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+ The iPhone Duo opportunity for developers
The iPhone Duo won't sell the most units this year, but I think winning apps should update for it ASAP anyway.
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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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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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nonogame
Three fresh nonogram puzzles every day, in your browser.
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iPhone
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Birchfeed
Rock solid RSS syncing for the reader app you already use.
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Any RSS reader
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Chapterize
Professional podcast chapters, made while you listen.
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Quick Subtitles
Fast, private, on-device transcription to text or SRT.
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Quick Notes
Voice to text with Apple's on-device language models.
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iPad
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Yearly Run Goals
Yearly distance goals for running, cycling, and more.
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Weave
Typefully on iOS: threads, scheduling, publish everywhere.
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Best-o-Masto
Catch up without getting sucked in. Mastodon, efficiently.
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App Store
Blog
Apple
We must dream bigger
Very often, we in the Apple community expect the bare minimum from Apple. We doubt they'll ever make new product lines, we assume any software feature they lack is actually a choice to omit it, and we predict when they do enter a new market, they'll phone it in. The iPhone
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The iPhone Air seems extremely niche in general, but my users love it
David Smith shared some numbers on how many people are using WidgetSmith, his insanely popular, and therefore pretty representative of
Quick Reads, quicker than ever
I'm always looking for little ways to make Quick Reads better. Sometimes that means big feature updates. Other times it means subtle quality of life improvements. Today I released one of those small quality of life improvements.
A lot of users will keep Quick Reads open in a browser tab all day long.
The most interesting things in the iPhone Duo (and more)
Today I do the impossible and get through my biggest thoughts about Apple's announcements from yesterday in less than 10 minutes. Here's what I found most interesting about the new iPhone Duo, iPhone 18 Pro, Apple Watches, and AirPods 5.
Apple
The iPhone Duo shows Apple at its best
I have a lot more to go through in collecting my thoughts on Apple's new products announced today, but I wanted to dedicate one quick post to the fact that I think the new iPhone Duo is Apple leaning in to what makes them special and what makes people like me really love
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Drawably is a hand-drawn UI library
It's not particularly useful for me, but I really dig this little UI library.