The Quick Reads CLI
As of today, you nerds who like to read later can do so from your terminal with the Quick Reads
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I'm Matt Birchler, a designer, product manager, YouTuber, and developer who's been writing about tech since 2010.
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Quick Reads
A beautiful read-later service for articles that matter.
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iOS
Extensions
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Quick Reviews
MacStories Best New App of 2025
Review the things you love and share them to social media.
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iPad
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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
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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.
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App Store
Blog
Hidden gems comes to Best-o-Masto on the web
Best-o-Masto is my website for finding the best stuff from your Mastodon and Bluesky feeds quickly. It'
Nonogame has gotten a bunch of new things recently
Nonogame has become my obsession lately, and I'm happy to see hundreds of people coming back daily to
AppZapper 3000 is incredibly rad
We live in a world where sometimes you'll see an old app get revitalized, but it's
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The Register thinks my La Croix benchmark is legit (sorta)
Brandon Vigliarolo: iPhone 18 Pro benchmark boosted by giving it a cold drink
To make a long story short, a cold can of La Croix (in Birchler’s case – the cooling potential of an aluminum can isn’t limited to name-brand sparkling “naturally essenced” water) takes an already beefy device to new levels of
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Riley Hill on the Fold8's crease
Riley Hill: Galaxy Z Fold 8 Review: Worth Buying in Years
As for the crease, it’s not something you see when looking at the larger display head-on. Tilt the phone slightly off-angle, and you see it. It’s minimal, but it’s there. Not a big deal. The only slight annoyance with
My phone is clearly listening to me*
I've had two incidents in the past weekend that proved to me that my iPhone was listening. We