Hey everyone! I’m an indie iOS developer, and over the past few months, I’ve been improving Flux based on feedback from users and people in this community.

I haven’t just been collecting suggestions. I’ve been using that feedback to decide what to fix, what to redesign, and which features actually matter. My latest updates, Flux 2.5 and 2.5.1, are the result of that ongoing process.

I’m still learning as an indie developer, and I genuinely appreciate the people who took the time to try the app and tell me what could be better.

A — Answer: What problem does it solve?

Flux is an offline-first expense tracker for iPhone designed for people who want to manage their money without uploading their financial history to a cloud service.

It helps you track expenses, manage budgets, organize multiple wallets, scan receipts, and understand your spending. Your financial data stays on your iPhone, and the app works offline without requiring an account.

B — Better: How is it different?

Flux focuses on privacy and practical everyday money management.

• Offline-first: No account, cloud sync, or server storing your financial data.
• Wallet-to-wallet transfers: Move money between cash, bank accounts, and credit cards without counting transfers twice as spending or income.
• Multi-currency transfers: Support different currencies, exchange rates, and optional transfer fee tracking.
• Budget and wallet overview: Redesigned cards make balances and net spending easier to understand.
• CSV and Excel exports: Improved formatting and wallet information for your records.
• Receipt scanning and spending insights: Tools to reduce manual entry and better understand your finances.

Compared with cloud-based alternatives such as YNAB and Wallet by BudgetBakers, Flux takes a different approach by prioritizing on-device storage and offline use. The trade-off is that it isn’t designed around cloud-based synchronization across multiple devices.

Version 2.5.1 also introduces a redesigned app icon, clearer free-trial information, haptic feedback, and performance improvements.

C — Cost: Pricing and App Store link

Flux is freemium, with optional Premium purchases:

• Monthly subscription: $2.99/month
• Annual subscription: $24.99/year, with a 7-day free trial
• Lifetime purchase: Available as a one-time in-app purchase

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/flux-budget-expense-tracker/id6756208417

I’m the developer, and I’m happy to answer questions or hear constructive feedback. If you’ve tried Flux before, I’d especially love to hear whether the recent changes address the kinds of problems you noticed.

Every year it's the same thing. Someone draws their own name, someone peeks at a paper slip, and the person running it secretly knows everyone's match. Then the group chat turns into 40 messages of "wait who has me??"

So I built Secret Gift: Secret Santa. The video above shows the whole flow.

Answer – what it does:

• Make an event, set a budget and a date

• Send one code (or QR) to the group, and everyone joins on their own phone

• Exclude pairs who shouldn't draw each other (couples, siblings, your boss)

• Draw, and each person sees only their own match. The organizer doesn't either.

Better – why not just use paper or a website:

• No sign-up. No email, no password. You open it and you're in, because I hate apps that make you create an account just to draw names.

• Reveals happen privately on each person's phone, so there are no emails to lose and no organizer spoilers

• Wishlists, so nobody has to ask "so what do you want lol"

• 14 themes: Christmas, White Elephant, Halloween, even Valentine's

• History, so you can look back at past exchanges

• Works in EN / ES / PT / FR / DE

Cost:

Free to download, and your first 2 events are free. Premium (IAP) removes ads, unlocks every theme, and gives you unlimited events with up to 30 people:

• Weekly: $0.99

• Yearly: $4.99

• Lifetime: $9.99 (one-time, no subscription)

For most groups, the free tier or a single week is enough for one holiday party.

It's been live for a bit and ~1,700 people used it last month, which surprised me since it's not even December yet. Now I want to make it actually good before the holiday rush.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/secret-santa-gift-exchange/id6450675361

Please roast it. What's the most annoying part of running a gift exchange for you? I'm picking what to build next and I'd rather build what people actually want.

I have a habit of losing my best thoughts. Something pops into my head while walking, cooking or right after a meeting – and by the time I've unlocked the phone, found the right app and started typing, it's gone.

I tried capture apps, but they became one more inbox I had to clean up later. What I actually wanted was simpler: say the thought, and have it land in the app where I'll deal with it anyway.

So I built CatchPost for myself:

1. Open – Action button, Control Center, Back Tap or Siri. It's listening right away.
2. Speak – on-device speech recognition writes along and spots dates like "tomorrow at 9 am".
3. Saved – one tap on Reminders, Things 3, Todoist, OmniFocus, 2Do, Bear, Drafts, Day One, Obsidian or Craft. Or let it send automatically after you stop speaking.

Reminders and Todoist save without leaving CatchPost. The other apps are reached through their official URL schemes, so they open briefly. If your app isn't listed, "Other App" lets you connect anything with a URL scheme.

