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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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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
Apple

"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

1,000 hours of nonogame

1,000 hours of nonogame
I hit a pretty fun milestone in nonogame today: 1000 hours played. No, not by me, but by the community

Chris Lawley's iPadOS 27 walkthrough

Am I biased? Sure. This is still the best overview of what's new in iPadOS this year for normal people.

The OS 27 updates

The OS 27 updates
Apple has just started rolling out OS 27 across all their devices, and I think they're good updates

Quick Reads now saves multi-page websites

Quick Reads now saves multi-page websites
As of today, Quick Reads now attempts to save all pages of the multi-page articles you save to the