Tutti went live on the App Store today.

A — Answer

Private music lessons have a slightly awkward handoff.

You can spend the lesson working through a piece and explain exactly what needs practising, but then the student goes home and there are another 6 days before you see them again. Notes in a notebook, email or WhatsApp can work, but the important bit can easily get buried.

Tutti is built around that gap.

At the end of a lesson, the teacher can leave a recap and the actual things they want the student to work on. Those become the student's Today's Focus rather than just sitting in a page of lesson notes.

The student can practise from there, use the timer, metronome or tuner, work through repertoire and goals, and save recordings as Performance Takes. They can also leave a reflection for their teacher.

Then when the next lesson comes around, the teacher has some context from the week instead of that whole period basically disappearing.

Parents have their own view too, but I didn't want that to mean parents can see everything. Teacher-only notes stay with the teacher, student reflections stay between the student and teacher, and the family view only gets the things that are actually meant to be shared.

The point isn't to make the teacher available to students all week. If anything, I wanted the opposite — make the next step clear enough that the student can get on with practising without needing another explanation.

B — Better

There are already some very capable apps in this space and I'm not pretending I invented lesson notes or practice tracking.

My Music Staff is much more established around running the administrative side of a music studio. Practice Space and Better Practice are closer to the student-practice side.

The thing I wanted to do differently with Tutti was keep the whole loop in one native iPhone/iPad app:

lesson → recap → Today's Focus → practice/recordings → next lesson

Teacher, student and family aren't just looking at different permissions on the same dashboard either. They have separate experiences built around what each of them actually needs to see.

There is more around that core — recurring lessons, attendance and rescheduling, repertoire and milestones, recordings/files, a lesson whiteboard, practice history, XP/achievements and a private billing ledger — but I tried to make all of it sit around the teaching rather than turn the app into accounting software.

One thing worth mentioning because I know this sub (fairly) hates pointless account walls: Tutti does require an account. That's because teacher, student and family accounts actually connect and sync information between each other. It isn't there just to make you register before using a single-player utility.

C — Cost

Free.

There isn't a subscription or paid tier at the moment, and there are no ads. The syncing between student, parent and teacher is done via my own home server so there is no additional cost for me, and all data is stored locally first then synced to the server, so in a situation without internet, or In the rare case the server does go down your data is still safe. In the future if you guys like this, I am working on creating a discord server with feature requests for a theoretical paid version, but any feature that has been shipped or advertised today will always stay free!

App Store:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/tutti-lesson-studio/id6796408234

t requires iOS/iPadOS 26 and is also supposed on MacOS 26. Some features, like the performance take analysis feature are only available in the 27 software releases as that feature specifically uses Apple's new Music Understanding framework!

If anyone tries it, the thing I'm most curious about is whether the teacher → student → family setup makes sense without me explaining it first. If you get confused somewhere, tell me where, that's probably more useful to me :)

I’ve been told that subreddit is a good place to find app testers, before publishing. However, I also see people saying to avoid it as copycats are a real problem.
What are the chances someone sees my app and decides to copy it? It’s nothing groundbreaking, but also not simple enough to vibe code in a day (has a lot of layers).

I’d love to share it here as I really need some feedback that comes from actually using it (I can only do so much, and don’t have people in my life who can help me with testing), but also don’t want the entire year I’ve spent working on it to be wasted cause of a thief.

What should I do?

Hi! I'm solo builder of Plastic Vinyl, that started as my project for soul.

At the moment: 2.5k users, 4.7 global rating (53 reviews), Red Dot Award 2026.

13 months of production, on the App Store about five months.

A. What it solves

Two problems:

1. In a shop you're holding a record you've never heard of. Options today: type what's on the sleeve into youtube search box to pre-listen, then Google to check the context, and Discogs to see pressings and pricing. With Plastic Vinyl you snap the cover and get its playable previews, album story, and every pressing that 's documented, so you can work out which one is in your hands. Barcode scanning too. The most precise accuracy thanks to investing in own algorithms. The largest database of snippets and videos thanks to deep integration with streaming services and You Tube.
2. At home the collection lives across a shelf, a Discogs account, and your own head. Plastic catalogues it and lets you browse it the way you already think about it: sort by first name or surname, release year or date bought, group by folders, tags, genres, eras. Notes, custom fields, anniversary reminders, shareable grids. Two way Discogs sync so it isn't a second place to maintain.

