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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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SmackTalk!: the small pleasure of a voice that talks back
The early animated-animal app illustrates a simple creative loop: speak, hear the transformed result and try something different.
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iTriage: the early health-information app and how to assess medical content
A historical look at Healthagen’s app, with reliable questions to ask of any health-information service.
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Green Wars: an environmental theme inside a trading game
A historical guide to the early iPhone game and a reminder that a simulation’s rules are not real-world evidence.
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iQuit Stop Smoking Counter: useful numbers need a useful plan
The historical counter tracked time and estimated savings. Those figures are most helpful when they support a broader quitting plan.
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Searchme: the early iPhone experiment with visual search results
What made Searchme’s page-preview approach distinctive and how to assess a search interface beyond its presentation.
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Tube Deluxe: the enduring value of checking before you travel
Malcolm Barclay’s early London app points to a useful modern routine: check disruption, plan the whole journey and keep a backup route.
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iPump Yoga: guided flows and a session log on early iPhone
The historical iPump Yoga edition organized poses into three flows, with visual aids and a record of sessions.
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Tic Tac on iPhone: a virtual mint pack from 2009
The original Tic Tac novelty app turned a familiar mint pack into an interactive object on an iPhone screen.
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Creative Whack Pack: use a prompt to move a stuck idea forward
Roger von Oech’s creativity cards became an iPhone app. Here is a practical way to use the format without treating prompts as…