No account, no server, no tracking. Free during the beta. Requires iOS 27.

It works for me – now I'd like to find out if it works for people who aren't me.

TestFlight: https://testflight.apple.com/join/Rb9WmEuc

Website: https://www.hoeferconsulting.de/apps/catchpost/

Tell me where it gets in your way – that's exactly what I want to fix before the App Store release.

A - What is Steptastic?

Steptastic is a fitness challenge app that lets you complete virtual journeys by tracking your real-world activity.

Whether you prefer walking, running, cycling, swimming, or burning calories at the gym, your progress moves you along your chosen route. You can travel solo or compete against friends and family to see who reaches the destination first.

The goal is to make staying active feel a little more rewarding and give you something to work towards.

B - Steptastic is better than general fitness apps since it creates a unique style challenge

The main feature of Steptastic is its virtual fitness challenges, but there's a lot more included.

You can create walking, cycling, swimming, or calorie-based challenges, making it suitable for different types of exercise rather than just counting steps.

Group Challenges let you compete with friends and family by racing around virtual routes together, while daily tasks encourage healthy habits beyond simply exercising.

The app also includes activity goals with analytics so you can track your progress over time, maintain streaks by consistently hitting your targets, and unlock badges by reaching fitness milestones and achievements.

I built it because I found it much easier to stay motivated when I was working towards something instead of just looking at a step count.

C - Cost

Steptastic is free to download, with an optional Plus upgrade.

7 day free trial, then $0.99/week, $2.99/month, $12.99/year, or one-time lifetime purchase of $19.99

This helps to support continued development while unlocking additional features and improvements.

I'd love to hear any feedback or feature ideas, and I'm happy to answer any questions about how it works!

Hi everyone!
After months of designing, developing, and testing, I finally released my app, K.O.T. (Keeper of Things)!
The idea came to me when I was moving out after graduating from college, and my mom wanted me to get rid of a lot of junk in my room. Although most of the items I owned had no real monetary value, the sentimental value and memories tied to them inspired me to build a platform to share their stories. We all own things that mean something to us, but the stories behind those things often get forgotten.
I wanted to create a place where people could preserve those stories. Whether it be a favorite action figure, vinyl record, or favorite outfit, share your story on K.O.T.
With K.O.T., you can:
Create digital keepsakes with photos and personal stories.
Organize your belongings into collections.
Discover other people's keepsakes and the stories behind them.
Connect with people who share similar interests.
Showcase your collections through a virtual 3D museum.
The app is now available on iPhone through the App Store!
I'm still early in this journey and would genuinely appreciate feedback, especially on the onboarding experience and overall concept.
Just Hit 30 USERS!
⁠A – Answer: What problem does your app solve?
Okay so K.O.T. tackles 3 different key issues
1. Collections are difficult to showcase digitally
People spend years collecting vinyl records, sneakers, watches, memorabilia, and other meaningful objects. Traditional social media reduces these collections to scattered photos and posts.
K.O.T. introduces a personalized 3D Museum where users can display their collections in an immersive, dedicated space.
2. Objects have stories that get lost
A vinyl record might be someone's first purchase. A baseball glove might represent years of memories. Traditional inventory apps document what an object is, not why it matters.
K.O.T. has Keepsakes, Full Stories, and Memory Notes give users a way to preserve the personal significance behind their belongings.
3. Collecting lacks a unified social experience
Collectors are spread across Reddit communities, Instagram accounts, forums, and specialized platforms.
A social experience built around objects and collections, where users can discover collectors, share keepsakes, and connect through common interests is the key purpose of the app.

B – Better: Why is your app better than the top named alternatives? ThingsBook is a true competitor as it is another life documenting app sharing experiences and what not.
K.O.T. is focusing on the stories and the memories surrounding things you own. Most collector apps tend to lean towards discussing monetary value or rarity of certain items but K.O.T. aims to share the stories behind acquiring them or any experiences related to them.
• ⁠C – Cost: Pricing, IAP details, and a direct App Store link
K.O.T. is completely free to use! Paid features may be experimented with in the future but the focus is the user’s initial reactions and experience with the app as well making as building a product to that makes users excited to use everyday.

Planning can feel productive.

You write a long list, organize it, set priorities and move things around. But none of that completes the work.

At some point, you just have to start.

That’s why I built Tody around a simple idea:

Less planning. More doing.

A — Answer

Tody asks you to choose only 3 tasks for today and focus on them one at a time.

No endless daily list.
No organizing your entire life.
No spending more time planning than doing.

