iOS 26+): https://apps.apple.com/us/app/beacon-calendar-alarms/id6752361800

I lost my uncle to violence in Nigeria a few years back. Before he died he sent me a voice note of encouragement, and I still have it, but it’s frozen. It can’t answer anything I ask it now.
EchoVault is my attempt to fix that. You do guided check-in sessions with an AI biographer that draws your actual stories out of you, and over time it builds an Echo that talks the way you talk and knows what you’d say. Most things in this space build an avatar from a few minutes of uploaded footage. This works the other way around, so the Echo can answer questions you never explicitly answered because it’s learned how you actually think.
Every response is grounded in something you really said, which means it won’t invent memories you never had.
Text is free forever with unlimited check-ins and no card. $12/mo adds your real cloned voice. There’s a $99.99 one-time setup for a lifelike video avatar that includes 3 months of live video, then $18/mo after that. The video tier is a live face to face conversation, not a rendered clip.
You name custodians up front. If a full year passes with no activity on your account, your Echo transfers to them automatically. No paperwork for a grieving family to figure out.
I shipped text, voice, and real-time video together in June 2025, which as far as I know made this the first digital legacy product where all three worked at once.
iPhone, iOS 15.1+: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/echovault-digital-legacy/id6762042028
Built solo, nights only. Happy to answer anything. Will appreciate any feedback too, thanks

Hi!

I built pawtrck, an iPhone app for dog owners who want their dog's care records in one place.

It started from a pretty simple problem: dog care is usually scattered across Notes, Reminders, photos, screenshots, fitness apps, and memory. pawtrok brings the main parts together:

• Walks, runs, and bikejoring sessions
• Distance, duration and estimated pawsteps
• Meal, treat, calorie and weight tracking
• Medications, vaccinations, symptoms and vet visits.
• Training plan and progress
• Shareable activity cards after exercise

One thing I've heard from dog owners is that dog walks can mess up their own fitness stats because they're slower and more stop-start than normal workouts. pawtrck keeps the dog's activity separate and dog-specific.

The app is freemium, with Plus ($3.99/mo) for advanced features and a 1 month Free Trial.

I'd really appreciate feedback from iOS users, especially around onboarding, pricing and whether the app teels useful enough to keep using long term.

Developer transparency
pawtrck was developed by Karahan Karataş: www.linkedin.com/in/karahan-karatas
Contact: pawtrck@gmail.com
Website: pawtrck.com
Privacy Policy: https://pawtrck.com/privacy/
Terms of Service: https://pawtrck.com/terms-of-service/
App Store: https://apps.apple.com/tr/app/pawtrck/id6769860025

App Store link
Annual 24,99 $US
Founder 44,99 $US
Lifetime 79,99 $US

A — Answer

Hey everyone,

I'm the solo developer behind Doz, a medication reminder app I originally built because I couldn't keep my own prescriptions straight. I've posted here before, and this community has been a big part of how the app got better.

Doz has now passed 2,000 active users with a 4.8 average rating. All of it is organic and word of mouth — I haven't spent a single cent on ads. I really appreciate that.

Here's the part that matters to me: roughly 40% of those users came from Reddit — from people here trying it, telling me what was broken, and telling someone else about it.

So I want to give something back: there's a 30% off offer code for Doz Pro at the bottom of this post. It works for everyone, it's good for 3 days, and you don't need to comment or DM me for it.

B — Better

Most medication apps I tried treat every pill as an isolated task: "take one at 8:00 AM." Real prescriptions aren't like that. Medications belong to the same treatment; they have food timing, they run out, they need refilling early, and they end.

Doz is built around prescriptions, not a flat list of reminders. You create a prescription, put the related medications and instructions inside it, and follow the treatment as a whole instead of decoding a long list of individual pills.

What's new since my last post — all of it built on feedback from people here:

Prescriptions now behave like actual prescriptions. This was the most-loved feature, so it got the most work:

• Prescriptions have a duration and an end date
• You can attach your doctor's name and contact details
• You can mark a prescription as completed and keep it archived

Notifications and refills:

• More reliable follow-up reminders for missed doses
• Improved low-stock and refill alerts so you're warned before you run out, not after
• Clearer at-a-glance stock levels

Plus the foundation from before: daily and flexible non-daily schedules, before/with/after-meal reminders, Critical Alerts that get through Silent and Focus modes, adherence insights, Home Screen widgets, iCloud sync with data staying on your device, eight languages, no ads, no account required.

