u/Positive-Valuable485

Hi r/ProductivityApps! I'm the solo developer of WhisperAct (iPhone + iPad).
Posting for feedback

The problem: I think faster than I type. By the time I opened Reminders, picked a date and typed it out, half the thought was gone. And "remind me tomorrow + party Saturday + buy a gift" is really three different things in three different apps.

What it does: you say (or type) everything in one go, like:

>"Remind me tomorrow at 9 to pick up the cake. Maya's party is tomorrow at 3 at Dolores Park. Buy a gift card and wrap the present."

and it splits that into:

• a reminder → saved to Apple Reminders
• an event → saved to Apple Calendar
• to-dos → kept in the app

Things I cared about:

• You review before anything saves. It's not a black box that dumps stuff into your calendar.
• It asks instead of guessing. "Renew my passport this month" gets a "Which day?" question rather than a random date. Same for repeats ("every morning at 8" → "Does this repeat daily?").
• Plan view: Today / Upcoming / Inbox, plus a Home Screen widget with a mic button.
• 15 recording languages. English plus 14 more; non-English recordings are transcribed online, so they need internet.

Honest limitations:

• iOS/iPadOS only. No Android right now.
• The AI sometimes fills in a time you didn't say (e.g. a to-do gets 9:00 AM). That's exactly why review is on by default.
• Free plan: your 7 most recent memos, 2-minute recordings, and 7 Apple Reminders + 7 Apple Calendar saves a month. Pro (in-app purchase) removes those limits.

What I'd love feedback on:

1. Would you trust auto-save, or do you always want to review first?
2. What's the first thing you'd try to say to it?
3. Anything that would make you switch from your current capture method?

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6776684339

Happy to answer anything, including "why not just use Siri/Reminders" (fair question!).

I recently uploaded two assets to the new Asset Library in App Store Connect:

• Search Results asset
• Product Page Header asset

Both have been stuck in "Waiting for Review" since October 7.

The problem is that I'm now trying to submit a new iOS app version, but App Store Connect shows:

>You've reached the maximum number of submissions allowed in review for this platform. To submit another, wait until one of your existing submissions has been reviewed or remove one from review.

I can't find any option to cancel, remove from review, or withdraw these Asset Library submissions. They seem to be blocking my actual app update.

A few questions:

1. How long does Apple typically take to review Asset Library submissions? Is it the same review process/timeline as a regular app update?
2. Is there a way to cancel or withdraw assets that are already in "Waiting for Review"?
3. Has anyone experienced Asset Library submissions preventing a new app version from being submitted?
4. Is there any workaround, or do I just have to wait for Apple to review the assets?

I've attached screenshot submission limit error.

Would appreciate any insights from developers who've used the new Asset Library feature.I recently uploaded two assets to the new Asset Library in Search Results asset

Is there a way to cancel or withdraw assets that are already in "Waiting for Review"?

Has anyone experienced Asset Library submissions preventing a new app version from being submitted?

Is there any workaround, or do I just have to wait for Apple to review the assets?I've attached screenshots showing the asset statuses and submission limit error.Would appreciate any insights from developers who've used the new Asset Library feature.

Senior iOS dev, 8 years, mostly client work. This is the first app I've built for myself, and the interesting problem turned out to be a classification one, so I figured this sub might actually care about the guts of it.

The premise: you talk — a messy, unstructured brain-dump — and it turns that into separate tasks, reminders, and calendar events, then writes them straight into Apple's native Reminders and Calendar. Sounds simple. The devil was in getting the model to reliably decide what kind of thing each fragment is.

A few things I ran into that might be useful if you're building anything similar:

• "A date implies a deadline, not an alarm." Early on the model turned every "by Friday" into a timed reminder that would ping you. Wrong. A date attached to something is usually just a due-date on a task — a reminder only makes sense when the person explicitly says "remind me" or "alert me." Inverting that default fixed most of the annoying false alarms.
• Transcription and classification are two totally different reliability problems. English runs on-device; getting the LLM to output clean structured data on top of imperfect transcription needed a strict schema + fallbacks, or it'd hallucinate fields.
• A confirmation/review step matters more than accuracy. Instead of chasing 100% classification accuracy, I show the user what the model understood before anything commits — task vs reminder vs event — so a wrong guess is a two-tap fix, not a silent failure buried in their calendar.

On top of that there's a daily review screen (morning triage of what's actually coming up) and a timeline view, because a flat list wasn't cutting it for me.

Happy to go deep on the classification pipeline, the fallback chain, or the on-device vs API tradeoffs in comments — that's the part I found genuinely hard and I'm curious how others have approached the "which bucket does this fragment go in" problem.

Full disclosure, this is my app — it's called WhisperAct, on the App Store.

