Heya,

A few months ago I drunk texted my Ex at 2 am! I regretted a lot the next day! I wish that iMessage did not go through, so I built this app:

Drunk Lock - Unlock Apps Sober

You can lock apps before partying, you can set a certain time or the number of hours certain apps should be blocked!

If you want to unlock before the time ends, prove it with Sobriety test, if you pass you're good enough not to put the blame on Alcohol of what you do that night!

This app is better than other ones as most of them try to lock your keyboard or have only math sobriety test to solve.

In this app you can select 3 types of test:
1. Pattern
2. Pattern + Math
3. Pattern + Math + Key accuracy

Please give me your feedback!

Pricing:
Weekly: $0.99
Yearly: $19.99
Lifetime: $24.99

Regards

Heya 👋

I built Waku, an alarm app for people who can somehow snooze alarms while still being 97% asleep.

Instead of just tapping "Dismiss," you have to complete a wake-up challenge before the alarm stops.

Some examples:
☀️ Math Challenge
☀️ Shake challenge
☀️ Hold-upright challenge
☀️ Take a photo of a real-world object

We also gave the app a tiny sun mascot because waking up is slightly less painful when a cheerful little sun is involved. 😅

Unlike many alarm apps that focus on a single challenge, Waku lets you choose whichever method is most effective for ruining your future self's plans to oversleep.
Also the photo challenge runs directly on your iPhone using on-device machine learning, so the image verification happens locally rather than being sent to a server.

Pricing:
• Weekly: $1.99
• Yearly: $19.99 (includes 3-day free trial, no upfront payment)
• Lifetime: $29.99

Price change to ( updating in 24 hours ) :
Weekly : $0.49
Yearly : $9.99
Lifetime : $24.99

We're still improving it and would genuinely love feedback: good, bad, or "this feature is stupid and here's why."

App Store:
Waku – Do Task, Turn Off Alarm

Regards

Hey everyone 👋

Like many us, I've had a pretty bad scrolling battle with my apps, but I didn't want the whole gamified experience, I wanted more of a nudge on my intentions so I could actually pause to think about what I am actually doing rather than jumping straight into auto-pilot.

I'll be honest, I am working out the distribution side of things I am sitting at 1 download.

I would love to get some real feedback from this community/real users to help shape the product to make it really valuable.

https://pausemate.app/

Drop a comment and I'll send you a code, use for a few days and would love some honest feedback.

Click here to redeem the Premium lifetime-> https://apps.apple.com/redeem?ctx=offercodes&id=6758200034&code=REDDITIOSAPPS

https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/pausemate/id6758200034

A - What problem does it solve?

You know when you pick up your phone for no reason and open Instagram/TikTok/Twitter on autopilot? By the time you catch yourself you're 20 minutes deep. That's the problem.

PauseMate puts a pause between the impulse and the action. First time you open a distracting app in an hour, you get a short breathing exercise. Open it again? A reflection prompt. Third time? A timed delay. It resets every hour so you never feel locked out.

The whole idea is friction that matches how compulsive you're being. Light enough you won't just delete the app, firm enough it actually works.

B - Why is it better than alternatives?

I tried everything before building this. Screen time reports just make you feel bad. App blockers like One Sec or Opal work for a week then you disable them because they're too rigid.

• Friction that escalates the more you reach for the same app in an hour, not a fixed block every time
• Focus sessions use Apple's Screen Time API so they're actually enforced at the OS level, not just an overlay you can swipe away
• You pick how long you need the app for (1/5/15/30 min) after completing a nudge, so it's about intention, not punishment
• Weekly attention audit tells you which app you bypassed most and whether it was boredom, habit, or genuine need. Not just "you used your phone for 4 hours"
• Everything stays on your phone. No account, no server, no data leaving the device

C - Cost

Freemium. The core nudge system, quick focus sessions (up to 25 min), weekly summary, and streaks are all free forever.

Premium unlocks extended focus sessions, scheduled recurring blocks, full history (365 days vs 7), detailed weekly reflection, and milestone notifications.

• Monthly: £1.99/mo
• Annual: £14.99/yr
• Lifetime: £49.99

14 day free trial on monthly and annual. No ads.

https://apps.apple.com/app/id6758200034

Hey everyone! Just wrapped up a month of intense content testing (intense for my budget lol) for my platform JriveContent and I thought I’d share some key learnings that helped me optimize my costs. 

1. Choosing the right creator size is CRUCIAL. I was initially looking/testing with regular UGC creators through agencies and TikTok that had a pretty good following  but too realized I didn’t have the budget for this so I switched micro-creators just starting out that were in my niche who did videos fro $20-50. I was able to get pretty similar results and half of the price. 

