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Category: Apps
Choosing Optimism ⇢
Last week I watched the iOS development community react to substantial rumors of a major UI redesign slated to be announced at WWDC25. The reactions were complex and I’d say broadly negative, which is a reaction I very much can understand and appreciate.
However, after wandering around in the (literal) wilderness for most of last week testing Pedometer++, my current reaction is now much more optimistic. Not because the fundamentals of the situation have changed, but because I’ve decided that it is essential that I develop a practice of optimism to navigate this complicated season in the Apple developer world.
The Best iPad Apps are PWAs ⇢
Federico Viticci, bringing the fire:
In working with my iPad Pro over the past few months, I’ve realized something that might have seemed absurd just a few years ago: some of the best apps I’m using – the ones with truly desktop-class layouts and experiences – aren’t native iPad apps.
They’re web apps.
When the iPad starts to feel like a Chromebook, we have a problem.
Dropbox Adds Live Photo Support ⇢
No, you did not read that wrong. Better late than never?
Phoenix
There’s a new social app on the horizon: Here’s The Iconfactory:
Twitterrific for Mac was the very first Twitter client, but it has fallen out of date. Help us bring it back to the future!
STATIC BREAKS INTO MY AIRPODS
Oh, I’m being told that this blog post is supposed to be about another Phoenix. The folks at Tapbots are building a Bluesky client. From their FAQ:
What about Ivory? Are you leaving Mastodon?
Skype to Drop Its Final Call on May 5 ⇢
Tom Warren, writing at The Verge:
It’s the end of an era. Microsoft is shutting down Skype in May and replacing it with the free version of Microsoft Teams for consumers. Existing Skype users will be able to log in to the Microsoft Teams app and have their message history, group chats, and contacts all automatically available without having to create another account, or they can choose to export their data instead. Microsoft is also phasing out support for calling domestic or international numbers.
Framous ⇢
It’s not every week that I get to link to two new Mac apps, but turns out there is some good in this world yet.
Dark Noise developer Charlie Chapman has a new app out for creating those fancy in-device screenshots you see on fancy blogs. Here’s how he described Framous to Chance Miller:
Framous 1.0, the easiest way to quickly add device frames around your screenshots on the Mac, just released to the Mac App Store today.
Hyperspace ⇢
John Siracusa has a new Mac app out today that can scan your drive and reclaim space taken up by duplicate files. It works atop some clever features of APFS and has an excellent icon. In the app’s documentation, he writes:
Hyperspace searches for files with identical contents within one or more folders. If it finds any, it can then reclaim the disk space taken by all but one of the identical files— without removing any of the files!
Callsheet 2025.2 ⇢
Since shortly after Callsheet was released, my #1 request from my users has been the same thing: pins are great, but can we have multiple lists of pins?
Today is the day.
Over the last few days, Callsheet 2025.2 has been quietly rolling out to users. While there is a lot in this release, the headline feature is the ability to make multiple lists of pins. If you have Callsheet installed, and it hasn’t updated, you can open it in the App Store and force your device to update it.
Hell Didn’t Freeze Over After All ⇢
Considering the trajectory of 2025 so far, perhaps we should’ve known that Netflix finally playing nice with the Apple TV app was too good to be true. And now the streaming giant has confirmed that’s exactly the case.
Netflix spokesperson MoMo Zhou has told The Verge that this morning’s window where Netflix appeared as a “participating” service in Apple TV — including temporary support for the watchlist and “continue watching” features — was an error and has now been rolled back. That’s a shame. The jubilation in our comments on the original story was palpable.
Yo Dawg, I Heard You Like Logic
I opened Logic earlier today to edit an interview for Relay members, and was presented with this ad for the iPad version of the app:
I have no problem with advertising to support content or even apps, but a pop-up in a professional tool like Logic feels like a step too far.
Cards ⇢
Basic Apple Guy poured one out for the OG.