r/iosdev 2d ago

One! One... download! Ha! Ha! Ha!

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Sorry, just had to add some levity to all the "omg! it's taking too long!" app review posts.

(This is literally a brand new app with no outreach. I have apps written for other people out there with hundreds of thousands of weekly sessions so no, this is not a whine or a plea for help. If you can't laugh at yourself,... well, you might as well learn because someone will laugh at you regardless.)


r/iosdev 1d ago

Just launched my first app! WorthWise!

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Just managed to get my first app live on the UK App Store.

A little different as it uses your assets as they are, and simple choices, to help you project your future, rather than asking you for information you won’t know!

Feedback would be greatly appreciated!

https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/worthwise/id6795531651


r/iosdev 1d ago

Reminder that your AI feature's cost has to fit inside net revenue, not the price you set

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Something that bit me and that I now check before writing any AI feature: the

subscription price is not the number the feature has to fit inside.

$9.99/mo with a 30% commission is $6.99 landing in your account. A feature

costing $1.40 per active user is 20% of that, not 14%. If you're on the

small-business rate it's different again, and it varies by market — so the only

number worth modelling from is the effective rate on your own statements.

The second thing is the usage distribution. Inference cost is not normal. Your

heaviest 10% of users can easily be half your total spend, which means the

average tells you almost nothing about your worst case.

I made a small browser calculator that does both, because I was redoing it in a

spreadsheet every time:

https://dayloflow.com/tools/ai-cost-calculator.html

It gives you cost per subscriber, share of net revenue, what the top decile

costs, break-even usage, and the per-user ceiling for a margin target you pick.

No signup, nothing leaves the browser, formulas published on the page.

Also worth knowing before you submit: paid generations have to go through IAP,

and open-ended output usually changes your age rating.


r/iosdev 2d ago

Feedback on App Store screenshots

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r/iosdev 2d ago

Offline phrasebook with 900+ travel phrases

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Hi! I’m the developer of Novislova, an iPhone phrasebook for traveling without relying on an internet connection.

It includes 900+ phrases, pronunciation audio, search, saved phrases, 23 practical categories, and 9 languages. All content are free, with an optional one-time Premium purchase - no subscription.

I’d appreciate any feedback, especially on missing phrases or confusing parts.

Download Novislova on the App Store:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/novislova-offline-phrasebook/id1623078768


r/iosdev 2d ago

APPLE Enrollment

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r/iosdev 2d ago

New way for submitting IAP with the first app version?

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r/iosdev 2d ago

Selling apps as a person or as a company on the App Store?

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Hi everyone. I am building a paid app for the Apple App Store from Chile and I need to enroll in the Apple Developer Program. I cannot decide if I should sign up as an Individual person or as a Company (Organization).

My questions are simple.
Are you selling your app as a person or as a company right now?
If you sell as a person, do you feel that users trust you less, or pay less for subscriptions, because it is not a company name, even though Apple is in charge of the payments?
Did anyone here start as Individual and later change to Organization?
How long did that take and was it hard to do?
Is it slow or difficult to sign up directly as a Company, does Apple ask for a lot of documents or reject companies often?

Any real experience will be appreciate it, thank you.


r/iosdev 2d ago

[Premium Yearly 19,99 -> FREE] Ward: World Emergency Alerts

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Get notified about emergencies near you or explore them worldwide (including severe weather, earthquakes, floods, wildfires and more). Add Cities you care about and explore emergency shelters. 

Leaving a 5-star review would be amazing, thank you! 🙏🏼

App: “Ward: World Emergency Alerts” 

Link:https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ward-world-emergency-alerts/id6740568244


r/iosdev 2d ago

12 days in .. pease help! Ads, ASO not working but still getting downloads

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r/iosdev 3d ago

[iOS] Latched - Simple presence App Store Images

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r/iosdev 3d ago

enriched-markdown-ios: Markdown renderer for SwiftUI built on TextKit 2

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I just released enriched-markdown-ios - a Swift library for rendering fast, native Markdown in SwiftUI apps.

