r/promoteMyApp

[Self-Promotion] I built a native network scanner for iOS and early downloaders get lifetime free (worth $19.99)
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[Self-Promotion] I built a native network scanner for iOS and early downloaders get lifetime free (worth $19.99)

Netsight is a network scanner and security toolkit I built solo in Swift 6 / SwiftUI, targeting iOS 26. It does live LAN scanning, device fingerprinting (OUI/DNS/HTTP), a force-directed topology map, on-device AI analysis via Apple Foundation Models, and CVE lookups against the NVD database.

Happy to answer anything about the architecture or the security tooling.

Download it here: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/netsight-wifi-tools/id6775736000

u/Efficient_Context_23 — 3 hours ago
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[Self-Promotion] Lazy Binger: Universal TV Remote with voice commands & auto "Skip Intro" [14.99$ -> Free] Giveaway Promo code

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 ❤️

u/Ariochar — 9 hours ago
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Art Atelier: 3D art reference - free promo codes

Hi everyone!

I'm an artist/developer and I've spent the last few months building Art Atelier, an art reference app for people who draw or paint from life.

Art Atelier is a 3D art reference app for artists who want to study light. You pick from a library of 3D studies (the Asaro planar head, anatomy plates, classical busts), rotate them to any angle, then move a light around them and watch how the shadows and planes change in real time.

What's in it:

  • 3D studies, including the Asaro planar head, anatomy plates (skulls, eyes, ear, nose, lips, hands, feet), classical busts plus a plain sphere for basic form practice
  • Classic portrait lighting presets (Rembrandt, split, butterfly, rim, top, under, front), or you can just put the light wherever you want
  • Controls for light intensity, fill, and colour temperature from 2700K to 7500K
  • A value steps mode that posterizes everything down to 2 to 5 flat values

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100 free lifetime premium codes:

If you'd like one:

  1. Leave a comment
  2. I'll DM you a code

🤖 Google Play Store

If you end up using it, a Play Store review would mean a lot ❤️

Thanks for checking it out!

u/Sufficient-Bar-6862 — 4 hours ago
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[macOS] [9$ -> Free Lifetime] Snip Halo : A Simple CleanShot X Alternative

Hi everyone,

I’m making Snip Halo free to claim for the next 48 hours.

Snip Halo is a native macOS alternative to CleanShot X for capturing, annotating, blurring and sharing screenshots.

Claim it during the giveaway and keep your lifetime license permanently. No subscription.

Claim it free:

https://sniphalo.lemonsqueezy.com/checkout/buy/4083d4e3-ab26-4fb2-ac57-c2b44ea8a64e?enabled=2002202

For Spanish speakers: I also share my app-building journey on YouTube, in case you’d like to follow along: https://www.youtube.com/@andres.sarrazola

Requires macOS 14 or later. Feedback is welcome!

u/Professional-Can-507 — 4 hours ago
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[iOS] [$29.99 → Free One Year] Twidddle: Beautiful Event Countdown — Plan for the moments that matter

Hey everyone! I’m the developer of Twidddle, a countdown app I built for iPhone to keep track of the things you’re looking forward to — vacations, birthdays, anniversaries, holidays, events, or really anything worth counting down to.

I’ve been working on Twidddle for a while and recently added a lot to it, including customizable countdowns, immersive event views, Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets, countdown badges, custom app icons, and more.

I’d love to get Twidddle into the hands of more people and hear what you think, so I’m giving away 1 year of Twidddle Pro. ❤️

To enter:
Just leave a comment telling me what you’re currently counting down to.

Shoot me a message and I'll send you 1 year of Pro for free.

Giveaway ends August 26, 2026.

If you decide to try the app, I’d also genuinely appreciate any feedback — good or bad. I’m actively working on it, so hearing what people like, dislike, or want added is incredibly useful.

Thanks for checking out something I built! ❤️

📲 App Store:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/twidddle/id6759264332

u/Rubif0x — 5 hours ago
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I made an app aiming to fix my son’s screen addiction in positive way

There are lots of screen control and enforcement products on the market but most of them use block and limit type of method. It’s not useful to build a healthy habits for kids. After they grow up and become “free” they will likely go back to their screen.
So I tried a different approach: instead of treating screen time as something bad, let them earn it, and let them bank the time so they can learn how to manage the budget.
Do chores, exercise, finish homework, help around the house → earn some phone time. Then he decides how to use it.
The goal is less policing from parents, and more letting kids learn to manage their own time. I wanted it to feel more like a reward system than punishment.
I ended up building a small app around this idea. Still improving it and would love feedback from other parents dealing with the same thing.
LimeTime.app

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u/AfraidRevenue1678 — 5 hours ago
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[ios] [$29.99 -> Lifetime FREE] Giving out 500 licenses for Remindo: Task Reminder App

🎁 500 FREE Lifetime Licenses for Remindo — Task & Reminder App

Looking for a simple reminder and productivity app without unnecessary complexity?

