Last week's finds were a mix of handy tools and a couple of leisurely discoveries. This week I've got another handful, including a stunning alternative home for Apple Music, and something to take on a walk this weekend.
Daft Music
Daft Music is a native player for Apple Music that is built for both iPhone and the Mac.
It has a beautiful and fun design, and a few extras Apple's own app doesn't, like Last.fm "scrobbling" (remember that!), instrument isolation, and a check for whether a track was made with AI.
It's free to download, though full listening needs an Apple Music subscription, and Daft Music has a modest subscription of its own — about £2 per month.
Doory
Doory is the sort of thing that today seems somewhat uninteresting but just a few years ago would have been huge news. It's a free, open-source design editor that runs in your browser. You can make things like social posts, posters, or birthday invitations without creating an account. And nothing has to have an ugly watermark or silly stuff like that.
If you're more technically inclined (translation: a complete nerd), you can host it on your own server and keep your designs in your own hands. More like this please!
Yoink
Yoink is a little Mac utility that solves a teeny-tiny everyday annoyance on the Mac: dragging a file when you can't yet see where it needs to go.
When you start dragging something, a shelf pops out at the edge of the screen so you can drop the file there, find the right folder or window, and then drag it off again. It's a one-time purchase (£8.99), and there's a 28-day trial if you want to see whether you'd use it.
More iPhone Duo apps
Also, for an extra dose of iPhone Duo app inspiration, MacRumours put together a list of 30 more interesting and fun iPhone Duo apps to play with. Again, I do not own an iPhone Duo, but I suspect if you do you'll love some of these. I thought "Who's at the door?" was a particularly fun one!
Check out the guide from MacRumours
Localpedia
And for the weekend: Localpedia is a charming little project by Ed Jefferson. You enter your town or suburb, and it filters Wikipedia down to articles about places within a half-hour walk.
It's a lovely excuse to wander around your own neighbourhood and notice the history hiding in it.
I hope you like these, and if you see any apps I should try, please let me know.
And thanks this week to Dense Discovery and Hiro Report for surfacing cool things to me as they always do. I love them both!
Enjoy the weekend!