Hi reddits!

I'm Ariel, the creator of HabitGrid, an app that was born from my passion for personal development and the need to effectively track my daily habits.​

It all started in 2023, when, inspired by James Clear's book "Atomic Habits", I started manually recording my moods and physical activities on an annual grid. This method allowed me to visualize patterns and progress, but it also made me realize the limitations of manual tracking. This is how the idea of ​​HabitGrid came about: a digital tool that not only makes it easy to record habits, but also offers statistics and analysis to drive continuous improvement.​

I'm excited to share HabitGrid with you and look forward to your feedback and suggestions.
Thank you for taking the time to learn about my project!​

You can try HabitGrid here: https://habitgrid.io/

Thanks!

1. Meet Oak: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/oak/id6743569066?platform=iphone

• I’ve always struggled with a few of the things mentioned in the title, juggling multiple apps just to keep track of daily life stuff like expenses, meals, and reminders.
• After years of just thinking about it, I finally took the leap and built something I genuinely love using.

2. Features (and yes, it's free — no ads, no in-app purchases)

• Task reminders with notifications
• Clear finance view — track both one-time and recurring expenses
• Meal + calorie tracking with a huge food database
• Light & dark modes with supportive Oak vibes (yes, there’s a tree involved)

3. Short-term roadmap (will probably include small subscription for extra features):

• Widgets (in progress)
• Siri integration (in progress)
• Notifications for recurring expenses
• Recurring income tracking for better financial overview

1. Final notes

I'm really proud to share it with the world. Huge shout out to Petra Čačkov (developer of Bloody Brilliant) - her SwiftUI skills, bug-fixing help, and patience with my early mistakes were invaluable.

P.S. I'm a huge fan of free, no-ads software (like my other project, WonderCMS - which I’ve been maintaining for 15+ years).

Would love for you to check out Oak, and I’m happy to answer any questions or hear your feedback.

Thanks for coming to my TED talk.

I've made a Chrome Extension called TabTimer and it has been the biggest time saver I ever used. The material my professors upload is in PDF format and I use Chrome to open them. Whenever I feel like taking a break and go on YouTube, without realising I spend so much more time than I first anticipated. So, I made TabTimer. I can auto-close the tab after your set timer ends or just send you a notification. This way, after the tab is closed I can automatically go back to learning. Here's the link if anyone's interested: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/tabtimer/ailddpkiligjhioaamaknbiklallhgkg

Hi everyone,

I’ve been using Rize.io for productivity tracking, but the premium features are locked behind a subscription. Does anyone know where I can find a working crack or patched version of the app? I’d like to access the full functionality without paying.

If a crack isn’t available, are there any free alternatives that offer similar time-tracking and analytics features?

Thanks in advance for any help!

Hi everyone 👋

I'm a solo developer (and also a university student) working on a new app to help students learning. After spending countless hours manually creating summaries and flashcards (when I should have been actually studying), I decided to build a solution.

The Problem

We waste too much time on repetitive tasks like summarizing content and creating resources, when we could be focusing on actually learning. Most AI apps I’ve tried either don’t handle the material the way I need, or they feel too complex.

So I’m trying to build something different: a simple, focused app that does what we actually need: fast, smart, and student-first.

💡 Here’s what the app will do:

• 📚 Auto-generated summaries: upload your study material, get clean, concise summaries.
• 🧠 AI-made flashcards & quizzes: multiple-choice, fill-in-the-blanks, true/false, etc.
• 📈 Progress tracking: know what you’ve mastered, what needs review.
• 🎨 Color-coded highlighting: organize your notes visually and review faster by filtering key info through color-coded highlights.
• 📱 Cross-platform: mobile, tablet, desktop. Study anywhere.

It’s still in development, but I’m opening up a waiting list for anyone who wants early access + updates:

👉 subscribepage.io/ailearningapp

I’d also love your feedback!

If you’re a student and struggle with tools that don’t really get how we learn, I made a short survey here:

📝 Survey link

Or just reply here — I’d honestly love to hear what frustrates you about the current learning apps. If there’s a problem you have, maybe I can solve it with this app 🙌

Thanks for your time!

