A few years ago I got into meditation, but I was disappointed by the apps out there. Calm and Headspace and Insight timer are great in some ways, but there's no imagination, or embodiment to the apps themselves. They keep meditation as this ethereal thing, very hard to approach from square 1.

So I made this Zen-inspired evaporating painting Practice, as an app (soon releasing on iPad, later on iPhone). It's called Serenity Sketch. It’s not meditation, it’s more about relaxation and introspection, adjacent to mindfulness.

Trouble is, there aren't really good 'comps' for it. I'm experimenting with App Store vids, to explain the app/game.

Based on this video, what do you understand this app is about? Is it grabbing enough? What would you change?

I’ve been working on a side project called Kiddings.

The premise is pretty simple:

Parents take an absurd number of photos, but some of the best childhood memories don’t really have a photo.

“Why is the moon following our car?”

The phase where everything your kid draws is apparently a dinosaur.

Calling spaghetti “basketti” for two years.

Saying something unexpectedly thoughtful like, “Maybe grown-ups get scared too, they just don’t tell children.”

Those are the things I personally wanted to keep.

So Kiddings lets parents save quotes, questions, everyday moments and milestones in seconds, alongside photos, videos and voice notes.

Everything is organized by child and age, so over time it becomes a record of who they were becoming, not just what they looked like.

It’s private by default, but you can invite family members into your family space too. The idea is to have one private place where parents and close family can preserve and revisit childhood together, without having to put those moments on social media.

And over the years, all of those little entries can become much more: something to search through, rediscover, look back on as a family, and eventually turn into a printable childhood keepsake if you want one.

I originally made Kiddings for my own family. It’s now become a full app and is live on both iOS and Android.

Website: https://kiddings.app/

iOS: https://apps.apple.com/in/app/kiddings-kids-memory-book/id6801072959

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

Would love to hear what people here think of the idea, the product, or where you’d take it next. Looking at the site/app, what is the first thing that yoou like or dislike?

Hey everyone!

A while ago, I shared NoteKar as a lightweight, privacy-first timestamp clicker. Over the past several months, based on your feedback, I’ve been working on a complete architectural evolution of the app.

Today, I’m releasing NoteKar v7.4.0, which I consider the definitive, feature-complete version of the app.

The Problem NoteKar Solves

Most habit and time trackers either:

1. Demand complex project setups, manual tags, and endless to-do list organization.
2. Force mandatory logins, collect telemetry, push subscriptions, or sync your private life to cloud servers.
3. Pretend that time is infinite.

NoteKar was built on a different premise: **Time is finite, and sometimes you don’t need an entire task management system, you just need an existential mirror of where your conscious hours are actually going.**

⏳ The Biggest Addition: Life Audit & The Cost of the Void

NoteKar v7.4.0 introduces the Life Audit Engine:

Every day is strictly divided into three buckets:

24h = Sleep + Logistics (Food, Commute, Routine) + Conscious Window

Any conscious waking hour not accounted for in deliberate focus sessions or intentional moments is calculated as the Unaccounted Void.

Instead of abstract streaks, NoteKar calculates:

• Conscious Waking Days Lost: How many waking days (e.g. 14h conscious blocks) vanished without a trace.

• Earth (24h) Days Lost: Equivalent full planetary rotations consumed by unrecorded time.

• Intentionality Ratio: What percentage of your conscious life was deliberately captured.

• 6 Audit Horizons: Today, 7-Day Weekly, 30-Day Monthly, 45-Day Habit Formation, 180-Day Half-Year, and 365-Day Planetary Year.

✨ What Else is in v7.4.0:

• ⏱️ Spatial Chronometer: An optically centered clock face featuring tall, bundled 144pt *Bebas Neue* typography with tabular figures (100% offline, zero network requests). Active stopwatch sessions are preserved seamlessly across mode toggles.

• 📜 Life Ledger (Redesigned History): IN and OUT punches are automatically paired into interval session cards with emerald/crimson connector rails and 1-tap live session completion.

• 📱 High-Density Compact Mode: A high-density timeline presenting 2x–3x more entries on screen by intelligently suppressing empty note containers.

