indie apps made by developers I know personally. no affiliate links, no paid placements, no rev-share — I just think they're good.
recovery scoring without buying more hardware — no band, no ring. it reads hrv, resting heart rate, sleep and strain off the watch you already wear, turns them into one daily score, and an ai coach tells you whether today is a training day or a rest day. the widgets are the best part: body battery drains like a real battery, sleep renders as the actual stage timeline of your night.
for the shoebox of children's drawings, letters and cards you can't throw away but never actually look at. photograph them, sort them into memory boxes, and revisit them properly. no account, no feed, nothing to share — a private archive that syncs through your own icloud.
a glucose log that bends to your therapy instead of the reverse — turn insulin or pill tracking off if they don't apply, and the screen stops asking about fields you never use. logging takes seconds, readings come straight from apple health (dexcom, accu-chek, inpen), and it turns them into time in range, estimated a1c, and 7/30/90-day trends.
you retype the same list in notes before every trip and still pack for weather that never shows up. this one checks the forecast first if you're leaving soon, what that place is normally like that week if you're not. then flags the power bank you put in the checked bag before airport security does. no account, and it syncs through your own icloud.
the screenshots are the part of shipping that eats a weekend — ten of them, times iphone, ipad and mac, times every language you ship in, and one changed headline means redoing the lot. here you build the layout once and the locales fall out of it. it pushes the finished set to app store connect and google play itself, so you never open the upload page.
building something good on your own? if your app would fit this list, email hello@inithabits.com and we can talk about pointing at each other's work.
it's an indie app made by an actual person, it's not a subscription trap, and you're happy to link back — that's the whole bar.