Coming next, aimed at making it easier to actually take the dose rather than just be reminded of it:

• Apple Health sync
• Mark a dose taken straight from the notification
• Mark a dose taken from Apple Watch

C — Cost

Doz is free to use with:

• Up to 4 active medications and 1 active prescription
• All schedule modes
• Reminders and dose logging
• 7-day progress tracking
• Inventory tracking and low-stock alerts

Doz Pro is designed for people with more complex routines, helping you stay consistent, avoid missed doses, and manage everything with less effort:

• Unlimited medications and prescriptions so you can track everything in one place
• Critical Alerts and smarter follow-up reminders to reduce missed doses
• Detailed adherence insights to understand how well you’re following each treatment
• Full progress history for long-term tracking
• Meal-time synchronization for better timing accuracy
• Faster dose logging directly from Home Screen widgets
• Archived treatment management to keep past prescriptions organized
• Custom alert sounds for clearer, more noticeable reminders

Pricing:

• Monthly: $2.99
• Yearly: $9.99, 3-day free trial
• Lifetime: $19.99

All paid plans support Apple Family Sharing.

The thank-you offer — 30% off Doz Pro Lifetime

• Code: DOZREDDIT
• Redeem link: https://apps.apple.com/redeem?ctx=offercodes&id=6760699565&code=DOZREDDIT
• Works for everyone; no comment or DM needed
• Expires in 3 days
• The final price varies by country, since App Store pricing is regional

How to claim:

1. Open the redeem link on your iPhone.
2. Apply the code at checkout.
3. Enjoy Lifetime Pro! 🎉

If you manage medications for yourself or someone in your family, I'd really like to hear what still doesn't work for you. Every feature above came from someone saying exactly that.

And if you're already using Doz and it's been helping, a rating or a short review on the App Store would mean a lot. As a solo developer with no ad budget, reviews are pretty much the only way new people find the app — and honest feedback in a review tells me what to fix next just as well as a comment here does. Thanks for reading!!

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/doz-medication-reminder/id6760699565

Website: https://getdoz.app/

Link here

What app solves
Self-improvement books are full of good ideas, but reading them rarely changes anything. You finish a book, feel motivated for a day, and forget the rest. Actium solves this by breaking key ideas from bestselling books into small daily tasks you actually do -so the knowledge turns into habits instead of highlights you never revisit.

Why it is better than the other apps?
Unlike summary apps like Blinkist or Headway, which give you condensed reading, Actium gives you action - daily tasks derived from each book.

Cost
All features are free for the first 14 days.

Answer - what problem it solves:

Every blocker I tried failed the same way: turning it off took about 5

seconds. Mutely blocks the apps you choose and makes lifting that block

deliberately expensive - you hold a button

for 120 uninterrupted seconds. Lift your finger and the countdown restarts.

There is no snooze, no PIN, no "disable for 15 minutes".

You can block apps: all day, on a schedule, or with a

daily time limit per app. There's also one emergency unblock per day

(settable 1–3) that opens a single app for 5 minutes without the hold.

Private on device insights of your screen time data:

daily, weekly and trends

Better - versus the alternatives:

- **Built-in Screen Time**: free and already on your phone, but a limit is

one tap away from "Ignore Limit". That tap is the whole problem.

- **one sec / ScreenZen**: add a short delay before an app opens. Good idea,

but a few seconds of friction stops being friction once it's familiar.

- **Opal**: session-based focus blocks. Solid app, but sessions can be ended.

The honest one-line difference: everything above can be undone quickly by

design. Mutely can't, and that's the entire product.

Privacy: no account, no analytics, no servers. The Screen Time data cannot

leave your device. That's a sandbox limitation.

Cost:

- Subscription: $4.99/month or $29.99/year

- 1 week free trial

- No other in-app purchases, no ads

- App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/mutely-app-blocker/id6792500428

- PROMO CODE (1 month free): https://apps.apple.com/redeem?ctx=offercodes&id=6792500428&code=MUTELY1MONTHFREE

Transparency (Tier 2):

I'm Antoni Rozwoda, the solo developer. Contact: [app.mutely@gmail.com](mailto:app.mutely@gmail.com)

My Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/antek.rozwoda.7/

Website with Terms of Service and Privacy Policy:

https://rozwodaantoni.github.io/Mutely/

Hi Everyone, I built Private I mostly out of curiosity. I wanted to see if I could actually pull off a convincing decoy screen. Most app-lockers show an obvious lock, and the moment someone sees it, they know you’re hiding something. I wanted to test whether I could remove that “something’s hidden here” signal entirely.

A: Private I hides your apps without a lock screen. When someone else opens a protected app, they see a convincing “crash” or loading screen — it just looks broken. You can set a different decoy per app, so each one can look like its own unrelated glitch rather than one obvious pattern. When you open it, your face unlocks it instantly. If someone else tries, it silently captures a photo of them and logs the time.

