IPHONE APPS / NEWS / DISCOVERY
iPhone apps, news, and accessories.
Discover useful apps, see what’s new, and get more from your Apple devices.
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Airwork: iPhone shifts and same-day pay for workers
Airwork is a Winter 2022 YC iPhone app for flexible shifts, with same-day pay and location-limited work in Ontario.
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Canva AI Photo & Video Editor for iPhone: a mobile design suite
Canva’s iPhone app combines photo editing, video creation, templates, and collaboration in one mobile design tool.
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Kaagaz PDF Scanner & Compress for iPhone
Kaagaz is a free iPhone scanner and PDF tool for documents, folders, and cloud backup.
Latest perspectives
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Creating an iPhone game: the questions behind a 2009 warning
Revisit an early App Store essay about the gap between an appealing game idea and a sustainable release.
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Shortcovers on iPhone: how the early ebook service became Kobo
The connection between Shortcovers and Kobo, and what it means when you find an old ebook purchase or app recommendation.
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Quickword: Word-document editing and file transfer on the early iPhone
Quickword concentrated Quickoffice’s mobile workflow around Word documents, email and wireless file access.
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Quickoffice Mobile Office Suite: Word, Excel and file transfer on early iPhone
The original Quickoffice suite combined document and spreadsheet editing with several routes for moving files.
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iPlay’n Learn: turn a small-screen activity into a shared conversation
The Parents-branded early learning app offers a starting point for choosing one simple activity and connecting it to the world around a…
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Fromage for iPhone: build a cheese notebook you will actually use
Steve Welch’s cheese reference combines discovery with personal notes; the most useful entry is one you can recognize again.
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iSpyCams: public views and personal cameras in one early iPhone app
The historical iSpyCams combined a public-camera directory with tools for viewing compatible personal cameras.
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iBearArms: a historical state-law reference app for iPhone
Identify Schematix’s original iBearArms app and why legal reference information must be read with its date and jurisdiction.
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3GPS OS 3.0: altitude, speed and direction on early iPhones
Identify the original 3GPS app and learn why a direction reading and a movement reading need context.