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Welcome to Birchtree

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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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
Apple

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
Apple

The iPhone 18 Pro is a transcription monster

The iPhone 18 Pro is a transcription monster
Apple made a big deal out of the AI capabilities in their new A20 Pro processor in their new iPhone
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+ Metal Gear Solid 4 is awful. Truly awful.

+ Metal Gear Solid 4 is awful. Truly awful.
It turns out my memory was actually being far too kind to this game.
Apple

Xcode 27.2 is in beta. The 27.1 beta is coming later.

Apple released new developer betas for OS 27.2 today, which is not quite what I expected. Us developers have been waiting for Xcode 27.1 since last week, so I was excited to see that we somehow jumped even further into the future, but my joy was tamped down when I saw this note
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"Apple said they invented this"

There is a very specific thing you see quite often in online discourse around Apple, which is that people think Apple claims they invent everything or Apple says every little update will change your life. Apple does get excited about things that they release, and they speak highly of them, but I find this critique

Bircharoo is my Obsidian theme

Bircharoo is my Obsidian theme
This is gonna be a short one, but I made a simple Obsidian theme. It's called Bircharoo and