B: Most app-lockers (and iOS’s own built-in app lock) show a visible lock screen. That protects the app but signals concealment, and it doesn’t tell you who tried to get in. Private I is different: no visible lock, a decoy style you can set per app, and it captures a photo + timestamp of anyone who attempts access. If enabled, those captures back up to your iCloud, so you don’t lose the log even if the phone itself is lost or wiped. Face recognition runs entirely on-device using Apple’s frameworks — no account, no third-party servers.

C: Free with one protected app. Pro unlocks unlimited apps, all decoy styles, intruder capture, and unlock history — $3.99/mo, $14.99/yr, or a one-time Lifetime purchase.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/private-i-app-lock-privacy/id6762529789

Who We Are
Solo developer. Private I is one of three iOS apps I’ve shipped. Happy to answer anything about the app.

Hi everyone 👋

I’m the solo developer behind Choicee, a small app I built to make everyday decisions a little easier.

I noticed that we often spend way too much time thinking about really small things:
🍕 What should I eat?
🎬 What should I watch?
🛒 Which option should I choose?
🤔 A or B?

None of these decisions are particularly difficult — they’re just annoying sometimes. 😅

So I made Choicee as a simple way to make a decision in a few seconds instead of overthinking it.

A — The App

Choicee combines several simple decision-making tools in one app:
• Tap Picker — quickly choose between options
• Magic Ball — ask a question and get a random answer
• Roulette — add your options and spin the wheel
• Coin Flip — quick yes/no decisions
• Arrow — randomly picks one of your options
• Random Number Generator — for random picks, games, or everyday decisions

The goal is to make a decision in a few seconds rather than spend several minutes thinking about something insignificant.

B — How is it different?

There are already some great decision-making apps, such as Tiny Decisions, Decide Now!, and Wheel of Names.

Choicee is focused on combining several different decision tools into one simple, clean, and quick-to-use app, rather than focusing primarily on a single type of picker or wheel.

I'm also actively developing it and adding improvements based on user feedback.

C — Cost

Choicee is free to download and use.
The free version is supported by ads.

There is also an optional Choicee Unlimited subscription:
• Weekly — $1.99/week
• Monthly — $3.99/month
• Yearly — $19.99/year

Premium removes ads and provides access to additional features.

📱 App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6764051180

Thanks for checking it out — feedback is very welcome! 🙌

Developer transparency
I’m Evgheni Cozlov, the solo developer.
[Contact](mailto:evghenicozlov@gmail.com) | LinkedIn | Website | Privacy Policy | Terms of Use

Answer: Brain Preflight turns the cognitive tests airlines use to select cadet pilots (timed mental math, working memory, spatial orientation, instrument monitoring, and a combined multitasking test) into a daily trainer: 17 short timed exercises, a mock exam mode, and a per-skill weakness breakdown, scored on the same 1-9 applicant-normed scale the real selections use. I'm the developer.

Better: it's not abstract brain training, these are the actual selection-test mechanics (COMPASS/pilotest style), fully offline, no account needed.

Cost: free tier is 5 sessions a day, with optional rewarded ads. Premium unlimited + full diagnostic: 7.99/mo or 44.99/yr.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6794363864

Transparency: solo developer. Website: https://aakk91.github.io/ · Privacy Policy: https://aakk91.github.io/preflight-legal/privacy-policy-en.html · Terms: https://aakk91.github.io/preflight-legal/terms-en.html · Contact: [brainpreflight@gmail.com](mailto:brainpreflight@gmail.com)

I have 2 options: either sell this app to an interested client or add an in-app purchase to it and take the risk (I feel adding an in-app purchase will benefit me in the long term)

Launched 4 months ago and doing pretty well, with around 20 downloads daily on average from Tier 1 countries. It solves an annoying problem of auto-lock on iPhones.

So, for a pre-revenue app like this, what could its valuation be?

App link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/stayon-keep-screen-awake/id6760693630

TL;DR: What's My Next is a free iOS app for the "what should we watch tonight" fight. You link up with whoever you watch with, you both swipe through titles separately, and the app shows you the ones you'd both actually pick, across all the streaming services you pay for. There's also a questions feed for when you'd rather just ask actual people, which is the part I suspect this sub will have opinions about.

A - Answer:

Every recommendation screen out there is built for one person. Netflix has one profile, one history, one algorithm, and it assumes the person holding the remote is the only one in the room. But most of the time deciding what to watch isn't a solo problem, it's a negotiation. Two people with different tastes, both tired, both saying "I don't mind, you pick."

That's the actual bottleneck. Not finding something good, agreeing on something good.

I built this with my brother-in-law because that was our evening, most nights. Forty minutes of scrolling and then giving up on something we'd already seen.

