Apps

Welcome to Indie App Spotlight. This is a weekly 9to5Mac series where we showcase the latest apps in the indie app world. If you’re a developer and would like your app featured, get in contact.

Everyone, at least in the United States, likely feels a need to improve their fitness and health – but doesn’t quite know how to. Or, if they have, they end up losing motivation and then give up because they don’t want to feel bad. I’m sure we’ve all heard the stat that most New Years resolutions are to go to the gym more, and most people give up after just a couple weeks. FitWoody flips the script.

I recently shared my top ten list of Apple and non-Apple tech. This time I’m following up with some of my favorite third-party apps for iPhone and Mac.

In putting this piece together, I realized that I don’t often use apps for entertainment. On iPhone and Mac alike, the vast majority of my choices perform a useful function …

Tinder face verification is becoming mandatory for all new US users, starting this week in California and gradually rolling out to other states. The Face Check feature is already in use in six other countries, including Canada.

When you first open the app, you will be asked to carry out a moving face scan similar to that used when setting up Face ID …

Back in the summer, Adobe launched the Indigo camera app in response to complaints about the artificial look of typical smartphone photos, including those from Apple’s stock Camera app. Indigo uses far less aggressive processing in order to give a more natural look, with users saying the results look more like those from a DSLR.

However, weeks after the launch of the iPhone 17, the latest iPhone models still don’t support the app. Adobe has now briefly explained the reason why, and how the company plans to proceed …

Welcome to Indie App Spotlight. This is a weekly 9to5Mac series where we showcase the latest apps in the indie app world. If you’re a developer and would like your app featured, get in contact.

Auvio is a neat audio engine for your iPhone. It offers everything you’d need to create your own immersive and personal soundscapes, whether you want them to fall asleep to, for focusing, or for studying.

Welcome to Indie App Spotlight. This is a weekly 9to5Mac series where we showcase the latest apps in the indie app world. If you’re a developer and would like your app featured, get in contact.

If you want a lightweight, private, minimalistic, yet customizable web browsing experience on your iPhone – Quiche might be the perfect answer for you. It also offers a number of unique features to make it more tailored for power users than Safari.

With the release of macOS 26 Tahoe last month, users began noticing a major GPU slowdown issue in popular Electron apps, due to their usage of a particular private API. Now, the Electron team has fixed the issue, and said fix is beginning to roll out in popular third party apps that utilize the framework.

While OpenAI describes its latest iPhone app Sora as a video generation tool, it might be more accurately described as a way for anyone to easily create deepfakes.

You did get to choose whether or not people can use your cameo, aka your likeness, but you initially had almost no control over what they could do with it. Predictably, this did not go well, and the company has now introduced a new safety tool …

Welcome to Indie App Spotlight. This is a weekly 9to5Mac series where we showcase the latest apps in the indie app world. If you’re a developer and would like your app featured, get in contact.

QuickPod takes your music listening experience on your iPhone to the next level. With its intuitive widgets, as well as support for both Apple Music and Spotify, you can have an integrated music listening experience across your iPhone or iPad’s home screen, lock screen, and control center.

Direct payments between Venmo and PayPal will finally become possible from November, some 11 years after it was first expected.

While some may find it convenient, it also opens a new route to scammers, so there’s a privacy setting you may wish to change when it goes live …

Neon, the app that pays you to share your audio recordings with an AI system, says that it will return despite its recent massive security breach.

The app shot up the App Store ratings after promising to pay users hundreds or even thousands of dollars per year for allowing their audio conversations to be used to train AI chatbots …

We learned earlier this month that Adobe Premiere for iPhone would be launching today, and it’s now available in the App Store.

Premiere Pro is a popular choice for filmmaking and videography pros, so the availability of an iPhone app comes as good news – but you don’t absolutely need to have the desktop app in order to use it …

Welcome to Indie App Spotlight. This is a weekly 9to5Mac series where we showcase the latest apps in the indie app world. If you’re a developer and would like your app featured, get in contact.

TimeWave is a comprehensive timer app that lets you do a lot more than Apple’s stock Clock app can do. In short, it allows you to create flowing timers – allowing you to have back to back timers for sequential tasks. It allows you to easily focus on your work at hand.

Apple released iOS 26 for iPhone this month, introducing the world to its new Liquid Glass design language. If you’re looking for fun third-party apps that take advantage of the new Liquid Glass design, here are over 30 recommendations.

Last updated September 26, 2025 with even more apps…

A new study says there has been a dramatic rise in the number of fraudulent mobile apps on both iOS and Android. Many of these appear to have been either generated with, or powered by, AI tools.

So far in 2025, there’s been a 300% increase in fraudulent apps on iOS, and a 600% increase on Android …

CardPointers is a powerful app for iPhone that helps you maximize your credit card points and rewards. The app has now been updated to take full advantage of iOS 26, including a new Liquid Glass design, integration ®with new Apple Intelligence Foundation Models, and much more.

Welcome to Indie App Spotlight. This is a weekly 9to5Mac series where we showcase the latest apps in the indie app world. If you’re a developer and would like your app featured, get in contact.

If you’re looking for a great app to help find you a new book, Bookovery is an awesome choice. It has a comprehensive book recommendation algorithm, helping you find the next read you’ll fall in love with. It also allows you to track your reads and organize your collection.