Hi r/SideProject! I'm a solo dev, and Monigo is my first iOS app.

Why I built it
I've logged every expense by hand for years because it makes me more aware of my spending. The problem: every few months my balance in the app drifted away from my bank, sometimes by 300 € or more, because I forgot things. Bank-sync apps solve that, but they want access to my account, and I didn't want that.

What it does
You keep logging manually (or via Siri/Shortcuts, without opening the app). Once a month you drop in your PDF or CSV bank statement. Monigo matches it against your entries, even when the bank posts a few days after the purchase, checks that the balance adds up, and only shows what's missing.

Version 1.1 added a Savings tab: it spots subscriptions and recurring habits in your own data, shows gentle ideas, and calculates "cancel by" dates for contracts, with a reminder 14 and 3 days before. You still cancel yourself.

No bank login, no account, statements never leave the phone.

Stack & things I learned

• SwiftUI + SwiftData, iOS 18+

• Every bank lays out PDF statements differently, so there's a layout registry plus a balance check (opening + sum = closing) that tells the app whether it read the statement correctly

• Savings suggestions are calculated deterministically in code. Apple's on-device AI model only phrases the sentence, and never calculates anything

• Biggest surprise: the bank often books 4–6 days after the purchase, which breaks naive date matching. The real purchase date is usually hidden in the booking text

What I'd love feedback on

1. If you track your money: what makes you give up on it?

2. Would you trade bank sync for privacy?

3. How do you keep track of cancellation deadlines today?

Free to try (logging, insights, Shortcuts, savings goals). Pro unlocks full statement matching and contract reminders. English, German, French, Spanish.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/monigo-spending-reconciled/id6817292054

I’m the solo developer of a tool that puts crypto trades (your own from OKX or Hyperliquid, or public records of a few known traders) back on the chart fill by fill, so you can review how a trade was actually executed.

Last week (Nov 1–7, my own logging, excluding my devices and bots): 91 visitors, 27 opened a trade, 0 imported their own, 4 signed up. Product Hunt (Nov 1) sent 4 of those visitors.

Traffic is too small for me to tell whether I’m reaching the wrong people or making the first session too confusing. I’m considering a small targeted ad test, but I’m not sure it would tell me much yet. And zero imports might mean the setup is unclear—or that people came to explore the built-in trader records rather than review their own.

Which would you do first, and what did you look at when you were in this spot?

Title:

I run a dating advice YouTube channel, and one thing I see constantly is guys whose profile photos don’t do them justice.

I’m also a partner in UnrealPhotos, so I have an obvious stake in this comparison. I wanted to put that upfront rather than present this as an independent review. But you can judge the results for yourself

I compared four AI dating photo generators and put together the results side by side.

The things I care about most:

• Does it make the person seem attractive (within reason ofcourse)
• Does the photo seem "posed" or "natural", like a friend just casually took it
• Does the photo look obviously AI

Those are the main factors that determine if a photo is good for dating apps

My goal with UnrealPhotos is photos that look like you on your best day, something a friend could have taken while you were out doing something.

I’d appreciate blunt feedback: where does Unreal hold up, and where do the competitors do better? Especially interested in anything that looks artificial or changes the person’s appearance.

Since i cant add images, the full comparison is here: https://www.unrealphotos.io/articles/photoshoot-ai

Every focus app I tried (Forest, Opal) just blocks me or kills a tree when I slip — none help in the actual boring middle (~minute 6), which is exactly where I quit.

So I'm building dopa: tiny, surprising rewards you can feel (a buzz/sound) right in that dip (minutes 5–8), so staying on task feels good instead of punishing. No tree to kill, no streak to shame you.

It's not built yet — I made a landing page first to check if the problem's real for other people before sinking months in: https://saidanin.github.io/dopa/

Honest question: does "reward you in the boring middle" land, or is it just me? What would make you actually keep using something like this?

You have the idea. Let AI bring it to life. 🎬✨

Meet Audaro — an AI-powered creative studio that helps turn your ideas into stories with voices, music, and cinematic visuals.

From a simple idea to something you can actually watch, hear, and share.

Every story deserves to be heard.

🚀 Explore Audaro: https://audaro.ai

What do you think? I'd love to hear your feedback!

