IPHONE APPS / NEWS / DISCOVERY
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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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iLOL for iPhone: TipMobile’s early photo-caption community
The 2009 iLOL app let people caption a photo and publish it to a shared community. Here is the original product behind…
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7 Chords: a guitar reference you could see and hear
Revisit Handplant Studios’ 7 Chords and the connection between a chord diagram, its fingering and its sound.
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Bodybook: keep a workout journal useful beyond one app
What surviving 2009 references say about Bodybook Fitness Journal and how to preserve meaningful personal records.
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Where To Golf: finding a course is different from booking a round
A look at the early course-finder app and the practical information to verify before choosing where to play.
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VR+ Voice Recorder: SHAPE’s audio-recording and sharing app
How VR+ combined recording, MP3 sharing and voice-activity detection, with clear limits on what the surviving historical record proves.
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U.S. Historical Documents: reading, searching and annotating on the early iPhone
This app stored a collection of historical documents locally and offered paragraph-level notes and bookmarks.
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iPhone: The Missing Manual — an early guide on the phone itself
The historical /manual/ page covered David Pogue’s iPhone guide from O’Reilly. Revisit its context and choose documentation that matches your iPhone today.
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Bebot: learn a touch instrument through one small melody
Normalware’s robot synthesizer turns the screen into an expressive playing surface, with a useful starting exercise for beginners.
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BigOven: connect recipe ideas to the groceries you actually need
A manageable meal-planning workflow using recipes, a shopping list and ingredients already in the kitchen.