Today's release marks the 6 month anniversary of the Indie Watch newsletter. In the beginning, my goal was to help other indie developers avoid the mistakes I and others had made. I wasn't sure what to expect and was even less certain that people would enjoy the interviews, let alone
Today, we're looking at Metadata for Fastlane Tools by Nicolo Stanciu. If you're already using fastlane to manage your iOS releases, today's app will make it even easier for you to manage and localize your app's metadata. 💡fastlane is an app automation tool that helps you automate your app releases.
Today, we're looking at Box Box Club by Kamal Kumar Lakshmanan and Ranjith Ramanan. Box Box Club allows Formula 1 fans to easily follow their favorite drivers, race stats, and constructor positions right from their device's Home and Lock screens. Box Box Club makes it easier to stay on top
Today, we're looking at Pocket Rocket by Tim Isenman. As someone who went to space camp religiously as a kid, I still love watching rocket launches and Pocket Rocket lets me do just that. It helps me to keep track of all upcoming SpaceX launches and reminds me when they're
Today, we're looking at Pi-hole Remote by Joost van den Akker. The Pi-hole is a DNS sinkhole that protects your devices from unwanted content without the need for any client-side software. In simple terms, it works as an advertisement and tracking blocker across all of the devices connected to your
Today, we're looking at Noir by Jeffrey Kuiken. Noir is a Safari extension for iOS that automatically adds dark mode support to every website you visit and makes browsing the web at night a breeze. As soon as you start loading a website, Noir quickly analyzes the page and generates
Today, we're looking at Swipewipe by Adam O'Kane. Swipewipe is a simple, fast, and elegant iOS and iPadOS app that helps you clean up your camera roll. You can easily go month-by-month through all of your photos, videos, screenshots, etc., and decide - one by one - what to keep
Today, we're looking at Happyfeed by Matt Kandler. Happyfeed is a daily photo journal focused on mindfulness and gratitude. It hopes to change the way we view mental health — not as a personal struggle, but as a crucial part of daily life that benefits from social support and building healthy
Today, we're looking at CardPointers by Emmanuel Crouvisier. CardPointers helps people get the most out of their credit cards by maximizing the points they earn and ensuring that they never miss any recurring offers. Most users save $750+ per year! While it was originally launched as a web app at
Today, we're looking at Structured by Leo Mehlig. Structured is a visual planner that helps people take control of their lives. By combining your to-do list with your calendar, you'll have a more structured overview of your day. With Structured, you can break your day into manageable tasks and visually
Today, we're looking at LockFlow by Tiago Martinho and Andrés Pizá Bückmann. LockFlow is an iOS 16 app that lets you add widgets to your Lock Screen and Home Screen to easily trigger your favorite shortcuts. You can use LockFlow to replace system default apps (i.e. camera), play your
Today, we're looking at Vidimote by Felix Schwarz. Vidimote is a Safari extension for macOS and iOS that lets you easily control web videos with advanced controls for playback, speed, jumping backward / forward, Picture-in-Picture, AirPlay, volume controls, and much more. Let's take a closer look at some of Vidimote's features.
Today, we're looking at Dime by Rafael Soh. Dime is a beautiful expense tracker that makes it easy to monitor your expenditure and take ownership of your finances - not to mention that it's 100% free without any ads or paywalls 🙏. Notable Features * Insightful expenditure breakdowns over various time periods.
Today, we're taking a look at Vivid by Ben Harraway Vivid allows users to double the brightness of their MacBook Pro and Pro Display XDR system-wide! The new MacBook Pros and the Pro Display XDR have displays that can go up to 1,600 nits of brightness. By default these
Today, we're taking a look at Batteries for Mac by Rony Fadel. Batteries for Mac tracks all of your devices' batteries from the Menu Bar, Touch Bar, and the Batteries Widget. Your devices will alert you if their batteries are low so you can remember to recharge them. “I miss
Today, we're taking a look at Focused Work by Michael Tigas. Focused Work is a powerful timer that helps you have highly productive days. Inspired by the Pomodoro Technique, it’s purpose-built for people who want to focus for long periods of time. Focused Work helps you become more accountable
Today, we're looking at Posture Pal by Jordi Bruin. Posture Pal helps you improve your neck and shoulder posture by using the motion sensors in your AirPods (3rd Generation), AirPods Pro, AirPods Max, or Beats Fit Pro. The application continuously monitors your neck tilt and alerts you when bad posture
Welcome to an early release of the Indie Watch newsletter! I'm delighted to have Antoine van der Lee, the creator of SwiftLee and RocketSim, as our special guest today. In case you don't know Antoine, he's the mobile lead at WeTransfer and the brains behind the wildly popular SwiftLee blog.
Today, we're looking at LaunchBuddy by Florian Schweizer. LaunchBuddy helps you streamline your indie iOS development workflow. It helps you easily manage your app releases, document your app ideas, and standardize your release process. Notable Features * Manage app ideas: organize all of your app ideas in one place. * Track app
Today, we're looking at Pestle by Will Bishop. With Pestle, you can plan meals, save and edit recipes, discover new recipes, and easily share them with friends and family. Notable Features * Import Recipes: import recipes from all of your favorite websites, including BBC Goodfood, NYT Cooking, Tasty, and thousands more.
Today, we're looking at Highlighted by Damir Štuhec. With Highlighted, you can highlight books effectively, and stop forgetting what you read. Damir's app makes it easy to organize, revisit, and export book highlights. Feature Highlights * Best-in-class text recognition with smart sentence and paragraph detection * Photo highlighting * Custom tags & notes * Easily
Today, we're looking at a music app called TuneTrack by Aryan Nambiar. This is genuinely one of the most inspiring stories I've heard from anyone I've interviewed thus far and I'm going to do my best to try and hide my jealousy 😉 ... TuneTrack lets you view your music statistics anywhere
In today's issue, we're going to take a look at Heart Reports by Viszt Péter. Heart Reports is a free app (with in-app purchases) that allows you to export beautiful and detailed PDF health reports using the data from the iOS Health app. With these data-filled reports, Heart Reports provides
In today's issue, we're going to take a look at Weather On The Way by Piotr Knapczyk. Weather On The Way is a new kind of weather app – it provides a weather forecast for a route. By combining navigation with the weather, you can plan a route to your destination
This week, we're going to take a look at Chime - a minimalist text editor for macOS. Chime was created by the husband and wife team Matt Massicotte and Tania Slywynskyj. They wanted to build something that blended modern IDE features with a minimalist user interface. The goal was to
Welcome to the inaugural release of the Indie Watch newsletter! Today we're going to take a look at Five/Three/One created by Gabriel Royer. During his recent Hacker News post, Gabriel outlined some of the strategies and approaches he used to build, grow, and monetize his app - we'll
Indie Watch is an exclusive weekly hand-curated newsletter showcasing the best iOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOS apps from developers worldwide. Our mission is to highlight the accomplishments and creativity of independent developers by providing a platform for them to share their ideas, their passion projects, and their stories. Every week,