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Hi, I'm the solo developer of Alden. I built it around one ongoing AI boyfriend: someone whose personality you shape and whose conversations carry from one day to the next.

He can reach out without you opening a chat: a text, a voice note, or a call through your iPhone's normal call screen. If you miss the call, he leaves a voicemail in his voice.

You can also:

- Read the notebook he keeps about you and have him forget any line.

- Talk in real time and interrupt him naturally.

- Describe his face in your own words and refine it with a few more.

- Give him his own job, city and interests.

- Choose from eight personalities and twelve voices; audition the voices saying hello to you by name.

For people here who care about memory: Alden stores his notebook separately from the model, so switching a model doesn't delete that notebook. His responses can still change with the model.

He's romantic and flirty, with one companion rather than a library of characters. No explicit roleplay.

Free to start: 50 messages a day, 15 minutes of voice to try once, and four drawings to design his face. Pro is $12.99/month or $99.99/year (US). iPhone, iOS 26+.

Download and try a call: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6798127066

What would make you want to keep talking to the same companion a month later?

A: Answer

Relay is for everyday errands that are still phone only, but that you would rather handle in chat.

Tell Relay who to call and what you need. It asks only for missing details, then shows the complete call brief for your approval.

Relay introduces itself as Relay AI and says it is calling for you. When the call ends, the answer and transcript come back to the same conversation.

You can use it to ask a restaurant for a table and the closest available time, check appointment availability with a dentist, salon, garage, or vet, ask a store about stock or pickup, request a callback, or call a business in its own language. You can stop a live call at any time.

B: Better

I have not found a close consumer app that matches this exact flow. The nearest thing I found is AI Call: Phone Call Translator, but it is mainly a call translation app with manual and AI calling modes.

Most other AI phone products I found are business agent platforms, translation tools, or features inside a narrow search flow. Relay is a consumer iPhone app built around one complete chat, review, confirm, call, answer loop.

C: Cost

Relay is free to download. Every new account gets a one time starter allowance worth about five minutes of typical US calling, so anyone can try a real call before subscribing. Actual time varies by destination.

Relay Pro is $9.99 per month for about 135 minutes of typical US calling per paid month, or $99.99 per year for about 1,620 minutes per paid year. Unused allowance does not roll over.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6799187737

If you try it, I would love to hear what kind of call you would trust it with first, and whether the review and confirmation flow feels clear.

Alden is a conversational productivity coach for people who can make a task list but struggle to keep the day connected to what actually matters.

Choose a time and Alden rings your iPhone like a real call. Talk naturally about what matters today, what changed, or what actually happened. Alden turns the conversation into one focus, dated commitments, habits, and a day-shaped record you can return to.

You can also:

• Text Alden instead of calling

• Start an extra call when you need to reset

• Add, edit, and complete commitments yourself

• Browse a day-by-day history

• Search older days by meaning

• See and delete the working notes Alden keeps

The workspace is tied to Sign in with Apple and kept consistent across devices. Text and completed call transcripts are sent to AI providers only to deliver the coaching, transcription, memory, and voice features. Alden does not sell your data or use it for advertising.

Alden is free to download. Free includes 15 messages a day, Alden’s scheduled daily call (up to three minutes), and one self-started call for the life of the account. Pro includes 300 messages and two self-started calls a day, up to five minutes each, for $12.99/month or $99.99/year.

App Store:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/alden-ai-productivity-coach/id6798127066

For someone opening Alden for the first time, which part is most useful: the scheduled call, one daily focus, or being able to search earlier days?

June is a conversational journal for people who want to keep a diary without starting from a blank page.

Choose an evening time and June rings your iPhone like a real call. Talk naturally about your day, answer follow-up questions, and a first-person journal entry is ready when the call ends.

You can also:

• Text June instead of calling • Send a voice note or photo • Write manually, including offline • Swipe through personalized questions and reflections based on recent entries • Search older entries by meaning • Use streak, calendar, and daily-question widgets

The journal itself is stored on your device and can sync through your personal iCloud. June does not keep a server-side journal database. Voice and chat requests are processed by the AI providers needed to answer.

