First Apps

Posted on September 10, 2024 | #apps #swift #project7iii

I finally did it. After starting to learn how to program in Swift in 2021, I now have my first apps available on the App Store.
All my apps are products I wanted for myself. The first app was also one of the first apps I have ever made. Let me introduce to you:

7III QR

It's a simple QR code generator for iPhone and Apple Watch. I thought it would be handy when you meet people, to have a QR code of your contact information or other things ready. It's especially handy if you’re only carrying your watch.

→ You can find more info about my little QR code generator app at project7III/qr.

I actually made that app completely open source, check the source code if you are interested.

Next is an app I spent a lot of time with, and might be the one I will never make a lot of money with (but that doesn’t matter as long as it makes one person happy - me!).

7III Water

I call this the app I made for myself and my downwind foiling crew. As it is a downwind foiling tracker app. It works on iPhone and Apple Watch. I just wanted to have my own water sport tracker with a nice design, great tracking, tags and cool statistics. I also wanted the app to save as much as possible in the Health app. So you will never loose your data and your data is safe and stored locally, not on my server. This has also the benefit that 7III Water will load any water sport activity you’ve recorded into Health!
I am looking forward to slowly turning 7III Water into the best water sports app out there. Especially for winging and downwinding. It already is very amazing, because it is the only watersports app with an amazing sticker pack.

→ Check it out at project7III/water.

And now, the last app, and the one a lot of music makers are excited about.

7III Tap

7III Tap is another app I made for myself, which is like an Ableton Push for your pocket and more. A highly playful MIDI controller for Ableton Live. Plus a universal MIDI CC encoder matrix ou can customize and use even with the main engine of Tap. Plug your iPhone into your Mac and off you go. Whether in the studio or on the go. You’ll always have a compact yet powerful Ableton Live controller with you.

→ Get all the infos at project7III/tap.

I'm still amazed that I, along with ChatGPT and a little help from a guy called Claude, managed to create such a cool MIDI app.