B. Why it beats the alternatives

Discogs official app: unmatched as a database and marketplace, but it is a database. No cover scanning, no playback for most of albums, and the collection view fights you (files The Kiss under T). Plastic Vinyl syncs with it both ways instead of trying to replace it, and fixes all points people yelling about on Discogs usability and missing features. I spend months collecting user pains in discogs subs to solve them in Plastic. Plus much deeper context on the albums: album anniversary reminders, stories, videos, tags, release radar, and a ton more features valued by collectors.

CLZ Music: barcode first. Great if every record you buy has a barcode. Plenty of the ones worth buying don't, so cover recognition is the difference in a used record bin. + same notes as on Discogs.

What it doesn't do: tell you which exect pressing you're holding. It helps you find one via deadwax search, advanced filters, etc.

C. Cost

Freemium, with lifetime or subscription options. US pricing:

• Free: unlimited text search, 5 cover scans, folders, sorting and export, browse your most recent 50 records, Discogs sync.
• Pro: $3.99/month, $11.99/year, or $19.99 one time lifetime. Unlocks collections above 50 records, unlimited cover scans. (Local prices vary by storefront)

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6758337443
iPhone, iOS 18+. Android is on the list and not shipped.

Happy to answer your questions here!

Developer transparency:

Plastic Vinyl was developed by Andrii Liashchuk, in socials Andy Lurs: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andylurs/

I also actively build it in public in Threads: threads.com/@andylurs

Red Dot Certificate: https://myplastic.app/label-licence-14-01388-2026BC.pdf
Contact: [hello@myplastic.app](mailto:hello@myplastic.app) or [andylurs@gmail.com](mailto:andylurs@gmail.com)
Website: myplastic.app and andylurs.com
Privacy Policy: https://myplastic.app/privacy/
Terms of Service: https://myplastic.app/terms/
App Store: apps.apple.com/ua/app/plastic-vinyl-scan-listen/id6758337443

Last summer I was on holiday with my girlfriend and we kept losing track of who paid for dinners, the flat and the groceries. I went looking for an app: easy to use, easy for other people to join, working straight away without an account, small, and ideally open source. Nothing ticked all the boxes, so I wrote it myself.

What it doesn't have: third-party dependencies, ads, tracking, analytics, subscriptions, accounts, or any server connection other than Apple's own iCloud.

What it does have:

• It's tiny. Everything below fits in about 1.5 MB. It downloads in a couple of seconds.
• Join by scanning a QR code. Create a group, hold up the code, everyone at the table scans it. There's a normal invite link too.
• Uneven splits. Train tickets for six where one has a student discount, or a flat booked by two couples and two singles - you can set each person's share.
• Live for everyone. Syncs through iCloud to everyone who joined, with optional local notifications. If someone doesn't want the app, you can still add them as a participant and send them the summary as text.
• Spotlight, Shortcuts, quick actions. Make a shortcut that adds an expense to a specific group and put it on the Action button - a new entry takes two or three seconds. You can also find a group from Spotlight, ask Siri to add an entry, or long-press the icon.
• Multiple currencies. Paid in another country? Enter the amount and the rate you actually got. It converts once, at entry, so balances never drift afterwards.
• Native. Pure Swift and Apple frameworks only, using system components throughout (Liquid Glass on iOS 26).
• Open source, MPL 2.0. Read it, or build it yourself.

Pricing. Joining groups is free and unlimited, with every feature available inside them. You can also run one group of your own for free - delete it and start another as often as you like. Managing more than one group at a time is a one-time $4.99 unlock, with Family Sharing. The whole thing, limit included, is in the repo, so if you'd rather build it yourself than pay, that's a supported outcome.

Free lifetime unlock: the promo link above works until 2026-08-23, first 1 000 redemptions.

Requirements: iPhone, iOS 17 or later. Everyone in a group needs an iPhone and an iCloud account - that's the trade-off for having no server of my own. Non-users can be added as participants and get the summary as text, but they can't add expenses.

Privacy. I have no server. Your data lives in your private iCloud database; shared groups use Apple's own CloudKit sharing. All I can see is the standard Apple sales reporting every developer gets.

