Apps

With the release of macOS 26 Tahoe last month, users began noticing a major GPU slowdown issue in popular Electron apps, due to their usage of a particular private API. Now, the Electron team has fixed the issue, and said fix is beginning to roll out in popular third party apps that utilize the framework.

While OpenAI describes its latest iPhone app Sora as a video generation tool, it might be more accurately described as a way for anyone to easily create deepfakes.

You did get to choose whether or not people can use your cameo, aka your likeness, but you initially had almost no control over what they could do with it. Predictably, this did not go well, and the company has now introduced a new safety tool …

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.

QuickPod takes your music listening experience on your iPhone to the next level. With its intuitive widgets, as well as support for both Apple Music and Spotify, you can have an integrated music listening experience across your iPhone or iPad’s home screen, lock screen, and control center.

Direct payments between Venmo and PayPal will finally become possible from November, some 11 years after it was first expected.

While some may find it convenient, it also opens a new route to scammers, so there’s a privacy setting you may wish to change when it goes live …

Neon, the app that pays you to share your audio recordings with an AI system, says that it will return despite its recent massive security breach.

The app shot up the App Store ratings after promising to pay users hundreds or even thousands of dollars per year for allowing their audio conversations to be used to train AI chatbots …

We learned earlier this month that Adobe Premiere for iPhone would be launching today, and it’s now available in the App Store.

Premiere Pro is a popular choice for filmmaking and videography pros, so the availability of an iPhone app comes as good news – but you don’t absolutely need to have the desktop app in order to use it …

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.

TimeWave is a comprehensive timer app that lets you do a lot more than Apple’s stock Clock app can do. In short, it allows you to create flowing timers – allowing you to have back to back timers for sequential tasks. It allows you to easily focus on your work at hand.

Apple released iOS 26 for iPhone this month, introducing the world to its new Liquid Glass design language. If you’re looking for fun third-party apps that take advantage of the new Liquid Glass design, here are over 30 recommendations.

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A new study says there has been a dramatic rise in the number of fraudulent mobile apps on both iOS and Android. Many of these appear to have been either generated with, or powered by, AI tools.

So far in 2025, there’s been a 300% increase in fraudulent apps on iOS, and a 600% increase on Android …

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 looking for a great app to help find you a new book, Bookovery is an awesome choice. It has a comprehensive book recommendation algorithm, helping you find the next read you’ll fall in love with. It also allows you to track your reads and organize your collection.

A slew of people are reporting that the Starbucks app is completely broken. With too-perfect irony, the thing that is breaking it is an app satisfaction survey …

Both US and Chinese officials are stating that an agreement has been reached for an American TikTok spin-off to be sold to American investors.

It’s not the first time the Trump administration has claimed that a deal has been agreed, but it is the first time that China is backing the claim, albeit in somewhat more muted terms …

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 avid Apple Watch fan (or use another fitness tracker that syncs to Apple Health), you’ll find SUMRY incredibly useful. It allows you to pull multiple Apple Health workouts together, and it creates comprehensive summaries that tell a story about your activity.

A Plex data breach in 2022 exposed usernames, email addresses, and encrypted passwords. The company required all users to change their passwords as a precaution, and now history seems to be repeating itself.

The company is again emailing users, using virtually identical wording to describe to report a new data breach with the same data obtained …

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.

Getting distracted on your Mac can be quite easy at times. MinuteTick is a nifty app that aims to make you more mindful of what you’re doing on your computer – keeping you on task. It also includes little mini games for when you’re in between events, and it all lives in your Mac’s menu bar.

Adobe Premiere Pro users will be happy to hear there’s an iPhone app launching later this month, which the company is promising will be closer to the capabilities of its desktop app than the cut-down Premiere Rush app.

The company will also be hoping to attract those who are newer to video editing on iPhone, in order to create a potential new market for the desktop app …

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 someone who invests, things can easily become messy, and you can end up with a wide variety of brokerage accounts for varying purposes. Profit makes tracking everything a whole lot easier, bringing everything together in one cohesive and beautifully designed interface for iOS and macOS. It doesn’t require account syncing, and runs entirely privately.