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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.
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Errand Tracker: shared shopping lists organized around places
The original Errand Tracker connected retailer-based lists, a map and a website for coordinated errands.
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Xpandaballs: a puzzle where every stopped ball takes up space
Craig Caldwell’s early iPhone game combined expanding balls, special types and the risk of running out of room.
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School supply lists on iPhone: buy what the classroom actually needs
Turn a school’s requirements into a clear shopping list, with quantities, ownership and checks for items you already have.
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NZ metMate: a New Zealand weather web app for the early iPhone
NZ metMate brought local forecasts and rain radar into an iPhone-friendly web app. The developer’s 2009 launch discussion preserves the details.
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PhotoToMac: moving early iPhone photographs over Wi-Fi
Revisit Galarina’s PhotoToMac and the distinction between transferring an image and preserving all of its information.
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TonePad: making music with a grid of light
The original TonePad turned a sixteen-by-sixteen grid into an approachable musical sketchpad.
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Be Nice to Bunnies: checking cruelty-free products on iPhone
The historical PETA app put a shopping database on a phone. Its useful lesson is to check the current source behind a…
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PocketScore by Electric Ears: early music notation on the iPhone
PocketScore explored composing a melody on a phone. Contemporary music educators documented its one-staff approach and the limits of a small touchscreen.
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RDM+: controlling a Mac or Windows desktop from an early iPhone
SHAPE Services’ RDM+ paired a mobile remote-control client with software installed on the target computer.