Birchtree goes liquid ass…ahem…glass
The design bug caught me this holiday weekend, and I've made a few changes to Birchtree.
First off,
Welcome to Birchtree
I'm Matt Birchler, a designer, product manager, YouTuber, and developer who's been writing about tech since 2010.
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My Apps
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.
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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
Blog
Apple
My folding iPhone predictions
I've been covering Apple for 16 years (using Apple stuff for 31 years), and not to toot my own horn, but I think I have a pretty good success record predicting the success of their entries into new hardware categories. I'm not always right, but I'm definitely right more
Members
+ Doomscrolling is not an obligation
For the first time in my Mastodon era, I find it's time for me to take a social media break again.
Comfort Zone is coming back this month
Comfort Zone, the podcast I do with Chris and Niléane is coming back later this month! We've had
Chill racist games hosted by the US government
Have you ever wanted to play a game of Snake where instead of eating fruit, you took control of a
The best iPhone lineup ever
Casey Liss on this week's ATP:
To my memory […], this is the best iPhone lineup I think they've ever had.
I completely agree with this. The Pro phones are positively outstanding, the 17 normal got some really good updates that were years in the making that elevated it quite a bit,
180 merges in 135 days
I officially launched Quick Reads 135 days ago, and to say I've been working hard on it since