• ✍️ Zero-Lag Note Entry: Overhauled text composition with auto-capitalization and zero keyboard frame drops.

• 📊 Executive Intelligence Hub: 90-day rolling activity heatmap and circadian rhythm charts computed locally on your device.

• 🌉 Obsidian & Logseq Markdown Export: Export clean Markdown journals with timestamps, duration metrics, and telemetry tables.

• 📅 .ICS Calendar Sync: Export tracked sessions directly as RFC 5545 calendar files into Google Calendar, Samsung Calendar, Outlook, or Proton.

• 🔍 Android Global Text Selection: Highlight text anywhere on your phone (Chrome, WhatsApp, Kindle) and tap *"Log in NoteKar"* to save offline notes instantly.

• ⚡ Tasker / MacroDroid Automation: Broadcast API (`ACTION_LOG_MOMENT`) and custom URL schemes (`notekar://`) to automate logging via NFC tags or quick settings.

• 🔒 Zero-Bullshit Privacy: Hardware-backed AES-256 database encryption via Android Keystore, App Lock, screenshot protection, and app-switcher privacy shielding. 0 analytics, 0 trackers, 0 ads, 0 network dependencies.

• 🌍 7 Offline Languages: English, Hindi (with Devanagari numerals), Spanish, French, German, Japanese, and Russian.

🔗 Links

• Website / PWA: https://notekarapp.vercel.app/

• GitHub Repository: https://github.com/dheeraz101/Notekar-Android

• Download Latest APK: https://github.com/dheeraz101/Notekar-Android/releases/tag/v7.4.0

The app is completely free, open-source under MIT, and runs entirely offline.

I’d love to hear your feedback, thoughts on the existential Life Audit concept, or any edge cases you run into. Thanks for checking it out! 😊

Sage remembers the things you don’t want to forget—with zero typing and zero cloud processing.

Traditional apps fail due to friction. Sage runs entirely on-device, capturing voice notes instantly via the Action Button, Control Center, or Siri Shortcuts. Say what you need once, and Sage extracts people, places, dates, and to-dos, surfacing them at the right place and time.

- "We're out of coffee" ➔ Shows your shopping list when walking into the store.  

• "Dave's birthday is on the 12th" ➔ Reminds you with a day to spare.  

• "Max is allergic to peanuts" ➔ Stored quietly on Max's page for future context.  

100% Private & Local: Smart features run entirely on Apple Silicon. No accounts, no sign-ups, and data never leaves your device. Works seamlessly with Action Button, Shortcuts, Widgets, and StandBy mode.

TestFlight: https://testflight.apple.com/join/7d9ncVZ5

Website: [sage]

Would love to hear feedback on the app and performance! Thanks!

* smart features require iPhone 15pro or newer, iOS 26 and above.