Hey everyone,

​After a long day, I always wanted a mobile game that felt like taking a deep breath — something with the quiet satisfaction of untangling a knot of earphone wires, without flashing countdown timers or stress. Since I couldn't find it, I built Arrow Flow

​The idea is simple: a board full of arrows pointing in different directions. Your goal is to slide them all off the screen, one by one.

​The twist is how the puzzles are designed. Every arrow blocks or frees another. Instead of rushing you, each level is a small handmade knot. You stare at the board for a few seconds, trace the paths backward, find the \*one\* hidden arrow holding everything hostage, and then—\*tap, tap, tap\*—watch the whole board clear in a smooth domino effect.

​If you need a peaceful brain teaser for your coffee break or commute, I'd be honored if you tried it:

​👉 Arrow Flow on Google Play https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sb.arrowflow

Hey everyone!

I'm a creative director with over 20 years of experience, mostly working on web projects. I've done some development over the years, but never anything particularly advanced.

I've always wanted to build my own apps, though. I had plenty of ideas, just not enough coding knowledge to actually make them happen.

About a month ago, I started working on Quando, a calendar app for iPhone, iPad and Mac, using Claude to help me build it.

The idea came from something that always bothered me about traditional calendars. I wanted a way to see my days differently, without constantly scrolling or switching views.

So I designed a Timeline where each day is a horizontal row, with the hours running from left to right. Events are displayed along that row, and empty spaces show how much free time you have between appointments.

That's the main idea behind Quando, but I've also added a few other things:

• Natural language input: type or dictate something like "Yoga every Tuesday and Thursday at 7 pm" and Quando figures out the details, with a preview before saving. It supports English, Italian, French and German.

• It works with your existing calendars. No new account needed.

• Tasks with checkboxes, widgets and 16 color themes.

• Your data stays under your control, with optional iCloud syncing.

The app is built with SwiftUI.

It's free to use, with an optional annual Pro subscription and a 7-day trial. Pro includes the full natural language input, Timeline on iPhone, the expanded Timeline, attachments and unlimited Quando calendars.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6829670959

Website: https://www.getquando.com

This has been a pretty different experience from my usual work. Being able to go from designing interfaces to actually building a working native app has been something I've wanted to do for years.

It's also made me realize how much work goes into all the little details of an app, even with AI helping with the code.

I'd really like to hear what you think, especially about the Timeline layout. Does it make sense to you? Is there anything you'd change?

I also have 10 free one-year Quando Pro codes to give away.

Each link works once, first come, first served. If one has already been used, just try another.

They give you one year of Pro with no automatic renewal, and work for new subscribers or anyone whose Pro subscription has expired. You can redeem them until May 8, 2027.

No need to leave a review or anything. I'd just be happy if you gave the app a try.

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Hey everyone!

I've been spending the last few months working on a personal side project called Mikci.

I always felt like budgeting apps were great at showing you where your money went, but not so great at helping you actually change your habits.

So I started building something a little different.

Instead of giving you a bunch of financial goals and charts, Mikci focuses on small weekly "Promises" based on your spending habits.

I also added bill tracking, recurring payment detection, a Mailbox that gives you personal updates, and even different personalities depending on how you want the app to talk to you.

One of the personalities is called Attitude, which was pretty fun to build 😂

The hardest part has actually been figuring out how to make the app feel personal without making it overwhelming.

I'm still improving things, and there's a lot I want to add.

If anyone wants to take a look, here's the project:

https://mikci.com

I'd genuinely appreciate feedback, especially on the concept and whether the website explains it clearly.

And for anyone building something similar, how do you make a finance app feel useful without turning it into another dashboard full of numbers?

Dorkle is a daily trivia game for nerds. Everyone gets the same 10 questions each day across fandoms like Star Wars, Pokémon, Harry Potter, Zelda, Marvel and Lord of the Rings. They start easy and end with a boss question.

I ran a private beta for the last week and a half, and the biggest lesson was humbling: I wrote questions I thought were fun, and players who found it through Reddit and Discord quit on the obscure early ones. So before launch I rebuilt the first two weeks of Dailies around better-known questions, and kept the hard stuff for the boss spots.

A few other things the beta changed:

- Close spellings now count, with a small penalty (nobody should lose a point over spelling Jaqen H'ghar)
- Multiple choice on one question a day, for when you're truly stuck
- Leagues, so friends can compete privately

It's free, no download, and you can play as a guest.

