“After months of tracking my workouts on subscription based apps I got annoyed and chose to create my own.”
Kayden Quintin, on reddit.com ↗
The good workout features were behind a paywall, so a 16-year-old learned to ship an iPhone app and gave them away.
Nara Baby put a price on 3 a.m. feeds. Bober logs them on both parents' phones and the Watch for free.
“My reasoning was roughly: why pay another subscription when I can pay Apple $99 a year for a developer account and build my own app?”
Every calorie app wants an account, an ad break, and a subscription; Budgie wants your HealthKit data and nothing else.
“I didn't like most dieting apps because they either relied too much on fixed calorie targets (rather than flexing with actual activity), didn't help budget calorie intake throughout the day, were far too complicated and fiddly to add food into, required signing up for yet another account, or were stuffed full of ads.”
WHOOP sells you a band, then charges $199 a year for permission to read it. OpenStrap reads it anyway, on your phone, for free.
“Your strap doesn't stop working when the subscription does. Only the app goes dark.”
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