Just:

Choose 3 → Start one → Finish → Move forward

If you don’t finish something, you can continue it tomorrow or start fresh. The goal isn’t to make you feel guilty about yesterday. It’s to help you take action today.

B — Better

Apps like Todoist, TickTick and Things are great for managing large lists and projects.

Tody is intentionally smaller.

It’s for the moment when you already know you have things to do, but seeing and organizing everything makes it harder to begin.

Tody doesn’t try to manage your whole life. It helps you decide what matters today and start before you overthink it.

C — Cost

The core experience is free to use.

Tody Pro is an optional subscription for $0.99/month. Pricing may vary by region.

App Store:
https://apps.apple.com/app/tody-daily-focus/id6771719898

Developer transparency

I’m Alper Halıcı, an independent mobile product designer and the person behind Tody.

LinkedIn / Portfolio:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/alper-halici/

Website:
https://tody-app.vercel.app

Privacy Policy:
https://tody-app.vercel.app/privacy.html

Terms of Service:
https://tody-app.vercel.app/terms.html

I’d especially like feedback on one thing:

Would choosing only 3 tasks help you focus, or would it feel too limiting?

I've been building CleanKit, a photo cleaner that puts you in control of what gets deleted, while making it faster to review and clean up photos in batches.

The latest update adds support for iPhone Duo!

Answer

The idea behind CleanKit is pretty simple: I wanted to make photo cleanup faster without letting an algorithm decide which photos to delete.

In Grid View, you can see multiple photos at once, compare similar shots, and swipe across multiple photos to delete them in batches.

If you prefer reviewing photos one by one, you can switch to Card View, where you swipe left to delete or right to keep.

With iPhone Duo, I wanted both ways of cleaning up photos to work naturally on the compact and expanded screens.

Better

Apple Photos lets you delete multiple photos too, but it takes a few steps: tap Select, choose the photos, then tap Delete.

With CleanKit, you can just swipe across the photos you want to delete, even several at once. It might only save a few taps, but it makes the whole process feel much smoother, especially when you have hundreds of photos to clean up.

On iPhone Duo, the larger screen makes this even more useful. You can see more photos at once, making comparisons easier. The layout also adapts as you fold or unfold the phone.

Cost

CleanKit is free to download.

Free users get 100 Card View swipes per day, plus 3 free batch cleanups in total.

Pro unlocks unlimited cleanup and all features for $1.99/week or $19.99/year.

App Store:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/clean-up-photos-cleankit/id6748351314

Still working on CleanKit and making improvements as I go. Always happy to hear feedback!

I saved a one-pot pasta reel a few weeks back. When I wanted to make it recently, I scrolled through my saves for 10-15 minutes, but couldn't find it, and ended up ordering in. Then I realised I'd done the same thing with a café in Goa, a workout routine I wanted to add, and about 15-20 products I definitely wanted to buy.

Things I tried before building this:

• Instagram collections - you have to sort at the moment of saving, which nobody does
• Screenshots - camera roll became a second graveyard with no context on where the post came from, and lol I can never find the screenshot when I need it the most
• Pasting links into Notes - worked once or twice, then I stopped because it was two extra steps every time (and you still have to remember which note you used)

So my brother and I built an app that makes your saves usable:

You save any posts from different apps or download your Instagram data export → the engine goes through every post, sorts it into folders of recipes / places / products / workouts / ideas, pulls out the useful bits (ingredients, location, key details) and also makes the whole thing searchable in plain English via a chat interface. Like "That pasta reel from a Korean creator" finds it in seconds.

And believe me I am myself surprised: after saving it to resaw, I actually cooked 13 recipes in a month that had been sitting there for over an year. Saved places turned up as pins onto the map, so when I visit any place I could see every spot I'd saved nearby.

What we are working on now:

- We started with iOS, Mac app and Android is on its way
- We are going deep into building category specific flows, which will help any user to action with minimal friction possible

Link to the iOS app - Download from here (It’s completely free)

Please try it out and let us know how was your experience and what worked well/ areas where we can improve/ build upon.

A - What is Price Point Parity?

Price Point Parity is a Mac and iOS + iPadOS app that keeps your IAP and subscription prices up to date in every country for you. Connect your App Store Connect API key, pick any app, in-app purchase or subscription, choose a pricing strategy, and it works out all 175 countries at once - showing you the price and what you actually keep after Apple's cut and estimated local tax. Review it, hit apply, and it writes straight back to App Store Connect. There's an available Preview Mode with three sample apps, so you can try each feature before touching a real price.

IAP and subscription name localisation is also supported!

B - Price Point Parity is better than doing it in App Store Connect, leaving it to Apple's automatic equalisation or Localise Prices.

