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Catch the App Store or Play rejection before you submit. A Claude Code plugin that scans a React Native or Expo project, quotes the exact guideline clause from a local copy of Apple’s and Google’s policy, and names the file to change. Nothing from your repository is uploaded. Free on every app: your risk score and the three findings most likely to get the build rejected, each with its fix. Beyond that it needs a licence — $29 once for one app, $49 a year for any number of apps, $149 a year with team seats.

Not for: native Swift or Kotlin-only projects, or teams wanting a hosted dashboard. The free scan shows three findings and counts the rest by severity rather than showing them.

FlirtGym — live since 12 August 2026

Practise the conversation before it is real. Screenshot a message and get three replies with the reason each one works, or rehearse a whole conversation with an AI character whose interest drops when your messages do. Over a hundred practice scenarios. Previously called RizzMaxx — same app, same App Store listing. iPhone, iOS 16.4 or later.

Not for: anyone looking for manipulation tactics, or anyone wanting a matching app. And plainly: practice, scoring and coaching are all part of Pro, so there is no free tier, and this is a small, new app with very few ratings and no press.

FlipStage — on the App Store

Present from one iPhone with two panes on screen: your speaker notes and a timer on your half, the slide turned around on theirs. Stand the phone upright between you and one other person. Four sample slides are included, and your own photos import as slides. Free, no account, no network calls. iPhone.

Not for: anyone who already has a second screen or casts to a TV — this is for when you do not. There is no PDF or Keynote import: photos are the only way to add your own content. FlipStage on the App Store · free speaking time calculator.

MoveWitness — on the App Store

Photograph your rental room by room and export a dated move-in or move-out PDF report. Each photo shows its own capture date where the file carries one, and an import time where it does not. A finished inspection locks, and the lock is enforced in the database rather than the interface, so the report cannot quietly change months later. Free, no account. iPhone.

Not for: landlords managing a large multi-property portfolio — this is a tenant’s tool. It will not tell you what to photograph: you get room names and a blank notes field, not a checklist of what deposits get withheld over. MoveWitness on the App Store.

Vocabdrift — on the App Store

A word and its definition rotate on your iPhone Lock Screen through the day. 1,383 words, 1,165 of them with written IPA and 535 with an example sentence, all on the device. Free, no account, and no network request of any kind. iPhone.

Not for: structured, course-based vocabulary study. There is no spaced repetition — words you miss simply come back more often — and no audio at all, so “pronunciation” here means the written IPA. Vocabdrift on the App Store.

Hatch Window — on the App Store

Live streamflow, solunar windows and a hatch chart by month and region for your own spots, plus a log of what worked. Free, no account, no ads. iPhone.

Not for: saltwater or steelhead fishing — the hatch charts are freshwater trout. A spot you add yourself needs a USGS gauge number before it can show flow, and the solunar windows are an angling tradition the app computes rather than a validated model, which it says on screen. Hatch Window on the App Store.

With Apple for review

Each of these is submitted and waiting, and each is set to go on sale by itself when Apple approves it. An update to FlirtGym is in the same queue.

MileTruth

What a shift actually paid. A mileage log plus a cost-per-mile model for your own car, so gross pay becomes net. You enter each trip by hand. There is no background trip detection in this version, and the app says so on its own Home screen. Every trip is priced at the 2026 IRS rate for that trip’s own date: 72.5 cents through June 30, 76 cents from July 1. Weekly earnings statements import as CSV. Version 1.0 is free, with no subscription and nothing to buy inside it.

Not for: W-2 employees, multi-driver reimbursement administration, or anyone wanting the phone to detect drives by itself. It gives no tax advice.

PolicyReady

Answer the control questions cyber insurers typically ask — MFA, backups, patching, access and forty-six more — see your gaps ranked by what matters most, and export a readiness summary before you apply or renew. Free, on your device. Free browser tools, no install: a readiness self-check and a CISA-mapped control checklist.

Not for: teams wanting continuous compliance monitoring rather than a pre-renewal check. It is not a quote and not an offer of coverage, it certifies nothing, and the insurer’s own application is what governs.

DenialDesk

Make sense of a health-insurance denial and draft the appeal letter in your own words. Pick the denial type, enter the date on the notice, and it works out the appeal deadline, shows the plain-language basis it used and links the rule it read. The letter is assembled from your own answers, and anything you have not filled in stays visible as a gap rather than being invented. Free, on your device.

Not for: anyone needing legal representation — it drafts a letter and works out a date; it is not legal advice. It stores no documents: your paperwork stays yours.

Foldbook

A two-page reader for iPhone: two pages at once instead of one — side by side with a gutter when the phone is turned, stacked when it is upright. Night, day and sepia, text size from 13 to 28 point, a bookmark on any page. Three short original stories included. Free.

