The top 14 ios apps measured by RiseFinder over the 30d window ending October 2026.
Meta AI is a personal AI assistant app. Users can chat by voice or text, create and edit images, upload documents and files for summaries or analysis, get research reports, and receive recommendations for shopping and local spots. It also serves as the required companion app for managing Meta AI glasses, and can connect to tools like Meta Ads Manager and Google Workspace.
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Open source ↗NetShort is a mobile app for watching original vertical short dramas, with episodes lasting one to three minutes. It offers genres such as romance, revenge, mystery, and fantasy, with new episodes added daily. The app includes personalized recommendations, episode alerts, playback speed controls, and filters, and a paid subscription removes ads, enables HD playback, and allows offline downloads.
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Open source ↗Sun Seeker is a solar tracking and compass app. It shows the sun's position and path, including hourly direction intervals, solstice and equinox paths, sunrise and sunset times, twilight times, and shadows, using a flat compass view, a 3D augmented reality camera view, and a map view. Users can pick any date or location, add sun-event notifications, and use a widget showing the day's solar data. The app is aimed at uses such as photography planning, property assessment, gardening, and outdoor activities.
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Open source ↗Earthquake Network is an iOS app for earthquake information and early warning. It uses the accelerometers in users' smartphones to detect earthquakes in real time and sends alerts to app users, potentially seconds before damaging waves arrive. The app provides real time alerts, user reports on felt earthquakes, and free earthquake data from 21 seismic networks. Optional subscriptions place users on priority alert lists of the first 10,000 or 100,000 people notified.
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Open source ↗Teach Your Monster to Read is an educational app for iPad and iPhone that teaches children to read through phonics-based games. Players create a custom monster and play reading games aimed at ages 3 to 6, covering letter sounds and sentence reading, with progress tracking for parents and teachers. The games complement phases 2 to 5 of the UK Letters and Sounds programme, contain no in-app purchases or adverts, and were created by Teach Monster Games Ltd, a subsidiary of The Usborne Foundation charity.
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Open source ↗Solocator is an iOS camera app for fieldwork photo documentation. It overlays photos with GPS position, direction, altitude, date and time, and other data at the moment of capture. An in-app purchase called the Industry Pack adds field notes, street addresses, UTM/MGRS coordinates, and company logos. Photos can be autosaved to iCloud, the camera roll, or cloud storage, sorted and searched by date, location, or project, shared individually or as zip files, and exported with photo data in KML, KMZ, or CSV formats.
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Open source ↗myLightMeter PRO is a photography app that provides light metering for exposure measurement across film and digital workflows. It offers incident and reflected-light metering with manual control over aperture, shutter speed, ISO, and exposure compensation, plus aperture-priority and shutter-priority modes. Users can average multiple readings, import exposure settings from photos in their library, organize readings into Sessions with notes and camera details, sync Sessions through iCloud, and export them as PDFs. It also includes a hyperfocal-distance calculator and configurable presets.
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Open source ↗Knots 3D is an iOS reference app for learning to tie knots, first released in 2011. It includes 241 knots across categories such as climbing, fishing, boating, camping, and scouting, each shown as a 3D animation that users can pause, slow down, rotate, and scrub through. Knots can be browsed by category or type, searched by name, synonym, or Ashley Book of Knots number, or found by describing a task, and the app works fully offline with no ads or in app purchases.
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Open source ↗StoryReel is a mobile app for watching short dramas, miniseries, and movies made for mobile viewing. Users browse genres such as romance, fantasy, revenge, and suspense, watch episodes in HD, and download available episodes for offline viewing. The app offers curated collections, search, personalized recommendations, and daily check-in rewards, with some content requiring coins or a subscription purchased through Apple's in-app purchase system.
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Open source ↗Site Audit Pro is an iOS app for carrying out audits and inspections on a mobile device. Users record issues with a title, assignee, and comments, add and annotate images, and organise issues into projects with site and client details. Reports can be customised with a company name, logo, auditor name, and signature, and shared as PDF or CSV via email, Dropbox, or device file sharing. An optional subscription adds cloud storage, web access, syncing between devices, folders, and issue due dates.
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Open source ↗LumaFusion is a touch-screen video editing app. It provides six video, audio, or graphic tracks plus six additional audio tracks, a track-based and magnetic timeline, transitions, and external monitor preview. Editing features include green screen and chroma keying, color correction, LUT import, unlimited keyframes, multilayer titles, and audio tools such as EQ, voice isolation, and audio ducking. It supports frame rates from 18fps to 240fps, editing from Photos, Frame.io, and USB-C drives, and optional enhanced features available individually or through a Creator Pass subscription.
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Open source ↗AutoSnore is an iPhone app that automatically records snoring and other sleep sounds overnight. Users start the app next to their bed before sleeping, and in the morning it shows a visual breakdown of each episode's frequency, intensity, and duration, plus a combined Snurk Score for the night. It uses machine learning to classify sounds such as snoring, sleep talking, yawning, and coughing, syncs snore data with the AutoSleep app, and keeps all recordings on the device. The app is a one-time purchase with no subscriptions and is not a medical device.
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Open source ↗FL Studio Mobile is a music production app for iPad, iPhone, and Mac for creating and saving complete multi-track music projects. Users record, sequence, edit, mix, and render complete songs. It includes audio recording, synthesizers, a sampler, drum kits, a step sequencer, a piano roll for editing notes, a mixer with per-track controls, effects modules, MIDI file import and export, and virtual piano keyboard and drumpads. Projects can be saved as WAV, MP3, AAC, FLAC, or MIDI, and shared via Wi-Fi, cloud, or sync to other Mobile 3 installations.
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Open source ↗Vinted is a second-hand marketplace app for buying and selling pre-owned items such as clothes and accessories. Sellers list items by taking photos, writing a description, and setting a price, keep all of what they earn, and send earnings to their bank account, with buyers covering shipping costs. Buyers can filter by category, choose a shipping carrier for home delivery or pickup, and chat with other members. A paid Buyer Protection offers a refund if an item is lost, damaged in delivery, or significantly not as described.
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