iOS 764: Take Care of Your Home - PaperKarma, Under My Roof, Sweepy, & more
iOS Today (Audio)
Leo Laporte
4.1 • 616 Ratings
🗓️ 7 August 2025
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Transform your living space into a smart, organized haven with apps that help you tackle everything from junk mail to home inventory management. Mikah Sargent and Rosemary Orchard explore practical solutions for maintaining your home, keeping track of important documents, and staying on top of household tasks.
- PaperKarma - Combat annoying junk mail with this clever app that automatically sends opt-out requests to companies on your behalf.
- Devonthink To Go - Rosemary's favorite solution for organizing all your appliance manuals and home documents as searchable PDFs. Never lose another warranty or instruction manual again, with powerful search capabilities and the ability to link directly to specific pages in reminders.
- When Did I...? - Simple tracking app for home maintenance tasks like replacing fire alarm batteries or water filters. Just tap when you complete a task and easily see how long it's been since your last maintenance check. Available for $4.99.
- Sweepy - Gamified cleaning and chore management app that helps families stay on top of household tasks. Set up rooms, assign recurring tasks, and share responsibilities across family members to reduce the mental load.
- Under My Roof - Comprehensive home inventory app perfect for insurance documentation. Scan barcodes, add photos and receipts, track serial numbers, and even set maintenance reminders for appliances and valuable items.
News
- iPhone Event Date - German carrier documents suggest Apple will announce new iPhones on Tuesday, September 9th, with pre-orders likely starting September 12th and availability on September 19th.
- AppleCare One Launch - Apple's new insurance plan covers up to three devices for $19.99/month, with additional devices at $5.99 each. Includes theft and loss protection for iPad and Apple Watch, plus the ability to add devices up to four years old.
Feedback
- Viewer Success with Wipr 2 - Andrew R. shares how the Safari content blocker transformed his browsing experience on ad-heavy websites like the Smithsonian, making previously unreadable pages clean and functional.
App Caps
- Mikah's Pick: Landrop - Cross-platform file sharing solution that works like AirDrop between different operating systems. Transfer files, photos, and folders between iPhone, Mac, Windows, and Android devices over your local network.
- Rosemary's Pick: ASUS ZenScreen - Ultra-portable 15.6-inch monitor perfect for travel, complete with a protective case that doubles as a stand. Pairs perfectly with a compact tripod for the ideal mobile workspace setup.
Hosts: Mikah Sargent and Rosemary Orchard
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on iOS today, Rosemary Orchard and I, Micah Sargent, talk about some apps you can use to take care of your home. |
| 0:08.5 | Stay tuned. |
| 0:11.9 | Podcasts you love. |
| 0:13.7 | From people you trust. |
| 0:16.2 | This is Twit. |
| 0:20.5 | This is iOS Today, episode 764 with Rosemary Orchard and me, Micah Sargent, recorded Tuesday, August 5th, 2025 for Thursday, August 7th, 2025. |
| 0:34.0 | Take care of your home. |
| 0:36.4 | Hello and welcome to iOS Today, the show where we talk all things iOS, iPad, OS, watchOS, |
| 0:42.4 | home podOS, and all the OSS that Apple has to offer us and the devices that run those |
| 0:48.9 | different platforms and operating systems. |
| 0:51.7 | I mean, it's the same thing. |
| 0:52.8 | This is the show where we try to do |
| 0:55.2 | our best to help you do your best with the devices you have in your hand. I am one of your hosts. |
| 1:01.6 | I've mentioned my name a few times. It's Micah Sargent. And I am Rose Orchard. My name has been |
| 1:08.4 | mentioned a few times on a couple of episodes of iOS today, I think. Not 100% certain, but it's okay. I'm Rose Orchard. My name has been mentioned a few times on a couple of episodes of iOS today, I think. |
| 1:12.3 | Not 100% certain, but it's okay. I'm sure that we've got some kind of like inventory system or |
| 1:18.0 | something to help us keep track of stuff. And I don't know, maybe that could help us, Micah. |
| 1:23.3 | Very clever. Yes, indeed. So I thought on this episode, we could take a little opportunity to talk about some of the ways that you can sort of physically, spiritually, mentally take care of your home. What are some methods by which we can sort of track things that are going on in our home, interact with things that are |
| 1:48.0 | going on in our home. And, you know, your home can be an apartment. It can be a house. It can be |
| 1:53.6 | whatever. But the place where you stay, some apps to help you take care of that. And here in the U.S., |
| 2:00.3 | one of the things that comes up a lot, and this |
| 2:03.5 | actually, it was this app that inspired this episode, one of the things that comes up a lot is |
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