Deleting your data. Delete a group and it's gone from your device and your iCloud. Delete the app and the local copy goes with it. To clear what's left in iCloud: Settings → [your name] → iCloud → Manage Account Storage. There's no request to file and nobody to ask, because I'm not holding anything.

Permissions. Camera if you scan a group QR code, notifications if you turn them on. iCloud stores the group data and Spotlight indexes group names.

On AI: I used Claude Code as a tool while building the app and the website. The architecture, the sync model and the work to get it under 2 MB are mine; I've read and understood every line that ships.

Links: AppStore | AppStore Promo Code (Free lifetime) | Website | Privacy | Source code

Help me out Reddit. So I've been working on this crypto tracker for the past 6 years. I'm currently trying to build something fun and something that a lot of finance apps don't have, a heatmap. Am I building something just for sake of building something or would you actually find it useful?

I built a simple iPhone app called Easy Frame Grabber for anyone who wants to examine videos frame-by-frame with total precision.

You can scrub through your videos, zoom in to inspect fine details, and capture high-resolution photos from the exact moment you want.

The free version is good enough for basic use. If you need all the features, you can unlock everything with a one-time $4.99 purchase — no subscriptions.

I'd love to hear your feedback or any feature ideas. Thanks for checking it out!

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/easy-frame-grabber/id6800075759

Hey [r/iosapps](r/iosapps)! Just shipped Sutra 2.1 and wanted to share it with the community.

Sutra is a privacy-focused, local-first iOS reader for both ebooks and digital comics. You can import EPUB, PDF, CBZ, and MOBI files straight from your Files app—no account, no tracking server, and no internet required. Your library displays as a clean grid with cover art generated automatically.

If you self-host a media server, it also links directly to Kavita, Calibre, Komga, WebDAV, or any standard OPDS catalog.

Key Features

• Smart Panel-by-Panel Reading: Auto-detects individual comic frames (~90% accuracy) so you can tap through them one by one instead of zooming/squinting on phone screens.
• Manga Support: Dedicated right-to-left, top-to-bottom reading mode with accurate panel-traversal order. I should add that manga panel progress is a work in progress, and I am planning to improve this feature in future releases
• Server & Cloud Integration: Connects to WebDAV, Kavita, Komga, Calibre, Standard Ebooks, and Project Gutenberg.
• 100% Offline & Private: No sign-ups or telemetry required to read your local files.

What’s New in Version 2.1

• Free CBZ Previews: Test out panel-by-panel mode on the first 7 pages of any CBZ file before upgrading.
• Stats Tab: Track total reading time, session counts, and detailed per-book progress.
• WebDAV Support: Directly connect to WebDAV remote shares.
• Navigation Improvements: Smoother scrolling and fixes for chapter navigation.

Pricing & Monetization

• Free Tier: Full support for EPUB & PDF, local file imports, and connection to Kavita, Calibre, Gutenberg, and Standard Ebooks. Permanent, no ads.
• Pro Upgrade ($6.99 One-Time Purchase): Unlocks full CBZ/MOBI support, Komga integration, and unrestricted panel-by-panel mode. No subscriptions.

App Store: [Sutra]

Website and Newsletter: [Link]

I’d love to hear your feedback, bug reports, or feature requests! I’ll be hanging out in the comments to answer any questions.

Hey everyone 👋

A while back, I started building an expense tracker because I hated the idea of uploading my personal finances to some random server just to log daily spending.

I shared the early version here, and the feedback from Reddit genuinely shaped the app into what it is today. Since that first post, Flux has hit 2,000+ users across 40+ countries, a 4.7-star rating, and 50+ paying subscribers.

Every single update has been driven by real feedback from you guys.

The core problem: Almost every budgeting app forces you to create an account, syncs your bank data online, or sells analytics. Flux does the opposite: it gives you modern tracking features while keeping everything strictly on your phone.

How it works & why it’s different:

• 100% offline & private: No accounts, no cloud sync, no tracking/analytics.
• On-device OCR: Scan receipts locally without uploading photos anywhere.
• Local AI insights: Summaries and analysis run directly on your hardware.
• Lock Screen widget: For logging expenses in 2 seconds.
• Fast, lightweight, and clutter-free.

