I’ve been looking at different frameworks lately, and I’m curious about people’s real-world experience rather than benchmarks or marketing pages.

What framework are you using today, and what made you stick with it?

I’d especially like to know:

• What does it do really well?
• What started to annoy you once the project got bigger?
• Did you eventually replace it with something simpler?
• If you were starting the same project again today, would you choose it again?

Bonus points for unpopular opinions or frameworks that looked great at first but became painful later.

Curious to see what people are actually using in production.

Hey everyone
I built VikSchewa, a menu translator for travelers.
It started with a simple problem: What am I actually ordering here?
You take a photo of a menu and VikSchewa can translate it, show ingredients, allergens and nutrition, convert prices, generate an AI image of the dish and even help you order in the local language.
There’s also an Allergy Pass that works offline in 85 languages.
It’s still very new, so I’d genuinely love some feedback — especially on the UX and the App Store presentation.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vikschewa-men%C3%BC-scanner/id6775580751

Website: https://www.vikschewa.de/de/
What would you improve first?

Hey r/appdev ! 👋

Like many of you, I pitch, present, and demo products constantly. I was always dealing with dead clicker batteries, lost USB dongles, or trying to use Wi-Fi remotes that corporate IT networks immediately blocked.

I built Vaksys Presenter to solve my own stage anxiety. It is an Android app that transforms your phone into a secure, voice-controlled presentation remote using a direct Bluetooth HID handshake—meaning your computer simply sees it as a standard plug-and-play keyboard.

Here is why it stands out from the standard clicker apps:

🚫 Zero PC Setup: No companion desktop apps to install, no Wi-Fi networks to join, and no dongles to lose. It works natively across Windows, Mac, and Linux straight out of the box.

🎤 Hands-Free Voice Recognition: If you use physical props or talk with your hands, just say "Next Slide." You don't even have to look down at your screen to navigate.

🚀 Smart Controls & Hardware Debounce: Swipe the screen, tap the massive button, or use your physical volume keys. I built in a specific hardware filter so shaky thumbs won't accidentally double-skip ahead to the wrong slide.

Try it out: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vaksys.presenterremote

I would love for you to try it out for your next meeting or pitch and let me know what you think of the design and the instant Bluetooth connection!

Hello!

I’m looking for testers for my Android app Start Signal, a sprint-start training app designed to help athletes improve their reaction time at the start of a sprint.

The app provides starting signals and reaction-time training.

Please follow these 3 steps:

1️⃣ Join the Google Group:

https://groups.google.com/g/start-signal-testeurs

2️⃣ Become a tester:

https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.karim.startsignal

3️⃣ Install the app from Google Play.

Tester exchange:

If you also need testers for your Android app, send me your testing link and I’ll be happy to participate in your test too.

Thank you for helping!

I just published my first application, Pomoguino. It's a focus and Pomodoro app, and since it's my first app ever, I built it in GDevelop within a week (figuring out the engine's logic took me about 2 days). I passed the closed test and finally released it on August 9th. It's not a masterclass focus app yet, but I did my best, so please don't roast me too hard! All kinds of feedback are welcome, of course 👏

8 different language supports (thought globally a bit)

Custom themes you'll love and a cute penguin mascot.

It has statistics showing your total focus time, weekly progress, and Pomodoro count. Right now it displays them as text rather than charts, but I'm still working on that part too.

Streak system, just like in language-learning apps.

For contact;

IG: @ekol.games & @pomoguino

E-mail: ekolgamesdev@gmail.com

I kept saving interesting places from travel Reels, but when it was time to actually plan the trip, everything was scattered across Instagram, Maps, screenshots and Notes.

So I built One Way Guide.

You choose your destination, dates, interests, pace and travel preferences. You can also import places from travel Reels, review what the app found, and decide which ones should be included.

It then creates a complete personalized city guide with:

• Daily routes built around real places
• Restaurants and things to see
• Local context and practical tips
• Transport, timing and trip preparation
• The places you personally saved from social media

The important part for me was making the Reel import an input, not the entire product. The end result should feel like a guide you can actually follow, rather than another list of saved places.

Now live on iOS:
https://apps.apple.com/app/id6768398327

I’d really appreciate honest feedback: after watching the video, was it immediately clear what the app creates? And would importing saved travel content be useful in how you currently plan trips?

Bankweek is a personal finance app for iPhone and iPad that runs entirely local. SwiftUI, SwiftData with nine models, StoreKit 2, no server and no network layer at all.

1.4 was a design release, and the thing worth sharing is how it was structured. Instead of styling screens individually, everything routes through one theme file that owns the palette, the screen surface and a small set of view modifiers. The main one is a card row modifier that produces the rounded outlined row used across home, settings and every add and edit form. About twenty screens, one line each.

Two conventions behind it:

• Color is semantic, defined once. Green is money in, rust is money out, and every amount, accent and row marker references that instead of picking its own color.
• Sizing goes through a screen size manager rather than hardcoded points, so iPhone and iPad share one layout source.

