Apps

AirBuddy 2, the follow up to one of my favorite apps for the Mac, is now available to pre-order with a general release coming on November 11.

Twobird, by the same team behind Notability, is a really nice email app for people who use Gmail. It removes a lot of the “fluff” around email into a focused conversation. Today, Twobird has gained a new trick: a built-in calendar.

If you always wanted to have a fully functional Terminal on your iPhone or iPad, now you can. Today the new iSH Shell app was officially released on the App Store to let iOS users locally interact with a Linux shell environment.

Foursquare, the company behind the popular Swarm app, has developed a new app called “Marsbot” that brings a new experience to their walks through the city. With Marsbot, you can put your AirPods or any other earphones on and then listen to comments and suggestions about the place you’re walking by.

Snagit is one of the most used tools on my Mac. For years, I had struggled with tools like Skitch and other screenshot tools that seemed to be abandoned. Today, Snagit 2021 is now available with a number of nice enhancements.

Since the public release of iOS 14, users have been discovering new ways to customize their home screens with widgets and custom icons. While the most popular method requires using Apple Shortcuts to change icons, which adds an extra step to the process of opening apps, Launch Center Pro now lets you change iOS app icons without Shortcuts.

Tempo is a popular iPhone and Apple Watch app that collects in-depth data from your workouts to help runners train better. Developers behind the app today released Tempo 3 on the App Store, which features a new design, multiple iOS 14 widgets, new workout details, and much more.

One of the biggest app trends we’ve seen over the past few years is developers switching from charging a one-time purchase cost to monthly or annual app subscriptions. An app-tracking service has found that American smartphone users now spend an average of $20.78/month on these – or $33.58 when you include streaming services like Apple Music.

The widespread adoption of app subscriptions has sometimes created a tension between developers and consumers …

I once said that Twitter is probably my favorite social network, and that’s still true. As I’m always looking for great apps to use, I recently discovered Aviary, which is a new Twitter client designed for iOS 14 with some unique features. Read on as I detail my experience with Aviary over the last few weeks.

Apple’s Health app features a Summary tab where you can find an overview of your health data, but unfortunately, Apple doesn’t provide any home screen widgets for Health users. With this in mind, developer Marcel Schmitz created Hidgets — an app that brings your health data to your iPhone’s home screen.

iCloud Photos lets you create shared albums with your friends and family so that all the members of the album can see its photos and add new ones. But what if you could have a shared photo widget on your home screen? That’s exactly what the new Magnets app offers.

Disk Drill is a popular Mac software that recovers deleted files including documents, music, photos, and videos. Today the app is getting a major update with support for Macs with the T2 security chip, RAW photo and video recovery, and much more.

We’ve covered multiple iOS apps that have been updated to take advantage of the new homescreen widgets on iOS 14, and if you still want to give your iPhone or iPad an aesthetic home screen, the new Scribblet app might have exactly what you need.

There are multiple apps on the App Store that let you control the cursor of a Mac from your iPhone or iPad, but I don’t remember using any like El Trackpad. This new app turns your device into a real Mac trackpad with support for multitouch gestures including scrolling, zooming, and more.

We’ve been covering many of the apps that have been updated with iOS 14 features, such as home screen widgets, App Clips, and more. If you are an Apple Music subscriber and want to customize your home screen with some unique music widgets, the latest Marvis Pro app update brings exactly that.

Heart Analyzer is one of the most powerful ways to visualize and access your Apple Watch heart data. A new update to Heart Analyzer this week brings integration with the Apple Watch Series 6 Blood Oxygen readings, iOS 14 home screen widgets, and more.

Launcher was one of the first apps that introduced Today View widgets when Apple released iOS 8, and now the developers behind the app are updating it with new Home Screen widgets for iOS 14 users. With Launcher 5, you can now create custom widgets for your home screen with different shortcuts to apps, contacts, and more.

If you have an Apple Watch, you may have heard about CardioBot and NapBot apps from developer Majid Jabrayilov. Both apps were updated this week with a redesigned interface, iOS 14 widgets, and more.

Popular Apollo for Reddit iOS app was updated today with great new features for Reddit users. The latest version brings crossposting, image flair, translation, fast subreddit selector, and much more to the app.