Live on the App Store
Deutschland Heute
Everything that matters today, in one calm app
A focused daily companion for life in Germany, replacing scattered calendar, holiday, daylight, and fuel-price searches with one location-aware overview.
At a glance
Project facts
- My role
- Solo developer and product owner
- Status
- Live on the App Store
- Product
- Native iPhone app
Purpose
What it does
A native iPhone app bringing together public holidays, school breaks, bridge days, sun times, nearby fuel prices, a daily quote, and events from this day in history.
- Regional information for all 16 German federal states
- Bridge-day planning that turns a few vacation days into longer breaks
- Nearby fuel-price comparison with direct routing in Apple Maps
- An offline daily collection with a featured quote and five historical events for every calendar date
- No account required, with core calendar and sun-time calculations available offline
Product
Key features
- Daily overview with date, calendar week, and year progress
- Public holidays, school breaks, and bridge-day opportunities
- Local sunrise, sunset, and daylight duration
- Nearby Super E5, Super E10, and diesel prices
- Quote of the day with its author and built-in sharing
- On this day in history with five events to browse by year and country
- Configurable home-screen widgets, including dedicated quote and history widgets
- One-time Pro upgrade with no subscription
Engineering
Architecture and ownership
- Native SwiftUI application for iPhone with a modular feature-based structure
- WidgetKit and App Intents extension with shared app-group state
- On-device calendar and solar calculations with optional Core Location support
- Bundled offline content for 366 calendar dates, with 1,830 quotes and 1,830 historical events
- Live fuel data from Tankerkönig and StoreKit 2 for the one-time Pro purchase
- Firebase Analytics and AdMob consent handling
Technology