Author: Rajat Sharma

If it wasn’t clear from the myriad of articles we’ve published here already, we’ll just spell it out: We’re huge fans of Spark, the fantastic email app from Readdle. With a presence on iOS and macOS (and, hopefully soon on Android), Spark’s incredible set features, sync that works, and integration with other Readdle apps is already helping millions work better and easier. The newest round of updates being added today to Spark for macOS and iOS are going to supercharge Spark, and make it a productivity must-have. macOS Spark for Mac v1.4 is going to feature built-in integrations with a…

Newton’s Tidy Inbox — Clutter begone! If you’ve used Google’s Priority Inbox in the past, or use SaneBox now, you already know what Newton’s newest feature Tidy Inbox does. It’s their own take on Gmail tabs and the feature is designed to remove Newsletters, Offers, and Social Media updates from your main Inbox, and transfer them to a specially created ‘Low Priority’ Folder, for your consideration at a later date. It’s a smart way of ensuring that you get to attend to important email first, and don’t get notified every time a low-priority email comes in. Newton is my personal…

iMazing Mini Now Available iMazing Mini — the fantastic app we wrote about recently — is finally out of Public Beta, and can be freely downloaded from the iMazing website. iMazing Mini is a Time-Machine-like utility for your iPhone and iPad. It takes snapshotted, incremental backups of your devices automatically, and stores them safely at a location of your choosing. If you’re like me, and jump headfirst into the septic tank that is the yearly iOS Public Beta, iMazing Mini will make sure you don’t regret your decision. Plus, at the grand old price of $0, it has unbeatable value.…

Notes apps are a dime a dozen — Apple’s own built-in solution is excellent, and keeps getting progressively better with each release of iOS. Evernote, the Prince-turned-Pauper, continues to be the preferred solution for a lot of people, despite the seemingly unknown direction its parent company is taking. Bear, the excellent Evernote replacement, which we’ve covered here at BP, also keeps on getting better and better, and offers one of the best ways to save Web Page content we’ve ever seen. Inherent in their design, however, is the fact that they’re mostly useful only when dealing with text. Images, though…

When we recently reviewed Things 3 a couple of months ago, Preshit had wonderful things (see what I did there?) to say about it – from its achingly beautiful design, to spectacular transitions, and much more in between. It even went on to win the highly coveted Apple Design Award this year. Something he didn’t like about the app was the fact that it didn’t support Repeating To-Dos in projects. While all of us could, potentially, come up with a use case for them (I, personally, like to keep my Inbox completely clean), Cultured Code believed their logic to be…

Apple’s devices are a marvel of engineering – of that, there’s no doubt. Even their staunchest critics will admit that Apple’s hardware design is second to none. What drives people away from Apple, besides their pricing decisions, is usually their stranglehold on the software. Apple’s philosophy is to simplify the User Experience, usually at the cost of customizability. Sometimes, though, they take this even further than logic dictates necessary. While their sandboxing model can be both a good security measure and frustratingly limiting, their terrible implementation of device backup – iCloud or iTunes – is universally panned. iCloud backups are…