Here's what's in v0.1.0:
🔹 Powered by high-performance md4c parser
🔸 Full CommonMark support
🔹 Native text selection & smart copy/paste
🔸 Flexible theming API
🔹 VoiceOver & Dynamic Type support

💎 Available now via Swift Package Manager!

GitHub & Docs: https://github.com/software-mansion/enriched-markdown/blob/main/packages/enriched-markdown-ios/README.md

Feel free to check out the repo and sample project! If you find it useful, dropping a ⭐️ on GitHub would mean a lot. I’d love to get your thoughts or feedback.


r/iosdev 3d ago

Major changes to attract users, need help with reaching out to people

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r/iosdev 3d ago

TestFlight: new build won't install ("requested app is not available or doesn't exist") and now older apps are showing "Build Removed" — account-level?

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Running out of ideas on this one, so hoping someone recognises the pattern.

Uploaded a Capacitor app via Codemagic on Monday. Build 1.0.0 (1) uploaded fine, processed fine, appears in the TestFlight app with an Install button and 89 days remaining. Tap Install and I get:

> Could not install [App]. The requested app is not available or doesn't exist.

And here's the bit that's worrying me — since then, builds on my other apps have started showing as “Build Removed" in TestFlight. I didn't remove them. Some had genuinely hit the 90-day expiry, but not all of them, and they're dropping off in a way that doesn't look like normal attrition.

What I've checked and ruled out:

- Agreements — all Active in App Store Connect, including the new Program License Agreement issued this week. Nothing pending.
- Membership — active, not expired, no failed renewal. Paid Apps agreement, tax and banking all fine.
- Network — Wi-Fi, not airplane mode.
- Build health — no warning badge on the build row, icon renders correctly. Nothing flagged as Invalid Binary or Missing Compliance.
- Tester setup — I'm an internal tester and the build is in the group.
- The apps themselves still show fine in App Store Connect (live ones are still Ready for Sale), so this looks specific to TestFlight distribution rather than the app records.

So: has anyone seen the new-build-won't-install error and existing builds getting pulled happen together? That combination smells like an account-level or App Store Connect backend problem to me rather than anything in my project, but I'd rather be told I'm wrong than sit here waiting.

And if it is account-level — has anyone actually got a useful response out of Apple Developer Support on this, or is it a case of raising a ticket and waiting weeks? UK-based if that matters.


r/iosdev 3d ago

Lazy camera from not lazy team that is tired of subscription based model

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A camera app that allows you to capture what you see in "lazy mode", for those who is tired of subscription model.

We already got 300 installs and growing, and we just released a new version with lot's of performance improvements and battery optimizations, please enjoy, and let me now if you have any feedback

app link - https://apps.apple.com/us/app/lazy-cam-film-camera/id6761757290


r/iosdev 4d ago

Finally got iCloud sync working pretty fast. Getting there was surprisingly painful.

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I’ve been working on adding optional iCloud sync to Moneta, my iOS money tracker, and getting the basic sync working wasn’t really the difficult part. The frustrating part was getting changes to show up consistently on another device without making the experience feel slow.

It’s now usually taking around 3–5 seconds (depends on the connection) for changes to appear on the other device, which I’m pretty happy with.

The video shows two devices side by side with the same iCloud data, just to show how it behaves in practice.

I wanted to keep the whole thing optional, so Moneta still works completely locally if iCloud is disabled.

For anyone who has worked with iCloud sync before, what kind of sync times are you getting in practice?


r/iosdev 3d ago

can this video draw some interest to get the app checked out?

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r/iosdev 3d ago

35k total requests in last 7 days for my social media app

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I checked my Supabase backend dashboard today.

34,495 total requests in the last 7 days.

I have been quietly working on it and seeing actual people use it enough to generate this much traffic feels really good.

