Hi everyone,
Happy Holidays and Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate.
I’m a new app developer and started learning iOS a month ago. I’ve been trying to make an app every 2-3 days on something I’m passionate or interested in. Recently, I wanted to make was a fun kids friendly app for my cousins.
Recently, I’ve been spending a lot of time improving this app to be more engaging for kids.
I’m always looking for ways to improve the experience so feel free to give me any sorts of criticism / feedback. I am currently working on adding more audios for animal as well as adding an audio description for each animal. Also, tinkering around with the Rive framework to make more engaging visuals for kids.
Let me know what you think!
Please take a look and let me know what you think! https://apps.apple.com/us/app/discover-animal-sounds/id6471942184
Thank you!
Here are some updates I’m working on that should be released in a few weeks:
- Interactive Animal Animations - “play with [x] animal which will make [x, y, z] sound depending on movement”
- More Animals + variety of sounds
(Accidentally posted this on Saturday instead of Sunday so deleted that one and reposting again)
Features I’ve added since the feedback from this post:
- 3 sounds per animal
- 45+ animals
- Audio descriptions
Looks great, installed this on our son’s iPad. Unfortunately he doesn’t seem to want to play with it, when I showed it to him he started mumbling something about “being a fully grown adult” and “only living here cause the housing market’s fucked” and hasn’t touched it since. Other than that, works great!
Look I think it’s great you’ve made an app.
I’ll be honest, despite hundreds of this type of app, I also tried the same, and I’m so disappointed that yours somehow got accepted in the store yet mine didn’t.
They told me they weren’t accepting this type of app anymore which I actually thought was fair enough, but your UI isn’t great at all.
I’ll try to attach screenshots of mine in comparison. Now mine were AI generated, I acknowledge that, but my kids loved it and I made mine because of apps like yours which don’t look great.
Keep making though 👍🏻
Because his app is being around for much longer. It’s in version 8
Hi, I just want to say it’s a cool app, props to you from a fellow aspiring indie iOS dev.
Do you have any good recommendations for learning resources for after I learned the basics? Basically what should I look into after finishing 100 days of Swift (a course that had me build a bunch of apps in project form)?
Here are some resources I took a look at that helped me get jumpstarted that are helpful: https://www.youtube.com/c/iOSAcademy, https://www.hackingwithswift.com/read/36/overview, https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-iOS
Also, unrelated to iOS, but I love Designing Intensive Data Systems by Martin Klepman. Is very helpful for designing large scale software including iOS.
Thanks!
Don’t listen to the haters claiming this is a “cash grab”. $5 for lifetime access is perfectly reasonable for an app like this. Parents gladly spend $100s on kids toys, $5 for an app that entertains them for a few hours is probably a good value for many parents. And if it’s not, they don’t need to buy the app!
Value your app at the price that works for you and your market, not to make redditors happy.
Thanks man - appreciate the kind words. I had a similar line of thinking and glad that others do too.
Damn y’all in the comments are dicks
UPDATE 11/29/23: Made the whole app with premium features free for now. Will work on building a better kids app and adding to the educational and entertainment value for kids.
If anyone has any feedback, please let me know on how I can improve. Thanks for taking the time.
Thank you to those who already emailed me. I realized it’s best to make this free for now and source as much feedback as possible.
Thanks everyone for their honest thoughts - especially those who gave feedback that was constructive and actionable.
Do you really feel like $5 is appropriate or fair to ask for an app like this?
That’s what I told him the last time he posted it. Feels like an app from 2008.
Decent app, I like that it’s actual animal sounds and not fake ones. You need to show what other animals are available if you expect people to pay $5 for full access though. Also for $5 I’d expect A LOT more than just the sounds. The apps I’ve paid $5 for for my son have tons of interactive games, instruments and educational things.
Added more ways to access premium feature
- 3 day free monthly trial ($.99 monthly fee)
- Lifetime Price access to everything ($4.99 one time cost)
Thank you to those who mentioned about price. I appreciate it.
Weren’t you just criticizing « manipulative subscription fees »?
great job.
in the future when looking for feedback have a conversation with ChatGPT
reddit is a lot of wasted hot air.