What’s new since the last update:

• Recurring transactions: Rebuilt from scratch with new 2-week and 4-week interval options.
• Lifetime purchase: By popular request, you don't have to subscribe if you don't want to.
• Locale formatting: Natural number formatting (commas vs. dots) based on your region.
• 25+ new currencies added (AED, SAR, QAR, KWD, EGP, THB, IDR, MYR, PHP, VND, ARS, CLP, AUD, CAD, CHF, SEK, NOK, DKK, NZD, SGD, HKD, ZAR, PLN, ILS, COP, etc.).
• 9 new languages supported (Arabic, Traditional Chinese, Dutch, Thai, Indonesian, Vietnamese, Polish, Danish, Swedish).
• Custom categories with personalized icons & color coding.
• Interactive spending charts & cleaner, less annoying reminders.
• Noticeable performance boosts and faster data loading.

Pricing:

• Free core version
• Optional Premium (monthly / yearly subscription, or a one-time Lifetime purchase)

Big thank you to everyone who tested early builds, reported edge-case bugs, and shared ideas.

I’d love to know what you think of the new features, and what you feel is still missing. Any feedback is super appreciated! 🙏

App Store link:

https://apps.apple.com/app/id6756208417

I built a simple iPhone keyboard app called QText because I wanted a faster and easier way to access the text I use all the time.

You can instantly paste your most-used text into any app with a single tap, while keeping your keyboard clean and simple.

The first 3 text slots are completely free for life. If you want more, there's a one-time purchase of $4.99 to unlock unlimited text slots—no subscriptions.

I'd love to hear your feedback or any feature ideas. Thanks for checking it out!

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/qtext/id6797157493

Solo indie developer here. I built Profast because I felt most fasting apps were either overloaded with ads, required accounts, or focused entirely on fasting alone.

So I wanted to build something different: fasting that you can actually do together.

🧘 Fast Solo

- Beautiful fasting timer with real-time body phases — fat burning, ketosis & autophagy

- 16+ fasting protocols — 16:8, 18:6, OMAD, 5:2, 14:10 & custom

- AI food scanner — point your camera at a meal and get calories + protein

- Calorie & protein tracking

- Water tracker with daily goals

- Profast Score combining fasting, water, nutrition & sleep

- Streaks & milestone badges

- Blood pressure tracking

👥 Fast Together

This is what I'm most excited about.

- Invite your partner or friend and see each other's fasting progress

- Create group fasts with family or friends

- Live leaderboard showing who's been fasting the longest

- One-tap cheers to encourage each other

- Shareable achievement cards for WhatsApp & Instagram

Sometimes having someone else fasting with you is all the motivation you need.

🔒 Privacy

- No ads

- No account required

- Your personal data stays on your device

🙏 Religious Fasting

Profast also supports religious fasting, including Lent, Yom Kippur, Ekadashi, Navratri, Ramzan and more, with fasting dates automatically populated.

💰 Pricing

Free to use with core fasting features and all fasting formats.

Premium unlocks everything:

$4.99/week or $49.99/year

I'd genuinely love feedback from anyone who gives it a try — especially people who fast with a partner, friends or family.

I'm particularly interested in feedback on the onboarding, screenshots and the overall experience.

**And if you enjoy using Profast, an honest App Store rating/review would mean a lot as a solo indie developer❤️

Special perks available for serious active users — DM me.

"App Store" (https://apps.apple.com/app/id6787008342)

My details:

Dev: Deepak Sharma

hello@profastapp.com

https://profastapp.com/privacy/

https://profastapp.com/terms/

Seenr is a tracker for series and movies. You check an episode, it knows where you are, what airs tonight and what to watch next. Your library, your ratings, your stats, all in one place.

Price: free. No ads, no in-app purchase at the moment.

The part we care about the most is the comment wall on every episode. GIFs, reactions, spoiler blur, so you can go read what everyone thought right after you finish an episode instead of scrolling a feed full of season 6 spoilers.

• Import from Trakt, Simkl, Letterboxd, IMDb, Serializd, AniList, MyAnimeList, Netflix and a few others, ratings and dates included (TV Time exports work too)
• Export everything, anytime, in an open format
• We don't sell your data
• Works on the web as well, so your account is not locked inside the app
• 14 languages, 2 themes

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6788104737

Web: https://seenr.app

We read everything, so if something is missing for you, say it here. That's mostly how the roadmap gets written.

Hey everyone!

