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DayCast keeps your whole day in one private place: a planner, notes, a journal, a spending tracker, and a PDF toolkit, encrypted on your devices and wired to Apple Intelligence. Version 2.0.1 makes it simpler: one plus button per tab, cleaner menus, search that shows the answer first, and you choose which sections you see. It runs on iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, and the web, all kept in step through your own iCloud.

The Planner gives you Today, Upcoming, Anytime, and Someday views and a Logbook of what you finished. Type something like "Call Sam Friday 3pm !high" and the date, time, and priority fill themselves in. Plan My Day fits your open tasks into the free time around your calendar. Paste a list as tasks, pause a repeating series, and get reminded at a time or when you arrive somewhere. Day, week, month, and timeline views sit behind one Calendar switch, and projects, energy levels, a completion heatmap, and habits with streaks round it out.

Notes holds rich text with highlight colors, collapsible headings, tables, checklists, and code blocks, in notebooks with tags and saved searches. Type / to add a heading, checklist, table, photo, or callout, and type # to tag as you write. Everything you share, clip, or email in waits in an Inbox until you file it. See notes as a list or as cards, copy and paste Markdown, keep a daily note, write by hand, do math inline, scan documents, and turn notes into flashcards. Coming from Evernote? Bring your ENEX export in with notebooks, tags, and attachments intact.

The Journal tracks moods, activities, and custom scales, with photos, video and audio transcripts, prompt packs, On This Day, Life Patterns, and a Year in Review. A breathing exercise logs Mindful Minutes, a First Aid Kit is there on hard days, and you can import your Apple Journal entries.

With Apple Card and Apple Wallet, purchases arrive in Spending on their own, already categorized. Safe to Spend shows what is really free today, worked out from your balance or this month's income. Spending gives every dollar a job with zero-based budgeting and Ready to Assign. Scan a receipt and its line items fill in, with a price history for what you buy often. Import bank files (OFX, QFX, QIF), keep transfers out of your totals, and get alerts before a budget runs hot. Bills, subscriptions, savings goals, Hide Amounts, and a monthly Month in Review are all here, and the Reports Hub covers trends, cash flow, merchants, and taxes. Specialist tools like the priority matrix, duplicate day, note map, net worth, debt payoff, and product prices live in Labs, ready to switch on in Settings. The PDF toolkit reads, signs, marks up, fills forms, and searches inside every PDF you import.

Search across everything shows the date, amount, or code you need first. On the Mac, DayCast has a sidebar, an inspector, a full menu bar, keyboard shortcuts (Command-K finds anything or creates it), multiple windows, drag and drop from the Finder, printing, and Handoff. On Apple Watch, check off today's tasks, run a focus timer, log a mood or an expense, and read pinned notes. On the web, open your data from any computer's browser, unlocked with a passphrase only you know. You can also email things into DayCast, save pages with the web clipper, and share a note or a journal with other iCloud users and comment together. On Android, DayCast runs on phones, foldables, and Googlebooks with a full desktop layout, syncs privately through your own Google Drive, and opens in any browser too.

Your notes, tasks, journal, and spending are encrypted on your devices before they sync, and your key stays in your iCloud Keychain, so Apple only ever stores ciphertext. iCloud sync is optional, and DayCast works fully offline. Shared notes and journals are readable by the people you invite. The AI features run on your device with Apple Intelligence, and Ask DayCast can use Apple's Private Cloud Compute only if you turn it on. No account, no ads, no trackers, no data sale.

DayCast is free to use, including sync, the Mac, Watch, and web apps, sharing, and imports. Premium unlocks Apple Card and Wallet import, the AI tools, the Reports Hub, the advanced PDF tools, extra journals, templates, and unlimited budgets, goals, and projects, for $5.99 a month or $49.99 a year, with a 7-day free trial. One subscription covers iPhone, iPad, Mac, and the web app.

VeraCast is a weather app done right. Built natively for iOS 26 with Apple's Liquid Glass design language, it delivers fast, accurate, beautifully presented weather with no ads and no tracking. Free to download, with an optional Premium subscription for the extras.

Meet Vera. She waits in the corner while your forecast loads, then flies up beside the temperature and gives you the one tip that matters today. She has a softer, cuter face and nearly 50 looks that follow the real weather: a straw hat and popsicle when it is hot, boots in the rain, earmuffs and a snowman in the snow, an umbrella turned inside out when it is windy, a lantern and cape in a thunderstorm, a nightcap after dark. She blinks, smiles when you tap her, and gets a little grumpy when it rains, and on windy days soft gusts drift across the sky in the real wind direction. The outfit rotates day by day and follows the real temperature, so there is no cardigan at 83°. Tap her to open Ask Vera, where umbrella, rain, snow, what to wear, and tell me about tomorrow are answered straight from your forecast numbers, on your iPhone. Drag her anywhere in the hero, or turn her off in Settings for the classic look.

Smart Windows finds the best stretch of the next seven days for cycling, running, gardening, mowing, and entertaining, as chips you can hide and reorder. Now Brief reads your day aloud, card by card, hands free. The 7 day forecast shows how much the models agree on each day, and This week turns the ranked highlights into plain words.

