This podcast delves into various app downloads and tools, including a fasting app, automation tools, and a virtual window app. The hosts explore clipboard managers, productivity apps, and text workflow tools, offering insights and reviews on each.
Text Workflow enables custom text manipulations in Shortcuts app for efficient tasks.
Prolog enhances audiobook playback with Plex server streaming and upcoming watch app feature.
Deep dives
Text Workflow: Customizing Text Actions with Workflows
Text Workflow is a utility that allows users to modify text in various ways, such as changing the case, modifying lists, converting CSV files, and more. What sets Text Workflow apart is its ability to create custom workflows by chaining multiple text conversions into a single action. Users can then run these custom workflows as individual actions within the Shortcuts app, offering a powerful way to manipulate text for various purposes.
Prolog: Streaming DRM-Free Audiobooks with Plex
Prolog is an audiobook player designed for DRM-free audiobooks that can be stored in a Plex server folder. This app enables users to stream their audiobook collection from the Plex server to various devices. Prolog's upcoming watch app feature will allow users to download audiobooks to their watch for offline listening or stream them over the Internet, enhancing the flexibility and accessibility of audiobook playback.
Empty Fasting App: Simplifying Fasting Tracking with a User-Friendly Interface
Empty Fasting is a fasting app that offers a simple and user-friendly approach to tracking fasting hours. Users can set fasting duration, receive notifications, track habits, and visualize streaks using widgets. Despite its appealing UI and functionality, the app's onboarding process, focusing on theme and icon selection, may indicate a design-centric approach rather than prioritizing core functionalities.
Tower and Kaleidoscope: Enhancing GitHub Collaboration and Text Comparisons
Tower is a feature-rich GitHub client offering a native Mac app experience for managing commits, branches, and repositories on GitHub. Integrated with Kaleidoscope, users can compare text files and view differences between versions seamlessly. Tower's history view and external diff tool integration facilitate efficient code collaboration and version control, enhancing the developer experience.
This week, Federico and John take a look at their latest app downloads on a variety of Apple devices.
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