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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Zoom Workplace iPhone Guide: Meetings, Chat, Scheduling, and AI
Zoom Workplace combines meetings, chat, phone, docs, and AI tools in one iPhone app.
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Stock Unlock: iPhone stock tracking and analysis from a Winter 2022 YC company
An iPhone app from Winter 2022 YC company Stock Unlock for portfolio tracking, stock scores, and stock research.
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Cash App for iPhone: payments, debit card, savings, and investing
Cash App combines peer-to-peer payments, a debit card, savings tools, and investing for iPhone users.
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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.
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Marketing Forecast: a mobile research reader, not a prediction engine
What Ad-ology’s early iPhone app delivered and how to evaluate a marketing statistic before building a decision around it.
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Rally Master Pro: revisiting Fishlabs’ iPhone preview
Read the original Rally Master Pro announcement as a preview and separate promised racing features from a finished-game review.
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iGarageSale: finding nearby sales in an early iPhone map app
The original iGarageSale listing connected searchable local-sale notices with a map and list view.
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Office on the go: the document workflows early iPhone apps tried to solve
A historical look at Quickoffice and Documents To Go, with practical questions for evaluating mobile document work.
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Shazam: the iPhone app that put a name to a song
How Shazam brought music recognition to the early App Store, what audio matching does, and where to find the current official app.
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IM+ 3.3: a 2009 update to the mobile messaging interface
A historical look at the inbox, chat and service changes described for IM+ version 3.3.
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Free Books by Spreadsong: what “free” meant in the original app
Revisit the original Free Books reader, its catalog model and the distinction between an app’s price and the books inside it.