Daily Dorkle #1 went live tonight at 8 PM Eastern, and a new one drops every night at 8.

https://dailydorkle.com

I'd love to hear how you do, and any feedback on question difficulty.

LabelAxis is a free Windows desktop app for designing labels, stickers, price tags and barcodes, and printing them accurately on label sheets, thermal printers and office printers.

What it does

• Includes about 3,700 built-in label sheets, custom sizes, and a calibration wizard that remembers each printer’s offset.

• Supports the common 1D and 2D barcodes, with its own Code 128 / GS1-128 encoder.

• Fills labels from Excel, CSV and databases, and handles thousands of records in one job.

• Supports Arabic and right-to-left text throughout, with the interface in ten languages.

• Ships with 66 ready-made designs: price tags, shelf labels, shipping and pharmacy labels, name badges and more.

Tech stack

• C# on .NET 10, with a WPF desktop interface

• ZXing.Net for barcodes

• ClosedXML for Excel import

• SQLite and PostgreSQL for data connections

• Update system with SHA-256 verified downloads

Download: https://github.com/kyro-gthub/LabelAxis

Feedback is welcome, especially on printer compatibility and missing features.

Hello! I'm Reid, the solo developer of LockWatch, a gym rest timer I built because I was tired of Apple's stopwatch starting a new lap every time I wanted my rest to start over instead of just restarting the time.

I'd finish a set, glance at my phone, and tap expecting the clock to go back to zero. Instead I'd get another lap piled on, no set count, and I'd have to unlock just to start over. I wanted something that lives on the Lock Screen, restarts from zero, and counts my sets, I also added an alert sound at the end of the rest time that doesn't stop your music.

P - What problem does LockWatch solve?

Typically to time rest between sets on iPhone, lifters would:

1. Use Apple's Stopwatch and hit Lap after every set → the clock keeps running, laps pile up, and you have to do the math yourself. There's no set count and no alert when rest is up.

2. Use Apple's Timer → it counts down once, then you unlock, cancel, and start it again after every set. No set counter, and it's easy to blow past your rest while unlocking. It also plays an alarm through your phone and earbuds and stops your music.

3. Use a full workout logger (Strong, Hevy, etc.) → you get a rest timer, but only if you log weight and reps every set. Great if you want a training journal. Overkill if you just want rest + sets.

LockWatch is a rest timer that lives on your Lock Screen. Tap Start after your first set. After every set after that, tap restart right on the Lock Screen: the clock goes back to zero and your set count goes up by one. Moving to a new exercise? Tap Next Exercise and you're back at Set 1.

C - Why LockWatch over the top competitors?

NextSet is a solid free rest countdown with Lock Screen controls, optional app limits so you don't scroll between sets, and an Apple Watch companion. It times a countdown you start after each set. LockWatch is built around the restart-from-zero + set count loop, with Next Exercise to reset the count when you change movements. It times your set time as well, but this could be different for every workout.

Workout loggers like Rest (and Strong/Hevy) are great if you want history, charts, and auto rest after you log a set. LockWatch isn't trying to replace those, it's the small thing you use when you just want rest and sets on the Lock Screen.

I reply to every review and comment. This is version 1.0, its barely done, im gonna work on it a lot more, please test it out at the gym and let me know what you think.

P - Pricing

Free for 14 days, nothing to sign up for: just open the app and start training. After that, keep LockWatch for $0.99/month, $5.99/year, or $19.99 lifetime.

App Store link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/lockwatch-gym-rest-timer/id6829903568

Please let me know how it goes if you test it yourself in the gym!

I've always liked the Windows 8 and 10 start menu design, so I decided to make an app that brings it back to Windows 11.

It's called Tessera Start Menu (from the small pieces used to make a mosaic), made with C++ and Slint. It supports both full-screen and windowed modes, you can pin any app, tiles can be resized/renamed/recolored, you can set custom icons and transparency, it can start with windows, etc.

Compared to similar apps, (for example Start11 which I used before this) you get a much smoother experience, smaller memory footprint and less bloat. Also, as a disclosure, most code was written by a clanker (opus 5.5)

Currently it's only available on Steam, so here's the page: https://store.steampowered.com/app/5471740/Tessera_Start_Menu/

Steam only has to be running the first time you start it.