Every morning, Apple Intelligence writes you a friendly daily summary of your weather in plain language, in your own tone. Everything happens on your iPhone, nothing is sent to a server. Available on iPhone 15 Pro and newer, with a Gemini fallback when needed.

Premium goes further than a generic daily horoscope. The Astro-Weather Horoscope ties today's sky to your real weather, with a full reading across love, career, and wellness, your lucky color and number, compatible signs, and a closing mantra. Tappable why today chips reveal exactly which weather and astrology signals shaped the reading, a morning notification gives you the highlight at a glance, and you personalize it with your sun, rising, and moon signs. The Pet Walk card reads current conditions and tells you whether it is a Great, OK, or Skip moment to walk the dog, then adds a tip by your pet's name, watch for hot pavement in summer, keep it short in the cold.

Beyond the briefing, VeraCast is a complete weather workstation. Animated rain radar covers the past two hours plus a short nowcast from RainViewer, with a scrubbable timeline and an intensity legend. National Weather Service watches and warnings push the moment they are issued. Magnitude 4+ earthquakes within 300 km, hurricane proximity alerts, and rain start and stop nudges arrive as local notifications. Nineteen activity outlooks score the next ten days on a five color calendar for cycling, running, gardening, mosquito activity, migraine risk, and more, and a five day tree and grass pollen forecast rounds out the picture. Home Screen widgets in three sizes plus three Lock Screen accessory widgets keep your latest local weather one glance away.

Saved cities work on their own clock. If you track a city in another time zone, its advisories and daily briefing arrive on that city's local time rather than yours, so a morning briefing for a place three time zones away still reads like a morning briefing.

VeraCast is private by design: no ads, no tracking, no accounts, no analytics. Your location goes only to weather providers, Apple WeatherKit, Open Meteo, NWS, USGS, RainViewer, and Google Pollen, for the sole purpose of returning your forecast. The app renders entirely in Spanish when your iPhone is set to Spanish, including the AI briefing. Your daily briefing, severe weather alerts, weather news, and activity outlooks are free. Premium unlocks the Astro-Weather Horoscope, Trip Planner, animated radar, smart rain and storm alerts, extra briefing tones, and Home Screen, Lock Screen, and Apple Watch widgets, for $16.99 a year with a 3 day free trial, or $2.49 a month. Available in 26 countries.

Every subscription. One number. Renewl shows exactly what you pay each month and warns you before every charge, so a free trial never turns into a surprise. There is no bank login, ever. Renewl reads receipts on your iPhone and keeps your list in your own private iCloud.

Adding takes seconds. Pick from popular services with typical prices already filled in, or add anything custom. Snap a receipt or confirmation email and on-device AI fills in the merchant, price and renewal date. Or import a bank statement (CSV, OFX, QFX or PDF), or scan Apple Card, Apple Cash and Savings, and Renewl spots the repeating charges for you to confirm one by one.

Real life doesn't run on a clean monthly cycle, so Renewl doesn't either. Taking a month off? Skip one charge without cancelling, straight from the list, a notification, Siri or a widget. Pause a plan and pick it back up later. Cancelled plans move to an Ended section with your savings counted, and fixed-term plans end on their own date and show how many charges are left.

See what it really costs: monthly and yearly totals, spend by category, and the next 12 months of charges. Price Watch catches price hikes and charts every increase. A charge calendar with a heat map shows your busiest days, and budgets, overlap spotting and a "worth a second look" list point at plans to cut. Split a plan with family or friends and count only your share, in any currency.

It's right where you need it: interactive Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets that can skip a charge or snooze a reminder, a Live Activity for the next charge, Visual Intelligence for bills on your screen, Spotlight, Siri, Shortcuts and Control Center buttons. Layouts are designed for iPad and iPhone Duo. Lock Renewl with Face ID or Touch ID, back up to a file anytime, and use it in English, Spanish, French, German or Brazilian Portuguese.

Free tracks up to 3 subscriptions with renewal reminders, the Ended section, skipping, filters, the app lock, iCloud sync and backups. Renewl Pro unlocks unlimited subscriptions, AI receipt scanning, unlimited imports, trial alerts, Price Watch, Insights, the charge calendar, widgets and the Live Activity, pausing, splitting, multi-currency, custom colors and icons, a business expense report, and CSV and PDF export, for $2.99 a month or $19.99 a year with a free trial for new subscribers. No ads, no tracking, no data collected.

VitalLedger is the private health record for your dog or cat, and for every other pet in the house: rabbits, birds, reptiles, and more, each with its own species and breed. Track vaccines, vet visits, medications, flea and heartworm doses, weight, symptoms, meals, walks, and expenses, with reminders so nothing is missed. No ads, no account, no data resale. Records live on your phone first, optionally syncing through your own iCloud.

It now reads the record back to you. Ask about weight changes, past visits, or what you have spent, and get answers drawn from your own entries. It runs on your iPhone using Apple's on device models, so nothing is sent to a server. It answers from the record or says the record does not have it, and it never gives medical advice.

Every species gets a full profile with breed, birthdate, microchip, photo, and notes. The chronological timeline ties together vaccines, lab PDFs, treatment notes, and the paperwork you snapped at the vet office. Each visit can auto-create its own expense entry, and a photo of an invoice can fill in the total, date, and clinic for you.

