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)

    • artmudala@alien.topBEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

      That’s what I told him the last time he posted it. Feels like an app from 2008.

  • CaitlynJennersPecker@alien.topBEnglish
    1·
    10 months ago

    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.

  • Ohyo_Ohyo_Ohyo_Ohyo@alien.topBEnglish
    1·
    10 months ago

    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!

  • Vandercoon@alien.topBEnglish
    1·
    10 months ago

    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 👍🏻

    https://preview.redd.it/di97k0ipyu2c1.jpeg?width=1290&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6088a01db879c7c0ac9a6041906c513c043251f7

    • yalag@alien.topBEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

      Because his app is being around for much longer. It’s in version 8

  • Earthquake14@alien.topBEnglish
    1·
    10 months ago

    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)?

  • Fredifrum@alien.topBEnglish
    1·
    10 months ago

    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.