I lost my uncle to violence in Nigeria a few years back. Before he died he sent me a voice note of encouragement, and I still have it, but it’s frozen. It can’t answer anything I ask it now.
EchoVault is my attempt to fix that. You do guided check-in sessions with an AI biographer that draws your actual stories out of you, and over time it builds an Echo that talks the way you talk and knows what you’d say. Most things in this space build an avatar from a few minutes of uploaded footage. This works the other way around, so the Echo can answer questions you never explicitly answered because it’s learned how you actually think.
Every response is grounded in something you really said, which means it won’t invent memories you never had.
Text is free forever with unlimited check-ins and no card. $12/mo adds your real cloned voice. There’s a $99.99 one-time setup for a lifelike video avatar that includes 3 months of live video, then $18/mo after that. The video tier is a live face to face conversation, not a rendered clip.
You name custodians up front. If a full year passes with no activity on your account, your Echo transfers to them automatically. No paperwork for a grieving family to figure out.
I shipped text, voice, and real-time video together in June 2025, which as far as I know made this the first digital legacy product where all three worked at once.
iPhone, iOS 15.1+: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/echovault-digital-legacy/id6762042028
Built solo, nights only. Happy to answer anything. Will appreciate any feedback too, thanks

Hi everyone! 👋

I'm the solo developer behind LazyBinger, an iOS app that turns your iPhone
into a universal TV remote — and then takes it one lazy step further.

If you've ever thought:

* "Where has the remote gone this time?"
* "I'm not getting up to press Skip Intro."
* "Why do I need five different remote apps for one living room?"

...then LazyBinger was built for you.

Instead of being just another remote, LazyBinger can watch your TV through the
camera. Prop your phone facing the screen and it taps "Skip Intro" and "Next
Episode" for you. You don't move a muscle. Everything runs on your phone —
the camera records nothing and no data ever leaves your Wi-Fi.

Free Features

✅ Universal remote for 12 TV platforms — Apple TV, Roku, Fire TV, Samsung,
LG, Sony, Google TV, Vizio, Hisense, Panasonic, Philips, Chromecast
✅ One scan finds every TV on your network — no setup, no pairing dance
✅ Full keyboard for Netflix & YouTube searches
✅ Apple Watch remote
✅ Wake-on-LAN, sleep timer, one-tap app launching
✅ No account, no ads, no tracking
✅ Clean dark design, made for watching in bed

LazyBinger Premium Features

⭐ Camera auto-pilot — it reads your TV screen and clicks "Skip Intro" for you
⭐ Voice control — "pause", "louder", "sleepy time", 10+ languages, on-device
⭐ Your own trigger sounds — a finger snap, a whistle
⭐ Chain up to 5 actions behind a single word
⭐ Works with the screen locked

Everything runs locally 🔒

"An app that watches your screen and listens to you" deserves suspicion, so
here's the actual architecture:

🔒 The camera never records. Frames go straight into Apple's Vision framework on your phone, which reads the text on screen, and the frame is discarded.,
🔒Nothing is written to disk, nothing is uploaded.
🔒 It only runs while you've armed it, and stops the moment you disarm it.
🔒 Voice recognition runs on-device too, and the mic is only live while listening mode is on.
🔒 Controlling the TV is plain local networking — the same protocols your TV's
own app uses, over your own Wi-Fi. No account, no login, no server in the
middle.

Put the phone in airplane mode with Wi-Fi on: everything still works. That's
the whole proof.

How to get it 🎁

1. Download the app: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6779151585
2. Upvote
3. Comment LazyBinger below

Thanks for checking it out ❤️

Hi r/iosapps!

About four months ago, I shared the first version of Hibi here. Many of you liked the app for its design and gave me great feedback, which I already implemented. I kept building, and version 3 now feels like a completely new app since you can now customize your calendar!

What it does (Answer): Hibi turns your existing Apple calendars and reminders into paper-like daily pages you can customize.

