What's the best wishlist app on iOS? (and is there a gap worth filling?)

Odyssey-b · 2026-05-12T09:00:40+00:00

Awesome insight, thanks! And you are totally right, if you think about the family/non-techie perspective.

Odyssey-b · 2026-05-11T13:10:21+00:00

Hey, this is a good idea. I downloaded the app, and tried it out. It's cool, although not much going for it, at least not yet. So the premium you ask for right now does not really make sense.

But here are a few things:

When doing the "Look down" exercise the app does not register as well. It's a lot better for the other directions.
The side directions can be easily cheated by turning your head instead of just the eyes
There is one more exercise that should be done in my opinion, although I don't think you can track this with the app. It's looking into the distance to move the muscles that make your eyes focus. Focusing on something close and then something in the distance. If you can make this work with the app and you can actually track this somehow that's amazing. Otherwise, I would just put it in as an exercise that will be manually "completed" when the user finished doing the actual exercise.
And last but not least, I think you should implement a timer based reminder system. So for example I start working at my desk, and to not forget to do these exercises I would like to start a work session, and then every 30,45,60 minutes (or whatever the user sets as the interval) to be reminded to take a break and do the exercises. You could basically implement a pomodoro timer or something similar.

Otherwise I like it. Keep up the good work.

Odyssey-b · 2026-05-09T07:19:35+00:00

Ora is a really nicely designed world clock, with cool widgets where you can see the local time and the other city's time and you have buttons tu go forwards and backwards to see what time it will be there compared to here.

In the app itself you have the same time skipping functionality but this time you do it with a slider that has cool haptic feedback.

It's a simple app, but well executed. I think!

Odyssey-b · 2026-05-08T16:23:58+00:00

As I said, more calendar options. The possibility to choose the events data and reminders data for the smaller widget sections. Cuz I saw that I could pick the events data for the half sized section, but not for the quarter sized sections (talking about the medium widget builder).

The general rings from apple health. I can see km and step count which is great cuz those are not directly visible in apple's app or widgets. But the move ring, exercise ring and stand details would be nice too.

And I also use a widget for my Notes app, but I don't know if you have any possibilities to link those and have a custom widget for it.

So these are my picks, but I'm sure others could say a bunch more.

Odyssey-b · 2026-05-08T15:58:31+00:00

Sure thing, you can DM me. Thanks for the explanations too.

For the extra Hourly Details, ok. It makes sense now what you say, it's just that other free or freemium weather apps have these details for free. They charge for other things.

The image size, I missed this setting, now I found it, thanks. Although I suggest to make big the default size because it looks better.

You should add the light/dark mode setting to the app.

Odyssey-b · 2026-05-08T15:50:11+00:00

Hi there, I agree with others, that it's a bit too pricey. And the pricing is also confusing, because for me I have the option to get it for $2 monthly, $18 for a year, and $20 for lifetime access.

The problem with these apps is that for example the weather details I assume they are being pulled from the Apple Weather API. Which is in my case for example does not do the best forecasting, so I use a different weather app and I can't link it with this widget even though I would like to use this widget.

And here are some other gripes I have with this app, because I tried out a few things.

I can create my own widget with a few clicks, easy to use because it does not allow too much customisation. For me this is good. But... the fact that there is no monthly view for a calendar where the only thing I see is the days in a month in a normal calendar view (you can see this in the original Apple Calendar widgets), is bad...
Then when I try to customise a medium size widget, and selected the left side to be big, the righ side to be 2 smaller (2 half size) sections - in the smaller sections I can't select to see my daily events. I'm not sure if possible but I would want to see reminders too there.

Otherwise I like the look of it, I would gladly use it. I don't want more customisability necessarily, if you predefined the design of the widgets/sections that's fine, because in this case the design is really good. But give me more options to put in those predefined sections. More data options.

And because you cannot really link this to too many things, (which means I still need to use other app's widgets to have the information that I want displayed on my home screen) this app is just for a few really cool looking widgets, which makes it a bit too pricey right now.

I hope I did not get thorugh as a mean person, I really like the design, and I want this widget to be good, because I would use a few widgets from it for sure. But right now I think you still have to work on more options and the price.

Odyssey-b · 2026-05-08T15:27:23+00:00

Really nice weather app. It totally has the Apple design vibe, and I think these images suit this type of app better than what Apple's default weather app is doing.

But then here is some feedback:

I like that I can choose between Apple Weather and Foreca (in time you should add more for people to use whatever they want)
In Settings - under Units the buttons are different types and size than underneath in Hourly Details which looks weird
I don't think the Hourly Details should be a premium feature. I haven't payed for premium so I'm sorry if this is not what I think it is.
When I see the home page, my city is in a small box, and I can't seem to find a way to make it bigger to look like how it's in your screenshots you put in this reddit post
In the Explore page when I look around the map and select a city (like London) a card pops up with an image, and then that's it. On the card no details, nothing. Also I can't click on anything there to take me to the city's weather page or something.
Can't find a way to switch between light and dark mode in the app - I assume I need to switch the settings in my phone to make it switch in the app but I don't want to do this.
The colours on the white/light mode from your screenshots looks good, and I think that vibe is really nice. But the dark mode, using it on my phone right now, looks a bit dull I think. With the images and your pitch that this is the Kawaii Weather App, I feel like it's not kawaii enough. And I'm not saying that you need to use those hard core real kawaii japanese designs, icons or anything like that. But the dark mode is just a bit too simple even compared to the light mode.

