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Products that do what iOS iCal Helper does

Hello HN! Long time lurker and Apple user here. I made this simple tool to load .ics files client-side and open it in-browser so Apple's iCal integration enables adding it to their calendar. To say the app is barebones is an understatement: I made it in 2 minutes. Visual enhancements might come. Source: https://github.com/VladCuciureanu/iCalHelper Useful context: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36116650

  1. 1IC

    Hi, I'm a developer and first time i shipped the real product after observing the startups and indie hackers community for years. I had made so many useless apps [you should check my website https://ansh.life], but this time I built a very useful product that has a number of super easy-to-use tools in one app for video, music, and photo files. Users can compress, convert, resize, and do so much more with easy-to-use tools. Background: I developed a frame-by-frame video cropper to upload cropped landscape videos to Instagram Reels. However, it required FFmpeg, and as a noob video…

    2025 · pimosa.app

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    The calendar app you won't be able to live without

    2015

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    ICNS112

    A simple tool to preview app icons on your iPhone

    2015

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    Sharing, Feedback & Planning Made Easy

    2024

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    Easily Import .ICS Calendar Files on iOS

    Jun 2026 · calaction.mijndertstuij.nl

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    Much more than just a calendar. It’s Fantastical.

    2020

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    Supercharged calendar for busy professionals & remote teams

    2022

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    Wave106

    OpenSea iOS Client

    2021

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    X.app94

    All-in-One Extension App

    2025

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    Really useful and simple iOS app to manage your calendar.

    2018

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    Pinning173

    A powerful countdown app integrated with calendars

    2024

  12. 12IT

    Around 3 weeks ago, I came across a reddit post from someone who was looking to see if anyone was interested in taking over a 12-14 year old objective c app which hadn't been on the app store for many years. I responded and decided to do it. The app is called Painteresque. It lets you turn photos to charcoal drawings, paintings etc while doing all the processing locally on device: https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/painteresque-photo-to-sketch/i... The app is entirely free to use, has no ads, third party analytics, trackers, subscriptions or other junk. It does offer…

    2025 · apps.apple.com

  13. 13CA

    Hello and Happy New Year HN! Hope all the bests in 2022. So I've been working on a minimal calendar app , named Clendar (Calendar without an 'a'). I know, it's not a good SEO name, but I will go with it :) I've been building Clendar on my spare time. At first, it's just a side weekend project so that I can learn new Apple technologies, but, the app came to the point of usability that I think I should publish on the App Store anyway for the world to know and use it. Besides, I have been trying to design the app for minimal and usability in mind. Also, the app is fully open-source, as a way…

    2022

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    Synara122

    The developer-first event & invite API that fixes ICS issues

    Nov 2025

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    Nov 2025 · apps.apple.com

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    Cross-platform files and text sharing app

    2021

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    Quickly create Apple Reminders

    2020

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    Know exactly what you earned this month, from your calendar

    Mar 2026

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    Modern, responsive iCal-synced calendar widgets for any site

    2018

  20. 20IM

    I'm a iOS and Mac developer and the thing that mostly bothered me when I first started learning Cocoa programming was the lack of full featured sample code. Now things have changed and more projects have been released, but I still want to do my part. I've already released Color Picker Pro for Mac: https://raw.github.com/oscardelben/Color-Picker-Pro This time I built a copy of the iPhone Calculator which (I hope) will be simple to follow for beginners: https://github.com/oscardelben/iPhoneCalculator I hope this will be useful to people who are learning Cocoa. Feedbacks are very appreciated.

    2011

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    iCorner26

    Effortless Mac productivity—access tools with a corner hover

    2024

  22. 22MS

    It's just a whimsical little portfolio piece. I just missed putting stickers on a calendar like I did when I was a kid. The calendar is my own and it contains some clever code. (Note how the "leftover" days on the previous and next month behave.) There's also a O(1) double-ended queue behind the UIScrollView so that there's the illusion of infinite scrolling with only 5 objects.

    2012 · itunes.apple.com

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    I wrote a minimal iOS app called PocketServer (~1MB in download size) that creates persistent local HTTP/WebDAV servers which can actually run in the background. Functionalities: - Serve a folder via WebDAV — browse/add/delete files from others devices on the same network. - Host a static website or directory listing, accessible locally. - Share files cross-platform on the same network, no app needed on the receiving side. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pocketserver-local-server/id67...

    2025

  24. 24IM

    I previously made a web version of The Weekendest, but when I was laid off from my last job, I decided to take the free time I had to pick up Swift UI, and made a native iOS version of it. The main draw of the app is that the map is dynamically generated based on the current subway routing, so when you open the app on weekends or overnight, you'll see lines correspond to where the trains are actually running, which is a very unique NYC problem. Let me know what you think!

    2024 · apps.apple.com

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