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Kris Slazinski ☮️
@kslazinski.bsky.social
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👨🏻‍💻 UX Designer at NEXT PLANET.

📱 Indie iOS developer, creator of: Moons, Numi, Skoro, Wins, Emo.

🎸Guitarist at ZERO and Quadroom.
🎨 MA in art.
🌱 Vegan.

My apps:
https://apple.co/3MblwxW

My blog about iOSdev and UX:
https://blog.next-planet.com/
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🤩💎 Sketch 2025.3 is now available!
www.sketch.com/changelog/co...

✅ New design
✅ Better performance
✅ Wrap items in Stacks

😍 And I love this new button that simplifies my layers list!

Thank you @sketch.com team!

#uiux #design
Screenshot from the Sketch app with the “Only show selection and related layers” button selected.
November 18, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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I just received a new 5-star review of my expense tracker app Numi 🤩
It’s concise and straight to the point. And that’s OK ☺️

Check out Numi on the App Store:
📲 apps.apple.com/app/id163623...

#buildinpublic #finance
Screenshot of the 5-star review of my app saying “Ok”.
November 17, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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🧑🏻‍💻I’m designing new widget type for my goal-setting app Wins.
And how’s your weekend? 🙂

🚀 Wins on the App Store:
apps.apple.com/app/id166831...

💎 #madewithSketch
🛠️ #buildinpublic
💻 #uxui
Screenshot from the Sketch app with many designs of iOS widgets.
November 15, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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🥳 Numi 2.7, my expense tracker app, is now on the App Store:
apps.apple.com/app/id163623...

It’s ready for iOS 26 and looks better than ever with the new Liquid Glass design.

#expenses #money #buildinpublic
Screenshots from Numi 2.7 with the Transactions and Summary screens and the Liquid Glass UI.
November 15, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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😅 This took too many hours & AI tried to convince me it’s not possible. But I did it!

Very soon in my goal-tracking app Wins you’ll be able to select goals to show in widgets using 🔍Search

To apply it in your app use EntityStringQuery

🚀 Wins
apps.apple.com/app/id166831...

#iOSdev #buildinpublic
Screenshots from upcoming Wins 3.2. On the left, editable widget with a simple Picker to choose goals. Made with EntityQuery in my code. On the right, editable widget with a Searchable List. Made with EntityStringQuery + entities(matching:). This Searchable List version will be available soon in Wins 3.2.
November 13, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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🥳 Wins 3.1 (my goal-tracking app) is now on the App Store:
apps.apple.com/app/id166831...

✅ Wins is ready for iOS 26 and looks better than ever with the new Liquid Glass design.
✅ BUG-FIX: Eastern Arabic numerals are now working again.

#goals #wins #buildinpublic
Screenshots from Wins 3.1 with the Liquid Glass UI in the app.
November 10, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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🥳 New review of my time-tracking app Moons.

As a UX designer and Fine Arts Academy graduate, I’m really happy to know that this user from the UK finds my app both “beautiful and practical” 🥰

Check out Moons on the App Store:
📲 apps.apple.com/app/id163217...

#buildinpublic
Screenshot of an App Store review of my app Moons. Text says: Beautiful and practical. Very easy to use and it looks good.
November 6, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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👋 Dear iOS developers and SwiftUI gurus. When using Menu component in iOS 26, label morphs into the menu when it’s active. In iOS 18 the label was always visible (check my screenshot).

Is it possible to turn off this morphing animation in Menu in iOS 26? It makes all sorts of problems.
#iOSdev
Screenshot comparing Menu component in iOS 18 vs iOS 26. In iOS 18 the label is visible when the Menu is open. In iOS 26 the label morphs into the menu.
November 5, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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🥳 My scoreboard app Skoro is now ready for iOS 26 and looks better than ever with the new Liquid Glass design.

Check out Skoro 3.14 on the App Store:
📲 apps.apple.com/app/id160831...

