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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.

Shake: Easy, Effective Bug Reporting for Your Mobile App [Sponsor]

Shake eliminates the headaches and hassles of processing bug reports in your mobile app. Tracking down bugs and fixing them is critical to your app’s success, but too often, identifying and resolving them is an inefficient mess. With Shake, you can streamline the process and get better data, allowing you to resolve more issues quickly and effectively.

Just add Shake’s API to your app, and your users can submit a comprehensive bug report in seconds simply by shaking their device. Shake eliminates incomplete, vague bug reports so often submitted over email, social media, and word of mouth. With Shake, your users not only can communicate problems with screenshots but with screen recordings and markup tools, all presented inside your app.

Bug reports are supplemented with a ton of useful data automatically that’s delivered instantly to a beautifully designed web dashboard that lets your team chat about the reported bugs, assign priorities, and tag them. Shake also integrates seamlessly with the other tools you already use, like Jira, Slack, Azure, and Trello. Developers can customize Shake to suit their particular needs delivering any variable value they want from users’ devices too. It’s a powerful set of tools that will help you debug issues in your apps 50 times faster than before.

Shake is free to try without any time limitations on its standard features, and you can upgrade to a premium plan any time to add more attachments and tags per bug report, unlimited viewing and searching of bugs, and full activity history. Try Shake today to learn how fast, efficient bug reporting and tracking can accelerate your app development process.

Our thanks to Shake for sponsoring MacStories this week.


In This Issue

This month, John shares his first impressions of the new iPad Air, Stephen considers what the Air could mean for Apple’s iPad Pro lineup, and Ryan examines Apple’s fall event strategy....


In This Issue

Pixelmator Pro, a new Reeder shortcut from Federico, Ryan weighs buying the iPhone 12 mini versus the 12 Pro, an all-new episode of MacStories Unplugged,plus lots of Q&A, App Debuts, Links, a recap of MacStories articles, and a preview of upcoming MacStories podcasts....


Previously, On MacStories

Microsoft Is Rolling Out iPad Pointer Support to Its Office Suite Using Soor’s Widgets and Magic Mixes Apple Signs Jon Stewart to Expansive Deal for TV+ Series and More Clips 3.0 Brings New Video Aspect Ratios and an Upgraded iPad Experience Apple Q42020 Results - $64.7 Billion Revenue Managing the Internet Access of HomeKit Devices...


Up Next on MacStories’ Podcasts

Next week on AppStories, Federico and John explore how widgets have changed (or not) the way they work on their iPhones, iPads, and Macs. This week on MacStories Unwind, Federico and John round up the week’s happenings at MacStories, including Federico’s use of Soor widgets and his new Apple Frames and Reeder shortcuts,...


MacStories Unplugged

[[unplugged_artwork]] Bugs Along the Way In this episode, Federico and John talk about the upcoming release of Big Sur, Federico makes John nervous by poking around in Disk Utility and ejecting drives while he records, John gets fiber Internet and tests HomeKit mesh WiFi routers, and Federico unwinds post-iOS review. Show Notes Samsung 1TB T7...


Interesting Links

Tyler Stalman has an excellent review of the iPhone 12 and 12 Pro from a photographer’s perspective, which is worth checking out if iPhone photography interests you. (Link) The RIAA sent a take-down notice to GitHub this week, which removed the youtube-dl command-line tool from the service. Youtube-dl can be used to make copies of...


Sketch: The Design Platform Trusted by Over One Million People [Sponsor]

Sketch is a design platform that combines an award-winning native Mac app with powerful, cloud-based collaboration tools. Since it first launched in 2010, Sketch has become the go-to toolkit for over one million people — from freelancers and solo app developers, to the world’s largest design teams.

From the very beginning, Sketch have proudly called the Mac their home — and it shows with their app. It combines thoughtful features, an intuitive interface, and the best of native macOS technologies.

With Sketch, you get all the things you’d expect from a great Mac app — from a native UI with dark mode support, to custom shortcuts and great integration with Apple’s hardware.

Whether you’re a complete beginner or a long-time Mac user, Sketch feels instantly familiar. Controls and tools work just the way you’d expect them to, making it easy to turn your ideas into fully-polished designs and prototypes.

When you’re working with others, you can save designs to Sketch’s Cloud platform and share them with a link. Collaborators and teammates can view them and leave feedback in any web browser, on any platform. Developers can even inspect files and download production-ready assets when it’s time for handoff, all at no extra cost.

Sketch have some exciting updates coming up too — with an all-new UI for macOS Big Sur and real-time collaboration with other designers, right inside the Mac app. And with a 30-day free trial to get you started, there’s never been a better time to check it out.

Our thanks to Sketch for sponsoring MacStories this week.


Previously, On MacStories

Reeder 5 Review: Read Later Tagging, iCloud Sync, and Design Refinements Adobe MAX Kicks Off with Illustrator for iPad, Photoshop, Lightroom, and Fresco Updates for iPad, Plus the Addition of Fresco for iPhone Austin Mann’s iPhone 12 Pro Camera Review iPad Air Review: Forward-Looking Hands-On with the HomePod’s New Intercom Feature, Alarms, and Siri Tricks...