From yours truly on YouTube:
I’m excited to share a new addition to my membership program – discounts on great apps with Shortcuts support.
Sign up for the membership program.
Current apps:
- Together Board
- Plinky
- Paku
- Progress
- Tasks
- MindNode
- Cuevello
- One Sec
- Auralog
- Pop Out Timer
- Email Me
- Monologue
See the full Shortcuts Catalog.
Browse the Shortcuts Library.
Check out the Action Directory.
Check out the launch announcement post and watch the video on YouTube.
Hello members (and future members)! I am excited to announce a new Partner addition to my Membership – Monologue (part of Every)!
Built from developer Naveen Naidu and designed by Lucas Fischer, Monologue for iPhone & Apple as well as Mac lets you dictate freely with great access points and a retro design – plus capture using Shortcuts. Here’s how it’s described on the App Store:
Monologue is voice dictation that writes the way you talk-so your messages, emails, and notes come out clear, polished, and sounding like you.
Write what you meant to say
Most dictation apps get the words down. Monologue gets the intent right-matching your tone (casual, professional, or anything in between) and cleaning up the “uhs,” filler, and awkward phrasing automatically.
Monologue is offering 3 months free off the annual subscription of $144/year, saving you $43.20 while giving you smart dictation for a full year – here’s the summary:
Turn speech into clean text anywhere — dictation, voice notes, and bot-free meeting notes for Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch. 100+ languages, works offline, agent-ready. Members get 30% off Monologue Pro’s annual plan for the first year.
My thanks to Naveen for participating – Monologue has been active on my Mac since the day I bought it in February, so I highly recommend it.
Learn more about the Membership, learn about Monologue,get Monologue on the App Store, or sign up for a membership below:
Check out the members-only Discounts page for Monologue’s redemption link.
Interested in becoming a partner? Register your app or service here.
Hello members (and future members)! I am excited to announce a new Partner addition to my Membership – Email Me!
Built from developer Manuel Escrig , Email Me for iPhone is a self-explanatory app for the common pattern of emailing yourself. Here’s how it’s described on the site:
The fastest capture a thought by voice or text.
Record a voice memo, let AI transcribe it, and send it straight to your inbox.
Note to self, evolved.
Manuel is offering 3 months free on top of the annual subscription of $12.99/year, saving you ~$3.25 while giving you Email Me for those three months, plus another year. Here’s how he describes the Shortcuts support:
Email Me Note, Email Note to Recipient, Quick Note, Email Me Reminder Text, Email Me Last Image, Create Text Note and Create Audio Note.
Background sending: Sending actions don’t need to open the app. Trigger them from Siri, an Automation, the Lock Screen or a locked device. Notes are queued and sent silently, with spoken confirmation.
Siri support: Use phrases such as “Email Me Note,” “Quick Note,” or “Send a note with Email Me to [recipient].”
Control Center, Lock Screen and Action Button: On iOS 18 or later, add one-tap controls for text notes, audio notes, clipboard notes, the last photo, document scanning and the camera.
Automations: Actions can be combined with other apps or triggered by time, location, Focus mode or NFC tags. For example: “When I leave work, email me my clipboard.”
Share Sheet: Send text, photos and files from other apps directly through the iOS Share Sheet and Actions menu.
My thanks to Manuel for participating!
Learn more about the Membership, learn about Email Me,get Email Me on the App Store, or sign up for a membership below:
Check out the members-only Discounts page for Email Me’s redemption link to the App Store.
Interested in becoming a partner? Register your app or service here.
Hello members (and future members)! I am excited to announce a new Partner addition to my Membership – Auralog!
Built from developer Adrian Eves, Auralog for iPhone lets you track migraines, log triggers, and see what conditions put you at risk for another migraine – plus, I helped Adrian with his Shortcuts integration. Here’s how it’s described on the App Store:
The effortless way to beat migraines. Zero effort logging. Maximum insight. Each migraine you track keeps the next one at bay. The smartest migraine app ever built.
Auralog helps you take control of your migraine and headache history without extra hassle – even in the middle of an attack.
Adrian is offering 50% off the annual subscription of $19.99/year, saving you $9.99 while giving you Auralog for a full year. My thanks to Adrian for participating – please test the Shortcuts support and send us feedback!
Learn more about the Membership, learn about Auralog,get Auralog on the App Store, or sign up for a membership below:
Check out the members-only Discounts page for Auralog’s redemption link to the App Store.
Interested in becoming a partner? Register your app or service here.