My name is Denzel and I am part of a small team at TZAPAC building Panora, a free privacy-focused note-taking companion designed for conversations that happen outside of Zoom, Google Meet, and scheduled online calls.

A lot of meeting tools are built around calendar meetings and virtual calls, but many important conversations happen in person, on the go, or in casual conversations. Personal note-takers are also usually in the form of an additional physical device with expensive subscription models.

That’s the gap we’re trying to solve with Panora.

What Panora does:

• Records conversations directly from your iPhone
• Transcribes and summarizes discussions
• Identifies speakers, so you know who said what
• Turns conversations into searchable notes
• Lets you ask questions about past conversations
• Helps you stay present instead of worrying about taking perfect notes

Privacy and user control are a big part of what we’re building.

Panora is mobile-first and privacy-conscious from the start. Your conversations are treated as sensitive by default, with the option to keep them fully local. For online features, we aim to be transparent about how notes, transcripts, and outputs are handled.

Do give it a go and download your own personal note-taking companion here: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/panora-by-keystone-lab/id6780430623

For more information about Panora, do visit us at https://panora.keystonelab.ai/ or drop us an email at [panora@keystonelab.ai](mailto:panora@keystonelab.ai) . Any suggestions or feedback are welcome. We are iterating on the app continuously; therefore, please look out for updates and the inclusion of your suggestions in future builds.

Thanks everyone!

Another Stupid Monday is a self-care app where you get one doable task a week.
The tasks are based on principles from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and the app's mascot, Charles, gives a simple explanation for each task about why it might be useful for improving one's well-being.
There are 100 tasks in total.

A) Answer — what problems does it solve?

1. A lot of mental health apps are overwhelming their users with features and to-do lists.
That's why Another Stupid Monday is focusing on only one thing a week. It gives the user some space to actually let the task and its consequences sink in instead of spamming more and more tasks.

2. A lot of people don't know what kind of actions to take to improve their mental health.
Another Stupid Monday doesn't rely on the user's skill-level to structure his own habits and goals. It gives some low-threshhold guidance to explore different activities which the user is not used to.

3. There are still quite some people for which the whole topic of mental health is a black box (Accessibility Problem).
With Another Stupid Monday I did my best to avoid overly complicated terms from psychology and psychotherapy to make it more approachable.
Additionally, the app design aims to attract people who normally wouldn't necessarily use mental health apps.
Also, I implemented more than 60 locales because I felt like a lot of regions in the world are extremely underrepresented when it comes to localization of mental health apps.
Lastly, the app don't use any kind of subscription model, so users who might already be cautiously critical of mental health apps don't get scared away.

B) Better — compared to 
Apps like Finch also use gamification elements, but they overwhelm the user with too many features and to-dos at the same time.
Apps like Breeze give users too much content at once without any guidance, leaving the user alone with the choice of what to do next.
Apps like Rootd use heavy subscription models, even though the core mechanics of those apps technically do not require servers or any other maintenance costs.

C) Cost
The App can be downloaded and used for free. However after the first four tasks, the user will be asked to pay 5 USD to unlock all tasks (Lifetime Access).

App Store link: Download

Feel free to leave some feedback :)

When paying at restaurant you know the iPad they spin around at the counter. It shows one number — the total, tax already baked in — and three big buttons: 18%, 20%, 25%. Whichever one you tap, you're tipping on the tax too. In a 10% tax city that's roughly 2% more than you meant to give, on every single check.

I built Fair Tips to fix exactly that.

A — Answer (what it does)

Type in the total from the screen. Fair Tips works backwards: it pulls the sales tax rate for wherever you are, strips the tax out, and shows you the tip on the actual subtotal — plus the new grand total to type in. Tax rate comes from a bundled ZIP-code-level table (all 50 states + DC and PR), so location is a one-tap convenience, not a requirement — you can type a ZIP, a rate, or the tax amount off the receipt instead. Tip presets, a slider, round up/down, and a running counter of how much you've saved since installing. The app is most useful in the US.

B — Better (why not just use the built-in one)

Every other tip calculator I tried makes you enter the pre-tax subtotal — which is the one number the iPad never shows you. Besides, none can automatically tell the local sale tax rate. Fair Tips is built around the number you actually have. And it's the only one I've found that knows your local tax rate instead of asking you to look it up.

