This year I hacked together a small iOS side project called Santa Voice.
It lets parents generate short personalized audio messages from “Santa” using AI.
Tech stack / features:
SwiftUI + MV pattern
OpenAI for generating the message text (cleaned + edited for kid-friendly tone)
ElevenLabs for the voice output (Santa-style model)
Audio saved locally to user’s library as MP3 (no backend storage)
StoreKit 2 (one-time purchase)
Crashlytics for basic crash reporting
A small static landing page on Render
Just a fun project I wanted to ship before Christmas.
If any iOS devs want to critique the architecture, UI, or flow — I’d genuinely appreciate feedback. Also happy to share code snippets if someone’s curious about the OpenAI + TTS pipeline in Swift.
dennydog•1h ago
This year I hacked together a small iOS side project called Santa Voice. It lets parents generate short personalized audio messages from “Santa” using AI.
Tech stack / features:
SwiftUI + MV pattern
OpenAI for generating the message text (cleaned + edited for kid-friendly tone)
ElevenLabs for the voice output (Santa-style model)
Audio saved locally to user’s library as MP3 (no backend storage)
StoreKit 2 (one-time purchase)
Crashlytics for basic crash reporting
A small static landing page on Render
Just a fun project I wanted to ship before Christmas. If any iOS devs want to critique the architecture, UI, or flow — I’d genuinely appreciate feedback. Also happy to share code snippets if someone’s curious about the OpenAI + TTS pipeline in Swift.
You can hear a sample voice for Emily: https://jumpshare.com/s/tB4f4WGEh3xxmqhWf3TE
The app is available only on the App Store:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/santa-voice-ai/id6754908623
Thanks!