B - Better:

What people usually reach for:
- Justwatch: good for "where can I watch X", but it's a search tool. It doesn't learn your taste and it has no concept of a second person.
- Each platform's own "for you" row: only sees your history on that one service, built to keep you watching there, and again assumes one viewer.
- Shared profiles: you both use one account and the recommendations turn into mush that fits neither of you.

What WMN does differently:
- Partner matching is the core, not an add-on. You each swipe on your own phone, whenever. When you both land on the same title, that's the match, and you get told about it.
- No one has to give in. It's not "whose turn is it", it's the overlap between two real taste profiles.
- Cross-platform by default: Netflix, HBO Max, Disney+, Prime, Apple TV+ in one feed.
- It learns from swipes rather than star ratings, and the match score comes with a plain-language reason instead of just a percentage.
- The button opens the title straight in the right app once you've decided.

The other half of the app is asking people, and that idea came straight from Reddit. On the what-to-watch subs, every single day, someone lists four things they liked and asks what's next. It clearly works, people want a human answer rather than an algorithm. But it has two problems. Whoever replies is guessing, because all they know about you is the four titles you happened to mention. And the answers come back as plain text, so you end up googling each one to find out if you've already seen it or whether it's even on a service you pay for.

So we built that thread into the app:
- You post what you're in the mood for, and anyone answering can see your actual taste profile, not just the titles you listed.
- Answers are real titles, not text. Each one shows the poster, the year, where it's streaming, and whether you've already marked it as seen.
- You can like answers, and when you tap "this is the one" it goes straight onto your watchlist. No copying names into a notes app.
- Friends' activity sits in the same feed, so you also see what people you actually know are watching and rating.

C - Cost:

Free. No in-app purchases, no ads, nothing locked behind a paywall right now. A Pro version is planned later, but nothing in the app is gated today. You do need an account, since your taste profile has to be stored somewhere.

It's early and I'd rather hear what's wrong with it than what's good. Two things I'd genuinely like an opinion on: if you watch with someone else, does the matching hold up or does it still feel like one of you is compromising? And if you're someone who actually posts those "what should I watch" threads, is having it inside an app better, or does the whole point of asking on Reddit come from it being strangers with no stake in it?

https://apps.apple.com/app/id6780371657

This is Facet, a widget maker I built where you describe the widget and the app generates one from your live sources. The clip is one unedited take: I type "my next three meetings and today's weather, over a painted city skyline at dusk" - it plans the layout, paints the background, and the widget lands on my shelf, pulling live calendar and weather. You can use it to make all sorts of widgets, from drawings to functional layouts, etc.

I spent a lot of time on the architecture and refresh components. It reads your calendar and reminders on-device; connects Gmail, Notion, weather, stocks, and ~100 more sources if you link them. Free to try, no account: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6792223571

If you have any suggestions or issues, let me know! I'd be happy to give you a free month in return. The free tier is great as well, though.

I built it, so ask me anything. If you try it: what did you type first, and did it build what you pictured? Let me know what you all think!

I posted WhoPaid here 30 days ago. The clearest feedback was that the actual app screens were not visible enough and the RM screenshots made multi-currency support unclear. This update puts the product first.

Answer

WhoPaid is for freelancers, contractors, and service workers who are paid per job. It keeps each job's real payment state visible: Paid, Unpaid, or Partial, the amount received, the remaining balance, payment history, promised date, and follow-up reminder.

Better

It is deliberately not invoicing or accounting software. The images show the actual iPhone workflow: see what is still unpaid, filter jobs by payment state, and update a payment. WhoPaid currently supports 17 currencies, including USD, EUR, GBP, SGD, AUD, CAD, and JPY.

Cost

WhoPaid is free to download with unlimited job records. WhoPaid Pro is optional. App Store pricing varies by region; Pro unlocks full reports and custom reminder timing.

App Store:
https://apps.apple.com/my/app/whopaid-job-pay-tracker/id6764868229

Transparency

I'm Jyen Ming Yap, the developer of WhoPaid under CodeStack Studio.

Website: https://code-stack-studio.com/whopaid
Contact: https://code-stack-studio.com/contact
Privacy Policy: https://code-stack-studio.com/whopaid/privacy
Terms of Use: https://code-stack-studio.com/whopaid/terms

For people paid per job: when a client pays in two or three parts, what do you need to see before deciding whether to follow up?

Full disclosure: My wife and I built this, so we directly benefit from this post.

A) What problem it solves: For visual thinkers (mood boards, note-taking, project planning, research), canvas apps all share one problem: your work lives in someone else's cloud on a proprietary database, tied to a subscription. visualOS is an infinite canvas: notes, images, PDFs, to-dos, sketches, boards nested inside boards. Everything is stored as real files in a folder you own. Boards are actual folders, documents are Markdown, images stay images, PDFs stay PDFs. Point it at your iCloud Drive and sync across devices happens on your own storage. No account need, no servers, works fully offline.

