Welcome to Indie App Spotlight. This is a weekly 9to5Mac series where we showcase the latest apps in the indie app world. If you’re a developer and would like your app featured, get in contact.
MoneyCoach is an all-in-one personal finance app for iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, and Apple Vision Pro. It has unique budgeting features, helps track your financial goals, and prioritizes privacy.
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Due to a licensing dispute with SESAC, a ton of songs have been removed from YouTube and YouTube Music in the US. YouTube remains in “active conversations with SESAC and are hoping to reach a new deal as soon as possible.”
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As AI continues to embed itself into our everyday lives and, now, Apple getting into the AI game with Apple Intelligence, the need for more intelligent, efficient tools is growing. With so much data to process, especially in PDFs, finding a solution that helps you work smarter and integrates seamlessly into the Apple ecosystem is key. Enter UPDF – the AI-powered PDF editor built for Apple users. From easy annotation to mind map conversions, it’s the all-in-one solution Apple users have been waiting for.
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In this weekend’s Power On Newsletter, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman outlined some new details about Apple’s future smart home products. We’ll be getting two versions of a HomePod with display, and one of them will be launching as soon as next year.
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Originally shared on social media by ShrimpApplePro, an apparent packaging leak for the M4 seems to showcase a couple features for the laptop that we didn’t quite expect. The leak is unverified, so take it with a grain of salt.
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Apple unveiled the first spatial computing product back at WWDC23 last June: Apple Vision Pro. It’s been over a year since that unveil, and just over 6 months since they actually shipped the product. Meta recently unveiled their new Orion AR glasses, and while that’s just a prototype, it does leave us wondering what Apple has in the pipeline for “spatial computing.”
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Apple last updated the in October 2022, introducing a new, smaller design, USB-C on the Siri remote, and a bump from the A12 chip to the A15 chip. As it’s approaching two years old, rumors are brewing about the next Apple TV model, although things are looking a bit bleak.
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A second judge in the Apple versus Epic Games lawsuit has implied that the Cupertino company has lied to the court. It comes after the original judge strongly implied that Apple had not told the truth about the reasons for its new App Store policy.
A second judge tasked with overseeing Apple’s disclosure of decision-making documents in the antitrust case said that a court filing made by the company was “simply not believable” …
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Two of the four iPhone 16 models have made it into the best smartphone battery life rankings compiled by Tom’s Guide. The status of a third model is unclear.
Earning a place on the list requires a smartphone to last for more than 14 hours of wireless web browsing on 5G at a brightness of 150 nits, and a total of 15 smartphones qualify …
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One of the biggest barriers to upgrading to a new Apple Watch this year is that, if you’re in the US and currently own a model with blood oxygen measurement, you wouldn’t get that feature in your new model.
That’s due to the patent dispute between Apple and Masimo, but now that the health tech company’s CEO has resigned, there could be a potential way to resolve the matter …
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