Workflow, an app originally built to let you automate frequent tasks on your iPhone or iPad, is one of the few apps available on the Apple Watch that seems like it’s only a few iterations from the form it will have when the Watch is an established platform.
One of the best shortcut apps on iOS just got an added boost of functionality, because Workflow now offers widget integration with Apple's Notification Center. And, in many cases, you'll be able to run a specific workflow immediately from Notification Center without bouncing you to the app first....
If you have a bunch of apps installed on your iPhone, it can be challenging to locate the right one when it comes time to jotting something down in a hurry – like adding an item to a grocery list, making a note about something a friend said, or shooting off a quick question via email, for example. A new app called Input wants to solve the problem of having to dig around your phone for…
We polled AppleInsider readers to find the best note taking app available for iOS. Your choice was the one already built into every iPhone and iPad, Notes, with readers saying the improvements made in iOS 9 are enough to make the default option also the best option.
Apple on Monday announced a new iTunes Connect feature that lets developers opt in to weekly App Analytics updates via email, while approving screen temperature and brightness management app FlexBright for iOS App Store sale.
Once a year, Apple stops its Worldwide Developer Conference to recognize a handful of apps for being particularly well designed. The prize? A shiny statue, a full suite of Apple hardware, and the right to say that one of the most respected companies in the world thinks you’re a good designer.For app developers and designers, it’s one of the finest honors that money…
Codify is an awesome new app for the iPad from Two Lives Left which allows you to create games and simulations — “or just about any visual idea you have” — without a computer. It claims to be the most beautiful code editor you’ll use, and it’s optimized for a touch-based device, allowing you to “touch your code.”
Many of us remember how fun (not to mention therapeutic) it was to pour our innermost thoughts into a pen-and-paper diary, but how many of us take the time to keep a...
Silicon Valley startup CloudOn beat Microsoft in releasing an iPad app that lets you edit Microsoft Office documents on the Apple tablet. CloudOn pro…
Productivity is a biggie on the social web. Twitter is full of people sharing tips on how to be more productive and efficient. Shouldn’t they be doing something useful? Maybe…
The Next Web’s 2012 conference is now underway, and in addition to the plethora of great keynotes this year, we also have a number of awesome startups attempting to pitch…
Browsing apps in the App Store isn't quite criminal, but it's definitely not optimal for finding fantastic apps. Besides Giz's own iPhone app coverage and roundups, there are four other ways to find buried goodness. TheAppleBlog lays out four different sites that make it way easier to find the quality app gems that are wallowing, helplessly, in the toxic cesspool of utter crap that makes up most of the App Store. First up (and most highly recommend of the bunch) is AppBeacon, which requires an account,...
The iPhone has a remarkable number of iPhone to-do app options, but one of them shines above the rest. Orchestra is our top pick thanks to its excellent flexibility, accurate voice recognition, and handy collaborative features. Platform: iPhonePrice: FreeDownload Page Orchestra was designed to be a to-do list app that works kind of like email, letting your tasks live outside of the app and interact with others. It'll let you send tasks to other people, whether or not they use Orchestra, and they can...
The Daily App Deals post is a round-up of the best app discounts of the day, as well as some notable mentions for ones that are on sale. DMD Panorama (iTunes) Previously $1.99, now Free. DMD Panorama for iOS makes taking panoramic pictures with your iOS device a breeze. Launch the app, snap a picture, then move your device to the left or right and slide the on-screen Yin symbol into a Yang symbol and there you have it: a panoramic photo taken exclusively with your iOS device in four simple steps. Get it...
The Daily App Deals post is a round-up of the best app discounts of the day, as well as some notable mentions for ones that are on sale. SlideIT Keyboard (Android Market) Previously $5.99, now 99¢. SlideIT Keyboard for Android is an app that rethinks the idea of typing. Avoiding the traditional route of "tapping" letters to form words, users can "slide" their finger from letter to letter instead. What results is a fast and easy way to type text on your Android device, no tapping required. Get it for 99...
The Daily App Deals post is a round-up of the best app discounts of the day, as well as some notable mentions for ones that are on sale. ezPDF Reader (Google Play) Previously $2.99, now $1.99. ezPDF Reader for Android is the ideal app for whenever you need to read a PDF on your Android device. Allowing you to view PDFs as they would appear on your PC, ezPDF Reader allows you to fill in forms, annotate your PDFs, and even has the ability to play multimedia files embedded inside the PDFs. Complete with a...
Russian Internet search and services giant Yandex has dropped the invitation-only policy for its free cloud storage service Yandex.Disk, which offers users 10GB of storage space free of charge and…
Coming to you live from sunny Tel Aviv, where six carefully curated Israeli startups are having their big debut on stage at the Techono.me conference organized by Orli Yakuel and…
Cobook, which has long offered a contact management app alternative to Mac OS X’s default address book, is today finally available on mobile with the debut of its iOS application. Like its desktop counterpart, the new app creates a unified address book by syncing your iPhone contacts with data from social networks including Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.
The iPhone, land of endless choice. First, you’ll want to grab Twitter, Kindle, Facebook, Find My iPhone, Shazam (it's still a magical thing), and Apple’s Remote app for controlling iTunes remotely. But then you get to the hard questions. Which to-do app to get? Which map alternative is worth downloading over Apple’s default? Is there a weather app that offers the perfect balance of hourly updates and animated doppler imagery? What are the best games to get to avoid the family during the inevitable...
If you’ve got an iOS device, you probably compose text in a slew of different apps: email in an email client, tweets in a Twitter client, tasks in a to-do-list manager, ideas for articles in a text editor...and on and on. But sometimes I want to write something—or at least the idea for something—before I even know where it’s going, and I want to keep those notes and ideas handy for when I’m ready to do something with them. (Other times I start writing in one app and later decide to finish in another.)...
The two men behind Fantastical are, in many ways, very different from each other: they work on opposite coasts and graduated college decades apart. But their laser focus and exacting standards are a good match when it comes to building great iOS and Mac software.