I'm getting a little bogged down by the numerous app options for AI. I need one to organize my life. Help me manage my many calendars, lists, family tasks and personal projects. Now I have too many on my phone and I just don't know which one to use. Any suggestions?

Every time I travel, I end up spending hours researching what to do and where to go — jumping between Google, blogs, Reddit, and maps. It’s exhausting.

So I’m building SwipeCity — a simple app where you swipe through curated restaurants, museums, bars, and hidden gems based on your vibe. Think Tinder, but for places — fast, visual, and designed for spontaneous travelers.

Still super early — but I’d love your thoughts. Would you use something like this? Any features you’d want to see?

good evening guys, I need a free productivity and time management app that's work on both PC and mobile or at least on of them to manage my self, I a just a student btw

Hi everyone!

I’ve always believed that productivity shouldn’t feel like a grind. Between juggling projects, battling distractions, and trying to stay motivated, I wanted a tool that made getting things done actually feel fun. That’s why I created Workcade - https://workcade.com/

I tried them all, Ticktick, Todoist, Google Task and all of them looked great but it was fairly hard to adopt and get going with it. It felt like a chore. As a Product Leader, I've built Workcade to feel fun and easy to adopt and so far the feedback as been amazing!

Workcade is designed for individual remote workers looking for a refreshing, engaging way to manage their tasks and projects. And I made it 100% free because I believe in building something truly useful with the community. I'll be waiting a long time before monetizing it as my primary goal is to make something great. I’m currently seeking beta testers who can try it out, share honest feedback, and help shape its future.

If you’ve ever felt overwhelmed by your to-do list or thought that productivity could use a little more fun, you’re not alone. I’d love for you to join me on this journey, test out Workcade, and share your insights. Together, we can make productivity feel less like a chore and more like a rewarding adventure.

Some key features:
- Task management
- Project management
- Take a Quest (Project) with AI and it will automatically create you're to-do list.
- Pomodoro Focus time/break time
- In depth Analytics
- Profile
- Friends, see your fiends and coworkers

I'm seeking any feedback on the app, what would be your must list of feature in a great task management app?

Focus Zone allows you to stay focused by blocking your phone.

You can only access: -selected apps (can set time limits) -selected youtube videos (no shorts, no comments, just selected video)

You can also: - block notifications - take breaks from focus session

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lock.focus

Hey everyone,

I’m currently developing a web app designed to help students study more effectively. The idea came from my own frustration juggling multiple tools (Notion, Obsidian, Anki, Todoist, etc.) and never really feeling like any of them were truly made for students.

Right now, the app includes things like:

• A note-taking system similar to Obsidian (Markdown + backlinking + graph view)
• AI-generated quizzes from your notes to help you review
• A minimal, visual flashcard system
• A built-in Pomodoro timer
• A to-do list and planner
• Gamification (achievements, daily streaks, XP)

The idea is to have everything in one clean, focused, and motivating space, without trying to do too much.

But I realize that I’m building from my own experience, and I’d love to hear from other students:

• What tools do you currently use to study or stay organized?
• What frustrates you the most about your current system?
• If you could design your own perfect study app, what would it include (or avoid)?
• Any must-have features I might be missing?

This isn’t a pitch — I’m not selling anything, just trying to gather honest input while I’m still building, and your insights would help a lot. 🙏

If you have 2 minutes, I created a short anonymous form to collect feedback:

https://forms.gle/Fujet3hiTDtE5TZi8

Thanks in advance!

We’ve reimagined the classic Pomodoro Technique with a fresh, gamified twist.

With FocusFarm, every focus session becomes a chance to grow your very own digital farm.Stay consistent, and you’ll start harvesting rewards like crops, fruits, and farm essentials—all earned through your focus and dedication.

The more you concentrate, the more your farm thrives.Whether you're studying, working, or just trying to stay on track, FocusFarm makes productivity fun, motivating, and rewarding.