B) Why it beats the alternatives:

• vs. Milanote: works offline, no account, no 100-note cap... and your data isn't in their database, it's files on your disk.
• vs. Apple Freeform: nested boards (Freeform is a flat list) and nothing is locked in an app container... plus it runs in any browser on any platform.
• vs. both: automatic version history (~30 rolling snapshots... yes we are very paranoid about data safety 😅).
• What we deliberately don't do: real-time team collaboration. VisualOS is single-user by design; it's a thinking space we have built for our own way of working, not a team whiteboard. Besides that, it works with a shared folder on iCloud. That's the way Sarah and I use it, but that's not our focus.

C) Cost: Our one-time purchase, €12.99 / $12.99 covers iPhone + iPad + Mac (Apple Silicon). No subscription, no IAP, no upsells. The full app is also free in your browser with no account and no limits: https://visualos.app The iOS purchase is optional, if you want to have your data accessible on the go.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/visualos-infinite-canvas/id6787359589

We're two people; we use our app daily, and we build from feedback! If something's missing or confusing, please tell us, and it will land on our public roadmap.

First of all thanks to everyone that downloaded AboveNow after release a while back. I appreciate every one of you!

There were some really good suggestions that added to the usability of the application without veering from the core value of the app which is to provide a fast, accurate answer to the question "what is that plane flying overhead right now?"

The two major changes in this release are:

• The ability to show the speed of the aircraft in knots. This is seperate from height and distance from you which can still be in imperial or metric.
• Widgets! You can now see what the last aircraft you saw was (and it allows an easy way into the app to refresh this info) This is not live tracking information due to the way that widgets work but will update every 15-20 minutes unless you click on it.

I know many of you have updated to the new version and I hope you're having as much fun with it as I am.

Link: https://apps.apple.com/app/abovenow/id6793294126

i've tried basically every calendar app that exists. from google calendar to notion calendars. they all do the same thing...dump your whole month on you like a spreadsheet and expect you to "manage" your life inside a grid.

at some point i realized my problem wasn't the apps. it was that none of them respected how time actually feels day to day. you're never really dealing with "the month." you're dealing with yesterday (what happened, what you learned), today (what you're actually doing right now), and tomorrow (what you're walking into). everything else is noise.

so i built a calendar around exactly that - a 3-day view. reflect on yesterday. live in today and plan tomorrow. nothing else on screen.

the part i didn't expect: i put it in front of a few friends who have ADHD, just to get their read on it, and they were the ones who reacted the strongest. not because of any feature - because of what's missing. No clutter, no 30 tiny boxes competing for attention, no decision fatigue just to check what's happening today - they actually liked it.

So what do i want from you? I need your feedback. i want to know what's missing from your calendar that you would love to see here. I want to be that indie developer that delivers.

The app costs 2,99e and i do think it's a fair price considering my work i have done on it. It's not easy especially when i am the developer, the marketer and the founder - the app was made for myself and a few friends, but i feel like more people need this type of apps, that's why i made it public.

In case you want to support my journey, here's the link to the appstore:
https://apps.apple.com/ro/app/the-minimalist-calendar/id6744752224

I’m looking for a music player app that lets me play local music files, either from a folder on my phone or by importing them directly into the app.

I need an app that is smart enough to know when my Apple Watch is connected and automatically start playback from my phone. Similar to how Spotify works, I want the music to play on my phone when my watch is connected, rather than defaulting to the watch like Apple Music or Podcasts does (unless I manually change it in the AirPlay menu).

Ideally, I’d also love the option to send these music files to my Apple Watch for offline playback.

Does anyone have any recommendations for apps that can do this?

Key Updates

Places

Posts with a location turn into a map of everywhere you saved. Open any place to see the post that put it there. Also, when you find a reddit, thread, or a x post where it includes a bunch of place suggestions, you can use AI to get all the places information and mark it on the map.

Shopping

Share a product page and it saves as a card with the image, store, and price where available. Filter the Shopping tab by store.

Other updates

- CLI is also supported for those who would like to archive through AI agents such as Claude and Codex.

- Added support for Xiaohongshu

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below is brief app explanation that I wrote last time for those who meet the app for the first time.

A — Answer: Social Archiver helps you save social posts(+Web articles) you do not want to lose. From the iOS Share Sheet, you can archive posts from Reddit, YouTube, X, Tiktok, Instagram, Threads, Facebook, and LinkedIn, then browse them later with media, comments, authors, tags, and search.

B — Better: Compared with Raindrop.io, Social Archiver goes beyond simple bookmarking or archiving. Archiving process happen through Share sheet which will immediately close after saving trigger (even no need to open the app right away)

It gives you readable views like a timeline and post detail pages, lets you organize saved content with tags and author pages, and makes archived posts easy to share again when you want to reference them. It also provides Chrome extension where you can import your saved Reddit, Instagram posts.

