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Today I am super excited to unveil my newest project. After working on my first macOS app last year, I quickly started working on an iOS app idea I had for quite a long time, and I am super excited that it is now live on the App Store (in Austria, Germany, and Switzerland). Let me introduce to you: Velorino.

I shared the story of why I started building Velorino in a dedicated blog post, but I happily give you a short intro to it. I am a passionate hobby cyclist. As I am trying to test my limits aiming for 80, 90, or even over 100km, and since I am limited when it comes to the water bottles, snacks, and tools I can carry, I wanted to create an iOS app, which gives me direct access to public water dispenser, snack stations, and self-service bike stations, where I get access to more tools in case I need to fix something on my road cycle. Velorino is powered by open source data from OpenStreetMap. Currently, it only supports POI data in Austria, but fully supporting each state. So, whenever you plan to come to Austria and head out with your cycle for a longer tour, Velorino is your companion to view all the important POIs around you.

But that is not it. I always plan my routes ahead, and I usually do that in apps like Komoot or Garmin Connect. Velorino allows you to upload your own routes via a .gpx file, analyzes it, and then shows you the POIs along that route, which means you can easily plan ahead and check where you could fill up your water bottles, grab a quick snack, or fix an issue with your cycle at a self-service bike station.

Velorino is natively built in SwiftUI, features modern design, and a structured and lucid interface. It is available on the App Store now, for free. As mentioned, in the linked blog post, I provide some more background information if you fancy to look a bit behind the scenes. It is super exciting that a personal problem led to building this app, and it is even more exciting to have it now out in the wild, but also using my own app whenever I am out with my road cycle.

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Fresh Updates & News

The 2026 macOS Power Stack by Bundlehunt is live now* →

Bundlehunt's newest offering is a super special one. The new macOS Power Stack – Lifetime Edition is a curated mix of modern, must-have tools with several apps joining Bundlehunt for the very first time. No matter if you are looking for apps for productivity, security, media tools, or system utilities, it is worth checking out this new offering by Bundlehunt. And the best part about it: every app is a lifetime license, which means you pay once, and you get to keep the app forever.

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Popt 1.3 is live →

Popt is a lovely, smart note-taking app for iOS, and its newest update brings a significant overhault of how pages are managed, along with completely redesigned toolbars which support the iOS 26 transparent keyboard. Among the changes, improvements, and features you find implicit vs custom title, which means Popt uses the first line of a page as its implicit title, but you can also give a page a custom title now. There is also a new 'new page' button which allows you to always start something bigger like a project, a trip, a category of chores that is meaningnful to you or anything else, with the 'new page' button you immediately get taken to a fresh new page.

To get a glimpse into all changes and release notes, make sure to check out Popt's newest blog post.

Acme weather is a new weather app from the creators of Dark Sky →

Do you remember Dark Sky? A beloved weather app for iOS which got acquired by Apple in March 2020, shut down later, after incorporating some of its features into Apple Weather? Well, the founders of Dark Sky are back with another weather app called Acme Weather, which embraces the fact that forecasts will never be entirely accurate by providing both a main prediction of the day's conditions and several alternative predictions.

As of writing this, it does not seem like that Acme Weather is available outside of the US.

Mental Wealth

❯ Building in private – “For the past year I've been consumed by two projects that have taken shape mostly in private. Doing the work has been more important than talking about doing the work. This has been a relief. As much as I love to write and communicate, I find myself wary of being too public about what I'm doing and thinking. It starts to quickly feel performative, not who I am. To be able to immerse myself in a project deeply with only my closest collaborators and friends knowing what's going on, suits my nature much more.”

❯ An increasingly dangerous world – “I’ve got a pretty bleak, albeit reductive, theory of global politics that I’m working from right now. The key driver is climate change. We’re living in a world that will have fewer livable places and fewer resources. This will happen quickly.”

❯ Consistency is Primitive – “Over the last week, I’ve been setting up design-to-code systems that have had a profound effect on how our design team makes and ships things. We create files in Figma that are translatable by machine—integrated with Anima to produce HTML and CSS files, compiled and refactored by Claude, then implemented by providing Claude with contextually relevant information and code. Existing templates, stylesheets, configuration files—all fed into a system that can maintain, expand, and transform what a human team built over years, comparatively instantly, with one person and a machine.”

❯ Acting ethically in an imperfect world – “Life is complicated. Regardless of what your beliefs or politics or ethics are, the way that we set up our society and economy will often force you to act against them: You might not want to fly somewhere but your employer will not accept another mode of transportation, you want to eat vegan but are at some point in a situation where the best you can do is a vegetarian option.”

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Appendix

❯ ICYMI

The sixth part of Tiny macOS utility apps I love focuses on apps to enhancing your macOS experience, helping you finding files fast, and quickly checking your camera before your next call.

❯ Quick Bits

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