#buildinpublic #gamenight
Screenshots from the Skoro app with the new Liquid Glass design.
October 24, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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😩 This menu worked perfectly before iOS 26. Now it has this ugly animation glitch with jumping label.

Similar problems:
- contextMenu Preview
- TabView on a Mac with apps designed for iPad

I love SwiftUI, but please Apple. Fix these bugs. Please 🙏

#iOSdev #Apple
October 21, 2025 at 10:16 AM
kslazinski.bsky.social
👋 Hey, folks! Quick question.
Which design looks better?

A (full-width list)
B (list with margins and rounded corners)

More context: it’s for my expense tracker app Numi:
apps.apple.com/app/id163623...

#buildinpublic #uxui
Two screenshots from my expense tracker app Numi. List of transactions on both screens. Left screenshot (A) shows a full-width list. Right screenshot (B) shows the same list but with left and right margins and rounded corners on top of the list.
October 16, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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👨🏻‍💻 It’s been fun playing with Apple’s Icon Composer. Here’s the new app icon I made for my time tracker app Moons.

Check out Moons on the App Store:
📲 apps.apple.com/app/id163217...

#buildinpublic #design
Comparison of Moon’s app old and new app icon. On the left: simple black and white icon with a white circle representing a planet and two smaller circles around it symbolizing moons. And a big checkmark inside the big circle. On the right: the same shape but with gradients and purple background - the new app icon.
October 16, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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🌝 My time-tracking app Moons is now fully compatible with iOS 26 and uses the new Liquid Glass design 🥳

📲 Check out Moons on the App Store:
apps.apple.com/app/id163217...

#productivity #buildinpublic
Promo image for the new version of Moons. With the iOS 26 and Liquid Glass texts with the glass effect. And with screenshots from the app with the new iOS 26 UI.
October 15, 2025 at 6:46 AM
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👨🏻‍💻 One user of my expense-tracking app asked if Numi could also show the time of each transaction, not just the date.

After a small change in Numi 2.6, you can now turn this on in Settings. Minimal by default. More detail if you want it.

📲 Numi:
apps.apple.com/app/id163623...

#buildinpublic #UX
Screenshots from the Numi app. New Transaction screen displaying only the date of transaction. Next screenshot showing the Settings screen with the Date & Time option selected in the Transactions section. Next screenshot shows the New Transaction screen but now both date and time are displayed for the new transaction.
October 10, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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👋😀 안녕하세요, 한국! 🇰🇷
Hello, Korea! With Numi 2.6 you can now track your income and expenses in Korean.

📱Numi on the App Store:
apps.apple.com/app/id163623...

#buildinpublic #personalfinance
Screenshots from the Numi app with the UI in Korean.
October 10, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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Gods of the AppStōr, please find more friends for this cat 🐈 from my Proceeds chart 📊

Many big big friends. Climbing a huge steep mountain 🏔️ and carrying a giant hockey stick 🏒

🥹 To support my ProceedsCat, please follow this link:
apple.co/3MblwxW

#buildinpublic #iOSdev #indieDev
Screenshot from the Proceeds chart on the App Store Connect. Blue chart that looks like a cat’s head. With a black eyes and mustache drawn on it.
October 8, 2025 at 7:11 AM
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🥳 Teachers are using my scoreboard app in classrooms! 🏫🎲

A teacher from Korea asked if I can fit more players on the screen as he’s using my app in school. I updated the app. And he wrote this lovely 5⭐️ review 🤩

Get Skoro from the App Store:
👉 apps.apple.com/app/id160831...

#buildinpublic #UX
Screenshot with the translation of the mentioned 5-star review on the App Store: The best scoreboard app. To be honest, there was something a little disappointing about the function I wanted at first. I usually don't respond, so I contacted the developer without expecting anything, and all of that was reflected! Now it's the perfect app for me!! That's the best, really!
September 27, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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Accessibility matters ❤️ Here’s a quick demo of how the new Dice feature in Skoro works with VoiceOver, so even visually impaired users can use the app.

