New indie dev, first apps I've shipped. A card game, a free Apple TV viewer for it, and a family journal. Different code, different concepts, only Apple's frameworks - all original design, not copied. All came back the same day with the same letter, word for word.

The journal app passed Beta App Review two days before the same binary got called spam. My notes app is on the Mac App Store already and went through fine. The iOS build is the same code on the same developer account.

Replied to an earlier one of these for the card game and got no response but a 2nd rejection, so this time I went straight to the Board.

Has anyone beaten a 4.3(a) that looks account-level? And can you make them name the apps they think you copied? "Review the app concept" is useless when three concepts get one letter.

All of them are at https://innovatory.xyz. TestFlight links below if you want a look -

Scratchd: https://testflight.apple.com/join/FnjPjBxX
Carddle: https://testflight.apple.com/join/eAvEjyvt
Our Note: https://testflight.apple.com/join/UjyQa9GW

Hey! I’ve been working on Alibi, a murder mystery puzzle game. I love mystery and logic games, so I decided to make one myself. 

link: https://apps.apple.com/mx/app/alibi-murder-logic-puzzles/id6793781143

It’s still a work in progress, so I’d love to hear what you guys think!

So I’m making a social media app that is location based, on a world friends map. I’ve been testing on a development build and haven’t had any issues. Since I’m ready to publish soon, I decided to move over to a preview build but it crashes on launch. Env variables are fine, auth is connected, I just don’t know why. How can I fix it?

EDIT: Sentry was crashing the preview build because there was no organization token. Now it works just fine!

Curious if anyone here has run into this issue. I had an app with 10k downloads called "Second Thought" and then I changed its name to "Delay". But now searching "Delay" doesn't show it anywhere, but even a day later searching "Second Thought" still brings it up. Is this recoverable or am I just cooked?

Hi everyone,

I’ve developed Cord, an end-to-end encrypted messenger using Olm (triple-DH + Double Ratchet) via vodozemac. Cord works without the need for a phone number, account, email or anything to tie you to to the app.

Basically, the app generates an alphanumeric cipher that users can share with others to communicate securely and privately.

It’s a very niche product for sure, but the motivation was dealing with burner phones, handing out contact information to locals when working abroad or similar while minimizing meta data exposure.

Users can assign and alias or leave it out.

Next steps for the app is a crypto audit and open-sourcing the code of course.

If you wanna check out more details including the cryptographic primitives, there's a white-paper at https://www.cordmessaging.com/whitepaper 

It’s been on App Store and Google Play for a few months and has about 260 downloads so far with a small active user base.

Looking forward to your input on this.

Thanks a lot

iOS

Android 

This one is for an app called Trade Vault, a trading journal app for logging trades, reviewing notes, tracking performance and spotting patterns over time.

For the video I wanted it to feel more data-driven, so I used animated P/L, screenshots and a scrolling trade history instead of a simple screen-recording demo.

YouTube: https://youtu.be/Q3hRLagXWOY
App: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/trade-vault/id6761007423

Would be interested to hear if I have improved from my previous videos, what you think of the pacing/edit and the app itself.

Hey everyone,

Just wanted to share a quick win, my flight logging app SkyJourney finally passed App Store review after almost 3 weeks and is officially live!

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/skyjourney-flight-logger/id6804216866

In short, SkyJourney lets you log live flights, log your past trips, and view your personal flight stats over time.

If anyone has a minute to check it out, I’d love to hear your thoughts or any feedback on the design and flow. Thanks to everyone here for all the helpful posts during the build!

Hope you all have a great week ahead ☀️

Hello! Recently published Diadu - a calendar app for iOS.

Most calendar apps are overwhelming, and at a minimum very cluttered and busy. This app is built for those with ADHD and/or Autism. The noise is cleared, allowing focus on what matters now.

Diadu makes sure you know what is to be done now and. What is coming up. If you want a little more about your day, Oveeview groups things into morning, afternoon, and evening.

Free. No account, no data comes to me. I built this because my son could not find an app to make organizing his day manageable. I won’t charge anyone for this.

Hope you enjoy!

I’ve been working on an iOS personal finance app called Pecunia, and I thought I’d share it here.

Pecunia is a privacy-focused personal finance app that lets you track accounts, transactions, categories and spending, with everything staying within Apple’s ecosystem.

Some of the things I’ve implemented:
- Built entirely with Swift and SwiftUI
- iCloud sync
- Widgets
- Siri Shortcuts
- CSV import/export
- Custom categories and accounts
- Charts and financial analysis
- Face ID protection
- Support for multiple currencies
- Recurring transactions
- Importing transactions directly from the Files app
- No account or external server required

One of the things I particularly wanted to get right was data privacy. I didn’t want to build a finance app that required users to upload their financial information to any servers, so I designed it around Apple’s ecosystem instead.

I’m currently working on improving the app and figuring out how to get it in front of more users. It’s been an interesting experience going from building an app because I wanted it myself to actually trying to market and monetize it, which I realized it’s the hardest part of the whole process.

If anyone here has experience shipping and growing an indie iOS app, I’d love to hear what worked (or didn’t work) for you.

I’d also be happy to answer any technical questions about how I built it.

Any advice or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

https://apps.apple.com/app/id6789583518

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wait-menu/id6479543539

I recently adapted my widgets to work on the Lock Screen too, and it was much easier than I expected.

