MacStories Team

3377 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.

Willow

Willow is a new AI-powered dictation app for the iPhone and Mac that includes a bunch of features like automatic editing and formatting, style matching, contextual awareness, an AI mode for cleaning up simple messages, whispering and noise environment optimizations, and more. The first 200 readers who use the code MacStories200 on their Macs will...


In This Issue

Jonathan shares lost features he’d like Apple to bring back, Federico breaks down how he uses Shortcuts to add notes to his Notion daily notes, and John explains how he used a Claude Skill to filter one million Black Friday deals, plus the usual Links, App Debuts, the latest happenings in the Club MacStories+ Discord...


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Apple Introduces a Mini App Partner Program Featuring a Reduced Commission Edge Light Brightens Your Video Calls in the macOS Tahoe 26.2 Beta Picmal Streamlines Batch Conversion and Compression on the Mac Apple and ISSEYMIYAKE Introduce a Limited-Edition iPhone Pocket Google and Epic Games’ Settlement Is Far from a Done Deal...


In This Issue

This week, Jonathan recommends MD Vinyl, Federico gives Apple Music’s migration tool a spin, and John explains his week number workflow for organizing documents, plus the usual Links, App Debuts, the latest happenings in the Club MacStories+ Discord community, and a recap of MacStories articles and this week’s episodes of MacStories podcasts....


This Week on MacStories Podcasts

This week on MacStories podcasts: AppStories This week, John and Federico spin a Saturday morning of iPhone app cleanup into a full-blown digital declutter across all devices with the help of some of their favorite apps. Then on AppStories+, Federico has more to share from his ongoing Typing Mind experiments, and John explains how he’s...


This Week on MacStories Podcasts

This week on MacStories podcasts: AppStories This week, Federico and John look at the hype surrounding AI browsers to see if there’s any there there. Then, on AppStories+, Federico explains his experiments with lightning fast alternative AI models in Typing Mind. Listen on: Apple Podcasts Overcast Pocket Casts Castro Spotify YouTube NPC: Next Portable Console...


In This Issue

Jonathan explains how he uses Notion to organize and query meeting notes from Granola and John shares ideas of ways developers could improve subscriptions, plus the usual Links, App Debuts, the latest happenings in the Club MacStories+ Discord community, and a recap of MacStories articles and this week’s episodes of MacStories podcasts....



Previously, On MacStories

Trying to Make Sense of the Rumored, Gemini-Powered Siri Overhaul Proposed Epic–Google Deal Would Expand Access to the Play Store Shop Nintendo Hardware, Games, and Merch with the New iOS App Apple Releases 26.1 Updates to Its Operating Systems Apple Recreated the App Store on the Web with No Way to Download or Buy Apps...