Fridgie
An iOS app that turns travel photos into fridge magnets and mirrors the fridge on Home Screen widgets.
The problem
Phone photo libraries are good at storage and search but weak at keeping a small set of memories visible. Fridgie turns selected travel photos into objects that can be arranged, captioned, and kept on the Home Screen.
My contribution
I designed and built the SwiftUI app, its model layer, the WidgetKit extension, deep links, App Group persistence, release screenshots, privacy documentation, and the v1-to-v2 migration path. The product remains fully on-device: no account, cloud service, analytics SDK, or ad identifier.
Difficult decisions
One source of truth
The app and widgets read the same App Group data. Widget timelines render snapshots of the fridge rather than maintaining a second, drifting model.
Deep links with context
Each widget opens the matching fridge and magnet in the app. The route carries identity, while the app resolves the latest local state.
Migrate without loss
v1.1 separates reusable magnets from placement records. The migration preserves captions, transforms, appearance, and widget continuity before writing schema v2.
Gate the release
The repository labels v1.1 as release work until the upgrade is tested on real hardware over the existing v1.0 TestFlight build.
Evidence and result
v1.0 reached TestFlight with the full create-arrange-widget loop. The current release work adds the Magnet Drawer, reusable magnet records, stronger gallery coverage, and a documented on-device migration checklist.
v1.1 is not described as shipped. Its final gate is an on-device upgrade test from the TestFlight v1.0 data set.
What comes next
Complete the hardware migration gate, archive build 2, and use TestFlight feedback to measure whether people understand the create, arrange, and widget flow without onboarding text.