Apps

If you’re an Apple Music or Spotify who finds it frustrating to quickly start listening to your favorite albums, a new app from developer Adam Bell might help solve that problem. The app, called “Albums: Music Shortcuts,” lets you create shortcuts to your favorite albums directly via widgets on your iPhone or iPad Home Screen.

If you’re regularly copying and editing links in Safari on your iPhone, you probably know that it can be a very tedious task (especially when it’s a long URL filled with trackers). A new app from developer Elijah Yap this week aims to make it significantly easier to interact with links in Safari’s address bar.

Microsoft recently released a major update to the official Outlook email client app for Mac. Now, macOS users have access to the new Profiles feature, which, as the name suggests, makes it easy to manage different email accounts on the same computer.

One of my biggest hobbies, aside from loving tech, is food. Eating out at a good restaurant is the best way to put a smile on my face. One of the issues I face living in the NYC area is that every new and popular restaurant is reserved weeks, if not months, in advance. In order to combat this, I have been leveraging three apps to make sure I get prompt reservations but also to earn a little cash back and perks along the way. In this article I want to share the three best food reservation apps and how I use them to not only make reservations, but also earn some perks just by using them!

Indie developer Jeff Johnson is out with a new Safari extension that aims to block web fonts different than the installed fonts on your device. Dubbed “StopTheFonts,” the extension is highly customizable, allowing you to create rules for different websites, block all web fonts by default, and more.

Apple’s Weather app is having a rough week, facing multiple outages of over 12 hours each. If you’re looking for an alternative that’s more reliable, we’ve rounded up a few of our favorite weather apps for iPhone and iPad…

Soulver, the popular smart notepad calculator and one of my most-used Mac apps, is now available on iPad. Soulver for iPad offers all of the same powerful features as the Mac app, including live data, natural language calculations, and more.

It’s been almost three years since Apple announced the transition from Intel Macs to Apple Silicon. Since then, many developers have updated their apps to take advantage of the new M1 and M2 chips, but there are still many more apps that need to be updated. This week, Autodesk updated the popular professional software AutoCAD and Autodesk Maya to run natively on Apple Silicon Macs.

T-Mobile has officially confirmed that one of its most popular “T-Mobile Tuesday” promotions is returning for another year. Starting today, T-Mobile subscribers can sign up for a free MLB.TV subscription that lasts for the entire 2023 baseball season.

Home Widget for HomeKit is an iOS app that offers advanced tools to enhance the experience of interacting with HomeKit accessories. Following the release of iOS 16.4 to the public on Monday, the app has been updated with new shortcuts and a new dimming action for roller shutters and blinds.

As it continues its massively-successful Music of the Spheres World Tour across South America, Europe, and the United States, Coldplay has updated its companion tour app with major accessibility improvements. The band, together with its partners at SAP, worked closely with a fan from Mexico who shared her experiences using the app as a blind person.

Apple Music still doesn’t offer collaborative playlists, but Caset is an iOS app that solves that problem by letting users create collaborative “mixtapes” with their friends. With its latest update, Caset now offers seamless sync with Apple Music, making collaborative mixtapes even easier to manage.

The popular automation platform IFTTT is taking a next step to help users increase productivity. With its latest update, IFTTT Pro+ subscribers now have access to AI-based automations for generating content.

The Federal Trade Commission in the United States has proposed a handful of changes that it says will make it easier for consumers to cancel recurring subscriptions and memberships. The FTC believes that its “Click to Cancel” provisions “would go a long way to rescuing consumers from seemingly never-ending struggles to cancel unwanted subscription payment plans.”

You’re probably familiar with the shortcut Command + F, which lets you easily find specific words or phrases within a document or webpage. However, at least when it comes to Safari, there aren’t many options for customizing this search. With The Magic Highlighter, users can take searching for words on web pages to the next level.

In a new update rolling out today, Infuse has added a handful of new features including integrated trailers for movies and TV shows, smart groups, and more. Infuse is a popular video player for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple TV that can integrate with local storage as well as cloud storage providers.

CardioBot is a popular app that uses health data from the Apple Watch to show how users can live a healthier life by flagging notable patterns. The app has now been updated with a new feature that uses this same data obtained through the Apple Watch to measure stress levels.