Why it’s different (Better): You can draw and write, customize the paper, arrange each page, create stickers and washi tape from your photos, and use Apple Pencil on iPad - so you remember your days.

Cost: The app is free to download, with no subscription. There’s an optional $6.99 lifetime in app purchase to unlock premium app icons and home screen widgets.

I’m the developer, and I’d love to hear what you think of how far it has come!

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hibi-calendar/id6762520622

Hey folks! A while back I released "Fasting Center", an app that calculates weight loss for extended fasts - total weight loss as well as fat, water/glycogen, gut content, and protein loss, projected day by day. A few people wanted to track their fasts against those projections, so v2 is out and it's now a full fasting tracker - both for IF and extended fasting. It includes

• Fast timer with fasting stages on the ring
• Log for fasts and biometrics (weight, body fat, waist), with notes and mood
• The calculator is now connected to your real data - projected vs actual weight loss, daily breakdown by tissue type
• Health Connect sync

It's completely free and ad free. No paywall, no subscription. I think paying to see your own past fasts is simply wrong ☺️

A few of you are already using it and sent me feedback - thank you! I read everything and I ship fixes fast. If something annoys you or something is missing, tell me here or in the app.

iOS: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6780227473
Android version is coming soon.

BOOP - DOWNLOAD FREE - https://apps.apple.com/us/app/boop-catch-every-dog-cat/id6794737842

Hey everyone,

I'm Esat, a student and solo dev from Germany. I had bad skin for years and did what most guys do about it: nothing, then random products, then nothing again. Nobody teaches you this stuff and asking feels embarrassing, so you just guess.

Sharp is the app I wanted back then. I posted it here a month ago right after launch and it's come a long way since.

**What it does**

You scan your face, about 60 seconds. You get a skin score from 0 to 100 across 6 dimensions: pimples, pores, eye bags, oiliness, redness and hydration, mapped to where on your face each one sits.

Then you get a daily routine, around 3 minutes morning and evening, with specific products instead of categories. Every week you scan again and the plan adapts to whatever actually changed.

And since last month you can point your camera at any skincare product and Sharp tells you whether it fits your skin, with a match score and the reasoning behind it. It will also tell you when a good product is wrong for you specifically.

**Why I think it's better**

The weekly re-scan is the core. Most skin apps hand you a routine once and never look at you again. Sharp measures whether the thing it recommended is working and changes it if not.

Everything else is built around actually sticking with it: reminders, a streak, and a Live Activity so your routine is on your lock screen instead of in an app you forget.

**Cost**

Free download, the scan and your skin score are free. Premium unlocks the full routine, product matching, Product Check and weekly adaptation: $29.99 per, or $59.99 lifetime.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6780025151

Privacy Policy: https://east-app-dev.github.io/Sharp-Skincare-Routine/privacy.html
Terms of Service: https://east-app-dev.github.io/Sharp-Skincare-Routine/terms.html

Verification: App Store developer page and GitHub (east-app-dev). Contact: daybeeaapp-privacy@web.de

Second app, built next to school. If something is broken or confusing, tell me here. I ship fixes fast and I read everything.

Hi!

I built pawtrck, an iPhone app for dog owners who want their dog’s care records in one place.

It started from a pretty simple problem: dog care is usually scattered across Notes, Reminders, photos, screenshots, fitness apps, and memory. pawtrck brings the main parts together:

• Walks, runs, and bikejoring sessions
• Distance, duration and estimated pawsteps
• Meal, treat, calorie and weight tracking
• Medications, vaccinations, symptoms and vet visits.
• Training plan and progress
• Shareable activity cards after exercise

One thing I’ve heard from dog owners is that dog walks can mess up their own fitness stats because they’re slower and more stop-start than normal workouts. pawtrck keeps the dog’s activitiy separate and dog-specific.

