r/ViralApps

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[Help needed] I need advice about a new video on the Play Store for my app

This is the app (called "LWP+"), and I've shown here the video that I've published there:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lb.lwp_plus

At first I was happy about what I created on the video, but then I thought that it looks more like a tutorial here, instead of maybe focusing on what's the most interesting. Surprisingly, ever since I've published the video, it actually got quite some views already (29 after 2 days), despite the fact it's a bit of a niche app. Still, I think maybe it can be improved.

I want to know what you guys think about the video (which has audio, BTW).

Here's about the app:

It's a live wallpaper app, that has these features:

  1. Allows showing color/image/animation/video as content (users choose the file from the file system). No special effects so some users that complain about the dimming/zooming effects actually like using it. Users can also choose whether it should scroll or the type of automatic cropping.

  2. Allows (some) control over the Material-You colors of the OS, as it lets users to choose the colors to report the OS about what's on the wallpaper. This means that like on Android 17, users can choose the colors they want (if the OS supports it) despite the content not matching it.

  3. Setting of double-tap to lock the screen. Some launchers don't offer this, so I added it to the app too.

  4. Some extra flags that (on some devices) should affect colors further, such as black/white text and/or black/white icons on status bar and/or lock screen and/or launcher.

The app is completely free, ad-based. Users can remove the ads including by just watching full screen ads. Originally it was created to offer dark-theme on devices as it wasn't a toggle on the OS settings, and was based on the colors of the wallpaper.

u/AD-LB — 23 hours ago
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I built YourScene a local discovery app for finding what’s actually happening nearby

Hi
I’ve been building a side project called YourScene.

It’s a local discovery app for finding events, watch parties, bars, venues, and things happening nearby.
The problem I’m trying to solve is that local discovery still feels scattered. In places like NYC, Brooklyn, Jersey City, and Denver, people are checking Instagram, Reddit, Eventbrite, venue calendars, Google Maps, group chats, and word of mouth just to figure out what’s happening tonight.
I’m trying to make something that answers:
“What’s actually worth going to near me right now?”

A few things I’m building toward:

smaller local events, not just huge promoted ones
watch parties and fan spots
neighborhood-based discovery
filters for low-key / not touristy / small crowd / 30+ / family-friendly
live local posts through Pulse, so it’s not only scraped listings
better trust signals for venues and events
It’s still early, but I’d love feedback from other builders.

What would you focus on first: better event supply, better maps, stronger filters, community/Pulse, or onboarding?

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/yourscene/id6777555961
Bugs/feedback: support@yourscene.app
Appreciate any honest feedback.

u/ImpossibleBee956 — 2 days ago
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LifeLogging App: LifeTally - hoping for your feedback and review

Hey everyone! Long-time lurker, first-time poster here. I've been building a lifelogging app called LifeTally and wanted to share it with this community specifically, since you're the people who'd actually stress-test it.

https://apps.apple.com/ph/app/lifetally/id6788512911

The idea: no folders, no tags, no rigid structure - you just write opr voice log a line whenever something happens ("had coffee with Dad," "finished Atomic Habits," "called Bob"), by text or voice. Over time it turns into a searchable record of small (or big) memories your life, and you can ask it things like "when did I last call my mom?" or "how many coffees did I have last month?" and it pulls the answer straight from your logs. It basically becomes a database of the micro moments you log so overtime it becomes more powerful.

I'd genuinely love feedback from people who already do some form of lifelogging - what's missing, what would make this useless for your workflow vs. what might actually replace what you're using now. Happy to answer anything about how it works under the hood too.

Would welcome you testing the app and rating it too!

u/Medium-Hovercraft222 — 2 days ago
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I Built a Simple Asset Management App Because Spreadsheets Were Driving Me Crazy

I got tired of managing company assets in spreadsheets, so I built my own mobile asset management app.

Most tools I found were either:

Too expensive

Too complex

Enterprise-focused

Not mobile friendly

So I created Comodo — a simple asset management app focused on: ✅ Asset tracking

✅ Inventory management

✅ Employee assignment

✅ QR/barcode support

✅ Fast mobile access

It’s mainly designed for small businesses, technicians, warehouses, and teams that just want a clean and easy system without heavy enterprise setup.

Still improving it actively and adding features based on feedback from users.

Would genuinely appreciate feedback from IT admins, storekeepers, technicians, or anyone managing equipment daily.

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.comodo

u/tprakash45 — 2 days ago
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I wanted foot traffic data without buying hardware

A lot of small businesses could benefit from knowing how many people actually walk through the door, but buying and installing a dedicated people-counting system doesn’t always make sense.

That’s why I’ve been building PeopleCounter.app.
You can use a phone, tablet, computer, or webcam to start tracking visitors and keep the data organized in one dashboard.

What I think gets overlooked is that even basic traffic data can answer some useful questions:
• Are Saturdays actually busier than Fridays?
• What hours are we getting the most visitors?
• Did that promotion bring in more people?
• Are we getting busier without seeing the same increase in sales?

I’m trying to make this accessible for smaller retailers, churches, events, museums, and other organizations that just want a simple place to start.

