I used Timeline at a recent wedding with my buddy Kris, and having a live countdown on the Lock Screen was super handy. One look at my phone showed what was coming up next.

What it is

A planner's timeline has a lot of moving parts: vendor arrivals, venue notes, seating, load-in. Timeline reads the document they sent and pulls out the moments you film, like getting ready, the first look, the ceremony, toasts, dances and the send-off.

Bring in a PDF from Mail, Messages or Safari, a Word or Excel file, a screenshot, or text pasted from an email. Before anything is saved you see what was kept and what was tucked away, and the planner's lines are always one tap away.

On the day, the next moment counts down at the top. Start a Live Activity and it counts down on your Lock Screen, in the Dynamic Island and on Apple Watch too, down to the second. Golden hour and sunset are worked out for the venue, and every Instagram handle in the timeline is ready to copy for tagging.

Why I built it

I'm a wedding filmmaker. The planner's timeline is written for everyone working the wedding, so the moments I film sit in between valet hours, vendor meals and the seating chart. I wanted their plan seen from my side: just what I'm shooting next, and how long until it starts.

How I built it

Timeline is a native iPhone app written in SwiftUI. Everything happens on the phone: PDFs, Word and Excel files are read on the device, and screenshots are read with Apple's text recognition, so the planner's document never leaves your phone.

Every planner lays out a timeline differently, so I tested the importer against real planner timelines from past weddings until it kept the moments that matter and set the logistics aside. The sample wedding in the app and in these pictures is made up.

It's free for two new weddings a month. Timeline Pro adds unlimited weddings for $3.99 a month, $29.99 a year, or $49.99 once.

Timeline 1.0 is in App Store review now. I'll add the App Store link here as soon as it's out.

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Hold, slide, swipe

Hold any item, then slide it left or right. Keep your finger down and swipe up or down to change how it looks. You see the change right away, and it only sticks when you let go.

• Text size: slide left, then swipe down for bigger text or up for smaller. The row grows and shrinks with it.
• Style: slide right, then swipe to step through bold and bold italic.
• Highlight: slide right and keep pushing to highlight an item.
• Back to normal: slide all the way left and the item goes back to how it started.

I use the smaller bold italic for the days in a trip plan, with the plans in normal text under each day. It makes a long trip list a lot easier to read.

Settings

In Settings → List Looks you can pick how highlights look (Theme bright, Inverted or Highlighter) and what each slide does.

List titles get their own size, separate from the items, and the default list look now has its own title font and size too.

Sprig also opens straight to the list you were last using.

The 1.5 update list

Sprig 1.5 adds a list called "Sprig 1.5 update" with one line for each slide. Each line is already styled the way that slide makes it look, so you can see what they all do.

The slides are part of Sprig Pro. It's a one-time purchase, and it also unlocks every theme, per-list looks and all the app icons.

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What it is

It looks like a real course from above, with green felt, cream rails and a little red flag. To take a shot, drag anywhere on the course and pull back like a putter. A line of dots shows where the ball will go at first, including off the rails and down slopes. Let go and it rolls.

You start on the classic courses. Meadow teaches one idea per hole, Lakeside mixes them up and ends at the windmill, and Village Green is a little harder. The theme courses come after that, and each one sticks to one idea, like every hole on ice, lava that carries the ball, or gravity that flips halfway through a hole.

Par earns a bronze medal, under par earns silver, and a hole in one earns gold. The Daily Three gives everyone the same three holes each day, and you get one try. A ghost ball replays your best run on each hole so you can race it. Each person in the family can have their own player, with their own medals and streak.

Greens launched with 72 holes on eight courses. Version 1.1 doubles that to 144 holes on sixteen courses and adds iPad.

What's new in 1.1

Version 1.1 is out now. It adds eight new courses and 72 new holes:

• Village Green: a third Classic Course, with a little more bite. Opens when you finish Lakeside.
• Inferno: lava flows carry the ball. Ride the river around a wall, get slung around a swirling pool, or fight the current.
• Dunes: sand bunkers slow you down; quicksand swallows a ball that bogs down, so hit it firmly.
• Crystal Caverns: pull and push crystals bend every putt. Curve around them like a comet.
• Castle: drawbridges, portcullis gates, moats and secret stairs.
• Pirate Cove: cannons fire you across the harbor, sea caves and currents carry you to the treasure.
• Toy Room: you're tiny: block walls, pencil bridges, book ramps and toy trains.
• Space Station: gravity that turns and flips, airlocks, wormholes and launch pads.

