iOS 796: Apps From Other Platforms - Note Tools, Alternative Browsers, & More!
iOS Today (Audio)
Leo Laporte
4.1 • 616 Ratings
🗓️ 2 April 2026
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Discover how apps know for being multiplatform are quietly shaping the iOS experience, with unexpected benefits for productivity and day-to-day problem solving.
- DevonThink To Go: Mac-originated app brings robust database, search features
- Tot: Minimalist text editor syncs notes across devices
- Drafts: Text capture with powerful actions, community-driven enhancements
- Firefox and Chrome: Browsers offer cross-platform sync, alternatives to Safari
- Festivities: Holiday widget app expands from Mac to iOS
- News: WWDC announced as anticipation for layout clues and possible iPhone Fold
- Shortcuts Corner: Automating Apple Watch workout prompts via location
- App Caps: Aqara presence sensor boosts home automation; Pokémon Go gets users outdoors
Hosts: Mikah Sargent and Rosemary Orchard
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on iOS today, Rosemary Orchard and I, Micah, |
| 0:03.8 | is starting to talk about apps that, you know, |
| 0:07.9 | have their place on other platforms, but work just as well with iOS and iPadOS. |
| 0:13.7 | Stay tuned. |
| 0:16.8 | Podcasts you love. |
| 0:18.6 | From people you trust. |
| 0:21.1 | This is Twitter. |
| 0:25.0 | This is iOS Today, episode 796 with Rosemary Orchard and me, Micah Sargent, recorded Tuesday, March 31st, 2021, 26 for Thursday, April 2nd, |
| 0:37.5 | 2026. |
| 0:38.8 | Apps from other platforms. |
| 0:41.2 | Hello and welcome to iOS today, the show we talk all things, iOS, iPad OS, watchOS, |
| 0:46.2 | home pod OS, and all the other OS's that Apple has on offer. |
| 0:50.9 | We love to help you make the most of your devices by telling you what you should do with them. |
| 0:58.0 | I am one of your hosts. My name is Micah Sargent. And my name is Rosemary Orchard, and I'm very |
| 1:04.8 | happy to be here because I figured why not have another episode of iOS today? Because we don't have |
| 1:10.6 | enough of those. |
| 1:11.6 | And especially this one, talk about apps that have migrated to other platforms. |
| 1:15.9 | Because, you know, how well have our apps migrated? |
| 1:19.7 | It's really interesting to find which ones I actually really use all day every day. |
| 1:24.5 | Yeah. You know, when it comes to platform, what agnosticism, I guess, would be the entire thing, |
| 1:37.3 | you have this ability, right, to kind of try out the apps that you like and see if you can use them on places where you might |
| 1:50.4 | otherwise not expect, right? |
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