VitalScore gives one wellness number per pet with the reasons behind it and the full formula shown in the app. Care Plan builds a preventive schedule from species, breed, and age. Recall alerts tell you when a food or drug you use is recalled, and the matching happens on your device, so we never learn what you feed your pet.

The Pet ID lives in Apple Wallet, on the Lock Screen with no unlock and no signal, with microchip and emergency contacts on the back. Sitter Mode produces a read only, QR shareable card with feeding times, medications, and vet info, no account and no app required from your sitter. Apple Watch handles quick logging from your wrist, and there are Siri Shortcuts for hands free entry.

It is built for every screen you own: iPhone, iPad, and iPhone Duo, where unfolded it lays out like a two-page book and half folded on a table it puts what's due on the raised half and the controls on the half under your hands. There is a full Android app too, with a Wear OS watch app.

Holdwise is a calm, private dividend tracker for long-term, buy and hold investors. Own VTI, VXUS, BND, SCHD or dividend stocks across a 401(k), Roth IRA, HSA and taxable account? Holdwise shows your income, when it's coming, and how it compounds. No accounts, no broker logins, no ads. Your data stays on your iPhone.

Version 1.8 is a redesign. A calmer Dashboard shows your annual income, net worth or return, what pays next and your goal on one screen. Income comes in three views, Received, Forecast and Breakdown, and the calendar reads as a weekly agenda or a month. One Plan menu holds every planning tool, including the new Contributions view, and Check your data spots missing cost basis, likely stock splits and stale prices. Every insight shows where its figure comes from.

Never miss a payday. Holdwise alerts you the day a dividend lands, with the amount, and puts a Live Activity on your Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island on pay days. Pro adds ex-dividend reminders 1, 3 or 7 days ahead. There's an optional weekly preview and monthly recap, Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets, and Control Center toggles.

Add holdings by hand, import a broker CSV (Fidelity, Schwab, Vanguard, Robinhood, M1, E*TRADE), or import from a screenshot. Group by account, hold positions in other currencies with per-security withholding tax, and auto-fill dividends from Tiingo with a free Tiingo account. The calendar shows confirmed and projected ex-dates and pay dates, every month and year gets a shareable recap, and an income heatmap reaches back to your first dividend.

Know your real return: XIRR and time-weighted return, total return with price change and dividends split out, and comparisons against VOO, SCHD and VYM, or a backtest of your buys against an index. Insights include an Income Risk score, a Dividend Safety Score per holding, 1, 3 and 5-year dividend growth rates, sector and concentration warnings, and on-device Apple Intelligence insights on supported devices. Coverage shows when your dividends will cover your expenses, alongside the reinvestment modeler, an income goal, RMD estimates, and a year-end tax pack as PDF and CSV.

Holdwise uses two-column layouts on iPad and iPhone Duo, works with Siri, Shortcuts and Spotlight, and has VoiceOver audio graphs for every chart and a color-blind friendly palette, in English and Spanish. Everything is stored privately on your device, with a one-file backup you can restore anywhere, a Face ID lock that keeps balances out of the app switcher, Hide Balances in one tap, and optional iCloud sync into your own private database. No analytics, no tracking SDKs.

Free covers 10 positions, total return, sectors, the calendar, pay-day alerts, widgets and the Live Activity, recaps and the heatmap, Contributions, Check your data, backup, and the Aristocrats list. Holdwise Pro is $4.99 a month or $44.99 a year, with a 7-day free trial on the annual plan, and unlocks unlimited positions, XIRR and time-weighted return, Income Risk, Coverage, Backtest, the tax pack, Insights, multi-currency, CSV and screenshot import, auto dividend lookup, ex-dividend reminders, benchmarks and the modeler. Holdwise is a tracker, not a financial advisor.

Most sleep apps assume you go to bed at 10pm. Steady is built for shift workers, not 9-to-5. Pick a template like DuPont, 4-on-4-off, Panama 2-2-3 or 5-on-5-off, import from your Calendar, or point your camera at the printed schedule on the wall and Steady reads the dates, codes and hours, then you confirm every day before it's saved. The photo is read on your iPhone and never stored.

Steady 1.8 is a redesign. Today leads with the one thing that matters right now, and your next 24 hours sit on one line: work, sleep, naps and your caffeine cutoff, with what's up next. When your rotation switches to nights or back to days, Steady plans the days around the change, with bedtimes, light and a nap before the first night, based on shift-work research.

The feature I care most about is the drive-home risk alert, and it is free. It warns you before you get in the car when fatigue makes the drive too risky, because 17 hours awake is roughly a 0.05% BAC and most people have no feel for that after a third night shift. New in 1.8 is a 3-minute reaction test you can take before you drive, compared with your own rested speed. It is a fatigue check, not a driving test.

On an iPhone Duo, stand it half open on the nightstand and Steady becomes a bedside screen, with the time, your bedtime and next shift up top, and Wind Down, the smart alarm and the reaction test within reach. Unfolded flat, Steady uses two pages split on the fold. A Sleep Focus filter holds Steady's nudges while your Focus is on, and alarms and the drive-home warning still come through.