Hello members (and future members)! I am excited to announce a new Partner addition to my Membership – One Sec!
Built from developer Frederik Riedel, One Sec for iPhone & iPad(as well as Android and Web) lets you delay opening apps with a Screen Time blocker to help reduce your bad habits – using Shortcuts’ Open App automation. Here’s how it’s described on the App Store:
Willpower is not enough against social media algorithms!
That’s why I made one sec:
one sec adds friction to distracting apps to make them less appealing…long-term!
This principle works really well: we have gained scientific evidence in numerous research studies with the Max-Planck Institute, with the German and Danish government, and in dozens more scientific collaborations.
One Sec is offering three months free off with a monthly subscription, saving you $11.99 while giving you One Sec to try out for three months – here’s the summary:
Cut your screen time in half: one sec is the screen time app that truly works – scientifically. It helps you interrupt or block social media, apps, and websites using Shortcuts Automations.
My thanks to Frederik for participating – hope One Sec helps you with your Screen Time habits!
Learn more about the Membership, learn about One Sec,get One Sec on the App Store, or sign up for a membership below:
Check out the members-only Discounts page for One Sec’s redemption link to the App Store.
Interested in becoming a partner? Register your app or service here.
Hello members (and future members)! I am excited to announce a new Partner addition to my Membership – Cuevello !
Built from developer Matthias Hühne, Cuevello for iPhone & iPad(and its Mac server) lets you remotely use your Mac apps on iPhone, iPad, or another Mac. Here’s how it’s described on the website:
Stream a monitor, app window, or selected Mac app to iOS with high-resolution video and optional Mac or app audio, then view, zoom, type, click, scroll, and run workflows when the Mac itself is somewhere else.
Cuevello is offering 50% off its one-time Pro Unlock: $4.49 instead of $8.99. The offer is available for six months, and the purchase has no renewal or recurring subscription – here’s the summary:
Cuevello integrates with Apple Shortcuts through App Intents. Saved Cuevello workflows appear as actions in the Shortcuts app and can run compatible Mac automations in the background. Workflows can combine menu commands, app actions, keyboard input, URLs, clipboard or prepared text, screenshots, and waits. Cuevello can also remotely launch existing macOS Shortcuts, allowing users to incorporate scripts, backups, Focus setups, and other Apple automations. Interactive steps may open Cuevello when user input or screen access is required.
My thanks to Matthias for participating – let me know how you’re using Cuevello!
Learn more about the Membership, learn about Cuevello,get Cuevello on the App Store, or sign up for a membership below:
Check out the members-only Discounts page for Cuevello’s redemption link to the App Store.
Interested in becoming a partner? Register your app or service here.
Hello members (and future members)! I am excited to announce a new Partner addition to my Membership – MindNode!
Built from developer Markus Müller-Simhofer, MindNode for iPhone, iPad, Mac, & Apple Watchlets you visualize your thoughts as you brainstorm in a mind mapping environment – and contains a set of Shortcuts actions that I actually helped the team with in my client work. Here’s how it’s described on the App Store:
Your brain doesn’t think in straight lines. MindNode doesn’t force it to. Capture scattered thoughts, connect them in a mind map, and turn them into a clear outline, plan, or project structure.
MindNode is offering 3 months free off the annual subscription of $24.99/year, saving you ~$6.25 while giving you MindNode Premium for a full year – here’s the summary:
MindNode’s Shortcuts integration lets you capture ideas, create documents, and automate repetitive actions across your Apple devices. Build MindNode into your everyday workflows and turn quick thoughts into structured mind maps without interrupting your flow.
My thanks to Marcus & team for participating – I’ve used MindNode for years and years, and I was super thrilled to help with their Shortcuts support as well. I hope you enjoy it!
Learn more about the Membership, learn about MindNode,get MindNode on the App Store, or sign up for a membership below:
Check out the members-only Discounts page for MindNode’s redemption link to the App Store.
Interested in becoming a partner? Register your app or service here.
Hello members (and future members)! I am excited to announce a new Partner addition to my Membership – Tasks!
Built from developer Mustafa Yusuf, Tasks for iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch & Visionlets you track your to-dos in a great kanban interface – plus it has a huge set of Shortcuts actions. Here’s how it’s described on the App Store:
Start with a simple list, then grow into custom Kanban workflows, powerful automation, and effortless collaboration across your Apple devices.
Tasks is a flexible task manager built for Apple devices. Start with a simple to-do list, then add structure only when you ed it-with projects, subtasks, tags, priorities, custom statuses, Kanban boards, collaboration, and powerful automations.
