
AppStories
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Our WWDC Automation Wish List
Our macOS 27 Wishes
Our iOS and iPadOS 27 Wishes
An App Swap Challenge
Codex as a Productivity Super App
Filling the App Gap
Apple Frames 4 and the AI Multiplier
OpenAI’s Everything App Trap
Revisiting the Text Editor Landscape

S1 Ep 478An Orchestra Without a Conductor, Apple’s AI Dilemma
Apple and Agents

S1 Ep 477Why Foldable Phones Matter: The Case for an iPhone Duo
Federico on Foldables

S1 Ep 476The Fractal Fragmentation of AI Tools
The Messy Development of AI Apps

S1 Ep 475Apple’s Big Neo Week
Thoughts on Apple's New Hardware

S1 Ep 474Our Apple Hardware Wish List for 2026
The Hardware We Expect and the Gear We Dare to Dream for

S1 Ep 473App Intents and the Road to a Smarter Siri
Putting All the Pieces Together

S1 Ep 472Pick a Pair: New Apps We’re Using
A grab bag of new apps we're using

S1 Ep 471One Notion: Two Approaches
How We Use Notion

S1 Ep 470The Future of Apps in an AI-Coded World
The Impact of AI on the App Store

S1 Ep 469Terminal Tips and Claude Code Workflows
How We Use Claude Code and Codex

S1 Ep 468A Very ‘Just Build It’ Holiday
How We Spend Our Holiday Break, Part 2

S1 Ep 467A Very Nerdy Holiday Break
How We Spent Our Downtime

S1 Ep 466What’s Next for Apps in 2026
A Look Ahead to Next Year

S1 Ep 465The 2025 MacStories Selects Awards
The 2025 MacStories Selects Awards

S1 Ep 464Vibe Coding Your Own Productivity Tools
Our AI Automation Workflows

S1 Ep 463Designing for Liquid Glass: Outstanding Indie Apps
Great Liquid Glass Apps

S1 Ep 462The Ever-Changing App Store
How Subscriptions, Regulation, and AI Are Reshaping the World of Apps

S1 Ep 461Our Latest App and Automation Experiments
New Apps and Workflows for the holiday season

S1 Ep 460The Great Digital Declutter
Organizing Your Digital Life

S1 Ep 459Exploring AI Browsers
What's the Deal with AI Browsers?

S1 Ep 458The Potential and Limits of the M5 iPad Pro
Federico’s M5 iPad Pro Review

S1 Ep 457Apple’s Intelligence Quest: Beyond Smart Siri
Imagining and Apple AI Future

S1 Ep 456What Else Do We Want from Apple in 2025?
A Hardware and Software Wishlist

S1 Ep 455Making Sense of MCP: The Standard Connecting AI to Apps
MCP Demystified

S1 Ep 454AirPods Pro 3, iPhone Air, and a Cable Quest
A hardware update, Smart Stacks, and the quest to game on the Vision Pro

S1 Ep 453Fall Hardware: First Impressions
Thoughts on the iPhone 17 Pro Max, iPhone Air, Apple Watch Ultra 3, and AirPods Pro 3

S1 Ep 452iOS, iPadOS, and macOS 26: The MacStories Reviews
The MacStories Annual Review Extravaganza

S1 Ep 451Apple Event Vibe Check
AirPods, iPhone 17 Air, and Federico's AirTag Mystery

S1 Ep 450Back From Break: Automation, AI, and IKEA
What We Did on Our Summer Breaks

S1 Ep 449Building a Better AI App
Combining the Best AI App Features Into One Super App

S1 Ep 448The iPadOS and macOS 26 Public Betas
Should you install iPadOS or macOS 26?

S1 Ep 447Gaming Sidekicks: Videogame Companion Apps with Brendon Bigley
Everything But the Games

S1 Ep 446A Secondary Device Check-In
John's iPad Use and Federico's Mac Use

S1 Ep 445Imagining Apple’s Next Big Thing
What We'd Like to See Apple Try Next

S1 Ep 444Inside our Summertime Review Toolkits
A Behind-the-Scenes Look at Review Season

S1 Ep 443Our OS 26 Experiments: iPad Podcasting, Reminders, and More
Our Early OS 26 Testing

S1 Ep 442An iPad Pickle
Federico Rethinks His iPad Setup

S1 Ep 441A Behind the Scenes Peek at WWDC Week
WWDC Backstage

S1 Ep 440WWDC 2025: A First Look at Everything Apple Announced
A WWDC 2025 Recap

S1 Ep 439WWDC 2025: The AppStories Interviews with Apple Design Award Winners
The AppStories ADA Interviews

S1 Ep 438Sky and Our 2025 Shortcuts and Apple Intelligence WWDC Wishes
Our WWDC 2025 Automation Wishes