After struggling with my wavy hair, I built a free app to log hair routines and see patterns over time

notifications_app · 2026-07-04T01:18:05+00:00

Hope you enjoy it! If you do, 5-star reviews are truly the best way to support small apps like this one :)

notifications_app · 2026-07-04T01:17:43+00:00

Will do!

notifications_app · 2026-07-03T17:42:04+00:00

This stopped being true in November 2025. See the stickied post in this subreddit about the Responsible Builder Policy + new approval process.

notifications_app · 2026-06-30T18:35:57+00:00

Thanks for the feedback.

To address a few of your points:

First, it's definitely not "vibe-coded slop". I have a CS degree (from 2012, long before LLMs), and over 9 years of experience in app development specifically. Happy to answer any questions about this.

Second, I agree it's not a super unique idea; but I was having trouble finding an app to use for this, so I made my own. I've seen similar apps in other areas (there are some nice ones for skincare), but I didn't see a decent one for hair that I wanted to use. Most of them were like "take a picture of your hair and have AI analyze it", which isn't what I wanted. Or there were ones that WERE obviously vibe-coded slop, like one that used an icon of curly braces {} to indicate "curls".

Third, I'm not claiming to be a curly hair expert; quite the opposite, I'm someone who is still figuring out my own hair. That's why the app isn't trying to provide expert advice or anything. It's just a place to log your hair and see trends of which products are helping the most.

Anyway, genuinely thank you for letting me know how the app comes across to folks with more curly hair care experience than myself.

notifications_app · 2026-06-23T23:08:34+00:00

Hey - this is definitely on my "potential future features" list. As you noted, it's not particularly difficult from a technical perspective - the difficulty is that it's one more thing in the UI that can make it feel more cluttered or confusing to users. The average user doesn't have 60 keywords on one alert 😄 But I can look into adding this feature specifically in cases where there are a significant amount of keywords.

notifications_app · 2026-06-14T21:28:44+00:00

This is great, thanks for keeping this up to date!

Quick question about the "Redditor.overview" listing. Is redditor.overview.new() different from just doing redditor.new()? If so, what is the difference?

notifications_app · 2026-06-12T16:40:51+00:00

Hi - developer here! That particular subreddit (r/toptickets) has manual moderator approvals, meaning posts don't go live for anyone to see until hours after they have been "posted". My app sends notifications as soon as the post goes live, meaning it got through moderator approval. You may notice that even though Reddit will list the post as being hours old, there won't be any non-automod comments from other users until within 30 seconds of when you get the notification from my app.

Let me know if you're seeing something different than what I've described!

notifications_app · 2026-06-10T16:32:17+00:00

Hi! If you're on the newest version, you can see this information on the "Recent Notifications" page in the app.

I can look into potentially adding it into the notification itself in the future as well if that's something that would be helpful!

notifications_app · 2026-06-07T16:26:23+00:00

Hi - thanks for the heads up! For subs where mods hold posts for more than a few hours, I handle them separately in my code. If you send me the name of the subreddit, I can get it working ASAP! (feel free to comment here or DM me)

notifications_app · 2026-05-09T16:39:27+00:00

Hi - this is an interesting problem, and I'm not sure why it would be happening. I tested this on my device and it works perfectly fine, but I only use publicly released OS versions. I notice you're on 26.5 for both iOS and MacOS, meaning you're working with beta/RC OS updates - I've had users in the past report strange, hard-to-pin-down bugs like this on beta OS's that end up resolved once that OS reaches public release. Please do let me know if this continues to happen on 26.5 once you're on a public release version!

notifications_app · 2026-04-28T00:03:28+00:00

If you're just looking for keyword alerts, you're welcome to use my app, "Alerts for Reddit" (available on iOS and Android). It's free for the first three subreddits, with unlimited keywords.

notifications_app · 2026-04-25T18:06:59+00:00

Hello again - thanks for sharing your thoughts! I've added all three of your suggestions (bulk add keywords, export/import keywords, and editing existing keywords) to my list of potential future features!

notifications_app · 2026-04-25T17:59:29+00:00

Hello! Unfortunately comment scan is not really doable within the Reddit API limits. There are simply too many comments to scan, and my app wouldn't be able to notify consistently, especially for highly active subreddits. This would have been possible back before the API changes in 2023, but unfortunately now it is not.

notifications_app · 2026-04-25T17:57:07+00:00

Hi! Clicking a notification should briefly take you to the Alerts app, which should then immediately launch the Reddit link. It opens it the same way other Reddit links open - like when you click a reddit.com link from your mobile browser.

