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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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.
Latest perspectives
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Ultimate Shopping List, Holiday Edition: a practical iPhone planning guide
A holiday shopping workflow that separates gift ideas, purchases, groceries, and deadlines without confusing a legacy app with a current product.
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PhotoFrame: the early iPhone as a desk display
A look at Chilli X’s PhotoFrame and a practical way to choose pictures for a small, always-visible display.
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TripAlyizer: trip records and driving data on the early iPhone
The historical TripAlyizer combined GPS trip information with a vehicle notebook and an advertised efficiency score.
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Spectrogram: seeing sound frequencies on an early iPhone
PocketChirp’s Spectrogram turned microphone audio into a scrolling frequency display. Learn what the historical app showed and how to read the idea…
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Contacts Fast Add: capture the number, then keep the contact useful
The historical shortcut app focused on quick entry. A good contact workflow also includes labels, context and a quick accuracy check.
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Hollywood Pocket: Classic Movies in the iPhone’s Safari Browser
Hollywood Pocket offered free classic-movie streaming in Safari. Revisit the 2008 web app and what the original listing actually documented.
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Clip2Mobile: Moving Desktop Notes and Links to an Early iPhone
A look back at Clip2Mobile, the 2008 service that moved notes, addresses and links from a desktop computer to an iPhone.
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Firephrase: a word-guessing party game on the early iPhone
The original Firephrase used words on the phone as prompts for a clue giver and a guessing team.
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iNap: the location alarm that asked where, not when
The early arrival-alert app illustrates both the appeal and the limitations of using a phone to remember a transit stop.