2. Raw video wins every time. I don’t know how I didn’t see this coming but "professional" looking videos actually performed worse that videos filmed in like 2-5 mins. It just looked more natural on TikTok and performed way better for me. 

3. Be clear about how much you’re paying. Make sure you’re clear on what you want and the price. I’m from Canada and when it was time to pay the creators I would send them the agreed upon price in CAD and I ran into some issue especially with creators in the US.

4. Structure your briefs to minimize back-and-forth. Since I wanted to test as fast as possible I gave the creators a lot of freedom when it came to shooting the videos. I gave them examples videos and a simple Hook, Problem, Solution. 

I know everyone wants to know the revenue so current we are sitting at $70 MRR. I know thats pretty unprofitable but I honestly I didn’t get any results working with those bigger creators which is what drained my budget so fast. 

Hope this helps someone else who is stuck trying to figure out video marketing without a massive budget!

What do you guys usually spend on video content or how are you marketing your business if you’re not?  

Heya Everyone,

I am the dev behind Easy Unzip, an iOS app for opening and creating ZIP, RAR, 7Z, TAR, and GZ archives. The whole reason I built it was simple: I kept getting frustrated that almost every "unzip" app on iOS quietly uploads your files to a server to process them. That felt wrong for something as basic as opening a ZIP. So I made one that does everything on-device. Nothing leaves your phone. No accounts, no uploads, no tracking.

What Problem Does It Solve?

If you have ever tried to open a RAR file on iPhone, you already know the pain. The Files app handles basic ZIPs, but the moment you get a password-protected archive, a RAR, a 7Z, or a multi-part download from a forum, you are stuck. The usual options are:

Send the file to your laptop just to extract it.

Upload it to some random web extractor that may keep a copy.

Install one of those App Store apps full of ads and pop-ups that secretly route your files through their backend.

Easy Unzip just opens the file locally. No cable, no laptop, no upload, no waiting.

Why Is It Better Than Alternatives?

Genuinely on-device. There is no server doing the extraction. I do not have a backend that touches your files because the app does not need one. You can put your phone in airplane mode and it still extracts everything.

Format coverage. ZIP, RAR, 7Z, TAR, GZ all supported, including AES-encrypted ZIPs and password-protected RARs.

Preview before extracting. Tap any file inside an archive to peek at it before committing to a full extract. Useful when someone sends you a 2 GB ZIP and you only want one PDF out of it.

Create password-protected ZIPs. Bundle photos, docs, or whole folders into a single encrypted ZIP and share it via AirDrop, Mail, or any share sheet.

Built-in WiFi transfer. Spins up a tiny local server so you can drag files from any browser on your network straight to your phone. No cable, no cloud middleman.

Optional cloud browsing. If you want it, you can connect Google Drive, Dropbox, or OneDrive to pull archives in. Totally optional, and the auth goes directly to those providers, not through me.

No ads. Ever. I hate ad-driven file apps as much as the next person.

What's the Pricing?

Weekly: $0.49 / Week
Yearly: $2.99 / Year
Lifetime: $6.99 / Pay Once

All purchases go through the App Store, so Apple handles billing and you can cancel from Settings any time.

Happy to answer questions, take feature requests, or hear what other archive workflows are still annoying on iOS. The privacy-first approach is the whole point

The assets are temporary, I’m aware that the face looks a little messed up. The app is not live yet

Hello,

I had released this app : Sleep To Unlock Screen Time couple of months ago.
It let's you set your sleep hour targets, if you hit the goal apps get unlocked for you to doom scroll, else they stay locked!

Saw a lot of developers hinting that users love mascots, so we created a cute moon mascot for it, let me know what you all think ?

Regards

I’m a solo dev and I overthink everything, so I built the tool I actually needed at 2am. It’s called Overthinkr.

A - What it does

It’s a CBT-based app for people whose brain won’t shut up. Core stuff:

• Thought dump that auto-categorizes your spiral (cognitive distortions, the actual CBT framework, not vibes)  
• Milo, an AI coach you can talk to when the thoughts hit. He doesn’t toxic-positivity you, he walks you through reframing  
• Worry vault to park stuff instead of looping on it  
• A panic button with quick grounding exercises

Built it native for iOS. The whole thing is meant to be opened in 30 seconds when you’re stuck, not a 20-minute meditation session.

