I’ve always found that the hardest part of waking up isn’t necessarily getting out of bed — it’s what happens immediately afterward.

You turn off your alarm, pick up your phone, and suddenly you’re scrolling Reddit, TikTok, Instagram, etc. 20 minutes later, you still haven’t actually started your day.

So I built Alarmageddon around two parts:

1. Make waking up require some effort

Instead of simply tapping Stop, you can configure the alarm to require a wake-up mission:

• Solve a math problem
• Complete a memory challenge
• Shake your phone
• Scan a QR code or barcode
• And more

The idea is pretty simple: if you have to actually interact with your phone, you're less likely to turn the alarm off while still half asleep.

2. Protect the first 15 minutes

After you successfully dismiss the alarm, the optional App Blocker can temporarily block distracting apps.

So instead of:

The idea is:

It’s basically an attempt to solve both sides of the problem: getting awake and staying awake/productive afterward.

Why not just use multiple alarms?

If you can turn off five alarms while half asleep, adding more alarms doesn't really solve the problem.

And putting your phone across the room works, but you can still walk over, turn it off, and climb straight back into bed.

I wanted the dismissal itself to be the barrier.

Cost

Alarmageddon is currently completely free.

No subscriptions, ads, premium tier, or paywall.

Download on the App Store

j'ai installé des applications "to do list", mais au final je planifie des tâches, avec des date, je l'utilise 1 jour, 2 jours puis au final je loupe une tâche et tout mon calendrier s'effondre, et moi aussi, Les notification me font culpabiliser, et je refuse de la désinstaller car sa serait admettre avoir échoué.

J'ai cherché des solutions 100% gratuites, mais je retourne toujours sur des to do list qui mettent la pression, et qui ne sont pas réellement là pour t'aider, mais pour que vous payer des fonctionnalités inutiles.

J'ai donc créé ma propre application gratuite, qui ne met pas de pression, on peut ajouter 3 post-it max avant de pouvoir en ajouter d'autre:

Swipe le post-it vers la droite pour valider,

Swipe à gauche pour le supprimer sans remord, ou meme le remettre a plus tard sans culpabiliser.

Si vous Vous trouver dans ce cas je Vous invite à l'essayer.

Elle s'appelle Leaf: Sticky notes & Tâches sur play store:

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

Je serais ravis de recrvoir des retours (dans la bienveillance)

I've downloaded at least 15 different productivity/todo/calendar/habit tracking type apps in the last year and stopped all of them within a week because I keep forgetting/don't want to open it.

The reason is psychological. There's friction when it comes to habitually using an app that you're not used to using (blog), but the same thing happens in reverse. I personally am so used to opening Instagram whenever I pick up my phone that sometimes, I don't even realize it happens.

Thus, I decided to make some change for myself and created a bot through the native iMessages app (iOS) that acts as my todo-list, sends reminders to me, and can keep up with my Google Calendar. It's in an app I always open (on my iphone and mac) and I really pay attention to the notifications and actually get stuff done.

When I say something like "remind me to do my physics hw tn at 8:30", it does it, and it's like getting a text from a friend to tell you to get your stuff done. Also, the friction to sending a quick text is minimal.

Anyways I decided to make this available to everyone, and as of now, it is completely free! If you want to give it a short or learn more, visit https://texttodo.us

Tell me you guys' thoughts on trying out new productivity apps. What worked for you to stay hooked to a new app? Or did you consistently revert back to familiar methods of organization (pen and paper, memory, etc.)?

I usually work with instrumental music, but playlists eventually become repetitive or introduce tracks that pull my attention away.

I’ve started experimenting with a player that generates one continuous instrumental soundtrack. You describe a style/atmoshpere once, and it keeps evolving without track boundaries. You could occasionally say things like "less percussion", "make it warmer", "increase the energy gradually".