The app is freemium, with Plus ($3.99/mo) for advanced features and a 1 month Free Trial.

I’d really appreciate feedback from iOS users, especially around onboarding, pricing and whether the app feels useful enough to keep using long term.

App Store link: https://apps.apple.com/tr/app/pawtrck/id6769860025

After years of abandoning MyFitnessPal every January, I built the thing I actually wanted: a tracker where logging takes seconds. Point the camera at your plate or a barcode and macros fill themselves in. Or just say it out loud - "two eggs, toast, slept 6 hours, took magnesium" - and it files everything. No forms.

It also syncs Apple Health / Garmin / Oura / Strava and estimates a "biological age" from your habits. (Beta testers are split on whether that number is motivating or annoying - genuinely curious what this sub thinks.)

Honest disclosure: this is my first app, it's in TestFlight beta, and it's completely free during the beta - no card, no trial countdown. I'm a solo dev and I read and answer every piece of feedback myself, usually same-day. Beta feedback has already shipped real fixes - voice logging got an overhaul, serving sizes in food search, and the newest build adds a nutrition-label scan fallback for barcodes that aren't in the database.

TestFlight: https://testflight.apple.com/join/7SS76Pjb

What I'd love from you: try logging one real meal with the scanner and tell me where it felt slower than typing. That's the whole bet of the app, so if it fails there, I need to know before I press release.

ANSWER
Klikki is a menu bar app for macOS that simulates the mechanical keyboard sound on every keystroke and a click on every mouse press. It's for people who like how a mechanical keyboard sounds but are typing on a laptop or a quiet board.

BETTER
15+ sound packs across three categories:
Mechanical: Clack, Thock, Butter, Vintage, Newsroom, Garage Soft: Riverbed, Petal, Whisper, Rosewood, Velvet, Ember Ambient: Orbit, Breeze, Tide, Temple

The spacebar, delete and return each get their own sound, and modifiers sound different again, so typing has a rhythm to it instead of one click on repeat. That's the difference between something that sounds like a keyboard and something that sounds like a sound effect.

It lives in the menu bar and works everywhere you type - notes, browser, terminal, chat. Switching packs takes a click and takes effect straight away. Drag the volume slider and it plays a sample as you go, so you set it to the room you're actually in instead of picking a number. Keyboard sounds and mouse click sounds turn on and off separately, so you can have one without the other.

COST
One-time purchase, no subscription. Normally $3.99, currently $1.99 until August 26. Mac App Store only, requires macOS 13.0 or later.

https://apps.apple.com/app/klikki/id6798231145

Create infinitely customizable task alarms with Last Alarm (iOS). Whether it's waking up in the morning or making sure you don't forget that one thing you always forget, create an alarm for it to be sure you get it done.

Last Alarm has helped me break my snoozing, specifically by using exercise alarms that force me to do squats and push ups when I wake up. However I use it for a lot more now, reminding me to take my pills and do a handful of other tasks I often forget during the day/week or ignore a simple reminder for.

Recently I made a big update to the onboarding to allow everyone to try out the verification process themselves. It's still available for anyone to try for free with a 3-7 day trial, however the new verification demo makes it even easier to quickly see how it works.

A: What problem does it solve?

Last Alarm uses infinitely customizable task alarms that must be video verified to turn off. It is next best thing to having an accountability partner hold you to your intention to do whatever task you can think of, effectively allowing you to be your own accountability partner.

While there are many alarm apps, they are all limited in there tasks or missions and none allow you the flexibility to alarm anything in your life you want to hold yourself accountable to completing. Last Alarm solves that once and for all by allowing you the infinite freedom to alarm the tasks that are most important to you.

B: Why is it better?

Last Alarm's core features are relying on video verification and user generated tasks. Other alarm apps (Alarmy, Wayk) have at best a handful of preset tasks for verification alongside other puzzles or tasks like math or step counting. If they have video verification it is limited to a few tasks like push ups or squats only. Same goes for image verification, which may have you scan a barcode or take a picture of something in your kitchen.