Also new:

• Players: everyone in the family gets their own medals, streak and ghosts, and the House Leaderboard shows who's best on your iPhone or iPad.
• Your Stats: tap the numbers at the top of the clubhouse for holes played, lifetime strokes, every hole in one and every medal, hole by hole.
• Play a Round: every course in one place, with the next one to play ready to go.
• The Front and Back Nine are now Meadow and Lakeside.
• Bigger holes in landscape.
• Pausing mid-hole keeps your ball where it lies, so you pick up from your last shot.
• Ten ball colors to earn, and race the ghosts of everyone who plays on your iPhone or iPad.
• 15 new achievements, and every player can see theirs in the app.
• Challenge friends through Game Center on the Daily Three or any course, and jump straight into a course from the Games app.
• Greens now plays on iPad, with a two-column clubhouse and the whole hole big on the screen.
• A quick windmill intro when Greens opens.
• Earn an achievement and it pops up right away, badge and all.
• Your Stats folds into neat sections, so everything's one tap away.

Why I built it

Mini golf is a game almost everyone already knows how to play, so there's nothing to explain.

A lot of golf games on the App Store are full of ads between holes, coins, energy meters and in-game stores. I wanted a simple one: a calm course and a good putt. You pay once, and that's it.

How I built it

Greens is a native SwiftUI app, built with Claude Code. From the first commit to App Store approval took about a week.

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What it is

TripStub is an expense tracker for business trips and local reimbursements. Make a trip and add each expense to it. Take a photo of the receipt and it reads the total and date for you, right on your phone. When the trip is over, one tap makes a PDF report with the receipts attached, ready to send.

You can also add an expense with Siri, which is the feature I use most.

Why I built it

I travel for video shoots, so I end up with parking, food, hotels, rides and a pocket full of receipts. I used to put them into a spreadsheet weeks later, and some always got lost along the way.

I wanted logging an expense to take a few seconds, right when it happens.

How I built it

TripStub is built with SwiftUI and SwiftData, and it runs on iPhone, iPad and Mac from one codebase. Receipt scanning uses Apple's Vision framework, so nothing leaves your device. I built the PDF report layout myself so it looks clean.

Two parts were harder than I expected: syncing receipt photos between devices, and making the Mac version feel like a real Mac app, with proper windows and drag and drop from Finder.

There's also a little receipt character named Stub on the trip list. He doesn't do anything useful, but he's my favorite part.

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What it is

Pick the game, pick the players, and enter each round with a few taps. ScorePad adds up the totals and knows the rules, like bags in Spades, shooting the moon in Hearts and the upper-section bonus in Yahtzee.

Some games are scored round by round, and some, like pickleball and Catan, change as you play. ScorePad handles both, and it comes with 24 games.

Everything stays on your phone. There's no account or sign-in, it works without a signal, and if you fix a round later, the totals and the winner update.

Why I built it

Game night at home usually means a scrap of paper that goes missing, or a debate about the math. The scorekeeping apps I tried were either a blank grid where I had to do the rules myself, or they wanted me to make an account.

I wanted an app that already knows the games, so entering a round only takes a few seconds. After a few months of game nights, you also get records and head-to-head stats, which makes it more fun.

How I built it

ScorePad is a SwiftUI app with SwiftData, built for the iOS 26 Liquid Glass look, with big buttons and undo everywhere. Undo turned out to be important, since people mis-tap while holding cards.

Each game has its own scoring rules, so each one is its own little scoring engine. Round games and live games work differently enough that I kept them separate.

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What it is

Sprig is a checklist app. You can type items in like any list app, but you can also paste in a paragraph, a screenshot or a photo of a note, and Sprig pulls out the items for you.

It runs on your iPhone with Apple Intelligence, so nothing gets uploaded. You can also pick colors and fonts for each list, so your grocery list and your packing list don't have to look the same.

Why I built it

People send me lists that aren't really lists, like one text asking me to grab eggs, oat milk, bananas and napkins. Other to-do apps made me retype every item on a tiny keyboard in the middle of the store.

Now that the AI to do this runs right on the phone for free, it made sense to build it.

How I built it

Sprig is a SwiftUI app for iOS 26. Apple's on-device Foundation Models read the text and find the items.

Before anything is saved, Sprig shows you what it found, so you can fix an item, remove one, or cancel.

I spent a lot of time on the themes too. I wanted every list to look nice enough that you want to keep it open.

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What it is

In Type Attack, words fall from the top of the screen, and you destroy them by typing them. If too many land, you lose a life. There are 30 levels, 12 ships to unlock, upgrades like slow motion, achievements and a leaderboard.

There are no ads and nothing to buy, and it's family friendly. It's a Mac app because typing games need a real keyboard.

Why I built it

My kids needed to learn to type, and most typing programs are pretty boring.

So I made a game instead. You're not practicing the home row, you're just trying to hit the word before it lands, and you get faster along the way.

Novice mode is there for younger kids who are just getting started.

How I built it

Type Attack is built with web technology and packaged for the Mac App Store, since it's a 2D game made of text. I wrote most of it in Cursor.

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