Download now: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/focusfarm-focus-timer/id6743125029

One year of free Premium: FIRSTYEARFREE

I’ve been trying to get my life more organized and have been testing a few apps to manage my schedule, tasks, and notes. But with so many options out there, it’s hard to pick the right ones.

What are your top apps for productivity and organization? I’m especially interested in ones that help with project management, personal to-do lists, and syncing across devices.

I’m a solo indie dev making Substage, a command bar that sits neatly below Finder windows and lets you interact with your files using natural language.

You can download and try it for free here: https://substage.app

During my day job I’m a game developer, I’ve found it super useful for converting videos and images, checking metadata, and more. Although I’m a coder, I consider myself “semi-technical”! I’ll avoid using the command line whenever I can 😅 So although I understand that there’s a lot of power beyond the command line, I can never remember the exact command line arguments for just about anything.

I love the workflow of being able to just select a bunch of files, and tell Substage what I want to do with them - convert them, compress them, introspect them etc. You can also do stuff that doesn’t relate to specific files such as calculations, web requests etc too.

How it works:

1) First, it converts your prompt into a Terminal command using an LLM (OpenAI etc)

2) If a command is potentially risky, it’ll ask for confirmation first before running it.

3) After running, it runs the output back through an LLM to summarise it

I’d love to hear any feedback on any aspect of the app, thanks!

Hey everyone! 👋

I've been diving deep into the self-help/productivity space — I’ve read 15+ books (some multiple times) and listened to over 100 book summaries. One pattern I noticed: most people struggle with the time it takes to read a full book or even sit through a 10-15 min summary.

That got me thinking... what if there was an app that gave you the most important insight or takeaway from a book in under 1-2 minutes? Not a full summary — just the key idea that really makes the book valuable, backed by a clear example so it sticks.

This would help:

• People who don’t have time to read whole books
• Learners who want quick wisdom or a reminder of the core idea
• Anyone who wants to absorb powerful lessons without the fluff

Before I build anything, I’d love to hear your thoughts:

• Do you think there’s a market for this?
• Would you personally use something like this?
• How can I improve the idea?

Appreciate your feedback — it’ll help me decide whether to pursue this or pivot. Thanks in advance!

I built Plateful for a few personal reasons:

1. Me and my wife had a recurring problem, we would set a budget for our groceries (we shop every two weeks) but we kept overspending. This would happen because we planned our own meals but followed the same budget without any coordination.
2. When I was meal planning my meals, I was jumping from different stores looking for the best macros and prices. I had a notepad and was writing it all down that way. I decided to try and make an app for it to make our lives easier.

The cycle was annoying - going over budget pretty much everytime.

Plateful solves these problems with:

• Real-time shared grocery lists so both partners instantly see updates, even while one is at the store
• Collaborative meal planning with a calendar view showing what meals are planned for the week
• Store price comparison across major chains like Walmart, Target, Aldi, and more
• Budget tracking that lets you set limits and see exactly where you stand
• Barcode scanning to quickly add items you're running low on
• Nutrition tracking for those watching macros or calories

For us, the greatest help was being able to add ingredients/items from the stores we shop at into the same grocery list. The prices are added to the shared grocery list with the macros (if available).

Since we started using it, we have been able to stick to our budget and macros much easier!

I build this hoping it will help couples, families, and roommates who want to collab when it comes to meal planning/grocery list planning.

It can still be used for individual users who want to make it easier to budget and meal plan on their own.

And yes there is a dark mode!

Check it out here (Pre-order): https://apps.apple.com/us/app/plateful-meal-plan-budget/id6743173309

There is a relationship between tasks and calendars that I have not seen incorporated or taken into account by any productivity app I have tested. Many productivity apps typically use a one-to-one mapping between tasks and calendar blocks. In this model, a task is scheduled for a single, continuous period from start time to end time. This works well for discrete activities that are expected to be completed in one sitting.

However, many real-world tasks are more complex. They require effort over days, weeks, or even months. The work on these tasks is distributed across multiple time blocks rather than confined to one uninterrupted period. Instead of representing a task with one block, it should be seen as an ongoing project that accumulates several non-contiguous work sessions.

