Apps

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.

Documents by Readdle is a popular file manager app available for iPhone and iPad that works as a replacement for Apple’s Files app. The app was updated today to version 7.4, which brings a new built-in VPN that works not only with Documents, but also with any other iOS app.

Apple doesn’t offer any developer tools for iOS users besides Swift Playgrounds, but there are some great third-party options available that let developers start a project right on an iPhone or iPad. A recently released app called DetailsPro brings the tools you need to start designing an app in SwiftUI using just an iOS device.

When I moved in 2013, I decided I was done with physical media for TV shows and movies and ripping all of my DVDs into digital format. I set up my first very Plex server running on an old MacBook Pro I had, and it worked well for several years. After that, I used an Nvidia Shield for several years and recently moved to an Intel NUC with a 14 TB external drive to house all of my media. I then have my setup rounded out with a Backblaze subscription to keep everything backed up. Plex is an essential part of my media life for TV and Movies. Earlier this year, I added a new type of media to my server: Plex audiobooks with the Prologue app.

Edison announced OnMail back in April as a completely new email service to rethink a lot of the ways that we interact with email. Today, OnMail is available to purchase with free custom domain names.

The popular note-taking and annotation app GoodNotes 5 received a major update today with some important new features, including collaborative documents via iCloud and more. Users can now share live versions of documents and even work with others on the same document with GoodNotes 5.5.

The Apple Music app lets you organize your library by playlists, artists, albums, and more. But if you’re looking for a different experience, you can try some of the music players available on the App Store — which includes the recently released Longplay app. With Longplay, you can enjoy your music library focusing just on entire albums.

Aerial is a free, open source app that offers Apple TV screensavers for the Mac. Today, Aerial has been updated to version 2.0 with some important enhancements, including a new settings interface, better cache control, and, most importantly, more screensavers.