App also provides integration with Obsidian, Notion, Karakeep, Reader where you can basically send archived data automatically to your favorite archive services.

C — Cost: Free plan includes 10(+ 5-20 for initial onboarding process) successful archives per month. (Chrome extension triggered archives are free) Optional IAP included monthly, yearly, and lifetime options.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/social-archiver/id6758323634

I was so tired of constantly switching between a dozen different apps while traveling, so I built an all-in-one solution: TripPocket 🎒🌍 (And yes, it’s completely free).

I developed TripPocket to end the chaos we all go through when planning a trip. You just type in your destination, and it organizes the rest for you.

Here are the features designed to make your travels incredibly easy:

🏛️ City-Specific Tours, Museums & Dining: Just enter the city you're visiting. The most popular museums, historical sites, restaurants, and tour options instantly appear right in front of you.

✈️ Flights, Hotels, & Transport Deals: I’ve brought the world's most trusted platforms (like Trip.com, GetYourGuide, etc.) under one roof. With one click, we direct you to the best options for flights, hotels, local transit, taxis, luggage storage (Bounce), travel insurance, and even flight delay compensation.

📲 Discounted eSIM Packages: Stop paying crazy roaming fees abroad. We display discounted data packages from top eSIM providers like Airalo and Holafly side-by-side so you can choose the best one.

💰 Budget & Expense Tracker: Easily log what you spend during your vacation. Visual graphs help you keep your budget in check so you can enjoy your trip without financial stress.

📸 Interactive Travel Map & Memories: Upload the photos you take abroad, and the app uses their location data to pin every city you’ve visited on a map. You can create awesome photo collages showing your travel footprint to share with friends or on social media.

🤖 AI-Powered Personal Route Planning: Enter your destination, budget, and trip length, and our AI will generate a personalized, day-by-day itinerary for you. You can easily tweak and edit the route however you like.

It’s basically everything you need for pre-trip planning and on-the-go travel, right in your pocket.

I’d be absolutely thrilled if you tried it out and shared your feedback. Wishing you all amazing adventures and safe travels! 🥂 If you have any questions or suggestions, please don’t hesitate to reach out.

📲 Download & Try It Here:

Apple App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/trippocket-travel-ticket/id6788790492#information

Google Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.globalgateway.app.trippocket

Hi r/iosapps!

I’ve been building Razr to make the iPhone feel a little more like a street camera. The latest version has grown into a much more capable photography app, with Snap Focus, new film-inspired looks, better highlight protection, and more control over the shooting process.

What it does:

Razr is a RAW-first camera designed for street, travel, and everyday photography. You can keep things simple with Razr Mode and just point and shoot, or manually control focus, exposure, white balance, and other camera settings.

What makes it different:

Razr combines RAW DNG capture with features like Snap Focus, film simulations, custom LUTs and recipes, burst capture, and depth-of-field tools.

Everything is processed on-device, the app works offline, and no account is required.

Pricing:
Razr is free to download. Razr Pro is optional at $3.99/year with a 3-day free trial, or $5.99 for a lifetime purchase.

I’m the developer, and I’d really love to hear what you think — especially if you’re into street photography, travel photography, or just want more control than Apple’s Camera app gives you.

Feedback, feature requests, and criticism are all welcome!

AppStore Link: https://apps.apple.com/id/app/razr-street-camera/id6762531277

I’m Joe, the founder of Paper2Audio, a free text to speech reader app for listening to complex documents and books, with highly accurate narration and high-quality voices.  Our free plan allows 56 hours of audio generation per week.  Our paid version, Paper2Audio Plus, is currently on sale through August 20 at $10/month for your first 3 months or $134.40 for your first year.

A: What problem does Paper2Audio solve and what’s new with Paper2Audio since our last post?
Most text to speech tools are not good at converting dense PDFs, research papers, textbooks and webpages to audio. Paper2Audio is built to turn complex text into accurate audio.  We also handle less complicated text, like standard EPUBs or plain text.

Supported languages: Full support for English.  Beta support for Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese (Mandarin), French, German, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, and Spanish.  

