iOS apps

Apple Podcasts to get auto-generated transcripts in iOS 17.4

Among the changes in iOS 17.4 is support for auto-generated transcripts in the Apple Podcasts app, making it easier for listeners to follow along to their favorite shows. Transcripts will only appear

Weather Up puts a fully interactive weather app into an iOS widget

A new weather app, Weather Up 3.0, launching today, is pushing the boundaries of what iOS 17’s interactive widgets are capable of. The app is introducing fully interactive widgets, where you can

An original App Store innovator, Clear relaunches its ‘swipeable’ to do list app with in-app perks

Over a decade ago, a simple to-do list app called Clear launched to much fanfare due to how it capitalized on the smartphone’s touch interface to build a new kind of app: one without buttons and

Graysky, a third-party client for X rival Bluesky, gets Trending Topics and a ‘Pro’ subscription

Graysky, one of the first third-party apps for the Twitter/X competitor Bluesky, is launching a subscription service with its latest release, as a means of generating revenue for its app by offering p

Globetrotter’s new app is a ‘Spotify Wrapped’ for your travel memories

Frequent travelers who want to track their trips and reminisce about their favorite spots and travel memories now have a new app to do so. Globetrotter is today introducing a location-based travel pho

Apple and Google avoid naming ChatGPT as their ‘app of the year,’ picking AllTrails and Imprint instead

Both Apple and Google today announced their best apps and games of the year, with the hiking and biking companion AllTrails winning as Apple’s iPhone App of the Year in 2023, while the education

This Week in Apps: Apple’s iPhone app of the year finalists, plus 7 hidden gems

Is the App Store still a source for new technology innovations or has AI development become the hotter new tech to build for these days? We pondered this question this week when Apple unveiled its iPh

Rooms, an interactive 3D space designer and ‘cozy game,’ arrives on the App Store

Cozy game, interior decorating app, learn-to-code primer or something in between, the interactive, 3D spaces builder known as Rooms has made its way to the App Store. The startup, which earlier raised

Reddit may have killed Apollo, but the developer’s Pixel Pals app has hit ~50K subscribers

The shutdown of the third-party Reddit app, Apollo, hasn’t stopped developer Christian Selig from continuing to publish iOS apps. Instead, he’s moved on to an Apollo spinoff app called Pix

Thoughts debuts an app designed to inspire you, not distract you

Instead of scrolling mindlessly through a social feed of updates, a new app called Thoughts offers a way to scroll through and collect inspirational content. Created by indie developer Henri Bredt, Th

Off-price fashion shopping app Yaysay gives users 30 minutes per day to shop

Yaysay, an AI-powered shopping app, launched in beta today to gamify off-price shopping and bring the experience to mobile. Created by Casper co-founder Philip Krim, Yaysay combines concepts from soci

These iOS 17 apps bring interactive widgets to your iPhone Home Screen

Apple announced iOS 17 back in June at the Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) with many small enhancements such as machine learning–powered autocorrect, an easy way to create stickers, and a Stan

Carrot Weather for iOS 17 can now deliver its weather updates in your own voice

Apple’s iOS 17 update arrives today, and many apps are rolling out updates to support the new features. One app in particular is Carrot Weather, the weather app that delivers hilarious daily forecas

New app Moments helps you maintain your personal and professional relationships

You may have heard of a CRM, but have you heard of a PRM — a personal relationship manager? That’s the concept behind a newly launched iOS app called Moments that aims to help people keep

Longplay rolls out a big refresh to its album-focused music app

Love listening to full-length albums? Longplay, an indie music app from developer Adrian Schoenig that focuses on the album-listening experience, is out today with a significant update that improves o

Twitterific’s Easter eggs find new life in retro-gaming app ‘Ollie’s Arcade’

The Iconfactory, home to a number of popular apps like wallpaper app Wallaroo, puzzle game Frenzic and the unfortunately shuttered Twitterific, among others, is out today with its latest creation: Oll

Spreads lets you share full screen panoramic photos to Instagram Threads

After the photo layout app Series became a must-have companion for Instagram Threads, its developer Ryan Carver has now decided to spin off a simplified version called Spreads, designed specifically f

Catchup is a simple app for reminding yourself to check in with friends and loved ones

In the age of social media, you may feel like you’re keeping up with your friends and family, but the reality is that “liking” their posts isn’t the same thing as reaching out

Callsheet for iOS offers a less cluttered, ad-free alternative to IMDb

If you’ve ever wanted to look up information about a TV show or movie, you likely turn to IMDb to do so. But the Amazon-owned app can be frustrating to use, with prompts to log in, ads, and othe

Instagram Threads update brings iOS 17 support among other small improvements

After topping 100 million users just five days after its public debut, Instagram’s new Threads app for iOS is out now with its first update, bringing a handful of small changes and tweaks, added
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