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Parakeet has long been a fan favorite local transcription model in Quick Subtitles. Apple's is slower and not
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I'm Matt Birchler, a designer, product manager, YouTuber, and developer who's been writing about tech since 2010.
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A beautiful read-later service for articles that matter.
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Quick Reviews
MacStories Best New App of 2025
Review the things you love and share them to social media.
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nonogame
Three fresh nonogram puzzles every day, in your browser.
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Birchfeed
Rock solid RSS syncing for the reader app you already use.
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Chapterize
Professional podcast chapters, made while you listen.
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Quick Subtitles
Fast, private, on-device transcription to text or SRT.
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Quick Notes
Voice to text with Apple's on-device language models.
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Yearly Run Goals
Yearly distance goals for running, cycling, and more.
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Weave
Typefully on iOS: threads, scheduling, publish everywhere.
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Best-o-Masto
Catch up without getting sucked in. Mastodon, efficiently.
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The party of making things worse
Justine Calma: Trump finalizes rule to make cars less fuel efficient
The US Department of Transportation finalized its plans today to weaken fuel efficiency standards, calling it “among the largest deregulatory actions under the second Trump Administration.”
I just think there's something wild about Republicans in the US constantly advocating for things to
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Fetishizing something most people don't care about
Brent Simmons: That About Wraps It Up for Stock Mac UI
Users have shown — again, I don’t need to prove this — that they don’t think about a stock Mac app vs. custom. Do they dislike Things for not having a toolbar at the top of the window that they can customize in the
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+ Gone too far
There's a chance, slim as it might be, that things won't go the way the've gone the last 30 years with digitization the moving to rental models for everyhing.
Birchfeed can forward newsletters to your inbox
Birchfeed allows you to set up an email address to receive newsletters which appear as feeds in the app. However,
Birchfeed can be your front page of the internet
Birchfeed is fundamentally a backend service that you will mostly use through a third-party client, such as Unread, Reader
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App review needs a reboot
Lex Friedman: The App Store review process needs fixing
Every single app and app update released in the App Store goes through this review process, and the review process is largely a black box. Developers submit, and then wait. They are given no specific timeline or indication of how long the review will take, and