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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PayPal – Pay, Send, Save: iPhone Guide to Wallet, Transfers, and Rewards
A practical look at PayPal’s iPhone app for payments, transfers, package tracking, rewards, and account management.
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Munily: a community management app for residents, guards, and admins
Munily is a Winter 2022 YC app for community access, communication, and building management.
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Capital One Shopping: Save Now for iPhone
Free iPhone shopping tool that checks coupons, compares prices, and tracks rewards, with Safari support and iOS 16.6 or later.
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Star Walk’s first birthday: revisiting the early astronomy app celebration
The historical anniversary post combined an astronomy-app celebration with a short-lived price promotion and quiz.
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Grat’s Film Slate/Clapboard: a pocket slate for organizing takes
Identify Grat Crabtree’s historical film-slate app and understand what a readable slate contributes to an organized video shoot.
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Business Card Reader for iPhone: SHAPE’s early contact scanner
How SHAPE’s 2009 Business Card Reader used OCR to turn a photographed card into a contact, and what to check before relying…
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Property Manager: buildings, tenants and work orders in an early iPhone app
Being Properties’ historical app organized property records, expenses and maintenance jobs around individual buildings and units.
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Bank of Mom: a family ledger for money, time and agreed rewards
The original Bank of Mom tracked virtual family accounts, including allowances measured in money or minutes.
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Creating an iPhone game: the questions behind a 2009 warning
Revisit an early App Store essay about the gap between an appealing game idea and a sustainable release.
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Shortcovers on iPhone: how the early ebook service became Kobo
The connection between Shortcovers and Kobo, and what it means when you find an old ebook purchase or app recommendation.
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Quickword: Word-document editing and file transfer on the early iPhone
Quickword concentrated Quickoffice’s mobile workflow around Word documents, email and wireless file access.
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Quickoffice Mobile Office Suite: Word, Excel and file transfer on early iPhone
The original Quickoffice suite combined document and spreadsheet editing with several routes for moving files.