Your work is rarely just “to do” or “done.” A task might be in progress, waiting, under review, or following a workflow unique to your team. Tasks lets you shape every project around the way you actually work, without overwhelming you upfront.
Tasks is offering 50% off the lifetime purchase of $99.99, saving you $49.99 while giving you Tasks forever – here’s the summary:
Unlock every premium feature in Tasks forever with a single purchase. No subscriptions, no recurring fees – just one payment and you’re set for life. (Includes Family Sharing!)
My special thanks to Mustafa for participating and being so generous with his offer – now go get your Tasks done!
Learn more about the Membership, learn about Tasks,get Tasks on the App Store, or sign up for a membership below:
Check out the members-only Discounts page for One Sec’s redemption link to the App Store.
Interested in becoming a partner? Register your app or service here.
Hello members (and future members)! I am excited to announce a new Partner addition to my Membership – Progress!
Built from developer Stephen Hayes, Progresslets you track any goal with a great visualization. Here’s how it’s described on his website:
Progress is an app for iOS & macOS designed to help keep track of progress towards goals. Perfect for tracking almost anything – distance, money, time, weight, and more! Stay on target with history charts showing your recent trends!
Progress is offering 50% off the annual subscription of $7.99/year, saving you $3.99 while giving you Progress for a full year – here’s the summary:
Track any goal effortlessly across iPhone, iPad, and Mac with Progress. Powerful Siri Shortcuts support lets you log updates instantly or automate your routine, with seamless syncing that keeps your progress up to date everywhere.
My thanks to Stephen for participating – let us know what kinds of goals you are tracking with Progress!
Learn more about the Membership, learn about Progress,get Progress on the App Store, or sign up for a membership below:
Check out the members-only Discounts page for Progress’ redemption link to the App Store.
Interested in becoming a partner? Register your app or service here.
Hello members (and future members)! I am excited to announce a new Partner addition to my Membership – Paku!
Built from developer Kyle Bashour, Paku for iPhone is a fantastic air quality monitor and AQI map with a wonderfully elegant design. Here’s how it’s described on the App Store:
Wildfire smoke season is here. See what’s actually in your air, block by block, and get an alert the moment the sensor down the street crosses your threshold.
See the air you’re actually breathing.
Most apps give you one AQI number for your whole city. Paku shows you live readings from thousands of PurpleAir sensors, including the one down the street, so you know when it’s safe to open the windows, go for a run, or send the kids outside.
Paku is offering 50% off the annual subscription of $13.99/year, saving you $6.99 while giving you Paku Pro for a full year – here’s the summary:
Keep a closer eye on air quality this wildfire season with Paku Pro. Set up alerts as AQI changes, monitor with Live Activities, and unlock all of Paku’s widgets.
My thanks to Kyle for participating – make sure to put the Paku widget on your Home Screen!
Learn more about the Membership, learn about Paku,get Paku on the App Store, or sign up for a membership below:
Check out the members-only Discounts page for Paku’s redemption link to the App Store.
Interested in becoming a partner? Register your app or service here.
Hello members (and future members)! I am excited to announce a new Partner addition to my Membership Benefits – Plinky!
Built from developer Joe Fabisevich, Plinky for iPhone, iPad, and Mac lets you track links on all platforms, with a robust set of Shortcuts actions available to use. Here’s how it’s described on the App Store:
Save from any app or browser, then organize with tags, folders, reminders, widgets, and Shortcuts across your iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Plinky is the easiest way to save links from any device, so you can enjoy them later.
Plinky is offering 50% off the annual subscription of $39.99, saving you $19.99 while letting you add Plinky to your workflow for a full year.
My thanks to Joe for participating – I’m looking forward to seeing what you build with Plinky in Shortcuts!
Learn more about the Membership, learn about Plinky,get Plinky on the App Store, or sign up for a membership below:
Check out the members-only Discounts page for Plinky’s redemption link to the App Store.
Interested in becoming a partner? Register your app or service here.
Hello members (and future members)! I am excited to announce a new Partner addition to my Membership Benefits – Together Board!
Built from developer Cory Bohon, Together Board for iPhone lets you set up a shared widget with a partner or friend and collaborate on what appears on each others’ Home Screens – plus it works great with Siri & Shortcuts. Here’s how it’s described on their website:
A warm little pin board you share with the people you love. Photos, sticky notes, polls, and countdowns — pinned to one cozy cork board that syncs to everyone’s devices. No accounts, no feeds, no noise.