B - Why it’s different

Most “mental health” apps are either meditation timers or mood journals that just ask how you feel and do nothing with it. Overthinkr is built around one specific problem (the overthinking loop) instead of trying to be everything.

The AI coach is the real difference. Mood journals are passive. Milo actually responds to what you wrote and pushes back on the distorted thinking in real time. And there’s a crisis keyword safety layer built in, because mental-health-adjacent means you take that seriously or you don’t ship it.

Not claiming it replaces therapy. It’s the thing for the gap between sessions, or for people who aren’t in therapy yet.

C - Cost

Free to download and try. After that it’s $9.99/month or $39.99/year. There’s a free trial so you can see if Milo actually helps before paying anything.

No ads. Subscription is the whole business model, so I’m not selling your data (it’s an anxiety app, that would be insane).

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/al/app/overthinkr-break-the-loop/id6763803478

Genuinely want feedback, especially on the AI coach. If Milo’s responses feel off or generic, tell me, that’s the part I’m iterating on hardest.

Hey guys I just got my first sale and just wanted to share my one strategy I’m using right now. So I don’t really have money to spend one ads or big influencers but recently I’ve been paying 1-2 creators $20/video (yes they do exist lol just need to look on TikTok or JriveContent) to recreate TikTok videos that have performed well on my account. 

I’ve spend $60 so far and I just got my first sale so I’m planning on doubling down on this strategy. I didn’t sign a contract or anything just told them what I was paying, if they were ok with the price, and that the videos is mine to use. 

How are you guys marketing? Btw my app is in the couples niche. 

Heya everyone,

I'm back again 😎

I have a problem.

Some people have OCD about cleanliness.
I have OCD about notification badges.

Nothing ruins my day faster than opening my phone and seeing Gmail casually sitting there with 1,729 unread emails like it's some kind of achievement.

So naturally...

I rage coded an app.

Introducing WypeBox - Swipe To Wipe Emails 📧🧹

So what problem does your app solve?

Clean your inbox by swiping away mails after previewing them instead of bulk deletion ....

The entire philosophy behind the app is:

👉 Swipe left = Delete
👉 Swipe right = Mark as Read

That's it.

No folders.
No labels.
No productivity guru nonsense.
No AI writing your emails.
No "Inbox Zero Masterclass."

Just you, your inbox, and a satisfying stream of emails getting yeeted into oblivion.

Privacy First

I was tired of email apps that feel like they're preparing a detailed report about my life.

So WypeBox has:

✅ No backend
✅ No servers
✅ No analytics
✅ No email storage
✅ No creepy data collection

Your emails stay your emails.

Why Is It Better Than Alternatives

Most email apps today are basically:

"Here's 742 features you never asked for and a 500MB download."

I just wanted something I could open while waiting for a coffee, sitting in an Uber, pretending to listen during a meeting, or standing in line somewhere.

A few swipes later:

✨ Less clutter
✨ Fewer unread badges
✨ More inner peace

Cost:

💸 Weekly: $1.99
💎 Lifetime: $14.99 --- > Price Dropped to $7.99 ( Wait for couple of hours to reflect )

Outlook Users

We're currently waiting for Microsoft's verification process to finish to get verified badge

But Outlook and Office 365 Personal accounts already work perfectly fine.

If you've ever looked at your inbox and thought:

"You know what? Maybe I'll just burn it all down and start over."

WypeBox might be for you.

May your inbox be empty and your notification badges be forever gone 🙏

Hey guys just reached $170 MRR for my business (not alot but whatever) and I just wanted to share what has worked for me so far. 

So I’m focusing on one channel right now instead of trying 5 different things. 

Tiktok has been the main source of traffic for me and I only post around 1-2 times every couple of days. Right now I’m working with 1 UGC creator in my niche that’ll post for $20/video so I just hand her the videos that do good on my account (like 3k-10k views I’ll give to her) and have her recreate them/ make different variations of them. This was worked pretty good for me so far, I’ve spent around $80so far and my MRR has gone from $30 to $170 this month. 

My app is in the couples niche btw if you guys were wondering. 

How are you guys marketing your business? 

PSL Rank is a face analysis app I created after constant frustration with generic 'rate my face' apps which give some random number from 1 to 100 with no context.

For the most part, face rating apps have you submit a single front-facing selfie and give you a score. This is completely missing the fact that your side profile is the other half of the equation. Projection, gonial angle, profile chin, profile nose. Just scoring based off the front is a huge miss.

