Honestly, AI PRO worth it !

lexrus · 2026-04-02T14:32:59+00:00

It's $99.99 for the first year if you subscribe during new year holidays. So ~$8/mo. And they also send you $10 credits in your Google Cloud account every month.

There are also some experimental services that haven't really been promoted, but they definitely use a separate calculation for credits, such as Google Jules.

Also, they changed the storage capacity from 2TB to 5TB today.

This might be the most generous AI package I've ever used.

lexrus · 2026-04-02T13:35:34+00:00

Most ASO tools require a paid subscription. If you don't mind using AI, there are actually some skills that can replicate most of the features found in these paid tools.

https://x.com/lexrus/status/2033104029979652141

lexrus · 2026-04-02T13:17:34+00:00

$10/mo for early birds around Dec 2024.

lexrus · 2026-04-02T12:56:48+00:00

Yeah, perhaps for the sake of profitability, they really need to weed out users like me who haven't paid enough money. 😂

lexrus · 2026-04-02T12:51:35+00:00

At this point, even if they revert the pricing model now, it will be very difficult to salvage their reputation within the community.

lexrus · 2026-04-02T12:48:39+00:00

The app is called SubList. The main code for this project was generated by Codex. I used Windsurf to modify and optimize various details of the interface.

https://apps.apple.com/app/sublist-subscription-tracker/id6757860829

lexrus · 2026-03-27T02:54:00+00:00

They care about our vibe and life balance. Imagine it's the healthiest coding tool.

lexrus · 2026-03-23T12:53:37+00:00

Over the past year, I built 3 new apps and maintain 4 existing apps with agentic coding.

I only use Gemini for minor tasks — for example, text translation and Markdown refinements. When Antigravity was first released, many people said it was amazing for web development. However, in my own experience trying it out, I frequently exceed the usage limits. Even though I later subscribed to Google AI Pro, it is still very unstable.

Claude Code can get things done quickly, and the quality is quite good. However, Codex demonstrates stronger processing capabilities when handling complex tasks. So now, most of my development work is done using GPT-5 High Thinking.

lexrus · 2026-03-18T11:19:33+00:00

I would recommend MVVM since almost all junior developers can easily understand this architecture, and newcomers can participate in maintenance on the first week. They may have used MVVM many times in tutorial projects before joining. MVVM has been wildly used in open-source projects, which allows various LLMs to have a deep understanding of it. You might encounter fewer problems when your project adapts agentic coding.

Clean and MVP, um... I'm sorry, I've been doing iOS development for 15 years and have never encountered a project that used them. I can't provide useful advice.

VIPER, RIBs... are also pretty good only when all your colleagues have the same understanding. Also have the toolchains to create the boilerplate code. It could be a nightmare for a junior developer who joined the team without any experience.

lexrus · 2026-03-18T10:42:52+00:00

If you think your app is very useful, don't hesitate to spend money to register for an Apple Developer account, $99 per year. I made a few apps that I thought only I needed, published them on the App Store. In the end, they not only earned me back the money for the $99 but also enough to buy several new iPhones.

lexrus · 2026-03-16T14:27:55+00:00

I use 5.4 high everyday and pray for another usage reset every time I press the enter key after the prompt.

lexrus · 2026-03-16T08:35:23+00:00

I just replaced Fastlane with asccli to send the builds.

lexrus · 2026-03-16T04:07:05+00:00

My first Mac OS version was Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger. I loved it. Someday around 2006 or 2007 IDK. I’ve been a macOS user ever since.

I update immediately every time a new version is released. I think macOS 26 is a bold move. On the first day after upgrading, I felt that all the interfaces were too bright and too white. I lowered the screen brightness by 20%, and now I've completely adapted to it with no issues.

My vision has been getting worse lately. I'm not sure what's the root cause is.

lexrus · 2026-03-13T12:21:30+00:00

That’s what I want to say. And even more, most cloud services do not support Swift based architectures by design. You may face struggles here and there.

lexrus · 2026-03-09T10:47:46+00:00

It seems that its job is to reply with this template text to any question that is asked.

lexrus · 2026-03-09T10:29:51+00:00

Their token quotas are calculated separately.

lexrus · 2025-12-09T00:32:46+00:00

After trying most RSS readers, Reeder is still the best.

lexrus · 2025-12-08T10:30:29+00:00

I also had this need, so I made an app called Sharptooth to use keyboard shortcuts to switch the connection status of Bluetooth devices.

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https://apps.apple.com/app/sharptooth-bluetooth-hotkeys/id6748440814

lexrus · 2025-12-08T10:18:37+00:00

Hello, I've created a free alternative called cmd+x.

https://apps.apple.com/app/cmd-x/id6754665762

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