Alarmageddon: the end of sleeping through your alarms

A — Answer: the problem it solves

Most iPhone alarms are very easy to dismiss. If you're a heavy sleeper, tapping “Stop” or “Snooze” doesn't exactly solve the problem.

Alarmageddon is an alarm clock designed for people who have mastered the art of turning off alarms while barely awake.

Instead of simply letting you dismiss the alarm, Alarmageddon can require you to complete a wake-up mission before the alarm stops:

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

The idea is simple: make turning off the alarm require enough interaction to actually wake you up.

It also includes an optional App Blocker that can temporarily block distracting apps after you wake up, so you don't immediately fall back into scrolling instead of getting out of bed.

B — Better: how it compares

vs Apple's built-in Alarm: Apple's alarm is intentionally simple: you can snooze or stop it immediately. Alarmageddon is built around the opposite idea — if you're a heavy sleeper, dismissing the alarm should require some effort.

vs other alarm apps: many alarm apps offer challenges designed to make you complete a task before dismissing the alarm. Alarmageddon takes this further by combining wake-up missions with an additional feature designed for what happens after the alarm.

The App Blocker is the extra part: after you successfully complete your alarm, Alarmageddon can temporarily block distracting apps for the first 15 minutes of your day. The goal is to prevent the familiar routine of turning off your alarm and immediately opening TikTok, Instagram, Reddit, or other distracting apps.

So it's not just about getting you out of bed — it's also about giving you a short window to actually start your day before distractions take over.

vs multiple alarms: setting five alarms doesn't necessarily help if you can turn all five off while half asleep. Alarmageddon makes dismissing the alarm itself the challenge.

vs "just put your phone far away": that can work, but it doesn't solve the problem if you eventually walk over, turn the alarm off, and go straight back to bed. Alarmageddon adds an additional barrier between you and the Stop button.

C — Cost

Alarmageddon is completely free.

No subscriptions.
No ads.
No premium tier.
No paywall.

Download here:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/alarmageddon-loud-alarm-clock/id6791023578

Trust Path:

My name is Moez, I'm an indie iOS engineer based in Tunis, and Alarmageddon is one of the apps I'm building through Pull Apps, my one-man iOS studio. I handle everything from design and development to App Store support.

You can contact me at: support@pullapps.app

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/alarmageddon-loud-alarm-clock/id6791023578

u/Umoex — 3 days ago

▲ 6 r/ProductivityApps+1 crossposts

I made Alarmageddon: The Alarm Clock You Have to Defeat to Get Out of Bed

A — Answer: the problem it solves

Most iPhone alarms are very easy to dismiss. If you're a heavy sleeper, tapping “Stop” or “Snooze” doesn't exactly solve the problem.

Alarmageddon is an alarm clock designed for people who have mastered the art of turning off alarms while barely awake.

Instead of simply letting you dismiss the alarm, Alarmageddon can require you to complete a wake-up mission before the alarm stops:

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

The idea is simple: make turning off the alarm require enough interaction to actually wake you up.

It also includes an optional App Blocker that can temporarily block distracting apps after you wake up, so you don't immediately fall back into scrolling instead of getting out of bed.

B — Better: how it compares

So it's not just about getting you out of bed — it's also about giving you a short window to actually start your day before distractions take over.

vs multiple alarms: setting five alarms doesn't necessarily help if you can turn all five off while half asleep. Alarmageddon makes dismissing the alarm itself the challenge.

C — Cost

Alarmageddon is completely free.

No subscriptions.
No ads.
No premium tier.
No paywall.

Download here:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/alarmageddon-loud-alarm-clock/id6791023578

Trust Path:

You can contact me at: support@pullapps.app

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/alarmageddon-loud-alarm-clock/id6791023578

u/Umoex — 2 months ago

▲ 11 r/apps+2 crossposts

Your iPhone’s main camera does the filming. The front camera plays SideKick.

A — Answer: the problem it solves
Most iPhones technically have two cameras, but in practice they’re rarely used together in a flexible way.