Free covers the safety floor and more: the drive-home alert, the reaction test, the night-switch planner, today's fatigue score, your next 24 hours, shift templates and single-day changes, Calendar import, a sleep log with Apple Health sync, ten-second check-ins, Wind Down with brown noise, pink noise and 4-7-8 breathing, caffeine, alcohol, exercise and meal logging, reminders, a Live Activity for your shift, the Apple Watch app, Siri and Shortcuts.

Bilingual English and Spanish, written natively in both. No accounts, no servers, no tracking, and Apple's Data Not Collected label. Steady Pro is free for 7 days, then $3.99 a month or $24.99 a year, and adds photo roster import, the alertness curve and light plan, the fatigue breakdown and 7-day forecast, the sleep debt ledger, the shift-aware sleep score, sleep stages and overnight vitals, Discoveries, the smart wake alarm and nap planner, caffeine and light reminders, widgets and Watch complications, full history and exports, and the full coaching library of 290 tips. Steady is not a medical device.

There are a lot of focus apps. Kynd is the one that meets your brain where it is. Most productivity apps assume your tank is full: they schedule deep work right after a draining meeting, punish you with a broken streak for one missed day, and ask you to decide what's next at the exact moment your executive function is offline. Kynd runs on one idea, the smallest physical next step is everything.

Tell Kynd your energy, green, yellow or red, and Today reorders to match: big tasks for green, small wins for yellow, a brain dump or rest for red. Capture before you lose the thought by speaking or typing, and on-device AI proposes a physical first move you can finish in two minutes. If/When mode pairs a trigger ("when I sit down with coffee") with an action ("I'll open the doc") for the stuff that always slips.

Focus doesn't punish you. Pick Sprint, Pomo or Flow, with a visual time disk so time stops being abstract. When a Pomo ends, take a break, add five minutes, or start the next one, with a long break after every fourth. Optional gentle haptic pulses every 5, 10 or 15 minutes let you feel time pass while your eyes are on the work.

When the list is bigger than what's left of your day, Rebuild from now keeps what fits and moves the rest to tomorrow, one tap, nothing lost. Not today snoozes a task and brings it back like it never left, partial work counts, and Pick for me chooses a small win when you can't. No streaks: a missed day resets nothing. There's Calm mode, light or dark appearance, gentle haptics, and banners you can act on without opening the app. On iPad and iPhone Duo, Today, Focus and Capture spread into two columns. Routines, an inbox, an evening shutdown, widgets, Siri and an Apple Watch companion are included with no subscription.

Kynd Premium is $4.99 a month or $29.99 a year, with a 7-day free trial on annual for new subscribers. Break it down turns any task into three to seven concrete steps that stay linked, so finishing them adds up, with no credits or monthly caps (needs an iPhone with Apple Intelligence). Brain dump lets you talk as long as you need and sorts it into separate tasks, each with a first move. Bigger brain, off by default, can send hard tasks to Apple's Private Cloud Compute on iOS 27. You also get the Focus Shield, audio coworking rooms and scheduled Flocks with 500 minutes a month, ten CBT-for-ADHD micro modules with the first one free, recurring tasks, per-task timers, guided routines, four more soundscapes, Apple Health energy hints, calendar context on Today, and iCloud sync. Family Sharing covers up to six people.

Kynd is local first. Your tasks live on your device and sync only through your own iCloud if you turn it on. AI runs on your iPhone unless you choose Private Cloud Compute. No analytics, no Kynd server, and we never see your captures.

Most chore apps run on the honor system, a tap that says 'done' with nothing behind it. ChoreSight asks for proof. To close out a chore, you snap a live photo in the app of the finished work, and the camera is locked to capture only, so no one can pull an old picture from the camera roll. The result is a household where 'done' actually means done.

Accountability is built into how the list behaves. Skip a chore and it turns red and locks to the top of the screen, no snoozing, no hiding, no 'I'll do it later.' If a task goes overdue, anyone in the household can step in, take it over with one tap, and get the credit. Each chore can carry a baseline photo of what finished looks like, so there is no arguing about the standard.

Parents run everything from one dashboard. You see what is to do, what is overdue, and what is waiting on your review, approve or dispute each photo submission, and send reminders that a family member confirms. Kids see only their own chores. A shared Proof Feed keeps a visual audit trail of every completed task, so the whole household can see the work that got done.

Setup is quick: the Admin shares a six character join code, members install ChoreSight and tap Join Household, and minor profiles can only join after the Admin grants parental consent. Your household's chores sync across devices in real time. Proof photos are used only to verify chores and are automatically deleted from our servers 30 days after submission, with no third-party analytics or advertising.

ChoreSight is free for up to 10 open chores at a time with text-only completion. ChoreSight Premium unlocks unlimited active chores, the photo Proof Feed, Household Takeover, and Apple Family Sharing, for $4.99 a month or $39.99 a year with a 7-day free trial on the annual plan. Bilingual in English and Spanish.

