Apps

Meta is on a roll with new iPhone app releases this summer. The latest is called Facebook Creator Studio.

Welcome to Indie App Spotlight. This is a weekly 9to5Mac series where we showcase the latest apps in the indie app world. If you’re a developer and would like your app featured, get in contact.

If you’re an aspiring musician, Pocket Jam might be something you find useful. It helps you turn your favorite songs into a practice tool, letting you slow down, change the pitch, loop, and dissect tracks as you learn them.

Claude Code auto mode will become the default permission setting for users next week.

Starting August 14, sessions for Pro, Max, and Team users will use it unless a user or administrator has pinned another setting.

The Apple Health app on iPhone is a powerful way to track all facets of your health. Whether it’s recording data from your Apple Watch, importing records straight from your doctor, or integration with third-party apps, there’s something for everyone.

Here’s how to get the most out of the Apple Health app.

ChatGPT has become so much more than just chat over the last year. To that end, OpenAI is removing limits on text chat. ChatGPT will also improve with a smarter version of GPT-5.6 Sol. Details below.

OpenAI’s GPT-5 turns one tomorrow, and the company is marking the week by looking beyond individual models. Today, OpenAI introduced Agent Plugins, an open standard meant to let reusable AI-agent extensions work across compatible products.

When Reddit significantly changed its user interface way back in 2018, there were widespread protests from those who preferred the original. The company has retained access to this at old.reddit.com, and last year promised this version would continue to exist for as long as people kept using it.

That promise may now be under some degree of threat as Reddit says that it “plans to make changes” to Old Reddit in order to protect against AI data scraping …

Meta is entering the AI coding-agent race with Muse Code, a new terminal-based tool now available in beta for macOS and Linux.

MacPaw has announced a long-term strategic partnership with Liquid AI to co-develop an on-device AI technology stack built specifically for the Mac.

The collaboration will start with Eney, MacPaw’s AI assistant for macOS.

Wispr Flow users on Mac can now access Notetaker, an AI-powered meeting assistant that uses calendars, connected apps, and personal dictionaries to provide additional context for transcripts, summaries, and notes. Here are the details.

Following last month’s sunsetting of TV Time, one of the app’s co-founders, Antonio Pinto, announced Bingers, a new TV and movies tracking app that leans more heavily on social features. Here are the details.

Juggling multiple devices with Signal? The encrypted messaging service is making it easier to use the app across different iPhones and more.

Spotify has crossed 300 million paying subscribers, a major new milestone for the audio subscription service as it competes with Apple Music.

It’s the end of a very short road for ChatGPT Atlas, OpenAI’s dedicated web browser for Mac. OpenAI has shared details about what happens when ChatGPT Atlas shuts down this weekend.

Back in May, the Google Health app launched alongside the new line of affordable Google Fitbit Air health trackers.

Google Health initially included one-way Apple Health integration. The app could read and import health data recorded by an iPhone, Apple Watch, and other HealthKit-connected apps, but it couldn’t write Fitbit data back to Apple Health.

Today’s Google Health iOS app update adds the missing half of that connection.

Welcome to Indie App Spotlight. This is a weekly 9to5Mac series where we showcase the latest apps in the indie app world. If you’re a developer and would like your app featured, get in contact.

If you’re an aviation geek, Overflight is a fun new app for iPhone, iPad, and Apple TV that shows you exactly what planes are flying above you, where they’re headed to, and everything else you’d like to know.

Vibes around Meta’s AI glasses are off lately. So much so that one of the top three paid iPhone apps today is dedicated to detecting when someone nearby may be using smart glasses.

OpenAI is making two of its GPT-5.6 models more affordable today, and the benefits extend beyond API customers.