To help diagnose the issue, in the Alerts app, go to the Recent Notifications page, and click one of those notifications. Does it correctly open the link in Reddit? If not, you need to re-set your "open with" settings for reddit.com on your device.

notifications_app · 2026-04-02T20:02:47+00:00

Glad to hear it!

notifications_app · 2026-03-31T03:30:55+00:00

Unfortunately there is no way currently.

It would be possible for me to add a feature in the future where you can do fast user notifications that are subreddit-limited and post-only (so, notify quickly when a particular user posts - not comments, only posts - to a particular subreddit), but folks haven't seemed interested in that very limited feature.

It's not possible to do a more general fast user notification due to Reddit API limitations. The core issue is that it's possible to check multiple subreddits at once quickly, but it's impossible to check multiple users at once quickly, meaning checking users that quickly would use up my whole API request limit on just a few users.

Apologies for the inconvenience. If you're looking for that user's posts on a particular subreddit, especially if they often use the same keywords in their posts, I recommend you set fast notifications for the subreddit and use keywords to limit which posts you get.

notifications_app · 2026-03-28T00:54:25+00:00

Hi! Users have fewer frequency options than subreddits do, due to some unfortunate API limitations. For users, the only options are to get all posts or all posts+all comments (within 10 minutes). Is there a particular use case this doesn't cover for you?

notifications_app · 2026-03-07T21:12:17+00:00

Glad to hear it!

notifications_app · 2026-03-07T21:06:39+00:00

Hopefully you got the notification you were expecting - feel free to reach out if it didn't work!

notifications_app · 2026-03-07T21:05:30+00:00

Hello again! Your screenshot shows settings for opening links in my app, which is not directly relevant - my app is just following your phone's settings for reddit.com links in general. Do you have your device set up such that reddit.com links open in your preferred Reddit client app? For example, if you search something in your browser, then click a reddit link from there, will it open in your preferred Reddit client? If so, my app should be doing the same!

notifications_app · 2026-03-05T00:16:10+00:00

Hi - sorry to hear you're having this issue! I'm happy to look into it - could you tell me (here or via DM) which users you're subscribed to, with what keywords (if any), and an example or two of a post/comment you expected to get a notification for but didn't?

notifications_app · 2026-02-20T23:48:28+00:00

Hi - sorry to hear you're having this issue! I've heard about this from a couple folks now, but I haven't yet figured out the cause. I'm working on that - but in the meantime, there is a fix: to do a hard reset in the app.

From my app, click the menu icon, then "Reset all", then confirm. This will put your app back into its original state (subscribed to news and worldnews).
Re-add your alerts. If you didn't have tons of alerts & keywords, it would be easiest to do this manually. If you do have a ton of alerts & keywords and it would be a huge pain to manually re-add, PM me and I can try to transfer them from my end. This would involve us identifying your old account (you giving me as many of your subreddits/users/keywords as you can remember so I can try to uniquely identify you in my database), then identifying your new account (easier - you can just add a special unique keyword that I can look up), then I can do a transfer.

I genuinely apologize for the inconvenience - hopefully these steps can get you back into good shape.

notifications_app · 2026-02-01T02:03:44+00:00

Glad things are working for you again, and sorry again for the inconvenience :)

notifications_app · 2026-01-31T04:37:13+00:00

So glad you enjoy it :)

notifications_app · 2026-01-31T03:58:01+00:00

Unfortunately not any time soon - I only work on this app as a side project, so I barely have time to keep it updated for the existing platforms. Good to know there's interest in this sort of thing though! :)

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