Manual journaling is free. Pro includes AI conversations and costs $9.99/month or $99.99/year. The annual plan includes a 7-day trial.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6774949056

Website: https://talkjune.com

For someone opening June for the first time, which part is most useful: the nightly call, personalized prompts, or being able to search the journal by meaning?

When I first launched June, I focused on the obvious part: your phone rings each evening, you talk about your day, and a first-person journal entry is waiting when you hang up.

After using it, I realized the call was only the door. The hard part was asking something specific enough that the conversation actually went somewhere.

Most journal prompts could be shown to anyone. So I rebuilt June’s home screen around your own recent life. It prepares a small deck of questions and reflections based on your entries and the things June remembers. You can swipe until one feels worth answering.

Instead of “What are you grateful for?”, June might ask:

“You finished the half marathon you trained for all winter. What do you want that fitness to carry you toward next?”

You can tap the question to text June, answer the evening call, send a voice note or photo, or write manually. The conversation becomes a first-person entry, and later you can search your journal by meaning even if you cannot remember the exact words.

Your journal lives on your device and syncs through your personal iCloud. There is no June account or server-side journal database.

Manual journaling is free. Pro is $9.99/month or $99.99/year, with a 7-day trial on the annual plan.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6774949056

Website: https://talkjune.com

I’m the solo developer. Would you prefer a journal that remembers enough to ask specific questions, or one that forgets everything after each entry? Where would you draw the line?

I’ve always wanted to keep a journal, but the same thing kept happening: I’d reach the end of the day, see a blank page, and decide to do it tomorrow.

So I built June, an AI journal that calls you instead.

You choose an evening time, your phone rings, and you talk about your day for a few minutes. June asks natural follow-up questions, like a friend catching up with you. When you hang up, your journal entry is already written in the first person using the details and language you shared.

June can also remember unfinished threads. If you mentioned an interview, trip, or difficult conversation, she can ask how it went another day. Over time, you can search your journal with questions such as “When was the last time I felt proud of myself?” without remembering the exact words you used.

If you don’t want to talk, you can text June or write manually. The goal isn’t to replace writing. It’s to remove the effort that prevents many of us from journaling at all.

Your journal is stored on your device and synced through your personal iCloud, not a June account or journal database.

Pricing

Manual (no AI) journaling is free.
Pro costs $9.99/month or $99.99/year, with a 7-day trial.

App Store:
https://apps.apple.com/app/id6774949056

Website:
https://talkjune.com

I’m the solo developer, and I’d genuinely like to know: would a short evening call help you journal more consistently, or would it feel too intrusive?

I’ve been building June, an AI journaling app designed around conversation instead of a blank page.

The main idea is simple: June calls you each evening, asks about your day, and turns the conversation into a private journal entry. If you don’t feel like talking, you can text June or write the entry yourself.

A few details:

• Your journal is stored on your device and synced privately through iCloud
• June remembers useful context between conversations
• You can search past entries using natural language
• There are widgets for your streak, calendar, and daily question
• It still works as a regular offline journal when you don’t want to use AI

I made it because conventional journaling always felt like another task at the end of the day. Talking for a few minutes feels much easier and often captures things I wouldn’t have thought to write down.

I’d really appreciate feedback, especially on the conversational journaling idea and whether the nightly call feels helpful or too intrusive.

App Store
https://apps.apple.com/app/id6774949056
https://talkjune.com

What problem does June solve?

Most journal apps still begin with a blank page. That works until you’re tired, busy, or unsure what to write.

June calls you at a time you choose each evening. You answer, talk naturally about your day, and June asks follow-up questions. When you hang up, it turns the conversation into a first-person journal entry written in your voice.

You can also journal through text chat or write manually.

Why is it better than the alternatives?

Apple Journal, Day One, and Reflectly help you record your day, but they still largely depend on you opening the app and starting an entry.

June is different because:

• It initiates the habit with an actual incoming call
• It has a back-and-forth conversation instead of simply transcribing a monologue
• It remembers ongoing threads and can ask how something turned out
• It turns the conversation into a polished entry that still sounds like you
• You can search your diary by meaning, not just exact keywords
• Your journal remains on your device and syncs through your personal iCloud rather than being stored in June’s database

The goal isn’t to replace writing. It’s to make journaling possible on the evenings when writing feels like work.