Video verification is superior to relying on images alone because it enables creating more complex tasks as well as improves verification accuracy. Images can only capture an instant, but a video task can capture more nuanced activity. This allows you to create tasks that work better for your use case, as they can be refined to perfectly fit your need. Image verification is also easier to circumvent, where as for video you could add more complex instructions like "spin around and show your whole environment".

Additionally, Last Alarm has no ads and never will, so you get a clean focused experience without getting your attention sold to the highest bidder from the instant you open your eyes in the morning, unlike Alarmy.

C: Cost

Last Alarm Pro has simple pricing, $39.99 yearly with a 3-day free trial, $4.99 Monthly, and $1.99 Weekly in case you want to try for a bit longer than the trial.

Would love any feedback especially if you want to give it a try!

Learn more at www.lastalarmclock.com, checkout the Privacy Policy & Terms of service, or feel free to reach out to me (Ryan) at ryan.ashbaugh@lastalarmclock.com

I was so tired of constantly switching between a dozen different apps while traveling, so I built an all-in-one solution: TripPocket 🎒🌍 (And yes, it’s completely free).

I developed TripPocket to end the chaos we all go through when planning a trip. You just type in your destination, and it organizes the rest for you.

Here are the features designed to make your travels incredibly easy:

🏛️ City-Specific Tours, Museums & Dining: Just enter the city you're visiting. The most popular museums, historical sites, restaurants, and tour options instantly appear right in front of you.

✈️ Flights, Hotels, & Transport Deals: I’ve brought the world's most trusted platforms (like Trip.com, GetYourGuide, etc.) under one roof. With one click, we direct you to the best options for flights, hotels, local transit, taxis, luggage storage (Bounce), travel insurance, and even flight delay compensation.

📲 Discounted eSIM Packages: Stop paying crazy roaming fees abroad. We display discounted data packages from top eSIM providers like Airalo and Holafly side-by-side so you can choose the best one.

💰 Budget & Expense Tracker: Easily log what you spend during your vacation. Visual graphs help you keep your budget in check so you can enjoy your trip without financial stress.

📸 Interactive Travel Map & Memories: Upload the photos you take abroad, and the app uses their location data to pin every city you’ve visited on a map. You can create awesome photo collages showing your travel footprint to share with friends or on social media.

🤖 AI-Powered Personal Route Planning: Enter your destination, budget, and trip length, and our AI will generate a personalized, day-by-day itinerary for you. You can easily tweak and edit the route however you like.

It’s basically everything you need for pre-trip planning and on-the-go travel, right in your pocket.

I’d be absolutely thrilled if you tried it out and shared your feedback. Wishing you all amazing adventures and safe travels! 🥂 If you have any questions or suggestions, please don’t hesitate to reach out.

📲 Download & Try It Here:

Apple App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/trippocket-travel-ticket/id6788790492#information

Google Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.globalgateway.app.trippocket

Tutti went live on the App Store today.

A — Answer

Private music lessons have a slightly awkward handoff.

You can spend the lesson working through a piece and explain exactly what needs practising, but then the student goes home and there are another 6 days before you see them again. Notes in a notebook, email or WhatsApp can work, but the important bit can easily get buried.

Tutti is built around that gap.

At the end of a lesson, the teacher can leave a recap and the actual things they want the student to work on. Those become the student's Today's Focus rather than just sitting in a page of lesson notes.

The student can practise from there, use the timer, metronome or tuner, work through repertoire and goals, and save recordings as Performance Takes. They can also leave a reflection for their teacher.

Then when the next lesson comes around, the teacher has some context from the week instead of that whole period basically disappearing.

Parents have their own view too, but I didn't want that to mean parents can see everything. Teacher-only notes stay with the teacher, student reflections stay between the student and teacher, and the family view only gets the things that are actually meant to be shared.