Libreto Intelligence runs on your device. Ask questions about any PDF or notebook and get answers with tappable page citations, summarize a document or a selection, get plain-language explanations of anything you highlight, and turn any document into flashcards and quizzes with spaced-repetition review. Record a lecture, then transcribe and summarize it on device, and tap any line to jump the audio and your handwriting to that moment. No third-party AI, nothing leaves your devices.

Made for iPhone Duo: folded, the cover screen shows the notebook you were writing in, band and all. Unfold it and the notebook opens right where you left off: two pages across the fold held sideways, one page held upright, with every control in one row at the top either way. Folders show a list beside a preview, and planner links open on the facing page. Apple Pencil works on iPad and on iPhone Duo's inner screen, and on every other iPhone you write or type with a finger.

Libreto is built for Apple Pencil and for people tired of paying $15 a month for note-taking or $180 a year for premium PDF apps: a pro drawing studio plus a full notebook, planner, and PDF suite on iPad and iPhone Duo. On iPhone it is a focused PDF editor and notes app, so you can pick up a file or a note on your phone and it's synced and waiting for you. One yearly price, every feature unlocked, no ads, no upsells.

Drawing studio (iPad and iPhone Duo): a layered canvas with blend modes and per-layer opacity, 56 brushes across 8 categories (sketching, inking, painting, airbrushing, textures, and more), plus smudge, eraser, selection, and transform tools. Adjustments include blur, noise, sharpen, bloom, halftone, and chromatic aberration. In landscape, Sketch Studio docks your reference image, layers, and colors beside the canvas. Import a photo straight into a canvas to trace or paint over, with size presets or your own. A separate whiteboard is there for quick, freeform brainstorming.

Notebooks, planners, and journals (iPad and iPhone Duo): hyperlinked planners that jump between year, months, weeks, and days, a large library of templates for work, study, finance, and fitness, a sticker library with your own imported packs, custom cover designs, and audio recording right on the page. Apple Pencil is first class, with pressure, double-tap, and squeeze support, plus a ruler, shape tools, and palette customization. Draw a rough line, box, triangle, or circle and hold the Pencil still for a moment, and it snaps clean; one Undo takes it back. Planners come with a tappable Contents page that lists their months, quarters, or sections, and every day page links back to its month. In landscape, notebooks and PDFs open as a two-page spread, and ink thickens on slow strokes and tapers at the ends, like a real nib.

Full PDF editor (iPad and iPhone): highlight, underline, ink, shapes, sticky notes, and text boxes, sign documents with saved signatures, fill forms, and manage pages with rotate, crop, merge, split, extract, compress, watermark, and password tools. Scan paper documents and make them searchable with on-device OCR, clean up a photographed page with Scan Enhance, redact sensitive content for real with find-and-redact across a whole document (the hidden text is destroyed, not covered), and export as PDF, image, plain text, or Word (RTF); text notes also export as Markdown. Search or convert your handwriting to text on device in 20+ languages, in notebooks and on PDF ink, with nothing leaving your iPhone or iPad. Undo and redo cover every mark you make on a PDF. Notes travel with you too, take a quick note on iPhone and it's there on iPad. Organize with folders, tags, favorites, and search, lock sensitive files behind Face ID, and sync everything through iCloud.

Libreto is everywhere you work. Send a PDF, photo, or text file from Files, Mail, or Safari straight into your library, or drag it in from another app on iPad. Start a Quick Note in one tap from the + menu, a long-press on the app icon, Siri, Shortcuts, or ⌘N. Your documents show up in Spotlight. Apple's on-device handwriting engine reads your notebooks and the ink you write on PDFs in 20+ languages, so a PDF search finds your handwritten notes next to the typed text. Apple Pencil Pro squeezes for the tool palette and clicks when a shape snaps or a sticker lines up. Undo and redo on PDFs, hardware keyboard shortcuts, and flashcard import from Anki, CSV, or text round it out.

Libreto 2.6.0 is a notebook that opens like one. Notebooks open on their cover, full screen; slide the elastic band to the lock and hold for three seconds, then turn the cover like paper. Hold to snap turns a rough line, box, triangle, or circle into a clean one in notebooks and Sketch Studio. Type in a handwriting style that looks like your own notes. On iPhone Duo, the cover screen shows your notebook with its band, and unfolding opens it across both pages, using the full width with every control in one row at the top. Planners now come with a Contents page, tips show new users around the first time, and on iPhone notebooks show the page number and page arrows at the bottom. Fixes cover Split PDF on two-page PDFs, Page Manager freezes, PDFs opening at the top of the first page, page thumbnails showing their text, and slow strokes in Sketch Studio on iPad.

Libreto Premium is $19.99 per year (with a 3-day free trial) or $2.99 per month, and unlocks every premium feature: drawing tools, planners, designs, and Libreto Intelligence. Prefer not to subscribe? Buy Libreto once for $59.99 and keep every feature, including future updates, forever. No tiers, no upsells, no analytics, no advertising, no data sales.

Your watch already knows your resting heart rate, your HRV and how you slept. What it cannot know is why. VitalCast lets you answer one question at the end of the day, in a single tap, and answers it the next morning.

Your night, drawn as a ring. Readiness is measured against your own normal and drawn from last night's heart rate: the ring bursts where your heart rate moved while you slept and stays quiet where you slept steadily. As it draws in each morning, a light tap marks each burst. The four signals that moved your score sit around it, in points that add up to it.

