MacStories Team

3427 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.

This Week's Sponsor:

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Meet Daylite: The CRM with Apple Fans in Mind [Sponsor]

For small businesses trying to stay on top of clients, leads, and projects that are evolving every day, it can be tough, if not impossible, to manage everything with just the existing Apple apps in your repertoire. That’s where Daylite comes in clutch. Daylite is a native Mac CRM and business productivity app designed to help you and your team manage more clients, close more deals, and finish more projects.

Daylite is fully compatible with Big Sur and M1-powered Macs and works seamlessly with the Apple features you already use and love:

  • Integrate with Apple Mail on Mac
  • Share your Apple Contacts and iCal
  • Leverage Siri and Caller ID on your iPhone
  • FaceID and TouchID support
  • Create contracts and other documents by pulling Daylite data into Pages, Numbers, and Keynote

Unlike most Web-based CRMs that just focus on customer relationships and sales, Daylite’s productivity-focused design helps you and your team get more done throughout the full customer lifecycle. From meeting prospects and winning business, to managing the moving pieces on projects, all the way through to following up for referrals and repeat business, it’s all done in Daylite.

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Our thanks to Daylite for sponsoring MacStories this week.


In This Issue

A special Weekly issue for readers featuring ReadKit and a collection of other iOS and iPadOS apps to supplement your summer reading, plus a Timery Club giveaway, a Home hub tip, a very long list of App Debuts, plus the usual Links, arecap of MacStories articles, and a preview of next week’s episodes of MacStories...


Previously, On MacStories

Apple Captured in a Single Email Message Apple Tells CNET It’s Making Privacy Changes to AirTags and Has an Android App Coming Later This Year Timery Comes to the Mac and Makes Time Tracking With Toggl Easier Than Ever Vidit Bhargava’s Design Concept for a Menu Bar and Multitasking on iPadOS HomeRun 2 Launches as...


Perks

Timery Club Exclusively for Club MacStories members, we have 15 codes for 1-year subscriptions to Timery Club. Timery for Toggl by developer Joe Hribar, which we reviewed this week, is a fantastic app for tracking your time using Toggl’s online service. Enter for a Chance to Win...


Interesting Links

Apple updated its Apple Music for Artists website this week, which serves as a destination for information about technologies like spatial audio, tools like Logic Pro, and analytics for artists who offer music through the streaming service. (Link) To mark its fourth anniversary, Ben Sandofsky of Lux provides a detailed history behind the development of...


MacStories Unplugged

[[unplugged_artwork]] Behind the Scenes of Federico’s Coverage of Rome’s New Via del Corso Apple Store Released earlier this week, John has an update on his cul-de-sac, we preview MacStories’ upcoming WWDC coverage, and Federico lifts the veil on Apple’s restoration of historic Palazzo Marignoli, home of the company’s latest flagship retail store....


Up Next on MacStories’ Podcasts

Next week on AppStories, Federico and John kick off WWDC with a recap of and thoughts on Apple’s keynote and State of the Union. AppStories will be published daily from Tuesday through Friday during WWDC. This week on MacStories Unwind, Federico and John cover the latest updates from HomeRun and Timery, WWDC news,...


In This Issue

This month, Federico takes the Thread plunge with a new HomeKit device home setup and John has four areas he’d like Apple to focus on at WWDC next week....


Genius Scan: A Scanner in Your Pocket [Sponsor]

Genius Scan makes scanning and managing documents with an iPhone or iPad simple, fast, and efficient, by working the way you do, with a flexible set of powerful, modern tools that are always with you. The app’s scanning engine is fast and accurate, delivering crisp, clear scans on the go using your device’s camera or by picking images from the app’s system file picker, your photo library, or as part of a custom shortcut.

The app works with a wide range of documents. From receipts to pages in books, Genius Scan has advanced edge detection that quickly recognizes a page from its background, automatically cropping it and gathering multiple scans into a single PDF for sharing or archiving. Rescanning is easy too. There’s no need to rescan an entire document from scratch because Genius Scan lets you delete or replace individual pages with a few taps. It’s a workflow that’s as intuitive as it is efficient.

Genius Scan features highly accurate optical character recognition, enabling full-text searching of your scans and the ability to copy the text for use elsewhere. The app also supports machine learning-based file naming, Shortcuts, extensive sharing options, Split View and Slide Over on the iPad, and much more.

Used by everyone from students to doctors and pilots, Genius Scan offers pricing to fit all needs. Genius Scan Basic is free and fully functional with no watermarks, scanning limits, third-party ads, or tracking. Genius Scan+ unlocks background uploading support to cloud services like Dropbox and Google Drive, OCR, locking the app with Touch ID, PDF encryption, and smart document naming for just $7.99. Also, a Genius Cloud subscription adds document sync and backup for peace of mind for $2.99/month or $29.99/year.

So download Genius Scan today, to support these independent, honest, privacy-conscious developers and put the App Store’s best scanner in your pocket.

Our thanks to Genius Scan for sponsoring MacStories this week.