There’s a free version at PeopleCounter.app.

Would be interested to hear what other metrics you’d want alongside the visitor count.

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u/SpencerisforDOGE — 2 days ago
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Do people even play mobile games now??

i think people are too lost in tiktok and reels.

Either they have stopped playing games for fun or games are not that fun anymore.

Thoughts???

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u/gyan_maurya — 4 days ago
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Building an IOS app generator. Everyone gets a free app generated!

So after the pain of building a golf app through various other app builders and like loveable and bolt and then coding it solely through a rented mac I found all the other issues users like me get frustrated with bridges and capacitors to staple together react native then various issues trying to struggle with apples body tracking and vision technology.

Coding agents have gone so far now but the key has been to structure and prepare them for building in swift is imperative to generating working complex apps. The idea behind this was that i wanted to be able to A rebuild my own golf swing analyser within the app and B make sure that it works first time of build so the rest is iteration.

The big issue with all of this is the need for a fleet of macs (semi solved) so each users get a build built on Xcode 26, this at small scale is actually my biggest cost even vs llm costs per user which even with our free giveaway actually acts as a decently priced lead (wont disclose exact figures).

Weve only been live for around 4 weeks and have seen 300+ users with a bunch of paid sign ups as well. Still loss making but to be expected so pl;ease dont try and run me dry on llm calls (there are loads of provisions for limiting and api abuse etc and i am eagled eye and will catch you almost instantly!)

Whilst i love our system and its my blood sweat and tears over the last 6 months our customer service is what i believe is the most important and impressive part of our system with all messages being answered and fixed with 1 hour so far through a web of agentry work with human sign off.

Interested to hear thoughts and happy to share the link and a possible free pro account to users whoa re super interested so drop me a message be super critical generate a free app and let me know what you think!

Orchapp.dev

u/Orchapps — 4 days ago
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Is publishing to the App Store necessary?

Genuinely interested if publishing to the App Store is necessary.

What if you just make a PWA (Progressive Web App) and let people use it.

Think about it… No download, just a couple clicks, works the same way, looks the same way etc.

What’re your thoughts on this?

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u/MiloPaige — 4 days ago
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How long do you guys need to build your apps to production level?

I work 10h+ shifts almost everyday of the week so I have max 1h a day to work on my apps. I could skip the gym for an extra hour but I don’t want to do that.

I am super against AI just completely taking over your project and writing most of the code because I have no clue how to fix something if a bug comes up. So I write 98% of my code alone.

I feel like I’m progressing super slowly so I’d like to hear from anyone else how long it takes you.

My process is:

  1. Design in Figma

  2. Make UI shell

  3. Starting to advertise

  4. Connect to database and set everything up

  5. Testing and security checks

  6. Publish and put all my time into advertising

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u/MiloPaige — 4 days ago

what makes an app viral?

  1. easy to use

  2. pain point solver

  3. value for money

  4. free reward

  5. good habit loop

  6. app worth sharing with peers

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u/gyan_maurya — 6 days ago
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Invaders will take over your phone when you exceed your screen-time goal

I’ve been experimenting with a different kind of screen-time app for Android.

Instead of blocking apps or showing another warning popup, Stop Swarm gradually adds small pixel-art invaders on top of your screen as you use your phone.

You set a daily screen-time goal. As you get closer to the limit, more creatures appear. Some walk across the screen, some stop in the middle, and some hold tiny STOP signs.

The overlay does not intercept touches, so the phone remains usable. The idea is to make excessive scrolling progressively harder to ignore without completely locking the user out.

The current prototype is Android only, fully offline, requires no account, contains no ads or analytics, is based on a daily screen-time goal, and is designed to stay lightweight and unobtrusive.

u/momisback93 — 8 days ago
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i think i found a gap in the market

For most of my life I tried to be someone else. I'd find someone I admired, decide they were better than me, and copy them. That mindset pushed me into a business I never enjoyed and only started because I looked up to one specific guy. It failed. I felt completely lost.

Around that time I was obsessively tracking my sleep with a Whoop, trying to optimize it. I kept getting good recovery scores. And I was still exhausted, yawning through entire afternoons, dead by 2pm. That's when it clicked: the score doesn't do anything. It just confirms you slept well or badly. Cool. Now what? Knowing isn't fixing.

So I built the thing I actually wanted. It takes the data your wearable already collects sleep, recovery, heart rate, and turns it into a daily protocol instead of another number. It tells you what supplements to take based on your metrics, predicts your most productive hours and gives you the exact time window when you should do deep focus tasks and light focus tasks, it tells you how much caffeine you have in your system left based on your first coffee taken and notifies you when you should take the next caffeinated drink for maximum productivity, it even tells you when to nap so your energy lasts the whole day instead of crashing and much more...

It's on the App Store as RizeAI https://apps.apple.com/us/app/rizeai-maximize-your-energy/id6762402079. i built by myself, it's early stage right now, and I want honest feedback, what's confusing, what's missing, what you'd never use. Tear it apart.

u/PieKey1836 — 9 days ago
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Simple People Counting Software?

I thought customer counting software was going to be simple.