The point isn't to make the teacher available to students all week. If anything, I wanted the opposite — make the next step clear enough that the student can get on with practising without needing another explanation.

B — Better

There are already some very capable apps in this space and I'm not pretending I invented lesson notes or practice tracking.

My Music Staff is much more established around running the administrative side of a music studio. Practice Space and Better Practice are closer to the student-practice side.

The thing I wanted to do differently with Tutti was keep the whole loop in one native iPhone/iPad app:

lesson → recap → Today's Focus → practice/recordings → next lesson

Teacher, student and family aren't just looking at different permissions on the same dashboard either. They have separate experiences built around what each of them actually needs to see.

There is more around that core — recurring lessons, attendance and rescheduling, repertoire and milestones, recordings/files, a lesson whiteboard, practice history, XP/achievements and a private billing ledger — but I tried to make all of it sit around the teaching rather than turn the app into accounting software.

One thing worth mentioning because I know this sub (fairly) hates pointless account walls: Tutti does require an account. That's because teacher, student and family accounts actually connect and sync information between each other. It isn't there just to make you register before using a single-player utility.

C — Cost

Free.

There isn't a subscription or paid tier at the moment, and there are no ads. The syncing between student, parent and teacher is done via my own home server so there is no additional cost for me, and all data is stored locally first then synced to the server, so in a situation without internet, or In the rare case the server does go down your data is still safe. In the future if you guys like this, I am working on creating a discord server with feature requests for a theoretical paid version, but any feature that has been shipped or advertised today will always stay free!

App Store:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/tutti-lesson-studio/id6796408234

t requires iOS/iPadOS 26 and is also supposed on MacOS 26. Some features, like the performance take analysis feature are only available in the 27 software releases as that feature specifically uses Apple's new Music Understanding framework!

If anyone tries it, the thing I'm most curious about is whether the teacher → student → family setup makes sense without me explaining it first. If you get confused somewhere, tell me where, that's probably more useful to me :)

Hi! I'm solo builder of Plastic Vinyl, that started as my project for soul.

At the moment: 2.5k users, 4.7 global rating (53 reviews), Red Dot Award 2026.

13 months of production, on the App Store about five months.

A. What it solves

Two problems:

1. In a shop you're holding a record you've never heard of. Options today: type what's on the sleeve into youtube search box to pre-listen, then Google to check the context, and Discogs to see pressings and pricing. With Plastic Vinyl you snap the cover and get its playable previews, album story, and every pressing that 's documented, so you can work out which one is in your hands. Barcode scanning too. The most precise accuracy thanks to investing in own algorithms. The largest database of snippets and videos thanks to deep integration with streaming services and You Tube.
2. At home the collection lives across a shelf, a Discogs account, and your own head. Plastic catalogues it and lets you browse it the way you already think about it: sort by first name or surname, release year or date bought, group by folders, tags, genres, eras. Notes, custom fields, anniversary reminders, shareable grids. Two way Discogs sync so it isn't a second place to maintain.

B. Why it beats the alternatives

Discogs official app: unmatched as a database and marketplace, but it is a database. No cover scanning, no playback for most of albums, and the collection view fights you (files The Kiss under T). Plastic Vinyl syncs with it both ways instead of trying to replace it, and fixes all points people yelling about on Discogs usability and missing features. I spend months collecting user pains in discogs subs to solve them in Plastic. Plus much deeper context on the albums: album anniversary reminders, stories, videos, tags, release radar, and a ton more features valued by collectors.

CLZ Music: barcode first. Great if every record you buy has a barcode. Plenty of the ones worth buying don't, so cover recognition is the difference in a used record bin. + same notes as on Discogs.

What it doesn't do: tell you which exect pressing you're holding. It helps you find one via deadwax search, advanced filters, etc.