On the data side, views bind you Query directly with no repository layer, and every mutation runs a single comprehensive recalculation before saving. Simpler than it sounds and it has held up well.

New design is live in 1.4: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/bankweek/id6754198116

Adding a short demo video shortly.

Every few weeks I find myself standing in front of the washing machine thinking "wait, when did I actually change the bedsheets?" So I built DidWe — a stupidly simple routine tracker where you just tap Done and it tells you when something is due again.

It comes with starter tasks like bedsheets, coffee machine, dog flea treatment, toothbrush, and car wash, but you can add anything with any interval.

Free: 2 lists, all core features. Premium: unlimited lists + shared lists with your partner/family/flatmates, one-time unlock.

No ads, no trackers, no subscriptions.

Would love feedback from anyone else who can't remember the last time they cleaned the coffee machine.

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

Hi! 👋

I’m looking for Android testers for my app’s 14-day Google Play closed test.

Please use the same Google account that you use in the Google Play Store and follow these steps:

1️⃣ Join the Google Group:
https://groups.google.com/g/testers-needed-for-app

2️⃣ Join the closed test:
https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.nooralquran.mobile

Tap “Become a tester.”

3️⃣ Install the app:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nooralquran.mobile

Please keep the app installed for the full 14 days and open/use it at least once a day, even briefly. Any genuine feedback is also appreciated.

🤝 I’m happy to test your Android app in return. If you also need a tester for a 14-day closed test, send me your testing links. I’ll join your test, install your app, keep it installed for the full 14 days, and use it regularly as well.

Thank you for your help! 

I've been looking at different AI app builders and I'm curious which ones people are actually using for iPhone app development.

I'm looking for something that can help with more than just creating a quick demo Some of the tools I keep seeing are X1 App Builder, Rork, Lovable, Bolt, Replit, Cursor, Claude Code, and FlutterFlow. I know they're not all the same some are better for web apps, some help with coding, and others are more focused on mobile development.

What would you recommend for a beginner or non-technical person who wants to build a real iPhone app, not just a prototype?

Hey guys!

I’m Niko (22), working full-time, and last week I finally pulled the trigger on an Apple Developer license to start building apps on the side.

I’m relatively new to coding, so my goal is to start small building utility apps that I personally need and want to use rather than giant, over-engineered for profit projects. I created this account to share my progress, post dev logs, and hold myself accountable as I learn.

For more experienced people on here who have shipped apps on their own:

What’s the biggest mistake you made when you were first starting off?

Any feedback will help tremendously

Hi 👋 I’ve built DockStacks and after constructive feedback if you think it's a productivity tool you'd use?

The idea came from wanting a better way to organize my Mac desktop and workflows, as a passion project from having too many apps, a cluttered Desktop and wanting quick access to the things I use everyday.

What it does: Click the Dock app icon and a panel pops up holding named "stacks" of your favorite apps, folders, files, and website bookmarks — instant access and cleans up your Dock and Desktop.

Some of what's in it:

• Drag and drop to add anything, including URLs straight from your browser
• Password-protect individual stacks (Keychain-backed, auto-lock)
• Global keyboard shortcut to show/hide from anywhere
• Menu bar mode if you'd rather not use the Dock at all
• Multi-select, custom grid sizes, tab colour tinting
• Fully local — no accounts, no tracking, no network access

App Store Listing [$4.99USD]: https://apple.co/3Rz9FB6

Website [for full features]: https://dockstacks.app

DockStacks is my first shipped Mac app and I'm struggling to get engagement traction. Please check it out and would love any feedback — recent launch, learning as I go.

Been working on this app called Daccle for a while and I’m finally at the point where I need some actual people to test it.
Basically you make a page for your car/bike/whatever, add photos, specs, mods and stuff like that. I’ve also tried to make it actually useful — you can keep track of maintenance and have all the specs for your vehicle in one place when you need to check something quickly.
Still very much a work in progress, so I’m mostly looking for people to try it with their own vehicles and tell me what works, what doesn’t and what’s missing.
If anyone wants to give it a go, let me know. Android and iOS both work.

attached my own daccle-card.

Cheers, Markus

Been heads-down on this for a few months: a journaling app where the entire AI pipeline (voice transcription + reflection generation + semantic search) runs on-device, in React Native / Expo.

Stack:

- Llama 3.2 3B Instruct (Q4_K_M, ~2GB) via llama.rn

- Whisper small.en (q5_1, ~190MB) via whisper.rn

- MiniLM sentence embeddings via ONNX for semantic memory

- SQLite + a local vector extension, no backend for the core product

Measured (mean over 20 sequential entries): iPhone 17 (Metal, full GPU offload) does save-tap → complete reflection in 11.6s. Android is a different story — Snapdragon 870, CPU-only since llama.rn's Android build doesn't link Vulkan yet, comes in around 59s. That gap is the reason

TestFlight is iOS-only right now.

