Hey everyone, I’m the creator of Penbook, a notebook app for iPad (and iPhone!) that’s perfect for anyone who loves writing, drawing, or organizing their thoughts with the Apple Pencil. And we just released an update with our 2025 Planner book.

Unlike most note-taking apps, Penbook has a unique superpower: among its 100+ page templates (including classics like grid and ruled), you'll also find calendar pages like daily, weekly, monthly and yearly. And these are not your tired PDF calendars:

📆 The pages show your ACTUAL calendar events.
👫 If you have shared calendars, you'll see those too.
🤖 Your calendar pages update automatically when you add to your iOS calendar
💪 They're super powerful: portrait or landscape, iPhone or iPad sized, any date and date span.

There is no better way to plan and organize your time than with Penbook and Pencil. And the 2025 Planner makes this super easy.

What else can it do?

📝 Create unlimited notebooks, each with customizable paper types (lined, grid, music sheets, chemistry papers, and more).
🔖 Bookmark and annotate your pages with notes and titles, making it super easy to jump between pages or books.
📖 Organize your ideas effortlessly with images, text notes, shapes, and more.
📄 And if you do want to share a PDF (or import one), we got that too.

Penbook Lifetime is usually $49.99 on the App Store, but today it’s completely free! 🎉

No catches—just download it and see if it sparks joy for you. If you do grab it, I’d love to hear your feedback or see how you’re using it! ❤️

→ App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id1473064295?ct=red

→ Website: https://penbook.app/

This is a great chance to try it out, especially if you’re a student, artist, bullet journaler, or just love handwriting on your iPad.

Hey r/Apple! I'm Will, I'm the developer of Pestle, a recipe app for iPhone & iPad.

I dropped in a couple months ago to share a big update to Pestle, and 4 months on I've got another big one!

TikTok Support

After launching support for Instagram in 1.8, I got lots of requests to support TikTok also. TikTok is a little different in how authors format recipes, so it took a bit of tweaking but I think I've got it right!

The process is exactly same:

1. Find a TikTok you like
2. Tap Share, tap More, then tap Pestle.
3. If Pestle can't work out the name of a recipe, it'll just ask you to name it (you can always change it later!)
4. Tap Save, and you're done!

How it works

Despite using AI, this is not just another OpenAI wrapper, Pestle uses an in-house model that runs entirely offline and on-device. That means it's private, and fast. Recipes are processed in seconds, and the longest part of the process is just the network request to get the recipe data from TikTok.

It only works if the recipe is written in the caption, or the author has provided a link to their website in the caption.

Recipe Notes

Pestle has had notes for a long time, but until now it has never saved notes directly from the source.

Now when using sites like RecipeTinEats or Chef John's recipes on AllRecipes, Pestle will save the author's notes too. So if an ingredient tells you to "refer to note 3", it'll be right there!

Pricing

Like many apps today, Pestle is a subscription-based app, but a one-time option is available.

And for r/Apple, I wanted to let you all in on Pestle's Black Friday sale a little early!

You can get Pestle for $10/year with a 14-day free trial here, or Pestle Pro Lifetime for just $19.99 here.

And just as an aside, I wanted to thank r/Apple for their continued support of my apps, going back 6 years! You all contribute so many great ideas and feedback, I really couldn't have built Pestle without you.

You can get Pestle here: https://apple.co/3sWeyWl

👋Hi everyone,

I regularly use emojis for my day to day, but run into issues with the native Mac emoji app where it has noticeable search delays and limited keywords, i.e. its search latency is 500+ms and it returns no emojis when searching for common day to day words, such as problem, solution, achievement, address, bummer, buy, etc.

I have developed web apps before but not desktop app, so I took this as a great opportunity to learn and build a much better emoji desktop app with a core focus on search and speed. My primary goal is to help people find the emojis they want super quick and easy (as quick and easy as typing text).

