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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Shakespeare for iPhone: a complete-works reader from Readdle
A look at the early Shakespeare app from Readdle and PlayShakespeare.com, and how to use a pocket edition for reading and study.
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Word Warp on iPhone: a small set of letters, a satisfying puzzle
How MobilityWare’s word game works and how to decide whether its style of anagram play fits your next short break.
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Seadragon Mobile: exploring a huge image through a small screen
Revisit Microsoft’s early iPhone image demo and the interaction between overview, detail and navigation.
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ActiveNotes: the Morbius Labs note editor for early iPhone
The original ActiveNotes listing identified a Morbius Labs app for writing and editing notes on iPhone and iPod touch.
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Dietician for early iPhones: meal planning beyond a food diary
Revisit the original Dietician meal-planning app and distinguish its historical feature claims from evidence about health outcomes.
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Server Admin Remote: what belongs in a pocket administration tool
The early Mac OS X Server companion illustrates why checking status and making changes deserve different levels of attention.
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White Noise: build a soundscape that stays in the background
A practical way to choose and simplify sounds in TMSOFT’s White Noise app for reading, working or winding down.
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iLOL for iPhone: TipMobile’s early photo-caption community
The 2009 iLOL app let people caption a photo and publish it to a shared community. Here is the original product behind…
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7 Chords: a guitar reference you could see and hear
Revisit Handplant Studios’ 7 Chords and the connection between a chord diagram, its fingering and its sound.