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Welcome to Birchtree

I'm Matt Birchler, a designer, product manager, YouTuber, and developer who's been writing about tech since 2010.

My Apps

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Quick Reads A beautiful read-later service for articles that matter. Web iOS Extensions Web Quick Reviews MacStories Best New App of 2025 Review the things you love and share them to social media. iPhone iPad Mac App Store nonogame Three fresh nonogram puzzles every day, in your browser. Web iPhone Web Birchfeed Rock solid RSS syncing for the reader app you already use. Web Any RSS reader Web Chapterize Professional podcast chapters, made while you listen. iPhone iPad Mac App Store Quick Subtitles Fast, private, on-device transcription to text or SRT. iPhone iPad Mac App Store Quick Notes Voice to text with Apple's on-device language models. iPhone iPad App Store Yearly Run Goals Yearly distance goals for running, cycling, and more. iPhone App Store Weave Typefully on iOS: threads, scheduling, publish everywhere. iPhone Web Best-o-Masto Catch up without getting sucked in. Mastodon, efficiently. iPhone App Store

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Apple

The new AirPods MVP

For the past four years, I have maintained that AirPods Pro 2 are the best AirPods ever made. They had great noise cancellation, all the stem controls I could ever want, good battery life, and while I didn't personally prefer in-ear earbuds, they were comfortable enough. I love these things. This is
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Resident Evil movie is widely adored and makes an ass-ton of money

Michael Cripe: Resident Evil Defies Expectations as Zach Cregger Adaptation Collects $108 Million Globally After First Weekend in Theaters It's a franchise-best opening for the horror-comedy hybrid that saw it bring in $60 million domestically and $48.3 million internationally. That's a good hunk of change more than even

An agent skill to help update your app for the iPhone Duo

I put together as much of Apple's iPhone Duo documentation as I could into a skill that I'm using to audit my apps for the new layouts and features. You can get it here if you're in a similar boat.

What my apps look like on the iPhone Duo with zero code changes

Leading up to the iPhone Duo's announcement, I suggested that Apple's big advantage here compared to other folding phones on the market that are based on Android was the iPad ecosystem. Not all apps run on both the iPhone and the iPad, but a lot do, and so a lot of

Quick Stuff gets more personal

Quick Stuff is my website with a bunch of little utilities to get things done. There are currently 13 tools, but most people use the same one or two things every time they come to the site. I've had a few UIs for pinning or prioritizing specific apps in the list, but it&

Nonogame will soar on the iPhone Duo

Nonogame for the iPhone and iPad is out now, and I'm really excited about it. However, if I'm being honest, I have mostly played on my Samsung Galaxy Fold8 for the past few weeks because the experience is simply better there. It's not because the web app is better
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iPhone 18 Pro with La Croix cooling

iPhone 18 Pro with La Croix cooling
I did some benchmarking today and saw how the newest iPhone thermal throttles, which isn't severe, but does