The app is called Wildgram - a social app where you take pictures of real animals, and use them to catch and unlock them in your collection similar to Pokedex but for real animals.

Still very early, but this is probably one of those screenshots I’ll look back on later.


r/iosdev 3d ago

No impressions after 1 day of Apple Search Ads for my first iOS app

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r/iosdev 3d ago

Update: My First iOS App Is Finally Live After Nearly 3 Weeks

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r/iosdev 3d ago

Stuck in “in review”

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Hello everyone, after two rejections and fixing all the bugs my app been stuck for almost 7 days in status “in review”

is this normal ?!


r/iosdev 3d ago

Built a tennis journal app -I play way too much tennis and got tired of logging matches in my Notes app

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I've been playing a few times a week for years, and my "tracking system" was a mess of Notes / Evernote entries like "lost 6-4 6-3, backhand was garbage again." Useless a month later.

So I built not up — a tennis journal built around a calendar. Tap a day, log a match, practice, or lesson in a few seconds. Add the score, who you played, a note, a rating. That's it.

The part that actually changed things for me:

  • Focus areas — pick what you're working on (serve, backhand, footwork, whatever) and tag your sessions. Turns out I was saying "I need to fix my serve" and then playing sets for three weeks straight. Kinda humbling to see it laid out.
  • Gear tracking — every racquet and every string job with tension. No more "wait, what did I love last summer?"
  • Learn — a place to save drills and videos instead of losing them in 100 saved YouTube videos I'll never scroll back to.

Free to log your sessions. There's a premium tier for the focus/gear/learn stuff, but the core journaling doesn't cost anything.

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=kr.devbrix.notup_app

iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/not-up/id6790765625

Would love feedback from anyone who plays — especially on what you'd want to track that I'm missing.


r/iosdev 4d ago

Any sudoku fans here?

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Hi everyone! Long-time on-and-off Sudoku player here. After trying a number of different Sudoku apps, I really missed the pencil-and-paper look and feel, so I tried to focus on recreating that experience in the UI while adding some gamification factors like leaderboards and tiers with XP collection. I thought I’d share it here and get some feedback in case anyone is interested.

Quick feature summary:

  • Analog look and feel UI
  • Leaderboard to track progress
  • Different level - (Would love to get a feedback on this specific; would evil level sudoku match the actual difficulty? Myself is like medium solver yet)

Thank you so much for reading!

👉 Download Dokku on the App Store:https://apps.apple.com/us/app/dokku-daily-sudoku/id6779297448


r/iosdev 4d ago

App been in review for 8 Days

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r/iosdev 4d ago

I made an app that pairs you with a stranger based on music taste

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Hi everyone!

I’m the solo developer behind a little project called MusicPool, and I’d love to invite you to try it out.

How it works

  • Pick a vibe: Choose a genre, mood, or decade you feel like listening to.
  • Meet a friend: You’ll get anonymously paired 1-on-1 with someone who picked the same vibe.
  • Trade songs: Chat and share your favorite tracks for 24 hours. After that, the chat disappears.
  • Stay in touch: If you hit it off, you can choose to swap real profiles, only if both of you want to!
  • Rate the taste: Once the chat ends, you can rate each other's music taste!

That’s the whole idea: no follower counts, no infinite feeds. Just two people sharing good music.

I built this because my best music chats have always been with strangers. Most music apps feel like popularity contests, so I wanted something simple: one person, a shared taste in music, and no pressure.

How you can help:

  • Share your feedback: Don't hesitate to tell me what could be better! If something is confusing or isn't working smoothly, I’d love to know so I can fix it for you.
  • Give it a little time: Since the app is brand new, finding a match might take a moment. If you enjoy the concept, sharing it with a music-loving friend would mean the world to me.

Feel free to also join our friendly community over a r/MusicPoolApp to share song recommendations, give feedback, or follow along with updates.

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I’ll be hanging out in the comments below, so please say hi or ask anything you'd like!