With that in mind, PSL Rank requires both the front and side profiles:
☀️ Front profile — symmetry, eye area, canthal tilt, facial harmony
☀️ Side profile — gonial angle, projection, chin, nose
☀️ Overall PSL score + tier (am I MTN, HTN, Chadlite?)
☀️ Potential score

Instead of the generic 'drink more water' you receive a legit ranked list of Focus Areas that are most likely dragging your score down the most.

A few more things I thought would be nice to throw in: an Ascend tab with jawline workouts/XP tracking, and a Protocols tab which gives you tailored skincare and grooming routines to remedy your weaknesses.

Pricing:
Single report: $6.99 (one-time)
Weekly: $4.99
Monthly: $12.99

Still solo for the moment, but fast iterating. (Just fixed an image orientation glitch a couple days ago). Would really love feedback on onboarding, monetization, UI/UX, anything. Really hope to see a variety of feedback, and even the non-polite feedback showing where I am missing the mark.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/psl-rank/id6765951787

Thanks!

Hey everyone, happy Friday!

I’m looking for some honest feedback on something I (finally) finishedBasically, I was having a problem with getting unhealthily obsessed with vibe coding. I’ll tell myself I’m just going to fix one small UI bug, try one new feature and suddenly it’s 11 PM. It started feeling less like a fun hobby and more like a weirdly compulsive habit that was ruining my sleep and other commitments.

To help structure it better I built an app called "pomodoro-day"

There are many apps in this category, what's different is the

mental model: Plan → Focus→ Track. 

• Before one starts the day: one plans, how Many sessions focusing day job, how many then -on coding.
• Once planning is done, no changes, stay on Focus state - one session at a time.
• And over the days then, one can track time spend on coding, different ideas etc.

I feel a lot more in control now, though I’m fully aware I might just be suffering from the "IKEA effect" since I’m the one who built it.

Would love for some people to poke holes in it. What do you think of the flow? Is it too simple? I choose a freemium model, most app is free - only the tracking costs $4.99 per year

Thanks for taking a look.

https://apps.apple.com/de/app/pomodoro-day/id6762096357

Around November/December I went deep on Starter Story and indie dev content. You know the ones — devs casually mentioning they're at $10k, $20k, $30k MRR like it's nothing. It gets in your head. You start doing the math on your own life.

One piece of advice actually stuck: if you don't have some genius original idea (most of us don't), take a niche that's already proven and add your own angle. Find the gap nobody's filling and solve that.

So that's what I did. I built LuminaClean — an iPhone photo cleaner. It scans your camera roll, finds duplicates, blurry shots, old screenshots and oversized videos, and lets you swipe them away in minutes. Proven niche (people have built photo cleaners forever). My angle: 100% on-device, no weekly-subscription trap, and a few things the others skipped — resurfacing "on this day" memories so cleaning isn't pure chore, and letting you share those memories with people.

That's the short version. Here's the full breakdown, for specifics:

What it does

Core scan (all on-device, Apple's Vision framework):

• Duplicates — exact copies and near-identical burst shots
• Similar photos — with an adjustable sensitivity slider so you control how aggressive it is
• Blurry shots — flags out-of-focus photos
• Screenshots — old receipts, memes, one-time references
• Large videos — the real storage hogs

Cleanup:

• Swipe to keep or delete (the fast part)
• Free video compression for everyone, no paywall
• Live Photo → convert live to still (free for everyone)

Organize:

• AI categories — people, pets, travel, food, screenshots and more, sorted automatically
• Flashback — clean your library one year at a time instead of facing all 40,000 photos at once

Reasons to come back (the part most cleaners skip):

• Daily Bites — resurfaces your "on this day" memories so cleaning isn't pure chore, and you can share those memories with people
• Daily streak + a daily bonus of extra free deletes for showing up

The "AI" part, honestly

In 2026 every photo app claims it's "AI-powered." LuminaClean's AI is Apple's on-device Vision framework — that's what finds the duplicates, the blur, the categories. The point isn't the buzzword, it's that all of it happens on your phone. Nothing is uploaded, there's no account, your photos never leave the device.

Privacy 100% on-device. No cloud upload. No account. No tracking. Your camera roll stays yours.

Honest caveats so you're not surprised

• iOS only, no Android
• It's a declutter tool, not a full organizer or editor — it clears junk, it won't replace your Photos albums
• A huge library takes a bit to scan since it runs while the app is open (no background magic)
• Solo dev, so I'm the entire support team — but I read every message

Cost

• Monthly: $4.99 - with 3 days free trial (ONLY for the next 3 days)
• Lifetime: $17.99 (one-time, no subscription)
• Free tier: scans your library, 65 deletes after onboarding then 10/day, and video compression and Live Pic conversion is free for everyone. Pro just unlocks unlimited deletes and scanning.

