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Another year reflecting on the apps that became my favourite ones throughout the past year.

Thank you Tot @Iconfactory@iconfactory.world, Book Track @simonemontalto@mastodon.social, Reeder @rizzi@gloria.social, Croissant @BenRiceM@mastodon.social + @Aaronvegh@mastodon.social, Ripples by #MykolaHarmash

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https://creativerly.com/creativerlys-favourite-apps-of-2025/

@flyleafapp@mastodon.social by @maxmelzer@mastodon.social is the read-it-later app that gives you a truly unique reading experience: flip through your articles like you would read a book.

https://creativerly.com/read-articles-like-a-book-with-flyleaf/

#readitlater #iOSapp #macosapp #reading

The sixth part of Tiny macOS utility apps I love, focuses on apps to enhancing your macOS experience, helping you finding files fast, and quickly checking your camera before your next call.

Read it here: https://creativerly.com/tiny-macos-utility-apps-part-6/

#macos #macosapps #apps #macossoftware

Creativerly 348 is out with a new post about the threat of AI-powered browsers, #Capacities introducing Kanban view, how #KagiNews wants to help you keeping up with what is going on in the world, lovely articles by @justincox@social.lol, #Freethink, @anildash@me.dm, @annie@social.lol, and more.

Read it here: https://creativerly.com/the-internet-was-doomed-from-the-start/

"Browsers" like ChatGPT Atlas aren’t progress, they’re a threat to the open web. Instead of improving how we explore, they replace real browsing with corporate-controlled summaries and privacy risks. The web was built on user control and transparency, but AI browsers undermine these values, turning your activity into data for surveillance capitalism. We don’t need AI to "simplify" the web, we need to protect it. The internet belongs to all of us. Let’s keep it that way.
https://creativerly.com/the-web-does-not-need-ai-browsers-it-needs-us-to-fight-back/

Why do we write differently for the public than we do for friends? Online, we often trade authenticity for polish, yet the most memorable, engaging writing feels like a conversation, not a performance. What if we wrote for the public the way we write to those we trust? Imperfect, personal, and real. The internet needs more of that.

https://creativerly.com/approach-writing-in-public-as-conversation-instead-of-a-performance/

#writing #writinginpublic #blog #blogging

The sixth part of my series "Tiny macOS utility apps I love" is out. This time I wrote about Supercharge by @sindresorhus@mastodon.social, #HoudahSpot, and Hand Mirror by @rafa@mastodon.design.

Read the whole post down below, and make sure to also check out the previous parts to discover lovely tiny macOS apps.

https://creativerly.com/tiny-macos-utility-apps-part-6/

Creativerly 345 is out with

#Sublime introducing Chat, #Space – a new app for guided planning and connecting your biggest goals to daily action, @popt@mastodon.social introducing Movie and TV Show auto tags, lovely articles by #ChristianWaugh, @curtismchale@mastodon.social, #ChristopherButler, #RichardFisher, and more.

Thank you to #Almus for sponsoring this issue ✨

Read it here: https://creativerly.com/how-to-do-mental-time-travel/

With all the ongoing #browser enshitification, by injecting #AI everywhere, I am incredible thankful for cozy, simply, and focused browsers like Horse. Modern and clean interface, intuitive features, privacy-focused, keyboard-focused, simply lovely.

https://creativerly.com/i-do-not-like-horses-except-this-one-with-horse-browser/

#HorseBrowser

Note-taking does not have to be complicated, messy, and system-driven, it should be smart, seamless, simple, and fun. @popt@mastodon.social is an iOS app that auto-tags contacts, places, and dates, making notes fast, fun, and effortless, since you shouldn't have to worry about creating a bunch of backlinks, connections, numerous folders in order to get the most out of your note-taking practice.

https://creativerly.com/as-smart-and-seamless-as-note-taking-can-get-with-popt/

#notetaking #iOS #iOSapp #iOSnotetaking

Creativerly 344 is out now with

the announcement of a new sponsor opportunity within Creativerly, #Pagecord - a super simple and easy way to publish your thoughts online, #Deta Surf 1.0 launching today, lovely articles by @tante@tldr.nettime.org , #JasonCohen, #TaraMcMullin, #TheTinyWisdom, and more.

Thank you to Almus for sponsoring this issue!

Read it here: https://creativerly.com/tiny-steps-and-a-long-walk/

#Mastodon and #Bluesky are constantly growing. Decentralized social networks are here to stay. What is even more exciting about this, is that an increasing number of developers build lovely apps to interact with those decentralized social networks. I wrote a post in which I gathered a variety of them, from client, scheduling apps, to apps that help you discover folks on Mastodon while browsing the web.

https://creativerly.com/the-tools-for-decentralized-social-networks-how-to-interact-with-mastodon-and-bluesky/

#socialnetworks #socialnetwork

I am not the first to tell you that, but you do not need Google Analytics. There are loads of privacy-focused, ethical, and sustainable alternatives, which respect your visitors' privacy. I gathered a bunch of them in a single blog post, so you get a better overview of some of the options available out there.

https://creativerly.com/google-analytics-alternatives/

#Privacy #GoogleAnalytics #GoogleAnalyticsAlternative

#Creativerly 340 is out and packed with a new deep dive about @popt@mastodon.social, fresh news and updates from @anewsocial@mastodon.social, #Chaps, #DetaSurf, and lovely articles by @annie@social.lol, @philipp@mastodon.design, and others.

Read it here:

https://creativerly.com/seeding-for-creativity-rediscover-iphone-notes-on-the-go/

Thank you Popt for sponsoring this issue! ✨

In the newest deep dive I wrote about #Almus, an app that transforms your #journal into an intelligent companion by analyzing your journal entries to discover patterns and useful insights to help you making the most out of your journaling practice.

Read more here:

https://creativerly.com/transforming-your-journal-into-an-intelligent-companion-with-almus/

ICYMI, the newest Creativerly newsletter is out with

- A new deep dive about #Almus, an app that transforms your journal into an intelligent companion

- Fresh news by #Capacities and #Anytype

- Lovely posts by #theconversationalist, #Psyche, @chockenberry@mastodon.social

and more!

https://creativerly.com/liquid-glass-why/

#Perplexity, the AI startup that plagiarized, dodged paywalls, ignored robots.txt, and shattered the foundations of trust of the web, announced its own browser. Based on Perplexity's past and its CEO's behaviors, looking ahead I try to prepare myself for the worst.

https://creativerly.com/comet-by-perplexity-will-ai-reinvent-the-web-browser/

This move by @obsidian@mas.to shows once again, that they keep on innovating, making their app even more accessible, while also fostering a community of supporters.

https://creativerly.com/obsidian-is-now-free-for-work-commercial-license-becomes-optional/