Remodex Is the Best Codex Remote Client for iOS (Until OpenAI Releases an Official Codex Mobile App)

Remodex for iOS. Various OpenAI employees and members of the Codex team have been hinting at a native Codex app for iOS lately. While I very much hope that’s in the cards – especially if the project involves connecting to a remote Mac running the fu…

Podcast Rewind: Steam Controllers on a Boat, Life with the MacBook Neo, North Carolina BBQ, and an Interview with Nate Parrott

Enjoy the latest episodes from MacStories’ family of podcasts: AppStories This week, we draw from Federico’s experience creating the Apple Frames 4 shortcut and CLI to discuss the multiplier effect that AI agents can have in the hands of someone wit…

MacStories Weekly: Issue 510

OpenAI Targets Coding and Knowledge Work with Its New GPT-5.5 Model

OpenAI announced GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.5 Pro today, which it says are faster and able to work more autonomously than the company’s previous models. It’s a message that is sure to interest business users whether their goal is accelerating software develo…

Coding Agents Are Reshaping the App Store

While I think it’s fair to take reports from Appfigures and its cohorts with a large grain of salt, its latest report that the App Store is booming rings true to me. As Sarah Perez reports for TechCrunch, first quarter 2026 app releases were up 60% …

Apple’s Executive Leadership Transition Announced

Source: Apple. Apple today announced major changes to its executive leadership team. In short, John Ternus will become CEO, Tim Cook will become the Executive Chairman of the company’s board of directors, and Johny Srouji is chief hardware officer e…

Hands-On with Anthropic Labs’ Claude Design Preview

Last week, Anthropic introduced Claude Design, a new research preview product from the equally new Anthropic Labs. Claude Design, which is currently available to Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise subscribers through the Claude web app, can prototype ap…

Podcast Rewind: Everything Apps, the RG Rotate, Pet Tech, TV Heists, and an Interview with Simon Pittman

Enjoy the latest episodes from MacStories’ family of podcasts: AppStories This week, we return to a topic that’s an old favorite: the Everything App in honor of OpenAI’s announcement that they are building a Super App. On AppStories+, Federico conso…

OpenAI’s New Codex App Has the Best ‘Computer Use’ Feature I’ve Ever Tested

Computer use in Codex. OpenAI rolled out their updated Codex app for Mac yesterday and, among other things, they shipped a native computer use tool for macOS that lets Sky interact with multiple Mac apps in the background using parallel cursors that…

MacStories Weekly: Issue 509

Google Releases Gemini for Mac

Google released a native Mac app for its Gemini chatbot today. The app, which can be launched from your Applications folder, Dock, the menu bar, or a global hotkey, will be familiar to anyone who has used Gemini in a browser. The chatbot supports Ge…

Introducing Apple Frames 4: A Revamped Shortcut, Support for Frame Colors, Proportional Scaling, and the Apple Frames CLI for Developers

Apple Frames 4. Well, it’s been a minute. Today, I’m very happy to introduce Apple Frames 4, a major update to my shortcut for framing screenshots taken on Apple devices with official Apple product bezels. Apple Frames 4 is a complete rethinking of …

Podcast Rewind: Text Editors, the Pocket Taco, Photo Backups, an Apple Frames Preview, and an Interview with Evan Ratliff

Enjoy the latest episodes from MacStories’ family of podcasts: AppStories This week, John and Federico revisit the state of text editors on Apple platforms and how they use them. On AppStories+, John and Federico dig deeper into their writing workfl…

MacStories Weekly: Issue 508

Hour by Hour: Reverse Engineering Your Schedule

Hour by Hour is a clever new approach to scheduling your time from Joe Humfrey of Selkie Design that took me a little while to get used to, but has really grown on me. The app was inspired by travel planning and the age-old question, “When should I …

Steam Announces Steam Link for Apple Vision Pro and Releases Beta Version

The gaming ecosystem on visionOS continues to grow, this time with the announcement that Steam Link is coming to the platform. The official app will allow users to wirelessly stream games in 2D from Steam on their local Macs and PCs to their Vision …

LunarWall: Shuffle Moon Photos from Artemis II On Your Lock Screen or Mac Desktop

LunarWall for iOS. I’ve been staring at my Lock Screen and macOS desktop a lot this week. Not because of John’s iMessage notifications or the weird handhelds we share in the NPC group thread – because of the Moon. Specifically, because of photos tak…

How Can Everybody Hate Their Weather App When There Are So Many Great Choices?

Twitter clients may have been a design playground in the early days of the App Store, but it’s weather apps that have carried the torch. That’s because the developers of weather apps have to simultaneously contend with a vast amount of data and a wi…

Roadtripping with ChatGPT Voice Mode

On Saturday, my wife Jennifer and I drove to Blowing Rock, a quaint little town in the Blue Ridge Mountains. We’d been there once before, but didn’t know the town well, so as we headed west I poked at the ChatGPT icon on my dashboard to give the app…

On This Day: My New Favorite Way to Revisit Old Photos

If you’ve followed my work for long, you’ve probably picked up on the fact that I’m a nostalgic person. I love to relive old memories, share old stories, and look at old pictures. It’s just the way I am. That’s why I’m a big fan of Apple’s Memories …

Podcast Rewind: Apple’s AI Future, the Legion Go’s Return, Niléane’s App, and an Interview with MacSparky

Enjoy the latest episodes from MacStories’ family of podcasts: AppStories This week, Federico and John draw from their experiences using AI agents to imagine the sort of agent Apple could build with tight hardware and software integration if it had …