Skip to main content
Ryan Orban

Ryan Orban

Subject
6 entries

iOS

Bookmarks

  1. Spokenly: Voice-to-Text with Local AI Models

    Spokenly is a voice-to-text app for Mac and iOS with local Whisper/Parakeet models, 100+ language support, and an agent mode for hands-free system control. Free for local models, $9.99/month for cloud features.

  2. Monologue: Context-Aware Voice Dictation

    Monologue is an AI-powered voice dictation app for Mac and iOS — context-aware formatting, 100+ languages, auto dictionary for your vocabulary. Privacy-first: no audio stored, zero LLM data retention. Part of the Every bundle.

  3. Flat Pixels: The Battle Between Flat Design and Skeuomorphism

    Sacha Greif's analysis of the flat design vs skeuomorphism debate in 2013 — arguing that neither extreme is right and that texture and depth serve communicative purposes. Published just before iOS 7 settled the debate by going fully flat.

  4. The Amazing iOS 6 Maps: Documenting a Product Failure

    The Amazing iOS 6 Maps Tumblr — a crowdsourced documentation of Apple Maps' disastrous 2012 launch, collecting absurd geographic errors, missing landmarks, and distorted 3D renderings. One of the most memorable product failures in Apple's post-Jobs era.

  5. A Great Hacker News iOS App

    The Next Web reviewed a Hacker News iOS app (likely Hacker News by Reeder author or similar) that took design cues from Instapaper — clean reading-focused UI, offline support. A 2012 snapshot of the iOS app ecosystem maturing around content aggregators.

  6. iScroll — Mobile Scrolling Library

    iScroll homepage bookmarked in 2012 — a JavaScript library that fixed momentum scrolling for mobile web apps, particularly on iOS where fixed-position elements and overflow scrolling were badly broken. A workaround for a platform limitation that browsers eventually solved natively.

All bookmarks