SideKick lets you record video using both the front and back cameras at the same time, with different layouts and workflows. The idea is simple: the back camera captures the world, while the front camera acts as the SideKick, recording your reaction, commentary, or presence alongside it.

It supports 4 recording modes:
• Picture-in-Picture (PiP)
• Stacked frame video (both cameras combined vertically)
• Dual recording (front + back saved as two separate videos at the same time)
• Switch mode (record normally but switch between cameras within the same video)

It also supports both portrait and landscape recording across all modes.

B — Better: how it compares

vs Apple’s built-in Dual Capture: Apple's solution is currently limited to only the newest iPhones, even though many older devices are technically capable of handling multi-camera recording. SideKick focuses on bringing dual-camera capture to a wider range of supported devices and offers multiple recording workflows instead of a single experience.

vs third-party dual-camera apps: many alternatives either lock features behind subscriptions or use busy, non-native interfaces. SideKick aims to feel at home on iOS, with a clean, native camera and gallery experience, a Picture-in-Picture window that can be freely dragged while recording, and a lightweight footprint of under 4 MB. There are no ads, accounts, or paywalls.

vs other PiP implementations: SideKick's Picture-in-Picture mode isn't fixed in place. The PiP window can be freely dragged and repositioned while recording, making it easier to frame reactions, commentary, or demonstrations exactly where you want them.

vs complex pro video tools: many multi-camera workflows are hidden behind interfaces designed for professional editors. SideKick keeps things straightforward: open the app, pick a mode, and start recording.

C — Cost

SideKick is completely free.

No subscriptions, no ads, no premium tier, no accounts.

Download here

Trust Path:
My name is Moez, I'm an indie iOS engineer based in Tunis, and SideKick is my fifth app on the App Store. I run Pull Apps, a one-man studio where I handle everything from design to development.

You can contact me at: support@pullapps.app

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/sidekick-dual-camera-recorder/id6782522047
Privacy Policy: https://pullapps.app/privacy-policy-sidekick
Terms of Use (Apple EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

u/Umoex — 4 months ago

▲ 13 r/iOSProgramming

8% of my users are on iPad, but I’ve never officially supported iPadOS, should I adapt my app?

Post:
I noticed that around 8% of my users are using iPadOS, even though my app is only designed and tested for iPhone.

I’ve been hesitating to officially support iPad because I don’t own an iPad and I’m not sure how different the UI is supposed to be. Right now, the app uses a simple native iOS design that works well on iPhone, but on iPad it’s basically just stretched iPhone UI.

For those who’ve been through this:

Is it worth officially supporting iPad at this stage?
Do iPad users expect a fully adapted UI, or is a “scaled-up iPhone app” acceptable?
What’s the minimum effort needed to make an app feel “good enough” on iPad?

Would appreciate any advice from developers who’ve dealt with this before.

reddit.com

u/Umoex — 5 months ago

▲ 2 r/apple+2 crossposts

I built a FREE document scanner because most scanner apps became bloated messes

Most document scanner apps somehow became giant “productivity ecosystems” packed with subscriptions, accounts, popups, and way too many features.

I just wanted something fast.

So I built Stacked — a free document scanner focused on speed, clean UX, and actually making scanning feel modern.

With Stacked you can:

Scan receipts, notes, contracts, IDs, handwritten pages, etc.
Auto-detect and crop documents
Extract text from scans (OCR)
Generate AI summaries from extracted text
Export clean PDFs/images
Organize documents without clutter
Use everything in a lightweight, minimalist interface

One thing I obsessed over was the camera/scanning experience itself because a surprising number of scanner apps still feel outdated or slow despite being apps people use constantly.

I wanted Stacked to feel more like a polished modern utility than a “business suite.”

Also: the app is free. No weird watermark spam or forcing you through 9 screens just to scan one page.

Would genuinely love feedback from people here:

What’s your biggest frustration with document scanner apps?
What feature makes you keep one installed?
Would AI summaries/text extraction actually be useful to you?

You can download it here.

apps.apple.com

u/Umoex — 3 months ago