I don’t usually write posts like this, but tonight I was sitting there looking at SlabShot on my phone and thinking about what it actually took to get here.
And I’m exhausted.
For the last five-plus months, this thing has basically consumed whatever free time I had left.
I have a full-time job. I have three kids who seem to have somewhere to be every five minutes. I run card shows. I have a house, a family, responsibilities, and all the normal stuff that comes with being an adult.
And then, somewhere in the hours that were left over, I decided I was going to build an app.
There were a lot of nights where everyone went to bed and I opened the laptop back up.
A lot of days off that weren’t really days off.
A lot of sitting in the car waiting for one of my kids and pulling out my phone to work on something.
A lot of telling myself, “I’m just going to fix this one thing,” and realizing a few hours later that it was 1 or 2 in the morning.
Then getting up and doing everything again the next day.
And the ridiculous part is that this whole thing started because I was trying to SAVE time.
I love cards. I love buying them, selling them, doing shows, finding something I forgot I had buried in a box.
But I absolutely hated listing them.
I’d come home, look at a stack of cards I needed to sell, and just leave them sitting there.
Because I knew what came next.
Take the pictures. Figure out the exact card. Search for comps. Dig through sold listings. Try to decide what it’s actually worth. Look at the condition. Wonder if it’s worth grading. Create the eBay listing. Type everything out. Set the price.
Finally get one card listed.
Then look over and realize there are 75 more sitting there.
I just didn’t have the time.
And I kept thinking there has to be a better way to do this.
Why can’t I just take a picture of the damn card?
Why can’t something identify it for me?
Why can’t it find the comps?
Why can’t it look at the condition and give me an idea of how it might grade?
And if it thinks the card could grade well, why can’t it compare the raw value to the value at different grades and tell me whether grading the thing even makes financial sense?
And after all of that, why can’t I just hit a button and list it?
That was really the beginning of SlabShot.
I wanted one place where I could snap a card, identify it, pre-grade it, check the comps, and get it listed on eBay without spending my entire night doing it.
I wanted to get through 10+ cards in the time I was wasting doing one manually.
What I severely underestimated was how much work it would take to make something that complicated feel simple.
There have been bugs that made me want to throw my laptop.
Things that worked perfectly one day and broke the next.
Features I thought would take a few days that turned into weeks.
Late nights questioning whether anybody was even going to use this thing.
And definitely moments where I wondered why I was putting myself and my family through all of this for an app that started because I was too busy in the first place.
But I kept going.
Because every time I looked at those boxes of cards sitting around my house, I knew I couldn’t be the only person with this problem.
There have to be other dads with stacks of cards sitting in their basement because after work, dinner, homework, practices, baths, bedtime and everything else, the last thing they want to do is spend three hours creating eBay listings.
There have to be breakers and sellers who love this hobby but hate how much of their life gets eaten up by the boring part of it.
And there have to be collectors looking at a card wondering, “Is this actually worth grading?” who would love to have something give them a useful answer before spending the money to send it out.
That’s who I kept thinking about while building this.
Because I’m one of them.
SlabShot is finally at the point where I can pull out my phone, take a picture of a card, have it identified, get AI pre-grading and comps, see whether grading might make sense, and get that card listed for sale on eBay without bouncing between a bunch of different apps.
And seeing it actually work is a strange feeling.
Because nobody downloading it is ever going to see the 1:30 AM nights.
They won’t see the days off spent staring at a screen.
They won’t see me working on it from the car while waiting for one of my kids.
They won’t see the bugs, the frustration, the features that had to be rebuilt, or all the times I told my wife, “I swear I’m almost done.”
They’ll just see an app.
And that’s okay.
Because the entire point was to make something that saves people time.
I spent an absurd amount of mine building it so hopefully other collectors don’t have to waste so much of theirs.
There’s still plenty I want to improve. I’m sure people will find things that need fixing. And I have a list a mile long of things I still want SlabShot to become.
But for the first time in five months, I’m trying to stop for a second and appreciate the fact that the idea I kept thinking about while staring at stacks of unlisted cards is actually sitting on my phone.
I’m tired.
My family is probably tired of hearing the word SlabShot.
And I’m pretty sure I’ve aged about five years in five months.
But I built the damn thing.
And I’m proud of it.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/slabshot/id6789745296

After a fire, break-in, or water damage, the hardest part isn't the damage itself, it's remembering what you actually owned. Most people wildly underestimate the value of their belongings, which means they're underinsured without realizing it.

That's the problem I set out to solve with Hjemmeboka ("The Home Book").

How it works:

• Take a photo of a room -> AI recognizes the items in it, categorizes them, and assigns them to that room automatically
• Snap a photo of receipts to skip manual price entry
• Get a running total value per room and for your whole home
• Generate a ready-to-send PDF report for your insurance company in one tap

Why I built it: I realized I genuinely had no idea what I owned or what it was worth until I started using it myself, turned out to be a bit of a wake-up call for how underinsured I actually was.

You can check it out (with links to both App Store and Google Play): link to website is attached

The app defaults to Norwegian but has full English support built in (switchable in settings), prices currently show in NOK, but the core problem (being underinsured because you don't know what you own) is universal. If there turns out to be real interest outside Norway, I'll look at adding other currencies and tailoring the experience further for other markets. Curious whether this resonates outside Norway too.

Would love feedback, especially on the AI recognition flow. Happy to answer any questions!

I’ve always loved the idea of pen pals.

There’s something really nice about knowing that somewhere in another part of the world, there’s a person you’ve never met who is taking a few minutes to write something just for you.

