The end of the road for iSitter

iSitter Baby Monitor Discontinued

iSitter, the mobile app that I developed to help parents monitor their babies, will be discontinued on June 15th, 2023.

I started iSitter in June 2011 after checking into a hotel and not getting an adjoining room for my kids, with the goal of making it easier for parents to keep an eye on their babies, even when they're not home. The app was a success, and I was able to help thousands of parents monitor their babies.

However, in recent years, the cost of running iSitter has increased significantly. The cost of hosting the app, supporting it, and marketing has become too high. As a result, iSitter is no longer profitable.

I'm disappointed to have to discontinue iSitter, but I believe it is the best decision for my business. I want to focus my time and energy on developing my existing successful products.

I want to thank all of you who have used iSitter. I appreciate your support and feedback. I hope that you will continue to use my other products, including RSSRadio and UK Train Times.

iOS14 - Moving your subscriptions from RSS Radio Premium

The old RSSRadio Premium doesn’t seem to work with iOS14. You can see some instructions here on how to move your data to the current version.

Download the working version of RSSRadio from the App Store - https://apps.apple.com/au/app/rssradio/id386600664

Put your RSSRadio Premium in recovery mode in the device settings app.

Open RSSRadio Premium and choose to send the logs to support.

Change the support email address to your own

Find the email. Long press on the database.zip and save the database.zip to your files app

***On the new RSSRadio***, go to settings, backup and restore.

Choose ‘restore from backup”

Choose “open file”, and find the database.zip

Clearing excess storage in RSSRadio

Open your phone settings app and find the RSSRadio section.

Turn on “startup in recovery mode”

Open RSSRadio.

Choose the “Database Housekeeping” option.

Choose to “Exit Recovery Mode”

iSitter 5.0

iSitter now supports proper streaming video and audio!

This is a change i’m delighted to be able to make and its been my ambition for a long time to move away from the default “slideshow” mode.

(GIF - app quality is better)

Manual archiving isn't coming back to RSSRadio

Archiving was the number one source of confusion for RSSRadio users for years.

It was feature that was needed when running on the original iPhone to keep the app fast enough but became unnecessary over time.

It was so distressing to find the number of people who thought they had to manually archive everything out of the way once listened. So many thousands of hours of peoples time wasted.

I really want RSSRadio to do everything for you.

Here are some alternatives for previous manual archivers:

• I’ve added the “discard” shortcut for people who just wanted a quick way of getting shows they aren’t interested in out of the way.

• Delete downloaded file is on the popup and multi select menu

• The filters and tab choice on the podcast episode list are remembered

• You can differentiate shows that you actually listened to from ones where you just 'marked played’ to get it out of the way with a blue vs green ‘lozenge’