Reel and carousel ideas for app makers, by category

Pick your app's category

• Habit tracker apps300 reviewsthe 10th app they tried, ADHD days, and streaks worth sharing
• Meditation apps300 reviews3am anxiety, falling asleep, and onboarding that gets in the way
• Budgeting apps300 reviewsmoney anxiety, couples on one budget, and bank sync that breaks
• Language learning apps300 reviewsstreak grief, app-switching, and wanting to actually speak
• Home workout apps300 reviewsday-3 paywalls, never having worked out, and visible progress
• Journaling apps299 reviewsa lock nobody can open, 10 years of entries, and venting without judgement
• To-do list apps300 reviewsADHD brain dumps, a million things in your head, and bugs that break trust
• Sleep tracker apps299 reviewssnoring recordings, a score that feels wrong, and finally understanding your nights
• Photo editing apps294 reviewserasing what ruins a photo, editing with a toddler around, and the AI split
• Recipe and meal planner apps297 reviewsthe grocery list, 'what's for dinner', and recipes saved from TikTok
• Period tracker apps296 reviews15 years of records, predictions that land, and a body that makes sense
• Plant care apps255 reviewsa pothos kept alive, 250 houseplants, and 'healthy' plants that weren't
• Reading tracker apps300 reviewsforgetting what you've read, reading stats, and a streak that reset
• Focus timer apps300 reviewsthe princess of procrastination, burning out on 2-hour sessions, and breaks
• Music practice apps300 reviewstuning without a friend's help, band directors, and coming back after 50 years
• Note-taking apps300 reviewshuge textbooks on an iPad, handwriting you can search, and AI nobody asked for
• Travel planner apps300 reviews1,000 screenshots of places, booking emails, and planning with the group
• Baby tracker apps300 reviewsnot waking your partner to ask about the last feed, naps, and memory gone postpartum
• Pet care apps280 reviewsa vet on video at night, every record in one place, and pets who hate the clinic
• Flashcard and study apps300 reviewscramming between classes, finals stress, and decks lost to an update

How these pages are made

For each category we picked 5 popular apps from a US App Store search and read up to 60 of each app's most recent reviews from Apple's public feed. A script counts the phrases happy and unhappy reviewers repeat; the moments, hooks and formats are drafted with AI from those reviews and fact-checked against the data. No reviewer is named, and no app is named. Cite this: Slide-Easy, "Reel and carousel ideas for app makers, by category" (6 Oct 2026), https://slideeasy.app/hooks. All counts in one table: slideeasy.app/data.

The same idea works best on your own reviews: the free hook generator reads your App Store link and writes hooks from your 4 and 5★ reviews. Background: how to turn reviews into posts and Instagram marketing for indie apps.