C. Cost

Freemium, with lifetime or subscription options. US pricing:

• Free: unlimited text search, 5 cover scans, folders, sorting and export, browse your most recent 50 records, Discogs sync.
• Pro: $3.99/month, $11.99/year, or $19.99 one time lifetime. Unlocks collections above 50 records, unlimited cover scans. (Local prices vary by storefront)

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6758337443
iPhone, iOS 18+. Android is on the list and not shipped.

Happy to answer your questions here!

Developer transparency:

Plastic Vinyl was developed by Andrii Liashchuk, in socials Andy Lurs: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andylurs/

I also actively build it in public in Threads: threads.com/@andylurs

Red Dot Certificate: https://myplastic.app/label-licence-14-01388-2026BC.pdf
Contact: hello@myplastic.app or andylurs@gmail.com
Website: myplastic.app and andylurs.com
Privacy Policy: https://myplastic.app/privacy/
Terms of Service: https://myplastic.app/terms/
App Store: apps.apple.com/ua/app/plastic-vinyl-scan-listen/id6758337443

Hey everyone,

I'm developer who built Submindo, a subscription tracker and manager I originally built because I kept losing money to forgotten renewals and free trials. I've posted here before, and feedback from this community has been a huge part of how the app keeps improving.

Submindo has now over 1,800 active subscriptions tracked. All of it has been organic and word of mouth — I haven't spent a single dollar on ads.

A large portion of early users came directly from Reddit — people testing the app, reporting bugs, suggesting features, and recommending it to others. As a thank-you to the community, I'm offering Submindo Unlimited Lifetime for just $3.99 (normally $11.99, over 60% off) for iOS. It works for everyone, is valid for 3 days, and requires no DMs or comments to claim.

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What Makes Submindo Different

Most expense and reminder apps treat recurring costs as basic, flat calendar events. Real subscription management involves trial deadlines, billing cycles across different currencies, overlapping tools, and finding out if you are overpaying.

Submindo is built specifically around recurring expenses and portfolio efficiency:

• Smart Pre-Bill Alerts: Push notifications arrive days before a charge hits so you have ample time to cancel.
• AI Spending Analysis: Scans your active subscriptions to flag redundant plans, evaluate utility, and output a clear Worth It / Borderline / Not Worth It verdict.
• AI Alternatives Finder: Detects overpaid tools and suggests lower-cost alternatives with side-by-side savings breakdowns.
• Visual Expense Calendar & Overview: Track costs across daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly intervals.

What's new in recent updates based on community feedback:

• Home Screen Widgets: Monitor upcoming renewal dates directly from your phone's home screen.
• True Dark Mode (AMOLED/OLED): Pure pitch-black interface to save battery life and reduce eye strain at night.
• Trial Period Tracking: Dedicated counters for free trials to ensure cancellation happens before automatic charges occur.
• 13 Spending Categories & Full History: Complete payment timeline logging for long-term budget records.

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Plans & Pricing

Submindo Free:

• Track core subscriptions with custom billing cycles
• Standard bill reminders before renewal dates
• Expense summary views
• Dark Mode and AMOLED support

Submindo Unlimited:

• Unlimited subscription tracking & categories
• Full AI Spending Analysis and redundancy detection
• AI Alternatives Finder with cost savings reports
• Interactive Home Screen Widgets
• Complete billing history and calendar breakdowns

Regular Pricing:

• Yearly: $9.99 / year
• Lifetime: $11.99 (One-time purchase)

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The Thank-You Offer — Submindo Unlimited Lifetime for $3.99 (iOS)

• Offer Code: THANKYOUREDDIT
• Special Price: $3.99 (one-time purchase, down from $11.99)
• Direct Redeem Link: https://apps.apple.com/redeem?ctx=offercodes&id=6777319489&code=THANKYOUREDDIT
• Availability: iOS only
• No comment or DM needed. Final price varies slightly by country due to regional App Store tiers.

