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.
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Puppet Animation: turning one iPhone photo into a moving character
Daisuke Nogami’s Puppet Animation animated parts of a still image. Its surviving developer history shows what came at launch and what arrived…
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Santana for iPhone: music, lessons and the story behind the app
Santana’s 2009 iPhone app brought together music, a discography, news and guitar lessons. Here is what its developer documented.
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Fishing Calendar: sun, moon and a record of your catches
The historical Fishing Calendar paired a location-based timing forecast with a photo-and-catch log.
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Safety Button: what an alert app can and cannot promise
A historical look at location-alert apps, the difference between notification and response, and the questions that matter before relying on one.
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GoodFood: finding a restaurant recommendation you can use
The early GoodFood name and a practical method for assessing restaurant suggestions on an iPhone.
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Haircaster: what a hair forecast can and cannot tell you
A look at the weather app that translated local conditions into a hair-day rating, with a sensible way to interpret that kind…
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iPirate: a pirate-voice joke generator from the early App Store
Taco Apps’ iPirate packaged theatrical pirate insults as a small entertainment app.
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True or Lie: remembering a novelty app without trusting its verdict
The 2009 FEYNMAN app turned microphone input into a detector-like display. Its role was entertainment, not evidence about honesty.
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Massager by Oscar Yau: an early iPhone novelty from the archive
The original Massager listing identifies Oscar Yau and app ID 300815710. Here is what the historical record actually establishes.