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Wagetap iPhone app review: wage advances and bill splitting in Australia
Wagetap is a Winter 2022 YC iPhone app for Australian wage advances and bill splitting.
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Univerbal for iPhone: AI conversation practice for language learners
Univerbal is a YC Winter 2023 language-learning app for speaking practice, instant feedback, and personalized conversation drills.
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Travel apps for iPhone: maps, itineraries and offline preparation
The best travel setup on an iPhone starts with three jobs: keeping reservations together, finding your way, and having essential information available…
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Dinky Ball: tilt, jump and climb a tower on early iPhone
The original Dinky Ball mixed accelerometer steering with a screen-tap jump and increasingly difficult tower levels.
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Texts From Last Night and FML: short-form entertainment comes to iPhone
A 2009 commentary considered why anonymous anecdotes and text-message humor suited the mobile screen.
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Speeek EC: the early iPhone translation idea revisited
A historical look at the Speeek name and a practical checklist for evaluating spoken translation on a phone.
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FeedCount: an early iPhone window into FeedBurner statistics
The old FeedCount app tracked a publisher’s feed audience. Its historical metrics need to be read in the context of later FeedBurner…
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iSayHello: what a travel phrasebook can do well
The history of Admovi’s mobile phrasebook and a practical way to prepare a small, useful vocabulary for a trip.
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Green Charging: the early iPhone battery-alert app
Revisit Impetus mLabs’ Green Charging and separate a full-battery reminder from measured energy savings.
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Symbolism: revisiting the original iPhone puzzle-game video
The original Symbolism post paired a short recommendation with an iPhoneApplicationList video review.
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Tuner Metronome: pitch and rhythm tools from MIZO
The historical MIZO app combined a reference-tone generator, a microphone tuner and a configurable metronome.
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Spins: a customizable decision wheel for the early iPhone
The original Spins put faces or options around a wheel for lightweight party games and choices.