Remindo is a task and reminder app for iPhone and iPad designed to help you organize everyday tasks and routines.

What you can do with Remindo

🔔 Task & To-Do Reminders

Create tasks and reminders for work, study, errands, appointments, and everyday activities.

📅 Daily Planner

Plan your day and keep track of what needs to be done.

🔄 Recurring Reminders

Set reminders that repeat automatically for daily, weekly, or other routines.

💧 Water Reminders

Set regular hydration reminders to help you remember to drink water throughout the day.

🍽️ Meal Reminders

Create reminders for breakfast, lunch, dinner, or other meals.

👀 Eye Break Reminders

Get regular reminders to take breaks during long periods of screen time.

🔒 Private & Offline

No account is required, and the app is designed to work offline. Your reminders and tasks stay on your device.

🎁 FREE Lifetime License Giveaway

I'm giving away 500 lifetime licenses completely FREE. The lifetime plan is normally $29.99.

If you're interested, first install the app and then comment below or DM me, and I'll share how to claim the lifetime license.

I have distributed 200 Lifetime licenses till now and I still have 300 licenses available. DM me quickly for for FREE Lifetime license.

📱 App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/remindo-task-reminder/id6746641151

💰 Want to support the app?

If you miss out on one of the free lifetime licenses, or simply want to support the development of Remindo, the Lifetime plan will be available for just $1 throughout this month.

No pressure at all — the free licenses are available first. ❤️

I'd love to hear what features you'd want to see in a reminder/productivity app. Feedback is always welcome!

u/projectninjatech — 14 hours ago
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My app

I built a small app called Countd and I’d really like some honest feedback.

The idea is simple: you create a group with your friends, choose something you want to track, and then compete with each other over time.

For example, you could create a group called “Running”, choose “km” as the unit, and have everyone enter how many kilometers they ran each day. You can then see a leaderboard and at the end of the month there’s a recap showing who did the best.

But it doesn’t have to be fitness-related. You could track pretty much anything: hours studied, books read, money saved, workouts, steps, or whatever your group wants.

I’m still working on it, so I’d really appreciate some honest feedback.

What do you think could be improved? Is there anything you would add or change? And most importantly, would you actually use something like this with your friends?

I’m not looking for compliments — I’d much rather hear what you think is bad or missing.

Thanks!

You can find the link on my only post.

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u/VonAksel — 5 hours ago
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Tired of screen time apps that don't actually work? I built one that makes you accountable, not just aware.

Most screen time apps just show you stats or block apps you can bypass in two taps. They don't create any real reason to change.

So I built one that adds actual stakes: get matched with an accountability buddy who sees your screen-time stats and keeps you honest, or join a challenge where you commit to a goal and put money on the line. Fail, and you pay. Succeed, and you build real discipline.

Waitlist is live now: screenchallengebuddy.com

u/AddendumSuspicious30 — 8 hours ago
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I built a game where forgetting to take a selfie can literally cost you money. This may have been a terrible idea.

After months of building this thing, the first-ever StreakWars game is finally starting.

The rules are borderline stupid:
📸 Everyone joins the same War
⏰ You have to post proof before the clock runs out
💀 Miss once = you’re fucking out
🏆 Last person still alive wins the pot

That’s it.

No XP. No levels. No 45-minute gaming sessions.
We built it because we’re adults with jobs, meetings, kids and approximately 11 minutes of free time…
…but somehow we’ll still spend 45 minutes talking shit in a group chat.

So we thought:

What if the group chat WAS the game?
Something you check for 30 seconds a day, talk an unreasonable amount of shit about, and slowly watch your friends get eliminated because Kevin forgot to take a fucking selfie on Tuesday.
And now we’re actually testing it.

WAR #001 starts soon.

Which is mildly terrifying because this will be the first real StreakWars game ever played.

The rules will probably evolve.
Something will probably break.
Someone is absolutely going to get eliminated in an embarrassingly stupid way.

And one psychopath is going to outlast everybody.