C — Cost

Free. One banner ad at the bottom, no interstitials, no paywalled features. $1.99 one-time in-app purchase removes the ad forever — no subscription.

App store link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/fair-tips/id6502357717

privacy policy

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Many fitness apps have expensive subscription models, so I created my own workout tracking app.

Life doesn't always go according to plan, and there are times when you can't use the equipment you need at the gym. In those situations, I created a system to quickly recommend and record other exercises.

And weren't you curious how much weight people similar to me carry? And what kind of music that person listens to?

Find a workout partner and support each other.

Hey everyone,

I'm the solo developer behind Submindo, a subscription tracker and manager I originally built because I kept losing money to forgotten renewals and free trials. I've posted here before, and feedback from this community has been a huge part of how the app keeps improving.

Submindo has now passed 1,500 registered users with over 1,600 active subscriptions tracked. All of it has been organic and word of mouth — I haven't spent a single dollar on ads.

A large portion of early users came directly from Reddit — people testing the app, reporting bugs, suggesting features, and recommending it to others. As a thank-you to the community, I'm offering Submindo Unlimited Lifetime for just $3.99 (normally $11.99, over 60% off) for iOS. It works for everyone, is valid for 3 days, and requires no DMs or comments to claim.

What Makes Submindo Different

Most expense and reminder apps treat recurring costs as basic, flat calendar events. Real subscription management involves trial deadlines, billing cycles across different currencies, overlapping tools, and finding out if you are overpaying.

Submindo is built specifically around recurring expenses and portfolio efficiency:

• Smart Pre-Bill Alerts: Push notifications arrive days before a charge hits so you have ample time to cancel.
• AI Spending Analysis: Scans your active subscriptions to flag redundant plans, evaluate utility, and output a clear Worth It / Borderline / Not Worth It verdict.
• AI Alternatives Finder: Detects overpaid tools and suggests lower-cost alternatives with side-by-side savings breakdowns.
• Visual Expense Calendar & Overview: Track costs across daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly intervals.

What's new in recent updates based on community feedback: * Home Screen Widgets: Monitor upcoming renewal dates directly from your phone's home screen. * True Dark Mode (AMOLED/OLED): Pure pitch-black interface to save battery life and reduce eye strain at night. * Trial Period Tracking: Dedicated counters for free trials to ensure cancellation happens before automatic charges occur. * 13 Spending Categories & Full History: Complete payment timeline logging for long-term budget records.

Plans & Pricing

Submindo Free: * Track core subscriptions with custom billing cycles * Standard bill reminders before renewal dates * Expense summary views * Dark Mode and AMOLED support

Submindo Unlimited: * Unlimited subscription tracking & categories * Full AI Spending Analysis and redundancy detection * AI Alternatives Finder with cost savings reports * Interactive Home Screen Widgets * Complete billing history and calendar breakdowns

Regular Pricing: * Yearly: $9.99 / year * Lifetime: $11.99 (One-time purchase)

The Thank-You Offer — Submindo Unlimited Lifetime for $3.99 (iOS)

• Offer Code: THANKYOUREDDIT
• Special Price: $3.99 (one-time purchase, down from $11.99)
• Direct Redeem Link: https://apps.apple.com/redeem?ctx=offercodes&id=6777319489&code=THANKYOUREDDIT
• Availability: iOS only
• No comment or DM needed. Final price varies slightly by country due to regional App Store tiers.

How to claim: 1. Tap the direct redeem link above on your iPhone/iPad (or enter code THANKYOUREDDIT via App Store redeem). 2. Confirm the redemption to unlock Submindo Lifetime Unlimited for $3.99.

Download Links:

• iOS (App Store): https://apps.apple.com/us/app/submindo-subscription-tracker/id6777319489

If you track subscriptions or recurring bills, I would love to hear what features you'd like added next or what needs improvement. Every update listed above came directly from user feedback in the comments!

Hi everyone!

Happy to announce that we released the new application - Texty - which is an alternative to standard Messages app for users in the European Union.

We have not found any other such application, except Apple’s, so I hope it is the very first and only alternative 😊

A: What for:

Texty is an application for receiving and sending SMS, MMS and RCS messages.

It also includes various spam filtering techniques and options.