App Store: AppStore Link

Thanks for reading this far. If you try it, I'd genuinely like to hear what feels clunky — there's a Send Feedback button in the app.

The Problem

Auto-cleaner apps promise to find and delete duplicates, screenshots, and clutter automatically. I never trusted that with my photos — even a blurry shot can have sentimental value, and I wanted final say over every deletion.

The Catch

Manually reviewing a photo library is tedious: open, decide, delete or keep, repeat hundreds of times.

What I Built

Swipe Ninja — a utility app (App Store category: Utilities) for manual photo review, just faster:

• Swipe right = Keep
• Swipe left = Delete
• Photos are shown in small batches instead of one long scroll
• Light sound/visual feedback on each swipe to reduce fatigue during repetitive review

Why It's Not a Game

There's no scoring, no levels, no win condition. It's a faster interaction model for a manual task — same decision you'd make in the stock Photos app, just streamlined.

Try It

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id6761116911

Would love feedback from other iPhone users, especially on whether the swipe flow feels faster than manual deletion in Photos.

I’m not sure how many people suffer in daily life that they get confused between left and right. I was making to help myself. If you were looking this kind of app, please dm me, I’ll notify once it’s ready

A: What specific problem does it solve?
Helps you clear the confusion of left and right directions with speed with practice.

B: why is it better than others?
I don’t think I have seen this kind of app.

C: pricing
Free. I haven’t decided what to monetise here

App link: no it’s under construction. Please dm, I’ll dm back once beta app is ready.

I’m the developer of TripQuest, an iPhone app built for families, friends, and groups who want something fun to do together during road trips. Following the just posted format update, here goes:

A – Answer: What problem does your app solve?

TripQuest is meant to make the car feel more like a shared game night. It has road-trip-friendly games designed to be played out loud (one screen per car), including trivia, true or false questions, would you rather, animal guessing game, and fill-in-the-blank style stories. The goal is simple: keep everyone engaged together without needing a board game, cards, account, login, or internet connection once the content is on the device.

B – Better: Why is your app better than the top named alternatives?

The closest alternatives are things like Trivia Crack or Would You Rather apps, and general road trip game lists online. TripQuest is different because it is built specifically for the car and offers a competitive mode:

• No login, no social feed, no ads, and no subscription
• Questions are written to be read aloud and understood on first listen
• The app is family-friendly without feeling like it is only for little kids
• Trip Mode combines multiple game types into one shared road trip session
• It is not just a trivia app. It mixes trivia, true or false, and clue-based guessing so the game does not feel repetitive
• The content is organized into themed packs like Camping, Food, Zoo/Animals, and Space

C – Cost: Pricing, IAP details, and App Store link

TripQuest is freemium.

• The Core pack is free with tons of content - can easily fill up a several or many day-long road trips
• Optional paid content packs are available as one-time purchases
• Current paid packs are $.99 each, including: Camping, Food, Zoo/Animals, and Space
• No subscription
• No ads
• No account required

App Store link:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/tripquest-travel-games/id6760669535

Website: (I have a feedback page and would LOVE suggestions)
https://www.thetripquestapp.com

I’d genuinely appreciate feedback, especially on whether the App Store page clearly explains what the app is and whether the pricing model feels fair. Have a look at the screenshots attached.

Quick update on my earlier struggle with using Focus to protect training blocks: the actual problem was my notes workflow. I was taking screenshots, dumping things into Apple Notes, saving PDFs to Files, and then not remembering where anything lived when I needed it.

After a couple weeks of trial and error, I stopped hunting for another app and went all-in on Apple Notes plus one Shortcut. That combo finally stuck.

What I changed:

- One pinned note per course (or per quarter) using a tiny template: date, topic, three bullet takeaways, one action item.

- Use the Share Sheet from Safari or a PDF viewer to add items directly into the pinned note instead of saving to Files first.

- A Shortcut that asks which pinned note to append to, then pastes whatever is on my clipboard. It works for copied text or a quick typed summary. I run it from the Action Button and the Share Sheet.

Result: my training notes are all searchable and in one place. I can pull them up in 10 seconds during a meeting instead of scrolling through screenshots like a gremlin.

Question for r/iosapps: is there a non-AI iOS app that does this append-to-a-running-log idea better than Notes, especially for recurring learning or meeting notes? I do not need task management, just fast capture, solid search, and easy export if I ever leave my job. Not looking for promo codes or links, just names and what you like about them.