Together Board is offering 50% off the annual subscription of $9.99, saving you $4.99 while giving you—and your partner, if you have Family Sharing enabled—a full year of Together Board to use.
My thanks to Cory & Together Board for participating – I’d love to see how you’re using it!
Learn more about the Membership, learn about Together Board, get Together Board on the App Store, or sign up for a membership below:
Check out the members-only Discounts page for the Together Board redemption link to the App Store.
Interested in becoming a partner? Register your app or service here.
Hello members (and future members)!
I am excited to announce a new addition to my Membership benefits – discounts from select partner apps & services!
Here’s the launch set of partner apps offering discounts:
These lovely developers are offering a range of discounts on their subscriptions, from 3 months off to 50% off their annual subscriptions to 50% lifetime access – all of which you can access from any tier of my membership program.
Once you’re a member, check out the Discounts page for special App Store links to redeem your subscriptions.
Membership tiers are now $15 for 3 months and $50 for a full year – already the perks are worth two full quarters and almost as much as the entire annual subscription.
We’ll be adding new apps regularly, so bookmark the Discounts page and check back in occasionally to see what’s new.
Learn more about the Membership or sign up for a membership today below:
Check out the members-only Discounts page to get 50% off your annual subscriptions to Together Board and Plinky.
Interested in becoming a partner? Register your app or service here.
From @OpenAI on X:
Introducing GPT-Live, a new generation of voice models for natural human-AI interaction.
— OpenAI (@OpenAI) July 8, 2026
Rolling out in ChatGPT starting today.
You’ll want to turn the sound on for this one. pic.twitter.com/WzoQFvA5ir
And on their blog:
We’re launching GPT‑Live, a new generation of voice models that make talking with AI feel much more like having a real conversation.
GPT‑Live is built on a full-duplex architecture, meaning it can listen and speak at the same time. During conversations, GPT‑Live can show it’s paying attention with phrases like “mhmm” or “yeah”, engage in quick back-and-forth, or just stay quiet when you need a moment to think. The result is a voice experience that is refreshingly easy to talk to.
Check out the post on X and check out the blog post from Open AI.
From @NotionHQ on X:
Meet the Notion Agents iOS app.
— Notion (@NotionHQ) July 7, 2026
A voice note. A photo of a napkin sketch. A question at 11pm. All handled before you're back at your desk.
A team of agents, in your pocket. pic.twitter.com/yc4sra4tSE
Meet the Notion Agents iOS app.
A voice note. A photo of a napkin sketch. A question at 11pm. All handled before you’re back at your desk.
A team of agents, in your pocket.
And:
Chat from anywhere. Capture with text, voice, or photos. Take quick actions — create pages, draft updates, search across your connected tools — right from your phone.
Check out the post from @NotionHQ and get Notion Agents from the App Store.
From @OpenClaw on X:
OpenClaw is now on iOS + Android 🦞
📱 Native mobile apps, finally
💬 Agents in your pocket
🔔 Channels, tasks, replies on the go
Run agents from wherever your thumbs are.
iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/openclaw-ai-that-does-things/id6780396132
Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ai.openclaw.app
View the tweet and get OpenClaw on the App Store.
OpenClaw is now on iOS + Android 🦞
— OpenClaw🦞 (@openclaw) June 29, 2026
📱 Native mobile apps, finally
💬 Agents in your pocket
🔔 Channels, tasks, replies on the go
Run agents from wherever your thumbs are.
iOS: https://t.co/7LHHc9htgM
Android: https://t.co/X0Wuh2uA8w
Michael Flarup, renowned app icon designer (and video game developer), has announced a new app called Cibby that creates a shelf with interactive 3D versions of your games. Here’s how he describes it on X:
I love collecting physical games.
— Michael Flarup (@flarup) June 29, 2026
So I made something for it.
Meet Cibby. pic.twitter.com/ynj7MW5B3b
I love collecting physical games.
So I made something for it.
Meet Cibby. [Video]
And:
One thing I didn't fully appreciate when I started this…
— Michael Flarup (@flarup) June 29, 2026
To build Cibby, I've also had to start building what I hope will become one of the world's largest 3D libraries of physical video games.
It's a huge undertaking, and very much a work in progress. But I think it'll be… pic.twitter.com/ZasjUMVodM
I’ve always felt that game collection software should be about more than keeping track of what you own.
It should celebrate the games, the artwork, the hunt, and the joy of building a collection. It should feel physical instead of like a spreadsheet.
That’s what I’m trying to build with Cibby.