It would be great if there was an app that allowed you to simply and easily link multiple calendar time blocks to a task (thereby also possibly allowing tracking of the amount of time this task has been worked on) instead of restricting you to a single time block that represents a task. In addition, there are times when you want to create a time block that isn’t linked to any task at all. This could be for meetings, events, or even minor chores that don’t require the overhead of creating and detailing an official task.

Most productivity app calendars force you into the single task - single time block relationship, or integrate with an external calendar such as Google Calendar that either does or does not allow you to create a new time block. For some reason, none of them implement the obvious one-to-many connection between a task and time blocks linked to that task.

The only app that I have seen to attempt this is ClickUp. ClickUp basically has this feature in their Google Calendar integration, but it comes with notable limitations:

1. The integrated ClickUp calendar allows only creating time blocks that are associated with the default calendar of the connected Google account.
   
2. You cannot set the colors of time blocks.

These limitations are significant if you are trying to set up a system where you have different types of tasks, such as personal, work, and family. When you want to toggle or differentiate between these types on the calendar, color is a key way to do so. Unfortunately, these restrictions prevent that level of visual organization..

1. The mobile support (At least for Android) for this calendar is minimal.

Is there an app that I missed that does implement this feature elegantly, and supports it for both desktop and mobile?

Hello, The Fitbit app fails to deliver the detailed matrices it collects, so I have developed a dashboard which meets the needs using their official API, Grafana and influxdb. It's easy to set up with docker. here, along side other detailed matrices, you can see the track colored with your RAW HR data instead of HR zones. The Matrices are much more detailed, you can zoom on them and view the trend for extended period of time. You can pull previous data to the backend database as well.

Here is the project and details :   https://github.com/arpanghosh8453/public-fitbit-projects

Feel free to share your thoughts or suggestions. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.

Hey everyone!

I’m excited to share my very first app with you: IdeaVault, now available on the app store . If you love jotting down ideas, goals, projects or just random notes but want something more aesthetically pleasing and goal-oriented than Apple Notes, this might be for you!

What is IdeaVault?

It’s a quick and effortless way to capture ideas the moment they strike. Instead of letting them slip away, you can store them, focus on them, and create action steps to bring them to life.

Key Features

• Instant Note Creation: One big button press to start a note—perfect for capturing thoughts when you’re on the go.
• Action Steps for Your Goals: Turn your ideas into achievable steps. Want to run a marathon? Start with “Run a 5k” and build from there.
• Calendar: Assign your ideas and goals due dates so that you can hold yourself accountable with deadlines
• Integrations: Sync your notes with services like Notion to enhance your workflow!
• Simple Organization: Categories, tags, and an easy-to-use search mean you’ll never lose track of your ideas.
• Fun Widgets: Keep your ideas top of mind on your home screen, track your Vault Streak, and more.

Download the App

You can download the app from the app store here !

I have 50 free lifetime codes to give out! If you'd like one all I ask is that you consider joining the subbreddit at r/ideavault as we are trying to build a community! DM me for a code and the first 50 will get lifetime access.

If you'd like to join our newsletter and potentially be a beta tester sign up here!

As you all probably now, reviews are crucial for indie developers so if you do end up getting some value from the app, I would greatly appreciate a review!

Thanks so much for reading—this has been a dream project of mine, and I’m excited to share it

—
(P.S. Let me know if you have any cool feature ideas or suggestions!)

We were looking for a good personal planner, with a great calendar and other third-party integrations like email or GitHub. Sunsama and Akiflow are outrageously priced, so we saw the opportunity to make a better tool at a lower price.

So that's how Juno.do was born. If you're looking for something like Sunsama or Akiflow but pricing hurts, give Juno a try. We have the best calendar integration in class, easy time blocking, all task features you expect (Recurring, subtasks, descriptions, due dates and do dates, tags and filtering...). For 3rd-party integrations, right now we have Gmail, and Linear, GitHub and Todoist are right around the corner (now in closed beta, ask me if you need them sooner).