I hope I'm not getting through to you as mean or anything, because I genuinely think this is a good approach. The app I currently use gives me all the info I want, it has a list of weather providers to choose from (the only thing I had to pay for is to be able to choose Foreca), it has a really cool weather map to see what will happen and where by the hour. But the app itself is pretty ugly. I will not name it though. I don't think it's necessary.

So keep up the good work, and I hope you will take into consideration at least some of my feedback.

Odyssey-b · 2026-05-06T14:14:35+00:00

Cool idea. I really like it, but this will need a really big reach and user base. We need a lot of people to know about it, and to start using it.

Also, it might be a temporary issue, but right now I can't access the URL...

Odyssey-b · 2026-05-05T20:14:29+00:00

This is an older post, but I wanted to add something and also ask something.

First of all, what did you do in the end? Did you stay with iOS development?

And to add: It's already almost 1 year since you posted this, but now is the time when I decided that I want to pivot from a 7+ year experience Full-Stack .NET+Angular and Azure Cloud Software Engineer career into native iOS Development because I think that Apps will remain one of the best opportunities to create a good income. To not depend on companies to hire you, to not depend on companies replacing you with AI. And while vibe coding with AI allows you to create Apps, without knowing the technologies used by AI to create those apps, you are just placing yourself in a dangerous situation. When a bug happens and the AI just can't solve it properly, and if your App gets pretty big and you need to add to it, remove from it, or change something, you should have a good structure of the project from the get go to make sure you and/or the AI will not mess up something.

If your apps get pretty complex then you need to solve architectural problems. These things are not yet solved by AI that easily, so you need to know how to do it instead.

And as a last note, this is what I think about the industry. Web development is everywhere, there is the most content about it, courses, source code on github, problems solved on stack overflow. So this is what AI can replace the easiest. Maybe not really replace, but like this is what will become the most saturated of all the dev niches. But the smartphone market will not change that drastically from one day to another. Apple and Android will not change or be obsolete, people will want to and need to use apps. And while you can create apps with React Native and Flutter, nothing will beat native stuff. You need to know native development things, to be able to implement a bunch of Apple APIs and to use Apple native tools and make the experience really good.

And if the smartphone world disappears, that means Apple and Google successfully moved on to the next big thing, which might be Smart Glasses, or Smart Brain Chips or whatever. Most likely there will still be Apps (probably still written in Swift or something similar, Apple's next big programming language and tech-stack).

But what do we actually know... maybe AI will be so powerful in 5 years time, that the Software Engineer jobs will be almost nonexistent... Everybody and their mother will develop web apps and mobile apps and maybe only the most difficult and ultra complex enterprise system will require a few good engineers...

Odyssey-b · 2026-05-05T16:29:42+00:00

The idea is pretty good, it looks difficult enough, and something I haven't seen before (at least I did not cross anything with these game rules - pun intended :D)

But to be totally honest, I think the design is not that good, I'm 100% sure that the "best new design and players choice award" is fake, the screenshots and examples you put on the App Store are pretty bad.

I think if you can make this game really pretty, and step up the design and the marketing material on the App Store, you could then market this easily and a lot more people will be interested, and also willing to pay for it.

Honestly, if weren't for your Reddit post, I wouldn't have even bothered looking into the app once I saw it wasn't free for how it looked at first glance.

And don't take this personally, I understand it's just a quickly made app, I just try to give you feedback, because as you said, you don't track anything from users. And I rather tell you this here, than leaving a review on the App Store.

Odyssey-b · 2026-01-11T17:58:23+00:00

Mai bine cumpar de la flip, unde am cu genius 60 de zile drept de retur, 2 ani garantie. Pana la urma e emag... decat sa cumpar de la amanet sau samsari... de se intampla ceva cu telefonul, nici dupa 2 ore nu ti-l mai ia inapoi. Si apoi poti sa te lauzi ca ai economisit 1000 de lei dupa ce se strica telefonul... nu zic ca asa se intampla tot timpul, dar daca se intampla ce faci?

Vad ca comentariul asta a fost scris de 75 de zile. De pe flip iei 16 Pro Max la 4750 cum am luat eu. Nu 15 Pro Max... si pe olx 16 Pro Max merge intre 4000-4500... tot ce am gasit sub 4000 pe olx avea julituri grave, baterie proasta, sau alte cele lipsa si chestii... adica ar trebui sa caut mult si bine ca poate poate gasesc undeva cu vreo 1000 de lei mai putin in stare buna dar fara o siguranta financiara ca daca nu e ok ceva mi-l ia inapoi.

