MacStories Team

1558 posts on MacStories since July 2011

Articles by the MacStories team. Founded by Federico Viticci in April 2009, MacStories attracts millions of readers every month thanks to in-depth, personal, and informed coverage that offers a balanced mix of Apple news, app reviews, and opinion.

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Up Next on MacStories’ Podcasts

[[appstories_artwork]] Next week on AppStories, Federico and John begin digging into the updates to Apple system apps coming in the fall with a close look at Notes on iOS 13 and macOS Catalina. [[dialog_artwork]] Next week on Dialog, Federico and John speak to musician and songwriter Frank Turner about getting started, going solo, writing songs,...


Interview: Heidi Helen Pilypas

Twitter: @heidi_helen. Designer and co-creator of Capsicum, When Did I, Boomerang Check, and Stamp Pack. You recently launched a new app alongside Kyle Cronin, When Did I…? What’s the origin story behind the app and what does it do? I met Kyle at Layers (a design conference for Apple folk that runs alongside WWDC) and...


Interesting Links

Apple has assembled a collection of over 1,500 symbols that developers can use in their apps. This rich SF Symbols bundle should hopefully lead to more icon consistency across iOS apps. (Link) John Sundell details on his dedicated WWDC site a first look at SwiftUI, the new framework Apple introduced this week as the future...


Interview: James Thomson

Twitter: @jamesthomson. Indie developer and creator of PCalc. After more than a year of Marzipan speculation, Apple finally shared more details on what’s now called Project Catalyst. Are you considering using Catalyst for PCalc, or does it appear to make sense primarily for apps that aren’t yet on the Mac? I believe Catalyst potentially does...


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Up Next on MacStories’ Podcasts

[[appstories_artwork]] Next week on AppStories, Federico and John are joined by MacStories writer Alex Guyot to talk about some of the new apps and updates announced by Apple at WWDC. [[dialog_artwork]] Next week on Dialog, Federico and John wrap up their interview with Daring Fireball’s John Gruber with a discussion of his writing process, Markdown,...


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In This Issue

HomeRun, how to force podcast episodes to transfer from Overcast to your Watch, how John used Concepts and GoodNotes to plan MacStories’ latest podcast,plus the usualWeekly Q&A, Links, App Debuts, a recap of MacStories articles, and a preview of next week’s episode of AppStories....


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