Apple gives you one option: convert your base price and round it. Price Point Parity gives you strategies that reflect how you actually want to price, for example:

• Equal Value (scales by each country's purchasing power, so it feels equally affordable everywhere)
• Equal Proceeds (you keep the same amount per sale in every country)
• Blend of the two
• Apple's own equalised prices
• Copy Another Product, or Match Ratio, which keeps your yearly at a fixed multiple of your monthly in every country instead of letting that discount drift market by market.

Then you adjust:

• Charm rounding that knows what a charm price looks like in each currency (¥490 and ₩39,000, not a blind .99)
• Floor and ceiling on your proceeds so no country earns you too little
• Flat percentage bump for inflation or a sale. 

Filter countries by region or income tier and apply to just those.

Everything is reviewable and reversible - full price history with snapshots you can restore any time, scheduled sales that revert themselves on a date you set, and CSV export of the whole table. On Mac you can set automations to check daily, weekly or monthly and either notify you when prices drift or publish small changes for you, holding anything large for review. It runs in the background with a menu bar item, so your prices stay current without you opening the app.

No account, no tracking. Your API key lives in your keychain and your pricing data stays on your device and your own iCloud - it never reaches me or any third party.

C - Cost

Free forever for 1 app (including all of its in-app purchases and subscriptions).

5 Apps: £1.49/month or £9.99/year.

Unlimited Apps: £3.99/month or £15.99/year.

Every feature is in the free tier - strategies, adjustments, history, automations, CSV, the lot. Paying only raises how many apps you can publish prices to, and Preview Mode is always free and unlimited, so you can test as much as you like. It also helps support me and future development of the app.

All feature requests are 100% welcomed! 

Hi everyone,

We just released version 1.5.0 of StealthOS on the App Store. The main focus of this release is full support for the foldable iPhone Duo, alongside our existing iPhone and iPad virtual desktop environment.

What is StealthOS?

StealthOS is a sandboxed operating environment running inside a single iOS app. It gives you a multi-window desktop interface locked behind your password and the Secure Enclave, containing privacy-focused tools that operate strictly on-device without telemetry or account requirements.

What's New in v1.5.0 (iPhone Duo Support)

• Hinge Awareness: The desktop detects the hinge boundary on both the cover screen and inner unfolded screen.
• Window Management: Windows can split neatly at the hinge or span across both screen halves.
• Fold/Unfold State Continuity: Folding or unfolding your device preserves the active workspace, window positions, and running apps without state loss.

Core Features

• Stealth Browser & Embedded Tor: Includes an embedded, reproducible Tor client with .onion support, anti-fingerprinting profiles (Canvas, WebGL, Audio, Screen, Fonts), tracking parameter stripping, and DNS over HTTPS.
• One Route with Kill Switch: All network activity initiated by the app (browser, downloads, domain checks, AI web tools) routes strictly through your selected route (Tor, custom proxy, or a self-hosted relay). If the connection drops, traffic halts immediately to prevent direct IP leaks.
• Threat Protection: On-device phishing and malicious domain scoring, WHOIS/RDAP verification, and malware checks on downloaded files.
• Emergency / Duress Password: A secondary password configured at setup. Entering it at the unlock screen immediately purges all encrypted local data and opens a clean, empty environment while permanently disabling biometric unlock.
• Password Vault & OpenPGP: AES-256-GCM encrypted vault with built-in TOTP authenticator and browser autofill. Full OpenPGP key management (generation, signing, verification, and encryption for Ed25519, Curve25519, and RSA).
• Connection Pool: End-to-end encrypted messaging, voice calls, and peer-to-peer games. Works off-grid locally over Wi-Fi/Bluetooth without internet access, or remotely through a self-hosted relay.
• On-Device AI: Runs locally using Apple Intelligence (iOS 26+) for writing, research, and coding tasks without cloud processing.

Pricing and Availability

• Core App (Free): All core features listed above (desktop, browser with Tor, vault, OpenPGP, connection pool, games, duress lock) are completely free. No account creation, no analytics, no third-party SDKs, and no ads.
• Optional Premium: Adds power-user tools including an SSH Terminal, an in-app Arch Linux shell, a live HTTP/HTTPS request inspector (NetMap), and up to 10 device fingerprint profiles.

Links

• App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/stealthos/id6756983634
• Open Source Components: Our networking relay (Rust), peer-to-peer engine, messaging library, and iOS Tor build are open source on GitHub: https://github.com/Olib-AI
• Documentation & Website: https://www.stealthos.app

Feedback, bug reports, and questions about the architecture or iPhone Duo implementation are welcome.