Tag today. Alcohol, a late meal, a hard workout, travel, work stress: thirty tags, one tap each, from the Home Screen widget, your Apple Watch, Siri or the app, plus custom tags for the things only you do.

What helps, what hurts. After five days with the same tag, VitalCast compares the mornings that followed with all the others: heart rate variability, resting heart rate, sleep, sleep efficiency and deep sleep. In plain percentages, against your own nights only, with the honest answer "no clear difference" when that is what the data says. Your data, not proof of cause.

Explained, every time. A tag on yesterday becomes context in this morning's read, like "resting heart rate ran high, you noted alcohol." Every score shows its arithmetic, and every claim links to the study behind it.

On your wrist and your Lock Screen. Live Activities count down the caffeine you logged to a sleep-safe level, hold Rest Mode with an end button, and watch the overnight signals when they sit off your range, on the Lock Screen, in the Dynamic Island and in the Apple Watch Smart Stack. The same readiness ring is on your watch, and a caffeine-window complication joins readiness and sleep on the watch face. Nine Siri shortcuts, in English and Spanish, log a tag, tell you when to stop caffeine, or ask your data.

Works with the watch you own. Readiness, sleep score, training load with heart-rate zones, daytime versus overnight HRV, and heart-rate recovery, on any Apple Watch that writes to Health, and with Oura, Garmin, Whoop and Withings data that flows through it.

Still the records app. Your labs, medications, conditions and allergies from every health system on one timeline, the same lab value charted across providers, and appointment prep from your own records. VitalCast never decides what is normal: where your report printed a reference range, that range is shown, labeled as your lab's own.

No account. Computed on your iPhone. Nothing is uploaded unless you choose deeper analysis on Apple's Private Cloud Compute, one switch, off until you turn it on, which receives the computed numbers and never your raw Health data. Every card says where it was worded. VitalCast can only read your health records, never write them.

Designed for iPhone, iPhone Duo, iPad and Apple Watch, in English and Spanish. VitalCast is a wellness app. It compares your readings only to your own history, never labels anything normal or abnormal, and never diagnoses. Always talk to a clinician about medical concerns. The weekly briefing and logging are free, always. VitalCast Pro is $3.99 a month or $29.99 a year, with a 7-day free trial.

WavCast brings podcasts, live radio, and local news into one clean player. It is a client and a tuner, not a catalog. It reads open, public sources the way a browser or an RSS reader does, and streams each show or station directly to your iPhone. Nothing is hosted, mirrored, or rebroadcast, and there is no account to create.

Podcasts come from the open Podcast Index and any podcast RSS feed, so you can subscribe to anything, or paste a feed URL directly. Organize with folders, smart playlists, and bookmarks, save episodes, and download for offline. Your subscriptions and listening progress sync privately across your devices through your own iCloud.

Radio is powered by the Radio-Browser community directory, with live stations you can browse by mood, genre, country, and city, and live now-playing text as it airs. Local and world news arrive through public news feeds, both as news podcasts and as news radio, with headlines that link back to the original source.

Apple Intelligence adds Ask This Episode, with answers and tappable timestamps drawn from the transcript, plus episode summaries, generated chapters, the shows an episode mentions, and a short daily news briefing. On iOS 27 it runs on Apple Foundation Models in Private Cloud Compute, where requests are processed and not stored, and on other devices it runs on your iPhone. Nothing goes to any other company.

Built for real listening: variable speed up to 3x, Smart Speed silence trimming, chapters, synced transcripts, a full equalizer, a sleep timer, and bookmarks. Lock Screen and CarPlay controls, an Apple Watch app, Home Screen widgets, and a Share Extension round it out. WavCast is free and ad-supported. WavCast Plus adds ad-free listening, unlimited on-device AI transcripts and summaries, importing your own audio files, and per-show sound with Voice Boost and Mono-Mix, for 9.99 dollars a year with a 7-day free trial, or a one-time 19.99 dollar lifetime unlock. Prefer just the ads gone? Remove Ads is a single 5.99 dollar one-time unlock. Bilingual in English and Spanish.

Solecito teaches reading the way teachers do, with explicit phonics. In every level your child hears each letter's true sound, recorded in a warm, native Spanish voice, traces the letter with a finger or Apple Pencil, blends sounds into syllables and then into real words, and reads a decodable mini-book using only the sounds they have learned so far. Stars and a growing collection of charming illustrated rewards keep it encouraging.

It is built for the way kids actually learn. Spanish-first, with the English meaning shown under every word so children always know what they are reading. Every prompt is spoken aloud, so pre-readers can play on their own. "Léelo tú" lets a child read a word aloud and get gentle, encouraging feedback, checked with Apple's on-device speech recognition. The pace is calm and low-pressure, with no timers and no way to lose.

The journey is a friendly mountain to climb, 5 worlds and 30 levels that move from single vowels to consonants, blends, diphthongs, and full sentences. Worlds are themed, from green foothills to a snowy peak, so progress feels like an adventure rather than a worksheet.