Skoro on the App Store:
➡️ apps.apple.com/app/id160831...

#iOSdev #a11y #uxdesign #buildinpublic
September 15, 2025 at 6:29 AM
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🥳 🎲 Roll the dice with the latest version of my scoreboard app Skoro!

Here’s a quick demo 🎥

Check out Skoro on the App Store:
👉 apps.apple.com/app/id160831...

Built entirely with #SwiftUI 🚀

#buildinpublic #indiedev #iosDev
September 12, 2025 at 9:13 AM
kslazinski.bsky.social
🍎 Well, Apple didn’t mention iOS 26 during their #AppleEvent but…

I can finally reveal that iOS 26 will be available on September 15 🥳

You’ve heard it from me first… unless you knew it already 🙃

#Apple #iOSdev
Screenshot from Apple’s website with the iOS 26 release date: September 15.
September 9, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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🤩 Someone wrote on the App Store that my app Wins is the “Best application to achieve your goals”.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Who am I to disagree? I’m just a simple indie app developer 🥹

Try Wins for yourself:
👉 apps.apple.com/app/id166831...

#buildinpublic #UX #wins
Screenshot with the app review of my app Wins with the text: “Best application to achieve your goals. If you want an app to achieve these goals, this is the right one”
September 8, 2025 at 5:13 AM
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🇵🇹 Olá, Portugal!
🇧🇷 Olá, Brasil!

Based on user feedback, my expense-tracking app Numi is now available in Portuguese 🥳

📱Numi on the App Store:
apps.apple.com/app/id163623...

#buildinpublic #finances #money
Screenshots from the Numi app with the UI in Portuguese (Portugal). Screenshots from the Numi app with the UI in Portuguese (Brazil).
August 26, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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🥳 Another win!
My apps made $10K in total (I wish it were per month 🥲)

Here are some of my milestones:
$5 FEB’22
$100 JUL’22
$1K AUG’23
$5K DEC’24
$10K AUG’25

📱My apps:
apple.co/3MblwxW

Keep going! Don’t give up!
#buildinpublic #iOSdev
Screenshot from the Wins app with the “$10K from my apps” trophy. Screenshot from the App Store Connect’s Proceeds chart with some of my milestones marked: $5 FEB’22 $100 JUL’22 $1K AUG’23 $5K DEC’24 $10K AUG’25
August 21, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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😀 My inner designer feels proud after randomly seeing someone on Reddit ask about a part of the UI in my app Wins and praising the UX!

🚀 Link to Wins:
apps.apple.com/app/id166831...

#buildinpublic #UX #indieDev
Screenshot from Reddit with the question: “Hey everyone, I’m trying to replicate the small toolbar above the iOS keyboard that has a “dismiss” button (like the one in the screenshot). I can add a button using SwiftUI’s .toolbar modifier for the keyboard, but I can’t figure out how to make the toolbar’s background clear instead of the default solid color. Has anyone done this in SwiftUI? How do you build this with a transparent background while still showing the button? Thanks!” Screenshot from Reddit with my answer and asking if it’s my app Wins on their screenshot. And the answer from OP: “Yes, I really like this UX on your app, it’s super clean. Thanks for sharing the solution!”
August 12, 2025 at 5:54 AM
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👨🏻‍💻 July was the second-best month for my app business. My apps made $745.

Unfortunately, I failed to reach $2K again 😕 I hope August will be better.

I’d say patience is more important than anything when building a good business.

📱My apps:
apple.co/3MblwxW

#indieDev #buildinpublic
Screenshot from the Wins app with the “$2K from my apps in 1 month” goal. Progress bar at $745. Screenshot from the App Store Connect with the Proceeds graph. Last month is second-best with $745. Best month was January 2025 with $1140.
August 3, 2025 at 3:16 AM