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Indie apps built by developers we know. No affiliate links, no paid placements, no revenue share — we just think they're good, and this page is where we say so.
Habit tracker for developersby Vladyslav Glogus
5.022 ratings
A habit tracker styled like the terminal you already live in — monospaced, keyboard-first, and quiet about it. Five tracking modes, routines, streaks you can shield from one bad day, and a GitHub-style contribution graph of your whole history. There's an Apple Watch app, nine widgets, a browser version, and 23 themes if Tokyo Night is your thing. Local-first, works offline, and the core is free.
A quiet home for physical keepsakesby Chaotic Good Creations
5.02 ratings
For the shoebox of children's drawings, birthday cards and handwritten letters you can't throw away but never actually look at. Photograph them, sort them into Memory Boxes, and revisit them properly instead of leaving them in a drawer. There's no account, no feed and nothing to share — it's a private archive that syncs through your own iCloud. Free to start, with one optional subscription for unlimited keepsakes.
Trip planner and packing listby Michal Ferak
4.810 ratings
The packing list you keep retyping in Notes before every trip, except this one knows where you're going. It builds the list from your destination, dates and activities, using the forecast for trips that are close and historical weather for the ones that aren't. Baggage Check flags the power bank in your checked bag before airport security does, and there's a currency converter, reusable templates, Siri and Shortcuts, and a widget that turns your next trip into a boarding pass. No account, syncs through your own iCloud, and the first journeys are free.
HRV recovery and readiness scoreby Siddharth Natamai
4.08 ratings
Recovery scoring without buying a band or a ring — it reads HRV, resting heart rate, sleep and recent strain off the watch you already wear and turns them into one readiness number each morning, with a plain-English reason attached. Rex, the built-in coach, answers questions about your own training data, and the plan adapts to how recovered you actually are instead of following a fixed calendar. Logging a set takes a voice note or an NFC tap on the machine, and a muscle map shows what you've been neglecting. Free to start, with a Pro tier for unlimited coaching and full history.
Blood sugar, insulin and medication logby Seou B. Hounkanrin
4.510 ratings
A glucose log that bends to your therapy rather than the other way round: turn insulin or pill tracking off if they don't apply to you, and the app stops asking about fields you never fill in. Readings come straight from Apple Health, so anything writing there — Dexcom, Accu-Chek, InPen, OneTouch — lands without retyping, and manual entries take seconds. It turns all of it into time in range, estimated A1C, and 7-, 14-, 30- and 90-day trends you can actually take to an appointment. Free to download.
Device mockups from screenshots and recordingsby Lazare Kolebka
4.621 ratings
Drop in a screenshot or a screen recording and it comes back framed in a device, with the status bar rebuilt to a clean 9:41 and full battery — on every frame of a video, not just the first. Zoom keyframes let you punch in on the tap you actually want people to notice, so a flat screen recording turns into something worth watching. It runs on iPhone, iPad and Mac, and the Mac app ships an MCP server, so Claude Code or Cursor can frame a whole folder for you. Free to try.
World clock and time zone comparisonby Michal Ferak
5.02 ratings
A world clock that answers the question you actually have — is it a reasonable hour to message this person? Each city shows the time, the offset and the phase of day, so morning, night and who's inside working hours read at a glance instead of after mental math. Cities group into Work, Family or Travel, and the widgets put the ones you check most on the Home Screen. Free.
Profile picture makerby Martin Siptak
5.04 ratings
For the once-a-year afternoon lost to making a profile picture that doesn't look like a snapshot. It cuts your portrait out in a tap, then lets you build around it — a colour, a gradient or your own image behind, liquid glass over the top, light overlays to tie it together. Everything happens on the phone and the work syncs through your own iCloud. Free.
Habits, tasks and focus in one placeby Eusebiu Balan
5.05 ratings
A habit tracker, to-do list and focus timer that share one score, so a finished task, a checked habit and half an hour of deep work all count toward the same XP and the same year grid. Habits take flexible schedules and let you skip a planned day off without losing the streak; tasks parse plain language like "call dentist tomorrow at 3pm". The gamification is the point — 100 levels, badges, monthly leaderboards — and there's a web app and an Android app on the same account. Generous free plan, Pro for unlimited habits and tasks.
Ratings and review counts checked September 2026. The App Store has the current numbers.
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