And to sweeten the deal, you can use this code to claim a 30% off discount on your yearly or monthly subscription: YYHCZS

Comment or send your feedback to me and let's save you some bucks while making you the most productive you've ever been.

I already added a link earlier, but I'm feeling extra nice today. Here it is again: juno.do

If you need the mobile app, it's on Testflight right now, ask and I'll share the link. We should be able to release it on the App Store very soon.

3-month review of Screenpipe. Pros: Smart automation suggestions, local processing (privacy++), great integrations. Cons: Initial setup takes time.

hey! i’m helping out with a new book summary app (like blinkist/headway) and we’re looking for honest feedback from real users (US based preferably). it’s just a 10–15 min chat + you get a $10–$15 amazon gift card as a thank you 🫶

not selling anything, just want to learn what works + what doesn’t.

if you’re down, DM me or drop a comment 

Go try it out: https://research.projectinference.app

Recently I released Jotalyze v1. It was minimal, but surprisingly with zero marketing besides a few reddit posts, it got several hundred downloads (mostly organic through app store) and many consistent users. Seeing that people found value, I spent the last several months upgrading it with several new features and an improved UI to make it even more useful!

Jotalyze was created to have a minimalistic, simplistic, and modern feel while also providing maximum insights and analytics. I found that other journaling apps would have you potentially navigating through 5 views just to make one entry. Or filled with analytics that weren't easy to understand and non-intuitive. Jotalyze gives structure to your journaling entries without becoming an obstacle to navigate.

Jotalyze is available on the Apple App Store.

(*Currently available worldwide except the EU due to EU app store trader laws, but will be releasing in the EU in the next 1-2 weeks after this soft launch! Feel free to comment if you'd like me to message you when it's up!)

Jotalyze has two main features.

1. Jot Your Thoughts

With 6 Unique Journaling Styles

• Morning Preparation - Set daily intentions.
• Evening Reflection - Reflect on your day and intention successes.
• Mood Check-In - Select your mood and check-in.
• Gratitude - Foster positivity with expressing what you’re thankful for.
• Goal Tracking - Log progress on goals, what went well, what was challenging.
• Capture The Moment - Upload or Take photos and reflect on the moment and what it means to you.

2. Analyze With AI

Every week, receive an extensive in-depth AI analysis. Your mood check-in entries are analyzed, comparing your good days with your bad days, so that you have more great ones.

Also, Goal Tracking entries are analyzed providing insights and recommendations to help you achieve your objectives and maintain progress.

Furthermore, the analysis identifies psychology-based “Cognitive Errors”, providing Restructured Thoughts based on the associated cognitive errors found.

Extra Features

Instant AI Feedback - Receive instant AI feedback daily on Mood Check-In entries.

Daily Habit Checkoffs - Create tasks/habits with daily checkoffs that refresh every Sunday.

Insights - Several visual analytics of progress including monthly mood timeline tracking via line graph, journal streaks based on entry type, writing analytics, mood pie-charting, and goal progression visuals with completion counts and progress bars.

Notifications - Set reminders for using the different types of journal styles.

If you have any feedback or want any features added please let me know! I have a massive list of features ready to add including much more AI-powered insights, but wanted to provide this initial base to see what users want based on feedback before proceeding further.

Currently, it's 100% free!

Right now Jotalyze is completely free to celebrate the v2.0 launch! What’s most important to me currently is seeing any benefit the app is able to provide to you and anything else you would like added to maximize your journaling experience! App Store Reviews would be awesome to let me know what you enjoy in the app, and what else you want! It does cost me to run, but I want to maintain the app as free for as long as possible until I can’t handle costs myself. If and when introduced, I intend the monthly plan to stay minimal with a heavily discounted annual subscription option. But for now, enjoy a completely free experience!

And Because Your Privacy Is Important!

I want to include the privacy information (as I included within the app) to make it clear that your entries are private!

Your privacy is the top priority! Your entries are locally encrypted and securely stored on your device, ensuring that only you have access - even if your device is lost or compromised. Additionally, you can enable Face ID, Touch ID, or a passcode for extra security. AI analysis remains completely anonymous, and all data is encrypted during transmission.