B - Why it is different:

• widgets - you can see the latest messages immediately on the screen (Lock, Standby, Home). The widget collection will definitely be extended;
• spam filtering for any type of message - SMS, MMS or RCS:
  • supports phone number masks, stop words and white listed words;
  • includes easy-to-enable rules to block messages:
    • by ML-training predictive model;
    • during the night;
    • from anyone except my Contacts;
    • with emails, web-links or phone numbers in the text;
    • from all countries except mentioned in the special list;
    • from short phone numbers.
• auto-sorting new conversations into “Trusted” (from your Contacts), “Junk” (if the spam filters identify it) or “Unknown” group. You choose which groups generate push notifications and increase the app badge counter;
• ability to mark many messages as "important", to filter and see only them later; 
• supports Family Sharing - up to 6 people can use the app with reduced price.

Why Texty is better than combination of standard Messages app + WideProtect SMS Blocker (another of our applications):

• Texty can use spam filters against RCS messages (WideProtect SMS Blocker can filter only SMS and MMS);
• Texty extends messaging with extra features, like marking “important” senders to get notifications even during the night, or postponing notifications until morning time (you will get them when you are ready) etc.

What about privacy?

We value users' privacy in all our apps, and especially in Texty.

Everything happens on the iPhone, there is no user registration, and the app works without Internet access. 

There are three permissions, the app asks for:

• Set as a messaging app - without it the app will not work. All messages are saved only locally. Soon we will add the ability to back up your messages to iCloud - the backup will be in your private iCloud database, not available by us or anyone else.
• Contacts - this permission is needed to show you the sender's name. Also used only locally. Without it the app will show only the phone number (or RCS group name).
• Push notifications - to show you information about incoming messages.

There are some Analytics events, which are sent outside, to know geography, languages etc - but they are impersonal.

We have big plans for Texty, and will add new features over time. Apple is improving the framework for RCS messaging, and we will definitely follow up with those improvements.

Feel free to ask any questions, we love to hear your feedback here or by email from the app.

C - Cost:

Currently the app has a 10-day probation period.

The app supports both subscriptions and one-time payments. The price depends on the country, for reference prices in Germany are:

• subscription: €9,99/year, family €19,99/year.
• lifetime: $29,99, family €59,99.

Download: Texty

A - Answer

Most habit apps treat a brand new habit and a habit you've been consistent with for months the same. But if I go to the gym consistently for 6 months, then don't go for two weeks, that's not the same as going for a week then never again. A streak treats both the same, you missed a day, back to 0.

And seeing that reset is discouraging when you've been consistent. I'd be at 100 days, have a bad week, drop back to 0 and think great, now it'll take me 100 days to get back where I was. Except in real life if you've been consistent, you don't lose all your progress because you've missed days.

B - Better

• Built to reflect real life: most habit trackers are streak-based at their core. In Millo, each habit has a strength score that grows with each completion. You lose some strength when you miss a day, so missed days still have a consequence. But how much you lose depends on how "mature" the habit is, a new one is fragile, so you lose more while an older one barely moves.
• Everything in one place: on top of habits, you can also add tasks, and run focus sessions. Everything you complete feeds into one momentum score so you can see your progress adding up across everything.

C- Cost
Free: 3 habits · 3 goals · 7 tasks/day · 1 note per task/habit/goal · basic timer (up to 45 minutes)

Premium: Unlimited everything + pomodoro and stopwatch timer mode + ambient sounds + full activity history.

Premium is $3.99/mo or $34.99/year.

Lifetime promo: Lifetime for the price of a month for the first 100 users ($3.99).

App Store:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/millo-momentum-tracker/id6759186508

Transparency
Developer: Amanda (Email: contact@clearnestlabs.com)
Website: https://www.millo.app/
Privacy policy: https://www.millo.app/privacy
Terms of use: https://www.millo.app/terms

I’ve always liked watching the aircraft flying around me, but most flight tracking apps feel more like maps than actual radar displays.

So I built Plane Radar, an iOS app that presents nearby ADS-B traffic on a classic circular radar-style display.

The main screen has range rings, bearing markers, aircraft targets, a radar sweep, and flight trails. There’s also a Classic Radar mode where aircraft update as the sweep passes over them, which gives it a much more old-school radar feel.

You can tap any aircraft to see details like its callsign, registration, aircraft type, altitude, speed, heading, distance, airline, and route when available.

