Apps

Meet Wayther, an iOS weather forecast app designed specifically for road trips

A new iOS app called Wayther wants to help you better plan your road trips by giving you real-time road conditions and weather forecasts along your route. Created by indie developer Axel Le Pennec, Wayther gives you weather forecasts along your route up to 10 days in advance.  Le Pennec, who has been building iOS

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With the latest iOS 18 developer beta, Apple makes flashlight UI more fun

Apple released the third developer beta version of iOS 18 on Monday. While there are no major new features like Apple Intelligence in this update, there are some neat design changes. But the new UI for the flashlight takes the cake. The company had already introduced a new way to control True Tone Flashlights on

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Quora’s Poe now lets users create and share web apps

Poe, Quora’s subscription-based, cross-platform aggregator for AI-powered chatbots like Anthropic’s Claude and OpenAI’s GPT-4o, has launched a feature called Previews that lets users create interactive apps directly in chats with chatbots. Previews allows Poe users to build data visualizations, games and even drum machines by typing things like “Analyze the information in this report and

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Apple removes VPN apps at request of Russian authorities, say app makers

Apple has removed several VPN apps from its App Store in Russia at the request of the government’s communications watchdog, according to VPN makers.  Last week, Russian news agency Interfax reported that Apple had removed 25 VPN apps from its App Store in Russia after Roskomnadzor, a government body that regulates the internet — including

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Art therapy app Scribble Journey lets you express emotions through doodles

Numerous concerns are weighing on the minds of many, whether it’s current global conflicts, climate change, or the precarious state of the economy, it is no surprise that the world is grappling with a mental health crisis. Some users have turned to apps to cope with mental health struggles. According to data by Grand View

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How to set up parental controls on Facebook, Snapchat, TikTok and more popular sites

Parental controls are offered by almost every popular media network, but many parents aren’t aware of them. Fewer than 10% of teens on Instagram had enabled parental control settings by the end of 2022 and only a single-digit percentage of parents had used the controls, according to a Washington Post report from earlier this year.

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YouTube’s updated eraser tool removes copyrighted music without impacting other audio

On July 4, YouTube released an updated eraser tool for creators so they can easily remove any copyrighted music from their videos without affecting any other audio such as dialogues or sound effects. YouTube chief Neal Mohan posted about the tool on X and said, “Good news, creators: our updated Erase Song tool helps you

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