Author: Mikhail Madnani

[linky url=”https://blog.shiftyjelly.com/2018/05/04/the-next-chapter/” title”The best podcast app gets bought out”]Pocket Casts Gets Acquired by NPR and Other Public Radio Stations[/linky] Shifty Jelly is one of my favourite developers out there. Pocket Casts is one of the rare apps that we feature almost every year in the end of year Highlight and of course through covering their lovely big updates that happen across platforms multiple times a year. Pocket Casts is also one of my favourite apps on all platforms. When they announced that WNYC, NPR, WBEZ and This American Life as a group approached them and acquired Pocket Casts, both Preshit…

Firecore’s Infuse has been a staple on my iOS devices for several years. Offline video apps on iOS have been hit or miss ever since I got an iPad and I finally managed to find one that not only looked fantastic, but also had a feature-set to justify it being included in The Highlight of 2015. Infuse 3 was already a lovely app and the team has continuously updated and released new full versions of Infuse since 2015. Infuse is an outstandingly solid alternative to the terrible default Videos app on iOS and there are several good reasons why it’s…

Monument Valley is one of the nicest looking games on iOS and the sequel was even better in a lot of ways. Mountains is a studio that has the lead designer of Monument Valley and some very talented individuals working together to create Florence. Florence is a lovely interactive adventure game on iOS and Android with some gorgeous animations and a superlative soundtrack. You’re introduced to Florence and her routine in the opening moments of this and see how she deals with various things during her day. Florence slowly reminisces about her childhood, then in the present falls in love,…

Ever since Apple announced Content Blockers for Safari on iOS, I was pretty excited to try the slew of apps that would release to coincide with the big feature release. Having tried almost every Content Blocker for Safari on the App Store, I settled on 1Blocker. I can’t believe it has already been a few years since it released and that speaks volumes for how well it has worked for me. I love apps like this that just work in the background without you having to launch them over and over again or repeatedly keep tweaking them. The one-time in-app…

[linky url=”https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/1blocker-x/id1365531024?mt=8&at=11l4VG&ct=1blocker” title=”Pre-Order 1Blocker X on the App Store”]1Blocker X is Now Available for Pre-Order[/linky] 1Blocker has been my adblocker of choice on iOS since it’s debut. After trying out 5 different content blockers available on the App Store, 1Blocker has remained the best in my testing, and visually too. Today, the devs behind 1Blocker have announced 1Blocker X and it is available for pre-order on the App Store. It is a separate app that will cost $6.99 when it releases next week. The pre-order price is 30% off, so you can get it for a one-time payment of $4.99…

Things 3.5 is a massive free update with a lot of requested features and fixes Things 3 is my go to task manager and it has been amazing seeing it improve so much with updates. I’ve written about Things before and Things 3 was pretty damn awesome at launch. Today’s update is fantastic too. After recently adding URL schemes, Cultured Code is back with Things 3.5 that adds a ton of new stuff. Areas are finally collapsable. You can now hide stuff you don’t want to see. Tags are now searchable from the drop down and you can even search…