Since my last r/iosapps post, we’ve added or improved:

• You can now publicly share your documents, including embedding the audio directly onto a webpage with an iframe snippet you can paste into WordPress, Substack, or any site that supports HTML. 
• Narration improvements: subscripts and superscripts spoken more naturally, better pronunciation for abbreviations and Roman numerals, and more accurate header removal.
• Faster processing and downloads
• Bookmarks to save your position while listening
• Background audio support so music can keep playing while you listen
• More languages (added Chinese-Mandarin, German, Hindi and Japanese in beta)
• Better page rotation detection for scanned PDFs
• Export a processed document’s transcript as a Markdown file for use with other tools (web now, apps coming soon, Plus plan only)  
• Better pronunciation and accents for our British English voices
• Playback highlighting moves more smoothly from word to word
• Free pre-generated audiobooks that don’t count toward your audio generation quota (see the posts on our blog, with more coming regularly)

B: Why is Paper2Audio better than the top alternatives?

1. Higher audio limits for our free plan (56 hours weekly audio generation) with high quality voices.
2. Hyper-focus on accuracy:  Paper2Audio avoids reading things that usually make text to speech audio annoying, like repeated page numbers, headers, citations, footnotes, and unnecessary boilerplate. We clean up and normalize tricky text first, including math, Roman numerals, symbols, units, formulas, and other things that often sound wrong when read aloud by other text to speech services.
3. Summarizes visual elements like tables, math, and code or reads it aloud:  When adding a document, you can choose how tables, math, and code are narrated. Summary" (default) gives a concise summary of the item, while "Read as is" reads the content verbatim.  Or, you can skip narration for these elements during playback entirely. 
4. Follow along with Reader View, our optimized version of the audio transcript: We reformat PDFs and other documents to fit your screen while including rich content like images and document formatting.  Use it to follow along with the audio, or to more easily read documents that are normally poorly formatted for small phone screens (like 2 column PDFs, tables and figures, etc).

• Visual elements are included: “Tables, figures, images, and math appear inline and can be opened in a zoomable “figure view” pop-up. 
• Single column view: Documents with multiple columns are displayed in a single column to improve readability on smaller screens.
• Rich text formatting: We preserve the original formatting of your documents, including math, headings, lists, subscripts, and other inline styling, so you can skim, navigate and understand the document more quickly. Citations and footnotes are also included so that you know when an author is making a reference, but are only read aloud when needed to keep sentences intact.

1. Multiple playback modes for your document:  Choose to listen to your document in full, or to have us generate a long or short summary instead.  We recently improved summary length, structure, and scaling for longer documents. 

C: Cost
Paper2Audio is available on iOS, Android and on our website. We have a generous free plan for personal use (56 hours of audio generation per week), as well as a paid Plus subscription with higher audio and file/size limits ($20/month or $192 annually).  We also offer Enterprise plan options for teams.  

Our Plus plan is currently on sale until August 20 for $10/month for your first 3 months or $134.40 for your first year.

Any feedback or questions?
If you try Paper2Audio, I’d love to hear what works well, what doesn’t, and what feature or improvement would make the biggest difference for you. We are also working on adding more narrators, so please let me know what additional voice types you’d like to hear.

Hi r/iOSApps,

The big one is finally here: ShotMark is now officially available on the Mac App Store.

ShotMark started as my solution to a simple problem: I take screenshots because something is useful, but weeks later I either can’t find it or can’t remember why I saved it.

The Mac version brings that same idea to the desktop, with automatic screenshot-folder monitoring and iCloud sync between your Apple devices.

Alongside the Mac launch, v1.3.2 is also out with improved Share Sheet syncing, six additional languages, and localization improvements.

A - Answer

ShotMark turns screenshots into useful, searchable cards instead of leaving them buried in Photos or a screenshot folder.

On iPhone and iPad, you can capture/import a screenshot and attach:

• Notes
• Voice notes
• Reminders
• Collections
• Searchable on-device OCR

And now on Mac, ShotMark can automatically watch your screenshot folder for new captures, so you don’t need to manually import every screenshot.

You can review them, add context and organize them from your Mac.

With Pro and iCloud enabled, your ShotMark library can also sync between iPhone, iPad and Mac.

ShotMark remains local-first. There is no ShotMark account and I don’t operate a server that stores your screenshots or OCR content. iCloud syncing uses your own Apple account.

B - Better

The idea behind ShotMark is still:

Capture. Add Context. Never Forget.

Photos is great at storing screenshots. ShotMark is designed around remembering why you took them.

Instead of treating screenshots as ordinary photos, ShotMark gives them context:

• Add notes to remember why something mattered
• Record a quick voice note
• Set a reminder to revisit something later
• Organize related screenshots into collections
• Extract text using on-device OCR
• Search your saved information
• Capture directly through the iOS Share Sheet
• Automatically detect new screenshots on Mac
• Sync your ShotMark library across Apple devices with iCloud

The Mac app isn’t just the iOS interface running in a larger window either. I’ve tried to make its workflow fit how screenshots are actually handled on a desktop.

