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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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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.
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Tic Tac on iPhone: a virtual mint pack from 2009
The original Tic Tac novelty app turned a familiar mint pack into an interactive object on an iPhone screen.
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Creative Whack Pack: use a prompt to move a stuck idea forward
Roger von Oech’s creativity cards became an iPhone app. Here is a practical way to use the format without treating prompts as…
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iMagazine: an early experiment in phone-sized games publishing
The original iMagazine presented illustrated, review-led issues focused mainly on iPhone games.
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CharmistryHis: a pocket collection of dating tips in 2009
The historical app organized dating advice into categories, bookmarks and custom stacks of tips.