AppStories
AppStories is a weekly exploration of the world of apps by MacStories’ Federico Viticci and John Voorhees. Each week, they discuss the best new apps, the impact of apps on our culture, and cover the stories behind popular apps.
Episodes
All About Siri AI
What Works, What Doesn't, and Where It's Heading
Fable 5 and OpenAI’s Curious ChatGPT Update
Big Model Smell Meets Questionable Design Choices
Email Survival Guide
How We're Dealing with Unprecedented Email Volume Using Apps
Are AI Aggregators Worth It?
How AI Aggregators Are Adapting to A Rapidly Evolving Marketplace
WWDC Debrief
Reflecting on WWDC's announcements
WWDC 2026: The Apple Design Award Interviews
The 2026 ADA Interviews
WWDC 2026 with Special Guests Myke Hurley and Christopher Lawley
WWDC 2026
Our WWDC Automation Wish List
The Automation We Want to See at WWDC
Our macOS 27 Wishes
The Notion Developer Platform and What We Want from macOS 27
Our iOS and iPadOS 27 Wishes
Our Pre-WWDC OS Wishes Series
An App Swap Challenge
Shaking It Up with New Apps
Codex as a Productivity Super App
Maybe There's Something to the Super App Idea
Filling the App Gap
The Search for the Perfect App
Apple Frames 4 and the AI Multiplier
Amplifying Projects with Agentic Assistance
OpenAI’s Everything App Trap
When Everything Apps Work and When the Don't
Revisiting the Text Editor Landscape
What's New in Text Editors?
An Orchestra Without a Conductor, Apple’s AI Dilemma
Apple and Agents
Why Foldable Phones Matter: The Case for an iPhone Duo
Federico on Foldables
The Fractal Fragmentation of AI Tools
The Messy Development of AI Apps
Apple’s Big Neo Week
Thoughts on Apple's New Hardware
Our Apple Hardware Wish List for 2026
The Hardware We Expect and the Gear We Dare to Dream for
App Intents and the Road to a Smarter Siri
Putting All the Pieces Together
Pick a Pair: New Apps We’re Using
A grab bag of new apps we're using
One Notion: Two Approaches
How We Use Notion
The Future of Apps in an AI-Coded World
The Impact of AI on the App Store
Terminal Tips and Claude Code Workflows
How We Use Claude Code and Codex
A Very ‘Just Build It’ Holiday
How We Spend Our Holiday Break, Part 2
A Very Nerdy Holiday Break
How We Spent Our Downtime
What’s Next for Apps in 2026
A Look Ahead to Next Year
The 2025 MacStories Selects Awards
The 2025 MacStories Selects Awards
Vibe Coding Your Own Productivity Tools
Our AI Automation Workflows
Designing for Liquid Glass: Outstanding Indie Apps
Great Liquid Glass Apps
The Ever-Changing App Store
How Subscriptions, Regulation, and AI Are Reshaping the World of Apps
Our Latest App and Automation Experiments
New Apps and Workflows for the holiday season
The Great Digital Declutter
Organizing Your Digital Life
Exploring AI Browsers
What's the Deal with AI Browsers?
The Potential and Limits of the M5 iPad Pro
Federico’s M5 iPad Pro Review
Apple’s Intelligence Quest: Beyond Smart Siri
Imagining and Apple AI Future
What Else Do We Want from Apple in 2025?
A Hardware and Software Wishlist
Making Sense of MCP: The Standard Connecting AI to Apps
MCP Demystified
AirPods Pro 3, iPhone Air, and a Cable Quest
A hardware update, Smart Stacks, and the quest to game on the Vision Pro
Fall Hardware: First Impressions
Thoughts on the iPhone 17 Pro Max, iPhone Air, Apple Watch Ultra 3, and AirPods Pro 3
iOS, iPadOS, and macOS 26: The MacStories Reviews
The MacStories Annual Review Extravaganza
Apple Event Vibe Check
AirPods, iPhone 17 Air, and Federico's AirTag Mystery
Back From Break: Automation, AI, and IKEA
What We Did on Our Summer Breaks
Building a Better AI App
Combining the Best AI App Features Into One Super App
The iPadOS and macOS 26 Public Betas
Should you install iPadOS or macOS 26?
Gaming Sidekicks: Videogame Companion Apps with Brendon Bigley
Everything But the Games
A Secondary Device Check-In
John's iPad Use and Federico's Mac Use
Imagining Apple’s Next Big Thing
What We'd Like to See Apple Try Next
Inside our Summertime Review Toolkits
A Behind-the-Scenes Look at Review Season
Our OS 26 Experiments: iPad Podcasting, Reminders, and More
Our Early OS 26 Testing
An iPad Pickle
Federico Rethinks His iPad Setup
A Behind the Scenes Peek at WWDC Week
WWDC Backstage
WWDC 2025: A First Look at Everything Apple Announced
A WWDC 2025 Recap
WWDC 2025: The AppStories Interviews with Apple Design Award Winners
The AppStories ADA Interviews
Sky and Our 2025 Shortcuts and Apple Intelligence WWDC Wishes
Our WWDC 2025 Automation Wishes
Our 2025 macOS and visionOS WWDC Wishes
OS Updates We're Hoping to See at WWDC
Airbnb 2025 Summer Release: An Interview with Jud Coplan and Teo Connor
A Conversation About App and Product Design
The Swift Student Challenge Interviews and watchOS and tvOS Wishes
An Interview with Apple's Apple's Susan Prescott and Students, Plus more OS Wishes
Our 2025 iOS and iPadOS WWDC Wishes
Our Annual OS Wishes
Tackling Trackers
Apps for Tracking Anything
How We’re Using AI
The AI Models We Use and How We Use Them
Time for Calendars
Keeping a Schedule
Return of the Utility Grab Bag
A Selection of Our Favorite Utilities
Pick 3: Automations
A Selection of Automations
From Dashboard Widgets to Breaking News: Mark Gurman’s Path to Bloomberg
An Interview with Bloomberg's Mark Gurman
Shortcuts Utility Apps Revisited
Filling the Gaps in Apple Automation
Our Self-Imposed Tech Deadlines
What Is Driving Our 2025 Tech Decisions
The Missing Middle
Why Aren't Developers Making Prosumer and Small Business Apps Anymore?
5 for 5: Five Predictions, Five Years
Looking Ahead to the App World's Next Five Years
A Classic Pick 2: Hidden Gems
Four Apps You May Not Know But Should Try
Thoughts on Covering AI Our Way
A Skeptical, Principled Approach to AI
Life Tracking, Journaling, and the Vision Pro with Devon Dundee
Living a Quality Quantified Life in VR
Three Browsers Are Better Than One with Matt Birchler
How the Web Is Changing the App Landscape
An Apple Intelligence Wish List
Where Apple Should Steer Its AI
Apple Prophecies and Predictions for 2025
What’s Next for Apple in the Year Ahead
Our Holiday Nerd Projects
How we plan to spend our downtime over the holidays
The AppStories Year in Review
A Look at What Shaped the App World in 2024
The 2024 MacStories Selects Awards
Celebrating the Best Apps of 2024
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