Not for: readers wanting a library of books. There is no file import of any kind, so the three included stories are the whole library.

IOLTAlign

Three-way IOLTA trust reconciliation for solo and small-firm attorneys — bank, book and client ledgers tied out to the penny, or the exact amount by which they do not. Export the reconciliation as a PDF when you want the paper trail. Free, no account, no cloud.

Not for: firms needing full practice-management or billing software. It reports a finding rather than a verdict, and it never certifies compliance with any jurisdiction’s trust-accounting rule.

NoticeGuard

Mechanics lien deadlines for all 50 states and the District of Columbia, each one citing its statute section with the verbatim text one tap away. It shows the arithmetic it used — so many days after which anchor date — and says when an outer limit shortened it. Local reminders and calendar export included. Free.

Not for: anyone needing the filings done for them: it reports what the statute says and cites the section it read, and it does not file, mail or record anything. Which deadlines exist depends on the state; not every state has a preliminary notice or a notice of intent.

TentClock

A large animated flip clock for a shelf or nightstand, in twelve colour scenes, with repeating alarms and an optional local temperature. Free, no ads, nothing to buy.

Not for: anyone wanting smart-home integration — it is a standalone clock. The alarms are ordinary local notifications, so they follow your volume and Focus settings rather than overriding them, and the temperature is in Fahrenheit and needs location and a connection.

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Steadychart

Log symptoms and severity in seconds, see the pattern over time, and export a summary for your next appointment as a PDF, a CSV or a JSON file. Private and on your device. Free, no account.

Not for: diagnosis — it is a private journal, not a clinical tool. Saving a day needs an overall rating as well as the symptoms, and an export is a copy to keep rather than a backup: there is no way to read one back in.

Rigsheet

Job management for a one-van business. Scheduling that refuses a job you could not drive to in time, quotes with vehicle-size and home-size multipliers, deposits, invoices, and before-and-after photos on the job. Covers detailing, cleaning, pressure washing, window cleaning and lawn care, which most products in the category do not. Needs an account, because the schedule has to sync.

Not for: multi-location shops with large crews, or trades outside those five. It does not text your customers: quotes and invoices go out by email. The price is not settled, so this page does not quote one. Free browser tools, no account: a job price calculator and an effective hourly rate calculator.

Nearvo

A daily question for two people. Guess what your partner would say, then answer for yourself, then look back on the week together. Planned as a paid subscription at $29.99 a year or $9.99 a month.

Not for: couples in crisis, who need a licensed couples therapist rather than an app.

HormoneLog

An HRT regimen and a symptom history in a form a clinician can read. What you take, at what dose, since when, what changed — against how you actually felt, with a PDF report you can take to an appointment. Local-first: the copy on your device is the only one unless you turn sync on. Free, with no subscription and no in-app purchase.

Not for: anyone seeking a diagnosis, a dose recommendation or a clinical assessment. It does none of those, deliberately. It is not a medical device, nothing in it is a validated clinical instrument, and it will never suggest a dose or a schedule.

rsuvest

Type in each equity grant and get one vesting schedule across all of them — vested against unvested shares, a value at a share price you enter yourself, and a reminder 14, 7 and 1 days before each vesting date.

Not for: companies needing cap-table or 409A valuation tools — this is for the individual holding the grant. It does not read your grant letters, does not connect to a brokerage or an equity portal, does not fetch a share price, and is not tax or financial advice.

RiderDeck — built and in testing

A stage plot, input list and rider for a working band, exported as one PDF you can send from the van. Free, no account, and it makes no network requests. The detail is on its own page.

Not for: filling in a venue’s own template — it produces its own plot and input list.

What they have in common

One problem each, named narrowly. Not a mileage suite, a log that shows a gig driver what the shift actually paid after the car takes its cut. Not practice-management software, a three-way trust reconciliation that ties three ledgers to the penny or shows exactly where they do not. Not a sleep platform, a flip clock for a shelf.

Every app says what it is not for, on its store page, on its website and inside the app. That line is part of the pitch rather than a disclaimer at the bottom, because the fastest way to lose someone is to let them find out later.

Every claim has to be true of the build you can install, not the one in the repository and not the next version. Where a feature is missing, the page says so. Where a number is quoted, it came from the thing it describes.

A free site that stands on its own. Every product has a website publishing its category’s real answers with sources attached and no signup, and the test applied to each page is whether it would still be worth reading if the product did not exist.

Published standards. Primary sources on every claim, competitor prices from the vendor’s own page with a date, evidence labelled by strength, and our own products disclosed on every page they appear on — including the comparisons where a competitor wins. The editorial standards.

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