Filling the App Gap

This week on AppStories, John and Federico cover Apple’s executive transition, follow up on OpenAI’s super app, and share the apps they’re looking for and give each other suggestions on how to fill their app gaps.

On AppStories+, we round up the tools we’ve built for ourselves that fill gaps, for which we haven’t found apps.

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Links and Show Notes

Links and Show Notes

Apple Leadership Transition

Apple’s Executive Leadership Transition Announced

Community Letter from Tim

OpenAI Codex and Computer Use Follow-Up

OpenAI Codex

Claude Code

Filling the App Gap

HomeKit Automation

Controller for HomeKit

Home Assistant

Cross-Device Screenshot and File Transfer

CleanShot X

macOS Screen Sharing utility

Workspace Management

Workspaces+

Workspaces

Calendar Apps

Notion Calendar

Fantastical

Calendar 366

Dot

Bookmarking and Read-It-Later

Shiori, by Brian Lovin

Readwise Reader

Matter

AppStories+ Post Show: Self-Built Tools and the Services Behind Them

ElevenLabs

Buffer

Google Gemini

Kokoro TTS

Defuddle

CrossPost (John’s cross-platform social media posting tool)

Research Feed (John’s ranked, filtered social media reader)

Dialog (John’s article-to-podcast converter using Defuddle, Claude, and Kokoro TTS)

Daily Star (John’s twice-daily magazine-style digest from Notion, RSS, and Matter)

Notion Daily Notes Appender (Federico’s quick-capture web app)

Notion Daily Notes Viewer (Federico’s horizontal tray viewer for open daily notes)

Ghost Reader (Federico’s Readwise Reader audio-preview tool using ElevenLabs)

CLI Chats (Federico’s session-log viewer for Claude Code and Codex)