Made for families and private by design. Solecito is 100% on device and fully offline, with no account, no ads, and no analytics, so nothing ever leaves the iPad. Purchases and settings sit behind a parental gate. It is free to start, and one-time purchases unlock more worlds: Acceso a Solecito is $7.99, and Mundos 3, 4, and 5 are $4.99 each. No subscription, ever. Perfect for bilingual families, Spanish immersion and dual-language learners, and anyone raising a brand-new reader.

Plantilla is built for the 60 million U.S. workers who speak a language other than English at home, and it is only for people who work in the United States; it does not cover other countries' labor laws. Scan a pay stub and get every line explained in plain language, walk through a W-4 step by step, photograph a W-2 and understand every box, decode a benefits packet, or just look up what FMLA means, all in your own language.

New in 1.8: your state's minimum wage for all 50 states and DC, with any raise the state has already announced for 2027, and Check my pay, which compares what you were paid with that minimum and the overtime rules, shows what you may be owed, and writes a letter you can hand to your employer. The app is also redesigned: each tab opens with what is yours, like your latest pay stub or your state, and on an open iPhone Duo every tab reads as two pages that meet at the fold.

Your pay stubs, documents, and notes stay on your phone, and the document vault is encrypted and locked behind Face ID. Nothing leaves the phone unless you use an AI feature, such as having a pay stub or HR letter explained. Plantilla asks first, and removes Social Security numbers before anything is sent. No account, no tracking.

Plantilla also tracks your tips and hours, translates the HR letters you get handed at work, and carries your state's rules on final paychecks, daily overtime, and leave, an FMLA timeline tracker, a benefits enrollment walkthrough, and a quarterly digest of what changed.

Spanish first, and it ships in ten languages: English, Spanish, Haitian Creole, Filipino, Vietnamese, Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, Arabic, Polish, and Russian. Built by an HR generalist who has filed I-9s in three languages this month.

The free version covers the pay stub scanner, W-4 walkthrough, W-2 scanner, federal and state rights, Check my pay, the take-home calculator, the glossary, 20 Ask Plantilla questions and 3 HR letter translations a month, and a vault of up to five documents. Premium is a single $9.99 purchase that unlocks everything, forever: unlimited vault, letters, and questions, two or three languages side by side, back-to-back scanning, PDF export, live state-law updates, and the quarterly digest. No subscription, because you should not pay a monthly fee to read your own paycheck.

Most trackers are lists. OmniLog is a time ledger. Start a session when you pick up a game, a book or a show, end it when you put it down, and OmniLog learns your real pace. Then it tells you the night you'll finish, and Up Next puts what fits the time you have tonight at the top, with library loans that are due and shows leaving a service first.

Add anything: search games, books, shows and movies with covers, lengths and genres filled in, share a link from your browser, or import from Goodreads, Letterboxd, StoryGraph, Trakt and more. Every episode of every season is there with real titles, and you can mark the next one in a tap. Where to watch, prices and leaving dates follow your region.

You rarely need to open the app. Start and stop from Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets, the Live Activity timer, Control Center, Siri and Shortcuts, an NFC tag on a game case, or your wrist. It runs on iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch, where iPhone Duo lays out like a book with a tabletop timer, and on Android phones, tablets and foldables, with a home screen widget, a live notification timer, a Quick Settings tile, a Wear OS app, and two pages that meet on the fold of a Galaxy Z Fold.

No account, no ads and no tracking. Your library lives on your devices: on iPhone it syncs through your own iCloud, on Android it stays on your phone with backups to a folder you choose, and we can't read either. Searches send only a title, to look up its cover and details. OmniLog Plus is $2.99 a month or $19.99 a year with a free week, and adds Previously on recaps written from your own notes, start-next picks explained (Apple Intelligence on iPhone, Gemini Nano on Android), shelf scan, release radar alerts, sharing your year in review, and Watch together.

Most wallpaper apps are a big pile of pictures. Almanak is a calendar for your screen. Every design comes as a set, colorways, takes or a light and dark pair, and Almanak shows the right one for the hour: dawn from 5, day from 8, dusk from 5 in the evening, night from 8. One set a day, so dawn, day, dusk and night feel like the same place in different light.

Turn on Follow the seasons and it drifts through the year on its own: spring, summer, fall, Halloween week, December and winter, each in its time. Add the sets you love to My Almanak and they join the rotation. Every wallpaper is made by the studio, 659 of them in 25 packs, with new packs every week and no app update.

See it before you set it. Almanak previews every set on the device you are holding, a Lock Screen with the clock and a matching Home Screen, drawn as your phone, your tablet, your iPhone Duo closed and open, or your laptop's desktop. Save the pair in a tap, at the exact size for your screen.

iPhone does not let apps change the wallpaper, so Almanak hands Shortcuts the right picture with its Get Wallpaper for Now action, and a short guide sets up the automation once. The Mac app does it all itself: the desktop changes at dawn, day, dusk and night on every display, from the menu bar. On Android it is one switch: Almanak sets the Home Screen, the Lock Screen or both by itself, with no setup. Free, with no ads, no account, no analytics and no tracking.

You know you own the thing. You do not know which of fifteen identical tubs it is in. Binpeek fixes the moment that matters, finding it, by making the camera do the looking. Open the app and you are looking through it. Point at a shelf of labeled bins and every bin gets a floating caption with its contents, all at once, tracking as you move.

