Apps

I’ve always used Apple’s Weather app as it always felt enough for what I needed. But recently, the app has become rather unreliable, as we’ve covered extensively here. To fill this gap, Triple Glazed Studios has now introduced Mercury – a simple but elegant new weather app for almost every Apple devices.

MacWhisper has become of my must-have Mac apps since its debut back in February. The app uses OpenAI’s Whisper technology to transcribe audio files into text, right in a native app on your Mac.

A new update to MacWhisper this week brings significant performance improvements to further improve the experience.

A group of white hat hackers are competing to make AI go rogue – with the backing of the White House. The contest, at this year’s Def Con event, is intended to expose vulnerabilities in artificial intelligence systems, so that their developers can work on fixes.

A smaller event has already seen AI systems expose personal medical data and help plan a bank robbery, while some AI systems don’t seem to need any help from hackers, as they promote eating disorders …

If you find yourself routinely searching for details on various actors and details as you’re watching TV shows and movies, Callsheet is a new app that significantly improves that experience. Callsheet packs a trove of data into a wonderfully designed, fast, and easy-to-use app on iPhone and iPad.

If you’ve ever found yourself wanting to experiment with Apple Store designs and create your own, Bentos is a new iPhone and iPad app that offers just that. Created by Michael Steeber, Bentos lets you “quickly visualize virtually any Apple Store Avenue bay.”

Vectornator is one of the most popular illustration and design apps for Apple devices. This week, the app received a major update that not only brings a new user interface but also a major rebrand to “Linearity Curve.” Read on as we detail what changes with the update.

I wrote last year about Tinkerstellar, a new iPad app inspired by Apple’s Swift Playground that’s designed to help people learn Python through multiple interactive lessons. Tinkerstellar is now getting a major update, adding new lessons, a refreshed interface, and for the first time, an iPhone version.

Flighty has become one of the most popular flight-tracking apps for iPhone and iPad. But unlike platforms like FlightRadar24, Flighty is focused on helping users track their upcoming flights. Now with Flighty 3.0, the app is making it even easier for you to track your friends’ flights.

Reddit protests have been continuing, despite threats by the company to take over subreddits which refuse to end them. The company has now carried out its threat against one of the biggest subreddits – a move which seems set to backfire.

Additionally, a fun crowdsourced art project on Reddit is now being used to post messages protesting against the company’s decision to charge extortionate amounts for API access …

The Netflix Basic tier – which the company had previously attempted to hide – has now been withdrawn in both the US and UK, following the same move in Canada last month.

Removing the package will now force anyone wanting to dump the ads to pay more than twice as much for the Standard plan …

CardioBot is a popular iPhone and Apple Watch app that uses health data collected from users’ devices to show them how they can live a healthier life by highlighting what’s good and what could be improved. This week, the app got a major update that introduces multiple new widgets for the iPhone and also new complications for the Apple Watch.

Every year, many independent developers come together to promote their apps during Indie Dev Sales – a sales event with the best deals on iOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOS apps. Like Amazon Prime Day, the Indie Dev Sales event also kicks off on July 11, and we’ve selected some of the best deals to highlight here.

Mastodon has seen a big spike in new users over the last week as people look for new social network options. One of the great things about Mastodon is the thriving ecosystem of third-party apps for iPhone, iPad, and Mac users. Head below as we round up some of our favorites.

Meta’s attempt to replace Twitter officially kicks off tomorrow, with the Threads iPhone app launch scheduled for Thursday – but Mark Zuckerberg has opened a welcome thread, which you can already view on the web.

Initially billed as a text-based offshoot of Instagram, the world might not have paid too much attention had it not been for a sudden and urgent need for a viable Twitter replacement …

By default, macOS lacks a clipboard manager, and some users might miss having a tool to retrieve a piece of text or something else they’ve copied and pasted during the day. The Paste app solves this problem – and the app got a huge update this week with new features and a new interface.

Hulu users are growing increasingly frustrated with a long-running bug affecting the ability to watch content in fullscreen on iPhone. Hulu says that it has been investigating this bug for over a month; a fix hasn’t been released, but there is a temporary workaround available.

Reddit threatened multiple moderators of subreddits, after they made the decision to remain closed as a continuing protest against the upcoming API charges that killed the popular third-party app Apollo.

Effectively, they have been told that the subreddit will be taken away from them unless they re-open. Additionally, Reddit is forcing rule changes that are likely to reduce the quality of posts …