So before we start, Reddit gets to decide something:
What would YOU be most likely to survive?
A) Daily selfie
B) Outfit check
C) Photo of your lunch
D) Couples selfie
E) Something considerably more unhinged — comment it 👇

Also:
How many days do you genuinely think you’d last?
I’m saying 6 before half of Reddit forgets. 😂
If you find StreakWars right now, you’re ridiculously early.

No giant community. No polished corporate launch.
Just War #001 and a bunch of strangers about to find out who has their shit together.

May the least forgetful idiot win. 🫡

u/nchatterji — 9 hours ago
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[Promo] Beyond Alarm — 100 Free 30-Day Pro Codes 🎉

Title: Beyond Alarm — Stop Morning Doom Scrolling

App Name: Beyond Alarm

What it does: Beyond Alarm is a mission-based alarm designed to help you wake up without immediately falling into the morning doomscrolling loop. It makes you complete a wake-up mission and can lock distracting apps for a set period after you wake up.

Key Features:

Wake-up missions that make you get out of bed

Morning Lockout to block distracting apps after waking up

Multiple mission types including movement, walking, scanning, and more

Goal: Launch / Get feedback

🎟️ We have 100 free promo codes for 30 days of Beyond Pro!

To claim your free promo code:

  1. Leave a comment below saying you'd like to try Beyond Alarm.

  2. Send me a DM and I'll send you a unique promo code.

If you enjoy the app after trying it, an honest Play Store rating/review would really help us out ❤️

👉 Link:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.beyondalarm.app

u/Evening-View2359 — 12 hours ago
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I launched 2 SaaS. First failed brutally. Second hit $5k MRR in 3 months. What worked and didn't.

tldr: My first AI SaaS failed because I built blindly, outsourced marketing, and had no clear ICP. My second product hit $5k/mo in 3 months because I built an audience first, obsessed over SEO and distribution, and targeted a specific niche.

I launched my first AI SaaS last year, kept it alive for about a year now. It's making less than $50 mrr and i'm thinking of closing it.

Here's what went wrong:

  • I just built what I thought was cool and useful without confirming any traction.
  • Biggest regret is outsourcing marketing and distribution. I wasn't an expert and thought outsourcing was the best way.
  • The product didn't have a clear ICP at all. I kept adding more and more features, hoping to get more users but it just led to confusion and reaching absolutely no one.
  • Didn't solve my own problem. I wasn't using it daily, which made me lose motivation, and that carelessness was reflected in the product.
  • I didn't prioritise SEO and GEO. Never really studied how it works, didn't think it was important.

For the second one, I changed everything.

SocialCrawl launched in April this year and it's already making $5k a month in revenue and en route to $10K this July.

Here is what actually worked this time around:

  • I figured out distribution and marketing before I even decided what to build.
  • I built an audience first, growing to 5,000+ followers on Threads and 1,500+ on X.
  • Being a developer myself, I chose to build an API dev tool that I could easily market to my own community.
  • I built something that solves my own problem and was also validated by talking to my ICPs and researching communities.
  • My ICP was specific (developers building something based on social media data) and I knew where they were hanging around
  • I focused heavily on SEO, posting blogs and building backlinks from day one.

Overall, failing the first time taught me you have to know who you're selling to, show up where your users hang out and be obsessed with distribution.

u/dooddyman — 9 hours ago
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Prepare for your ProductHunt launch ahead of time

Hi all,

As i'm working on growing launchpact.io i'm seeing a lot of unprepped launches and as the day unfold they don't get much visibility and end up with a failed launch.

This is one of the reasons i build launchpact.io, if you have an upcoming launch do check it out and prep ahead of time, i also added this checklist that can give some hints too, have a read.

Good luck everyone!

u/Competitive_Tune_590 — 17 hours ago
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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 — 18 hours ago
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I made a tool to catch the boring SEO stuff that breaks after a deploy

I built Sitemapper after getting tired of checking a sitemap, then checking pages, then checking robots, then trying to remember what changed after the last deploy.

It does that in one pass. Give it a public site and it reads robots.txt, discovers XML sitemaps, checks live pages, and keeps a snapshot so later runs can tell you what actually changed.

The part I care about most is not an SEO score. It is catching boring regressions like a page turning noindex, a canonical moving, a URL disappearing, or the sitemap suddenly shrinking.