But I feel like a lot of modern social apps have changed the way we meet people.

Everything is instant.

Reply quickly.

Get more followers.

Get more likes.

Keep scrolling.

Keep up.

Sometimes it feels less like meeting people and more like competing for attention.

I wanted to recreate something from the old days. The feeling of sending a postcard to someone, waiting for it, and actually being curious about what they might write back.

So I made PostBox.

The idea is pretty simple. Instead of immediately jumping into a chat with someone, you discover people through shared interests and send them digital postcards and letters. You take your time, write something meaningful, and wait for the other person to reply.

The app even tries to recreate that feeling of distance by making postcards take longer to arrive depending on how far away the person is.

And honestly, something funny happened while building it.

I've actually made a few pen pals through the process.

And I realized...

Maybe this is finally my chance to become good friends with people without accidentally falling in love with them. 😂

Because whenever I've met someone through Instagram or Facebook and we start chatting for a couple of days, somehow my brain goes:

"Oh, we have things in common. This could be something." 😂

With pen pals, there's something different.

You're not necessarily looking for a relationship. You're just getting to know another human being. You can talk about your country, your hobbies, your weird little daily experiences, books, food, travel, life, and slowly become friends. Yeah slowly, no pressure, no blue ticks, and just peace of mind 😅

And I really like that.

I think we need more spaces online where friendship doesn't have to become dating, followers don't have to become popularity, and meeting strangers doesn't have to feel like a competition.

That's basically why I built PostBox.

It's my little attempt to bring back the magic of exchanging postcards, just in a way that works in 2026.

If you miss slow conversations, pen pals, postcards, or simply meeting interesting people from around the world without all the social media pressure, I'd love to hear what you think. ❤️

And yes, I'm still hoping to become a good friend to people without developing a crush this time. 😂

📮 PostBox: https://hellopostbox.com/

Currently on Android, with iOS planned.

You don’t have to open Tracck and manually log everything.

Just tell Siri what you ate, and Tracck logs it for you.Obviously, for more complex meals, you can still scan and log them.And it’s not just food logging — you can also add tasks through Siri and keep your daily habits, tasks, and nutrition in one place.Trying to make tracking feel less like data entry and more like something that actually fits into your day.

Built this for Tracck. Would you use it?
LINK :https://apps.apple.com/in/app/tracck-calories-habits-todo/id6778776187

SlideGo — Your Presentation, Fully Under Control

Presentations shouldn’t be complicated.

SlideGo is a lightweight Windows presentation controller made for schools, events, meetings, churches, and other projector-based setups.

Connect your laptop to a projector using HDMI, select Extend in Windows, and SlideGo keeps all controls on your laptop while the projector shows only the presentation.

Key features:

• PPT / PPTX slide control

• Previous, next, and direct slide selection

• Built-in audio player — play or change songs without opening another app

• Separate laptop and projector screens

• Blackout mode with a custom school/event logo

• Fade and automatic transitions

• HDMI/projector detection

• Handles projector disconnect and reconnect

• Simple and lightweight interface

Everything you need to run a presentation without constantly switching between different apps.

SlideGo — Slides. Audio. Control. All in one.

Have an opinion or a question? Drop it in the comments below.

After months of development, I launched Budgetra, a free personal finance app built for anyone who wants both practicality and efficiency.

The main focus is solving a problem I deal with myself: keeping track of my finances and bill due dates without losing control. Key features:

• 🔔 Due date alerts (including same-day reminders)
• 💳 Installment payment tracking
• 👨‍👩‍👧 Family budget sharing
• 🌍 Available in 7 languages (en-US, pt-BR, es-ES, it-IT, nl-NL, de-DE, and fr-FR)

It's already live on the Play Store, and I'm actively fixing bugs and listening to feedback from anyone who tries it out. If you'd like to check it out and share your thoughts (good or bad!), I'd really appreciate it — it's a personal project and every bit of feedback helps.

👉 https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.budgetra

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/abys-habit-tracker/id6805454730

iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch. Solo developer, and this is hand-written SwiftUI, not a wrapper.