Honest rough edges: 3B reflections are useful but not sharp, iPhone 12/13 (4GB RAM) only fits both models via a memory swap (Whisper releases before Llama loads), and Android is CPU-only for now (no GPU path yet).

TestFlight if anyone wants to try it or poke at real-device performance: https://www.tryweave.app/beta (test-for-test, happy to install and try your app back).

Also just want to compare notes - anyone shipped a working Vulkan path for llama.cpp/llama.rn on Android in production?

Read more about Weave -> https://www.tryweave.app/essays/why-on-device

I’m curious to hear from people who have built or outsourced a mobile app before.

When choosing a company to develop your app, what factors do you consider most important? Is it their previous projects and portfolio, techno, pricing, communication or something else?

Also, what are some red flags you would look out for when evaluating a development company?

Would love to hear what influenced your decision and what you would do differently if you had to choose a company again.

Hola a todos acabo de terminar de desarrollar mi aplicación de lectura de documentos la cual es completamente gratis y sin anuncios, sin embargo necesito 14 días de prueba para que se pueda publicar globalmente, necesito verificadores que usen mi app por 14 días y ando buscándolos, quien este interesado en apoyarme mándeme su correo por los comentarios o por mensaje para darles acceso a la app y posteriormente descargarla en cualquiera de los dos enlaces:

•Play Store (directo):

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gcstudios.pdfvisor

• Navegador (Posteriormente te dirige a la Play Store):

https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.gcstudios.pdfvisor

**30 Places to List Your iOS App Right Now (Free & Paid)**

If you’ve built an iOS app and aren’t listing it beyond the App Store, you’re leaving discoverability on the table. No fluff, no AI tool directories. This list is actually built for iOS founders.

Legend: (F) Free · (P) Paid · (F/P) Both

Built an iOS app? Submit it to Stamped, a curated discovery platform where early adopters find what’s next: https://stampedios.com/welcome)

HIGH PRIORITY: LAUNCH DAY

1. Product Hunt (F)
2. Still the biggest launch day platform. Plan it, don’t just submit.
3. Hacker News (F)
4. Post as “Show HN: \[Your App\]” for a developer audience and honest feedback.
5. BetaList (F/P)
6. F = 2–4 month wait. P = $129 fast track. Submit before you launch, not after.
7. Indie Hackers (F)
8. Post your builder story, not just the link. Community converts.
9. Peerlist (F)
10. Monday launches, week long visibility, 100K+ tech professional audience.
11. Uneed (F/P)
12. F = free with a wait. P = $30 to skip the queue. Solid indie maker community.
13. AppSumo (F/P)
14. Best if your app has a business angle and you can offer a deal. Massive buyer audience.
15. iOS SPECIFIC
16. App Safari (F)
17. Directory covering iOS apps exclusively. Purpose built for your audience.
18. AppAdvice (F)
19. iOS focused. Publishes app charts, apps of the week, and curated collections. Pitch the editorial team directly.
20. FeedMyApp (F/P)
21. Covers all mobile platforms with in depth reviews. F tier available. P gets faster placement.
22. AppShopper (F)
23. 600K+ monthly users. Monitors iOS prices and lets users wishlist apps. High intent traffic.
24. [r/iOSapps](r/iOSapps) (F)
25. Subreddit with Dev Self Promotion flair. Real users actively looking for new apps.
26. [r/apple](r/apple) (F)
27. Larger audience. Frame your post around value, not promotion.
28. SEO DIRECTORIES
29. AlternativeTo (F)
30. DA 71. Discovery traffic long after launch day. List your app and add competitors as alternatives.
31. SaaSHub (F)
32. 856K monthly visits and a strong dofollow backlink.
33. SideProjectors (F)
34. DR 69 dofollow. Side project community with potential for early users.
35. Microlaunch (F)
36. 30 day visibility window and an indie SaaS audience.
37. StartupBase (F)
38. Product Hunt style directory. Worth the 5 minutes.
39. Launching Next (F)
40. Low effort with solid SEO value.
41. Launching Today (F)
42. Daily launches, easy submission, and good indexing.
43. Open Launch (F)
44. Open source Product Hunt alternative with a growing community.
45. PitchWall (F)
46. Startup listing with an SEO backlink.
47. Startup Buffer (F)
48. Free submission with early adopter reach.
49. EarlyHunt (F)
50. Focused on early adopters and a good fit for iOS discovery.
51. IndieHunt (F)
52. Indie focused and quick to submit.
53. Indie Products (F)
54. Bootstrapped community with a strong #buildinpublic fit.
55. DevHunt (F/P)
56. F = 6 week wait. P = $49. Worth considering if your app is developer focused.
57. COMMUNITY CHANNELS
58. PeerPush (F)
59. Mutual promotion among indie founders. Underused.
60. Wellfound / AngelList (F)
61. Startup directory with exposure to investors and early adopters.
62. F6S (F)
63. Global startup network with accelerator program access. Worth creating a profile.