App Store: WhisperAct: Voice Task Planner
Website: WhisperAct

I've got a bad habit... the good thoughts always show up when I'm walking, driving, or half-asleep. By the time I'm at a desk, they're gone.

Voice Memos didn't fix it. I ended up with 40 recordings I never opened once. Typing everything out was slower than just forgetting.

So I spent the last several months building what I actually wanted I ramble at my phone, and it pulls out the actions — not a wall of transcript. "Call the dentist tomorrow at 10, dinner with Tom Friday at 7, book flights to Lisbon" → three items, sorted, and the timed ones go straight into Apple Reminders and Calendar. I never open the app again to act on them.

That last part was the whole point for me. I didn't want another silo. My reminders should be in Reminders.

Also: no account, no signup, and English transcription runs on-device. That started as laziness (I didn't want to run servers) but turned out to be the thing people ask about most.

It's free to record and extract. also have pro for better exp over the time. Solo dev, first real launch, still fixing things weekly happy to answer anything about the build or take a beating on the UX.

Website: WhisperAct
App Store: WhisperAct: Voice Task Planner

I've been working on improving my App Store page and finally decided to redesign all of my screenshots.

First image: Old screenshots
Second image: New screenshots

The main goal was to make it easier to understand what the app does at a glance. I also tried to simplify the design, cut down on unnecessary text, and make the screenshots feel more consistent while showing more of the actual app.

I just submitted these, so I don't have any conversion data yet. Before I leave them as-is for a while, I'd really appreciate some honest feedback.

• Which version would catch your attention more?
• Does the first screenshot explain the app quickly enough?
• Is there any screenshot you'd change?
• Anything that still feels unclear or too busy?

I built WhisperAct because I realized I wasn't forgetting things I was forgetting to revisit what I'd already captured.

Now I just speak naturally and the app organizes everything into reminders, tasks and calendar events.

No account.

Apple-native.

Review before saving.

I'm still improving the UX every week, so I'd really appreciate honest feedback from people who'd actually use something like this.

AppStore: WhisperAct: Voice Task Planner
Website: WhisperAct

Hey everyone! 👋
I wanted to share my first solo iOS app, WhisperAct.
The idea came from a habit of recording voice notes that I’d never listen to again. Instead of just transcribing, WhisperAct understands what you say and turns it into reminders, tasks, and calendar events.

A few highlights:
Speak naturally
Review before saving
Works with Apple Reminders & Calendar
No account required

I’m still in the early stages, so I’d genuinely love any feedback on the UX or feature ideas.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/whisperact-voice-task-planner/id6776684339
Website: https://whisperact.com

I kept losing thoughts to the gap between thinking and typing. Something like "remind me to call him before Friday" - by the time I'd opened the right app and started typing, the thought had half-evaporated. So I built an app to just speak it and have it land as the right thing automatically: task, reminder, or calendar event.

The problem that almost killed the idea showed up once I tested it on my own speech. I constantly mix languages mid-sentence - "tomorrow 5pm doctor appointment hai, remind me before that" - and most transcription/AI pipelines fall apart on that. They assume clean, monolingual English and either misparse the mixed parts or silently drop them. Getting a single voice memo to reliably split into multiple distinct items (task vs reminder vs event) across English/Urdu/Arabic mixing turned out to be the real engineering problem, not the recording or UI.

10 days in, here's where it stands - not impressive, but real:

• 39 first-time downloads, 8 redownloads
• 621 impressions → 351 product page views → 16.7% conversion
• $37 in proceeds, 3 in-app purchases
• 6.52% day-1 download-to-paid, 10.5% day-7

Nothing here is a hockey stick. But day-7 paid conversion almost doubling day-1 is the one number that actually made me hopeful it means people are coming back and converting after actually using it, not just impulse-buying on install.

Happy to talk through the App Store conversion stuff if anyone's curious — still very early and figuring most of this out as I go.

Hey everyone!

I'm a solo iOS developer and recently launched my first app, WhisperAct.

The idea came from a simple frustration: I'd record voice notes, then never do anything with them.

Instead of focusing on transcription alone, I wanted AI to understand intent and turn natural speech into something useful.

For example:

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The app extracts the actions and creates reminders and calendar events automatically.

A few things I focused on:

• Uses a mix of on-device processing, Apple Intelligence (when available), and cloud AI.
• Works offline for core functionality, with the option to re-analyze transcripts later when online.
• No account required.
• Built entirely by a solo developer.

I'm still in the early stages, so my main goal isn't growth—it's learning from real users and improving the UX.

I'd genuinely appreciate feedback on the AI workflow, where it feels useful, and where it falls short.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/whisperact-voice-task-planner/id6776684339

Website: https://whisperact.com