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Chants of Sennaar –Credit: Playdigious The 17 Best Apps of 2025, According to Apple
Seventeen is an unusual number of awards, but why not?
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Credit: Quote-Unquote Apps A Look at Highland Pro, One of My Favorite Distraction-Free Writing Apps
I’ve found scripts are both easier to navigate and better organized than on other, more typical writing apps.
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Photo: Morse Mania I’m Learning Morse Code With an App, and It’s Fun?
Go learn Morse code, you coward. In this app, it’s fun.
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Photo: Meta Go Encrypt Your WhatsApp Backups. It Just Got Easier.
Forget the long, hard-to-remember passwords and encrypt your WhatsApp backups with your face, finger, or screen lock code.
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Ulysses vs. Scrivener: The Ultimate Writing App
Give a writing app a try and escape the word processor madness that afflicts long works of literature.
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Credit: Ulysses Ulysses Is the Best Writing App, Trust Me
Ulysses isn’t guaranteed to make you the next James Joyce, but it just might save you a lot of frustration.
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Proton VPN. Photo: Proton Proton VPN Just Added New Free Servers
Say hei, hey, and bonjour to the Norwegian and Canadian servers newly added to Proton VPN’s server pool.
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Credit: Adobe Adobe’s Got a New, Free Video Editing App for iPhone
I’m all ears for anything that makes editing on a smartphone less of a UI nightmare.
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Kmatta/Getty Images Popular Apps Are Vessels for Malware—Here’s How To Protect Yourself
A quick Google of any app you plan to download can save you the world’s biggest headache.
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FG Trade/Getty Images Ditch That Big Scanner and Download This Free Scanning App
There are a ton of free document scanning apps for smartphones. There are a lot fewer that I would trust.
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Collage by VICE I Was Trash at Learning Languages for 30 Years—Until I Tried This App
You don’t suck at languages—most apps just suck at teaching them.
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