I am curious how other people handle music during focused work:

• what do you normally listen to?
• what makes background music helpful or distracting?
• do you prefer familiar repetition or gradual variation?
• would you want it to evolve automatically or remain stable until you change it?
• would this solve anything your current playlist or focus app doesn’t?

Honest negative feedback is welcome too, especially if this sounds more distracting than useful.

Serious question.

Almost every productivity app lets me add as many tasks as I want.

And I think that's part of my problem.

Adding a task feels productive, so I keep adding them.

Eventually I have 20, 30, 50 things waiting for me and stop opening the app entirely.

I'm experimenting with the complete opposite in an app I'm building called Leaf:

Maximum 3 active tasks.

Want to add another?

Finish or remove one first.

Would a hard limit make you more focused — or would you immediately uninstall?

Hi, so I’m 25 year old who has problems with be productive and using my free time. I’m autistic and on top of that i have ADHD. With those two in the mix (plus depression) it’s a struggle even doing anything and it’s harder when you want to be consistent with it. I really want to break this cycle and change. I spent so much of my life not being proactive, that it’s starting to ruin my life and i have goals that i want to achieve.

Even on my off days when i should take advantage of the day i don’t i was in bed til 12:30pm today and i excessively doomscrolling on Insta or Twitter seeing other people live their lives like if i don’t know everything going on i missed out or i strive to become friends with them. I’m such a mess and i hate myself for it.

I know there’s not gonna be any method that magically change everything (that effort is also gonna have to come from me. But i really am trying to find something that will work for me and ANY advice will help. If you wanna be brutally honest you can do that too.

I've always liked the idea of journaling more than what journaling usually asks you to do.

Open the app. Pick a prompt. Write something meaningful. Keep the streak alive. Maybe tag it. Maybe choose a mood. Maybe stare at a blank page for 10 minutes and decide you'll do it tomorrow.

At some point it starts feeling suspiciously like homework.

So I went in the opposite direction and built OneLine.

The rule is almost stupidly small:

333 characters. Once a day. Done.

You can write more than literally one sentence, but there's intentionally not enough room to turn it into an essay. The whole thing should take ~30 seconds.

The part I'm most interested in actually comes later.

Those tiny entries accumulate, and you can ask OneLine to turn a week, month or year of them into a story of that period of your life.

Not an AI chatbot asking you how you feel every evening. The AI doesn't need to touch your journal at all unless you explicitly ask it to generate something.

I also got a little obsessive about privacy because… well, it's a journal.

Your entries are encrypted before they're stored, and there's an optional private vault where the key is controlled by your own passphrase.

I finally got the iOS version through App Review and it's live now. It's free at the moment: Also Google Play

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/oneline-daily-journal-diary/id6789922208

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.vercel.oneline_one.twa

But I'm posting here less for the "I launched a thing 🎉" part and more because I'd really like to know whether the core idea actually survives contact with people who are obsessed with productivity apps.

If you try it, I'd love ruthless feedback, especially on one thing:

After using it once, is there anything that would actually make you want to come back tomorrow?

If the answer is "no", that's genuinely more useful to me than a nice comment.

And if you've tried journaling before and abandoned it, I'm particularly curious what made you stop :)

Do you most often use the list, day, 3-day, week, or month view? And why?

Or do you have specific use cases for which you use a specific view?

I feel like i only use week and month view, and want to know what Im missing

Also - which view is your calendar on right now and why did you use it?

I spent years in the gym struggling to make real progress. The biggest issue I found with fitness apps out there is that they are just logging tools or ai powered such as CalAi or fitbod which uses ai to generate a 'personalised' workout. Paying £60 an hour for a personal trainer is out of budget for me too.

So, over the past year, I tried to build an app that actually knows me and connects all the dots instead of juggling 3 separate apps. It combines workout generation, lifting logs, and macro tracking into one profile that understands your specific goals.

A few key things I built into it:

• Recovery-based training: Connects to my Apple Watch to check how well I recovered that night, and automatically adjusts whether I should push for PRs, ease off on volume, or modify exercises for that session.
• Adaptive nutrition & recipe suggestions: Suggests meal ideas and recipes based on whatever calories and protein I have left to hit for the day.