How to claim:

1. Tap the direct redeem link above on your iPhone/iPad (or enter code THANKYOUREDDIT via App Store redeem).
2. Confirm the redemption to unlock Submindo Lifetime Unlimited for $3.99.

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Download Links:

• iOS (App Store): https://apps.apple.com/us/app/submindo-subscription-tracker/id6777319489

If you track subscriptions or recurring bills, I would love to hear what features you'd like added next or what needs improvement. Every update listed above came directly from user feedback in the comments!

Last summer I was on holiday with my girlfriend and we kept losing track of who paid for dinners, the flat and the groceries. I went looking for an app: easy to use, easy for other people to join, working straight away without an account, small, and ideally open source. Nothing ticked all the boxes, so I wrote it myself.

What it doesn't have: third-party dependencies, ads, tracking, analytics, subscriptions, accounts, or any server connection other than Apple's own iCloud.

What it does have:

• It's tiny. Everything below fits in about 1.5 MB. It downloads in a couple of seconds.
• Join by scanning a QR code. Create a group, hold up the code, everyone at the table scans it. There's a normal invite link too.
• Uneven splits. Train tickets for six where one has a student discount, or a flat booked by two couples and two singles - you can set each person's share.
• Live for everyone. Syncs through iCloud to everyone who joined, with optional local notifications. If someone doesn't want the app, you can still add them as a participant and send them the summary as text.
• Spotlight, Shortcuts, quick actions. Make a shortcut that adds an expense to a specific group and put it on the Action button - a new entry takes two or three seconds. You can also find a group from Spotlight, ask Siri to add an entry, or long-press the icon.
• Multiple currencies. Paid in another country? Enter the amount and the rate you actually got. It converts once, at entry, so balances never drift afterwards.
• Native. Pure Swift and Apple frameworks only, using system components throughout (Liquid Glass on iOS 26).
• Open source, MPL 2.0. Read it, or build it yourself.

Pricing. Joining groups is free and unlimited, with every feature available inside them. You can also run one group of your own for free - delete it and start another as often as you like. Managing more than one group at a time is a one-time $4.99 unlock, with Family Sharing. The whole thing, limit included, is in the repo, so if you'd rather build it yourself than pay, that's a supported outcome.

Free lifetime unlock: the promo link above works until 2026-08-23, first 1 000 redemptions.

Requirements: iPhone, iOS 17 or later. Everyone in a group needs an iPhone and an iCloud account - that's the trade-off for having no server of my own. Non-users can be added as participants and get the summary as text, but they can't add expenses.

Privacy. I have no server. Your data lives in your private iCloud database; shared groups use Apple's own CloudKit sharing. All I can see is the standard Apple sales reporting every developer gets.

Deleting your data. Delete a group and it's gone from your device and your iCloud. Delete the app and the local copy goes with it. To clear what's left in iCloud: Settings → [your name] → iCloud → Manage Account Storage. There's no request to file and nobody to ask, because I'm not holding anything.

Permissions. Camera if you scan a group QR code, notifications if you turn them on. iCloud stores the group data and Spotlight indexes group names.

On AI: I used Claude Code as a tool while building the app and the website. The architecture, the sync model and the work to get it under 2 MB are mine; I've read and understood every line that ships.

Links: AppStore | AppStore Promo Code (Free lifetime) | Website | Privacy | Source code

EDIT 2026-08-19: From what is seems first 1k of codes was used already which is crazy. It is blowing my mind that it happened in one day. Thank you all for checking the app out! Let's it roll, if anyone missed it here is another 1k of redeems, valid until 2026-08-23: https://apps.apple.com/redeem?ctx=offercodes&id=6795190862&code=AFTERPARTY

Help me out Reddit. So I've been working on this crypto tracker for the past 6 years. I'm currently trying to build something fun and something that a lot of finance apps don't have, a heatmap. Am I building something just for sake of building something or would you actually find it useful?