Free first scan, no account: https://sitemapper.oortstack.com/

If you try it on something weird or messy, I would like to know where it falls over.

u/OGMYT — 20 hours ago
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FREE Lifetime Codes for TKB Assistant | Offline AI + Android Toolkit

Update: Thank you all for the amazing feedback and for giving TKB Assistant a try! I really appreciate all the comments, suggestions and criticism. I honestly didn’t expect this much interest, and I’m already taking notes on things I can improve. 💚

App Name: TKB Assistant

What it does:
I built TKB Assistant because I wanted useful phone tools and an AI assistant in one place, without needing another account, subscription or cloud based AI service.

The main feature is JOLI, an AI assistant that runs directly on your Android phone. You download the model to your device and the actual AI processing happens locally, so it can work without an internet connection and your chats stay on your phone.

There are two models available, JOLI for more capable devices and JOLI Lite for phones that benefit from a smaller and faster model.

But TKB Assistant is more than just the AI.

Key Features:

Offline AI
Chat with JOLI directly on your device. No cloud processing is needed for your conversations.

Two local AI models
Choose between JOLI and JOLI Lite depending on your phone and the performance you prefer.

Storage Cleanup
See what is taking up space and find large files, duplicate files, old screenshots and other things you may want to remove.

Battery Health
Check battery level, health, temperature, voltage, charging information and charts showing how things change over time.

App Manager
See your installed apps, review their permissions and get a better overview of what has access to what on your phone.

Device Overview
Quickly check your storage, memory, battery and installed apps from one place.

Privacy
No account required and no tracking. JOLI runs locally on your phone instead of sending your conversations to an AI server.

Pricing
TKB Assistant is normally a one time purchase with lifetime access. No ads and no recurring payment.

Goal: Promo + honest feedback

Giveaway:
I have a limited number of free lifetime Google Play promo codes for people here who want to try the full app.

Just leave a comment if you want one and I’ll DM you a code while I still have some available.

If you do try it, I’d really appreciate honest feedback or critique, especially about JOLI, performance on your device, or anything you think could be improved.

Google Play:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=tkb.assistant.app

u/UnableBunch4470 — 1 day ago
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Street Football Gameplay So Far

As you might notice, some ui are a bit out of place compared to other stuff, and so I do plan on fixing the ui once I get done with the features and the logic of the game.

u/ApexSim — 16 hours ago

I am bad at marketing so, I automated it .

Hey guys I'm Rachel . I'm a developer. I enjoy building products, but I've always been terrible at consistently marketing them .

I'd launch something, post about it for a few days, then disappear for weeks because I'd rather spend my time coding.

So a while ago, I built a small internal tool to solve this for myself.

I gave it context about my product, automated most of the repetitive work around creating posts, and started using it to consistently put content out instead of manually figuring out what to post every day.

At first, nothing crazy happened.

Some posts got a few thousand views. Some barely got any.

But because the whole process was automated, I didn't really care. I just kept it running and focused on building.

Then one of the posts took off.

It eventually got close to 1M views and, more importantly, brought in around $1,000 in revenue for my product.

That was the moment I started looking at this little internal tool differently.

I originally built it because I was lazy about marketing and wanted something for myself. But after seeing it actually produce results, I started wondering how many other developers have the exact same problem.

So recently I've been cleaning it up and turning it into something other devs can use too.

Still early, but it's probably the most useful thing I've built completely by accident.

Here is the product if you want to try it - https://slizo.io

Here is the slideshow that got viral - https://www.tiktok.com/@matt.loves.me/photo/7646781936299461919

u/Medium-University219 — 18 hours ago
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Haunts.io — a companion app for Swarm that turns your check-ins into stories

I've been using Swarm since the early FSQ days - 15+ years and over 10,000 check-ins, a journal of my life that I felt compelled to keep. But I've had this recurring thought about how check-ins were like breadcrumbs that if you followed them would tell you a story about a person.

So I built Haunts, as in the places you visit repeatedly. It's a companion app for Foursquare/Swarm, using their APIs, that picks up where they left off - answering the question, what happens after you check in? With a sync to Swarm, you can check in the way you always have, and Haunts takes that history and turns it into stories about your trips.

https://haunts.io

Here's my idea behind my project. As I said, check-in apps only ever gave you part of the story. You'd log a place, maybe add a photo, and that was it, a single pin sitting on its own. What was missing was stringing those check-ins together, letting them add up into something that visualizes your travels instead of just recording them one at a time. Like you, I kept checking in despite years of no updates (I'm on Android) and a declining friends list as people stopped using it. But for me, down to 2 friends, I didnt stop because by then it wasn't about the app anymore, it was about the data. Haunts is what I built to finally write the stories I always wanted from my travels.

