IPHONE APPS / NEWS / DISCOVERY
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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.
Latest perspectives
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How To Text A Girl: a look at the early message-template app
The 2009 Spendthrift Studios app offered text-message examples. Its useful lesson today is to treat templates as prompts, not promises.
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iChemistry by Kyle Moore: equation balancing on early iPhones
Identify Kyle Moore’s original iChemistry app and understand how equation balancing connects to calculations of chemical amounts.
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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.