The reason it exists: most habit trackers only model "did the good thing today", so a habit you're trying to drop has to be inverted into a checkbox and it fits badly. Abys has an abstinence day-counter for going cold turkey and a "stay under X" reduction target for cutting back — and going over the limit records the real number rather than a failure or a blank. Cutting from ten a day to three, "I had five" is the data point that matters.

Also in there: yes/no habits, quantities, timers, a standalone Watch app with complications, Home and Lock Screen widgets, Control Center, Siri Shortcuts, Live Activities for guided routines, and Apple Health auto-logging from steps, active energy, HRV or sleep.

One engineering choice that shows up in daily use: no statistic is ever stored. Only log entries are, and streaks and rates are recomputed from them on read. So a widget can't double-count you, and you can change a habit's schedule months later without losing any history.

Free for 5 habits, no account, history and CSV export included. Pro is $9.99/mo or $79.99/yr.

My partner and I kept saving places we wanted to visit, experiences we wanted to try and ideas for the life we wanted to build.

Some were in Instagram saves, some in screenshots, some in notes…and most were eventually forgotten.

That’s why we started building Onwards.

It brings your vision boards, saved inspiration and actual plans together in one place. You can use it privately or share a space with your partner, family or friends.

Onwards is currently in its early testing stage, we’re now looking for 10 genuine beta testers to use it and tell us what they love, what’s confusing and what we should improve before launch.

I’ve shared a few screenshots below. If this feels like something you’d actually use, DM me your email and tell me briefly what you’d use Onwards for.

In return for your honest feedbacks, you’ll receive free lifetime access.

LFG! 🚀

The app helps you save and organize spots you come across on different apps (Google Maps, Instagram, TikTok, AllTrails, etc.) into one place you can categorize, filter, and search, instead of losing track of them across five different bookmarking systems. You can also add the same spot to multiple lists at once, like Hiking and Want to Go.

MyPlaces📍is live on the App Store, and I'm keeping it free right now while I finish up the Android testing phase.

People are downloading it, but what I actually need most right now is active feedback: what's genuinely useful once you're using it day to day, and what's missing or confusing.

If you're on iOS, I'd really appreciate you trying it out and sharing what stood out, good or bad.

If you're on Android, the app isn't public yet, but you can get early access as a closed tester and be one of the first to try it:

1. First: Join the tester group here - https://groups.google.com/g/myplacesapptesters
2. Then: Open this link on your Android phone to opt in and install - https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.saba.myplaces

It's listed at $1.99, but free during testing - don't let the price throw you off.

Happy to try out what you're building too.

I like the idea of journaling, but I’ve never been very good at actually sticking with it. Writing a full entry every day quickly starts feeling like another task. So I made Onyo.

The whole idea is that every day you choose just one word that describes the day, along with a color. That’s it.

Over time, those tiny entries build into a visual mosaic of your month and year, so you can look back and immediately get a feeling for how different periods of your life felt.

I deliberately kept Onyo extremely simple:

• one word per day
• one color per day
• visual calendar / yearly mosaic
• works completely offline
• no account required
• no ads
• no data collection
• no subscription

The goal wasn’t to replace proper journaling apps, but to make something for people who want to remember their days without having to write paragraphs.

Onyo is $0.99 as a one-time purchase. No subscription or additional purchases.

App Store:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/onyo-one-word-a-day/id6776732763

Hello there,

This is targeted at people in the US and Taiwan with Android devices. If that applies to you, this is the Closed Beta Test of our upcoming ARPG game: Dungeons Arise.

Current Gameplay

You'll find:

PvE — Boss fights and dungeon progression

PvP — Attack other players

Summons — Obtain unique, powerful heroes and build your team

Kingdom Management — Unlock, manage, upgrade, and defend your own Kingdom

... There's more to the game, but you'll have to find out for yourself!

Testing Period

US (UTC-7): September 7, 11:00 PM - September 15, 2:00 AM

Taiwan (UTC+8): September 8, 2:00 PM - September 15, 5:00 PM

Pre-registration

US https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kakaogames.dgar&hl=en_US&gl=US

Taiwan https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kakaogames.dgar&hl=zh_TW&gl=TW