https://haunts.io/t/eb972427ffaa348d3565a796a0804556

Once you connect your Swarm account, Haunts goes through your check-in history and figures out your trips on its own, flights and road trips both. If you check in at an airport near your house and the next one shows up 2,000 miles away, it knows that's a flight and builds the trip around it. You can go in afterward and edit anything it gets wrong, rename things, adjust dates, merge trips it split apart. And if you forgot to check in somewhere, or couldn't at the time, you can add the stop later with the photo, the note, and everything else. A backfilled check-in earns no points and never touches your stats or the leaderboard, so it doesn't count as cheating, it just fills the gaps so a half-logged trip finally shows everywhere you went.

Haunts was built with several definitive objectives from the very start.

The anti-social social app. I left Facebook years ago and just recently deleted Instagram. I am so tired of the content that I didn't ask to see and the wasted time with ads that look like content and the general feeling that I am constantly being targeted for my money. The feed is only what you want of it - what you and your friends are doing and sharing with options to explore beyond.

Privacy first. Everyone starts out Private and your information is self contained. If you want to open up your journals to others, you can decide to share with just your friends of other users of the app to grow your feed to include people, like me, who travel often and love to post photos. You can share and unshare your trips easily.

No ads. None, and no plans or thoughts to ever have them. There is a subscription model built for frequent travelers and heavy users (these APIs and processing does have a cost), but its not enabled and for at least the next month or two everyone has full access to all Premium features automatically.

Now how it works and some of the features.

An Instagram-like feed. Built entirely from your check-ins, with your photos and videos woven in, so the feed fills itself instead of asking you to post separately.

Travel journals. A day-by-day account of the trip, built from your check-ins with an AI pass that fills in the gaps between stops. You don't write any of it. It's already there and you can tweak it.

Video recaps. One of my favorite features, taking the story and visualizing it. Haunts renders a video of the trip, flying, driving, walking, whatever it was, laid out as a timeline with your own photos in it, set to music. It makes one on its own, but if you want to direct it there's a full studio: pick the template, choose which photos land on each day, swap the music, set the cover frame, then re-render.

Live trips - Road Trips / Flights. You don't have to wait until you're home. Start a trip and it runs live, so the people following you can watch it fill in day by day while you're still out there. When you get back it seals into the finished write up.

Passport cards. One shareable image summarizing your travel, places you've been, countries, that kind of thing. Good to send someone or keep for yourself to show off your travels.

Lists. You can build your own curated lists of places, coffee shops in a city, a bucket list for a trip you're planning, whatever, and share them with friends or let people contribute to one together. If you're not coming from Swarm at all and you've been saving places in Google Maps instead, Haunts can import your Google Takeout archive directly: saved places turn into Lists, and your reviews and ratings come over with them. It's a real starting point even without a Swarm history behind you. Curated lists will become suggested lists for people visiting new places - you will be able to publish your lists of places you love and people who visit there can visit them, check in, and get recognized for completing your list.

Maps that show movement, not just pins. Flights show up as arcs across the map. Road trips highlight the roads you drove. It feels a lot more alive than a flat map covered in dots and visually looks like a much better representation of your adventure than just a pin.

Web parity. Except for check-ins, you can see and edit everything about your profile through the web. You need mobile for checking in (if you want to), but synced data is imported and configured on the web and you get more tools with the added real estate you dont have on mobile.

Wearables and Auto support. You can check in from an Apple Watch or a Wear OS watch without pulling your phone out, and there's Android Auto and CarPlay support so you can start a road trip from the car and let it build itself while you drive.

There's a web version and native apps for iPhone and Android, all getting real, regular updates. Every check-in it becomes a record that holds your photos, the weather that day, and the song that was playing, and an on-this-day card brings back what you were doing a year, or ten years ago as a memory. There's a lot on the stats side too, year-over-year totals, day-of-week patterns, stickers you earn for the places you hit, and a full Year in Review every December. And there's a friends feature, but it's not live tracking. You'll see something like "your friend was here two hours ago," never a real-time dot following someone around. I built it that way on purpose because I didn't want an app that was always recording where I was.

Haunts is what I always wanted Swarm to become and never did, a way of turning years of check-ins into a real record of the life I've been living.

I hope you find it as much fun as my friends and a couple hundred other people that have signed up already. :)

Haunts uses Foursquare APIs for venue information and nearby venues, we also use Google Places API for ratings and location information/hours.

u/michaeldpj — 24 hours ago