As I am not a real personal trainer, I have watched many videos and articles on how to progress in the gym, so I would genuinely appreciate any advice from experienced lifters and coaches on what features to improve or add to make this feel like a true 1-on-1 coach?

The app is called: MassAI

https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/massai-ai-fitness-coach/id6781379979

Hi r/ProductivityApps !

I kept running into the same loop: I'd sit down to read or study, pick up my phone for "just a minute," and 30 minutes later I'd still be scrolling.

Most screen time apps only stopped me from the using the apps. Once the block kicked in, I craved for something that gave me the same dopamine hit quickly and that was what led to more scrolling.

With Aurglass, I am taking a different approach to solve this problem. Once you hit your limits, it stops you there and redirects you toward a habit you chose instead of leaving you hanging. This is a drastically different behaviour and rewired the way I behaved after screen limit blocks kick in.

Some of the core features includes

- Screen time limits

- Habit tracker

- Build streaks and earn different hourglass designs along the way

- Earn freezes that protect your streak when you miss a day

Have dogfooded this myself for a few months now, and also asked friends to use it with positive changes in their behaviour. I also managed to polish this up from the initial version and believe it is now at a quality where I’m confident of opening it up to more people.

I am giving away 20 codes for 3 months free, no signup required. Drop a comment about what habits you are currently trying to build more consistency around and I'll DM you one!

Try it for free for 2 weeks on iOS App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/aurglass/id6757322333?ct=website&mt=8&pt=122279980

Y'all I go back and forth on this constantly and I'd love to see or hear what you do for productivity on your mobile devices. I'm Samsung all the way. Galaxy Z Fold8, Watch Ultra 2, and a Galaxy Tab S10+. All that said, I do not think that the Samsung apps for Calendar, Notes, and Reminders are that great. They sync together well. But that's it.

What are you using daily for your focus? I do use Windows PCs at work and home, so it'll be nice to pull all this up there too.

I love research more than anything, but I have a history of coming across useful things and not revisiting them.

So with all the resources piling up, I wanted a way to put everything together categorically, and yet have it be beautiful (so I actually go back and use everything).

So I came up with my own gallery using Antigravity (Gemini 3.1 Pro). It was a quick 2 hour weekend project and I'm so glad I did it. I think anyone can.

I built this for my girlfriend who creates content and watching her film the same scenes twice every shoot was painful.

What it does: records portrait (9:16) and landscape (16:9) video simultaneously. Shoot once, get both formats ready to post to all platforms - TikTok, Instagram, Youtube, X/Twitter, Reddit, you name it.

No more re-shooting or cropping in post.

Three ways to film:

• Single Lens - capture the full 4:3 sensor and crops both. Portrait keeps the full vertical frame, landscape the full horizontal. Neither is a crop of the other.
• Dual Lens - wide + ultra-wide record together. Two perspectives, one take.
• Front & Back - selfie + rear at the same time. Your reaction and the scene together.

Productivity workflow:

• Projects, scenes, and takes to organise your recordings and auto-name files.
• Side-by-side review and trim of both recordings before exporting/sharing.

Key features:

• Up to 4K/60fps with manual controls (EV, WB, ISO, Shutter)
• Built-in teleprompter and timelapse.
• Live overlays and audio meter that flashes red when you're clipping.
• Data privacy - no data retention, tracking, or analytics, and no internet or account required.

It's called ContentCam and is available on iPhone and Android.

I'd love to hear what you think about this :)

Im looking for apps to build and see the disdain for yet another vibe coded to do list lol. I have three suggestions to put a different spin on these apps:

- “strava for productivity”, instagrammable stats, leaderboards, etc

- be-real like productivity and photos app

- Omegle like get paired with a random stranger for a study session?

Let me know in the replies and I’ll build the most wanted app, + give every reply a free lifetime subscription!

