Filling the App Gap

This week on AppStories, John and Federico cover Apple’s executive transition, follow up on OpenAI’s super app, and share the apps they’re looking for and give each other suggestions on how to fill their app gaps.
On AppStories+, we round up the tools we’ve built for ourselves that fill gaps, for which we haven’t found apps.
Also available on YouTube here.
Subscribe here.
We deliver AppStories+ to subscribers with bonus content, ad-free, and at a high bitrate early every week.
To learn more about an AppStories+ subscription, visit our [Plans page](macstories.net/appstories-plans/, or read the AppStories+ FAQ.
This episode is sponsored by:
Steamclock: We make great apps. Design and development, from demos to details.
Claude: For problems worth solving — get started with Claude today.
Links and Show Notes
Links and Show Notes
Apple Leadership Transition
Apple’s Executive Leadership Transition Announced
Community Letter from Tim
OpenAI Codex and Computer Use Follow-Up
OpenAI Codex
Claude Code
Filling the App Gap
HomeKit Automation
Controller for HomeKit
Home Assistant
Cross-Device Screenshot and File Transfer
CleanShot X
macOS Screen Sharing utility
Workspace Management
Workspaces+
Workspaces
Calendar Apps
Notion Calendar
Fantastical
Calendar 366
Dot
Bookmarking and Read-It-Later
Shiori, by Brian Lovin
Readwise Reader
Matter
AppStories+ Post Show: Self-Built Tools and the Services Behind Them
ElevenLabs
Buffer
Google Gemini
Kokoro TTS
Defuddle
CrossPost (John’s cross-platform social media posting tool)
Research Feed (John’s ranked, filtered social media reader)
Dialog (John’s article-to-podcast converter using Defuddle, Claude, and Kokoro TTS)
Daily Star (John’s twice-daily magazine-style digest from Notion, RSS, and Matter)
Notion Daily Notes Appender (Federico’s quick-capture web app)
Notion Daily Notes Viewer (Federico’s horizontal tray viewer for open daily notes)
Ghost Reader (Federico’s Readwise Reader audio-preview tool using ElevenLabs)
CLI Chats (Federico’s session-log viewer for Claude Code and Codex)
Leave Feedback for John and Federico
AppStories Feedback Form
Follow us on Mastodon
AppStories
Federico Viticci
John Voorhees
Follow us on Bluesky
AppStories
MacStories
Federico Viticci
John Voorhees
Join Annual
$50/yearJoin Monthly
$5/month