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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Bodybook: keep a workout journal useful beyond one app
What surviving 2009 references say about Bodybook Fitness Journal and how to preserve meaningful personal records.
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Where To Golf: finding a course is different from booking a round
A look at the early course-finder app and the practical information to verify before choosing where to play.
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VR+ Voice Recorder: SHAPE’s audio-recording and sharing app
How VR+ combined recording, MP3 sharing and voice-activity detection, with clear limits on what the surviving historical record proves.
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U.S. Historical Documents: reading, searching and annotating on the early iPhone
This app stored a collection of historical documents locally and offered paragraph-level notes and bookmarks.
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iPhone: The Missing Manual — an early guide on the phone itself
The historical /manual/ page covered David Pogue’s iPhone guide from O’Reilly. Revisit its context and choose documentation that matches your iPhone today.
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Bebot: learn a touch instrument through one small melody
Normalware’s robot synthesizer turns the screen into an expressive playing surface, with a useful starting exercise for beginners.
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BigOven: connect recipe ideas to the groceries you actually need
A manageable meal-planning workflow using recipes, a shopping list and ingredients already in the kitchen.
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MyRail Lite: an early live-train app and the data behind the timetable
Why an old train app is a useful reminder to distinguish a scheduled departure from an updated running estimate.
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ZooZBeat: when moving an iPhone became part of making music
The gesture-based music studio’s place in mobile creativity and the questions that matter when choosing a pocket music tool.