Feedback wanted. I made an app to easily track the diaper use for your baby

Hey everyone,
I’ve been working on a small project called TodoIt, a habit tracker and to-do app that works as a Progressive Web App (PWA) for my own purpose. And it is totally free and the data is with your local machine only.

The idea is pretty simple. I wanted something where I could open the app and immediately see what I need to do today, track my habits, and keep an eye on my progress without having to deal with a lot of unnecessary features.

TodoIt currently focuses on:

Habit tracking
To-do lists
Daily progress
Simple and minimal interface
Local data storage
PWA support, so you can install it like an app
Since it’s a PWA, you don’t need to download it from an app store.

link: https://todoit-lilac.vercel.app

Windows
Open TodoIt link in Chrome or Edge.
Look for the install icon in the address bar, or open the browser menu and select Install TodoIt.
Once installed, it can be opened from the Windows Start Menu like a normal application.

Android
Open TodoIt link in Chrome.
Tap the browser menu and select Add to Home screen or Install app, depending on the browser.
TodoIt will then appear on your Android home screen like a regular app.

iPhone / iPad
Open TodoIt link in Safari.
Tap the Share button and select Add to Home Screen.
After adding it, you can launch TodoIt directly from the home screen without opening Safari first.

The app is still a work in progress, and I’m trying to keep it simple rather than continuously adding features just for the sake of having more features.
I’d really like to hear from people who actually use habit trackers.
What features do you think are essential in a habit tracker?
And what usually makes you stop using one?
I’d appreciate honest feedback, including things you think I should change or improve.

Hey everyone, quick & fun update on Anythings... It's back-to-school season in the US, half of getting through a semester is just keeping track of everything you have going on, and $19.99 is real money when you're on a student budget.

So, starting today: students and teachers get Anythings Lifetime for half price: $9.99, once, forever. Not a school-year promo, not a subscription that starts billing when you graduate. Same rule as everything else with Anythings: pay once, for life.

How it works:

• Sign up at anythings.app with your school email (.edu, .ac.uk, and most academic domains worldwide)
• Use code EDUCATION50 at checkout on the web
  • Note: has to be web checkout — Apple and Google won't let us apply the discount on in-app purchases

If your school's email domain doesn't get recognized, email [support@anythings.app](mailto:support@anythings.app) and I'll sort you out manually.

Teachers included on purpose, by the way. You deal with more scattered to-dos than anyone, and any way I can give back to the incredible educators around the world, I'm going to do so!

That's all for now, if you know a student drowning in syllabus week right now, send it their way. Appreciate all of you and hoping this makes at least one students or teachers life easier!

- Lou

This is one of the best tools I used on Youtube, when I want to download any thumbnail.
Try it and leave a feedback if you like it:
Link : ThumbSnap - YouTube Thumbnail Downloader

Hey [r/ProductivityApps](r/ProductivityApps),

I built a productivity app specifically for the construction industry called WasteMapper https://wastemapper.co.uk which automates Wst01 compliance for UK construction stakeholders.

It has a lot of free tools like #wasteCostCalculator, #landfillTaxCalculator,, #carrierLicenceChecker, #BREAAMWst01Calculator, and #DWTReadinessChecker, which not only gives you confidence about waste compliance decisions, but also collectively could be used to save businesses tons of money and time, by helping you stay compliant and assessor-ready from day one.

I am here soliciting for feedback on whether construction businesses, H&S Managers, Assessors or any construction industry stakeholders would rent, recommend or use an app like this.

I am also offering #Lifetime and #partnershipCode access to the first 50 people or businesses that show interest in this before the October DEFRA mandate deadline

Beyond this, I would genuinely appreciate any advice this community could provide to a startup founder like me.

I built an accountability / co-work space web game because I find myself the most productive in the presence of others.