Then I started talking to store owners.

Most weren’t asking for fancy AI dashboards. They just wanted answers to basic questions:
• How many people actually walked in today?
• Which days are busiest?
• Is our marketing bringing in traffic?
• Why are sales down if traffic is up?
• Do we need more staff on Saturdays?

The problem was that many solutions required expensive hardware, long contracts, or complicated setups.

So we built PeopleCounter.app.

It’s free to start, works from any device, and now you can even turn a phone, tablet, webcam, or other camera-equipped device into a people counter in minutes.

I’m curious:
How are you currently tracking foot traffic at your business, event, church, or location?

Spreadsheets?
Door clickers?
Security cameras?
Not tracking it at all?

I’d love to hear what’s working and what’s not.
https://peoplecounter.app

u/SpencerisforDOGE — 6 days ago
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¿Sabes más de tu pueblo que tus vecinos? He creado una App trivial con preguntas específicas de CADA municipio de España (más de 8.000)

Soy desarrollador español y acabo de lanzar QuizPueblos, una app que creo que os va a gustar (especialmente a los amantes de los pueblos, la geografía y los juegos de cultura).

¿Qué es?

El primer trivial del mundo con preguntas específicas de CADA municipio de España. No es "preguntas sobre España" en general, es "preguntas sobre TU pueblo" (y los 8.000+ restantes también).

¿Por qué es diferente?

  • Cada pueblo tiene su propio trivial: Desde Madrid capital hasta el pueblo más pequeño de tu comarca, todos tienen preguntas generadas específicamente sobre ellos.
  • Preguntas reales sobre tu zona: Historia, geografía, monumentos, tradiciones, gastronomía... cosas que probablemente ni conocías aunque hayas nacido allí.
  • Aprendes mientras juegas: Cada pregunta incluye una explicación educativa, así que aprendes algo nuevo aunque falles.

Ejemplo rápido:

Si vives en Abarán (Murcia), te saldrán preguntas sobre:

  • El río Segura y su importancia histórica.
  • La iglesia de San Juan Bautista (siglo XVI).
  • Las fiestas de la Vendimia.
  • Platos típicos como el zarangollo.

Si vives en Cudillero (Asturias):

  • Su origen como puerto pesquero.
  • El palacio de los Selgas.
  • La romería de la Virgen del Rosario.
  • Los fresnos centenarios del pueblo.

(Y así con los 8.000+ municipios).

¿Cómo se juega?

  1. Eliges tu municipio (o cualquier otro que te interese).
  2. Respondes preguntas tipo test (3 opciones).
  3. Necesitas un 80% de aciertos para pasar de ronda.
  4. Cada ronda es más difícil.

¿Para quién es?

  • Para quien quiere presumir de conocer su pueblo mejor que nadie.
  • Para los amantes de la geografía y cultura española.
  • Para familias que buscan un juego educativo y entretenido.
  • Para gente orgullosa de su tierra que quiere retar a sus amigos.
  • Para cualquiera que quiera descubrir rincones de España, pueblo a pueblo.

Estado del proyecto:

  • Solo iOS por ahora (Android en camino 🚧).
  • Gratis con opción Premium (sin anuncios, temas exclusivos, progreso en la nube).
  • Desarrollador independiente (soy yo solo, no una empresa).

Enlace:

📲 Descargar en App Store

¿Qué os parece?

Me encantaría saber vuestra opinión (sobre todo si sois de pueblos pequeños, que es donde más me he currado las preguntas 😅).

También acepto sugerencias de funcionalidades, bugs, o cualquier cosa que se os ocurra.

¡Gracias por leer! 🙌

NOTA: Todas mis apps suelen estar en varios idiomas, pero esta es especial para mí. Es un proyecto hecho en España, para España, sobre los pueblos españoles. Por eso está solo en español. Si os gusta y la usáis mucho, la traduciré a más idiomas, pero de momento quería que fuera así.

NOTE: All my apps are usually available in multiple languages, but this one is special to me. It's a project made in Spain, for Spain, about Spanish towns and villages. That's why it's only in Spanish. If you like it and use it a lot, I'll translate it to more languages, but for now I wanted it like this.

u/Low_Month_5801 — 6 days ago
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I went to an Anthropic Hackathon and won!

I went to an Anthropic hackathon and won the Societal Impact Prize! I built an app to help you stop doomscrolling by dragging through a wave of haptic resistance every time you want to scroll. Makes each scroll more mindful and an actual choice by requiring a bit more effort without actually blocking your social media use. It's called Fluid Friction, and it's free and out on Android and IOS now!

www.fluidfriction.app

u/Manfredev — 12 days ago
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Releasing my 3rd app

Spent a lot of time working on this app, and it’s been fun so far! I got so caught up trying to figure out what I can make that people need and how I can solve an issue, but then I figured why not make something fun! Why not make something that I would use every day? When you are working on something that you love and care about, the best ideas come more naturally! This app, right here, is called DVDream. I hope whoever uses this app enjoys using it just as much as I did making it. It’s currently in beta. Feel free to ask for the TestFlight link if you’re interested!

u/appbuildr — 8 days ago