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The full editorial archive — every review and roundup the App Comrade desk has published, newest first.
Halide is the iPhone camera app that disagrees with Apple.
Process Zero strips out every AI shortcut Apple has added since the iPhone 11. The photos look stranger, sometimes worse — and the photographers it's for have started caring again.
MAY 7, 2026
Things 3 has been the same app for nine years. That's the point.
Cultured Code's task manager hasn't changed shape since 2017. In an era where every productivity app is rebuilding itself around AI, the one that didn't is starting to look like the smart one.
MAY 7, 2026
Duolingo became a great game and a worse language app.
The owl earned its hundreds of millions of users through gamification that worked. Now the gamification is the product, and the AI pivot has stretched the experience further from what made it useful in the first place.
MAY 7, 2026
Spotify is no longer trying to be a music app.
The 2025 redesign reorganised the home screen around video, podcasts, and audiobooks. Music was the third tab. Spotify is following its own audience, not its name.
MAY 7, 2026
Notion's Android app finally caught up. The complaint shifted accordingly.
After years of being the worse twin of the iOS rebuild, the Android client is now broadly at parity. Which means it now has all the same feature anxieties — just without the AirPods integration.
MAY 7, 2026
Telegram still pretends end-to-end encryption is the same as default privacy.
The fastest, most feature-dense messenger on Android remains the only major one where one-to-one chats are not encrypted by default. After Pavel Durov's 2024 arrest, the gap matters more than ever.
MAY 7, 2026
Netflix on Roku is the boring app the platform was built for.
It launches in two seconds, plays without buffering on the cheapest stick Roku makes, and has done exactly that for ten years. Nobody is going to write a tribute to it. That's the highest compliment a TV app gets.
MAY 7, 2026
Notion's mobile rebuild finally feels native.
After two years of clunky workarounds, the new iOS app rewrites everything in SwiftUI. Pages open instantly, offline edits actually sync, and the gesture system feels designed instead of ported.
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