Find is the part people show their friends. Type or say what you are after, sweep the camera across the shelf, and the bin that has it lights up while the rest dim. Your phone pulses as you get closer. Before you even point the camera, Find lists every bin that holds the thing and where it lives.

Adding a bin takes one photo. Open the lid, tap the shutter, and Apple Intelligence lists what is inside, on your iPhone or on Apple's Private Cloud Compute, reading brand names off packaging. Fix anything it got wrong, stick on a label, done. Print Binpeek labels on any sticker paper, keep the masking tape you already have since Binpeek reads handwriting, or tap an NFC sticker to open a bin straight from the lock screen.

Your bins sync through your own iCloud and can be shared with your household, so everyone finds things in the same list. Every bin is in Spotlight and Siri. There is no Binpeek server, no account, no ads and no tracking. The first five bins are free, and Binpeek Unlimited is a single purchase for the rest of the garage. No subscription. Bilingual in English and Spanish.

Most notes apps are good at the way in and silent about the way back. Ehmber is the opposite. Hold the ehmber, say what's on your mind, let go. That is the only gesture to learn. Speech is turned into text on your device, and you can always type instead.

One question, at most. If a thought sounds like something to do and you didn't say when, Ehmber asks once, out loud: when you next see that person, or on a day? Answer, tap a choice, or stay silent and it's simply kept. Ehmber learns what you usually pick and asks less over time.

It comes back when it should. On the day you named, or the morning you're meeting the person it's about, because Ehmber reads your calendar and never writes to it. Returned notes land at the top of the stream under Back to you, with Done and Later.

Heat, not folders. There are no folders to maintain. Notes stay warm while you touch them and cool when you don't, and the stream is ordered by that warmth. Cooled notes sink below a fold and stay searchable. Once a week, Ehmber shows you a few cooling notes and asks: rekindle, act, or release. Nothing is ever deleted for you.

Plain files you own, on every screen. Every note is a plain Markdown file you can open in the Files app. iCloud Drive sync and restore are built in. Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets show what's warm and what came back, and on iPad, the iPhone Duo and iPhone in landscape, the stream and the open note sit side by side. Free, all of it: no account, no ads, no tracking.

Talewright is a book reader with pages that turn like paper. Hold a corner and the page curls under your finger, just like a real book, or switch to a simple slide if you prefer. Hold an iPhone upright for one page; turn an iPad sideways or open an iPhone Duo and you get a full two-page spread with the spine in the middle.

Browse tens of thousands of free public domain classics by topic and language, with fast search, plus carefully typeset editions from Standard Ebooks. Or bring your own EPUB and PDF files from Files, Mail or Safari.

Highlight in four colors, add notes and bookmarks, and look up any word, saved to a vocabulary list with the sentence you found it in. Five themes, seven fonts, and a warm light that takes the blue out of the page at night. Start a book on your iPhone and pick up on your iPad where you left off, through your own iCloud.

Talewright Premium adds a reading companion that runs on your device: Story so far recaps any book without spoilers, Ask this book answers questions from the pages you've read, and Who's who keeps track of the characters. It also adds read aloud and note export, for $2.99 a month or $19.99 a year with a 7-day free trial on the yearly plan. The reader and every free book stay free, with no ads, no account and no tracking.

FlickDrop is a catalog for people who still buy movies on disc. Point the camera at a shelf and it reads several barcodes at once, DVD, Blu-ray and 4K UHD, VHS and LaserDisc too, and identifies the exact release: the format, the edition such as a steelbook or box set, and the label. Each disc is filed by genre on its own. Box sets hold their individual films, and every film keeps its own watched state.

Every title gets a proper page: synopsis, director and cast, the trailer, budget and box office, and for series the status and seasons. A short Behind the film note, written on your device by Apple Intelligence from public facts and labeled as AI-written, gives you the production story. Pick the streaming services you subscribe to and each title shows whether it is on one of them, somewhere else, or disc-only, so you know when the disc is the only way to watch.

Standing in a store, scan the case or search the title and FlickDrop tells you whether you already own it, and in which format, with a warning before you add a duplicate. Lend a disc to a contact with a due date and an optional Reminders nudge. Log every watch with its own date and rating, keep a wishlist, and record where each disc lives, down to the shelf.

Ask Siri "Do I own Heat?", add a disc from Shortcuts, or have it pick something unwatched for tonight. Widgets show your collection counts and Spotlight finds any title. Import your existing list from CLZ Movies, My Movies, Blu-ray.com or Letterboxd as CSV, and export to CSV any time, free. Your catalog lives on your iPhone, iPhone Duo or iPad and syncs through your own private iCloud. There is no FlickDrop account to make.

When a barcode isn't recognized, you can correct it and, if you like, photograph the cover, and that fix joins a community edition database so the next collector gets it right. Confirmations are anonymous and never carry your name, email or Apple ID. No analytics, no ads, no tracking. FlickDrop is free for up to 50 discs. FlickDrop Pro is a one-time $14.99 purchase that unlocks an unlimited collection, with no subscription, ever.