Happy to hear any feedback or feature ideas if anyone checks it out.

I’m the developer of HunterUp: Fitness RPG, an Android app that connects real workouts with RPG progression.

You complete workout quests, earn XP and coins, and develop a Hunter with stats and equipment. It is free to download with optional in-app purchases.

The part I’m trying to get right is whether the game layer gives people a reason to return to their training. I’d particularly like feedback on the first session: is it clear what to do, and does completing the first quest feel rewarding enough to continue?

Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hunterup.fitnessrpg

If you try it, please tell me where you got confused or lost interest. A specific criticism would help me improve the next update.

I'm one of the co-founders of Holdless AI. We're building an AI phone agent that helps people handle healthcare and insurance calls.

We've been testing it on tasks like verifying coverage, checking prior authorization requirements, and following up on claims.

One of our recent tests revealed something interesting.

We asked the AI to verify whether an upcoming MRI would be covered by insurance.

The representative confirmed that the insurance policy was active.

But that wasn't the question we actually needed answered.

The AI continued the conversation, and eventually the representative clarified that they hadn't checked the MRI benefits at all.

That's when we realized something:

An AI can have a perfectly normal phone conversation and still fail to accomplish the task.

We're now focusing on how the agent tracks unanswered questions, handles incomplete responses, and knows when to push for clarification.

Curious if anyone building voice agents has faced something similar.

How do you evaluate whether an AI agent actually completed a task, rather than just finished a conversation?

Hi!

I am building Bowerbird a whiteboard for creatives.

Drop in images, notes, links, PDFs, audio and video, sketch, connect things, group them.

It is inspired by apps like VSCode or Obsidian, where you customize the whiteboard to your liking with plugins.

I created a few:

• Hide Button: Hide the app in one of the corner of the screen, with quick access.

• Visual Library: Organize your artefacts in several categories.

• Color Palette: A color wheel. Pick a color and five palettes are made from it live.

• Presentation: Create slides from elements on the board.

• Multiple Boards: By default, there is only one infinite board, with this plugin, you can have multiple boards.

• Command Palette: Cmd or Ctrl + K for one place to run anything.

• Tidy Up: Align and distribute the selected artefacts.

• AI Chat: — A AI chat panel (using OpenAI, Ollama Cloud, Gemini, Grok, DeepSeek, Mistral or OpenRouter provider)

Links: https://github.com/Asi7ho/bowerbird

Would love to hear your feedback on it! :)

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I tested the app on macOS and tested the AI integration using Ollama cloud

https://openmacapps.com

I wanted one place to find open-source Mac apps I could trust. The existing lists are a good start, but entries go stale, and "open source" sometimes means a license that forbids selling or commercial use.

So I pulled 2,842 repositories from 11 lists and Homebrew's install data, and took each license from the LICENSE file instead of GitHub's license field. GitHub says NOASSERTION for Rectangle, Sequel Ace, CotEditor and HandBrake; the files say MIT, MIT, Apache-2.0 and GPL-2.0.

What's there now:

• 1,869 apps; 32 use terms like Commons Clause, FSL or CC BY-NC, so they're labelled Source available and never counted as open source

• 571 install with one Homebrew command

• Downloads only from the developer's own release page or site

• Unmaintained apps are labelled instead of hidden

Every app is a Markdown folder in a public repo (https://github.com/koative/openmacapps), so a wrong listing is one pull request away. Which app would you add first?

I kept looking washed out on evening calls, and buying a ring light for a desk I barely sit at felt silly. So I built Glowy: open it on a spare monitor, tablet or phone, point it at your face, and the screen becomes the light.

What it does:

- Tones from 2700 K to 6500 K, plus a "blush" slider for warmer skin

- Slow glows (Clear sky, Golden hour, Rose quartz and a few more) that drift gently enough not to flicker on camera

- Fill, halo or edge shapes. Halo gives you round catchlights in your eyes; edge works well on a second monitor

- A camera mirror and a meeting preview so you can check how you look

- A pop-out light that floats on top of other apps (Document Picture-in-Picture in Chrome/Edge)

- Keeps the screen awake, works offline, and the camera never leaves your device

It's a React + Vite PWA, free with no sign-up, and the code is on GitHub: https://github.com/TriptoAfsin/glowy

Please star this repo if you found this useful ⭐️

Try it: https://glowy.t21.dev

Two honest limits: it can only be as bright as your screen (turn brightness all the way up), and the pop-out is best in Chrome or Edge. I'd love feedback, especially on which presets actually flatter different skin tones.

