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Six apps in one · Now on the App Store

One encrypted home for your plans, notes, and net worth.

Six apps in one: planner, notes, journal, PDF reader and editor, spending tracker, and net worth tracker. AI suggestions, rewrites, and summaries when you want them, encrypted on your phone whether you want them or not. Replaces five subscriptions.

DayCast

Plan, capture, reflect, track

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New apps we love

Now on the App Store, and coming soon

8 live, 1 in review, swipe to browse.

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Top of the studio chart

Released apps first, then the ones still moving through Apple's review.

9 apps
  1. 01

    DayCast

    Plan, capture, reflect, track

    Productivity EN, ES 4+
    New Get
  2. 02

    VeraCast

    AI weather, radar, and alerts

    Weather EN, ES 4+
    New Get
  3. 03

    VitalLedger

    Pet care, records, reminders

    Lifestyle EN, ES 4+
    New Get
  4. 04

    Holdwise

    Calm dividend tracker

    Finance EN, ES 4+
    New Get
  5. 05

    Plantilla

    Workers' rights, in your language

    Productivity EN, ES, + 8 more 4+
    New Get
  6. 06

    Steady

    Sleep for shift workers

    Health & Fitness EN, ES 4+
    New Get
  7. 07

    Kynd

    Focus for ADHD brains

    Productivity EN, ES 12+
    New Get
  8. 08

    Libreto

    Draw, plan, journal & PDFs

    Productivity EN 4+
    New Get
  9. 09

    Renewl

    Subscription & trial tracker

    Finance EN 4+
    New Pre-register

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Also in flight

3 more in TestFlight beta.

Closed beta or active build today. Same privacy first, bilingual, on device AI playbook as the rest.

FlickDrop app icon

FlickDrop

Movie and TV price-drop tracker

In development

The smart way to buy the movies and shows you want to own. FlickDrop watches iTunes and other store prices for the films and TV seasons on your list, then alerts you the instant one drops. See lowest, current, and highest price at a glance, plus trailers, cast, critic scores, and real user reviews, all in a fluid Liquid Glass design.

SwiftUI SwiftData Swift Charts
Talewright app icon

Talewright

Offline AI story adventures

In development

A choose-your-own-adventure your iPhone writes as you play, fully offline and private. Every path branches to a brand-new scene, and you can save the tales you love to a private Library that syncs across your devices through your own iCloud. No account, no ads, nothing ever leaves your phone.

SwiftUI Foundation Models Image Playground
VitalCast app icon

VitalCast

Your health, explained

In development

VitalCast reads your Apple Health data on your iPhone and writes you a plain-language briefing of what changed and what is worth a glance, every insight traced to a real, peer-reviewed study. Log the gaps Apple Health misses, medications, symptoms, and vitals, and keep it all private. No account, no upload.

SwiftUI SwiftData HealthKit

Sponsored

From the blog

Reading worth your time.

Plain-language writing on tech, workers' rights, investing, on-device AI, and privacy.

The new Siri active on an iPhone home screen in the iOS 27 beta, shown on a dark gradient.
TechOn-device AI

One week with the new Siri, and the honest verdict

A hands-on look at the rebuilt Siri in the iOS 27 beta, a week in. A dedicated app, conversation history, context that actually holds, Write with Siri, the waitlist, and the honest caveats, including the Google model in the cloud. Screenshots from a device running the beta.

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The iPhone About screen showing iOS Version 27.0, on a dark gradient.
Tech

Should you install the iOS 27 beta? A plain guide

Who should install the iOS 27 developer beta, who should wait for the public beta, which iPhones are supported, the release calendar, and how to report bugs to Apple. A practical guide, with screenshots from a device running the beta.

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The Siri settings screen in the iOS 27 beta showing a conversation-memory control, on a teal gradient.
PrivacyOn-device AI

The privacy question hiding in the new Siri

The new Siri is great, and it leans on a Google Gemini model in the cloud. A plain look at what runs on your iPhone versus what leaves it, the new conversation-memory control you should set, and how to think about the seam between on-device and cloud.

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Privacy-first iOS apps that quietly solve everyday problems.

From a weather app that writes you a morning briefing to a workers' rights companion that speaks ten languages. Every app follows one playbook: native SwiftUI, on-device AI where it makes sense, bilingual from day one, and no tracking, ever.

8 live on the App Store · 1 in review

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