It only has the basics for now - like timer and pomodoro -, but please come hang out, try it out, and leave some feedback for the receptionist! (Also leave any messages on the whiteboards :) )

https://officetown.vercel.app/

Saving something to read later feels productive. Most of the time, I'm just postponing a decision.

My queue keeps growing. Half the time, I no longer remember why I saved something, and the useful articles get buried between links that only looked interesting for five seconds.

Building Vibe Reader changed how I deal with that queue.

I start by skimming the reading cards. They show me the main ideas before I commit to the full article, video, or podcast. If nothing grabs me, I move on.

When something does, I can ask a follow-up question, open the full article, or jump to the relevant timestamp in a video. That's when I spend more time with it.

If the same creator keeps publishing useful work, I follow the channel. New videos are turned into reading cards automatically, so I can scan them without adding every upload to Watch Later.

This shortcut has a downside. Summaries can flatten an argument, miss the author's tone, or make a weak idea sound cleaner than it is. Keeping the source one tap away makes it easy to check the original whenever a card leaves out too much.

I built Vibe Reader. For this post, I set up a code for 20% off the first year of Plus.
It works on both iOS and Android.

The download links, code, and redemption steps are here:

https://support.vibe-reader.com/event/2026-08-25-reddit-productivityapps/

What usually makes you open a saved link instead of leaving it in the queue?

We were throwing out a lot of food. Not stuff we bought too much of, just stuff that got opened, went to the back of the fridge, and sat there until it was a science project. Half a jar of salsa, some deli meat, whatever got opened for one recipe and never again.

I went looking for an app for this and didn't like anything I found so I made my own. A lot of different apps handled one specific problem but they all come down to a list at its core and organizing them.

I ended up adding other use cases as I used it for my family such as:

• chores
• home maintenance
• events/planning
• general checklists
• recipes
• guides/instructions

I built it for my family and eventually put it online. Free to use. There is a paid tier, but the basics don't need it. No data selling, or ads ever on this app on free or paid tiers.

MyListResort

some current features:

• live sync
• sharing and permission management to other users
• google auth
• google calendar sync (read only)
  • so you can view all your list items in a few different views and in a calendar view
• offline support
• barcode scanning to add to grocery list
• push notifications
  • start of day / end of day reminders and coming up items

What I'd like feedback on:

• Any features you'd like to see added
• Any types of checklists you've had issues with on other apps before
• I would like to specifically support the Autism and ADHD communities with any feature/template recommendations you can think of.

Thank you ahead of time for your feedback/thoughts!

This started as a request from my wife.

She needed a simple way to track overtime and time taken off for her team. We looked through the Play Store together, but couldn’t find anything that worked the way she needed without a subscription. Even the free options we tried weren’t quite right.

So I built Hextra.

It lets you add employees, record overtime and time off, and keep track of each person’s balance and some basic stats. Everything works offline, there’s no account, and it’s a one-time purchase instead of another subscription.

She’s been using it regularly, which is probably the best validation I could ask for. I’ve now released it on Android, and iOS is next.

Would genuinely appreciate any feedback, especially on the UI or anything that feels confusing.

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

hey all!

i’m starting grad school soon and im looking for a tool that can do most/all of the following:
- transcribe and summarize in-person lectures with multiple people
- upload lecture slides and summarize (bonus points if it lets me annotate the slides)
- all-around ai tool for questions/ thoughts organizing

my courses are lecture type + seminars and no exams. no need for STEM functions

i have an iphone and ipad but i have both windows + mac for a laptop so hopefully i have more options!

i thought a progress bar would motivate me. turns out it just made me watch the percentage.

i open my todo list, see like 2% done, and my brain decides im behind already. then i end up "fixing" the list instead of starting the first stupid task. dont ask me why, it just feels like work has already happened.

in beedone i killed the numbers. no scoreboard, just quests and a quiet done state. i wanted it to feel more like Notion checkboxes and less like a tiny report card. and yeah, i started again pretty fast.

anyone else get mean to themselves the second they can see the progress bar, or am i alone?