For today’s special bonus episode of AppStories, Federico and John interview the creators of four 2021 Apple Design Award winning apps and games: Winston Chen, creator of Voice Dream Reader; Esther Huybreghts, Mathijs Demaeght, and Melissa Cash from Pok Pok, creators of Pok Pok Playroom; Brian Mueller, creator of CARROT Weather; and Maria Sayans and David Fernandez Huerta from ustwo games, creators of Alba: A Wildlife Adventure.

“The new OCR and filesystem features of Shortcuts in iOS 15 are WILD. I created a shortcut that: - Extracts text from an image using OCR - Suggests some of that text as file name - Saves the image into a specific folder in the Files app (in my case, local storage) 🤯 #WWDC21 https://t.co/GQviSYSgeZ”

This morning at Apple’s second fully-remote WWDC keynote address, Craig Federighi introduced iOS and iPadOS 15. This year’s updates include significant improvements to core first-party apps, new controls for maintaining focus, system-wide text and object recognition in images, and much more. On the iPad-only side of things, Apple has announced a variety of new multitasking

“All done and locked for next week. ☕️ 📖”

“Here's our overview of the new AirTags with details on how they work in the Find My app and their various tracking options: https://t.co/npbl7r54Tc”

by David Blue Reporting from deep within the iOS cult on essential apps/methods for real-life music people. Listen to this article read...

“I can't decide what's best: - The app name - The icon ripped off from a custom icon set - "Install Tricky Shortcuts" - $9.99/week subscription Apple: how do these apps still get approved? https://t.co/r1LN9T8JQG”

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When Twitter rolled out support for longer tweets yesterday, we mentioned that Tweetbot – the popular third-party client – would soon support the new format natively. Tapbots has released updates to the iOS and macOS apps today that let you view and create longer tweets (where media, polls, and quotes don’t count against 140 characters)

Well, that was fast. A few hours after the release of Tweetbot 4.0.1 with 3D Touch, Tapbots has released version 4.0.2 of the app, which adds a swipeable Safari View Controller. Thanks to a workaround by Paul Haddad, you can now dismiss Safari View Controller with swipe from anywhere along the left edge of the

Today, Tweetbot for Mac has been updated to version 2.1, which brings the same Activity page seen in Tweetbot 4 for iOS, better support for quoted tweets, in-app video playback, and several other improvements. Notably, you can now view images shared in Direct Messages (you’ll still have to share them from the official Twitter app,

An update to Tweetbot released last Friday has introduced support for Twitter’s new ‘quote’ feature, which allows to add comments to tweets without wasting text and while still embedding the original message with a nice preview. The feature, first launched by Twitter in its iPhone app last month, allows Tweetbot users to quote tweets by

The fine folks at Tapbots have relaunched their website today, focusing on the apps they’re currently selling on the App Store as well as details on upcoming updates. From their blog post: Welcome to the new tapbots.com! We hope this long overdue refresh is a better place to stay up to date with our apps.

Tapbots announced today that Tweetbot 2.0 for Mac will be released on Yosemite and it’ll be a free update for existing customers. Tweetbot for Yosemite has been more work than anticipated, but it is coming…and yes, it will be a free update! http://t.co/HOQI4fSdsO — Tweetbot by Tapbots (@tweetbot) February 4, 2015 My preference on iOS

Following an update released on iOS last month, Tweetbot for Mac has been updated to version 1.6 today, adding support for multiple images shared through Twitter’s sharing service. The update also includes a “Play” button for Instagram thumbnails and various bug fixes. Support for multiple Twitter images mirrors the implementation of the iPhone app, with

For the past two months, I’ve been switching back and forth between Tweetbot and Twitter’s official app for iOS in a personal quest to understand what’s the best Twitter client for me today. Tweetbot 3.5, available today on the App Store, has given me the biggest incentive to keep using Tapbots’ app yet: integration with

Tweetbot for Mac, Tapbots’ desktop version of its popular Twitter client, was updated last night with support for a new large thumbnail option in the timeline, a refreshed design of inline image previews, and a fix for three-finger gestures. Following Tweetbot 3.3 for iPhone, Tweetbot 1.5 for Mac adds large thumbnails as an option in

Tweetbot 1.1 For Mac An update to Tweetbot for Mac – my go-to Twitter client – was released today on the App Store. Tweetbot 1.1 doesn’t bring major new features, but it’s got a fair amount of bug fixes and minor improvements that I like. For Mountain Lion users, there’s an “All Notifications” option in

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