iCloud
How vibe coders and indie builders use iCloud: 116 projects built with it since May 2026.
Projects built with it
116
Share of stated stacks, 4 wks
0.6%
Last 4 weeks vs 8 before
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Add-ons built for it
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Latest projects built with iCloud
- Tetr — Lets users handwrite notes on iPad or iPhone and get AI answers placed on the page next to circled questions.“Tetr”
- GymBro 3000 — Logs gym sets on iPhone and Apple Watch with last-session numbers, rest timers, and CSV/JSON import and export.“I got tired of workout apps holding my training log hostage, so I built one that exports everything as CSV (iPhone, Apple Watch, Mac)”
- HushNotes — Shows floating notes over all apps that stay hidden from screen shares and recordings, with color themes, a quick-capture hotkey for selected text, and read-only MCP access for AI tools.“I built Mac notes that stay on my screen but invisible to screen share”
- Bookidoro — Shows a short reading overlay of one to five pages from the user's book queue when a work break starts, instead of phone scrolling.“I built a native Mac app to stop my phone doomscrolling habit during work breaks. 2 months in, I’ve read 4 books & just added iCloud sync.”
- CodeMate — Opens and displays source code files on iPhone and iPad with syntax highlighting, tabs, minimap, and light editing.“I wanted to use spare moments to learn from other people’s code, so I built CodeMate”
- Little Memory — Lets users write one line a day in a journal and resurfaces each entry a year later, with entries stored on the phone and synced via iCloud.“After 15 years, I'm moving everyone's journal entries off my servers and onto their phones”
- Navis Dash — Runs freelance business operations in a single offline HTML file covering clients, projects, time tracking, invoicing, contracts, expenses, taxes and cash-flow forecasting.“I built my entire freelance studio into one HTML file — 18 pages, no server, no account, no subscription”
- Brevity — Shows a grid of lived weeks against a life expectancy and offers one daily challenge marked done from an iOS widget.“I read Four Thousand Weeks and realised my weeks all look the same and built a widget about it”
- Cairn — Tracks personal finances across iPhone, iPad, and Mac by importing Apple Card data, read-only bank feeds, and CSV files, with on-device transaction categorization.“Cairn: Privacy focussed, serverless personal finance tracking app”
- Strongstead — Tracks household emergency supplies with expiry dates, bundles preparedness checklists and guides, and provides offline crisis tools and bug-out plans.“I built an offline-first prepping app for iPhone after years of tracking supplies in a spreadsheet. No accounts, no analytics, no server.”
- Memora Trips — Plans multi-stop trips with itineraries, flights, hotels and maps, then turns the itinerary into a photo and memory book.“I just finished designing the launch materials for Memora Trips, a new family travel journal app!”
- Miriam — Reorganizes Apple Health running workouts into period totals, route-based courses, distance rankings, lifetime awards, goals with streaks, and widgets.“I built an iOS app that reorganizes your Apple Watch running history — my first app, just shipped”
- Waitless IMAP Migration — Copies email folders, messages and flags from one IMAP mailbox to another in resumable batches.“I built an IMAP mailbox migration tool that runs online. Looking for feedback”
- The Gift Journal — Organizes gift ideas, preferences, and previous gifts around each person, with a gift status tracker from idea to given.“built a gift app in an already ridiculously crowded market — so I tried a different angle”
- Dough Maker — Builds bread recipes from baker percentages on iOS and the web, with iCloud Drive backups.“Dough Maker - bake bread using baker percentages”
Pitched as alternatives to iCloud
- PixCarry — Backs up phone photos and videos in the background to user-owned storage like S3, a NAS, or a desktop app, then deletes the originals from the device.“I made an iPhone/Android app that backs up every photo to your own S3/Server/NAS instead of iCloud then frees up the phone”
- Vloggo — Lets people share videos privately in invite-only group spaces, with video replies instead of likes.“My best videos never left my camera roll, so I built an app where they go to live”
- privcloud — Installs and manages a self-hosted home server stack (photos, music, sync, ad blocking, monitoring) on a mini PC from a single command menu.“privcloud — turn a 120€ mini PC into your Google Photos / iCloud / Spotify replacement, from one command menu”