YOKOHAMA (Señor Tomato) – For the past several days, it has rained almost every day in this Tokyo-Yokohama metropolitan area. It looks to me that we are back to another rainy season. I know what I can do when I cannot go out jogging. So I spent several days, not stepping out of my house much, developing a new iOS app. This new release is called Speed Shoots.

You seldom get a second chance when you miss a great moment of a camera shot. Fortunately, iOS comes with a camera shot feature that lets you take several, consecutive shots per second. It’s a great feature but not free from criticism. Some people say it can clutter the Photo Library with a lot of unwanted, near-identical photos. Others say its slide gesture control to initiate the feature is unintuitive.

Speed Shoots is an iPhone-only camera app that lets you take consecutive photos so that you won’t miss a great camera shot moment. Because it’s only designed for you to take consecutive camera shots, there is just one circular camera shutter button you need to tap unlike Apple’s Camera with a hidden gesture control.

Speed Shoots has usual suspects as a camera app. It comes with the camera flash feature with three different modes (auto, on, off). You have options of delaying in taking consecutive camera shots by counting numbers to 1 with or without a voice. You also have options of overlaying the camera screen with a color grid or a color square. Also, you can adjust exposure compensation (brightness) with a horizontal slider. Additionally, you can pinch-zoom the camera screen.

When you hold your device in the landscape orientation, the camera visible area will become very small because of the control cover. In this case, you can long-press the camera screen itself. And the app will hide the control cover, and the camera visible area will increase.

After you take a lot of rapid shots, they won’t be immediately added to the Photo Library. Review them one by one and tap Save to send the current photo you see to the Photo Library.

When you open Photos, what you see is only the one you decided to save, not messing up the Photo Library with several other near-identical photos.   Continue reading →

YOKOHAMA (Señor Tomato) – Here comes the second release of the day. It’s an iPad-only release called Scrapboard Cloud 4.

The iOS version of Scrapboard is not as old as the macOS counterpart. The original idea is to have the user paste notes and pictures on a multi-page virtual bulletin board just like the door of a refrigerator at every household. This version now supports six different layer types: Text, Picture, SF Symbol, Appointment, Web, Map. Scrapboard Cloud 4 works along with its macOS counterpart (Scrapboard 4) so that you can share projects between different devices and OSes. As far as this app is concerned, you can share projects with other iPads and Macs as long as they all share the same iCloud account.

Previously, the last version the Scrapboard app was just a multi-page virtual bulletin board. Scrapboard Cloud 4 goes one step further. Now, you can create multiple projects locally, each of which is a multi-page virtual bulletin board. In order to share a local project between devices, all you have to do is select one in the project list and then tap the Push button. If you want to fetch projects from other devices, simply tap the Fetch button, and Scrapboard Cloud 4 will pull all existing projects under your current iCloud account and download them for you. Furthermore, you can subscribe to project changes made by other devices. And you will receive a notification every time you push a project on a different Mac or on an iPad.

Speaking of different types of layers, the followings are their brief descriptions.

1. Text: It’s a note layer where you can select a font family, a text size, a text color and a background color.
2. Picture: You can select a picture from your disk or from Photos Library.
3. SF Symbol: This layer type displays a symbol. You need to use SF Symbol.app, which is freely distributed by Apple, Inc., to get symbol names.
4. Appointment: You select the day of the month and the time of an appointment. And Scrapboard 4 will count down the remaining time until an event takes place. You have options of receiving or not receiving a notification.
5. Web: You can show the web content corresponding to the URL you specify.
6. Map: It’s used to show the map of the GPS coordinates you specify. And you can run a search with a landmark name to get coordinates.

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YOKOHAMA (Señor Tomato) – Several days ago, I released a desktop application titled Radio Crazy. Here comes the iOS version. It’s called Radio Crazy Mobile.

Just like the desktop version, Radio Crazy Mobile lets you stream music from your favorite Internet radio stations. The top Picker gives you several genre options. So select one and find interesting radio stations. Additionally, you can create a custom radio station profile with a PLS file. Tap the rightmost toolbar button for that.

To my surprise, the iOS conversion took me only 5 to 6 hours. The use of the SwiftUi framework makes this conversion fairly easy this time.
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YOKOHAMA (Señor Tomato) – I’m not so sure if the rainy season is over. In most cases, it ends in the mid to late July. This year, it still rains.

All right. I don’t remember the last time I released an iPad-only app. You may have guessed it, but it is Quick Sub 2 that has been made available for iPad users. No, it’s not available for iPhone users. And this release is called Quick Sub Mobile.

Quick Sub Mobile is a direct conversion of an existing desktop application called Quick Sub 2. I developed the initial version of Quick Sub in Cocoa so that I could show the Apple Reviewer quickly how the software title that I submit to them works with some comments without paying a dime to an unknown developer. It has accomplished its purpose, and I used it till a few months ago (Spring, 2026). But it had a major limitation: The user was not able to rescale the Timeline view. So I developed Quick Sub 2 and Quick Sub Mobile from a scratch in SwiftUI to overcome to this aspect of inconvenience.

The main objective of Quick Sub Mobile is to let the user add text layers to the movie screen. Quick Sub 2 and Quick Sub Mobile go beyond this initial objective and support four different layer types: Text, Circle, Rectangle, and SF Symbol. If you are not familiar with SF Symbols, let me tell you that they come from a desktop application freely distributed by Apple, Inc. This application name is SF Symbols.

Just like the desktop version, Quick Sub Mobile supports undo/redo stacks. You can just tap the orange Undo button when an “oops” happens or tap the Redo button to redo the last change. In the mobile version, you can also save progress so that you can restart next time at the point where you ended last time. The app will list all existing projects on the startup screen, so you can either select a new video clip to start a new project or open an existing project file.

Unlike the desktop counterpart, you cannot move the red play head with your finger in Quick Sub Mobile. So you have to tap the measurement area to move it.

Lastly, let me tell you that porting Quick Sub 2 to iOS was not easy at all. I ran into a lot of trouble when trying to open an existing project. In fact, I seriously thought about ditching it in the last minute since the app showed some difficulty in recovering data from a saved document file.   Continue reading →

YOKOHAMA (Señor Tomato) – Jogging isn’t really my favorite outdoor exercise. In fact, I don’t quite enjoy it. But I run pretty much every day unless it rains. I sometimes wonder, though, how many kilometers I run on my usual route? That’s how I ended up developing this iOS app. This new release is called Ten Miles.

Ten Miles is an iPhone-only app that lets you keep track of the elapsed time and the distance you run while jogging or walking. You can create different route groups so that you can compare the current elapsed time and distance with the average numbers for the selected group. The app also lets you get the current weather conditions. Additionally, Ten Miles saves each exercise record so that you can review your past history and recreate the route you have taken on the map if necessary.

While you are running or walking, Ten Miles lets you make a distance mark announcement at 2 kilometers, 4 kilometers, 6 kilometers, 8 kilometers, 10 kilometers, and 20 kilometers. Of course, you can choose at which distance you want a distance mark announcement. You can also have a distance mark announcement in terms of miles. When you hit a distance mark, you will receive a voice announcement along with the inline view and a device vibration.   Continue reading →