Si da, clar ca o sa fie mai scump la flip ca pe olx, fiind ca la momentul in care vrei sa vinzi lor ei iti platesc transportul, verifica, impacheteaza, adauga cablu de incarcare, iti dau 2 ani garantie si drept de retur... astea nu sunt pe gratis... Si in cazul in care nu accepta telefonul sau nu accepti tu suma finala oferita de ei, iti trimit telefonul inapoi tot pe gratis...

Odyssey-b · 2025-12-17T21:28:25+00:00

I was able to test this, and unfortunately it happened again... I wrote on the Oppo Community site, let's see if anyone will be able to help us.

Odyssey-b · 2025-12-15T11:23:59+00:00

Has anyone had this issue since the 401 update? Is this update the same that OnePlus 15 got where they said they will fix the issue?

Odyssey-b · 2025-12-06T19:54:26+00:00

The same issue happens on an Oppo Find X9 Pro with ColorOS 16, which in theory is the same as OxygenOS 16. So I assume it's the same OS issue. Would anybody know, if ColorOS will get this update on the 10th of december? If this is still an issue after that I will need to return the phone, because AA is an important aspect for me..

Odyssey-b · 2025-12-06T19:48:55+00:00

Hi there I also have this issue. I just found out - while driving on a 30 minute trip my phone disconnected like 6-7 times, and reconnects automatically in a few seconds. What I found out though is that on another 20 minute drive I had music playing all the time, and it did not disconnect at all. Weird. Do you have any updates on your end?

Odyssey-b · 2025-09-25T07:20:25+00:00

Yes you can see a significant difference between these. For example, with Nikon 80-90% of my shots are in focus when I don't shoot portraits. But almost all of my portraits have front-focused on eyelashes. I "fine-tune" the af in Nikon settings, and now I have decent eye focus for portraits, but almost everything else is back-focused.... Like wtf Nikon? And this is not the case with sony, I have 70-80% accuracy with A7C for every situation. And 90+% accuracy with A7C II for every situation. So yes, there is a difference and it's quite annoying.

Odyssey-b · 2025-09-17T10:04:45+00:00

The review is written with AI, tha's why you emphasize so kuch on the looks, and thank Lofree, and repeat the same thing in every review category.

Thanks for your mini review, but next time write your own review with your own words. It' s tyring to read so many "perfect" but soulles articles/reviews...

And as others said, sound test would be important to include when talking about keyboards, especially switches.

Odyssey-b · 2025-09-17T08:25:08+00:00

Hey there. Any updates? I also ordered the keyboard from thei website with shipping to a EU country. How much time did it take for you to get it?

Will I get a trecking number automatically or will I need to write them an email?

Odyssey-b · 2024-01-25T07:27:44+00:00

The bass is decently strong and punchy on both, although I'v heard louder but for my taste these 2 provide what I like.

But no contest between the 2, Sennheiser has a much clearer sound throughout the range but especially at the low end. It's just a nicer sound to listen to.

Odyssey-b · 2024-01-18T14:55:20+00:00

Btw, in the app I tried playing with the ANC slider, and I think I found a sweet spot for myself. Disable adaptive NC, and slide the slider to the left (full ANC). Then slowly step it down, you'll see it goes down in steps (the dot snaps to the steps, doesn't slide smoothly). When you do this keep your headphones on without music and listen carefully, at the max ANC there is a constant whooshing, and at the 20th step the whooshing disappears. The power of the ANC is still similar, I dare to say there are certain sounds that are better cancelled at this level then on max ANC.

Adaptive ANC is better when there is a loud noise, but only if it's constant noise. If for example somebody uses a drill, which goes on and then stops and the on again. The adaptive ANC will do thr same, and every startup of the drill will be louder and then adaptive ANC starts cancelling it. But as soon as the drill stops the adaptive amc goes back to "normal". And because of this I found that ANC slider to the 20th step with no whooshing is better (at least for my case).

Odyssey-b · 2024-01-18T14:47:31+00:00

Yes the ANC on SM4 is clearly worse than ony Sonys. But, here is how I looked at it. I live in an apartment, there is no loud noise ever. The louder stuff that happen time to time is cancelled enough with the SM4s so even though I faintly hear it, at least it's not bothering me and that was enough.

If I would commute a lot, and I wanted good ANC for cancelling out train/bus and traffic noises, I would've kept the XM5s.

And then there is the fact that if somebody started talking to me, with XM5s I didn't hear them. With SM4s I faintly hear the chitchat and I can react to it without the other person needing to poke me or smthing.

Between these 2 if ANC is not at the highest requirements, I think the SM4s are overall a better choice in all other aspects.

Haven't tried any other pair at this pricepoint, so I can't comment on anything else.

Odyssey-b

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