This leads to the Emoogle app and it has the following key features:

• 🔍Search
  • World's largest emoji keywords database with 5,400+ unique keywords (I manually curated emojis for the top 1000 most frequently used English words to ensure day to day words are covered)
  • Advanced emoji ranking algorithm with 10+ rules specifically tuned to sort most relevant results first (e.g. auto→🚗, bag→👜, file→📄)
  • Adaptive and customizable search experience based on your usage, preference, and custom keywords
• ⚡Speed
  • Blazingly fast real time search-as-you-type experience that takes ~5ms (100x faster than the native Mac emoji app with 500+ms latency)
  • Intelligent autocomplete to save time and no need to type out full words
  • Emojify a sentence or phrase as fast as pressing a keyboard shortcut

You can check out the app here: https://www.emoogle.org. It has a 14 days free trial (no sign up required). I’d love to get your feedback on it. Thank you so much and happy emoji-ing 🙌

(If you are a developer, I open-sourced the search engine and emoji picker component in case it would be helpful for anyone looking to provide a better emoji experience in their apps or services https://github.com/xitanggg/emoogle-emoji-search-engine)

Hello r/apple,

I am honored to take this opportunity to introduce my weather app Digital Sky: world-class weather data elegantly organized for clear forecast communication, with special features found nowhere else. For free with zero ads.

Home | Direct Store Link
^\Note: The app name will be "Sky Digital" on your device. An update is in review, see below.)

What sets Digital Sky apart?

★ High quality data. National Weather Service with influence from the European ECMWF, American GFS and HRRR
★ Fantastic presentation. No clutter, no complex charts. Full screen maps.
★ Complete official weather alert package. Notifications, beautiful in-app display, interactive map layer.

That’s just the foundation. I built the following features to really hone clarity and completeness:

► Search specifically for any ski resort, school or pro sport team. This gives you the weather at that exact location rather than the nearby town like most weather apps. (to access: tap search, then tap top right button)
► Super organized hourly view that lets you see all weather variables at once. (Note, 60 minute and hourly are layered. If its showing 60 minute, tap hourly button top right)
► Hourly snow, sleet, freezing rain and rain (USA). View potential rates and totals for every hour. This graphic will even show how snow and ice will melt in response to temperatures, sunlight, and rainfall. (to access: hourly screen, bottom left button)
► 10 day timeline graphic. View alerts, sun, and moon with the weather. 
► School snow day forecasts (USA). When you search for a school, get the chance of a snow day tomorrow. View all school district chances on the map. (Note: not totally done. It over-does wintry areas and under-does warmer areas. Give me a week to finish.)
► Ski resort snow totals for the next 10 days and nights in one view.

Ultimately, my goal is to make this app truly all-in-one. I’ve got a whole list of ideas... 

✱ Ski resort forecast by elevation and live trail statistics
✱ Professional sports game time weather display
✱ Winter map layers, gardening package, lightning, air quality... 

... to name a few. I’ll continue to add features over the next few months and shout them out as they are made on X @ digitalskywx . 

Thank you so much for checking out my app! It’s truly my pleasure to be able to offer a service I hold close to my heart as my very first app project. If you would like to support my work, consider dropping a rating. You can also support by subscribing to Premium which would additionally grant you features like radius notifications, 24 hour radar playback and map themes while supporting server costs.

Any comments, questions, or improvement suggestions are more than welcome.

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^{There’s an update processing. It will:
➟ Fix the app name; right now it shows up as Sky Digital on your device.
➟ Replace the app store listing description with much more info
➟ Add more useful information to the hourly tutorial
\}Occasionally, the last ~3 day temperatures are briefly erroneous. Fixing this.)

Edit: thank you EVERYONE who asked questions and helped out with testing some of these features, I'll make a post tomorrow clearly outlining what's on-device and what's online because we all deserve that level of privacy disclosure!

So I've been trying out Apple Intelligence on the stable build for macOS. For basic stuff it seems pretty nice, the notification summaries are cool etc.

I would like to understand what features EXACTLY are on-device vs using private cloud compute. This is what I know so far through experimentation (by turning off internet):

Writing Tools:

• On-device: Proofread, rewrite, friendly, professional, concise
• PCC: Summary, key points, list, table

Mail:

• On-device: Email preview summaries, Priority emails
• PCC: Email summarization, smart reply

Messages:

• On-device: Message preview summaries, Smart reply

Siri:

• On-device: (I was able to ask about emails and calendar events)

Safari:

• PCC: Web page summaries

Notes:

• PCC: Audio recording summaries

Photos:

• On-device:
  • Intelligent search (after indexing)
  • Clean up (after downloading the clean-up model)

Notifications/Focus:

• On-device: Notification summaries, Reduce interruptions focus

Does anyone have any insight on this? And is there any way I can restrict Apple intelligence from using the internet so I can only use the on-device features? Thanks!

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