In the weekly App Missed section you can read which apps from the past week are worth checking out. We always discuss about five apps for iPhone, iPad and Mac. These could be apps that you may not have known about or that are useful or just fun to try. And that can also be veterans who have received a major update and therefore receive some extra attention.
Discussed earlier this week on iCulture:
- Microsoft Defender wants to better protect your iPhone and Mac
- Now official: Telegram Premium is a paid subscription with extra features
iCulture App of the Week: Calendars for Mac The Calendars app has long been a popular alternative to Apple's Calendar app. Since this week, the app is also available for the Mac. This app is much more than just a place to put all your appointments. It is also a to-do list and a handy planner at the same time. If you have a fairly full agenda and some tasks, Calendars will help you schedule those tasks. You can also create shortcuts so that you don't have to manually enter common tasks and appointments every time.
It's nice to have this app now also available on the Mac. If you already use it on the iPhone and iPad, everything is easily synced with your Mac. Even if you just switch, you can do that easily. Calendars has support for many other services, including Google, Outlook and iCloud.
PDF to Keynote
Did you receive a PDF file as a printout of a PowerPoint or Keynote presentation? Then you might actually want to convert it back into a presentation. That looks a bit more pleasant than scrolling through a PDF file. Or maybe you want to give the presentation to someone else. Then you don't want to come up with a PDF. Whatever the reason, the PDF to Keynote app will make it happen.
The app automatically chooses the ratio of the image and you can choose a different background color if necessary. There is even a way to get the image extra sharp for Retina screens, for example.
Deepl
Deepl is a nice translation service that in some cases works even better than Google Translate. This translator's Mac app has recently gained a useful feature. You can now paste a screenshot into the app and have it translated. That's nice for situations where you can't copy text, such as protected PDF documents or websites with text that you can't select. This feature does not yet work in Dutch, but it does work with English and other widely spoken languages.
You can download Deepl for free from the developer's website.
SongSwipe
We all know Tinder. You look at some photos of others, read some short bios and you make the choice: swipe left or right. SongSwipe is based on the same idea, but completely focused on music (and without the date element). With SongSwipe you can link your Apple Music or Spotify subscription. You keep listening to different songs that you can swipe left or right. The easy part is that you can easily add the fun songs to a playlist. SongSwipe lets you start a listening session based on your feel or a genre. The recommendations should get better the more you use the app.
Orion Browser
Looking for a lightweight browser for your Mac? Then you can try Orion. This browser works with WebKit and will therefore provide results comparable to Safari. You can use all kinds of useful features, including vertical tabs, a focus mode, password manager, tab groups, a built-in ad blocker and much more. Also, the app must fully work with Chrome and Firefox extensions. Since the browser is very lightweight for your Mac, it will run very fast.
You can download Orion Browser for free from the developer's website.