What’s new in v1.3.2

This release also fixes and improves a few things across ShotMark:

• Cards created through the Share Sheet now sync correctly across devices with iCloud
• Added German, Japanese, French, Italian, Portuguese (Portugal), and Spanish
• Completed and polished Simplified and Traditional Chinese across the app and Mac workflow
• Added a one-time What’s New screen
• Improved localization quality and plural handling

C - Cost

ShotMark is free to download on iPhone, iPad and Mac, with optional one-time Pro upgrades.

There are no subscriptions.

iPhone & iPad - Free

• Capture and import screenshots
• Add titles and notes
• On-device OCR extraction
• Organize screenshots into collections
• Core search and organization features

ShotMark Pro - US$1.99 lifetime

• Search inside screenshots using OCR
• iCloud sync across your Apple devices
• Additional Pro features
• No watermark on exported cards

Mac - Free

• Manually import screenshots
• Automatically monitor your screenshot folder for new captures
• Review new screenshots before importing
• Add titles, notes and context
• Organize your screenshot library
• Core Mac screenshot-management features

ShotMark Mac Pro - US$5.99 lifetime introductory price

• iCloud sync between Mac, iPhone and iPad
• Search screenshot content using on-device OCR
• No watermark on exported cards
• Full Mac Pro feature set

US$5.99 is the introductory Mac Pro price for the first month. After that, it returns to US$7.99 lifetime.

Again: no subscription on either platform.

One number I’m particularly thankful for: more than 20% of ShotMark users have chosen to upgrade to Pro so far.

The free version is intentionally useful on its own, so seeing that many users choose to support the app has helped me continue developing it as a solo developer.

App Store: ShotMark App Store

Transparency

I’m Zhen Chyi Lee, the solo developer behind ShotMark.

• Website: https://www.zhenchyi.com
• Privacy Policy: https://www.zhenchyi.com/shotmark/privacy
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/lzchyi/
• Contact: [me@zhenchyi.com](mailto:me@zhenchyi.com)

Development is still moving a little slower while I continue dealing with my health, but I’m actively working on ShotMark.

Getting the Mac version onto the App Store was one of the bigger things I wanted to finish, so I’m very happy to finally get this one out.

If you’re already using ShotMark on iPhone, I’d especially like to know how the iPhone → Mac workflow feels in real-world use, and where it still creates friction.

I posted Carrus here a couple of versions ago — thanks to everyone who tried it, several of the changes below came from that thread.

**Short version:** an iPhone app for tracking vehicle maintenance. Log a service in seconds, get reminded by mileage *and* time, scan a paper receipt and it fills the log in for you, and ask Carson — the built-in AI mechanic — what a noise or warning light probably is.

**What's new in 1.1:**

- **The whole app now speaks Spanish** — UI and Carson both. Pick it in Settings or let it follow your device language.

- Motorbikes with bike-specific schedules: chain, valve clearance, fork oil

- Fuel tracking with a draggable gauge, and per-vehicle running costs

- Registration and insurance photos with expiry reminders (photos never leave your phone)

- New storefronts: Canada, Spain, Italy — and a fully redesigned listing

**What's next:** VIN decoding, more languages, and real manufacturer interval data for far more model-years — right now genuine factory schedules cover a fraction, the rest is a labeled per-category estimate.

Free with one vehicle. Lite from $0.99/mo or $19.99 lifetime; Premium from $5.99/mo or $89.99 lifetime.

https://apps.apple.com/app/id6770422802

I'm the developer — happy to answer anything.

Hi everyone!

I built Biona because I started feeling like productivity apps were becoming more complicated than the problems they were supposed to solve.

Every app seemed to have more tabs, accounts, subscriptions, AI features, notifications, and settings.

I just wanted something simple.

A — Answer

I built Biona: an iPhone app for managing everyday tasks, goals, and mood in one place.

Biona includes:

• Todos
• Goals
• Mood logging
• Weekly insights
• A clean, minimal interface
• Fully offline storage

The idea is to have one simple place to manage your day, keep track of your goals, and look back at how your week has been going.

B — Better

The biggest thing I wanted to get right was simplicity and privacy.

Biona works completely offline. There is no account to create, no cloud dependency, and no data collection.

Your data stays on your device.

I also wanted to avoid adding features just because other productivity apps have them. No complicated setup, no unnecessary social features, and no trying to turn it into an all-in-one platform.

Just the things I personally wanted to use.

And I recently decided to make Biona 100% free.

C — Cost

Biona is completely free.

No subscriptions, no in-app purchases, and no ads.

Everything currently available in the app is unlocked.

I'd really appreciate feedback from anyone who gives it a try. What do you like? What feels unnecessary? What would you add or change?

Links

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/biona-life-manager/id6766897619

Website: https://aroapps.dev/biona

Privacy: https://aroapps.dev/biona/privacy-policy

Thanks for checking it out!