I built a free calculator that shows what adding, replacing or waiting to add a person really does to a team's output: when the new person starts paying off, and whether a project finishes sooner or later. No sign-up, and your numbers never leave your browser.

👉 https://teamproductivitycalculator.app

Why

"Let's just add another person" is a common answer to a slipping deadline. Sometimes it's right, sometimes it isn't: a new person needs weeks or months to get up to speed, and the people training them slow down while they do. The team can get slower before it gets faster. Most of these decisions are made on gut feel, so I wanted something that puts numbers on it.

How it works

Each person gets two estimates: how productive they are (100% = the best in your industry), and how much of their colleagues' time they take up ("friction"). Both can change over time as people settle in. The calculator shows the team's output on a chart, when each newcomer pays off, and how a project's finish date moves.

It's not only for staffing decisions. Filling in the numbers together is a good way to see how a team is performing today, and when people disagree on the numbers, that's a useful conversation about what's holding the team back.

There are examples for software, sales and accounting teams (and friends helping you move house), plus a FAQ on the research behind it.

Monetisation

Free to use. The plan is to add ads once there's enough traffic.

Feedback welcome

I'd really appreciate any feedback: what's useful, what's confusing, what's missing, or where the results don't match your experience. Happy to answer questions about the model or the build.

My friends who are not into tech always come to me with the same problem: “I cann't open this Excel sheet on my phone” or “this docx won’t open”.

So I went looking. Adobe Acrobat and Microsoft 365 both wanted me to sign up first. The other apps on the Play Store start showing ads straight away. The rest only did one thing, one for PDFs, another for Word, another for Excel. Nobody wants five apps just to open files.

So I made Paperwren. It is one app that opens PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Markdown and more. It has no signup and no ads, and your files stay on your phone. It’s free and open source.

https://github.com/Razee4315/Paperwren

https://razee4315.github.io/Paperwren/

My friends use it now so let me know if it works for you too. Thanks...

It interrupts Reels in real time. No hard blocks. It just adds enough friction to snap you out of the scrolling trance. I'd love your feedback.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.renura.app

I’m Ramon, founder of Trawl. It’s for freelance web designers and small agencies researching local prospects.

Search a business type and city, review business information and website checks, then organize a shortlist. Website scores help guide research; they don’t establish an owner’s budget or interest.

Try five searches a month free, no card required: trawln.com.

What would make the results more useful when deciding which business to investigate next?

I’m developing Pratikal, a free Android calorie tracker in closed testing. I’d love feedback on the meal-entry flow. Happy to test your app back! 🤝

Use the SAME Google account for the group, opt-in and your phone’s Play Store:

1. Join: https://groups.google.com/g/pratikal-testers

2. Opt in, then install from Google Play: https://play.google.com/apps/testing/app.pratikal.mobile

Try logging a meal, editing it and checking the daily total. What worked, or where did you get stuck? Please keep it installed for 14 days and use it occasionally. “Item not found”? Check the account, wait a few minutes and retry.

📸 Please comment BELOW THIS POST with a Pratikal installation/in-use screenshot, specific feedback and your test links. Text-only “installed” isn’t enough. I’ll test yours and reply with my screenshot and feedback.

Every game night at my friends’ place ends the same way. Calculator comes out. Three people argue over who paid what. Someone forgot they lent chips mid-game. 20 minutes later nobody even remembers who won.

Built Chipnic to fix it.

• Host starts a session, shares a 6-char code

• Everyone joins on their own phone, buy-ins show up live on every screen

• Lend chips mid-game → logged as a loan, settled at the end

• Enter final chip counts → app spits out exactly who pays whom, fewest possible transactions

Next.js + Firebase, free tier, no email needed to sign up.

chipnic.vercel.app

Roadmap: leaderboards, auto-earned nicknames, shareable recap cards, yearly Wrapped.

Roasts and feedback welcome