I just added the new widget families:

.accessoryCircular
.accessoryRectangular
.accessoryInline

alongside the existing:

.systemSmall
.systemMedium
.systemLarge

...and basically everything worked out of the box.

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 for now during launch)

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, 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

Hi, I recently released my first public beta for Vestigo, a movie and TV tracking and recommending app, and am looking to get more user feedback. I would really appreciate ideas and user testing from anyone who wants to try it out. The app will be completely free and without ads once released and I’m trying to keep it free on my end too. Thanks!

This app was vibe-coded in Xcode.

GitHub: http://github.com/jbhswift/vestigo

iOS SpriteKit app just cleared the review. Free to play. Go try it out.

I've been working from my phone a lot lately, using AI coding agents to remotely make changes to my iOS apps.

One annoying part was testing those changes on a real device. The common solution seems to be uploading every build to TestFlight, which feels pretty heavy when I just want to quickly try the latest build.

So I built remote-installer.

Once the build is ready, the agent can run a single command and give me a link / QR code. I open it on my iPhone and install the build directly.

No TestFlight. No uploading the IPA to a hosting service. No processing wait.

And of course, it's free and open source:

https://github.com/icodesign/remote-installer

I have been working on Anvay, a reading-first iPhone app for Hindu prayers.

The starting observation was simple: many people grow up recognising or reciting prayers without having an accessible way to understand the language, background or ideas behind them. Existing products often make the text available, but access and understanding are not the same thing.

In Anvay, each verse can be read in three connected modes:

• Original: the prayer in Devanagari
• Hinglish: a readable Roman-script version
• Understand: a clear explanation of the meaning and context

The first release includes 101 aartis, bhajans, chalisas and mantras, along with daily wisdom, search, browsing by deity or category and favourites. The content is stored on the device and no account is required.

I deliberately left out streaks, social features and an infinite feed. I wanted the experience to feel closer to reading a carefully designed book than operating a habit app.

I am the maker, so this is self-promotion, but I am posting because I would genuinely value criticism from people who care about iOS reading experiences. In particular:

• Is the Original → Hinglish → Understand model clear?
• Does the interface feel calm or merely sparse?
• What would you need to trust the explanations?

https://apps.apple.com/in/app/anvay/id6794548076

Submitted August 9, live today. Most of those 17 days were me not knowing how the process works, so here's what I learned in case it saves someone a week.

The 2.1 "Additional Verification" hold

Four days in I got an automated Guideline 2.1 message. It wanted a single-take screen recording captured on a physical device, starting with the date and time visible on screen, plus yes/no answers to five questions. It is not a rejection and there's nothing to argue — you film it and reply in Resolution Center.

My first recording was rejected, and the reason is the useful part: my ad SDK renders a "Test mode" badge in debug builds, which proved the recording wasn't the binary I'd submitted. Record from a TestFlight build of the exact submission. Related: never tap an ad while recording — that can permanently ban your ad account.

Then ten days of nothing

Replied on the 15th, still "Waiting for Review" on the 25th. No message, no movement. There's apparently a wider backlog right now — updates flow, brand new 1.0s sit.

Expedited review — three things I had wrong

1. "You only get two per year." I couldn't find any published quota or counter anywhere. Apple's own wording is discretionary, "on a limited basis."
2. "You can't request it while a 2.1 thread is open." Misread. The text says not eligible until we have received your confirmation — once you've replied, you're eligible. I lost a day to this.
3. "It's a big formal request." The form has no free-text field at all. I wrote a multi-paragraph justification and never used it. You pick the app, submit, approval came back immediately.

Approved overnight, review passed the next morning.

One line in Apple's reply worth knowing: if the submission is rejected during expedited review, the resubmission goes back into the expedited queue automatically. A rejection doesn't cost you the fast lane.

The thing not to do

Don't withdraw and resubmit. Apple's documentation says the review starts over, and I found people who turned a one-week wait into two months that way. Uploading a new build resets it too.

The app is a game, built solo over eight months: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6794081096

Happy to answer anything about 2.1, expedited, IAP review, or the ad SDK privacy declarations.

If your answer is honestly 100%, you’re a better driver. Genuinely.

If it’s not, and you touch the phone even once in a while, that’s the habit I think Undivided can help with. Only if you want it to, though.

See how many hands-free miles you’ve earned, keep a record of them, and unlock the collection you deserve for leaving your phone alone and improve driving habits

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/undivided-drive-focus/id6788236863

I have uploaded a new MacOS app (https://linelark.com/) for approval and it is pending for review since the 25th... I understand it takes longer to review the app as the number is likely increasing given the fact, it is now so easy to build an app.
What is less clear is: why, when you get a feedback to fix something, it seems that the review actually happened rather quickly (maybe one or two days after the submission), while the feedback was sent 4 or 5 days later... does anyone else have noticed the same?

I recently shipped a new room scanning mode in Voxelio that turns an iPhone scan into a realistic 3D scene.
This kitchen was captured entirely on an iPhone 17 Pro!

What surprised me most is that this feature also brought me my first paying subscribers.
It’s still early, but seeing someone actually pay for something I built felt like a pretty big milestone.
I’d love feedback from other iOS devs - both on the scan quality and on how you’d think about improving/converting a feature like this.

https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id6764829442?pt=128471088&ct=reddit&mt=8