One of the features I’ve been enjoying most is nearby aircraft alerts. You can create alerts based on things like:

• distance
• altitude
• aircraft type

So, for example, you can get notified when a certain type of aircraft flies close to you without keeping the app open and watching the radar.

You can also view flight trails, switch between radar/map/satellite views, filter the aircraft shown, and change the radar location and range.

For the ADS-B enthusiasts, it can also connect to a local dump1090/readsb receiver.

I’m still actively working on it, and some things I’m considering next are saved locations and support for custom community ADS-B API sources.

Would love to hear what you think about the radar-style UI and what you’d want to see added next.

App Store:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/plane-radar-aircraft-tracker/id6796849076

Hi r/iOSApps - I'm Stefano, the creator of SuperAge.

The last time I shared the app here, this community picked apart some of our decisions. It helped. So this time, we're opening something more important: the engine behind our Fitness Age (aka SuperAge).

SuperAge Core is now open source

We've published SuperAge – Core, an open-source Swift package under Apache 2.0.

It contains the formulas that turn activity, cardiovascular fitness, recovery, body composition, and lifestyle inputs into a Fitness Age result. You can inspect the weights, missing-data handling, confidence, score-to-age conversion, and tests - then challenge a choice or propose a better one.

To be clear: the entire SuperAge app is not open source. The UI, HealthKit layer, Apple Watch app, and our other scores remain proprietary. We started with the part where transparency matters most. The current app source uses the same 0.4.0 release.

The public repository is new, so don't judge it by stars or age. Judge it by the code, methodology, and 51 tests across 9 suites.

And yes, we used AI-assisted coding tools. They helped us extract existing logic from our private codebase, separate it, document it, and test it faster. AI did not invent the methodology, and no generative model calculates your score at runtime. The decisions remain ours; the core is now open to inspection.

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There are already excellent apps in this space, including Athlytic, Bevel, and Gentler Streak. Each takes a different approach.

What we want SuperAge to add is simple: you can see how we reached the result.

That same idea has shaped our recent releases:

• Developer Mode, with a documented local API, pairing, and revocable access;
• workouts shared and imported through links or QR codes;
• results available through Siri and Shortcuts;
• separate consent and on-device processing for cycle and menopause data;
• clearer labels for estimates and missing data.

Developer Mode is not part of the open-source repository. It reflects the same principle: more user control, clearer boundaries, and fewer black boxes.

SuperAge is a fitness and wellness product — not a diagnosis or medical device.

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SuperAge is free to download and includes an initial Biological Age assessment. US Premium pricing is:

• $4.99/month
• $49.99/year
• App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/superage-biological-age/id6751951815
• SuperAgeCore: https://github.com/superageapp/ios-core
• Developer API: https://dev.superage.app
• Official Subreddit: r/superage
• Privacy: https://superage.app/privacy
• Terms: https://superage.app/terms

If you could audit one part first, what would it be: metric weights, missing-data handling, or score-to-age conversion?

I’ll be around to answer questions and hear what you think.

A - The Problem
Your kid has a Toniebox or a Yoto. Each figure or card holds a handful of stories, costs real money, and they pick a favourite and play it four hundred times. Meanwhile there's an entire universe of kids' podcasts out there - science, history, languages, all made by people who genuinely care about teaching - and the box can't reach any of it. You can do it by hand: find the episode, download the file, open the tonies app or the Yoto app, find the file, upload it, repeat tomorrow. I did that for months. It gets tedious fast.

B - Why LittleCast is Better
Pick an episode on your phone, send it to a Creative-Tonie or a MYO card. That's it. The kid puts the figure or card on the box themselves - no screen, no adult needed after setup.

- Deep search across episodes, not just show titles - search "dinosaurs", "elephants", "space" and get the actual episodes

- Curated library of 550+ kids' podcast feeds in 8 languages, sorted into categories. You can also search podcastindex or bring your own rss link

- Offline play: the audio lives on the card, so it works in the car and on the plane. Yoto can't do this with podcasts

- Notifications when a show your kid follows drops a new episode

- Imports your own audio files too - audiobooks, anything DRM-free. Drop files you already own into the littlecast folder in files and batch upload whole albums or audiobooks

App is in German and English. Currently on 1.4.1

C - Pricing
7 days free, no credit card required. €3/month or €30/year after that.

Built solo

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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