Filling the App Gap

The Search for the Perfect App

Show Notes

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.

Also available on YouTube here.

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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)

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