I’m Joe, the founder of Paper2Audio, a free text to speech reader app for listening to complex documents and books, with highly accurate narration and high-quality voices.  Our free plan allows 56 hours of audio generation per week.  Our paid version, Paper2Audio Plus, is currently on sale through August 20 at $10/month for your first 3 months or $134.40 for your first year.

A: What problem does Paper2Audio solve and what’s new with Paper2Audio since our last post?
Most text to speech tools are not good at converting dense PDFs, research papers, textbooks and webpages to audio. Paper2Audio is built to turn complex text into accurate audio.  We also handle less complicated text, like standard EPUBs or plain text.

Supported languages: Full support for English.  Beta support for Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese (Mandarin), French, German, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, and Spanish.  

Since my last r/iosapps post, we’ve added or improved:

• You can now publicly share your documents, including embedding the audio directly onto a webpage with an iframe snippet you can paste into WordPress, Substack, or any site that supports HTML. 
• Narration improvements: subscripts and superscripts spoken more naturally, better pronunciation for abbreviations and Roman numerals, and more accurate header removal.
• Faster processing and downloads
• Bookmarks to save your position while listening
• Background audio support so music can keep playing while you listen
• More languages (added Chinese-Mandarin, German, Hindi and Japanese in beta)
• Better page rotation detection for scanned PDFs
• Export a processed document’s transcript as a Markdown file for use with other tools (web now, apps coming soon, Plus plan only)  
• Better pronunciation and accents for our British English voices
• Playback highlighting moves more smoothly from word to word
• Free pre-generated audiobooks that don’t count toward your audio generation quota (see the posts on our blog, with more coming regularly)

B: Why is Paper2Audio better than the top alternatives?

1. Higher audio limits for our free plan (56 hours weekly audio generation) with high quality voices.

2. Hyper-focus on accuracy:  Paper2Audio avoids reading things that usually make text to speech audio annoying, like repeated page numbers, headers, citations, footnotes, and unnecessary boilerplate. We clean up and normalize tricky text first, including math, Roman numerals, symbols, units, formulas, and other things that often sound wrong when read aloud by other text to speech services.

3. Summarizes visual elements like tables, math, and code or reads it aloud:  When adding a document, you can choose how tables, math, and code are narrated. Summary" (default) gives a concise summary of the item, while "Read as is" reads the content verbatim.  Or, you can skip narration for these elements during playback entirely. 

4. Follow along with Reader View, our optimized version of the audio transcript: We reformat PDFs and other documents to fit your screen while including rich content like images and document formatting.  Use it to follow along with the audio, or to more easily read documents that are normally poorly formatted for small phone screens (like 2 column PDFs, tables and figures, etc).

   • Visual elements are included: “Tables, figures, images, and math appear inline and can be opened in a zoomable “figure view” pop-up. 
   • Single column view: Documents with multiple columns are displayed in a single column to improve readability on smaller screens.
   • Rich text formatting: We preserve the original formatting of your documents, including math, headings, lists, subscripts, and other inline styling, so you can skim, navigate and understand the document more quickly. Citations and footnotes are also included so that you know when an author is making a reference, but are only read aloud when needed to keep sentences intact.

5. Multiple playback modes for your document:  Choose to listen to your document in full, or to have us generate a long or short summary instead.  We recently improved summary length, structure, and scaling for longer documents.

 

C: Cost
Paper2Audio is available on iOS, Android and on our website. We have a generous free plan for personal use (56 hours of audio generation per week), as well as a paid Plus subscription with higher audio and file/size limits ($20/month or $192 annually).  We also offer Enterprise plan options for teams.  

Our Plus plan is currently on sale until August 20 for $10/month for your first 3 months or $134.40 for your first year.

Any feedback or questions?
If you try Paper2Audio, I’d love to hear what works well, what doesn’t, and what feature or improvement would make the biggest difference for you. We are also working on adding more narrators, so please let me know what additional voice types you’d like to hear.