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The full editorial archive — every review and roundup the App Comrade desk has published, newest first.
WeatherBug still wins on lightning, even after the screen got noisier.
Spark proximity alerts and a 16-layer interactive map remain the reasons to install. The ad load and the tracking prompt on launch are the reasons people uninstall.
MAY 10, 2026
PayPal stopped pretending it was just a checkout button.
The 2024 home-screen redesign reframed the app as a wallet — balance, Pay Later, rewards, crypto, savings — and most of it actually fits.
MAY 10, 2026
Pandora still bets the house on the Music Genome Project.
Two decades in and a SiriusXM subsidiary, Pandora keeps leaning on hand-tagged recommendations and personalised radio rather than the on-demand grid Spotify and Apple Music made the default.
MAY 10, 2026
The Google app is the one Google product Apple users actually open.
Search is the smallest part of it now — Discover, Lens, and AI Overviews have quietly made the side-button shortcut the most-used Google surface on iPhone.
MAY 10, 2026
Bank of America's app earns its keep on Erica's back.
The big-bank iOS experience is competent but rarely surprising. The virtual assistant is the part that genuinely changes how you bank.
MAY 10, 2026
iHeartRadio is still the easiest way to put a real radio station in your pocket.
Free live broadcast streams, a vast podcast library, and a custom-station builder that has aged better than the rest of the iHeart product family.
MAY 10, 2026
The Weather Channel app still earns its keep on the radar tab.
Apple Weather absorbed Dark Sky and the default app is now genuinely good — but the legacy network's app is still the one to open when the sky looks wrong.
MAY 10, 2026
Indeed's iPhone app is still the volume play, ghost jobs and all.
The largest job board in the world ships a fast, polished mobile client — the catch is the listings themselves, not the software wrapped around them.
MAY 10, 2026
WhatsApp is the boring default that quietly got better.
Meta's messenger spent the last two years shipping a real Mac app, an iPad client, Channels, and Communities — without breaking the part that already worked.
MAY 10, 2026
TextNow gives you a free US number, then sells the silence around it.
A real phone line over Wi-Fi or data with no monthly bill, paid for with full-screen ads between calls and a paywall around features that feel like they should be free.
MAY 10, 2026
Pizza Hut's app finally treats loyalty like the reason you opened it.
The April 2026 Hut Rewards relaunch turned the membership into the front door of the app — which is good, because the order tracker still trails Domino's by a country mile.
MAY 10, 2026
Spotify finally shipped lossless, and the rest of the app caught up too.
The 2025 lossless rollout and the 2026 tablet redesign close two of the longest-standing gaps in the iPhone's most-installed music app — even as the third US price hike in four years tests how much goodwill that buys.
MAY 10, 2026
Walgreens does the boring chain-pharmacy job competently.
The app handles refills, rewards, and same-day photo pickup without much fuss. The friction shows up at the edges, where pharmacy backend issues spill into the interface.
MAY 10, 2026
SoundCloud still owns the underground, and still trips over its own feet.
Version 8.56 keeps the deepest crate of indie and unreleased music on any streaming app. It also keeps the long unskippable ads, the missing follower lists, and a year of AI-policy whiplash.
MAY 10, 2026
Walmart's app is a department store stuffed into a phone.
The iOS app folds Walmart+, Scan & Go, Sparky AI, and the full e-commerce catalogue into one tab bar. It does a lot — and the seams show.
MAY 10, 2026
MyFitnessPal on iPhone is a fast tracker stapled to a slow business decision.
The 2024 iOS rebuild made logging genuinely quick, and Apple Health sync is finally bidirectional — but the barcode paywall and the iPad app are still the parts the company won't fix.
MAY 10, 2026
Groupon's app still earns its keep, but only if you read the fine print.
Sixteen years in, the iPhone app remains the easiest way to surface a discount on a haircut, a hotel night, or a kettle. The friction starts after you tap Buy.
MAY 10, 2026
Netflix on iOS is the place its mobile-only features actually live.
Smart Downloads, full-season offline grabs, the games shelf, iPad picture-in-picture, FaceID-locked profiles — almost every Netflix feature designed for a phone or a tablet lands on iOS first and best. The ad tier strips most of them out.
MAY 10, 2026
Life360 still wins on features and still loses on trust.
The category-defining family locator keeps adding crash detection, Tile integration, and driving reports — while regulators keep asking what it does with the location data.
MAY 10, 2026
Instagram on iPhone is a Reels app wearing a photo app's clothes.
The 2025 product surface is fluent and fast, but the feed Meta wants you to scroll is no longer the one your friends posted to.
MAY 10, 2026
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