And:
One thing I didn’t fully appreciate when I started this…
To build Cibby, I’ve also had to start building what I hope will become one of the world’s largest 3D libraries of physical video games.
It’s a huge undertaking, and very much a work in progress. But I think it’ll be worth it.
As I replied to Michael, this is exactly the kind of software I want.
View the tweetand sign up to be notified when it launches on Cibby.app.
P.S. Make sure to visit the site and try grabbing one of the video game boxes floating by in the background with your cursor.
From the Cursor blog:
Cursor is now available as a native iOS app in public beta, so you can build from anywhere.
Until now, developers have worked around the limits of their local machines, keeping laptops half-open and caffeinated everywhere they go.
With Cursor for iOS, you can launch always-on agents in the cloud, or control agents running on your computer from your phone. Kick them off when ideas strike, get notified when work is ready for review, and merge PRs on the go.
Whether your agents are running on your machine or in the cloud, you can move work forward from wherever you are.
Today, Anthropic mobile product manager Robert Bye shared a teaser of an upcoming update to the Claude iOS app that adds a “medium”-sized widget. This expands Claude’s widget from the smaller version with options for chat, camera, and mic to new options for adding images and starting Voice Mode as well:
Will be in the next release pic.twitter.com/DMkRKmlPWs
— Robert Bye (@RobertJBye) March 26, 2026
I’m particularly thankful because I asked for it no less than 24 hours earlier on X, with Robert confirming they were “on it” just after midnight and that it “will be in the next release” – less than a full day from the original request:
All I want from Claude is a Medium-sized widget pic.twitter.com/urkVFDtFO3
— Matthew Cassinelli (@mattcassinelli) March 25, 2026
Ask, and you shall receive.
I use widgets heavily on iOS and iPadOS, with up to 10 widgets per stack and 3-4 stacks per home screen, across all 16 possible home screens – that means about 500 widgets per device. That’s why I’d love to see all apps go beyond simpler “small” widgets, which seems to be the common trend especially for AI apps – their teams probably use one or two widgets only on their iPhone on a single screen.
More apps should follow Claude’s example and break out beyond the basics – let’s take widgets to the next level in 2026.
Tasks, the todo list & kanban app from developer Mustafa Yusuf, has added App Intents support to the app, providing a wide set of commands for projects, tasks, and the wide variety of “items” available in the app for managing your tasks.
Grouped by type of action rather than type of content, Tasks’ actions allow you to create, delete, edit, find, get, and open all the available data types like lists, priorities, tags, comments, statuses, and so on.
For actions like Create, Edit, and Open, Tasks also provides App Shortcuts support, generating per-type options automatically in Siri, Spotlight, and within the Action drawer in Shortcuts, making it easy to immediately set up or run an instance of that action for that type – you can Create a Task, Comment, and so on without having to specify each type again.
Exposing all this functionality to Siri, Search, and Shortcuts enables a wide set of possibilities with the app – here’s a set of automation examples from the developer:
- Location-Based Task Surfacing
When arriving at a grocery store, automatically show all tasks tagged “grocery.”
- Daily Task Dashboard
At the start of the day, automatically display all tasks due today.
- Automated Team Reminders
Send a message to a collaborator every day at 4 PM reminding them about overdue tasks assigned to them.
I do find grouping actions by type rather than the content a bit confusing since it doesn’t follow the idioms within Shortcuts – users/I tend to think in terms of what they’re working with, not the categorization of functionality. In my experience, action collections like these are hard to parse and it’s easy to not realize a dedicated function was available – you might not ever see the Get actions simply because it’s lower in the list. However, it does appear that the complexities of Tasks’ data model led to this decision, since it does create other downstream effects when designing your App Intents implementations (like what App Shortcuts functionality is available).
Tasks’ App Intents adds deep functionality for an already-complex app, so it’s great to see the depths of what’s available become automations so that power users looking to push the service further can scale their approaches the same way the app scales. I’d love to see Tasks push this integration further by categorizing by entity in future versions, as well as focusing on the higher-end design details of App Intents implementations once that base functionality is well-established.
For me, apps like Tasks are so deep that I personally have to be able to use it all from Shortcuts, otherwise what’s possible for me is diminished compared what is already available within the app – a perfect App Intents implementation allows me to realize that full potential everywhere when I’m using my devices, not just within the app interface. Especially for productivity apps that are trying to fit into every corner of our lives, they have to fit into every corner of our increasingly automated digital lives too. Tasks has taken an incredible step in that direction, and I’m leaned forward in my chair.