Cost

June is free to download and use with manual editing. The Pro subscriptions are:

• $9.99/month
• $99.99/year (Includes 7 day trial free)

June uses the latests and best AI models, you will see how June outperforms any similar competitor just by the quality of June responses

Thanks for taking a look!

I tried journaling for years and it never stuck. The problem was never the writing itself. It was sitting down at 11pm staring at a blank page.

So I flipped it: the app calls you. Every night at an hour you pick, your phone rings like a real call. You pick up and just talk about your day for a few minutes. June listens, asks a follow-up or two, and when you hang up the entry is already written in your journal, in your own words. It reads like you wrote it, not like an AI summary. If you don't feel like talking there's a text chat instead.

That's basically it. One entry per day, a history timeline, and semantic search over your past ("when did I last see my sister").

On privacy, since it's a journal: there's no account, no sign-up, and no server database. Entries live on your phone and sync through your own private iCloud. I couldn't read them even if I wanted to.

Two things I'd genuinely like to hear from people here:

1. Would you actually pick up a nightly call from an AI, or does that feel weird? Be honest, this is the whole bet of the app.
2. If you've tried journaling and quit, what killed it for you?

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/june-ai-journal-diary/id6774949056
Site: talkjune.com

Happy to answer anything about how it works.

Hey all, solo dev here. I built June because I could never keep a journal going. The blank page killed it every time.

So June flips it. Once a night your phone rings, you pick up, and you just talk about your day with an AI named June. It's a normal phone call: you ramble for a few minutes, hang up, and it writes the entry for you. Title, body in your own voice, and a follow-up question to pick up from tomorrow.

If you'd rather type, there's a text chat too, plus a History tab to browse past days.

Some details devs might care about:

• iOS, SwiftUI
• Voice runs on Gemini Live (real-time call)
• Everything you write stays on-device in SQLite and syncs only through your own iCloud. No account, no server database holding your journal.
• Semantic search over your entries
• 9 themes

Site: https://talkjune.com
Download (iOS): https://apps.apple.com/app/id6774949056

Would love feedback, especially on the call flow. Happy to answer anything about the build.

Spent the last while building this solo. June is a journaling app, but instead of a blank text box it calls you once a night. You talk about your day for a few minutes, it asks a follow-up or two, then writes the entry for you.

I made it because every typed journal I started died within a week, and talking turned out to be the thing I'd actually do.

iOS only. Entries stay on-device, sync through your own iCloud.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/june-ai-journal-diary/id6774949056

Hey r/AV1. Figured this sub would actually appreciate this one.

Just shipped AVIF photo encoding in HEVCut. As far as I can tell it is the first app on the App Store on any Apple platform that can save photos as AVIF. Apple added decode a couple of years back but never gave us an encoder, not in Photos, not as a public API. So nothing on iPhone, iPad or Mac could actually produce AVIF files until now.

What you get:

• AVIF as a format option in the compression settings, runs against your Photos library
• Roughly 2x smaller files than HEIC at matched visual quality on typical iPhone photos. A 5 MB iPhone HEIC ends up around 700 KB in AVIF at the same look.
• HDR preserved properly, including gain map content from newer iPhones
• SDR photos handled too, render correctly everywhere
• All on-device, no upload, no cloud

Works on iPhone, iPad and Mac. Runs against the whole library or any subset (album, date range, selection). Originals stay until you confirm.

If anyone here wants to throw a weird library at it (heavy HDR, scans, RAW mixed in, ProRAW) and report back, would genuinely love the feedback. You all will catch stuff a normal user never would.

I got tired of opening a converter app every time I wanted to do quick "is

this a good price?" math while traveling, so I built one into my home screen.

It's a fully interactive widget for my free app FXCalc. You can tap digits and

operators directly on the widget — no app launch needed. Pick which currency

row is "active" and the others convert live as you type. Supports +, −, ×, ÷,

%, and chained expressions.

Two sizes:

- Medium: 4 currency rows + full keypad side-by-side

- Large: 3 rows stacked above a bigger keypad

Other bits:

- ~150 currencies with flags

- Rates cached so it works offline

- iOS 17+

The app itself is the same calculator at full size if you need more rows.

Free on the App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/currency-calculator-fx-rates/id6766166559