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This week on AppStories, Federico and John cover the app and agent experiments they’re both running.

On AppStories+, John explores the sort of rapid workflow iteration enabled by agents.

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• Inoreader – Build Your Own Newsfeed and Cut Through the Noise

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• Wispr Flow

• T3 Code

• Parallel

• Advancing Voice Intelligence With New Models in the API (OpenAI)

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This week on AppStories, John and Federico discuss the changing face of the AI-fueled App Store and questionable changes made to TestFlight before going into the nerdiest details of Open Minis, an iOS app that brings desktop-class agents onto the iPhone and iPad.

Then on AppStories+, Federico and John explore Cmux, a Mac terminal app with an iPhone and iPad beta that makes it easier than ever to sync coding projects across devices.

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• Inoreader – Build Your Own Newsfeed and Cut Through the Noise

• App Store Chaos

• TestFlight: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back

• Open Minis Is the iOS Agent I Wish Siri AI Could Be

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This week, on AppStories, Federico and John look at what Siri AI is good at, where it needs improvement, and where it might be heading.

On AppStories+, the conversation expands to Federico and John’s experiences with the betas of macOS Golden Gate, iOS 27, and iPadOS 27.

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• Siri AI and Apple’s Trickle-Up Strategy

• macOS 27 Golden Gate: The MacStories Public Beta Preview

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This week on AppStories, Federico and John look at our experiences with Claude Fable 5 and how they differ from other models and break down the controversial changes made by OpenAI to its Mac’s ChatGPT app.

Then on AppStories+, John and Federico contrast their experiences with Fable 5 and OpenAI’s new family of GPT 5.6 models.

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• Appalachian State University

• Claude Fable

• The New ChatGPT

• The ChatGPT “Super App” Sort of Super Sucks

• GPT 5.6 Announcement

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This week on AppStories, Federico and John talk about the 10+ email apps they’ve used over the years and how their strategies for dealing with recent spikes in email volume has caused them to change their approaches.

On AppStories+, Federico and John update listeners on their summertime agentic coding projects.

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• Spark

• Claude Code

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This week on AppStories, Federico and John talk about the state of AI aggregator apps and their future prospects before checking in on their current AI app setups for the AppStories+ post-show.

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• The Pros and Cons of AI Aggregator Apps

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This week on AppStories, John and Federico are back home and reflect on all the WWDC announcements, including Siri AI, Apple Intelligence, design changes, developer tools, and more.

On AppStories+, we check in on our research setups and how they fared at WWDC.

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• Apple Intelligence

• This Is How Apple Rolls

• Xcode

• Image Playground

• Notion

• reMarkable Paper Pure

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In a second special WWDC edition of AppStories, Federico and John interview Apple Design Award finalists and winners, including the developers of The Outsiders and Tide Guide and the publishers of Pine Hearts and BALL x PIT.

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• Tide Guide (Visuals and Graphics) by Condor Digital

• The Outsiders (Interaction) by Gentler Stories

• 2026 Apple Design Awards Winners Announced

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Federico and John are joined this week by Myke Hurley and Chris Lawley to share their first impressions of the WWDC keynote and discoveries in the hours following the presentation.

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• Albums – The app that cares about your music library as much as you do

• macOS 27 Golden Gate: The MacStories Overview

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This week on AppStories, Federico and John share their WWDC automation wishes.

Then on AppStories+, they share more details on their research setups for the summer.

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• Apple Intelligence and the Cloud Model

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• Spark

• Shortcuts Playground

• WeatherKit — Apple Developer

• Simon Willison

• Research and Productivity Tools Discussed

• Obsidian

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